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• Utah Bans Most Flags, Including Pride, at Schools and Government Buildings. The new law is among the most restrictive governing displays of flags, and is part of a polarizing debate focused on the Pride flag and other expressions of L.G.B.T.Q. support.
• Quiet Tufts Student Is Ensnared in Visa Campaign. The Trump administration said she “engaged in activities in support of Hamas.” Her friends and lawyers say all she did was co-author an essay critical of the war in Gaza.
• Where Was Each Member of the Signal Group Chat? Officials were crisscrossing the world as they sent and received sensitive messages on Signal about an imminent U.S. attack on Yemen.
• 5 Voters Weigh In on the Signal Leak. What did they think about the national security breach, in which Trump administration officials discussed attack plans in Yemen on a commercial messaging app?
• Ilia Malinin Is Poised to Win. But First He Had to Get Back on His Feet. The American figure skating star is expected to repeat as a world champion on Saturday. But he had to channel his grief over losing fellow skaters in January’s D.C. plane crash to get there.
• How Colleges Are Cracking Down on Students Now. Colleges are using surveillance videos and search warrants to investigate students involved in pro-Palestinian protests. Experts say it’s a new frontier in campus security that could threaten civil liberties.
• Justice Sonia Sotomayor Says Judges Must Be ‘Fearlessly Independent’ The justice made remarks at once cautious and forceful at Georgetown University Law Center, which has called attacks by the Trump administration a threat to academic freedom.
• University of Minnesota Student Detained by Immigration Agents. University officials said they had not been informed of the federal agents’ plans and called the situation “deeply concerning.”
• Leaders of Harvard’s Middle Eastern Studies Center Will Leave. Harvard University has been under pressure by the Trump administration to follow directives related to diversity and combating antisemitism.
• State Auditor to Investigate Sheriff Who Used Inmate Labor on Family Farm. In Mississippi, a sheriff accused of staffing his family’s commercial chicken farm with inmates defended the practice, saying he always paid them.
• Columbia President Is Replaced as Trump Threatens University’s Funding. Katrina Armstrong is leaving the post a week after the university agreed to a list of demands from the White House.
• 4 Dead After Flooding in South Texas and Mexico. More than 20 inches of rain — about a half-year’s worth — fell in some areas near the border on Thursday and Friday.
• Trump Takes Aim at California Six Times in 24 Hours. The Trump administration seemed to hold back immediately after the January wildfires. But its multipronged assault on California has now begun in earnest.
• 80,000 Pounds of Beef Stolen From Tennessee Slaughterhouse. The sheriff’s office in Grainger County, Tenn., is investigating the theft after shipments from a meat processing facility were loaded onto trucks and never reached their destinations.
• Student Facing Deportation for Protests Feels ‘Like a Prisoner Already’ Momodou Taal is from a political family and found his muse in Malcolm X. He joined a pro-Palestinian movement that led to his suspension. Now, he is fighting to stay in the United States.
• Life Without Transit? Silicon Valley Had a Glimpse for Nearly 3 Weeks. An unusually long strike in the San Jose area forced a shutdown of buses and light-rail trains. It was a possible harbinger of things to come for transit agencies elsewhere.
• In Oklahoma, Counting Migrant Students May Have Gone Too Far. A divide between Oklahoma’s governor and schools chief over undocumented students may mark the outer limits of acceptable immigration enforcement, or the next frontier.
• Floods Sweep South Texas and Nearby Border Cities in Mexico. Severe storms dumped about half a year’s rainfall in two days, leading to flash floods across both sides of the border.
• What We Know About the Detentions of Student Protesters. The Trump administration is looking to deport pro-Palestinian students who are legally in the United States, citing national security. Critics say that violates free speech protections.
• Justice Dept. Will Investigate California Universities Over Race in Admissions. California banned affirmative action decades ago. The Trump administration says it plans to investigate whether schools there are still considering race.
• Selena’s Killer Is Denied Parole 30 Years After Murder. The Tejano music star was fatally shot by the founder of her fan club, who has been serving a life sentence in Texas. On Thursday, a panel denied her first attempt at parole.
• Las Vegas Man Faces State and U.S. Arson Charges in Torching of Tesla Vehicles. The police said the man spray-painted the word “resist” on the doors of a Tesla repair center and then used a firearm and Molotov cocktails to damage five vehicles.
• Faulty DNA Tests Were Used in Thousands of L.A. Criminal Cases, Sheriff Says. The manufacturer of the test kits notified the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department in August that many of the kits were likely defective, but it kept using them for several months.
• Trump Is Challenging California On Transgender Parental Notices. The Trump administration will investigate whether a new California law banning parental notification requirements in schools violates federal policy.
• Justice Dept. Considers Merging Drug and Gun Agencies in Broader Reorganization. Overall, the vision, as outlined in a memo, is to downsize by consolidating some work inside its headquarters, while farming other responsibilities out to the U.S. attorney’s offices.
• ‘You’re His Property’: How One Sheriff Used Inmate Labor on His Family Farm. In Mississippi, incarcerated trusties cleaned chicken houses, fixed cars and installed flooring for the benefit of a local sheriff and his associates, a new investigation found.
• LeShon Johnson, Ex-N.F.L. Running Back, Ran Major Dogfighting Kennel, U.S. Says. Federal investigators say that they seized 190 pit-bull-type dogs from the former player, who previously pleaded guilty to state dogfighting charges in 2004.
• ICE Agents In Alabama Hold Student From Iran. A spokeswoman for the school said the detainment occurred off campus, but it was not immediately clear why the student had been targeted.
• Surveillance Footage Shows Arrest of Tufts University Student. Rumeysa Ozturk, a Turkish citizen and a Muslim, was heading out to break her Ramadan fast with friends Tuesday night when she was detained by agents from the Department of Homeland Security.
• Hi Ho! Kermit the Frog Will Speak to Maryland Graduates. The world’s most famous green frog will likely give some encouraging words, and possibly a few ribbits, to the class of 2025.
• Appeals Court Blocks Wartime Act as a Rationale to Deport. The panel said that while further argument was needed, lawyers for the migrants would likely succeed in their claims that the Venezuelans had been denied due process.
• Viral Vigilantes Get More Violent. With the rise of loosely moderated social media platforms, a fringe vigilante movement is experiencing a dangerous evolution.
• Who Makes the Call on What Information is Designated as Classified? The often bureaucratic nature of classified information is complicated, with different levels of secrecy and different potential punishments for its disclosure.
• The Fallout From The Leaked Signal Chat, Explained. Will the F.B.I. and the Justice Department investigate if the move by senior members of President Trump’s administration to share defense secrets over the Signal messaging app violated federal laws? Devlin Barrett, a New York Times reporter coveri...
• Trump To Impose 25% Tax On Cars Shipped Into U.S. The measure, which is intended to bring car factories to the United States, could significantly raise prices for consumers.
• D.C. Crash Echoed a Club’s 1961 Tragedy. Two months after the D.C. plane crash killed 67, including six people affiliated with the Boston club, the members had to prepare for the world championships. Unfathomably, they had a blueprint.
• ICE Detains Tufts Student Who Protested Gaza War. The university was told that the student’s visa had been terminated, its president said in a late-night email to students and faculty members.
• Senate Democrats Press President for Answers on ‘Egregious’ Security Breach. Top lawmakers say the White House must provide a full accounting of actions surrounding sensitive military information shared on a text chain that included a journalist.
• Companies Retreat From Pride Events With D.E.I. in Cross Hairs. Pride organizers say major longtime backers are reducing their support as corporate America retreats from diversity initiatives under President Trump.
• The Leaked Signal Chat, Annotated. The chat’s contents, which were obtained by The Atlantic after its editor in chief was added to the Signal group, provide a revealing look at private conversations between top Trump administration officials.
• Texas Prosecutors Will No Longer Pursue Death Penalty in El Paso Shooting. The gunman, who killed 23 people at a Walmart in 2019, was previously sentenced to 90 consecutive life terms after pleading guilty to federal hate crimes.
• Judge Blocks Iowa Law Restricting Sexually Explicit School Books. The ruling is a victory for the publishers and free speech advocates who challenged the law, but the judge’s decision is far from final.
• Democrats Call for Hegseth and Waltz to Resign. Some Republican lawmakers have called for an investigation, but most have shied away from criticizing the Trump administration.
• Jeffries Calls on Trump to Fire Hegseth. The House minority leader became the highest-ranking Democrat to demand the defense secretary be terminated, saying he was “unqualified” and a national security risk.
• Who Was in the Signal Group Chat? The list of members of the chat aligned with some of the most senior members of the Trump administration.
• After Signal Leak, Vance Focuses on Proving His Loyalty to Trump. After the revelation that he was part of a secret chat, Vice President JD Vance’s focus wasn’t on the security breach. Instead, it seemed to be concern that he had questioned his boss.
• Man and 2 Children Are Found Alive After Plane Crash Into an Alaska Lake. A volunteer pilot found the three on Monday morning after they had been missing all night, the authorities said. They were taken to a hospital.
• Who Is Michael Waltz? The national security adviser has been walking a tightrope even before the disclosure of the group chat.
• The Atlantic’s editor says the Signal chat contained classified material, contradicting White House denials.
• The White House claims the Signal chat did not include war plans, despite it containing specific Yemen strike details.
• White House Claims Signal Chat Did Not Include War Plans. An article in The Atlantic said the chat included “operational details of forthcoming strikes on Yemen, including information about targets, weapons the U.S. would be deploying, and attack sequencing.”
• Japanese Court Awards $1.4 Million to Exonerated Man. Iwao Hakamada, 89, who is believed to have been the world’s longest-serving death row inmate, was exonerated last year of a 1966 murder conviction.
• Facing Record Enrollment, Colleges Grapple With Financial Upheaval. The largest-ever class of high school seniors is about to graduate, just as colleges are facing major upheaval. Here’s what they could face as they head to campus.
• Lost in Jail Without Charges, Lawyers or Hope. People in Maverick County spend months in jail waiting to be charged with minor crimes. Some are simply lost in the system.
• Hillel, Campus Home for Jewish Students, Reflects Their Rifts. The war in Gaza brought more students into the Hillel fold, but has sown divisions among Jewish students over the group’s mission.
• Teen Who Set Off Avalanche Is Fourth Person Killed on Alaska Slopes This Month. A 16-year-old was riding a snowmobile in the Kenai Mountains when he was swept away and buried, officials said.
• What Are Your Plans After Graduation? As the Trump administration makes cuts and extends hiring freezes, career paths might look different.
• Lawsuit Challenges Trump Order to Shut Down the Education Dept. The lawsuits accuse the government of dismantling the department without the required approval of Congress.
• Trump Wants Reversal of Order to Rehire Workers. An administration lawyer complained about what she said was a trend of lower court judges exceeding their authority in halting government programs.
• Venezuelans Ask to Keep Protected Status in U.S. Nearly 350,000 people could soon face deportation after the Trump administration moved to end Temporary Protected Status, or T.P.S., for immigrants from that country.
• ‘Buckle Up’: Montana’s G.O.P. Lawmakers Target Judiciary. Republicans in Montana and other states complain that liberal judges are tossing out the laws they pass. Now, conservative legislators are trying to change the rules, and the judges.
• Murphy, Eagle Who Became a Foster Dad After Incubating a Rock, Has Died. The beloved bald eagle was found dead in his enclosure at the World Bird Sanctuary in Missouri after severe weather pounded the region on March 14, sanctuary officials said.
• Sartorial Flair for the Political, and the Charitable. Mr. Brown, the former mayor of San Francisco, has stood out not just for his politics but also his style. Now, he has opened his closet to raise money for charity.
• Homes Were Destroyed, but the Century-Old Tiles Survived. Salvage experts are rushing to save handmade tiles from fireplaces that survived the Eaton fire before they are demolished.
• Coast Guard Suspends Search For 3 Who Went Missing from Capsized Boat in Florida. The agency was looking for an adult and two children on a river near Jacksonville, Fla. One person was found dead in the water, and four others were rescued.
• Chomps Recalls Beef and Turkey Sticks Over ‘Pieces of Metal’ Complaints. The snack sticks included in the recall were packaged at a single facility in Idaho from Jan. 16 through Jan. 23, the company said.

Elections

• Tracking Each Party’s Early Turnout for Tuesday’s Special House Elections. Voters in two heavily Republican House districts in Florida will decide who to send to Congress. See which party is ahead in turnout so far.
• Pennsylvania State Legislature Special Election Results. Get live results and maps from the 2025 Pennsylvania state senate and state house special elections.

