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Ukraine wants to leverage its defense expertise into security partnerships and to reap potentially vast profits for its arms industry.
Allies have rushed to defend the Mediterranean nation, where the drone hit a British base. Some Cypriots wonder why the bases are still there.
The gonzo Irish M.C.s first gained notice for their playful antics. After attracting global attention for their pro-Palestinian views, their new LP is more serious.
Un estudio observa cómo el Tratado de Libre Comercio de América del Norte y la competencia comercial con México provocaron una muerte más temprana de los trabajadores de las fábricas de EE. UU.
It’s OK if you’re not an early riser.
“We are synagogues — we are houses of worship,” one rabbi said. “We are not Fort Knox.”
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Venezuela gave Trump a taste of success. This isn’t the first time an American president has gotten hooked on overthrowing foreign governments.
Para el secretario de Defensa de EE. UU., la fuerza del ejército estadounidense no radica en sus elevados ideales, sino en su capacidad para castigar a sus adversarios.
Recent marketing campaigns and TikToks reflect the craze for “Love Story.’ They show that the Kennedy archetype still can’t be purchased.
After smashes like “First Class” and “Lovin on Me,” the artist from Louisville, Ky., is making a true musical shift to intimate, hand-played R&B on his fourth album, “Monica.”
A ruling on the line between creepy and sweet.
The war in Iran is a victory for the Israeli prime minister.
Whether you’re a casual moviegoer or an avid buff, our reviewers think these films are worth knowing about.
The Texas Democrat has used his perch in Congress to highlight sympathetic cases in his push to free detainees and call attention to the cruel consequences of President Trump’s immigration agenda.
The consequences would be grave.
On the modes of authoritarian crisis, more of the same and constitutional regime change.
Each night, the coat check at the Deutsche Oper in Berlin deals with hundreds of jackets, no matter how fancy the audience dresses.
The defense secretary has disparaged restrictive rules for opening fire that are aimed at reducing the risk of mistakes and civilian casualties.
Trump’s plans for Washington bring to mind what Mussolini did — and tried to do — to Rome.
Our Beirut bureau chief, Christina Goldbaum, shows how Israeli airstrikes have affected Lebanon and its capital. Hundreds of thousands of people have fled areas around Beirut and in a huge swath of southern Lebanon after Israel issued evacuation warnings in its conflict with Hezbollah.
This year, the New York Half Marathon will again go over the Brooklyn Bridge. Runners explain why it can be more challenging than the marathon.
For Diane Warren, the work is the reward. But after 16 losses, an original song Oscar would be nice, too.
Many cybercrime victims are retargeted by online scammers posing as lawyers or other professionals who promise they can recover stolen money.
Despite the lack of big names or critical hype, the romance adaptation “Virgin River” has been one of Netflix’s biggest, most reliable successes.
Los programas de telerrealidad han sido uno de los géneros más desprestigiados. Pero, para Jessie Buckley, Teyana Taylor y Emma Stone, fueron un buen punto de partida.
Best-selling and award-winning authors spoke to us about how canines can spark creativity.
Resizing a wood frame is also an great way to practice woodworking skills that will come in handy for many D.I.Y. jobs.
The work of the novelist Colleen Hoover has become hot property in Hollywood. Here’s why studios clamor to adapt her books.
In these videos, directors walked us through pivotal sequences from their 2026 Academy Award-nominated films.
A series of workshops that are part of the Dance Reflections festival help to demystify contemporary dance. There are classes for pros, nonprofessionals and even children.
A five-bedroom villa on a wine estate, a two-bedroom apartment near Piazza Navona, and a one-bedroom penthouse with city views
Preparing a well-balanced meal is doable any day of the week. (Really!)
A study tracks how the North American Free Trade Agreement and trade competition with Mexico led to earlier deaths for American factory workers.
Medicaid is now paying for health care in jails and prisons, helping smooth inmates’ return to the community. Corrections and law enforcement officials say they’re all for it.
