{"id":279578,"date":"2026-06-27T01:42:16","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T01:42:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/279578\/"},"modified":"2026-06-27T01:42:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T01:42:16","slug":"u-s-forces-attack-iran-the-new-york-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/279578\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Forces Attack Iran – The New York Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

The U.S. military said it launched a new wave of strikes on Iran this afternoon in retaliation for an Iranian attack on a container ship that had been transiting the Strait of Hormuz yesterday. The American strikes targeted missile and drone storage locations, as well as coastal radar sites, the military said. Follow here for the latest updates<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A U.S. defense official told my colleague Helene Cooper that the attacks were not intended to renew major combat operations.<\/p>\n

Earlier today, President Trump had called the ship attack a \u201cfoolish violation\u201d of the fragile cease-fire between the two countries. His comments came after Iran asserted that it was a central authority in managing the waterway. <\/p>\n

Rescuers head to Venezuela as quake death toll keeps rising<\/p>\n

Survivors along Venezuela\u2019s earthquake-shattered northern coast<\/a> clawed through mountains of brick and concrete with their bare hands today, praying to reach people still trapped under the ruins.<\/p>\n

The catastrophic quakes, which arrived on Wednesday as a pair, have killed at least 920 people in Venezuela, injured at least 3,300 more and damaged at least 1,400 buildings, officials said. The toll could still rise as many people remained missing or trapped. Follow the latest updates from reporters on the ground there<\/a>.<\/p>\n

President Delcy Rodr\u00edguez announced today that she would \u201cmilitarize\u201d La Guaira, the hardest-hit state. There, video showed the moment<\/a> one woman was pulled from a flattened building. Elsewhere in the state, Juan David Arsia, who is 17 years old, described spending 21 hours under rubble with a fractured tibia and fibula. \u201cI was there with my mom, and I could hear her screaming,\u201d he said. \u201cI would yell to her, \u2018Don\u2019t give up, Mom, have faith \u2014 don\u2019t give up!\u2019\u201d His mother was also rescued.<\/p>\n

Search teams from at least 10 countries, including the U.S.<\/a>, were racing to aid in recovery efforts, but they faced stark hurdles even reaching the disaster zone. The 7.2- and 7.5-magnitude quakes damaged the international airport, split open roads and overwhelmed Venezuela\u2019s already hollowed-out emergency services<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Ukraine escalates its attacks on Crimea<\/p>\n

Weeks of intense Ukrainian airstrikes have rattled Crimea, the Russian-controlled peninsula that had long been insulated from the worst of the fighting. Summer vacations were cut short, camps were canceled and gas stations ran out of fuel. The authorities there declared a state of emergency today<\/a> after Russia said it had intercepted 660 Ukrainian drones overnight.<\/p>\n

Officials in Kyiv hope that the strikes will rattle the Russian public and force Vladimir Putin to come to the negotiating table. The Russian president has kept a low profile since the Ukrainian attacks intensified, and a recent survey found his approval at its lowest level since the 2022 invasion.<\/p>\n

In related news: Ukraine\u2019s president, Volodymyr Zelensky, ratcheted up his threats against Belarus<\/a> for aiding Russian drone attacks.<\/p>\n

A former Trump adviser pleads guilty<\/p>\n

John Bolton, who was national security adviser to President Trump during his first term, pleaded guilty today to mishandling classified information in the form of notes he compiled for a book. Under the terms of the plea deal, Bolton faces up to five years in prison<\/a>. He must also pay a fine of $2.25 million and will forfeit his federal pension.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m sorry for it,\u201d said Bolton, who has since become an outspoken critic of the president.<\/p>\n

In other Trump administration news:<\/p>\n

More top newsGracie Abrams confronts her seemingly charmed life<\/p>\n

On paper, Gracie Abrams has had the kind of early life that anyone seeking a career in entertainment might want: Her father is the filmmaker J.J. Abrams, and by her early 20s, she was opening for Taylor Swift. But those associations come with expectations, and Abrams has sometimes avoided sharing details about her inner life.<\/p>\n

But she is changing that with her third album, \u201cDaughter From Hell,\u201d out next month. In it, Abrams, now 26, reckons with her relationship with her mother and what it\u2019s like to grow up in a famous family. She talked to my colleagues on \u201cPopcast\u201d about why she made it. Listen here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Are you up for another superhero film?<\/p>\n

With \u201cSupergirl,\u201d a new movie out this weekend from the universe of DC Comics, the filmmakers seem to acknowledge the fatigue of similar stories that have flooded theaters for years. They try to set this new hero apart by leaning into irreverence and emphasizing that it is not another Superman movie (even though it is).<\/p>\n

Our critic Manohla Dargis said in her review<\/a> that the movie was \u201cderivative if altogether watchable.\u201d In particular, she was impressed by the star, Milly Alcock.<\/p>\n

For more: We talked to Alcock, 26, about deciding to join her second big franchise<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This time, \u2018Romeo and Juliet\u2019 has a happy ending<\/p>\n

Nearly every day for the last month, Central Park\u2019s famous Delacorte Theater has hosted a free production of Shakespeare\u2019s \u201cRomeo and Juliet.\u201d This version, however, veers off script a bit: At the end of the show, the actor playing Friar Lawrence welcomes a couple onstage and invites them to marry in front of an audience of nearly 2,000<\/a>. They\u2019ve done it some 30 times.<\/p>\n

Couple No. 16 was David Witzel and Paolo Valore. Witzel unintentionally proposed last year when a friend asked him what his goals were going forward. They wed in tuxedos as the crowd cheered them on. \u201cI welled up during their ceremony,\u201d the actor playing the friar said.<\/p>\n

Have a blissful weekend.<\/p>\n

Thanks for reading. I\u2019ll be back on Monday \u2014 Matthew<\/p>\n

Keith Bedford was our photo editor.<\/p>\n

We welcome your feedback. Reach us at evening@nytimes.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The U.S. military said it launched a new wave of strikes on Iran this afternoon in retaliation for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":279579,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[9,24,63,134,136,135],"class_list":["post-279578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-staten-island","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-staten-island","tag-staten-island-headlines","tag-staten-island-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=279578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279578\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/279579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}