Politics

• Federal Unions Gird for Fight After Order to End Collective Bargaining. The move added to the list of actions by President Trump that use the powers of his office to weaken perceived enemies.
• Journey From Biden Loyalist to ‘Full MAGA’ Ends in a Trump Pardon. Devon Archer used his knowledge about Hunter Biden’s foreign business dealings to gain favor from Republicans and appeal for clemency.
• What’s More Powerful: Elon Musk’s Millions, or Liberal Anger at Him? Voters will soon provide an answer in Wisconsin, where the billionaire has made himself the main character in a consequential court race that is set to shatter spending records.
• Why Is ICE Detaining College Students? The Trump administration is trying to deport pro-Palestinian students who are legally in the United States, citing national security. First Amendment experts say that violates free speech protections. Anemona Hartocollis, a national reporter for T...
• Battle Plans and Emojis: What the Signal Leak Revealed About Washington. The New York Times reporters Jess Bidgood, Helene Cooper, Zolan Kanno-Youngs and David E. Sanger discuss what the Signal chat leak revealed about the Trump administration and the state of politics in Washington.
• Pressure to Clear Homeless Camps Can Come With Fatal Costs. Atlanta’s mayor began a drive to clear homeless encampments. But when heavy equipment came to raze one, nobody noticed that Cornelius Taylor was still inside his tent.
• California Governor Newsom Says the Democratic Brand Is ‘Toxic’ Gov. Gavin Newsom, appearing on “Real Time With Bill Maher,” said his own party talked down to people and was stuck in an echo chamber.
• Naval Academy Takes Steps to End Diversity Policies in Books and Admissions. The defense secretary’s office has ordered that some books be removed from circulation in its library, and the academy has ended the use of affirmative action in admissions.
• Appeals Court Allows Musk to Keep Pushing Steep Cuts at U.S.A.I.D. The appeals court panel said that whatever influence Elon Musk and DOGE had, it was ultimately agency officials who had signed off on the various moves to gut the agency.
• What We Know About Cuts to the Federal Work Force. Here are the layoffs, buyouts taken and planned reductions, by agency, that The New York Times has confirmed.
• Appeals Court Allows Trump to Fire Heads of 2 Independent Boards. The ruling, in a case seen as a test of the president’s push for expansive executive authority, cripples the operations of the Merit Systems Protection Board and the National Labor Relations Board.
• As Democrats Rail Against Musk, Republicans Shrug. Both Republicans and Democrats think Elon Musk will help them win a key race the Wisconsin Supreme Court next week.
• Rubio Supports Trump Agenda By Revoking Over 300 Visas . The secretary of state said he was trying to expel “lunatics” who had taken part in campus movements, as well as criminals. Some are permanent U.S. residents.
• Judge Grants Injunction to Prevent Consumer Bureau From Being ‘Dissolved and Dismantled’ The bureau has been in turmoil as the Trump administration moved to fire hundreds of employees, ordered the rest to stop working and closed offices.
• Judge’s Temporary Order Slows Trump’s Deportation Plans. A temporary order will give some migrants a chance to convince the government that deporting them to “third countries” such as El Salvador would put them at risk.
• New Round of Layoffs Will Virtually Eliminate U.S. Foreign Aid Agency. The staff of U.S.A.I.D. will be reduced to some 15 legally required positions. The agency employed about 10,000 people before the Trump administration entered office.
• Trump Tones Down His Rhetoric About Canada After Call With Its Leader. The president and Canada’s new prime minister, Mark Carney, spoke for the first time on Friday and promised to begin negotiations on trade.
• Vance Party Spends Time At U.S. Base in Greenland. The trip was both a reconnaissance mission and a passive-aggressive reminder of President Trump’s determination to fulfill his territorial ambitions, no matter the obstacles.
• Elon Musk Backtracks on a Legally Questionable Plan to Pay Voters. Experts had said that his pledge to hand out two $1 million checks to people who had already voted in the Wisconsin Supreme Court race seemed to run afoul of state law.
• Assessing Elon Musk’s Misleading Claims About Fraud in Government Spending. The world’s richest man made inaccurate claims about entitlement fraud, how a government payment system works and government survey costs.
• Trump Mentioned Biden 316 Times in 50 Days, Mostly to Blame Him for Things. A central dictum in the Trump White House is that Joseph R. Biden Jr. is to blame for just about anything and everything.
• States Can Bar Food Benefit Recipients From Buying Soda, Kennedy Says. The health secretary announced the change to the SNAP food program in an appearance in West Virginia, which is also the first state to ban most artificial dyes in food.
• Trump Deportation Fight Reaches Supreme Court. The Trump administration asked the justices to allow it to use a wartime law to continue deportations of Venezuelans with little or no due process.
• Justice Dept. Investigates L.A. Sheriff Over Concealed Carry Permit Delays. The Justice Department said it believed the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department had violated residents’ Second Amendment rights through delays in issuing the permits.
• JD Vance and a U.S. Delegation Arrive in a Wary Greenland. After initial plans for a visit from American officials were met with a backlash, Friday’s trip has been limited to a stop at a remote military base.
• Trump’s Budget Chief Eyes Deep Cuts to ‘Woke and Weaponized’ Spending. Russell T. Vought, leader of the Office of Management and Budget, aims to marry extreme austerity with his Christian values.
• Forgoing Oversight, Republicans Resort to Personal Appeals to Head Off DOGE Cuts. As President Trump and Elon Musk slash deeper into federal programs and the work force, G.O.P. lawmakers are leveraging their connections to try to insulate themselves and their voters.
• Rubio Says Information on Abducted Ukrainian Children Will Be Preserved. Lawmakers had feared that a database on children taken by Russia was deleted when funding was stopped as part of President Trump’s foreign aid cuts.
• Musk to Campaign in Wisconsin Ahead of Critical State Court Election. The billionaire is reprising another of the moves he did to help elect Donald J. Trump in November.
• Trump Moves to End Union Protections Across Broad Swath of Government. An executive order signed by the president would cancel collective bargaining for hundreds of thousands of workers, the largest federal employees union said. The union was preparing legal action.
• The DOGE Playbook Targeting Federal Agencies. The cost-cutting strategy of the group, led by billionaire Elon Musk, has played out at more than 30 agencies so far.
• Trump Targets WilmerHale, Citing Law Firm’s Connection to Robert Mueller. Mr. Mueller, who worked at WilmerHale before retiring in 2021, had investigated the Trump campaign’s ties to Russian officials during the president’s first term.
• Musk and Aides Try Charm Offensive in Fox News Interview. Most of Elon Musk’s associates at the Department of Government Efficiency have kept a low profile. Democrats have repeatedly criticized his effort to shrink the federal government, warning that critical services will be cut.
• Trump Restores Funds for Radio Free Europe and Reinstates Cuba Broadcasters. A judge had blocked the president’s push to close down Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, a federally financed news organization originally created to counter Soviet propaganda.
• Tufts Case Exhibits Trump’s Crackdown Tactics. The tactics on display in the arrest of Rumeysa Ozturk were not new — plainclothes officers, faces obscured — but as ICE actions ramp up, scrutiny may increase.
• A Disregard for the Rules Trickles Down From Trump to His Aides. Many of the people serving in the administration do not have decades of experience in government, or deep knowledge of its rules and why they exist, former officials say.
• Top Senate Republican Protests Trump Bid to Withhold Spending. Senator Susan Collins of Maine, the chairwoman of the Appropriations Committee, joined top Democrats in insisting that the president does not have the power to “pick and choose” what to fund.
• Trump Takes Government Secrecy Seriously. But Only When It Suits Him. In the Trump era, the definition of an official secret depends on whatever works best for the president.
• Judge Moves to Prevent Hegseth, Waltz and Others From Deleting Houthi Texts. Judge James E. Boasberg said top officials, including the defense secretary, the national security adviser and the secretary of state, must preserve the messages they exchanged.
• Another Problem With That Signal Chat? The Messages Disappear. The Presidential Records Act and the Federal Records Act require officials to preserve communications related to government business.
• Car Tariffs Test Unusual Trade Theory. With sweeping auto levies, the president is putting his beliefs about tariffs into practice on the global economy. Economists aren’t optimistic.
• In Past, Leak Would Prompt A Harder Line. The military takes extraordinary measures to keep combat operations secret, cutting off outside communications for service members before launching an attack.
• State Department Revoked Visa of Tufts University Student, Rubio Says. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said that the State Department under his direction had revoked the visas of more than 300 people and was continuing to revoke visas daily.
• U.S. Makes Safety Tech Mandatory Near Airport. The agency’s acting director told senators of the new policy after it was revealed that tracking technology had been disabled before a deadly midair collision in January.
• With G.O.P.’s House Edge Slim, Stefanik Is Asked to Drop U.N. Bid. The president said he wanted the New York Republican to stay in Congress to bolster the party’s slim House margin and protect her seat.
• Senate Overturns Rule Limiting Bank Overdraft Fees to $5. Lawmakers voted to invalidate a rule adopted last year by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. It now moves to the House.
• Fighter Pilots Angry Over Breach, and Hegseth’s Refusal to Admit Error. Men and women who have taken to the air on behalf of the United States expressed bewilderment after the leak of attack plans. “You’re going to kill somebody,” one pilot said.
• Bondi Signals Justice Dept. Won’t Pursue Chat Inquiry. The attorney general said the focus should be on the success of the U.S. military strike in Yemen, not on military information being shared in advance in a group text among top officials.
• Musk targeted FEMA. Storm-battered communities are paying a price.
• Silicon Valley Progressive Makes Case Against Vance. Ro Khanna, who represents Silicon Valley, sees the vice president — a likely heir to President Trump’s political movement — as a unique threat to the constitutional order.
• 10,000 Federal Health Dept. Workers to Be Laid Off. The layoffs are part of a major restructuring at the health department, which now employs about 80,000 people.
• What’s Holding Up FEMA’s Grant Money? After a post from Elon Musk, the Trump administration issued orders that effectively halted $100 billion worth of FEMA disaster recovery grants nationwide. Christopher Flavelle, a New York Times reporter who covers disaster policy, describes how p...
• Musk Targeted FEMA. Storm-Battered Communities Are Paying a Price. A FEMA funding freeze illustrates the extraordinary power of Elon Musk and DOGE, who have made claims of undue benefits for undocumented immigrants and spurred swift action by federal officials.
• Appeals Court Keeps Order Barring Federal Funding Freezes in Place. The ruling let stand a district court judge’s order that had blocked agencies from categorically pausing federal funds based on guidance from the Office of Management and Budget.
• Trump Administration Deflects Blame for the Leak of a Signal Chat at Every Turn. President Trump and other officials have given shifting, varied, implausible and sometimes conflicting explanations for how highly sensitive military information was shared in a group chat.
• Judge Extends Pause on Firings of Probationary Workers for 5 Days. The judge said he needed more time to determine whether a longer-term halt should apply to the entire country or be restricted to certain states while the case proceeds.
• Elon Musk’s Wisconsin Problem. A legal battle over Tesla sales in Wisconsin is the quiet backdrop to a big State Supreme Court race.
• Judge Assails White House Efforts to Kick Her Off Perkins Coie Case. The move to disqualify the judge was emblematic of the Trump administration’s broader attacks on the federal judiciary, which in recent weeks has pushed back against executive actions.
• At House Hearing on Threats, Democrats Zero In on Signal Chat Blunder. Democrats on a House committee appeared in lock step as they confronted one of the most notable blunders of the Trump administration.
• Federal Judges Form Panel To Assess Surge in Threats. The panel will be led by a federal judge from Maryland, seeking to protect against threats as President Trump and his allies single out judges that have blocked parts of his agenda.
• House Republicans Hold Hearing Accusing PBS and NPR of Bias. Republicans accused the nation’s two largest public media networks of institutional bias. Democrats dismissed the hearing as an excuse for Republicans to air a familiar list of grievances against the news media.
• Trump’s Push for More Power Over Elections Is on Shaky Legal Ground. A far-reaching executive order aims to reshape the country’s voting laws, is sure to be challenged in court and reflects the president’s concerted push to expand his power.
• Rubio Says Someone Made ‘Big Mistake’ in Adding Journalist to Group Chat on Airstrikes. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said no “war plans” had been divulged in the group chat in which he took part. Chat texts published by The Atlantic show detailed information on the planned strikes in Yemen.
• Intelligence Officials Face New Round of Scrutiny in House. Top intelligence officials gave their testimonies hours after The Atlantic published more messages from a Signal group chat discussing military plans in Yemen.
• U.S. Military Provides Few Details on Daily Strikes in Yemen. The Pentagon has refused to disclose how many targets have been hit in Yemen, or identify the Houthi militia commanders killed in the campaign.
• Stocks slump ahead of Trump’s expected auto tariffs.
• Carmakers have been preparing for tariffs but will still be hit hard.
• Auto tariffs are likely to lead to much higher car prices.
• Surprise Win For Democrat In Stronghold For President. James Andrew Malone, a small-town mayor, won a special election on Tuesday, narrowly defeating a county commissioner in a district the G.O.P. held for decades.
• Effort to Fog The Dangers A Leak Posed. War plan or battle plan? Classified or not? The answers to those questions amount to a distinction without much of a difference.
• Trump Asks Justices to Permit Cancellation of Teacher Grants. In boilerplate letters, the administration told recipients that the grants supported diversity efforts and were wasteful.
• ‘Ghost Guns’: What They Are and Why There Has Been a Fight Over Them. A rule regulating the firearm kits was a centerpiece of President Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s gun control initiative. The Supreme Court has upheld the regulation, issued in 2022.
• Senate Democrats Seek Answers on Firing of Justice Dept. Official. After a disagreement about giving gun rights back to the actor Mel Gibson, a pardon attorney was fired. Senate Democrats are asking for details, including records or emails, that relate to the decision.
• Legal Battle Pits Musk and Tesla vs. Wisconsin, and Into Court Race. As the billionaire and his allied groups pour more than $20 million into a race for the state’s top court, his car company is suing Wisconsin over a law restricting vehicle sales.
• Court Upholds Rule Limiting ‘Ghost Guns’ The administration had tightened regulations on kits that can be easily assembled into nearly untraceable firearms.
• Trump Administration Considers Money for Pardoned Jan. 6 Rioters. President Trump said there was “a lot of talk about” creating a compensation fund because they had lost wages and other opportunities because they were prosecuted for storming the Capitol.
• Spy chiefs will face questions in the House after Waltz takes responsibility for the Signal leak.
• Federal Judge Blocks Trump’s Push to Shut Down Radio Free Europe. The judge’s temporary restraining order will allow the federally funded broadcaster to stay open at least until March 28.
• Trump Signs Order Calling for Citizenship Proof to Vote in Federal Elections. Administration officials cited cracking down on immigrants illegally on voter rolls as one of the executive order’s main goals, amplifying Mr. Trump’s grievances about electoral integrity.
• Trump Pardons Former Business Partner of Hunter Biden Who Testified About the Bidens. Devon Archer had won fans on the right for cooperating with congressional Republicans investigating the Biden family.
• Trump Grudge Fuels Swipe at Another Firm. An executive order underscored the extent to which the president, who faced four indictments after he left office, aims to exact a price from anyone associated with past investigations of him.
• Before the Group Chat, Hegseth’s First Months Were Already Troubled. The disclosure of battle plans on a chat app created a new predicament for the defense secretary.
• Democrats Demand a New Tack: Economic Populism. A group of House Democrats referred to as the New Economic Patriots introduced themselves on Capitol Hill promising to lead their party out of its funk. It wasn’t clear how they planned to do so.
• Early Test for F.B.I. and Justice Dept. Is Whether to Investigate the Chat. Whether the agencies open an investigation will bring into sharp relief the intended approach of their leaders, Kash Patel and Pam Bondi, who promised to administer impartial justice.
• Fierce Defender of Trump Is on Hot Seat Over Including Journalist in Military Chat. The national security adviser, already embattled, is taking the brunt of the criticism. On Fox News, he said he took “full responsibility” for a journalist being included in a chat with sensitive information.
• A judge blocked the Trump administration from rescinding grants for fair housing groups.
• U.S. Intelligence Report Says Russia Remains Enduring Threat. On the day the report was released, Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence, told lawmakers that Moscow was a “formidable competitor.”
• Court Lets Trump Pause New Refugee Admissions but Thousands Must Be Let In. A court order requires thousands of refugees to be admitted to the United States. But funding for organizations that assist them after arrival remains uncertain.
• President Tries To Divert Blame In War Plan Leak. Democrats denounced the country’s top intelligence officials for “sloppy, careless, incompetent behavior” for discussing secret military plans in a group chat.
• ‘State Secrets Privilege,’ And Battle With Judge On Transfer of Migrants. The administration is invoking an extraordinary national security power, the state secrets privilege, under highly unusual circumstances.
• Four Top Trump Officials Are Set to Brief G.O.P. Donors in April. A donor network co-founded by Vice President JD Vance is set to host Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Scott Bessent, Tulsi Gabbard and Steve Witkoff.
• Republicans Temper Criticism, Citing Group Chat Breach as a Mistake. A few G.O.P. lawmakers said they would look into the breach, but party leaders largely tempered their criticism of the Trump administration.
• Intelligence officials acknowledge the sensitivity of the military strike information. Under questioning from senators, the C.I.A. chief and the director of national intelligence pointed to the defense secretary to determine what was appropriate to share.
• Message for some workers who sent emails justifying their jobs: The mailbox is full.
• A Rift in Colorado Over the Real Problem: Migrants or Trump? President Trump has made Colorado’s third-largest city synonymous with the supposed scourge of Venezuelan gangs, but some wonder if his immigration raids are damaging the city more than the migrants ever did.
• Officials in Leaked Chat Had Criticized Clinton’s Use of Private Email Server. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, who disclosed war plans in a Signal group with a journalist, condemned Mrs. Clinton’s actions in November 2016.
• Trump to Name Right-Wing Media Critic Ambassador to South Africa. L. Brent Bozell III, who must be confirmed by the Senate, would be stepping into the role at a time when relations between South Africa and the United States are at a low point.
• What to Know About the Fallout From the Signal Group Chat Leak. The White House continued to downplay the seriousness of the incident, parsing semantics and attacking the journalist who was inadvertently added to the chat.
• Democrats Press Social Security Administration Nominee About Privatization. Frank Bisignano, who pledged to improve customer service, told Senate Democrats he had “never thought about” making the agency private.
• Democrats and some Republicans say the sharing of war plans with a journalist was a serious error.
• Lawmakers, Including Some Republicans, Say Sharing of War Plans Was a Serious Error. U.S. intelligence chiefs were scheduled to brief a Senate panel on global threats, but the hearing was likely to be overshadowed by questions over the security breach.
• Despite Skepticism of Kennedy, His Health Ideas Gain Traction. Public health leaders are horrified by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s approach to measles, but government and industry are responding to him.
• Trump Officials Texted War Plans on Signal App. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said “nobody was texting” classified U.S. attack plans using a messaging app.
• Is Russia an Adversary or a Future Partner? Trump’s Aides May Have to Decide. On Tuesday, America’s top intelligence officials will release their current assessment of Russia. They are caught between what their analysts say and what President Trump wants to hear.
• The Importance of Being SpaceX. Tesla might be suffering, but SpaceX is poised to profit off billions in new government contracts
• Intelligence Assessment Warns Against Conflating Legal Musk Protests With Vandalism. Law enforcement agencies were encouraged to pursue vandals but should not investigate “constitutionally protected activity” directed at Elon Musk, the assessment found.
• Trump says ‘people from Greenland’ invited U.S. delegation. Greenland wants a word. President Trump has vowed to make Greenland part of the United States “one way or the other.”
• Trump says ‘people from Greenland’ invited members of his administration to visit. Greenland wants a word.
• Social Security, Targeted by Musk’s Team, Awaits a Leader. The billionaire Elon Musk has become fixated on finding fraud inside the agency, which provides retirement, survivor and disability payments to 73 million Americans each month.
• Obsession With a Prize Is About More Than World Peace. In his inaugural address, President Trump said his “proudest legacy will be that of a peacemaker and unifier.” But critics have accused him of siding with the aggressor when it comes to Russia and Ukraine.
• Airstrike Plan Was Disclosed In Group Text. The conversation among the defense secretary and other national security officials on a commercial messaging app mistakenly included the editor in chief of The Atlantic, Jeffrey Goldberg.
• Why Does Trump Want Greenland? Here’s What to Know. President Trump has made no secret of his designs on Greenland, repeating threats to acquire the territory through a financial transaction or military force.
• Trump to Impose Tariffs Against Countries That Buy Venezuelan Oil. The president plans to wield tariffs like financial sanctions, ordering that countries that buy Venezuelan oil have tariffs put on their exports to the United States.
• Trump Administration Cites Alien Enemies Act as It Plans New Extraditions. By citing the act, the administration seems to be highlighting its aggressive posture without taking steps that might be deemed to violate a temporary restraining order issued by a federal judge.
• Judge Maintains Halt on Deportations Tied to Wartime Law. The extraordinary move by the Justice Department was an escalation of its conflict with the judge in the case and, by extension, the federal judiciary.
• Judge Blocks Sharing Data Of Educators With Musk. The ruling on Monday extended an earlier one barring Elon Musk and his associates from reviewing student loan data and other potentially sensitive records.
• Blumenthal Calls ‘Shadow Hearing’ on Trump Veterans Cuts. Doug Collins, the veterans affairs secretary, is unlikely to accept Senator Richard Blumenthal’s invitation to appear on Capitol Hill to discuss the Trump administration’s cuts on veterans and the agency that serves them.
• Colorado Legislature Will Take Down Trump Portrait He Derided as ‘Truly the Worst’ “Nobody likes a bad picture or painting of themselves,” President Trump said of the portrait, which portrayed the president with remarkably softened features.
• Aided by Anti-Musk Donors, State Judge Raises $24 Million. With Elon Musk backing her conservative opponent, a Wisconsin judge seeking a seat on the state’s top court has amassed what is believed to be a record war chest for a judicial campaign.
• Law Hounding Activist Was Once Struck Down By Judge: Trump’s Sister. Judge Maryanne Trump Barry ruled that the law invoked against Mr. Khalil violated the Constitution by giving unfettered discretion to the secretary of state.
• Nation’s Cash To Pay Its Bills Could Run Out By Mid-July. The Bipartisan Policy Center estimates that the so-called X-date could fall between mid-July and early October if Congress does not lift or suspend the nation’s debt limit.
• Former Senator Is Forming Worker-Focused Nonprofit. Mr. Brown, the Ohio Democrat who lost his race for re-election last year, is forming the Dignity of Work Institute, which will highlight workers’ struggles.
• How the Showdown at the Institute of Peace Unfolded. A 911 call. A lockdown. A master key. Here’s what happened when the Trump administration seized control of a Washington institution.
• Justices Seem to Back Louisiana’s 2 Majority-Black Districts. A majority of the court appeared skeptical of a challenge to Louisiana’s voting map. The challengers had argued the state impermissibly relied on race to draw its map.
• Trump invites the Kansas City Chiefs to the White House, honoring a 2020 Super Bowl victory clouded by Covid.
• Venezuela Accepts Flight Carrying Deportees From U.S. for First Time in Weeks. The Department of Homeland Security said that a deportation flight to Venezuela carrying 199 people had landed.
• Trump Adds a Twist To an Easter Tradition: Big Corporate Sponsors. The White House has moved to turn its Easter Egg Roll, a tradition that stretches back to Rutherford B. Hayes, into a chance to showcase brands.
• Head of Paul, Weiss Says Firm Would Not Have Survived Without Deal With Trump. Brad Karp, the managing partner of the elite New York law firm, sent an email to its lawyers defending a highly criticized arrangement reached with the Trump administration last week.
• It’s an Honor, Mr. President. Oh, Hey, Elon. President Trump and Elon Musk took in the Division I wrestling championship in Philadelphia on Saturday. But some of Mr. Trump’s supporters expressed complicated feelings about his billionaire adviser.
• Schumer Defends His Vote To Keep Government Open. Senator Chuck Schumer of New York, the minority leader, said a government shutdown would have been “10 or 20 times worse” than the Republican stopgap spending bill.
• U.S. Officials and the Wife Of Vance to Visit Greenland. Usha Vance, the second lady, and Michael Waltz, the national security adviser, are on their way this week. Greenlandic officials called the move “aggressive.”
• World Leaders Must Say The Magic Word: Thanks. It’s not unusual for presidents to want to hear some words of gratitude. But the friction usually happens behind closed doors.
• As the Left Ponders a Future After Sanders, It Waits for Ocasio-Cortez to Make a Decision. With Bernie Sanders unlikely to run for president again and Democratic voters fuming at party leaders, many progressives see an open lane. But who will fill it?
• How Are Democrats Responding to Trump? The Democratic party is still grasping for a coherent response to the new Trump administration. Lisa Lerer, national politics correspondent for The New York Times, breaks Democrats into four categories to explain how to make sense of the fractured...
• Retirement Talk Hovers Over Pelosi and Her City. Nancy Pelosi has represented San Francisco in Congress for nearly four decades. Challengers are lining up as she weighs running again or retiring.
• Musk In Position To Reap Billions In U.s. Contracts. The boost in federal spending for SpaceX will come in part as a result of actions by President Trump and Elon Musk’s allies and employees who hold government positions. Supporters say he has the best technology.
• I.R.S. Prepares to Help Find Immigrants Targeted for Deportation. The tax agency is nearing an agreement to verify whether ICE officials have the right address for people they are trying to deport.
• The I.R.S. is preparing to help ICE locate immigrants targeted for deportation. The tax agency is nearing an agreement to verify whether ICE officials have the right address for people they are trying to deport.
• Trump Decree Is a Warning To Law Firms. A presidential memorandum aimed at lawyers everywhere struck a menacing tone.
• Venezuela Has Agreed To Resume Accepting U.S. Deportation Flights. The Venezuelan government attributed a willingness to receive the flights to the plight of Venezuelan migrants sent to notorious prisons in El Salvador with little to no due process.

