Officers in California observed the pop star driving fast and erratically in March. After she was arrested, she checked herself into a treatment facility.
The redrawing of America’s congressional districts is sure to escalate after the Supreme Court’s decision, with some maps that would have seemed laughable a year ago.
As Veselka goes back to 24-hour service, these three New York City restaurants never stopped carrying the torch.
The Trump administration wants President Claudia Sheinbaum to arrest a Mexican governor. She is faced with few good options in response.
Dozens of countries met this week to discuss how to end the world’s dependence on fossil fuels, a goal that the Trump administration doesn’t share.
The singer, who has been charged with the murder of 14-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez, began his career making music inspired by the game.
The fascinating stories of dying tongues.
The expected flood of new congressional maps is likely to produce fewer competitive districts, fewer ways for voters to hold elected officials accountable and more polarized politics.
In this off-kilter horror-comedy on Apple TV, a seaside village with eccentric citizens and a troubled past becomes a tourist hot spot.
The Supreme Court just overturned Louisiana’s congressional voting map, landing the latest blow to the landmark Voting Rights Act. Abbie VanSickle, a reporter covering the court for The New York Times, explains.
Track the latest polls in Maryland's 6th Congressional District.
Track the latest polls in Maryland's 5th Congressional District.
The defense secretary testified on the eve of the 60-day mark of the war, a major statutory deadline for the president to withdraw forces or seek approval from Congress to continue the fight.
Look closely at this image, stripped of its caption, and join the moderated conversation about what you and other students see.
How much of your household income goes toward health insurance premiums?
Reading recommendations from critics and editors at The New York Times.
The passage of the landmark law in 1965 helped increase Black representation, especially in the South, according to a Times analysis.
Senator Chuck Schumer, the New York Democrat and minority leader, considered the Maine governor his top recruit for winning the majority. Critics said her collapse showed he is out of touch with the party’s voters.
One of Elon Musk’s abiding fears is that A.I. could one day threaten humans. But the jurors deciding his suit against OpenAI probably won’t hear about it.
Students react to an essay about the relentlessness of raising children today, and share how involved they think parents should be.
Television executives have not ruled out a revival of Taylor Frankie Paul’s season of the reality show, but a custody battle has kept her volatile former relationship in the spotlight.
An inmate said he discovered the note after Mr. Epstein was found injured in his jail cell, weeks before his death. It’s now locked in a courthouse.
The Israeli military boarded multiple boats in a flotilla that was sailing from Barcelona to Gaza, the protest group behind the mission said. The group has repeatedly challenged Israel’s naval blockade of Gaza.
The ousted civilian leader has been detained since a military coup forced her from power in 2021.
In a statement, the camp said it told Texas regulators that it was “withdrawing its application for a summer 2026 camp license” after catastrophic flooding last summer.
New data show that 1 in 8 Americans are using sleep aids such as magnesium, melatonin or C.B.D.
Andy (Anne Hathaway) y Miranda (Meryl Streep) vuelven a enfrentarse, pero ahora sus antagonismos palidecen ante un cambio mundial que trastorna sus vidas.
Dr. Means’s nomination had stalled in part over her views on vaccines. The president said he was instead nominating Dr. Nicole B. Saphier, a radiologist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.
Republicans were forced to use a special maneuver to steer around opposition in their own party and speed the measure to the floor, relying on Democratic cooperation to push it through.
The measure exposed rifts within the G.O.P., pitting lawmakers aligned with the Make American Healthy Again movement against those representing traditional agricultural interests.
Silky tofu-miso dressing, crispy rice salad and more meals I can’t stop thinking about — with close approximations from the New York Times Cooking archive.
Two victims of Jeffrey Epstein will testify at the State Capitol next week in support of a bill that would enable them to seek punitive damages from his estate.
Wesley Morris and the film curator, Eric Hynes, review “Michael” and consider better approaches to a Michael Jackson biopic.
Black Democrats in the South already face steep challenges when seeking political office. But the Supreme Court’s ruling could be felt for a generation.
