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.
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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.
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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.
Ford Motor said it expected the federal government to refund $1.3 billion the company paid in tariffs that the Supreme Court later struck down.
El choque entre el papa León XIV y el presidente de EE. UU. revela una búsqueda de autoridad moral en tiempos de incertidumbre.
Bob Odenkirk, who stars in a new action movie, “Normal,” got his start in comedy working as a writer on “Saturday Night Live” and acting on “Mr. Show,” a cult hit he created with David Cross. On “The Interview,” he says sketch comedy is “the most profound expression of human existence there is.”
The state’s Republican governor said he would call a special session in 21 days to address the state’s judicial maps.
Maurice Shakur said in a complaint filed against Duane Keith Davis, who was charged in 2023 with the rapper’s murder, that the “threads are starting to come together.”
The stars of “Running Point” visited the New York Times kitchen studio to get twisting and wrapping with Melissa Clark.
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Beijing’s insistence that Meta unwind its deal with a Chinese A.I. start-up escalates the geopolitical fight over advanced tech.
The federal law had been a “game changer” for Latino voters, but Wednesday’s ruling could weaken Asian Americans’ political power in the state.
A new prosecution memo details the preparations made in the days and weeks before the assault on the White House correspondents’ dinner.
Previous truces have broken down amid competing accusations of violations, and it is not clear that Ukraine will agree to Moscow’s terms.
Fiscales estadounidenses acusan a Rubén Rocha Moya y otros funcionarios en activo de apoyar a organizaciones criminales a cambio de dinero y votos.
It was Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s first public appearance before Congress since Operation Epic Fury began in late February.
Several voting rights groups have said that they plan to challenge the map in court once Gov. Ron DeSantis signs it into law.
Democrats had earned a slight advantage with a victory in Virginia last week, but now a Supreme Court decision and Florida’s move to pass a new map are set to help Republicans.
Prosecutors, in a significant retreat, said they would abandon conspiracy counts against activists, including a former congressional candidate, and refile with misdemeanors.
Prosecutors accused Rubén Rocha Moya, the governor of Sinaloa state, and other Mexican officials of a yearslong scheme to protect the powerful drug cartel.
Standing near dozens of repatriated artifacts, officials from the countries celebrated efforts that have led to the return of thousands of artworks to Italy.
It won’t be so easy to extract ourselves from this conflict.
The state faces a tight window to redraw its congressional maps.
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Jerome H. Powell cited lingering legal threats against him and the Federal Reserve in explaining his decision to remain at the central bank.
The initial public offering of Mr. Ackman’s new fund, Pershing Square USA, raised $5 billion.
A crisis pregnancy group had asked the justices to allow it to sue in federal court over a demand for donor information by New Jersey officials.
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The 1965 law was mean to address fundamental inequities in American life, and was one of the signal accomplishments of the civil rights movement.
Readers discuss the James Comey indictment and the Jimmy Kimmel joke. Also: The U.S.A.I.D. tragedy; privatizing the mail.
Los ravioles con hierbas de primavera y el lenguado de Dover à la meunière fueron algunos de los platos de la cena en honor de los reyes Carlos III y Camila del Reino Unido.
Their appearance seemed at odds with the chief justice’s oft-stated message that the court he leads avoids even the appearance of political splits.
The indictment against James B. Comey, the former F.B.I. director, focused on a social media post that the Justice Department deemed a threat to the president.
During his first public appearance on Capitol Hill since the war began, the defense secretary lashed out at lawmakers in both parties who have questioned the conflict.
He transformed the Missouri Botanical Garden into an international research hub and laid out the existential threats posed by deforestation and unchecked development.
A barge carrying a whale made its way toward the North Sea, where rescuers hope the humpback will swim further into the Atlantic Ocean. The whale, nicknamed Timmy, had been stranded off Germany’s Baltic coast for several weeks.
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Two men were stabbed in north London on Wednesday, in an area that is home to just over half of Britain’s 300,000 Jewish residents. The city’s main police force said the attack was being treated as terrorism.