World

• Greenland’s Main Dog Sledding Race Finds an Uncomfortable Spotlight. The Avannaata Qimussersua, which organizers call “a challenging event that highlights the bond between humans and their dogs,” is getting attention because Usha Vance, the second lady, plans to attend.

Africa

• Algerian French Writer Is Sentenced to 5-Year Prison Term in Algeria. The prosecution of Boualem Sansal, who is around 80, prompted outrage from the global literary community and pleas from France for his release.
• South Sudan’s Vice President Has Been Placed Under House Arrest, Party Says. The United Nations warned that the detention of Vice President Riek Machar threatens to push the world’s youngest country back into civil war.
• Archaeologists Find Huge Tomb of Unknown Pharaoh in Egypt. The burial chamber most likely belonged to a ruler in a line of kings once lost to history, researchers said. “It’s a new chapter in investigating this dynasty,” one noted.
• Sudan Military Bombing Kills Dozens in Attack on Market in Darfur. The bombing in a crowded market, which monitors called a likely war crime, was a grim reminder of the brutal toll caused by both sides in the two-year civil war.
• The ‘Rumble’ That Changed Foreman, Ali, and the Congo. Half a century ago, the “Rumble in the Jungle” became not just a fight between George Foreman and Muhammad Ali, but a cultural touchstone.

Americas

• F.B.I. Agents in Southeast Asia Paid for Sex While Police Stood By, Watchdog Says. Solicitation of prostitutes took place over several years even as employees were training to combat human trafficking, according to a document released to The Times in a lawsuit.
• Rubio Vows ‘Consequences’ if Venezuela Tries Seizing Territory From Guyana. Secretary of State Marco Rubio was visiting Guyana amid ExxonMobil’s oil production there. Venezuela has asserted claims to a large region of the country. Mr. Rubio later flew to Suriname.
• Bolsonaro To Face Trial For His Role In Coup Plot. Brazil’s top court ruled that the former president will be tried over his role in a vast plot to cling to power after his 2022 election loss.
• Vance to Lead Uninvited Trip To Greenland. Amid President Trump’s push to take over the world’s largest island, the administration says it is sending the vice president to visit a military base there.
• Trump Did What Castros Couldn’t: Take Radio Martí Off the Air. For four decades, a U.S.-financed broadcaster provoked the ire of the communist government in Cuba. President Trump dismantled it in a matter of days.
• Migrants Sent Into Panama Are Stranded. Dozens of stranded migrants sleep on mattresses in a school gymnasium. In interviews, 25 deportees from around the world said they were stuck in limbo.