A New York Times tech reporter shares a dispatch from the press gallery of the showdown between Elon Musk and Sam Altman.
Cole Tomas Allen’s lawyers said he was in 24-hour lockdown and asked for him to be placed in less restrictive conditions. Allen is due back in court on May 11.
Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei said in a statement that Iran would establish “new legal frameworks” for the Strait of Hormuz. He also said his country would retain its nuclear capabilities.
Along with contemporaries like Anselm Kiefer, he mounted a frontal attack on Minimalism and Conceptualism, the dominant “cool” styles of the 1970s.
If President Trump flies to China as planned in May, the primary topic will clearly be the rippling economic effects of a war that Beijing has made clear it viewed as unnecessary.
Los consumidores ya empiezan a sentir el efecto dominó de la escasez de suministro energético, lo que ejerce presión sobre la economía mundial.
A new report is the latest effort by the Justice Department to argue that it is removing political bias from prosecutorial decision-making.
The jury of the world’s most important art exhibition had said it wouldn’t consider artists from countries whose leaders are accused of crimes against humanity.
Sampling the outpouring of responses to a guest essay, “Older Americans Are Hoarding the Nation’s Potential,” by Samuel Moyn. Also: A clash over a wind project.
Since his early days as a lawyer and in his first years on the bench, the chief justice has worked to limit the force of the Voting Rights Act.
In three U.S. cities, a new production of the playwright’s cabdriver drama “Jitney” will be imported from Italy.
Moscú y Kiev acordaron una tregua a principios de mes, pero cada parte acusó a la otra de múltiples violaciones.
The Trump administration says the cities shouldn’t be penalized for unhealthy air because pollution can blow in from abroad. Some experts say that’s preposterous.
Corn estimates were off by 4.5 million acres last year. A lack of survey responses, not job cuts, led to the miss, the Agriculture Department said.
He worked on 13 Francis Ford Coppola films, including “The Godfather” trilogy and “Apocalypse Now,” and recreated the Las Vegas Strip for “One From the Heart.”
The changes stem from student loan provisions in a sprawling tax and domestic policy bill signed into law last year.
Fake invitations. Investment bank influencers. And the World Cup.
Ahmed Shihab-Eldin, a Kuwaiti-American, was held for several weeks after posting about the Iran war. Kuwait does not appear to have commented publicly on his case.
A crunchy, craveable dish from — who else? — the salad queen Hetty Lui McKinnon.
El Banco Central Europeo y el Banco de Inglaterra mantuvieron estables las tasas de interés el jueves, mientras buscan señales de posibles daños a más largo plazo.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Gen. Dan Caine testify on Capitol Hill.
The New York Times has been publishing for 175 years. Some of that history may be sitting in a shoe box under your bed.
It was not immediately clear whether Gov. Jeff Landry, a Republican, would postpone the May 16 primary election for House races after the court ruled the state’s congressional districts unconstitutional.
Anna Wintour, Martha Stewart and others greeted the royal couple at the King’s Trust Gala, during their official state visit to the United States.
Dr. Sara Brenner is a physician, an F.D.A. official and a “MAHA mom” who has said people should not reflexively believe in the benefits of vaccines.
Track the latest polls in the Los Angeles mayoral election.
An exhibition at the Louvre shows how the two artists, working centuries apart, found common ground in the vital force of rough-hewed textures.
Thomasz Szabdo, 27, had pleaded guilty in connection with dozens of reports of false crimes involving politicians, election officials and others.
Jerome H. Powell will remain a governor at the Federal Reserve after his term as chair ends, in a bid to guard against a further incursion by the Trump administration on the central bank’s independence.
The British police said the attack on Wednesday was being treated as terrorism, and they warned of rising antisemitic hate crimes.
Germany has hugely increased its military spending, aiming to be less dependent on Washington. Its support for U.S. attacks on Iran may also give it leverage.
Her withdrawal reflects the energy of the party’s left and voters’ unease with older candidates and paves the way for Graham Platner to challenge Senator Susan Collins in November.
