Sri Lanka had been refusing to send back the Iranian Navy personnel, including survivors from a warship that the United States torpedoed, during active hostilities.
The upstart golf circuit couldn’t conquer the sport, despite big spending by Saudi Arabia. Its end signals limits to how much the country will spend.
For days, Pope Leo XIV has attracted criticism from President Trump and his allies for refusing to back the war in Iran. On Thursday, he reiterated his calls for peace.
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The leftist lawmaker has been a prime target of President Trump’s attacks on South Africa. The ruling, handed down after a conviction on gun charges, leaves Mr. Malema’s political future in doubt.
At least 15 people died after Russia flew more than 700 drones and missiles across Ukrainian cities, according to the Ukrainian Air Force.
El continente es crucial para el futuro de la Iglesia, pero también es el foco de tensiones de larga data en torno a algunos de los temas más delicados del catolicismo.
After talks in Islamabad last weekend led to a two-week cease-fire, Pakistan is offering to host another round in an attempt to sustain ongoing peace efforts.
Putting a stop to Iranian shipping will further add to Iran’s economic pain, analysts said, but it might not be enough to force concessions or lessen the global energy crunch.
Pope Leo XIV responds to President Trump’s lashing out over the war in Iran.
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Iran’s stranglehold over the waterway completely reshaped shipping during the war. The U.S. naval blockade is an attempt to stop that.
The structure proposed for President Trump’s arch would be 250 feet, more than twice the height of the Lincoln Memorial. It would sit near Arlington National Cemetery. A commission filled with Trump appointees is to review plans on Thursday.
Pablo on TKO’s rise and how Dana White’s alliances may favor profits over fighters and fans.
Neither side confirmed a meeting. Israeli and Lebanese officials have said a cease-fire in the war against Hezbollah is under consideration.
China used a visit by the Vietnamese leader to show a deepening of security ties that analysts say far outpaces U.S. defense ties in the region.
En un pueblo del bosque nuboso, una red de residentes, extranjeros y cuáqueros pacifistas ofreció un refugio precario pero vital a las familias expulsadas por el gobierno de Estados Unidos.
Money from Democratic donors has flowed into the coffers of the party’s top Senate candidates — especially its nominee in Texas.
Democrats in key Senate races out-raised their Republican rivals, but super PACs on the right are poised to play a powerful role in the midterms, new campaign finance filings showed.
If tankers do not soon begin crossing the Strait of Hormuz, airlines in Europe may not have enough jet fuel to operate all of their flights.
America’s view of liberty is upside down.
In a strange era, a stranger turn.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is expected to defend staff and funding cuts at the Health and Human Services Department he oversees.
Looking for prime subway access and proximity to green space, a longtime renter considered newer buildings in various shapes and sizes.
The Democrat-controlled legislature passed the measure on Tuesday, but Gov. Janet Mills, a Democrat running for Senate, has yet to say whether she will sign it.
Corruption and economic mismanagement brought down Hungary’s authoritarian leader. Will his political disciples avoid those pitfalls?
The signature survey by MoMA PS 1 of artists living and working in the city highlights those whose talent is often hidden in plain sight.
A conservative court watcher explains why the president has failed to bend the judicial branch to his will.
A guest essay argues that in an age of helicopter parenting, parents should consider “underachieving.” Do you agree?
What a shift in the dating preferences of younger men reveals about our changing norms.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani of New York, acknowledging that landlords are struggling with rising costs, said a cheaper “publicly backed” program would aim to insure 100,000 homes by 2030.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani of New York will announce a campaign to raise money from private donors through a city-run nonprofit to support his child care plan. He already has raised $3.5 million.
The money could jump-start affordable housing projects across the metropolitan region.
President Trump has lashed out at enemies, allies and even the pope, and made it harder for Republicans to keep the focus on economic issues in a midterm election year.
