This week’s news in readers’ eyes.

Little is known about the status or whereabouts of the Salvadorans deported by President Donald Trump to CECOT, an infamous megaprison.

The partisan logic about nuking the Senate filibuster contains lessons about Trump’s war on Iran.

The head of a federal arts commission is proposing the more ornate Corinthian style for the nearly 200-year-old columns at the building’s front entrance

The U.S. and Israel crippled Iranian forces in two weeks of war, but Tehran’s ability to disrupt oil flows and its uranium stockpile complicate the push to end it.

Brendan Carr warned media outlets to correct course or lose their licenses, as Trump escalated attacks on the media over Iran war coverage.

Some Republicans, just like Democrats in 2022, are eager to change the Senate’s rules in an effort to pass a national election law.

Inside the growing scientific quest to understand what creatures with the extraordinary ability to defy the ravages of time can teach us about making human aging better.

Some Iranians living in Dubai say their families celebrated the death of the supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, but the war could leave Iran in a worse situation than before.

The Kremlin hopes the Trump administration’s move to contain oil prices sent soaring by the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran will lead to further relief.

The redesign of the dime was first recommended in 2024, but critics suggest it is the newest symbol of a more aggressive kind of nationalism championed by Trump.

In a first-ever case, most of the nine defendants were convicted of providing support to terrorists. Only one defendant was convicted of attempted murder of a police officer.

People can decide for themselves what they’d like to eat.

The 33,000-square-foot screening center, planned below Sherman Park, would be the Trump administration’s latest effort to remake the White House grounds.

Evangelicals, Easter, Ramadan and humanism, in readers’ eyes.

Clay Bennett cartoon on gas prices and the war in Iran.

Trump’s decision to return to the Middle East echoes the strategic folly that undid Britain.

MAGA shifts show that a check on power remains the ballot box.

California’s governor has written a “man of the people” memoir. Read the room.

Spiking oil prices may reveal how China has been more successful in electrifying its economy and reducing dependence on fossil fuels than the United States.

Mayoral candidates see drivers as enemies as they declare war on cars.

Calculate how much you should set aside for the final years of life.

Prosecutors fought the testing, but advocates said the evidence could point to a serial killer, and Massachusetts’s highest court agreed.

Senior Vatican officials have spoken out sharply against the war in the Middle East, but Pope Leo XIV made a tempered call for peace that did not assess blame.

The Democratic contest highlights divisions over crypto regulation and billionaire influence in politics, as the industry spends million in a battle with the governor.

As the Iran war enters its third week and oil prices surge, President Donald Trump is attempting to restart shipping through a key choke point closed by Iran.

“I always get really emotional when the pebbles go in,” said Rebecca Parr, who works for the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland.

New data shows one-third of U.S. adults have cut back on essentials like food, utilities and gas to cover health care expenses.

Few Chinese laborers have spoken out about the abuses they allegedly suffered while toiling abroad. Until now.

President Donald Trump on Friday night announced the United States had bombed Kharg Island, targeting Iran’s most critical oil terminal.

Punishing Muslim schools will inevitably backfire.

As small-scale attacks target houses of worship, law enforcement and religious leaders are prepared but anxious about what’s next.

The acknowledgement is part of a legal filing to dismiss an “alienation of affection” lawsuit against the former senator from Arizona.

Spin the outfit generator!

Trump has warned that Cuba is next in line after Venezuela and Iran, saying that the Havana regime is in its “last moments of life.”

The U.S. economy was in worse shape in the weeks before the U.S. and Israel launched strikes against Iran than earlier government estimates had suggested.

James Talarico’s support for transgender rights explains why liberal Christianity is dying

Ten weeks after the capture of Nicolás Maduro, it’s time to get democracy moving in Venezuela.

Chris Klomp, a political unknown a year ago, is now steering the $2.6 trillion health department. Several controversial appointees have since left.

The war in Iran, which is deeply unpopular in Europe, has put Trump’s closest European allies, a constellation of right-wing and populist leaders, on the defensive.

Narrowing the base won’t support the public services progressives want to provide.

The CEO’s video went viral for the wrong reasons. It still won the attention economy.

America’s most famous mayor wants to give retirees another reason to flee his city.

Tehran warns of strikes on banks after hitting data centers, hotels, airports and seaports, threatening the global finance hub of its more prosperous neighbors.

If politicians won’t fix bloated pensions amid credit downgrades, the bond market will force their hand.

Massive service cuts loom despite a surge in local government spending.

To focus on sculpting, he worked nights at a Pittsburgh post office. At 92, his art career finally took off.

Talarico, who is looking to flip Texas blue in his quest for the U.S. Senate, says the attacks from Republicans are a distraction from real issues.

Lawyers’ pleas for extensions reveal post-DOGE staffing woes at federal agencies’ Freedom of Information Act offices.

The analysis by researchers at Oregon State University provides one of the most comprehensive pictures to date of the structures that have been hit since the start of the U.S. and Israeli war against Iran.

The California governor should know that throwing money at a problem doesn’t mean better outcomes.

An internal Pentagon memo said that independent military newspaper Stars and Stripes needed to “modernize” and introduced new restrictions on its content.

U.S. District Judge James Boasberg cited lack of evidence against central bank chief Jerome H. Powell and suggested the subpoenas aimed to pressure him.

The announcement appeared to tacitly acknowledge a growing body of evidence that U.S. forces, not Iran, were responsible for the deadly attack.

Charitable tax deductions, autism and Adam Smith, in readers’ eyes.

Wintzell’s Oyster House has a sign that reads: “Free oysters to any man 80 years old accompanied by his father.”

When a waiter of 20 years is deported, suddenly immigration has a face and gains complexity.

A quiz to test your knowledge of global alliances, peacekeeping and the U.S. role in it all.

Republicans in Florida say they may not be able to deliver the type of redistricting bonanza that would give the party breathing room in the midterms.

The move is likely to be a boon to Russia as the United States tries to stem the economic fallout from its war on Iran as the price of crude has soared.