Asia Pacific

• In Mandalay, Desperate Rescue Efforts and Sinking Hopes. Volunteers gathered to help, some coming in from other cities, to do whatever they could in the city near the epicenter of the powerful quake.
• Earthquake Devastates Myanmar’s Cultural Sites. The authorities said that thousands of buildings had been damaged, including about 150 mosques and pagodas.
• A Question in Quake-Wracked Myanmar: Does This Augur the End of the Junta? In a censored nation that runs on rumor and omens, people in Myanmar wonder whether the latest disaster might be a portent of regime change.
• In Bangkok, a Desperate Search for Survivors Buried Under Rubble. Scores of people are missing in the ruins of a high-rise building that was felled by the quake in Myanmar. Signs of life raised hopes on Saturday, but there was no update on survivors.
• China has sent a search-and-rescue team to Myanmar.
• Here is the latest.
• High Toll Feared After Major Quake Strikes Myanmar. The 7.7-magnitude earthquake near Mandalay, in a country already torn by war, was felt across Southeast Asia, and experts warned there could be tens of thousands dead.
• Protests Demanding Restoration of Monarchy in Nepal Turn Deadly. At least two people were killed and dozens injured as followers of the last king demanded the restoration of a monarchy that was dissolved in 2008.
• Deadly Earthquake Shakes Southeast Asia. A 7.7-magnitude earthquake hit central Myanmar, causing buildings to collapse and a high number of casualties in the region.
• The quake struck along a major fault line.
• Myanmar Earthquake Aid Complicated by Its Isolation. Earthquake-stricken Myanmar faces a humanitarian crisis. Political complexities are likely to hamper international aid delivery, leaving vulnerable people at risk.
• Dozens Missing After 33-Story Skyscraper Topples in Bangkok. Several people were killed in a building collapse and dozens more were missing as of Friday evening in Thailand, the authorities said.
• Modeling suggests the death toll is likely to top 1,000, and may be much higher.
• Overwhelmed Myanmar Hospital Treats Quake Victims in Parking Lot. Patients had to lie on cardboard or directly on the concrete outside the main hospital in Mandalay. Even before the earthquake, the health care system in Myanmar was under stress.
• Myanmar has been convulsed by civil war.
• What We Know About the Earthquake in Myanmar. More than 140 people were reported dead in the country, and the earthquake was felt across Southeast Asia.
• Myanmar’s military junta appeals for aid as the quake batters areas it controls. Military rulers have been criticized for blocking delivery of international aid during past disasters, but this time the junta is already asking for help.
• Myanmar’s Internet Censorship Limits Information About Quake. Since 2021, the ruling military junta has severely restricted the internet and cut access to social media, digitally isolating the country.
• Central Myanmar is especially prone to powerful quakes.
• Quake Topples High-Rise in Bangkok, Burying Dozens. A building in Bangkok that had been under construction collapsed, killing at least eight people, while dozens of workers remained stuck in the rubble.
• The quake caused chaos in Bangkok, where at least 3 people died.
• Hegseth Seeks to Reassure Allies on First Official Trip to Asia. At his first stop in the Philippines, the U.S. defense secretary promised to strengthen deterrence against Chinese “threats” in the region. He also plans to visit Japan.
• Maps: 7.7-Magnitude Earthquake Strikes Myanmar. View the location of the quake’s epicenter and shake area.
• The quake also shook southern China, causing injuries.
• Powerful Earthquake Shakes Southeast Asia. People in Myanmar and Thailand felt tremors.
• In Japan, an Iceless Lake and an Absent God Sound an Ancient Warning. For centuries, residents in central Japan have chronicled a mysterious natural phenomenon in winter. They see its disappearance as a bad omen.
• Deadly Wildfires Destroy Historic Landmarks in South Korea. Wildfires in South Korea have resulted in deaths, turned an ancient Buddhist temple into ashes and forced the evacuation of residents of a UNESCO World Heritage site.
• A Race to Save People and Relics From South Korea Fires. The country’s largest blaze on record has left 27 dead and destroyed heritage sites, including two 1,000-year-old temples.
• Trading Partners, Stung by New Levies, Look to Fight Back. The new auto tariffs are straining relations with U.S. allies and deepening doubts about America’s reliability as a partner.
• As Tesla Makes Headway in India, Musk’s X Sues the Modi Government. Elon Musk’s pursuit of business expansion in the country through Tesla and Starlink is coming at the same time that his X platform is waging a fight over free speech.
• ‘Carrots and Sticks’: China’s Dual Track With Its Neighbors. Even as China offers itself to nations like Japan as a more reliable partner, its ships are pushing into their neighborhoods — sometimes on the very same day.
• South Korea Acknowledges Its Decades of Adoption Fraud. A South Korean truth commission called for the country to apologize to those who were sent abroad “like luggage” so that adoption agencies could profit.
• Seoul Says 24 Are Dead After Days Of Wildfires. At least 26 people are dead, including the pilot of a helicopter that crashed trying to contain blazes that strong winds and dry conditions were helping to spread rapidly.
• Dolphin Hunting Is Their Tradition, and Lifeline. The residents of Fanalei Island, in the Solomon Islands, say the lucrative hunts will help them buy land elsewhere and move off their sinking home.
• India Is Said to Have Meddled in Canadian Party Election. Indian agents raised money and helped organize support in 2022 for Pierre Poilievre, the Conservative leader, news outlets reported, citing intelligence officials.
• Speech in India Chilled by Mobs Mad Over Jokes. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said criticism is “the soul” of Indian democracy. But his allies unleashed vigilantes after a comic who called a politician a “traitor.”
• Japanese Court Disbands Unification Church in Wake of Abe Killing. The assassination in 2022 of Shinzo Abe, the country’s former prime minister, led to an investigation into the group’s political ties and manipulation of its followers to raise funds.
• China Frees Employees of U.S. Consulting Firm After 2-Year Detention. The release of the five employees, detained during a crackdown on foreign due diligence, comes as Beijing is trying to bring back overseas investment.
• U.S. Lifts Bounties on 3 Senior Taliban Officials. The move was a significant shift toward leaders of the Haqqani network, which was behind some of the deadliest attacks during the war in Afghanistan.
• Why Driving in Singapore Is Like ‘Wearing a Rolex’ The city-state, where it costs up to $84,000 just for the right to own a car, is one of the most expensive places to drive. That is by design.
• Wildfires Burn Across South Korea’s Southeast. Thousands of firefighters battled dozens of forest fires over the weekend.
• Court Restores Ousted Leader In South Korea. The legislature impeached Han Duck-soo in December, soon after impeaching President Yoon Suk Yeol for declaring martial law. Mr. Yoon’s fate is still unclear.
• While China Deals With the U.S., Taiwan Takes a Stand. Lai Ching-te, the president of Taiwan, may be betting that China’s appetite for retaliation will be limited by Beijing’s interest in containing tensions with the Trump administration.
• 4 Dead as Wildfires Ignite In South Korea’s Southeast. Firefighters confronted the blazes in the country’s southeast over the weekend. Most had been extinguished by Monday, but dry and windy conditions persisted.
• Online Scammers Launder Money With Ruthless Efficiency. Documents and insiders reveal how one of the world’s major money laundering networks operates.
• How We Investigated Money Laundering, and What We Found. Our reporters went into a notorious refuge for scammers and fraudsters, and emerged with a how-to guide.

Australia

• Dachshund Lost on Australian Island Is Still Alive, but Elusive. A year after getting loose on Kangaroo Island, Valerie is still out there.
• What Makes Sydney’s New Beach Different? It’s 50 Miles Inland. It’s no Bondi Beach, but Pondi, or Penrith Beach, has been a welcome relief to the city’s sweltering western suburbs.

Canada

• Trump and Tariffs Enter the Scene Only Days Into Canada’s Election Campaign. Without advance notice to Canada, the U.S. president put the auto industry into turmoil with a 25 percent tariff.
• Airlines Cut Seats to the U.S. as Canadians Stay Away. Several airlines have reduced the number of seats on U.S.-bound flights in April, while industry data shows that bookings have declined significantly.
• Four Tesla Dealers Said They Sold 8,653 Cars in 3 Days in Canada. Did They? The sales numbers provided by the company-owned shops allowed them to claim tens of millions in government rebates. Now those numbers are under scrutiny.
• Carney, Canada’s Leader for 10 Days, Calls a Snap Election After Trump’s Threats. Mark Carney, who has only been prime minister for 10 days, has called for a general election to be held on April 28.

Europe

• Hold the Chianti: Tariff Threat Casts a Pall on Tuscany. For now, President Trump’s 200 percent tariff on wine remains just a threat. But jittery American wine importers have already hit pause on orders from Tuscany.
• ‘A Great Emboldening’: Trump Inspires Wannabe Authoritarians Everywhere. President Trump has turned a central precept of American diplomacy on its head, embracing fellow leaders who abandon democratic principles.
• Model Who Says She Dated Andrew Tate Accuses Him of Sexual Assault in Lawsuit. Brianna Stern of Los Angeles accused Andrew Tate of beating and choking her while they were in a relationship, according to a complaint. Mr. Tate, through his lawyers, denied her allegations.
• Trump Is Giving Europe Vertigo, and Not Just About Ukraine. The split between Europe and the United States over how to end the war is exposing a new, disorienting reality for an alliance in trouble.
• Frantic Effort Underway in Lithuania to Retrieve Vehicle Carrying 4 American Soldiers. The search in dense, muddy swampland came after the U.S. Army vehicle disappeared in a waterlogged area on Tuesday.
• U.S. Revives Tough Demands in Reworked Deal for Ukraine’s Minerals. Officials in Kyiv say the country cannot possibly accept the proposal and that new negotiations would be needed. But they have not rejected it outright, which would anger the White House.
• Flying to Greenland, Vance Is Visiting a Place That Doesn’t Want Him. Vice President JD Vance’s trip to an island that President Trump wants to “get” is a scaled-back version of the original White House plan. “He’s not welcome,” one Greenlander said.
• Climate Activists Who Threw Soup at van Gogh Painting Are Changing Tactics. Just Stop Oil, the group that made headlines for high-profile stunts to protest use of fossil fuels, said it was ending protests in museums after achieving its initial demand.
• Medieval Tales of Merlin and Arthur, Hidden for Centuries, Return to Light. Cambridge University researchers found a manuscript with rare Arthurian tales bound into a ledger more than 400 years old and used advanced technology to reveal its contents.
• Ukraine Stages New Push Into Russia, Officials and Experts Say. The small incursion targets the Belgorod region, according to Ukrainian officials, analysts of open-source intelligence and Russian military bloggers. The advance comes as cease-fire talks continue.
• Russia’s Reach. President Trump’s disdain for protecting European allies gives Vladimir Putin a fresh opportunity to extend his influence.
• Major Donor to Reform U.K. Party Sold Parts Used In Weapons to Russian Supplier. The aerospace company H.R. Smith Group was an early backer of the party after Nigel Farage became leader. Reform has faced criticism over comments seen as supporting Moscow.
• Pope Francis Came Near Death in Hospital, His Doctor Says. In an interview, the leader of Pope Francis’s medical team called it “a miracle” that the 88-year-old pontiff left the hospital, but said he needs to change his vigorous habits, at least for a while, to recover.
• King Charles Is Briefly Hospitalized After Side Effects of Cancer Treatment. Buckingham Palace said that Charles experienced “temporary side effects” following treatment on Thursday and was taken to the hospital for observation before returning to his London residence.
• Prosecutors Seek 7-Year Sentence for Nicolas Sarkozy in Libya Trial. The former French president has been convicted before, but the charge that he took illegal campaign funding from the regime of Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi has been the most damaging to his legacy.
• For 3 Years, They Quietly Dug Up One of the Biggest Treasures in England. Archaeologists can finally publicly discuss the Melsonby Hoard, a collection of Iron Age artifacts that they have been excavating since a metal detectorist found it in 2021.
• Turkey Calls BBC Reporter Who Covered Mass Protests ‘a Threat’ and Deports Him. Rights groups said the detention and deportation of the reporter, Mark Lowen, was part of an escalation in government pressure against independent journalism.
• Even With Truce Talks, Ukraine’s War Rages On. For soldiers and commanders on the edge of battle, any talk about a lasting cease-fire still feels like a dangerous fantasy.
• Thursday Briefing. Efforts to minimize the damage from a leaked Signal chat.
• Macron Insists Peacekeeping Force in Works. President Emmanuel Macron of France insisted that a “reassurance force” of European troops after the war ends was still on the table. But details remained scarce.
• Russia Wins Concessions as It Drags Out Peace Negotiations. Moscow’s demands are slowing the process and giving it the advantage in talks with a deal-hungry United States, experts said.
• Turkey’s Opposition Calls for Boycott After Istanbul Mayor’s Arrest. To pressure President Recep Tayyip Erdogan over the jailing of his top rival, the opposition wants Turks to boycott companies that back Mr. Erdogan and plans to organize a protest this weekend.
• Harry Quits As a Patron Of a Charity He Founded. The prince and his fellow patron, the prince of Lesotho, said they had resigned in solidarity with trustees at the charity, Sentebale.
• Recovering 4 Soldiers From Lithuanian Swamp Is ‘Incredibly Complex,’ Army Says. The soldiers were on a training mission Tuesday when their heavy vehicle sank in a swamp in eastern Lithuania, near the border with Belarus, the Army said.
• A British University Is Assessed a Record Fine Over Free Speech on Campus. A regulator penalized the school three years after a professor quit in response to what she said was a campaign of harassment over her views on transgender identity.
• Paramilitary Forces Flee as Sudan Strengthens Hold on Capital. In dramatic scenes that appear to mark a turning point in nearly two years of civil war, Sudan’s military is driving fighters of its rival, the Rapid Support Forces, out of Khartoum.
• Commitment To Cease-Fire In Black Sea Has Caveats. It remains unclear if the commitments to stop attacks and ensure safe shipping in the Black Sea, which came with many caveats, would happen soon.
• A Fire Plunged Heathrow Into Darkness. A Nearby Data Center Kept Humming. Why? It could cost $100 million and take years to install the backup generators to prevent another hourslong power loss like the one at Britain’s biggest airport last week.
• Europe Talks Tough on Military Spending, but Unity Is Fracturing. European leaders are struggling to find the money and the political will to replace the bulk of the U.S. contribution to Ukraine and to their own defense.
• From Melted Licorice to a Counterfeit Antiques Trial in France. A connoisseur of 18th-century French furniture fooled buyers into purchasing chairs with fake royal pedigrees, authorities say. The distinct taste of licorice helped give him away.
• Remote Air Base in Greenland Is ‘the Outermost Eye of American Defense’ Since World War II, American forces have been stationed on the island. Today, from a remote outpost, they watch the skies.
• Vandals of Paddington Statue Were ‘Antithesis’ of Beloved Bear, Judge Says. A jurist in England scolded two members of the British Royal Air Force who damaged the bear, saying their actions “lacked respect and integrity.”
• Ukraine and Russia Reach Fragile Truce on Black Sea Fighting. The deal was limited, and it was not clear when or how it would start. The Kremlin also demanded some Western sanctions be lifted first.
• Trump’s Team Bares Disdain Toward Europe. Trump officials have demanded more European military spending and questioned the continent’s values. Leaked messages show the depth of the rift.
• Britain Says Online Gangs Putting Teens At Grave Risk. Violent online groups are recruiting teenagers in Britain, according to the National Crime Agency, which warned that young men were being targeted with misogynistic material.
• How a Cheap Drone Punctured Chernobyl’s 40,000-Ton Shield. The steel shell that encloses the site of the world’s worst nuclear disaster was built to endure for a century. But war was a scenario its engineers never envisioned.
• In Germany, Few Women In Parliament Is the Trend. The class of lawmakers taking office is noticeably more male and less diverse than the constituents it will represent.
• Bird Flu Found in a Sheep In Britain Is Seen as a First. The H5N1 virus was detected in a single animal in Yorkshire, the British government said on Monday. It added that the risk to humans remained very low.
• Trump’s Moves on Greenland Appear to Be Backfiring Among Its People. The Greenlandic government is calling an upcoming visit by Trump officials “aggressive,” pushing the island further from the United States.
• Arrest of Istanbul’s Mayor Sets Off a Crisis in Turkey. The jailing of Istanbul’s mayor pending his trial on corruption charges has stoked worries that President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is becoming more authoritarian in seeking to sideline a top rival.
• Depardieu Appears in Court in a Case That Some See as a #MeToo Breakthrough. The French actor faces charges in a case involving two women working on the set of a movie in which he starred.
• To Him, Americans Were Always Heroes. Now He’s Not So Sure. A tour led by an 88-year-old guide in Bastogne, Belgium, scene of a critical battle of World War II, offers a snapshot into the way President Trump’s second term is shifting perceptions of America abroad.
• To Unlock Aid, Lebanon Needs Political Will to Make Overdue Changes. For years, the country has failed to enact financial and governance overhauls required by lenders. The recent fighting has made that problem urgent.
• Talks With Trump Are Means to an End For Russia’s Leader. Moscow sees economic and geopolitical benefits in humoring President Trump’s push for a cease-fire in Ukraine. But the Kremlin’s war aims haven’t shifted.
• American Envoys Mediate Separate Talks With Russia and Ukraine. Kyiv and Moscow have had separate discussions with Washington about a temporary pause on strikes on energy sites and a cease-fire in the Black Sea.
• Pope Francis Greets Crowd, Then Heads Back Home. From a balcony, Francis greeted hundreds of people waiting outside the hospital where he had been treated for respiratory problems.
• How Did a Fire Leave Heathrow Airport in Darkness, With Insufficient Backup? The British authorities ordered an urgent investigation, but some experts said that any airport would be crippled by being cut from the electrical grid.
• Drone Strike Kills 3 in Kyiv; Saudis Host Peace Talks. The assault underscored the deep mistrust between Russia and Ukraine as U.S.-mediated talks about a partial cease-fire began in Saudi Arabia.
• U.S. Executive Warns of Arbitrary Ways of Russia’s Courts. As President Trump promotes renewed business ties with Russia, an American investor has a warning: Anyone there can become a pawn.
• Four Takeaways From Keir Starmer’s Conversations With The New York Times. The British prime minister said Putin would break any peace deal unless Ukraine gets robust security guarantees and that preserving the U.S.-British relationship was crucial.
• Starmer Takes Lead in a Darker Era for Security. The British prime minister said in a series of conversations that the tectonic shifts in America’s relationship with Europe and Russia had to be a ‘galvanizing moment.’
• Pope, Stable For 2 Weeks, Is Set to Exit The Hospital. The 88-year-old pontiff has been hospitalized for six weeks with pneumonia in both lungs. He will need to rest in the Vatican for at least two months, his doctors said.