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In 1984, Jay McInerney was a famous, young, hedonistic novelist. Now 71, he is wistful as he wraps up his tetralogy about a couple whose city, and marriage, are tested by the pandemic.
Mets fans, avert your eyes: John Middleton, majority owner of the Phillies, and his wife have a deep bench of American art stars, and they’ve lent them in a dual display for the 250th.
Once held up as a key solution to climate change, a field that aims to remove carbon from the atmosphere is struggling to catch on.
Find in microcosm so much that is great about California, including towering redwoods, surf culture and renowned wineries.
As war engulfs their homeland, four expats are distilling aragh sagi, a Persian drink that’s catching on in American bars, restaurants and stores.
Analilia Mejia, a progressive Democrat, is competing on Thursday in New Jersey against Joe Hathaway, a Republican who has tried to distance himself from President Trump.
MoMA PS1 in Queens has been in Long Island City for 50 years.
A new documentary by the “Black-ish” creator Kenya Barris looks at the legacy of Jerry West, a figure so crucial to the N.B.A.’s history that he’s the league’s logo.
An effort to privatize the facility is a key test of whether Kyiv can overcome concerns about Russian attacks and corruption to attract foreign investment.
After a breakout performance on “Shrinking,” the actor can now be seen on “Abbott Elementary” and “The Pitt.”
There’s a new crop four times a year. This spring, the Ghibli-like “Witch Hat Atelier” and the alternate-future samurai saga “Nippon Sangoku” stand out.
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The actress plays a pop star who reunites with Michaela Coel’s fashion designer. But the spectacle you see onscreen is far more engaging than the dialogue.
Bob Odenkirk plays a sheriff who uncovers a dangerous secret in this hyper-violent, small-town crime caper.
A girlfriend’s pregnancy upends the life of a young man in the Bronx in this first feature by Joel Alfonso Vargas that unspools with sedulous care.
Charli XCX stars in this drama about a young woman who can’t quite tell the difference between freedom and fleeing.
New silhouettes and brands, a focus on gothic romance and the resurgence of the ‘90s style slip dress were just some of the many highlights from the runways.
In the director Tarik Saleh’s latest feature on contemporary Egypt, a movie star is made to appear in a propaganda film.
Sophy Romvari’s superb debut feature blends memory, documentary and fiction to process a family wound.
In this World War II-era coming-of-age drama, a young boy living on a remote German island questions his parents for the first time.
Two condom salesmen, Mark Wahlberg and Paul Walter Hauser, embark on a bawdy, digressive picaresque in Peter Farrelly’s defiantly lowbrow film.
Both authors share uncanny similarities of upbringing. But their culinary paths diverged sharply.
The good news is, affordable units are making up a larger share of the new rental supply.
The vice president is also the finance chair of the Republican National Committee, allowing him to court donors who could prove helpful should he run for president.
Julia Langbein’s novel considers the legions of women whose lives have been forever marred by compromising early relationships.
Americans want a new approach to policing and incarceration.
Ohio State isn’t the only university in turmoil, but few others have faced so many issues lately. One lawmaker called the school “a national embarrassment.”
Nationwide, hospital and providers are leaving private Medicare Advantage plans, putting thousands of seniors at risk of higher costs and the loss of trusted doctors.
Will MAHA stay committed to Robert F. Kennedy Jr.?
An airline agent’s attempt at a good deed went astray when it caused a 90-year-old traveler to miss his flight. Who should pay for his hotel and meals?
In a city of notoriously small apartments, New Yorkers keep their meaningful mementos and quirky collections elsewhere.
The U.S. poet laureate’s new book, “Transient Worlds,” collects 23 poems in 13 languages to show the many ways a work can be translated.
The 25-year-old rapper and producer knows he’s benefited from his cousin’s support. But the path to his autobiographical album, “Casino,” was his alone.
Through accounts of relatives and direct witnesses, Adriana E. Ramírez examines a pivotal, and brutal, period of history.
