With spring comes the urge to spring-clean. It’s about so much more than just organizing your closet.
I don’t feel morally that I could leave. But I have healthy years ahead and I wish to enjoy what’s left of my life.
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Mark Carney’s brand of centrist politics and his invitation to floor crossers with conservative convictions into the Liberal Party’s ranks have reshaped the country’s political economy.
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Analysts said energy and shipping companies would be reluctant to fully restore operations until they were confident that hostilities were over.
The Oscar-winning actress on pain, healing and becoming an action hero.
Delcy Rodríguez, sucesora del líder autoritario de Venezuela capturado en enero, está desmantelando a la camarilla que lo mantuvo en el poder.
The artist and designer discusses world building, enchantment and wonder.
With a new tax proposal, the threat of a building workers’ strike and Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s shunning of the Met Gala, the city’s wealth gap was on full display.
La experiencia era más comedia romántica que película de terror.
Celeste Rivas Hernandez went missing from Lake Elsinore, Calif., at age 13. The musician known as D4vd has been detained in connection with her death.
Iran’s government could emerge from the conflict with a blueprint to keep adversaries at bay, regardless of any restrictions on its nuclear program.
Con algunos ajustes, puedes hacer que tu forma de iniciar una charla sea más animada y atractiva.
Para algunos hombres puede ser difícil darse cuenta de cuándo la están pasando mal y cuándo tienen que buscar ayuda.
Federal officials received complaints about the treatment of children and adolescents at a facility in Westchester County, N.Y.
Students at the University of Arkansas disagreed with Turning Point’s direction, pointing to challenges ahead for the conservative group.
The Italian filmmaker hopes his staging of John Adams’s “The Death of Klinghoffer” will help audiences look past the controversies surrounding the work.
With shortages of medical professionals and an aging population, thousands of community health care workers prevent older adults from falling through the cracks.
Read 16 pages of internal deliberations from the Supreme Court that the New York Times has obtained, bringing the origins of the court’s “shadow docket” into the light.
From the mid-1980s until just a few years ago, Aadam Jacobs recorded thousands of club shows, including an early Nirvana performance. Volunteers are adding them to an online archive.
Our reporter Andrew Higgins describes why Hungary’s voters chose Peter Magyar over Viktor Orban in a landslide, ending Orban’s 16 years in power.
Co-op boards are responsible for protecting the building and its residents. But is checking IDs going too far?
Dozens of Democratic doctors are running for office in the midterms, including some spurred by opposition to Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his anti-vaccine stance.
Confidential memos written by the justices shed light on how they came to issue emergency orders in cases about the scope of presidential power.
Secret memos obtained by The New York Times illuminate the origins of the Supreme Court’s shadow docket. Our reporter Jodi Kantor explains what these documents reveal about the court.
In “How to Be a Dissident,” Gal Beckerman offers an inspiring tour of famous renegades with lessons for the rabble-rousers of today.
Lana Del Rey reveals a dramatic theme for a James Bond video game, and a look back at the chart from 40 years ago, when Prince reigned supreme.
For years, Republican state legislators in Montana have been willing to team up with Democrats, but in nearly two dozen races on June 2, a nationally attuned right has those lawmakers in its sights.
New York Times Film critic Alissa Wilkinson reviews “Mother Mary.”
Tired of traditional wedding fare? Some couples are opting for elevated versions of familiar comfort foods, ketchup included.
Ten artists and designers reflect on the onscreen flora, from fantastical topiaries to scene-setting bouquets, that’s inspired them.
Secret memos obtained by The New York Times illuminate the origins of the court’s now-routine “shadow docket” rulings on presidential power.
The successor to Venezuela’s captured President Nicolás Maduro is purging the people who kept him in power.
Everyday athletes are turning to A.I. chatbots for training advice. How well does it work?
More Americans are taking hardship withdrawals from workplace retirement accounts, prompted by rising costs — and looser rules.
On the current season of the Bravo reality show, he has his hands full with real housewives and more. These are the things that keep him grounded.
The New York Times obtained a trove of documents illuminating the inner workings of the court as it embraced a secretive track for making major decisions.
For 42 years, the XK was Jaguar’s secret weapon. It proved its worth on the racetrack and powered generations of cars. The company’s leap into electrics could take a similar path.
En Estados Unidos dificultamos la virtud y facilitamos el acceso al vicio, como el juego y la pornografía.