Middle East

• Jailing of Presidential Candidate Energizes the Opposition to Erdogan. Supporters of the political opposition are finding ways to fight back after the government jailed the top political rival of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
• Iran Signals Openness to Indirect Talks After Trump Letter. Tehran neither rejected negotiations nor accepted face-to-face talks in its response to President Trump’s letter calling for talks to curb Iran’s advancing nuclear program. Here’s what to know.
• Ramadan TV Series Stokes Tensions Between Sunni and Shiite Muslims. The story of a divisive Islamic ruler from ancient times, produced by a broadcaster in the Sunni kingdom of Saudi Arabia, has drawn rebukes from Shiite-majority Iran and Iraq.
• For Some Autocrats, Even Rigged Elections Can Be Too Much of a Threat. Protests are raging in Turkey after the arrest of the country’s most prominent opposition politician.
• ‘Hamas Needs to Go Away,’ Gaza Protesters Say. Most protests have been small, but they represent the boldest challenge to the group’s authority by Palestinians since the Hamas-led Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel and the ensuing war.
• Six Tourists Dead in Egypt After Sinking of Submarine. The vessel was carrying 45 people on a coral reef tour near Hurghada, a Red Sea resort.
• Israeli Lawmakers Vote To Expand Their Power To Shape the Judiciary. Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, appears to have returned to the judicial overhaul that divided the country before the war in Gaza.
• Air Power Alone Won’t Rout the Houthis. U.S. officials seek to curb the militants’ attacks on ships in the Red Sea, but the group was not deterred by strikes in the Biden era and won’t be beaten by air power alone, experts say.
• Gazans Protest and Call for an End to the War. Frustrated and angry over the collapse of a cease-fire with Israel, Palestinians took to the streets of northern Gaza to protest against the war. Many chanted anti-Hamas slogans, calling for the group to “get out.”
• What to Know About the Turmoil in Turkey. Turkey was plunged into a political crisis after the authorities arrested Ekrem Imamoglu, mayor of Istanbul and a top rival to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, on accusations of corruption. Ben Hubbard, Istanbul bureau chief for The New York Times,...
• Demonstrators In Gaza Strip Urge Hamas To Step Aside. The demonstrations, a rare show of dissent, appeared to have spread, reflecting frustration at the breakdown of a cease-fire with Israel. “We want to live,” said one supporter.
• Budget Vote In Israel Lets Netanyahu Cement Grip. A budget approved by Israel’s Parliament cements Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s power and includes significant military spending.
• Ramadan in Syria Means A Mad Rush Each Evening For Just the Right Marook. Marook, a sweet bread eaten during Ramadan in Syria, used to be a simple loaf, but now the list of choices can be as long as the lines of customers.
• In Rare Protest, Gazans Voice Frustration With Hamas. One Gazan who attended the rally said the protesters wanted Hamas to end the war and leave the enclave.
• Director, Freed by Israel, Details Attack by Settlers. Hamdan Ballal said he was struck as he guarded his home during an attack by settlers. The Israeli authorities said he had been detained on suspicion of throwing stones, which he denied.
• Ex-Hostage Raises Voice In Effort to Free Partner. Trepidation over the fate of other captives has left Ilana Gritzewsky little time for self-healing after her own violent abduction.
• U.N. to Pull International Workers From Gaza Amid Israeli Strikes. The United Nations is withdrawing about one-third of its international work force in Gaza, with the reduction coming after an Israeli tank shell hit a U.N. compound.
• A Palestinian Director of ‘No Other Land’ Is Attacked and Detained, Witnesses Say. Hamdan Ballal was assaulted by masked attackers in his home village in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, witnesses said. The Israeli military said he had been detained for questioning.
• Fighting Enemies Outside And Each Other at Home. For months, Israelis put aside their deep rifts to fight a common enemy. Now, amid a renewed government push for power, they are battling one another.
• As Israel Resumes Bombing, Palestinians Once Again Abandon Homes. The Israeli military’s renewed drive into Gaza has pushed families to flee neighborhoods they had only recently returned to during a cease-fire.
• Turkey Protests Continue After Jailing of Erdogan Rival. The mayor of Istanbul, Ekrem Imamoglu, was jailed pending his trial on corruption charges and removed from office on Sunday. Mr. Imamoglu and his party deny the accusations.
• With No-Confidence Vote, Israeli Cabinet Moves to Fire Attorney General. Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, contends the top lawyer sought to undermine him. His critics in Israel call it part of a purge of those he considers disloyal.
• Israel Expands Gaza Offensive and Issues New Evacuation Orders. Gaza’s health ministry said that the death toll in the enclave since the war started had passed 50,000 people.
• Turkey Ousts and Jails Istanbul Mayor, Who Was Expected to Run for President. Supporters of the mayor, Ekrem Imamoglu, said that corruption charges against him were a ploy to hobble the main political rival of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

New York

• She Makes Every Nail A Work of Art. Melissa Samuel, the nail artist behind the brand Finesse Your Claws, has French toast and calls her mother, then heads to the studio to make a custom 3-D set.
• The High School Dropout Hoping to Build a Legal Weed Empire in New York. Michael Flynn believes selling cannabis is his destiny. Do his ambitious expansion efforts violate state law?
• Racing to Stay Ahead of Campus Closures. The girls of St. Barnabas had to scramble to find a new high school. All Hallows rescued them, opening its doors to girls for the first time in 115 years. Then, in January, a familiar email arrived.
• Lawyers for Activist Argue To Keep Case in New Jersey. The government wants the detainee’s case heard in Louisiana, where an appellate judge may be friendlier. At a hearing in Newark, one of his lawyers called the situation “Kafkaesque.”
• With Cuomo in the Lead For Mayor, Foes Zero In On His Political Baggage. Rumors resurfaced of a relationship between Andrew Cuomo and his top aide, the latest reminder that the former governor’s record presents plenty of targets for his opponents.
• A Mostly Microscopic Sign of Spring. Though phytoplankton give the Hudson River a potentially unappealing greenish color, their presence indicates a healthy ecosystem.
• A Family’s Crusade for a Cuomo Apology. Thousands died in nursing homes at the outset of the pandemic. Will a campaign for accountability stall Andrew Cuomo’s progress in the mayor’s race?
• They Loved Their Teslas. Now They’re Too Embarrassed to Drive Them. Fury at Elon Musk emerges as vandalism, protest and buyer’s remorse.
• 16-Year-Old Is Charged With Hate Crimes in Gang Assault on Black Teen. The suspect was part of a group that attacked a Black 16-year-old who was on his way to school at a subway station in Brooklyn, the police said.
• Working Families Party Sees an Opportunity in Ranked-Choice Primary. The left-leaning political party is seeking to avoid a repeat of 2021, when its top candidates were also-rans in the Democratic mayoral primary in New York City.
• In His Play, a Guard at the Met Finds Solace in the Museum. Patrick Bringley stars in a version of his book, which tells how the Metropolitan Museum’s works of art helped him work through grief.
• Budget in Limbo As New York Awaits Clarity On Federal Cuts. State leaders no longer expect to get the $91 billion in federal aid they originally anticipated, but exactly how much they will get remains unknown as they try to pass a budget.
• Is Boogie Fland the Next Legendary New York City Point Guard? In some ways, the prodigy now starring for Arkansas in the N.C.A.A. tournament is an urban basketball archetype. But this is not the same old story.
• 3 Postal Workers Charged in Sex Attack on Co-Worker After Party. The men dragged a woman into the back of a mail truck, where one tried to rape her, the Manhattan district attorney said.
• Rebutting Trump Official, The M.T.A. Emphasizes Subways Are Much Safer. In response to the transportation secretary’s disparagement of the subway system, transit officials said that felonies were way down and fare evasion was dropping.
• Mangione Was Sent Socks With Heart-Shaped Notes, Prosecutors Say. In filings, lawyers for the man accused of assassinating a health care executive argued with prosecutors over special treatment and his access to evidence.
• Everyone Hates Sidewalk Sheds. Now There May Be Fewer of Them. Several bills to be passed in the City Council today are expected to change the height, the color and the ubiquity of the construction sheds.
• Federal Support Is Vital To New York City’s Plans To Repair Transit System. The M.T.A. has a five-year capital budget proposal for critical upgrades to the subway, buses and commuter railroads. The catch: It depends on $14 billion in federal funding.
• Columbia Planned Tighter Protest Rules Even Before Trump Demanded Them. Students sued to stop Columbia from giving their disciplinary records to the federal government, which has demanded that the university rein in demonstrations.
• Judge Orders U.S. to Stop Attempts to Deport Columbia Undergraduate. The administration has been seeking to arrest and deport Yunseo Chung, who immigrated from South Korea as a child, after she participated in pro-Palestinian demonstrations.
• Questions About Testimony After Letter in Adams Case . The nominee for deputy attorney general had testified that he had no direct knowledge of administration officials’ decision to abandon the case against New York’s mayor.
• Trump’s Cuts Were ‘Gun to the Head,’ Faculty Lawsuit Says. The Trump administration’s cancellation of $400 million in aid violates the Constitution, a teachers’ union and a faculty group argue in a new suit.
• Arrests of Campus Protesters Lead to Lawsuit by Professors. The lawsuit says the detention of noncitizen students and faculty members deprives U.S. citizens of their right to engage with foreign-born peers.
• Read the Justice Department’s filing in the Adams case. The filing contained messages exchanged by federal prosecutors in Manhattan about the Justice Department’s order to seek the dismissal of corruption charges against Mayor Eric Adams of New York.
• Why Tariffs Are Hurting N.Y.’s Cannabis Industry. Legal weed is grown in New York State, but items used to grow it are often imported and now are subject to the Trump administration’s tariffs.
• Sun, Fun and Networking for Teenagers. Seniors from some of the nation’s most expensive high schools travel each year to a luxury resort in the Bahamas — trips that make school administrators cringe.
• Salty Suburban Roads Are Clouding the Future of N.Y.C. Drinking Water. A new environmental report finds that rising salt levels in New York City’s water supply could make some of it undrinkable by the turn of the century.
• Columbia Faculty Protests As Trump Officials Praise University’s Concessions. While some professors rallied to criticize the changes, federal officials called the university’s actions a “positive first step” in maintaining a financial relationship.
• Read the lawsuit accusing the Trump administration of illegally targeting a second Columbia student for deportation. The suit was filed by a legal permanent resident who has lived in the U.S. since she was 7 and who participated in pro-Palestinian demonstrations on campus.
• Columbia Student, a Legal Resident, Sues to Fight Efforts to Deport Her. Yunseo Chung, a legal permanent resident who has lived in the U.S. since she was 7, participated in pro-Palestinian demonstrations. Immigration agents visited residences looking for her.
• 60,000 Kids in New York City at Risk of Losing Affordable Child Care. Child care vouchers for low-income families have been a lifeline amid the city’s affordability crisis. They could vanish unless state lawmakers move quickly to fund the program.
• Ex-Senator and His Wife Were ‘Partners in Crime,’ Federal Prosecutor Says. But a lawyer for Ms. Menendez, the wife of former Senator Robert Menendez, told jurors at the start of her bribery trial that she lacked “knowledge and intent.”
• Trump Picks His Former Lawyer as Interim U.S. Attorney for New Jersey. Alina Habba, who defended President Trump against E. Jean Carroll’s sexual abuse and defamation claims, will oversee the work of about 150 prosecutors.
• Veteran, a Democrat, Aims to Flip a New York Seat. Cait Conley, a former National Security Council official, will run for the seat held by Mike Lawler, a second-term Republican, in a Hudson Valley swing district.
• Does Madison Avenue Need a 5G Tower? Some Upper East Siders are fighting a proposed tower. They say that it’s “ugly” and that the corner where the city plans to put it is already crowded.
• Adams Moves to Control How City Talks of Trump. Mayor Eric Adams has used a spreadsheet to flag agency statements that may cause potential problems with the Trump administration.
• Hochul Backs Easing Evidence Rules for Prosecutors. District attorneys say that a 2019 law ordering them to give reams of evidence to defense lawyers has resulted in thousands of scuttled cases.
• 9 Candidates Unite to Attack Cuomo on Covid Deaths. Nearly all the people running for New York City mayor appeared at a Covid memorial event with a shared message: Former Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo’s pandemic response is a reason not to support him.
• Detained Columbia Activist Facing New Claims by U.S. The Trump administration is now accusing the Columbia University graduate and protest leader of having withheld information when he applied for permanent residency status.
• A Fresh-Faced Socialist’s Strategy to Be Mayor. The progressive state assemblyman from Queens is building a new coalition of voters for his mayoral campaign, which has focused on the city’s lack of affordability.
• ‘I Told Her How Pretty Her Comb Was and Asked Where I Could Buy One’ A slow ride up Madison Avenue, a helping hand at the post office and more reader tales of New York City in this week’s Metropolitan Diary.
• Two Men’s Descent Into the Dark. They were two troubled young men, hurtling toward an atrocity. One was the grandson of a Holocaust survivor.
• Wildfire in New Jersey State Park Burns 2,300 Acres. Crews were working to contain the fire in the Wharton State Forest, southeast of Philadelphia.
• Girls’ Basketball Coach Is Fired After Pulling Player’s Ponytail. The coach of the girls’ varsity team in Northville, N.Y., was caught yanking a player’s hair on a television broadcast of a championship game on Friday. He apologized on Sunday.
• Academia Confronts Watershed Moment At Columbia, And the Right Celebrates. Threatened with losing $400 million in federal funding, the university agreed to overhaul its protest policies and security practices.

