In sweeping attacks that started Friday, Israel struck at the regime in Tehran, hitting Iranian nuclear and military assets. Iran retaliated with barrages of ballistic missiles and drones. It is the most intense fighting in decades between the two heavily armed countries. To understand what’s happening in the region, Katrin Bennhold, a New York Times senior writer, spoke with Patrick Kingsley, the Jerusalem bureau chief.

California has sued the Trump administration over its move to deploy troops to Los Angeles. Eric Schmitt, a national security correspondent for The New York Times, explains the laws governing the use of American troops on U.S. soil.

Livia Albeck-Ripka, a New York Times reporter based in Los Angeles, describes how she was one of the reporters struck by crowd control munitions. Experts say that some aggressive measures used by the authorities in the Los Angeles protests have violated their own policies, federal policies and injunctions put into place after the George Floyd protests.

On the campaign trail, President Donald Trump repeatedly promised voters that he’d be the “best friend Jewish Americans have ever had in the White House.” But after a string of violent antisemitic attacks, the president has been criticized for his slow or muted responses. Tyler Pager, a White House correspondent for The New York Times, explains.

After months of political turmoil in South Korea, Lee Jae-myung has won the presidential election by a wide margin. Mr. Lee’s campaign has ridden a wave of anger against former President Yoon Suk Yeol after he tried to impose martial law in December.