Con raqueta o pala en mano, cualquiera de estos deportes mejoran tu perspectiva cardiovascular.
Annie Judis dice que el propósito de su vida es desafiar las expectativas que se tienen sobre la gente de su edad.
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Para los políticos de izquierda en el mundo, el mandatario español es un héroe por enfrentarse al presidente de EE. UU. En España, la confrontación con Trump es vista como un rescate de los desafíos internos.
His visit includes a trip to a shrine where enslaved Africans were baptized before being forced into the treacherous voyage across the Atlantic Ocean.
To leftists abroad, Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez of Spain is a hero for standing up to President Trump. At home, Mr. Trump is seen as Mr. Sánchez’s political savior from thorny domestic challenges.
Separate from the regular Iranian Navy, with boats that often go more than 115 miles per hour, it’s what a retired U.S. official calls a “disruptive force.”
After his election last year, Leo XIV developed a reputation as a mild-mannered mediator. President Trump’s attacks have made him more combative.
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The judge said the two television companies could not combine operations while an antitrust lawsuit proceeded. Nexstar said its deal was already done.
The Trump administration made the announcement hours after Iran said that the Strait of Hormuz was open to commercial ships.
An upcoming executive order is intended to accelerate research into the compounds’ efficacy in treating PTSD, depression and other mental health problems, officials said.
President Trump told a crowd of supporters that the price of oil and gas was coming down, part of an effort in recent days to present a rosier picture of the nearly two-month-long Iran war.
Jesse Cohn delivers a coldblooded killer of a Saturday puzzle.
He will read a passage from the Old Testament that his Christian supporters cite as a call to national repentance and divine blessing.
Our current tax system isn’t fair, and that is bad for social solidarity, argues the Opinion columnist Ezra Klein. The tax expert Ray Madoff joins him to discuss how a fairer system is a moral necessity.
Sean Hannity criticized the pope. Tucker Carlson attacked Mr. Hannity. And President Trump suggested ranking MAGA figures: “good, bad, and somewhere in the middle.”
American issued the statement after news reports that United Airlines’ chief executive had discussed the idea with the Trump administration.
Several moves suggest Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy could revive his campaign to question the safety and effectiveness of the shots after the midterm elections.
Ghia Hajo, 25, returned to her home in Tyre, a city in southern Lebanon that Israel has bombarded with strikes, following the announcement of a 10-day cease-fire.
One reported tornado downed trees and damaged cars in Lena, Ill., an official said.
Friday’s meeting at the White House followed the introduction of Anthropic’s powerful new artificial intelligence model, Mythos, which U.S. officials believe could be critical for security.
The contract for five planes doubles the Department of Homeland Security’s fleet of jets to expel immigrants, and includes two Gulfstream planes, according to documents and interviews.
Our readers in the state tell us about its high-stakes Senate race.
Although the criminal case against Mr. Baldwin was thrown out, the actor still faces civil cases about the fatal shooting of a cinematographer in 2021.
Lawyers for the man, Tyler Robinson, have argued that filming the court hearings threatens his right to a fair trial.
Rescue crews mounted a likely final push to save a stranded humpback whale off the coast of Northern Germany on Friday. The large mammal, nicknamed “Timmy,” captivated the nation after it was stranded in shallow waters for weeks.
The numbers are the first to quantify the effect of the Trump administration’s shutdown and restarting of a program that has saved millions of lives worldwide.
A guerrilla activist group is papering the city with posters criticizing the billionaire Jeff Bezos’ involvement in the event, a fund-raiser for the Metropolitan Museum.
The state liquor agency has been struggling to make timely deliveries to restaurants, bars and liquor stores since it got rid of outdated conveyor belts at a warehouse in January.
The Silicon Valley chip maker filed a prospectus just as SpaceX, Anthropic and OpenAI prepared for their own listings, in what is shaping up to be a wave of enormous initial public offerings.
San Diego County is shopping a surplus of desalinated seawater to Western states that are facing increasingly urgent drought and short supplies.
The Kentucky spirits company’s bid for Brown-Forman comes as the industry is being buffeted by a decline in alcohol consumption.
The bureau has informed high schools, colleges and volleyball clubs in the New York City area that the coach, Edgar Lazaro Castillo, is being investigated in connection with sexual assault.
Also, a college with a cookie house. Here’s the latest at the end of Friday.