In a cloud forest village, a network of residents, foreigners and pacifist Quakers offered a precarious yet vital sanctuary for families expelled by the U.S. government.
Mouse: P.I. for Hire is the latest monochrome adventure in an industry often obsessed with realistic graphics.
Moscow is again ramping up missile and drone attacks on civilian targets, dispelling any notion that a temporary cease-fire for Orthodox Easter might become more lasting.
What a shift in the dating preferences of younger men reveals about our changing norms.
Oil prices stabilized and stocks rose on optimism that diplomatic talks could yield a permanent peace deal.
Mykolaiv fue adoptada por el gobierno danés al mes de empezar la guerra. Desde entonces, Dinamarca ha destinado el 60 por ciento de toda su ayuda a la reconstrucción de Ucrania a esta ciudad.
“I wanted something new and something traditional and something that felt holy.”
La fascitis plantar puede ser increíblemente incómoda. Pero unos sencillos movimientos pueden aliviarla y prevenirla.
La primera ministra italiana fue considerada en su día una de las aliadas europeas más cercanas del presidente Trump. Su amistad parece ahora estar en peligro.
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The “Late Show” host scolded JD Vance for suggesting that Pope Leo XIV “be careful when he talks about matters of theology.”
El temor a que el IRS comparta sus datos con el ICE ha convertido la temporada de la declaración de la renta en una apuesta arriesgada para muchos migrantes. El Laboratorio Presupuestario de Yale prevé una pérdida de unos 300.000 millones de dólares en una década.
This immigration case is really about procedure.
Severe storms moving across the Midwest were bringing heavy rain and raising the risk of flash flooding, tornadoes and large hail.
It was the third such attack by the U.S. military in three days, and the 51st attack in a campaign against people who the United States has accused of smuggling drugs.
Más de una decena de buques de guerra de la Marina estadounidense están aplicando un bloqueo a los buques de todas las naciones que entren o salgan de zonas costeras o puertos iraníes.
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Adrien Brody and Tessa Thompson make confident Broadway debuts, but the uneven script makes for a narratively slippery prison drama.
A steep slide in housing prices has left consumers less prosperous and less willing to spend, but the government is pouring money into new rail lines and other projects.
The California Supreme Court upheld a lower court’s decision that said Mr. Eastman, had violated the rules of professional ethics.
The comments come as peace talks between Iran and the United States have not yet resumed and a cease-fire is set to expire next week.
See how the 250-foot structure would dwarf other monumental arches, including the Arc de Triomphe in Paris.
Rafael Musa and Sala Wanetick tag-team this tremendous Thursday.
Remember those grimy snow piles that just wouldn’t melt? They’re gone now.
Concerns over the Iran war led several Democratic senators who had rejected past bids to curb weapons transfers to Israel to vote to block the sale of bulldozers and bombs.
After selling its business for $39 million last month, the company said it planned to buy powerful computer chips and rebrand itself NewBird AI.
The Florida governor is expected to propose a congressional map that could result in up to five new Republican-leaning seats. Some in the party fear it could backfire.
The review said a certain class of drugs had little clinical benefit, but many Alzheimer’s experts criticized the analysis, saying it unfairly lumped failed drugs with two recently approved treatments.
President Trump’s attack on Pope Leo has touched off an argument about a framework for determining when war is justified.
Rama Duwaji apologized for using what she said was “harmful” language as a teenager, in her first interview since her husband, Zohran Mamdani, took office.
A jury found that the concert giant operated as a monopoly, a verdict that could have major reverberations in the music industry.
Gov. Kathy Hochul wants to tax second homes in New York City that are worth $5 million or more. Here’s how the proposal might work.
In confirming the precise location of William Shakespeare’s Blackfriars house, a British scholar raises fresh questions about what he intended to do with it.
Laura Dogu, quien reabrió la embajada de Estados Unidos en Venezuela, vuelve a su rol como asesora del oficial de mayor rango del ejército estadounidense mientras continúa la guerra con Irán.