Business

• U.S. Presses French Companies to Comply With Trump’s Anti-Diversity Policies. A letter from the American Embassy in France gave firms that do business with the U.S. government five days to indicate their agreement.
• Trump’s Not-So-Subtle Purpose in Fighting Big Law Firms. The president has attacked law firms for “frivolous” litigation. But his actions could undermine the basic right of Americans to sue their government.
• How Pittsburgh’s Airport Makes Power to Avoid Heathrow-Like Outages. Pittsburgh International Airport avoids power outages and reduces its energy costs by generating electricity on site using natural gas and solar panels.
• They Were Deactivated From Delivering. Their Finances Were Devastated. Millions of Americans earn money finding gig work through platforms like Uber, Lyft or DoorDash. Many see their financial lives upended when their account is suddenly blocked for unclear reasons.
• Can Climate-Resilient Chickens Help Fight Poverty? An initiative in Zambia is showing that a profit-seeking company can help rural farmers battling extreme weather breed chickens that lay more eggs.
• Trump Commutes Ozy Media Founder’s Sentence Just Before His Surrender. Carlos Watson, who started the now-defunct digital media company, had been sentenced to almost 10 years in prison for trying to defraud investors and lenders.
• Charlie Javice Found Guilty of Defrauding JPMorgan of $175 Million. Federal prosecutors convinced a jury that Ms. Javice, along with one of her executives, had faked much of her customer list before selling her start-up, Frank, to the bank.
• ‘This was essentially a settlement,’ Trump says of the agreement with Skadden Arps. The president said the firm had agreed to provide $100 million in pro bono work on issues that he supports.
• Major Law Firm Cuts Deal To Avert Executive Order. The rulings barred the administration from carrying out punishments described in the executive orders, like banning their lawyers from government buildings, meetings, or jobs.
• Stocks Fall as Inflation Anxiety Dampens Mood on Wall Street. The S&P 500 index dropped 2 percent as investors weighed hotter-than-expected inflation data and braced for President Trump’s next round of tariffs.
• Trump Pardons Founder Of Bankrupt Truck Maker. President Trump’s intervention came while Mr. Milton was appealing his conviction on securities and wire fraud charges.
• GIVE IN OR FIGHT? ELITE LAW FIRMS SPLIT ON TRUMP. The president has targeted firms that he claims have “weaponized” the legal system. On Friday, Jenner & Block and WilmerHale fought back in court, while Mr. Trump said he’d reached a deal with Skadden to avert an executive order.
• Calm Your Investing Life: Own a Bit of Everything. People with bond and international stock funds have held their own, despite a shaky U.S. stock market and the uncertainty and turmoil flowing from the White House.
• Trump’s Tariffs Stun Automakers. Carmakers are likely to face higher costs regardless of how they respond to President Trump’s 25 percent tariffs on cars and auto parts.
• The Town That Went Crazy for Crypto. In San Pedro, Argentina, 16,000 people, a fifth of the population, signed up for a cryptocurrency exchange where everyone won. Until they didn’t.
• The ‘Brocasters’ Have Listeners in a Chokehold. What do President Trump and Mark Zuckerberg have in common? They’re getting into the ring with Joe Rogan.
• As Military Spending Soars, Demand for Spy-Proof Real Estate Booms. Leasing for defense and aerospace start-ups is up as global tensions and conflicts buoy investments in manufacturing.
• Xi Jinping Meets Global Business Leaders Amid Trade Tensions. German investment in China’s auto industry has been one of the few bright spots as foreign investment has slowed to a crawl.
• Skadden, a Top Law Firm, Is in Talks to Avert an Executive Order. The discussions come as President Trump has taken aim at WilmerHale, another big law firm. Other major firms are said to be trying to cut deals with the White House.
• Watchdog Warns U.S. Debt Is Posing ‘Significant Risks’ At its current rate of borrowing, the country’s debt as a share of the economy will reach 118% in 2035, the Congressional Budget Office said on Thursday.
• Warner Bros. Chief Vowed to Revive Its Film Studio. It’s Not Going Well. David Zaslav promised to revive the storied film studio when he took over Warner Bros. Discovery. That was three years ago.
• Effects on Major Car Brands Depend on Their Supply Chain. The scale of the damage depends on the circumstances of each company’s supply chain.
• In Europe, Angry Calls For Tariffs In Response. Leaders in both countries warned that tariffs would fan inflation in the United States and upend global supply chains.
• W.N.B.A. Practice Facilities Are Starting to Rival the N.B.A.’s. In its next gambit to lure and foster talent, the New York Liberty are unveiling plans for a building in Brooklyn with state-of-the-art training facilities and child care rooms — as well as a zenlike locker room.
• Trump’s Tariffs Stun Automakers. The U.S. import taxes are likely to disrupt the complex supply chains of major carmakers, hitting companies that export vehicles from Mexico, Canada, Japan, South Korea and Germany.
• U.S. Tariffs Likely to Deal a Blow to America’s Neighbors and Allies. Ignoring diplomatic efforts and investment pledges, President Trump said he would impose tariffs that are expected to deal a blow to American neighbors and allies in Asia and Europe.
• Trump Floats Chinese Tariff Cuts in Trade for TikTok Deal. The social media app could shut down on April 5 unless it is sold to a new non-Chinese owner. Mr. Trump issued an order delaying the enforcement of a federal ban, and told reporters he could extend that delay, if necessary.
• Consumer Bureau Seeks to Undo A Settlement and Repay a Lender. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau wants to return a $105,000 penalty it collected last fall when it resolved a discrimination lawsuit.
• Tariffs Could Give Tesla and Musk a Leg Up on Rivals. The company led by President Trump’s confidant Elon Musk builds all the cars it sells in the United States domestically and will be exempt from tariffs on finished vehicles.
• Are You Smarter Than A.I.? Some experts predict that A.I. will surpass human intelligence within the next few years. Play this puzzle to see how far the machines have to go.
• Trump’s Tariffs on Autos Would Hit Europe Hard. The levies could hurt European automakers when the industry is already struggling, especially in Germany, Europe’s biggest economy.
• Trump’s auto tariffs are just one part of his trade strategy.
• Stocks Slump Ahead of Trump’s Auto Tariffs. Carmakers’ declines extended in after-hours trading on the news of 25% tariffs on imported vehicles. The drop reflected concerns about inflation.
• Auto Tariffs Are Likely to Lead to Much Higher Car Prices. Experts say tariffs could soon drive car prices up by several thousand dollars and limit production.
• Trump Officials Are Being Sued By V.O.A. Head. The lawsuit by the director and journalists is the latest legal challenge to the administration’s bid to dismantle the government-funded broadcaster.
• U.K. to Bump Up Military Spending and Cut Welfare. The changes come as President Trump’s tariff threats have disrupted global trade and added pressure to the British government’s already strained budget.
• Federal Money May Run Out By Late May, Forecast Says. The Congressional Budget Office said that the so-called X-date could occur as early as spring if Congress does not lift or suspend the nation’s debt limit.
• Family Dollar Is Being Sold For $1 Billion. Nearly 10 years after buying Family Dollar for about $9 billion, Dollar Tree announced it would sell the retailer to two private equity firms.
• Rivals Pounced on Law Firm After Trump Order. Fears that competitors could take its top rainmaking talent added to the law firm’s worries about a Trump executive order that targeted it.
• India Is on a Hiring Binge. An abundance of motivated young professionals is luring American businesses to base their global operations in Indian cities.
• Shell Shocked: How Small Eateries Are Dealing With Record Egg Prices. Mom-and-pop businesses are trying to adapt to the soaring cost of eggs. The owners of four egg-centric restaurants across the country show how they are coping with this threat to their livelihoods.
• Consumer Confidence Is Tumbling as Financial Concerns Mount. The level in the Conference Board’s latest monthly survey was the lowest since January 2021.
• Samsung Electronics Co-Chief, Han Jong-Hee, Is Dead at 63. Mr. Han was co-chief executive and oversaw the company’s consumer electronics business since 2021.
• Hyundai to Invest $21 Billion in U.S. in Bid to Avoid Trump’s Tariffs. Hyundai already makes cars in the United States, in Georgia and Alabama.
• Trump Fuels A ‘Machinery’ Of Misinformation. President Trump’s first four years in the White House were filled with falsehoods. Now he and those around him are using false claims to justify their policy changes.
• Japan Frets Amid Threat Of New Levy On Its Cars. Japanese automakers, initially optimistic about some of President Trump’s policies, are reckoning with potentially devastating U.S. taxes on foreign-made cars.
• Genetics Firm 23andMe Files for Bankruptcy Over Security Concerns. The company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy to “facilitate a sale process.” Its chief executive stepped down and said she would bid on it.
• A ‘Buy Now, Pay Later’ Alliance for Takeout. DoorDash said the arrangement with the financial tech service Klarna would allow customers to defer payments on orders such as takeout from restaurants, makeup and electronics.
• Disney’s ‘Snow White’ Has a Sleepy Box Office Start. The polarizing remake collected $43 million, a weak result compared with openings for similar Disney films.

DealBook

• Pension Funds Push Forward on Climate Goals Despite Backlash. At a time of resistance to environmental, social and governance goals, pension funds have become a bulwark against efforts to sideline climate risks.
• Is CoreWeave’s Debut an Ill Omen for I.P.O.s? The A.I. company is set to make its market debut on Friday amid concerns about its business model and the health of the wider economy.
• Tariff Sticker Shock. President Trump’s vow to hit the global automotive industry with new duties risks raising inflation and inflaming trade-war tensions.
• Big Law Splinters Under a Trump Onslaught. The president’s repeated clashes with the nation’s most prestigious law firms has had a destabilizing business effect.
• Leaked War Plans, and the Trouble With Off-Channel Messaging. Revelations that President Trump’s inner circle discussed sensitive military details on Signal has jolted Washington. What comes next could also be closely watched by Wall Street.
• Trump, Big Law, and an ‘Existential Crisis’ The president’s clash with some of the nation’s biggest law firms appears to be far from over, potentially splintering the legal community even further.