As state leaders determine how much owners of high-priced second homes in New York City may have to pay, they are also wrestling with opaque L.L.C.-ownership issues.
Iranian officials did not confirm most of Mr. Trump’s claims and disputed several of them.
On a day when both Iran and the United States declared the Strait of Hormuz opened, hopes for an agreement rose. But statements from President Trump and Iranian leaders about negotiations were sometimes at odds.
How is it possible that a billionaire like Jeff Bezos has a lower tax rate than the average American? The tax expert Ray Madoff joins the Opinion columnist Ezra Klein to explain how the ultra-wealthy pay a disproportionately low amount of federal income taxes in comparison to their overall wealth.
A longtime journalist at The Washington Post, he used his unexpected fund-raising talents to greatly expand the radio organization’s coverage.
A chemist, she lent her expertise in drug research to ACT UP, an organization known for its street protests, and helped accelerate the approval of H.I.V. and AIDS treatments.
Her vivid paintings examined religious fundamentalism and events like the Jan. 6 riots at the U.S. Capitol. She died this month at 46.
Her vibrant yet brooding work explored the crises of the Trump era, with paintings depicting the Jan. 6 riots and a mangled Confederate monument.
Amit Forlit is accused of running a hacking operation that aimed to thwart climate litigation at the behest of a lobbying firm working for an oil giant.
The deal affects about 34,000 apartment building workers. The last time they had staged a walkout was in 1991.
A blast on Thursday night turned out to be for a film shoot, but it unnerved residents who had lived through a propane plant explosion in 2008.
A career Justice Department lawyer, Maria Medetis Long, in Miami is said to have raised concerns about whether the evidence justified moving forward with a bid to prosecute John O. Brennan.
A three-judge panel gave a group of 17 transgender women a few weeks to seek further recourse in court before their transfer to men’s facilities could take effect.
President Trump said the process of clinching a final peace deal with Iran would now “go very quickly.” But analysts called that unlikely.
A month of efforts to help a stranded humpback escape the Baltic Sea have culminated in a tourist and media spectacle, with no guarantee of success.
The announcement came a day after a government official said, “In a country marked by the history of the Holocaust, we cannot pretend that this is just entertainment.”
Prime Minister Mark Carney has set up a meeting and a new office to speed project approvals and make Canada more attractive to investors.
The director Ivo van Hove and others share essential avant-garde productions.
Las declaraciones del viernes sobre la apertura del estrecho de Ormuz elevaron las esperanzas de que el petróleo y el gas del golfo Pérsico vuelvan a circular en volúmenes significativos.
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The actor shares his favorite performances, films, meals and more.
The actor shares his favorite performances, films, meals and more.
The actress shares her favorite performances, films, meals and more.
The looks that revolutionized fashion.
Four men’s wear designers share the history of the garment.
A selection of the very best of fashion’s most enduring garment, according to the people who make them.
A glossary of clothing terms and techniques.
How linen, cashmere and other textiles changed the way we dress.
Landscape designers and botanists on the legacy of different movements.
History’s most controversial buildings, selected by two architects and a critic.
Easily confused design terms explained.
Take T’s quiz to determine whether a furniture piece is original or not.
The most consequential building materials throughout time.
By combining utility and style in novel ways, these seats have changed the way we think about how furniture is made — and who it’s for.
Prime Minister Keir Starmer appears to have been kept in the dark repeatedly over Peter Mandelson, the Jeffrey Epstein associate — fueling an image of weakness.
Ten must-know texts and aesthetic philosophies of the 20th-century European architecture and design movement.
A primer on columns from the architect Gil Schafer.
The most culturally important flora in the world — and how to spot them.
13 stars of the New York theater scene who elevate every production.
A look at six enduring traditions around the world.
Actors Nathan Lane, Joel Grey, Kara Young and Mark Strong on seven speeches they can’t forget.
Cole Escola, Lynn Nottage and others choose the plays that define contemporary theater.
The actors Judi Dench and Paapa Essiedu and director Saheem Ali share their favorite works.
Actors and karaoke connoisseurs Bridget Everett and Natasha Rothwell rank seven tracks from easiest to hardest.
Can you sort 8 historical events?
Sampling has been part of the genre since the beginning. The rapper names the three songs that artists keep turning to.
Gaining a reputation as the brilliant, risk-taking “Indiana Jones” of his field, he encouraged investors to take chances on Asia, Africa, Latin America and Eastern Europe.