Palisades fire victims want to raise money for disaster hardening. Their idea could be a model — if it can get past L.A.’s most vexing housing problems.
From 1940 to 1973, Ursula Nordstrom transformed kids’ books into real art and big business. A new middle grade biography attempts to capture her magic.
On Super Sunday, a 150-year-old tradition of painstaking craftsmanship is put on display in New Orleans’ streets with suits made of delicate beads and billowing ostrich feathers.
Jordy Rosenberg’s second novel, “Night Night Fawn,” approaches a closed-minded matriarch with compassion, even at her child’s expense.
The surge in capital punishment is a cruel and unjust development.
Will Mair, who studies aging, lost almost all his research funds when the White House cracked down on Harvard. He was wholly unprepared for the upheaval that followed.
Three apps and one website help travelers with a variety of disabilities identify potential obstacles, get audio descriptions in 185 languages and book custom trips.
Iran’s arsenal of some 5,000 mines could further complicate efforts to restart shipping in the Persian Gulf.
“Estados Unidos primero” no tiene sentido desde el punto de vista financiero. Es una estrategia que invita al mundo a utilizar nuestra deuda como un arma contra el país.
La guerra en Medio Oriente ha puesto a la primera ministra de Italia en una situación política interna compleja ante uno de los mayores desafíos de un mandato que había sido notablemente estable.
Un recorrido por algunos de los bares más famosos de la capital irlandesa revela una nueva filosofía: no necesitas alcohol para divertirte.
El Oscar al mejor actor casi nunca es para hombres jóvenes, aunque este actor de 30 años tiene su mejor oportunidad hasta ahora con ‘Marty Supremo’.
Legislation has been introduced to authorize two new casinos at the Meadowlands and Monmouth Park racetracks to compete against the three new casinos planned for New York City.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani has been reluctant to force people indoors, even in dire weather. But conditions, whether on the streets or in shelters, can be dangerous.
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The “Late Night” host Seth Meyers said President Trump is letting Americans “choose your own adventure” in the war with Iran.
Esta palabra ha aparecido en 85 artículos en NYTimes.com en el último año. ¿Puedes usarla en una frase?
‘Pecadores’ y ‘Una batalla tras otra’ han estado codo con codo toda la temporada. Esto es lo que nuestro experto cree que ganará.
This word has appeared in 85 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year. Can you use it in a sentence?
The fuel that powers Indian kitchens has been harder to get since the start of the war, which effectively shut a critical shipping lane for gas imports that India’s population relies on.
Los países ya afectados por la ruptura del orden comercial internacional, la guerra en Ucrania y el caos de los legisladores estadounidenses se enfrentan a daños económicos potencialmente duraderos.
European politicians have colluded in their dependency on a rogue America.
China may never be able to realize its longtime promise to shift away from an overreliance on exports.
A rare visit to a Khmer temple on Thailand and Cambodia’s border showed how deadly clashes between the two countries have scarred a heritage site.
It’s the first time since 2015 that the combination of the day and date associated with bad luck has recurred three times in a calendar year.
The Japanese company’s retreat echoes moves by other traditional carmakers as the industry divides between electric vehicle haves and have-nots.
Corrections that appeared in print on Friday, March 13, 2026.
American officials have said for years that they would prioritize the Indo-Pacific. Now they’re moving warships, missiles and air defenses out for a war in the Middle East.
Beyond its effects on oil and gas, the unfolding war in the Middle East is roiling shipping and airfreight, threatening the availability of a vast range of goods.
High-energy lasers can burn drones in the sky like a blowtorch. But they can be stymied by weather, and making them at scale will be a challenge.
My Nigerian tech bro considered flowers to be “too analog.”
Four years after the Russian invasion of Ukraine sent energy prices soaring, the war in Iran is posing another challenge to efforts to revive European factories.
A blizzard forced Priscilla Villalobos and Timothy Kolk to rethink their New York wedding, and find a new officiant — fast.
At their Valentine’s Day wedding, Mr. Banks read the verses of a song he wrote for his girlfriend of about six years, the artist Ashley Condina.