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Colombia anunció un plan para aplicar la eutanasia a 80 hipopótamos descendientes de los importados hace 40 años. Ahora, un multimillonario dice que quiere llevarlos a India.
The new map could give Republicans as many as four new seats in the state’s 28-member delegation, which already has 20 Republicans.
Seis miembros de la Corte Suprema fueron invitados a la cena, junto con altos funcionarios del gobierno, multimillonarios y legisladores republicanos.
El rey Carlos III respondió con delicadeza a los ataques del presidente Trump contra el Reino Unido y la OTAN, y habló de la importancia de los controles y equilibrios.
The map would eliminate as many as four Democratic-held districts, including one that is heavily Puerto Rican. Republicans expressed confidence in the map’s legality.
Here’s a look at some key events that led to and followed the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
The absence of tanks and other heavy military vehicles on Red Square will highlight the heavy toll of the war in Ukraine.
Haitians played a pivotal role in revitalizing the once struggling Ohio city. The end of Temporary Protected Status could be a setback for its future.
Julian Hall and Adri Mehmeti are New York City teenagers living the dream: not old enough to drink but still expected to hold their own against Messi.
Skin care. The greatest living songwriters. And the latest from the Supreme Court.
With Israel increasingly unpopular and antisemitism on the rise, Jewish politicians find themselves more and more under attack.
The continent, which is warming faster than the global average, saw wildfires, floods and a sub-Arctic heat wave, the European State of the Climate report said.
The details, combined with video, seem to suggest that the gunman was not the person who shot an officer in his protective vest.
Democrats will lose at least one blue-leaning district in Louisiana, and Florida is drawing a redder map. South Carolina, Tennessee and Missouri could try to draw new maps before voting begins.
The court has allowed the Trump administration to end protections on a temporary basis in other cases while they are litigated.
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Instead of paying $150 for NJ Transit tickets to get to the stadium, some Europeans online are suggesting a scenic stroll through New Jersey’s interstates and swamps.
The Mariana, a 145-foot vessel with six crew members, was found overturned after a typhoon, prompting an 11-day search which found no survivors.
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This new Ali Slagle delight blends frozen fruit with nutrient-packed ingredients, like cottage cheese and seeds.
A buzzy revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s hit 1970s musical will transfer to New York next spring, but without its signature outdoor scene.
In this month’s picks, a notorious senator gets grilled, a man changes his eye color and Russian journalists struggle to do their jobs under authoritarianism.
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While some from countries with Temporary Protected Status stay for many years, others have been sent home with little fanfare when their countries were deemed safe.
The court struck down Louisiana’s voting map as an illegal racial gerrymander in a move that could make it harder for lawmakers to create majority-minority voting districts.
The chief executive, Scott Kirby, said that buying a smaller airline might not be worth the effort.
The justices, split along ideological lines, found that Louisiana’s voting map was an unconstitutional racial gerrymander.
The Trump administration has sought to end protections for people from 13 of the 17 countries that had the status.
The Senate Banking Committee advanced Kevin Warsh’s nomination as Fed chair on Wednesday, teeing up the full chamber to hold a vote soon.
Officials in Mineral Wells, west of Dallas, were assessing the considerable damage on Wednesday morning.
In partnership with Expedia, the ride-booking, food-delivering, package-transporting service takes another step toward becoming a super app.
Emails revealed in a California lawsuit and now submitted to the Supreme Court show that an administration researcher privately disputed claims about Haitians.
The Trump administration urged the justices to rely on earlier terse emergency rulings and explain “what to make of this court’s interim orders.”
Two of Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s seven children were adopted from Haiti.
The flamboyant conductor Gustavo Dudamel got a jubilant reception at the New York Philharmonic’s spring gala on Tuesday.
It is one of many ways the president has tried to make good on his pledge to deport record numbers of people in his second term.
The worldly men of the cloth in Héctor Abad’s new novel find divinity both inside and outside the church.
The New York Police Department urged commuters to use public transportation during the royal visit on Wednesday.