Buttery miso pan drippings add richness to this lively combination of crunchy greens, juicy grapefruit and sticky chicken.
Gross domestic product expanded at a 2 percent annual rate in the first three months of the year, a period including first weeks of conflict in the Middle East.
Traders now think the Federal Reserve will keep steady interest rates, or perhaps even increase them, amid succession intrigue at the central bank.
Mr. Coe, who wrote “Take This Job and Shove It” and other hits, was a transgressive exponent of the outlaw country movement of the 1970s and ’80s.
Casa, a company founded by former Uber executives, says it uses artificial intelligence and a stable of handymen to take care of members’ homes.
The police are seeking a man who was last seen holding hands with the 5-year-old girl on Saturday night near Alice Springs.
The lawsuit seeks to block a state bathroom law that is the nation’s most restrictive, with penalties that could include a five-year prison sentence.
We look at when political criticism can be considered a threat of violence.
The airline was used by chicken breeders in Texas to illegally transport roosters for cockfights, an animal welfare group said.
Irán ha amenazado con cobrar un peaje por el paso a través del estrecho de Ormuz. Aunque eso nunca llegue a ocurrir, la idea podría desestabilizar el transporte marítimo global.
An investigation by Pablo and Dhruv Patel of The Harvard Crimson.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani of New York suggested that Britain should return the gem, a symbol of colonial plunder. Here’s the back story of the famed jewel.
More than a year of similar conversations have failed to bring the country any closer to peace, so Ukrainians have stopped hoping they will.
The court struck down Louisiana’s voting map, a decision that could make it harder for lawmakers to create majority-minority districts.
Plus, chatbots told scientists how to make bioweapons.
Scroll down for hints and conversation about the puzzle for Friday, May 1, 2026.
Scroll down for hints and conversation about the puzzle for Friday, May 1, 2026.
Scroll down for hints and conversation about the puzzle for Friday, May 1, 2026.
Officials are investigating similar attacks across Europe, all claimed by a shadowy Islamist group that may be using low-cost, unsophisticated methods to sow fear in Jewish communities.
Activists said the Israeli military boarded and disabled their boats in international waters near Greece.
What should we do when a chatbot behaves like a criminal?
A decade ago, the party sought independent redistricting commissions. Now, in an era of extreme gerrymandering, such efforts could slow Democrats as they try to keep up with Republicans.
Veterans of the civil rights movement and others said the Supreme Court decision felt like a bleak end to decades of gains in Black representation in the region.
The majority said the law was a victim of its own success and no longer needed. Dissenters responded that Congress should make the call.
With nary an inch of wall space to spare, a couple of art collectors looked for a house that could hold their ever-expanding lives.
The 2006 comedy is filled with moments big and small that have stood the test of time, thanks in no small part to Meryl Streep’s turn as Miranda Priestly.
A Times article makes the case that bodegas may be the ultimate symbol of adaptability in an ever-changing New York.
Rich Americans are writing off taxes they owed before they moved to Puerto Rico, the Senate Finance Committee says.
After months of upheaval, many are attempting to get on with their lives while quietly grappling with grief, economic stress and a loss of hope.
Despite the fragile cease-fire in the Middle East, many Africans say they are bracing for tougher times ahead and making difficult decisions about the future.
Is there something to this whole monarchy thing?
This week’s properties are a waterfront house in Long Beach, N.Y., and a lodge-like home in Jackson, N.J.
Los centros de asistencia de Japón están reclutando a jóvenes atletas, peleadores de artes marciales mixtas y luchadores de sumo para cubrir la escasez de personal.
Somehow, the weaker nation is in the stronger negotiating position.
City and state officials want speed-limiting devices installed in the cars of drivers who get more than 16 speeding tickets in a year, in hopes of preventing injuries and deaths.
In RZA’s new movie, Unique (Shameik Moore) realizes Black residents in town are being hunted by white men. Despite the premise, the film lacks intensity.
Produced by the Jim Henson Company in Sequoia National Park, the PBS Kids special leads a series of programs tied to America’s 250th anniversary.
