Amid anxiety over how the United States would welcome the world, cities like Lawrence, Kan., and Boston threw open their doors. The bonds forged are still visible on the streets.

A London-based research group has invoked a now-defunct European pact on coal and steel to suggest forming a coalition of countries that would share control of the Strait of Hormuz.

The Tokyo government is allowing workers to wear shorts for the first time this summer, prompting delicate questions about etiquette and hairy legs.

Tokyo’s government has a new summer dress code allowing shorts and T-shirts at work. But the initiative, meant to save energy and add comfort, has prompted a debate on office etiquette.

Iran struck a military base in Jordan on Friday, killing two U.S. service members, according to the U.S. military. Sixteen military personnel have died in the war since the U.S. and Israel launched attacks on Iran in February.

Four Iranian attacks in five days have targeted U.S. troops in Jordan, U.S. officials said, including one on Friday that killed two soldiers and left another service member missing.

Hundreds of wildfires in Canada and the United States have blanketed large sections of North America in dense smoke over the past week.

President Trump has vowed to avenge the deaths of any U.S. military personnel, and retaliatory strikes are almost certain.

Demonstrators supporting Ukraine’s ousted defense minister have begun denouncing the commander he clashed with in office, Gen. Oleksandr Syrskyi.

Nearly 200 fires continued to devastate swaths of the province as smoke continued to drift across parts of Canada and the United States.