A primer on medieval chants, minimalist opera and everything in between.
The experimental composer Daniel Lopatin names several key works that define the genre.
The director of “Lilo & Stitch” (2002) and “The Wild Robot” (2024) shares a list of movies that changed the medium.
The mezzo-sopranos Joyce DiDonato and Denyce Graves and the countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo share their picks of essential productions.
A composer, a conductor and a pianist share the most difficult pieces they brought to life.
Rappers Slick Rick, Trina and Tierra Whack share five albums that have captured the spirit of the medium over the years.
The actor shares five essential songs from musicals.
Four directors share the movies that capture each country.
The directors Charles Burnett, Ava DuVernay and others share five films that have been unjustly overlooked.
Five ways that contemporary cinematography has changed.
Chicago schools will be open on May 1, and schools may take field trips to demonstrations for International Workers’ Day.
According to the directors John Cameron Mitchell and Julio Torres.
From “Make Way for Tomorrow” to “After Hours,” these are the films that encapsulate the city.
Kathryn Bigelow and Mary Bronstein list eight movies that filmmakers will learn from.
Three great character actors share others’ roles that most influenced them.
Twelve chefs on how to eat things (as you were meant to).
A chef explains the distinctions between commonly confused foods.
Versatile, affordable bottles that are worth having on hand.
Ligaya Mishan, a chief restaurant critic for The New York Times, shares her list of meals from Oslo to Singapore that people should endeavor to try.
Chefs on the dishes that teach foundational cooking skills, from simmering to roasting to frying.
A sommelier’s phrasebook.
From Camembert to Comté, these are the varieties to distinguish.
We asked 43 experts to tell us their favorite brands available in the United States. Here, their top nominations under $25.
A timeline of the most pivotal moments in the medium’s history.
Literature’s great B-sides, from “Romola” to “Between the Acts.”
Childhood stories that shape how we understand the world.
Marie-Thérèse Ross-Mahé, de 85 años, detenida en el marco de una disputa por la herencia de su esposo, ha regresado a Francia, dijo el ministro de Asuntos Exteriores francés.
Three protagonists who changed how postwar U.S. thought of itself.
Democrats may win a referendum to give their party more House seats, but they are growing concerned — in part because of TV ads that might confuse voters about where the former president stands.
The poets Major Jackson and Frederick Seidel share the verses they always return to.
Six myths that remain essential to understanding literature and the human psyche.
Dua Lipa, Bernardine Evaristo and others share what to read over a lifetime.
A highly idiosyncratic compendium of what you need to know right now.
Writers pick the classic and contemporary novels you must read from each country.
Fiction that shows what it means to create art amid crisis.
What it actually means for a museum to obtain, and then care for, an unconventional, difficult or even nontangible artwork.
What to know about one of the field’s most misappropriated terms.
Artists share their favorite pieces from institutions around the world.
A highly truncated timeline since World War II, with only some recency bias.
A timeline of 10 styles and their key works.
From 210 B.C. to A.D. 1995, essential pieces selected by four ceramic artists.
A history of land art in eight works.
Key examples from a medium that is about as old as human history.
Curators and historians on the materials that transformed the medium.
Six notorious artistic controversies, from Édouard Manet’s “Olympia” to Tracey Emin’s “My Bed.”
A history of the medium in five pieces.
Little is known about Pickaxe Mountain, but some experts say it illustrates the impossibility of relying on force alone to prevent Iran from acquiring a nuclear bomb.
The order from an appeals court judge will allow Erik Duran, the former sergeant, to be released on $300,000 bail while he challenges his manslaughter conviction.
The Justice Department has not responded to the president’s suit, which has created a conflict of interest for the government’s lawyers.
The artificial-intelligence-generated fake influencers have surged on TikTok, Instagram, Facebook and YouTube in an apparent bid to hook conservative voters.
The actress reveals the song that played while she walked down the aisle at her wedding.
The actor marvels at the beauty of a beloved jazz classic.
The actor discusses the ’90s rock anthem he sings with his three-year-old son.
The remarkable catalog of dates is one of the longest-running records of climate change. Its creator died, setting off a search for a successor.
Readers respond to a column by Ezra Klein. Also: Reflections on Pope Leo XIV; the healing power of nurses in the I.C.U.
