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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.
Readers respond to Vice President JD Vance’s remarks critical of Pope Leo XIV. Also: Mr. Trump, try kindness; a tax solution that wasn’t.
Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words.
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.
The attack, in the southern province of Kahramanmaras, left 20 others wounded.
Although Jerome H. Powell’s term as Fed chair officially ends on May 15, he can stay on as a governor until 2028 and said he would not leave until a criminal investigation was over.
The new threat against the Fed chair comes ahead of a Senate confirmation hearing for Kevin Warsh, President Trump’s pick to lead the central bank.
While last year’s tax law has raised the average I.R.S. refund, the boost is less than the White House expected — and may not have much impact on voters.
With supply chains at risk, the aid to Southeast Asian nations is aimed at securing the availability of oil-based products, including medical equipment.
The rapper formerly known as Kanye West had been scheduled to perform in Marseille, France, in June. The city’s mayor had said he did not want it to be “a showcase for those who promote hatred.”
Known for desecrating a monument to victims of sexual slavery, the former YouTuber was convicted on multiple charges and given a six-month sentence.
Frances Robles, corresponsal internacional de The New York Times compartió sus experiencias de más de 25 años cubriendo la región.
We’re looking at who is filing and what they’re paying.
On “The Interview,” Lena Dunham talks about recreating some uncomfortable moments in her life onscreen, and how audiences responded in unexpected ways.
During the height of her fame, Lena Dunham’s name became synonymous with certain millennial clichés. On “The Interview,” she talks about that experience and how her dad tried to avoid the media attention she attracted.
Analizamos lo que la derrota de Viktor Orbán nos dice sobre un modelo de gobierno en el que la política es más importante que la economía.
Plus, will the World Cup bring tourists back to the U.S.?
The United States has enforced a naval blockade of Iran that is intended to end the war on American terms.
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El hermano de Sugey Amaya fue detenido durante la campaña de detenciones masivas en El Salvador hace cuatro años. Ella ha dedicado su vida a ayudar a presos como él.
Las restricciones de viaje, la posible revisión de redes sociales y los elevadísimos precios de las entradas están ahuyentando a los aficionados internacionales al fútbol, pero las ciudades anfitrionas siguen esperando un auge.
Nelio Biedermann, un estudiante de apenas 22 años, ha sido comparado con Thomas Mann gracias a “Lázár”, su arrolladora saga familiar.
The “Miniature Wife” star on why she and her husband have chosen each other, over and over again.
Millions of Americans are experimenting with the drugs. Science can’t keep up.
More Perfect Union, a left-wing media organization, hopes to win back young voters and build a new generation of college influencers with its More Perfect University program.
This is not a man in control of himself.
Enric Pastor takes an editor’s eye to his 900-square-foot home.
Elle Fanning stars in a big-hearted, open-minded dramedy about online exposure and its complications.
It would be the first walkout by the apartment building workers in more than three decades.
Recipe apps and artificial intelligence can give you a boost, but free tools already on your device can also assist with meal planning and preparation.
This Philip Hartman movie, shot in the East Village in 1985 and now restored, shows at Film Forum through April 23.
The health department began to require the guards in apartments with children under age 10 in 1976. They have had a remarkable impact.
The state comptroller said the real estate brokerage eXp, two of whose former agents have been accused of sexual assault, should fix its company culture instead of moving to Texas.
While $50 a bottle is nobody’s idea of cheap, in the context of Burgundy, it can be a good deal. Here are 12 bottles for $50 and under.
A bungalow in Mobile, Ala., a condominium above a storefront in Portland, Maine, and a Craftsman in Astoria, Ore.
A revival of “Death of a Salesman” comes as the “Zionist consensus” is openly fracturing.
Emily Sweeney, a veteran journalist at the newspaper, is a social media sensation, bringing joy to all with her “hahd” Boston accent.
Ms. Barrymore put her house on the market for nearly $5 million; Mr. Davidson wants almost $2.3 million for his. Also, a purchase from Pink.
From the top attractions to the most frequently asked questions, our guide has all you need to plan your next visit.
People are usually surprised when I admit that I love A.I.
For us to trust it on certain subjects, researchers in the growing field of interpretability might need to learn how to open the black box of its brain.
Interest in the trades is surging among young people. Could developing a special skill lead to job security and personal satisfaction for you?
The actors play a married couple on the brink in the second season of the Netflix anthology series.
The war in Iran has auto shoppers sizing up electrics. Many strong cars are on the market, and there are bargains to be had when buying used.
Jake Burt sells his wares at a single shop that he staffs himself, stoking interest through scarcity.
Sugey Amaya’s brother was detained in El Salvador’s mass arrest campaign four years ago. She has devoted her life to helping prisoners like him.
In a new book, Quinn Slobodian and Ben Tarnoff argue that Elon Musk’s disruptive approach to business is transforming both politics and the economy.
In “Rasputin,” the biographer Antony Beevor delves into the mysterious life of the last czarina’s mystic adviser.
A city in Northern Nigeria has turned into a moviemaking machine, churning out hundreds of productions a year.
An influential order of nuns decided to complete its mission when the last sister dies. The only question left is how to finish well.
Nicholas Enrich’s tell-all memoir, “Into the Wood Chipper,” has advice for others caught between their conscience and their government.
Oleksiy Klochkovsky has driven mail and parcels around the front line in Ukraine for four years. He keeps one ear tuned for danger from above.
Visits to three green spaces in and around the South African city reveal a shift in the country’s botanical world, which has long been seen as the province of the white population.
Vivek Ramaswamy has all but cleared the field ahead of the May primary for Ohio governor, but whether a finance and pharma billionaire is the man for the moment is another question.
Both are great ways to get out and get moving, and both can cause injuries. But there are a few important differences.
MatPat, Miranda Sings, Grace Helbig and WheezyWaiter hit it big on YouTube long before it became a behemoth. They have thoughts about what it takes to succeed there.
The city, named for an early settler, is a more affordable option to nearby San Francisco and Sacramento.
Across the city’s fire zones, there’s a surge of experimentation — collective rebuilding, catalog homes and new technologies that are safe and reduce costs.
This gripping historical fiction will transport you to the doomed ship and back to land.
New tools tailored for use in senior living communities allow for shared experiences and social bonding.
With new limits on federal lending, many students will need private loans and some could be shut out. See the data, program by program.
“I have annoyed people since I was so small,” Lena Dunham says on “The Interview.” But she adds that a lot of criticism seemed to come from an “intense rage about the female sexuality” on her show “Girls.”
An audience member heckled Vice President JD Vance on Tuesday at a Turning Point USA event. And Vance addressed Pope Leo’s criticism of the war in Iran, saying he should be careful when speaking about theology.
Durante décadas, un estudio fotográfico en Londres tomo las fotos de pasaporte de algunas de las personalidades más importantes de su época.
Los generales de Birmania han brutalizado al país durante décadas. Pero han llegado a temer las guirnaldas como signo de resistencia.
Influencers go to great lengths — even in small spaces — to get views? How far would you go?
Frances Robles, an international correspondent for The New York Times, has reported on the region for more than 25 years.
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But there were no early reports of casualties from the storm, which was named Sinlaku and was moving northwest of the region.