This week’s properties are Mott Haven, Manhattan Valley and Turtle Bay.
Sometimes it’s just a put-down. Sometimes it’s darkly ideological. That’s true of a lot of slang these days.
Photos of the 1940s lost-and-found office for the subway show that straphangers of the era left some surprising items on the trains.
Matt Taylor makes superb California pinot noirs, chardonnays, cabernet sauvignons and chenin blancs. He’s now navigating a life of winemaking beyond the vineyard that defined his style.
The peace sign necklace, imbued with familial significance, is lent to her by the actress’s mother, only when the occasion calls for it.
The data analysis company is selling a version of the jacket that it says will show its commitment to “re-industrializing America.”
Cosmetic surgery is a sign of making it in the most Kardashian-coded way — get rich, then buy a face.
Under a proposal from Governor Kathy Hochul, New York City could implement Intelligent Speed Assistance (I.S.A.) devices in the vehicles of drivers who have accumulated more than 16 speeding violations in a year. Our reporter Stefanos Chen explains how these devices work to monitor and cap driving speed.
Barcelona is not over, as those who branch out to seek Catalonia’s authentic food and often overlooked art will see.
The mayor’s plan to restructure the way the police handle mentally ill people has lessened the standing of an office that combats domestic and gender-based violence.
Confronting the weirdness of a Waymo future.
The people building A.I. fear that we have only a short time before advanced A.I. disrupts the labor force.
In the 1960s, she invited an audience to cut off her clothes. As attacks on women’s rights escalate, “Cut Piece” and other decades-old works of feminist art feel more relevant than ever.
Millions of Americans are holding onto empty homes, fearing the tax hit a sale would bring.
The filmmaker Arnaud Desplechin directed this off-kilter drama about a French pianist and the life he left behind.
Based on a popular anime series, the film, subtitled “Tears of the Azure Sea,” is a satisfactory stand-alone fantasy adventure set on an island resort.
Adam Scott is perfection as a damaged writer battling an ancient witch and his own demons in this hugely enjoyable chiller.
In this sequel, Andy (Anne Hathaway) and Miranda (Meryl Streep) encounter a series of crises that set the stage for a larger, existential catastrophe.
The action director Renny Harlin combines two different kinds of disaster movies, with lots of gory shark scenes.
A confusing adaptation of Orwell’s political novel seems blissfully detached from its source’s clarity.
Counting minutes is a poor way to curb phone habits. Real antidotes, experts say, include mindful parenting, curated content and human connection.
Lévy Gorvy Dayan gallery offers new glimpses of the perfectionism and hidden goofiness of Domenico Gnoli, whose caricatures of reality captured la dolce vita.
States are responding to a rise in high-profile squatting cases, in luxury homes and public housing alike.
Gwyneth Paltrow’s healthy-eating enterprise is just one of several recent Los Angeles exports to a rival city with its own ideas about what’s good.
Gemini is a digital Swiss Army knife for planning flights, activities and routes, but it isn’t perfect. Why did it forget to put underwear on the packing list?
A research lab in Washington State tracks ecological changes in a warming climate and provides scientific guidance for forest managers. It is one of 57 such facilities being shuttered.
“When I love something, I urgently must put it in someone’s hands,” says the novelist, whose new “Last Night in Brooklyn” is an ode to old-style friendship.
Our columnist on the month’s best new books.
A look at some celebrity couples who found lasting love later in life.
High school and college teachers are watching students write, in the classroom, in order to protect against the incursion of artificial intelligence.
She has a new podcast, stand-up hour and political organizing group, and is raising a 4-year-old daughter. But don’t worry, she still loves weed.
Benjamin Hale’s book “Cave Mountain” connects the brief disappearance of his cousin in 2001 to a grisly true-crime story in 1978.
After losing Neil Peart to cancer six years ago, the trio is returning to touring with Anika Nilles, a powerhouse drummer who’s forged her own relationship with the group.
Some consider the regular feeding of late-stage dementia patients to be nonnegotiable. Others see it as extending life unnecessarily.