His accomplishment in 1975 inspired thousands of disabled athletes to participate in races around the world.
The S&P 500’s rise on Friday caps a striking three-week streak, powered by investors’ optimism about the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz and strong corporate earnings.
Tens of thousands of people are expected to attend matches at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey this summer, but most will not be allowed to drive there.
Howard Lutnick, President Trump’s commerce secretary, derided Canada’s trade strategy and said a North American deal needed to be reworked.
The first taste of the pop star’s third album isn’t a bloodthirsty kiss-off, but a dreamy ode to losing herself in love.
El músico, creador del himno de Fortnite, ha sido detenido en relación con la muerte de Rivas Hernández, cuyos restos fueron encontrados en el maletero de su Tesla el pasado septiembre.
His “Cassette Vol. 1” has a 1980s mix tape soundtrack and nods to postmodern American dance vocabulary.
Rumeysa Ozturk, who was detained for weeks by the Trump administration after co-writing a pro-Palestinian opinion essay, has graduated and returned home.
La mayoría de los israelíes querían que continuara la lucha contra Hizbulá. Pero los críticos del primer ministro de Israel dicen que está demostrando que no puede, o no quiere, enfrentarse al presidente Trump.
Vice President JD Vance has been tasked with defending the Iran war and President Trump’s attacks on Pope Leo XIV. Our White House correspondent Zolan Kanno-Youngs describes how that’s put Vance in a particularly difficult position.
Lebanon’s government has been caught between Western demands to disarm the Shiite Muslim militant group and fears of inflaming sectarian tensions.
Diana Acosta Verde, quien entró de forma ilegal en EE. UU. cuando estaba embarazada de seis meses, tuvo que dejar a su bebé en un hospital mientras regresaba a un centro de detención.
But analysts said it was not clear how quickly the oil industry in the Persian Gulf would be able to get back to normal.
A chart created by METR, a nonprofit A.I. organization, has become an industrywide obsession as it measures the rapid development of big A.I. systems.
Después de la muerte de su esposo, Marie-Thérèse Ross-Mahé enfrentó una batalla patrimonial con sus hijastros. Una jueza dijo que uno de ellos usó su posición como empleado federal para detenerla. Tras 16 días, fue liberada y regresó a Francia.
John Lithgow in “Giant,” a triumphant revival of “Death of a Salesman” and vogueing cats at “The Jellicle Ball”: These productions are worth knowing about.
The companies had asked the justices to clear the way to move environmental lawsuits out of state courts, to friendlier federal venues.
The endorsement, in a special election for a City Council seat on Manhattan’s West Side, comes as the mayor seeks to build influence within the Council.
The Metropolitan Police said that the building had not been attacked but that they were assessing “discarded items” in Kensington Gardens, a nearby park, which was cordoned off.
This month’s picks include killer sharks, unlikely gangsters, and defiant ballerinas.
Box office earnings seem no longer won by name alone. From “Project Hail Mary” to “F1,” celebrities are campaigning overtime on screens large and small to lead to hits.
Good politicians play the hand they’re dealt.
In an unusual collaboration for the Met, the opera’s set designer has conceived a companion exhibition, mounted at MoMA.
An exhibition at the New York Historical focuses on the city’s 17th-century roots as a Dutch settlement.
This summer, FIFA is putting its stamp on the venue for the World Cup.
An exhibition explores examples of Pop Art from the 1960s in dialogue with recent acquisitions by contemporary artists.
David Eisenman sought to better understand how to prevent school shootings and other targeted violence, until the Department of Homeland Security halted the research.
Marie-Thérèse Ross-Mahé, 85, who was arrested amid an inheritance dispute, has returned to France, its foreign affairs minister said. She came to America last year after reconnecting with and marrying a former G.I.
Friday’s statements that the strait is now open raised investors’ hopes that oil and gas would start flowing out of the Persian Gulf in significant volumes again.
The average bill rose 3 percent last year, in part because of higher tax rates. There are ways to try to reduce what you owe, experts say.
Federal agencies have requested access to Claude Mythos Preview, which Anthropic says can rapidly identify — and potentially create — new cyberthreats.
Stuck in standstill traffic, Lebanese people who had been displaced by fighting expressed a mix of excitement and uncertainty about a pause in Israel’s campaign against Hezbollah.
The pause in fighting would remove a major hindrance to the U.S.-Iran peace talks, if it holds.