Economy

• Inflation Remained Sticky Ahead of Trump’s Escalating Trade War. The Federal Reserve’s preferred inflation measure showed underlying price pressures persisting in February, as inflation-adjusted spending stayed muted.
• World Leaders React to Trump’s Auto Tariffs. President Trump’s announcement of 25 percent tariffs on imported cars and auto parts prompted world leaders to rebuke the decision.
• Experts Expect Tariffs to Raise Price of Many Kinds of Cars. Experts say the 25 percent import fee will make many cars more expensive, but it is not clear when, by how much or which models.
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• U.S. Adds Export Restrictions to More Chinese Tech Firms Over Security Concerns. The additions included companies that are customers of Intel and Nvidia, and one firm that was the focus of a New York Times investigation last year.
• Has the Decline of Knowledge Work Begun? The unemployment rate for college graduates has risen faster than for other workers over the past few years. How worried should they be?
• Spending Cuts Could Imperil Infrastructure Gains, Report Says. A report card from an engineering group found that American roads, ports and other infrastructure got better last year but could be hurt if federal funding is reduced.
• U.S. Firms Seek Reciprocal Tariffs On Potatoes, Teslas and Shrimp. Makers of a vast array of American products are weighing the risks, and potential payoffs, of the sweeping tariffs the president has promised on April 2.

Media

• Bloomberg Has a Rocky Start With A.I. Summaries. The outlet has issued dozens of corrections to A.I.-generated news summaries since it started using the technology to write them this year.
• Blackstone Weighs Taking a Small Stake in TikTok. The private equity giant is considering investing as the video app works to follow a law that requires it to separate from its Chinese owner, ByteDance, by next week.
• U.S. Judge Orders Halt to Trump’s Effort to Dismantle Voice of America. Voice of America journalists argued in a lawsuit that the administration’s actions violated their First Amendment rights.
• Trump Could Hand China a ‘Strategic Victory’ by Silencing Voice of America. Generations of Chinese, including our columnist, turned to U.S. government-run outlets for an education in democracy, rights and the English language.
• Head of Amazon’s TV and Film Steps Down. Jennifer Salke held the position for seven years. The tech giant named separate chiefs for television and movies.
• Sundance Has Picked New Home In Colorado. The Sundance Institute chose the new location for the movie festival because it had outgrown Park City, Utah, its home for the past 40 years.
• ‘After Midnight’ to End, In Latest Blow to Genre. The show’s host, Taylor Tomlinson, said she wanted to go back to doing stand-up comedy full time.
• Republicans Skewer PBS And NPR. Dark pronouncements by Republicans about a “communist agenda” espoused by public media were intercut with lighter references to “Sesame Street” and “Curious George.”
• PBS rejects Marjorie Taylor Greene’s assertions about drag queen programming. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene criticized PBS for featuring a drag queen named Lil Miss Hot Mess in its programming. But the broadcaster did not feature her.
• PBS Rejects Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Assertions About Drag Queen Programming. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene criticized PBS for featuring a drag queen named Lil Miss Hot Mess in its children’s programming.
• Grilling PBS and NPR is the latest attack from Washington on the press.
• James Signs Podcast Deal For Amazon. The basketball star has signed a podcasting deal with Wondery, furthering Amazon’s wider push into sports.
• PBS and NPR Have Faced Pressure From Congress Before. Republicans in Congress have made several attempts to defund NPR and PBS over the last half-century.
• Who Are Katherine Maher and Paula Kerger, the C.E.O.s of PBS and NPR? The two public media organizations will be represented before Congress by executives with very different résumés.
• The ringmaster spotlighting NPR and PBS: Marjorie Taylor Greene. Ms. Greene organized Wednesday’s hearing on American public media, ominously titled “Anti-American Airwaves.”
• Pressure on NPR and PBS is also coming from the F.C.C. In January, Brendan Carr, the agency’s chair, opened into investigate underwriting — paid messages similar to advertising — at the media organizations.
• Who Is Jeffrey Goldberg, the Editor Mistakenly Added to the Signal Chat? Mr. Goldberg, who was included on a private text thread discussing war plans, was a longtime national security reporter who became editor of The Atlantic in 2016.
• Public Media Gearing Up For Grilling By Congress. Top executives from the public media networks are bracing for a hearing on Wednesday organized by Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene.
• Daily Beast Defamed Him, Ex-Trump Aide Says in Lawsuit. The lawsuit accuses the news site of knowingly publishing false information about how much Chris LaCivita, a Trump campaign manager, was paid by the campaign.
• Why Does Big Bird Look so Sad? Sesame Workshop, the nonprofit behind “Sesame Street,” is confronting what executives have described as a “perfect storm” of problems.

Your Money

• What if You Haven’t Filed Your Return Yet? Despite the turmoil at the I.R.S., tax returns are still due on April 15. And, yes, there are still options for lowering last year’s taxable income.

Technology

• F.C.C. Chairman Orders Inquiry Into Disney’s D.E.I. Practices. The chairman, Brendan Carr, sent a letter to the company accusing it of violating equal employment opportunity regulations.
• Elon Musk Says He Has Sold X to His A.I. Start-Up xAI. The deal combined two of Mr. Musk’s companies, which have been on different trajectories. The transaction valued xAI at $80 billion and X at $33 billion, the billionaire said.
• Look Again: That H&M Model Showing Off a New Look May Be a Digital Clone. The Swedish retailer H&M said it was exploring the use of artificial intelligence in producing “digital twins” of models.
• A.I. Start-Up Disappoints On Opening Of Trading. The start-up, which provides the processing power to help develop A.I. systems, faces questions about its debt and the overall economy.
• Lower Offering For CoreWeave Dims Optimism. The company, which originally expected its shares to be priced between $47 and $55, will ask for $40 a share in a sign of stock market uncertainty.
• 2 Democrats That Trump Fired From F.T.C. Sue Over Dismissals. Rebecca Kelly Slaughter and Alvaro Bedoya, who were fired from the agency this month, accused President Trump in a lawsuit of executive overreach.
• Facebook Returns to Roots With Its New Friends Tab. A new Friends Tab will feature posts from a user’s friends and relatives, which was the original mission of the app.
• How Artificial Intelligence Reasons. Companies like OpenAI and China’s DeepSeek offer chatbots designed to take their time with an answer. Here’s how they work.
• For Most Users, Signal Is Considered Safe. The app, which was introduced in 2014 and has hundreds of millions of users, is widely viewed as the safest messaging tool because of its encryption technology.
• OpenAI Unveils New Image Generator. The company’s chatbot can now create elaborate and unusual images.
• In Ad Blitz, TikTok Says It’s a Force For Good. The popular video app, which could be banned in the United States next month if it is not sold to a non-Chinese owner, is portraying itself as a savior of Americans and a champion of small businesses in a new campaign.
• Trump Deepens Links to Crypto With New Plan For a Stablecoin. World Liberty Financial, the crypto business created by President Trump and his sons, unveiled a cryptocurrency called a stablecoin, furthering his ties to an industry his administration regulates.
• Inside A.I.’s Super Bowl: Nvidia Dreams of a Robot Future. Nvidia showcased robots that could work in warehouses, pedal around like “Star Wars” droids and manipulate surgical equipment at its weeklong A.I. conference
• A.I. Leaders Now Want Fewer Rules. After the president made A.I. dominance a top priority, tech companies changed course from a meeker approach under the Biden administration.
• Hastings Gives College $50 Million To Study A.I. The Netflix co-founder said he wanted his alma mater to become a leader in studying the consequences, and guiding beneficial uses, of artificial intelligence.

Personal Tech

• TikTok Appears to Be Staying. What Does That Mean for Us? With a national ban increasingly unlikely, let’s reflect on how the app both sparks joy among users and raises mental health concerns.

Sports

• Track and Field to Be First Olympic Sport Requiring DNA Tests for Women. The change affects women with atypical genetics who have been able to compete if they suppressed their testosterone levels.

Rugby

• A Scrum of Their Own. Women’s Elite Rugby, the first professional women’s league in the United States, kicked off this month, offering a new opportunity for athletes hoping to compete in the 2028 Summer Games in Los Angeles.

Obituaries

• Jean Rice, Advocate for the Homeless, Is Dead at 85. Homeless himself, he was for nearly two decades a pivotal member of Picture the Homeless, a group devoted to changing negative perceptions of the unhoused.
• Victor Emanuel, Revered Birder and Pioneer of Ecotourism, Dies at 84. He had a reverential regard for birds from an early age, and he turned it into a thriving business. “I call him the Zen master of birds,” Peter Matthiessen said.
• Clive Revill, Original Voice of Emperor Palpatine in ‘Star Wars,’ Dies at 94. His voice can be heard for only a minute in “The Empire Strikes Back,” but it provided the first draft of a character that would be a mainstay of the franchise for decades.
• Armand LaMontagne, Meticulous Sculptor of Sports Greats, Dies at 87. Working in wood, he captured the zeal of New England sports with his exacting, lifelike renderings of Hall of Famers like Ted Williams and Larry Bird.
• Leonard Polonsky, Philanthropist Who Supported the Arts, Dies at 97. After making a fortune in financial services, he funded the arts and made historical artifacts and documents widely available to the public.
• L.J. Smith, Writer Best Known For ‘Vampire Diaries,’ Dies at 66. She wrote seven books in a series that went on to be a hit TV show. After she was replaced by ghostwriters, she reclaimed her characters online in fan fiction.
• Dennis McDougal, 77, True-Crime Writer, Dogged Reporter and Hollywood Muckraker. The author of more than a dozen books and an award-winning documentary, he died in a car crash in Southern California.
• Lou Nasti, 79; Charmed Brooklyn and the World With Mechanical Magic. A robotics specialist, he animated puppets and dolls for displays worldwide. His “Toyland,” with a two-story-high Santa, drew sightseers to a Brooklyn home for years.
• Lou Nasti, Who Brought Christmas Displays to Life, Dies at 79. He animated puppets and dolls for holiday displays around the world, and his extravagant, illuminated display at a Brooklyn home was a sightseeing fixture.
• Michael Boudin, Independent Judge From a Liberal Family, Dies at 85. His rulings on the U.S. bench might have rankled his father, a civil liberties lawyer; his uncle, a muckraking journalist; and his sister, an imprisoned radical.
• Horace Hale Harvey III, 93, a Pioneer in Providing Abortions. A religious organization recruited him to help open New York City’s first independent abortion clinic, though it was unaware that Louisiana had taken away his license.
• Dag Solstad, 83, Norwegian Author Obsessed With a Desolate Universe. A winner of top awards in his country, he drew the attention of European and American critics. The prime minister said he “made us see Norway and the world in new ways.”
• Max Frankel, Who Guided Transition at The Times, Dies at 94. As executive editor from 1986 to 1994, he oversaw a period of financial, technological and journalistic change while lifting newsroom morale and diversifying the staff.
• Thomas Hoobler, 82; He and Wife Wrote 103 Books on Wide Spectrum of Subjects. He and his wife, Dorothy Hoobler, wrote 103 books, most recently one about presidential love letters, “Are You Prepared for the Storm of Love Making?”

Art & Design

• Pilar Viladas, 70, Who Chronicled Trends in Design. Schooled in art history, she brought authority and a human perspective to her writing and editing for Architectural Digest, HG, The Times and other publications.
• David M. Childs, Architect of 1 World Trade Center, Is Dead at 83. He was the chief architect of 1 World Trade Center, which soared in the wake of 9/11. As chairman of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, he left a mark on New York.
• Fred Eversley, Sculptor Who Conjured Parabolic Magic, Dies at 83. With his engineering background, he thought about his work differently from how other artists did. His abiding interest was in energy, in the scientific sense.

Europe

• Oleg Gordievsky, a Soviet Spy and a Mole for Britain, Is Dead at 86. While climbing the ranks of the Soviet spy agency, he spent more than a decade working for British intelligence as one of its most highly placed moles.

Music

• Herb Greene, 82, Dies; His Photographs Captured the San Francisco Sound. One of the first to shoot the Grateful Dead, he also memorably chronicled many of the other bands that were on the scene in the late 1960s.
• Brian James, 70, Core Of a Trailblazing Band For Punk Rock in Britain. As the guitarist and main songwriter for the Damned, he helped spark an explosion on the British music scene in the 1970s.

Politics

• J. Bennett Johnston, 92, Dies; Senator Helped Shape Energy Policy. A Democrat from Louisiana, he pushed for nuclear power and ending the nation’s reliance on foreign oil in his four terms on Capitol Hill.
• Mia Love, 49, Political Pioneer Who Defied Stereotypes. Ms. Love, from Utah, held a seat in the House for two terms until she aroused the enmity of President Trump. She was diagnosed with brain cancer in 2022.

Television

• Marty Callner, Who Set The Stage for Pop Stars And Comics, Dies at 78. At HBO in the late 1970s, he established the template for presenting stand-up on the small screen. He then became a mainstay of MTV in its early days.