Richard Hudock and Justin Goldman talked for about eight hours the night they met at a rooftop party. They have barely stopped since.
Adrienne Raphel and David Rosenberg had little luck in dating — until a riff about animals and Italian food brought them together.
Quotation of the Day for Friday, March 13, 2026.
Prime Minister Mark Carney said Canada would build three bases in the region. The government also plans to improve infrastructure and airports in the north.
The actor’s fondness for the audience radiates outward in this delightful interactive play about naming and noticing the good in the world.
The authorities identified the suspect as a naturalized U.S. citizen. Residents of Dearborn Heights, Mich., said he took orders at the business.
Cualquier resolución que se forje en el actual enfrentamiento entre Washington y La Habana corre el riesgo de ser una victoria vacía.
James McCarron and Rachel Souza open our solving weekend.
Family ties bind the characters together in this week’s episode, in ways both beautiful and suffocating.
After surging about 10 percent on Thursday, oil prices had little reaction to the decision by President Trump to waive sanctions on the sale of some Russian crude.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said it was “unfortunate” that the move could benefit Russia, but maintained that it was only for the short term.
El gobierno de Trump ha estado intentando asfixiar al gobierno cubano mediante un bloqueo petrolero. La liberación de prisioneros parece ser un esfuerzo por apaciguar a Washington.
Lawyers for a woman who has sued Mr. Cosby, accusing him of sexual assault, called Ms. Constand as a witness in the case, which is now being tried in California.
Anna Ziegler’s feminist take on Sophocles tries to tie in reproductive politics, but the play keeps trampling over its own ideas.
A television journalist for four decades with 30 Emmy Awards, Mr. Anastos especially enjoyed delivering good news.
The Trump administration has been trying to choke the Cuban government through an oil blockade. The prisoner release appears to be an effort to appease Washington.
A driver rammed a vehicle into a synagogue outside Detroit on Thursday. Authorities are investigating the attacker’s motive.
La llegada al poder del nuevo presidente es el hito más reciente en una tendencia más amplia de conservadurismo y alineamiento con Trump en Latinoamérica.
The authorities are investigating the shooting at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Va., as an act of terrorism.
Iran’s new supreme leader delivered a forceful message in his first public statement since succeeding his slain father, as the Israeli military bombarded Tehran and the Lebanese capital with strikes.
The attacker who drove into Temple Israel in West Bloomfield Township, a 41-year-old naturalized U.S. citizen, is dead. No one else was killed.
The crash was not because of hostile fire or friendly fire, U.S. Central Command said.
India relies on huge quantities of cooking gas that is normally shipped from the Persian Gulf.
The tech giant pushed back the timeline after spending billions to be on the cutting edge of artificial intelligence.
The threats to shipping in the Strait of Hormuz are complicating President Trump’s calculations about how and when to end the war.
A funeral was held in a village in southern Lebanon for a priest killed by Israeli tank fire. Israel has intensified its campaign against Hezbollah with expansive evacuation orders and air strikes across the country.
Thomas G. Thompson was held in contempt for 10 years for repeatedly denying he knew the whereabouts of 500 missing gold coins.
Despite ethical concerns about using battlefield videos to train artificial intelligence, Ukraine’s defense ministry said it needs to improve A.I. targeting to compete with Russia.
The proposed law, which would not take effect before this year’s midterm elections, was modeled in part on President Trump’s top legislative priority in Congress.
As a historian and diplomat, he gave intellectual shape to his people and made sure that they played a role in negotiating their future.
Also, a Michigan synagogue was attacked. Here’s the latest at the end of Thursday.
By suing Republican states and making sharp reversals in old cases, the Trump administration is using courts to fast-track major shifts in policy.
Although he wasn’t blind, he sang in three different gospel groups known as the Blind Boys before making a splash on the R&B and pop charts.
The attack on Temple Israel is just the most recent in a string of attacks. They have taken place in the United States and around the world.