Two officers were placed under investigation after the videos surfaced. Mayor Zohran Mamdani called them disturbing. The Police Department said officers incorrectly identified the man.
A lifelong New Yorker and longtime City Council member, she opposed Robert Moses’s wrecking ball, championed historic preservation and fought for women’s and gay rights.
Fighting that erupted in 2023 has forced millions from their homes and left widespread hunger that is now being compounded by strife in the Middle East.
President Trump is confronting a crisis that is not bending to his narrative of a “pretty reasonable” new regime in Iran and all-but-assured victory for the United States.
La salida del principal inspector de trabajo de Brasil ha puesto al gobierno del presidente Lula, político de izquierda y exdirigente sindical, en una situación incómoda.
The defendants, Emir Balat, 18, and Ibrahim Kayumi, 19, face federal charges in the homemade-bomb attack on an anti-Muslim protest in March. No one was injured.
At the University of Kansas School of Law last week, she criticized her colleague while discussing his views in an immigration-related case.
Amid calls from the left to tax the rich, a tax proposal on multimillion-dollar second homes in New York City, backed by Gov. Kathy Hochul, seems to have better odds of passing than in years past.
Also, Pakistani mediators arrive in Iran. Here’s the latest at the end of Wednesday.
The story of how President Trump quadrupled the size of the original proposal for the arch follows a now-familiar pattern.
It’s Tax Day, but much of the country’s focus has been on an unpopular war.
Fresh off a two-week break, lawmakers returned to turmoil in the House, where legislation to reopen the Department of Homeland Security is stalled and the G.O.P. is struggling to keep its agenda on track.
The British prime minister will meet with executives from Meta, Google and other companies on Thursday as his government explores how to protect children from online harms.
The continent is crucial to the future of the church, but it’s also the center of long-running tensions over some of Catholicism’s most charged issues.
While this pasta is reminiscent of scampi, piccata and vongole, it delivers something more — a hard-to-pin-down complexity that comes from cooking the pasta not in water but in wine.
This spicy one-pot pasta dish is common on menus in Bari, Italy, but can easily be prepared at home.
This light, delicate weeknight curry comes together in less than 30 minutes and is defined by its deep miso flavor.
For effort-to-flavor ratio, you can’t really beat a jar of kimchi and a pack of bacon. This five-ingredient dinner is a riot of deliciousness: Sweet potatoes roasted in bacon fat provide a sturdy base for bacon-enriched kimchi and pillowy mozzarella.
This skillet gnocchi recipe has a spring in its step: It takes just 10 minutes to cook and is loaded with sweet springtime asparagus and baby greens.
Maqluba is a traditional Palestinian dish made of rice, meat and fried vegetables, most often eggplants (in summer) or cauliflower (in winter), although some like to combine both, and add carrots as well.
Also, fashion can’t quit Anna Wintour.
In the race to patch up cybersecurity holes found by the newest A.I. models, we risk leaving too many people to fend for themselves.
Doug Field, a former Tesla and Apple executive, had returned to Ford Motor in 2021 to help develop new electric models and software.
The diplomacy came as the U.S. Navy locked down trade to Iranian ports, and Iran responded by threatening critical shipping routes across the region.
Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer asked staff members to bring wine to her hotel room, and to keep in touch with her husband and father.
Anthony Griffin was a popular battle rapper who turned toward religious rhetoric. The police say he slashed three people with a machete before they killed him.
Our national security correspondent David E. Sanger examines what the Iran war means to China, which is the world’s biggest importer of Iranian oil.
A 58-year-old Parisian man won Pablo Picasso’s 1941 “Tête de Femme” in a charity raffle on Tuesday. He purchased his two raffle tickets for 100 euros each, and walked away with a $1.2 million painting. The charity raffle raised roughly $11 million for Alzheimers research.
La presidenta de México, Claudia Sheinbaum, está bajo presión para poner fin a una de las tragedias más dolorosas del país: la desaparición de más de 133.000 personas.