Throughout the war in Iran, Friedrich Merz, the German chancellor, did all he could to keep President Trump happy. This week, Mr. Merz appeared to lose patience.
Zap Energy says its ultimate goal is safe, clean energy from fusion. To help get there, it’s starting to build fission reactors.
A reader wants to be a supportive aunt at the Naval Academy commencement, but the prospect of political speeches has her gritting her teeth.
The agency said the analysis of more than 300 formula samples was reassuring, but outside experts raised some concerns.
Fidelity cited the Justice Department’s recent action against the civil rights organization in emails to holders of its charitable-giving funds explaining its decision.
Colombia was planning to slaughter 80 hippopotamuses after a small herd imported in the 1980s by the drug lord grew out of control. An Indian tycoon has offered them a new home instead.
The Federal Communications Commission is clashing again with the media giant. It’s another warning about the costs of angering President Trump.
We look into whether the U.S. is in a new era of violent extremism.
The volunteer-run charity, Shomrim, said in a post on social media that two people were injured and a suspect was detained.
Two Ukrainians and a Romanian were charged last year with setting fire to two buildings and a car linked to Prime Minister Keir Starmer of Britain.
The national average price of a gallon of gasoline hit $4.23, following oil prices upward as supplies from the Middle East remain disrupted.
A crowd in Buffalo chimed in to sing the Canadian national anthem before an N.H.L. playoff game. That presented a contrast to ongoing U.S.-Canada tensions.
From a barbecue at Camp David to a college football game, the British monarch has experienced many American traditions over decades of visiting the United States.
Una investigación del Times muestra cómo las casas de la moneda de EE. UU. y Canadá compraron oro procedente de un cartel de la droga de Colombia.
Solo en dos lugares del mundo se permite a los humanos entrar en el agua con el depredador supremo del océano. A medida que aumentan las multitudes y cambian las normativas, la seguridad de ambas especies es motivo de preocupación.
President Trump held a state dinner honoring King Charles III and his wife, Queen Camilla. During the toast, the two leaders praised the enduring alliance between the nations.
The measure calls for placing a one-time 5 percent tax on the assets of California residents with at least $1.1 billion.
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Worries about visas, academic freedom and safety are making foreign schools, like Sciences Po in Paris, more attractive to some students than the Ivy League.
The bell that King Charles III gave President Trump on his state visit came from a submarine that sank several Japanese ships in the Pacific War in 1945.
Pekín intenta romper una inesperada relación a larga distancia que ha perdurado durante décadas. ¿Paraguay podría verse tentado a alejarse?
Koyo Kouoh, who died of cancer at 57, was just months into her dream job overseeing the Venice Biennale’s centerpiece exhibition. But she left a plan that her assistants have tried to realize.
This is a man who rarely travels beyond the confines of the White House compound or Mar-a-Lago.
Rodada en Chile, esta serie será la primera adaptación al español a la pantalla de la novela de Isabel Allende. Su protagonista, Alfonso Herrera, dijo que la historia está más vigente que nunca.
Josh D’Amaro, who took the helm in February, will have to lead Disney through surprising new scrutiny from the president.
The city plans to widen the median on an 11-block stretch of the boulevard, removing two traffic lanes, to provide space where people can stroll or linger.
The exit of the United Arab Emirates is the most significant in a series of departures from the oil cartel in recent years.
Times critics have named their top 30 American songwriters. Do you agree with their list? Who is missing? Here is your chance to make the case for your favorite.
Google and Meta are enjoying a digital ad boom, as artificial intelligence automates marketing and drives record sales.
The literary food magazine Cake Zine celebrated a savory special issue.
A federal judge has ordered the Justice Department to explain whether it intends to contest President Trump’s $10 billion lawsuit against the I.R.S. over the disclosure of his tax returns.
Alchemy Architects pioneered the weeHouse after building a home for Stephanie Arado. Decades later, she wanted another one — this time with plumbing.
Steven Rattner argues that Trump’s effort to bail out the ailing carrier makes no sense.
Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, Emily Blunt, Stanley Tucci and the director David Frankel on “The Devil Wears Prada,” the sequel and who’s mean in real life.
Buyers across the country are cautious, while the Miami market seems immune.
A visit to the “grottage” of Martha Sitwell, a breakout star of the Bravo series “Ladies of London: The New Reign.”
The king and queen of Britain arrive in New York today on the third day of their state visit. Camilla is bringing a special gift for the library.
The director’s 1951 movie, at Film Forum in a new 4K restoration, satirizes the Italian film industry via Anna Magnani’s over-the-top stage mother.
Body camera footage reveals a disturbing pattern of state and federal officials using minor traffic stops to target Black and brown drivers.
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The odor receptors in the nose are not distributed at random but organized in a precise spatial pattern, two new studies reveal.
Jack Schlossberg, the grandson of John F. Kennedy, is among a slate of Democrats seeking to replace Representative Jerrold Nadler of New York.
The Trump administration wants to terminate humanitarian protections known as Temporary Protected Status for hundreds of thousands of migrants from Haiti and Syria.
The actors connected quickly as they prepared to make their Broadway debuts in a new revival of David Auburn’s Pulitzer- and Tony-winning play.
Tracy Clark-Flory, a writer, on meeting her long-lost sister and how her mother’s life was shaped by being sent away to a “home for unwed mothers” in the 1960s.
This tragicomedy from Lloyd Eyre-Morgan and Neil Ely balances a mordantly funny deconstruction of romance with the harsher realities of gay life.
In “Prophecy,” Carissa Véliz explores how generative A.I. relies on prediction, enriching Big Tech while making the rest of us less safe.
Novels by Matt Haig, Elizabeth Strout and Carley Fortune; explosive true crime; immersive new fantasy; essays by David Sedaris; and more.
From Salt Lake City to New York City, parents are demanding more sway over the digital tools that schools give children.
The city’s rapid expansion brought new jobs and investment, but decades of low wages and limited access to education and housing have kept many residents from reaching the middle class.
A decades-old fight over a parking lot reserved for judges in Brooklyn has picked up steam with a new generation of combatants.
With Americans living ever longer lives, the age-old worry of outliving savings has become more pronounced.
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Only two places in the world allow tourists to enter the water with the ocean’s apex predator. But the safety of both species is a growing concern.
Rom Reddy has pushed to protect his beachfront mansion in South Carolina from what he calls “government overreach.” The fight, he said, inspired his political awakening.
Washington should govern prediction markets as if national security were at stake, because it is.
Our latest batch of reviews includes a new Indian restaurant in Park Slope, a pizza parlor-slash-bar in Bushwick and a Las Vegas import for downtown Manhattan.
Beijing is trying to unravel an unlikely long-distance relationship that has endured for decades. Could Paraguay be tempted to stray?
In “Japanese Gothic,” a 21st-century college student and a 19th-century samurai find themselves occupying the same house.
Jeffrey Epstein’s messages cast light on an unusual building on his private island and show how his connections helped him secure tapestries from Mecca for it.
Scientists shared transcripts with The Times in which chatbots described how to assemble deadly pathogens and unleash them in public spaces.
Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, Stanley Tucci, and Emily Blunt talk about the sequel to “The Devil Wears Prada” and what it takes to be the boss.
New body camera footage from Nashville reveals a disturbing pattern of ICE and state troopers using minor traffic stops to target Black and brown drivers.
European Union regulators said the company did not have effective controls to check a user’s self-declared date of birth, in violation of an online safety law.
After attending a ceremony at the memorial in Lower Manhattan, the royal couple is scheduled to visit a Harlem nonprofit, the New York Public Library’s main branch and Christie’s.
Esta nación envejece más rápido que ningún otro país. Como no cuentan con trabajadores sociales o cuidadores familiares suficientes, la IA ayuda a llenar parte del vacío.
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Sally Goldenberg covers New York City politics and government for The Times, attending to a network of sources more than 20 years in the making.
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