Iceland’s swimming pools and hot tubs serve as hubs of social life, a cultural distinction recently honored by UNESCO. Some Icelanders aren’t so thrilled.
A Jewish security group told police an attack on the community was “likely” because of heightened antisemitism, days before December’s mass shooting in Sydney.
During their state visit, King Charles III and Queen Camilla stopped by New York City, where they laid flowers at the 9/11 memorial, fed chickens, read to children and attended a charity event.
Lo que empezó en Japón como una comida rápida y emocionante para la clase trabajadora, se ha transformado en un elaborado capricho para comensales adinerados en otros lugares.
What do you think this image is communicating?
La retórica religiosa del presidente, las políticas migratorias de línea dura y la guerra de EE. UU. en Irán ha dividido a una coalición de votantes cristianos que lo devolvieron a la Casa Blanca.
“You know, I’ve always wondered what white Def Jam would be like,” Johnson said after King Charles cracked a few jokes at the White House.
Esta palabra ha aparecido en 219 artículos en NYTimes.com en el último año. ¿Puedes usarla en una frase?
Expertos en ejercicio y medicina deportiva nos explican qué sucede si te enfocas exclusivamente en fortalecer tus músculos.
This word has appeared in 119 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year. Can you use it in a sentence?
Fue la primera comparecencia pública del secretario de Defensa Pete Hegseth ante el Congreso desde que comenzó la operación Furia Épica a finales de febrero.
A risk-taking outsider, he brought speed, competition and controversy to one of science’s biggest races.
Oil prices push higher, approaching another wartime high, as President Trump asserted that the naval blockade of Iran’s ports would persist.
The European Central Bank and Bank of England were expected to hold interest rates steady on Thursday while searching for signs of possible longer-term damage.
Quotation of the Day for Thursday, April 30, 2026.
Ratna Debnath is a candidate for Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s party, which is campaigning on women’s safety in an Indian state election.
The Arc de Triomphe in Paris, which the president vows to top in Washington, offers a lesson in the complicated history of monuments.
Corrections that appeared in print on Thursday, April 30, 2026.
The measure will allow the G.O.P. to begin working on a filibuster-proof bill to fund ICE and C.B.P., part of their plan to reopen the long-shuttered Department of Homeland Security.
In a legal filing, prosecutors outlined for the first time how they say the singer murdered and dismembered Celeste Rivas Hernandez.
Lance Enfinger and John Kugelman land themselves a prizewinning puzzle.
The justices on Wednesday considered whether the Trump administration had legally ended the Temporary Protected Status program for hundreds of thousands of Haitians and Syrians.
It exceeds the annual budgets of numerous federal agencies, and the Pentagon’s yearly budget for munitions.
King Charles III and Queen Camilla laid flowers at the Sept. 11 memorial before stopping by an urban farm, the New York Public Library, a business event and a gala.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani and King Charles did not meet privately. But if they had, the mayor said, he probably would have raised the issue of the Koh-i-Noor Diamond.
The Times created a 3-D model of the 250-foot monument to show how it would affect a symbolic sightline.
Susan Hutson, the sheriff of Orleans Parish, faces 30 counts, and the jail’s chief financial officer was also indicted.
The changes are in keeping with the administration’s pledge to cut back on gun restrictions.
The comments came after the German chancellor said that Iran has “humiliated” the United States.
Jerome H. Powell announced on Wednesday that he would stay on as a governor at the Federal Reserve after his term as chair ends next month due to lingering legal threats from the Trump administration.
The musclebound character he developed as a toy designer for Mattel gave rise to the Masters of the Universe franchise and helped define the machismo of the 1980s.
There were at least 10 American billionaires, six Fox News hosts, assorted presidential pals, no Democratic politicians and not so many British.
A school transfer disrupted two brothers’ visas, their lawyer said, leaving them vulnerable to arrest and unsettling their Mississippi school community.
In the name of disentangling race from politics, the court has given white voters more power at the expense of racial minorities.