With a well-funded super PAC, the betting platforms DraftKings, FanDuel and Fanatics are aiming to shape future regulation of their rapidly growing industry.
The Saudi league, established in 2022, attracted some of the sport’s biggest stars with huge contracts.
Other picks include the historical hip-hop musical “Mexodus,” an Anne Carson radio play and a century-old play about machines replacing humans.
Kacey Musgraves is back with her latest single, “Dry Spell.” Our critic Jon Caramanica explains how the song’s double entendres and parched guitar signal a return to form for the country star.
The Times’s Rome bureau chief is still getting a feel for a pontiff who is willing to challenge President Trump and use his sense of humor.
The move comes as the country looks to strengthen diplomatic ties with the United States after months of hostility between the two nations.
“I’m Dancing as Fast as I Can,” which became a best seller, detailed her years of prescription drug abuse and offered an indictment of American psychiatry.
The woman forced the child, who was sitting in a cart, and his babysitter out of the store at knife point. She had the boy when police arrived, the department said. The shooting is under investigation.
Before the Season 2 finale of “The Pitt,” The Times’s critic, Wesley Morris, realized that the show has been playing the same trick on him again and again. Every time this medical drama lulls you into complacency, it jolts you awake with a new emergency — which is exactly what it feels like to be alive in 2026.
A court fight over Itamar Ben-Gvir, an extremist who oversees the police, pits the attorney general against Benjamin Netanyahu and his right-wing government.
Train jazz, the “Brady Bunch” house and the gift of time.
A 10-member committee offered a brutal assessment of academia’s role in creating the forces challenging American colleges and universities.
The speaker, Julie Menin, privately agreed to not block Nadia Shihata’s appointment to lead the Department of Investigation as a sign of peace with Mayor Zohran Mamdani.
Reporting on the people who upend life and those whose lives are upended can bring surprising and uncomfortable details to light.
The future of war belongs to “flying lawn mowers”
In a verdict that could have far-reaching consequences in the music industry, the live colossus that includes Ticketmaster was found to have violated antitrust laws.
For the fourth time since the war began, G.O.P. senators successfully fended off an effort to constrain the president. But there were signs of growing unease among Republicans.
Jerome H. Powell’s term as chair of the Federal Reserve ends on May 15, but it appears increasingly likely that he will stay on in some capacity at the central bank after that.
Laura Dogu, who reopened the U.S. Embassy in Venezuela, returns to advising Gen. Dan Caine, the highest ranking U.S. military officer, as the war with Iran continues.
The dismissal of Brazil’s top labor inspector has landed the leftist government of President Lula, a former union leader, in an awkward spot.
The focus in recent weeks has been on the conflict in Iran, but European leaders said it was crucial to keep aid flowing to Ukraine.
Our first bite-size teachings on fundamentals from The School of The New York Times look at journalism’s role in society.
Stefan Pildes “siphoned” more than half of the money donated over five years for the outing, a raucous New York City bar crawl promoted as a charitable event, prosecutors said.
WPP, Dentsu and Publicis settled claims they colluded on policies to combat misinformation, denying ad revenue to publishers on the right.
Plus, why the industry is a “market failure.”
President Claudia Sheinbaum of Mexico is under pressure to end one of her country’s most painful tragedies: the disappearance of more than 133,000 people.
El vicepresidente, que es católico, discrepó con la afirmación del papa León XIV de que un discípulo de Cristo “nunca se pone del lado de quienes ayer empuñaban la espada y hoy lanzan bombas”.
The cuts amount to about 10 percent of the work force at the British public broadcaster, which is facing financial pressures.
Daphne Rubin-Vega stars as a laid-off office worker who spins into a murderous rage in this update of Elmer L. Rice’s 1923 classic.
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Investors appear to be treating an end to the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran as a foregone conclusion.