After postponing launch opportunities in February and March, the agency determined that four astronauts could proceed toward the first crewed lunar journey in more than 50 years.
The head of the General Services Administration said a proposal to transfer control of courthouse buildings to the judiciary was a bad idea.
T’s fashion editors share their takeaways from the fall runways, which featured stripped-back garments — but also shoes that channeled lily pads.
A fifth of the world’s oil passes through the strait, making it a critical choke point in global commerce.
With attacks and threats, Tehran is using the world’s most important transit point for oil and gas as leverage against its enemies.
Days after the 2003 invasion of Iraq, Michael Moore used his moment in the spotlight to rail against the war. Here’s what he and others onstage remember.
Washington, D.C., was warm and sunny on Wednesday. By Thursday, snow was falling.
Mojtaba Jameneí adoptó un tono desafiante y dejó claro que Irán no retrocederá en una guerra que ya se ha extendido por todo Medio Oriente.
Se trata de la más reciente estatua satírica creada por Secret Handshake, un grupo de artistas anónimos.
The temple is one of the largest Reform institutions in America, with thousands of families and an early education center.
With spring and summer travel season beginning amid a war in the Middle East, a partial government shutdown and more, we’d like to hear how your travel plans are changing.
The Academy Awards ceremony is on Sunday. Here’s what to know.
Oil prices surged on Thursday after ships came under attack in the Persian Gulf, and Iran’s supreme leader vowed revenge for U.S. and Israeli airstrikes.
The attack struck a residential area of Goma, killing an employee of the U.N.’s children’s agency and two others amid a sharp rise in drone warfare.
Students react to an article about how more young athletes are working with private coaches to level up.
Now it’s your turn to predict which nominees will win.
The fight over ICE actions is a symptom of a much larger, more fundamental debate happening in America, MS NOW’s Chris Hayes argues on “Interesting Times.”
Gavin Newsom is more like Hillary Clinton than Barack Obama, and that’s bad news for any presidential aspirations Newsom may have, MS NOW’s Chris Hayes argues on “Interesting Times.”
The Trump administration is expected to begin a trade investigation into whether dozens of countries have policies to combat forced labor.
For the second time in about six months, a driver rammed a vehicle into a house of worship in Michigan. Four people died as a result of last September’s attack in Grand Blanc Township.
More than a dozen oil tankers, cargo and other commercial ships have been attacked in the Persian Gulf since the U.S.-Israeli war against Iran began nearly two weeks ago.
Three Irish bars for the 21st century reveler just in time for St. Patrick’s Day.
The number of assaults and threats against Jews has increased in recent years, with anxiety growing further since the start of the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran.
The Israeli military launched a new wave of strikes on central Beirut on Thursday, saying it was targeting infrastructure belonging to the militant group Hezbollah. The bombardment crystallized fears that the war was expanding beyond the southern outskirts of Lebanon’s capital.
El presidente Donald Trump está moderando las ambiciones políticas de María Corina Machado, nobel de la paz, mientras estrecha los lazos con los enemigos de la dirigente en Venezuela.
A look at the war in Iran’s effects on global energy markets, two activists whose Sierra Club memberships were revoked, and more climate and environmental news.
After a prisoner arrived at a hospital with broken ribs and a torn rectum, Israelis were once again at odds over the issue of mistreatment and impunity.
Death Valley, the hottest and driest place in North America, is experiencing a rare wildflower bloom after receiving a record amount of rain in the fall.
The damages would be paid by a Virginia contractor that supplied interrogators to the U.S. military after the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
How much does it cost to save a life?
Two Black female candidates may split Democratic primary voters in Illinois, and anger is growing at well-funded efforts to widen the divide.
The Federal Reserve and other financial regulators will soon release proposals to loosen some planned rules on how much capital banks must hold in reserve to mitigate risks.
The fight over restrictions on immigration agents has prolonged the funding lapse for T.S.A., Coast Guard and more into a second month, as airports experience screening delays.
Before he retired, Maj. Gen. William N. McCasland oversaw a research laboratory at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base near Dayton, Ohio.