On this edition of the “Popcast” Song of the Week, our critic Jon Caramanica breaks down a boastful party track from BossMan Dlow, who he calls “the funniest rapper working right now.”
The United Arab Emirates is walking away from OPEC this May. The New York Times’ energy reporter, Rebecca Elliott, breaks down how the war with Iran provided the perfect opening for the U.A.E. to go solo.
Forty years since the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, officials are grappling with the impact of a 2025 Russian drone strike that set back decades of efforts to contain it. Ukrainian officials said the Russians deliberately targeted the structure, but the Kremlin has denied responsibility.
House Republicans toiled to pass major measures as lawmakers scrambled to fund homeland security, extend spy powers and deliver a farm bill.
Surveillance video shows a group of middle school students in southern Mississippi taking control of a school bus on a highway after their driver blacked out from an asthma attack.
The defense secretary said at a House hearing that President Barack Obama had fired 197 generals, a figure that the Pentagon previously acknowledged was false.
Many picked up running late in life. They all shared an uncommon competitive drive.
In 2022, at 100, he set what was believed to be a world record in the 100-meter dash at the Penn Relays in Philadelphia, beating 86- and 92-year-old competitors.
Footage of the incident shared this week by a school district in Mississippi shows a group of students working together to avert disaster on a highway.
On Wednesday, the Queen of England presented the New York Public Library with a bespoke replica of Roo, the smallest companion of the Bear of Very Little Brain.
Investigators said the man’s transient lifestyle and social isolation made his intentions hard to track before shootings that killed two Brown students and an M.I.T. professor.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth rebuffed criticism from lawmakers over the Iran war during a budget hearing on Wednesday. The defense department requested nearly $1.45 trillion for the coming year.
Jurors found the man guilty of conspiracy to support the terrorist group that took credit for a horrific bombing, but deadlocked on whether he was responsible for the attack itself.
Republicans put down a right-wing revolt to push the measure through the House, but it faces changes in the Senate that could delay its final passage past a Friday expiration.
Also, the Pentagon estimates the Iran war cost at $25 billion. Here’s the latest at the end of Wednesday.
Hiroshi Sugimoto, Irene Neuwirth, Umberto Pasti and others share their impressions of mesmerizing plots all over the world.
President Trump wants Americans going into space to be a part of his legacy, even as he has proposed cutting NASA’s education, research and diversity programs.
In the second day of a trial pitting Mr. Musk against OpenAI, he said he was misled by the company’s chief executive, Sam Altman. But OpenAI’s lawyer said evidence showed the opposite.
U.S. prosecutors accused a Mexican governor and nine other current and former Mexican officials of participating in a broad conspiracy to help a powerful Mexican cartel import drugs into the United States in exchange for bribes and votes.
Both parties are now scrambling to adjust to a new voting rights landscape.
Rents are falling in Texas — and the reason is simpler than you think. Derek Thompson, a contributing writer at The Atlantic, tells the Opinion columnist Ezra Klein how Dallas and Austin have shown that the only real cure for a housing crisis is an aggressive, unrelenting surge in supply.
Fiscales de Estados Unidos acusaron a un gobernador mexicano y a otros nueve funcionarios y exfuncionarios mexicanos de participar en una amplia conspiración para ayudar a un poderoso cártel mexicano a importar drogas a Estados Unidos.
Iran has threatened to start charging a toll for passage through the Strait of Hormuz. Even if it never happens, the idea could unsettle global shipping.
In the Iran war, we have two overconfident administrations facing off, each believing that time is on its side.
How can the left deliver on its promises if it can’t even navigate its own “horrendous” bureaucracy? On “The Ezra Klein Show,” the Opinion columnist Ezra Klein reflects on Senator Bernie Sanders’s frustrations with government, and argues that government efficiency is the essential “common sense” foundation for a radical vision of American abundance.
New Jersey, where Mikie Sherrill is governor, is one of only a few states to try to bar federal immigration agents from wearing masks.
Google, Amazon, Microsoft and Meta reported more than $130 billion in quarterly capital expenditures on Wednesday as they build A.I. data centers. There’s more to come.