A levee breach near Cheboygan had forced evacuations and officials continue to monitor a nearby dam. Rain and snowmelt have affected the area.
The company, which owns the social media app Snapchat, said it was laying off about 1,000 employees as it increased its reliance on artificial intelligence.
El reto más reciente al que se enfrenta el presidente Trump es cómo evitar que el conflicto con Irán haga tambalear la incipiente distensión con China.
Amid signs of a prolonged period of high energy costs, policymakers are urging restraint as governments open up the public till to protect households and businesses.
Talk of a truce that would pause the war between Israel and Iran-backed Hezbollah in Lebanon followed rare direct talks between Israel and Lebanon in Washington on Tuesday.
China ha negado las afirmaciones de los servicios de inteligencia de EE. UU. de que podría haber enviado armas a Irán. En los últimos años, China ha apoyado a Irán con piezas de doble uso.
The U.S. blockade of the Strait of Hormuz appeared to be working on Wednesday, as marine trackers reported no Iran-linked ships entering or exiting the strait since the blockade began on Monday.
We know she depends on this income, and we have hesitated to raise the issue with her.
The violinist Johnny Gandelsman wanted his music to move. In the overly winsome “Johnny Loves Johann,” he performs Bach’s cello suites alongside four dance artists.
The country has not commented publicly about Ahmed Shihab-Eldin, who the Committee to Protect Journalists said had been charged with spreading false information.
A Parisian software salesman entered a charity raffle and came away with a piece of history: “I have some paintings, but not like a Picasso.”
A student opened fire at a middle school in southern Turkey, killing at least nine people and wounding several others, officials said.
The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in Ridgefield will showcase works by people who live and work in New York’s shadow.
The showcase features works that change from hour to hour, invite interaction and interrogate the idea of creativity itself.
His many achievements have been obscured, some believe, by his reputation as a provincial landscape painter.
More than a dozen U.S. Navy warships are enforcing a blockade on all vessels from all nations entering or leaving coastal areas or ports in Iran.
Mark Rosenblatt’s Broadway play, starring John Lithgow as the British children’s book author, draws from Dahl’s comments over the years.
View the location of the quake’s epicenter and shake area.
As artificial intelligence makes many tasks easier, the human work of cajoling, arm-twisting and reassuring appears to be rising in importance.
A.I. has always been compared to human intelligence, but that may not be the right way to think about it. What it does well can help predict what jobs it may replace.
A $1.5 billion project will transform the nation’s most-visited art museum, with renovations involving a quarter of the galleries and public spaces.
Experts share the literature that has helped them cope with death, illness and despair.
The season includes a Duchamp retrospective at MoMA, a window on Etruscan civilization at the de Young in San Francisco and a fashion celebration at the Phoenix Art Museum.
Some researchers hold that evolution hasn’t much altered humans in the past 10,000 years. A new analysis of ancient DNA indicates that natural selection continued to shape hundreds of genes.
A new recipe from Yotam Ottolenghi has us contemplating the best ways to cook an egg.
Several states in the Midwest have experienced large hail amid severe weather that also brought heavy rain and tornado risks. Forecasters expected the multiday breakout of storms to last through the weekend.
Higher inflation is leading companies to raise prices without sacrificing margins.
The administration has invoked national security in a variety of matters, including the White House ballroom and offshore wind farms, drawing rebukes from some judges.
Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni was once considered one of President Trump’s closest European allies. Their friendship now appears in danger.
Your pet is (probably) not a genius, and that’s OK.
The pair performed a scene from ‘The Fear of 13’ at The New York Times.
In this scene from the play “The Fear of 13,” performed in T Magazine’s office, Tessa Thompson’s character, Jacki, visits Adrien Brody’s Nick in prison.
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Eric Swalwell and Tony Gonzales are now being held accountable thanks in part to the feminism of the 2010s.
After years of having to miss faraway holiday get-togethers, a reader was finally denied an invitation to his sister’s Easter gathering altogether.