As a Villanova student, he captured the 1,500-meter event in the 1956 Games in Melbourne. No Irish athlete since then has won another Olympic gold medal in track and field.
The Trump administration is putting the weight of the federal government behind his false claims about the 2020 election in order to investigate key swing states ahead of the midterms. Nick Corasaniti, a New York Times reporter focusing on elections, homes in on the states that have become the prime targets and why.
To help us report an upcoming article, we want to hear about your cherished, prized or strange storage unit stories.
Casi un año después de que Ruben Ray Martinez fue abatido por un agente del ICE, el Departamento de Seguridad Pública de Texas liberó videos, testimonios e informes policiales de la escena.
Readers react to the news that a U.S. missile likely killed 175 Iranians. Also: Kennedy pushes nutrition advice on medical schools; city life for retirees.
Reading recommendations from critics and editors at The New York Times.
The billionaire is said to be willing to spend up to $5 million to help Assemblyman Micah Lasher in his bid to replace Representative Jerrold Nadler, bypassing a Kennedy scion, Jack Schlossberg.
The case is mostly moot, a federal judge said, because the administration has resumed the flow of more than $200 million in funding that it had temporarily stopped.
President Trump is tempering the political ambitions of María Corina Machado, a Nobel laureate, as he deepens ties with her foes in Venezuela.
The best pastas have a hole in them, allowing them to catch vegan caramelized cabbage, creamy beans or cauliflower Alfredo sauce.
There were reports of an active shooter at a synagogue outside Detroit on Thursday, the authorities said.
She established a network of safe houses for abused women and was an outspoken critic of her country’s repressive institutions, despite the constant threat of violence.
The globally acclaimed restaurant had the power and influence to remake restaurant culture. Instead, it perpetuated the darkest parts of that world.
You’re in luck: The early 2000s girl group announced a new single and a reunion tour on Thursday.
The inauguration of Chile’s new president, José Antonio Kast, is the latest milestone in a broader shift toward conservatism and pro-Trump alignment in the region.
El conflicto obliga a los productores a recortar la producción y cerrar puertos, mientras Irán intensifica los ataques contra las infraestructuras energéticas.
Ahead of the Oscars on Sunday, Food and Film writers and editors recount the moments that filled them most.
Rebuffing pressure from President Trump, a legal office says the prime minister should be pardoned only if he resigns, confesses or is convicted.
Residents of Southaven, Miss., have complained about noise and cited concerns about possible pollution from gas turbines that will help xAI train its chatbot.
The chef René Redzepi stepped down from Noma on Wednesday after running the restaurant for 23 years. Dozens of former employees told The New York Times that Mr. Redzepi engaged in physical and psychological abuse at his restaurant.
Visitors are flocking to see a bonanza of wildflowers that has transformed this barren desert.
Countries already walloped by a breakdown of the international trading order, war in Ukraine and chaotic U.S. policymaking are facing potentially lasting economic damage.
At Paris Fashion Week, niche celebrities and looksmaxxing were all over the runway.
In this period drama, a vagrant samurai slays with a sword and his mastery of the game Go.
Many young people want to farm. They just can’t afford it.
The lopsided vote to approve the measure was a rare bit of election-year bipartisanship on a major affordability issue, but G.O.P. disputes and President Trump’s disinterest have left its fate uncertain.
Plus: black sesame pastries, a Roy Lichtenstein exhibition in New York and more recommendations from T Magazine.
The shooter opened fire in Constant Hall, a building on the campus in Norfolk, Va. It was not clear what led to the shooting.
Under his watch as president, the team brought on key players like Brett Favre, modernized Lambeau Field and once again became a Super Bowl threat.
After President Trump urged states to recommit themselves to capital punishment, Florida started to put prisoners to death at rates not seen in the state’s modern history.
Mortgage rates fell below the critical 6 percent threshold just a couple weeks ago. But they’re climbing again as new inflation concerns have roiled financial markets.
Mojtaba Khamenei struck a defiant tone and signaled that Iran would not back down in a war that has spread across the Middle East.
El influyente presentador de pódcast describió el conflicto como un fuerte cambio de las promesas de campaña del presidente de EE. UU.
At least 149 people died in the 2024 terror attack outside the Russian capital, for which the Islamic State claimed responsibility.
Middle-class Americans are surviving, but not thriving. We want to know why.
With airstrikes expanding beyond the limits of Beirut’s southern suburbs, people in the city say that even the once-safest corners may no longer be off-limits.
A lawsuit argues that the state’s regulations would illegally force a rapid transition to electric vehicles.
Closing arguments began Thursday in a landmark trial that put online behavior under a microscope. In many ways, it has already been decided.
The president called Mr. Paul, a boxer and provocative influencer, a “great guy” and predicted that he would run for an elected position.
A series of private exchanges in the messaging system Slack were revealed as exhibits in the Justice Department’s antitrust lawsuit against the concert giant.
On my plate, at least, with this easy and energizing shrimp and avocado salad with sizzled peanut dressing.
Continued Iranian attacks on oil infrastructure sent oil prices briefly surging above $100 a barrel again on Thursday, despite world leaders pledging to release a record amount of emergency oil reserves the day before.
A hacking group seemed to claim responsibility for the attack on a U.S. manufacturer, calling it retaliation for a strike on an Iranian school.
Michael Heizer, renowned for monumental earthworks like “City,” offers a domesticated, rattlesnake-proof art for Manhattan’s Gagosian.
Nearly 75 percent of farmers surveyed before the war said the crop sector was in a recession. They face bigger hurdles this planting season.
The Democratic power broker had kept his plans under wraps but signaled he wanted to be around to see the first Black speaker elected, a milestone the party is well positioned to reach next year.
The experience of the private Blue Ghost mission in lunar orbit a year ago highlights a growing number of “red alert” incidents above Earth’s neighbor.
El chef se marcha tras 23 años dirigiendo el restaurante de Copenhague, considerado uno de los más innovadores e importantes del mundo.
Henry Darger, a recluse who left behind thousands of wild illustrations upon his death, is the subject of fascination in this one-man show.
Our Ask the Therapist columnist, Lori Gottlieb, advises a reader whose sibling moved away and then canceled a family trip.
The war in the Middle East has sent oil and gas prices soaring. Our energy reporter Rebecca F. Elliott breaks down how much the world continues to depend on reliable sources of oil.
El arquitecto, que llamó la atención internacional en 2014 con la estructura que creó para el jardín delantero de la galería Serpentine de Londres, ha trabajado principalmente en proyectos en su país natal, Chile.
The climate pattern known for intense heat, floods and drought is likely to develop this summer, raising questions about disaster preparedness.
The actress will make her Broadway debut in a role that, she said, “feels like a badge of honor.”
Following rivals like Amazon and OpenAI, Microsoft is upgrading its artificially intelligent assistant to track your health. There are benefits and risks to consider.
The naming of Smiljan Radic as the next Pritzker laureate was delayed by the disclosure of Jeffrey Epstein’s friendship with Tom Pritzker, who has now distanced himself from the prize.
Conflict is forcing producers to slash production and close ports as Iran steps up attacks on energy infrastructure.
The data showed imports dipped and exports rose in the month before the Supreme Court struck down most of the president’s tariffs.
The installation is the latest in a series of satirical statues created by an anonymous group of artists called the Secret Handshake.
Investors have worried about who would get hit if there’s a private credit bust. Many on Wall Street think the pain goes further than the lenders.
The Iranian Navy sought refuge in Sri Lanka and India. While India obliged, Sri Lanka stalled over fears it would threaten its neutrality.
“We just want to be back in our homes,” said a Lebanese man who, like many others in the latest round of fighting, has to flee.
We examine the defense secretary’s view of war.
Es un año electoral crucial y los costos económicos y políticos de la guerra están en aumento. Tendría sentido suponer que el presidente declarará la victoria y se retirará.