Briefing

• Breaking Through. Icebreakers are corny, corporate get-to-know-you exercises. But there’s something thrilling in dispensing with small talk.
• A Powerful Earthquake Devastated Myanmar. Also, JD Vance went to Greenland. Here’s the latest at the end of Friday.
• The Self-Deporters. Our immigration correspondent has found a surprising trend.
• The New York Times News Quiz, March 28, 2025. Did you follow the news this week? Take our quiz to see how well you stack up with other Times readers.
• Friday Briefing. A shock to the auto industry.
• U.S. Health Agency Announced Job Cuts. Also, Canada’s leader vowed to retaliate against U.S. auto tariffs. Here’s the latest at the end of Thursday.
• Friday Briefing: Trump’s New Tariffs Risk Trade War. Plus, shark noises from New Zealand.
• Secrets on Signal. We explain how the group chat leak could have happened.
• Newly Released Signal Chats Showed What Was at Stake. Also, the U.S. said it will end vaccine funds for poor countries. Here’s the latest at the end of Wednesday.
• Thursday Briefing: More Signal Texts Released. Plus, a train trip between two worlds.
• A Hiring Binge Abroad. We cover a new kind of offshore office park.
• Wednesday Briefing. Fallout from the Trump administration’s Signal chat leak.
• Trump Downplayed the Leak of Military Plans. Also, Ukraine and Russia agreed to stop fighting in the Black Sea. Here’s the latest at the end of Tuesday.
• Wednesday Briefing: A Cease-Fire Deal for the Black Sea. Plus, the hit series “Adolescence.”
• Gaza’s Return to War. We explore how the cease-fire collapsed — and what might happen next.
• Tuesday Briefing. An extraordinary security breach.
• Trump Officials Disclosed Military Plans in a Group Chat. Also, paper bags might not be as green as you think. Here’s the latest at the end of Monday.
• Tuesday Briefing: Trump Threatens New Tariffs. Plus, the practical magic of “speedcubing.”
• Immigrants and Freedom of Speech. President Trump is taking advantage of an unsettled aspect of the law.
• Monday Briefing. Fury in Greenland over a Trump delegation.
• Monday Briefing: U.S.-Ukraine Talks. Plus, how scammers make money vanish.
• The Price of a Show. Tickets for the hottest Broadway plays are now out of reach for many.

Podcasts

• The Signal Chat That Shook Washington. The disclosure of sensitive attack plans on Signal led to a firestorm of criticism in Washington. We’ll discuss the fallout of the scandal and what it says about national security decision-making under President Trump.
• Classified or Not: Signal Leak Semantics. The disclosure of sensitive attack plans on Signal led to a firestorm of criticism in Washington. We’ll discuss the fallout of the scandal and what it says about national security decision-making under President Trump.
• The Tech Behind Signalgate + Dwarkesh Patel’s ‘Scaling Era’ + Is A.I. Making Our Listeners Dumb? “The group chats are popping off at the highest levels of government.”
• Alison Krauss Gets the Band Back Together. The bluegrass star reunites with Union Station on “Arcadia,” their first album in 14 years.
• Bon Iver Is Happy Now. It Took a Lot of Work. The singer and songwriter Justin Vernon’s surprise success led to unexpected opportunities — including collaborations with Taylor Swift, Kanye West, Zach Bryan and more — and then emotional depletion. His new album, “Sable, Fable,” is a moment of ...
• How Orville Peck Got Addicted to Love and Came Out the Other Side. The country musician talks about yearning as a theme in his life and songs, and why he’s letting go of his mask for his Broadway debut.
• Invisible Made Visible. An episode from 2012 performed live onstage, featuring David Sedaris, Tig Notaro and more.

The Daily

• Trump 2.0: Group Chats and a New Spat. What does the Signal leak tell us about the administration’s approach to blame?
• J.F.K., the C.I.A. and the Original ‘Deep State’ The latest release of documents surrounding the 1963 assassination in Dallas may spawn even more conspiratorial thinking.
• The Editor Who Was Accidentally Texted War Plans. Jeffrey Goldberg tells the story of how he was included in a private government group chat.
• Nixon Dreamed of Breaking the Media. Trump Is Doing It. The president’s heavy-handed approach to traditional journalists has the hallmarks of an attempted crackdown 50 years ago.
• Trump’s Escalating War With Higher Education. How colleges are responding to pressure from the administration, and what it might mean for the future of America’s university system.
• The Sunday Read: ‘What I Found on the 365-Mile Trail of a Lost Folk Hero’ The Old Leatherman, a sort of real-life Northeastern Sasquatch, gave me an excuse to step outside my own life.

The Headlines

• Musk’s Secretive Team Goes on TV, and RFK Jr. Hires a Vaccine Skeptic. Plus, what we didn’t know about sharks.
• How Car Tariffs Will Hit Consumers, and a Fight Over Funding Elmo. Plus, a farewell in space.
• NPR and PBS in the Hot Seat, and a Rare Protest in Gaza. Plus, fraud at Versailles.
• Secret War Plans Shared in Group Chat, and U.S. Food Banks Scramble. Plus, why you might develop allergies as an adult.
• An ‘Aggressive’ Trip to Greenland, and the Pope Returns Home. Plus, how George Foreman transformed American kitchens.

Science

• Moon Will Take a Bite Out of the Sun: How to Watch the Partial Solar Eclipse. If you’re on the East Coast, wake up early to try and catch the moon take a bite out of the sun on Saturday.
• A Shark Breaks Its Silence With Some Clicking Sounds. Researchers in New Zealand have made what they believe is the first recording of a shark actively making noise.
• Farewell to Gaia, the Milky Way’s Cartographer. After more than a decade of mapping the stars, the European spacecraft was shut down on Thursday. But its legacy lives on.
• Auroras Are Spotted on Neptune for the First Time, and Lead to a New Mystery. The James Webb Space Telescope identified the lights in the distant planet’s atmosphere, which could not be seen by earlier telescopes or spacecraft.
• Abel Prize Awarded to Japanese Mathematician Who Abstracted Abstractions. Masaki Kashiwara received the honor, often regarded as the Nobel Prize in mathematics, for work that combined different mathematical fields to solve challenging problems.
• Foie Gras That Skips the Force-Feeding Is Developed by Physicists. While not sparing the lives of ducks and geese, the technique lets the birds eat and grow normally.
• SpaceX Rocket Leaves a Glowing Spiral in the Sky, Visible Across Europe. Frozen fuel from the Falcon 9 rocket launched Monday created a luminous display for several minutes, and was seen by people from England to Eastern Europe.
• Her World of Mushrooms Is Sprouting Anew. Mushrooms in 19th-century watercolors: The paintings of a self-taught female mycologist are featured at the New York State Museum.
• You Can Make Amber Fossils in 24 Hours, Instead of Millions of Years. Paleontologists hope that an amber-like material, made with living tree resin, will shed light on the prehistoric fossilization of the real stuff.
• Lessons From a Lost-Pet Detective Named Kat. Recovering missing animals requires understanding both animal and human behavior.
• ‘Don’t Think, Just Solve’ Max Park is a longtime speedcubing world record holder — for the 3x3x3 cube, his best official time is 3.13 seconds. Let's show you how he does it.

Climate

• How Lee Zeldin Went From Environmental Moderate to Dismantling the E.P.A. He once talked about the need to fight climate change. Now, he embraces Elon Musk, lavishes praise on the president and strives to stand out in a MAGA world.
• A Maker of Sewage-Based Fertilizer Leaves Town Amid a Toxic Crisis. Ranchers in Texas claim livestock was sickened by ‘forever chemicals’ in fertilizer made from sewage sludge. Now Synagro, a Goldman Sachs-backed firm, has lost a deal to manufacture there.
• Dreams of the Possible and Impossible for This Year’s Garden. The arrival of spring brings joy, and a challenge: finding solutions to increasingly erratic weather.
• Mining Company Seeks Trump Support to Shortcut Access to Seabed Metals. Mining companies and the Trump administration want the metals to boost manufacturing. Environmentalists and some countries worry industrial mining would harm oceans.
• Global Sea Ice Hits a New Low. The data comes after researchers reported that the past 10 years have been the 10 hottest on record.
• A New Series in The Times, Inspired by You. Across the country, in red and blue states, everyday people, local groups and government officials are making creative plans that protect the environment. This year, we’ll be telling you about them.
• E.P.A. Offers Way to Bypass Rules to Limit Air Pollution. Referring to a little-known provision, it said power plants and others could write to seek exemptions to mercury and other restrictions and that “the president will make a decision.”
• She Inspired Laws to Hold the Fossil Fuel Industry Accountable. Now She’s a Target. A conservative group is suing for emails of a law professor who helped create legislation to force oil, gas and coal companies to pay for climate damage.
• Energy Transfer vs. Greenpeace Verdict. The damages for defamation claims are laid out on pages 11-13 and 27-29. Punitive, or exemplary, damages are addressed on pages 16 and 32.
• 50 States, 50 Fixes. A series about local solutions, and the people behind them, to environmental problems.
• Care About Food Waste? In Massachusetts, You Can Be a Compost Consultant. It’s a dirty job, and someone gets to do it.
• Living Car-Free in Arizona, on Purpose and Happily. One community near Phoenix is taking a “completely different” approach to development.
• They’re in Hot Water in Idaho. Here’s Why That’s a Good Thing. Nearly 500 buildings in the state capital get their heat from a clean, renewable source located deep in the ground.
• Bridges and Tunnels in Colorado Are Helping Animals Commute. The state has emerged as a leader in building wildlife crossings, which can save animals, money and human lives.
• At This Clinic in Hawaii, Nature Is the Medicine. A neglected parcel of land was restored by volunteers and patients at a community medical center. Along the way, their health also improved.
• A Landmark Lawsuit, Where Kids Sued America, Comes to an End. The Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal in the long-running case, known as Juliana, which helped spawn legal strategies widely adapted to other lawsuits over climate.
• The Vicious Cycle of Extreme Heat Leading to More Fossil Fuel Use. A new report illustrates a concerning dynamic: Record heat last year pushed countries to use more planet-warming fossil fuels to cool things down.
• What Shopping Bags Should I Use? All bags are not created equal when it comes to the environment. And paper might not be as green as you think.

The Upshot

• Flashback: Your Weekly History Quiz, March 29, 2025. Can you sort 8 historical events?
• On Trump, Democrats and a New Era of Politics: A Look at the Year Ahead. Special elections are already pointing to a familiar pattern.
• G.O.P. Warms To More Help For Children. The evolution reflects a growing bipartisan agreement that American families are struggling and something has to change.
• Online Casinos, a Loophole Says, Aren’t Actually Casinos. Policing loopholes in gambling law can be challenging, and most states have been slow to adapt.

Opinion

• The Democrats Are in Denial About 2024. Party leaders have embraced convenient excuses. This perilous political moment requires more self-reflection and honesty.
• Elise Stefanik Is the First Casualty of the Great Trump Disillusionment. Republicans may seem oblivious to voter discomfort with the administration’s excesses, but Elise Stefanik’s pulled nomination shows they see trouble ahead.
• We Should Improve D.E.I., Not Erase It. Readers weigh in on a D.E.I. effort at Anheuser-Busch. Also: More than just misinformation; Trump is taking us back in time.
• ‘We Thought We Were Friends’: It’s an Uncertain Time in Greenland, Too. For Greenlanders, there’s the same kind of acute uncertainty about the past and the future that people in and outside America are feeling right now.
• The Substance of the Group Chat Was Unserious, Too. Europeans are used to the Trump administration’s scorn by now, but the Signal chat’s lack of seriousness, including its substance, was shocking.
• The Dark Precedent in the Tufts Student’s Arrest. Any noncitizen, regardless of legal status in the United States, could be detained under an increasingly opaque set of laws.
• Threats to Veterans’ Mental Health Care. Readers respond to President Trump’s orders that disrupt the V.A.’s ability to provide care. Also: Saving species; AI and human creativity.
• Putin’s Getting the Negotiation He’s Long Wanted From the United States. Putin has finally achieved what he had long wanted: to relegate Ukraine’s fate to superpower-to-superpower talks between Moscow and Washington.
• View From the Floor. After appearing on “Maury” 25 years ago, a singer without legs questions why she’s seen as inspirational.
• The Trump Administration Can’t Even Admit the Real Problem With the Signal Chat. If there’s no real accountability for the Signal breach or even an admission of the actual problem, there’s no indication it won’t happen again.
• An ‘Unthinkable’ Security Breach. Readers react to the security lapse that allowed the editor of The Atlantic into a group chat about a U.S. military operation in Yemen.
• Those Are Definitely ‘War Plans’ What members of the administration can no longer effectively do is pretend that their incompetent and reckless actions didn’t happen. It’s right there on the page.
• The Violence That Surrounds the ‘No Other Land’ Detention.
• The Duty of Law Firms Under Attack. Readers weigh in on the capitulation of the law firm Paul, Weiss to the Trump administration’s demands. Also: Beyond campus stereotypes; analog parenting.
• Should There Be Limits to Research on Human Embryos? For decades, scientists have abided by a 14-day boundary on their work. Now science can do more. But should it?
• If Pete Hegseth Had Any Honor, He Would Resign. A defense secretary intentionally using a civilian app to share sensitive war plans without noticing a journalist was in the chat would be egregious.
• When a President Defies a Judge’s Order. Readers react to President Trump’s refusal to follow Judge James E. Boasberg’s instructions to halt a deportation flight. Also: A plea from Gen Z.
• Why I Got The Measles Vaccine At Age 63. Cases have now popped up in at least 19 states, including Kentucky and Georgia. That’s near enough to home for me to start worrying.
• Freedom’s Frequencies Fall Silent. American soft power will suffer with the Trump administration’s decision to silence Voice of America and Radio Free Europe-Radio Liberty.
• Democrats: Still Under Construction. Readers respond to a column by Ezra Klein about the Democrats’ approach to government. Also: Domestic enemies.

Op-Ed

• The Many Overlapping Scandals of the Pete Hegseth Group Chat. They may be even more serious than the one we’ve been focused on.
• Tate-Pilled Boys Are a Problem for Schools. What ‘Adolescence’ gets right about the harassment of female authority figures.
• Actually, A.I. Is Pretty Mid. A.I. is just what we need in the post-fact era: less research and more predicting what we want to hear.
• Read This if You’re on Trump’s National Security Team. Trust your staff, admit mistakes, don’t embarrass the president.
• A Jewish Comedian Walks Into a Theater in Minnesota. Alex Edelman HBO’s comedy special about white nationalism hits different now.
• She Had Cancer. She Didn’t Trust Doctors. . With Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as health secretary, what was once a fringe movement now controls the halls of power.
• The Signal Problem. A national security scandal is manageable. A bunker mentality spells doom.
• Colleges Have to Be Much More Honest With Themselves. To rebuild trust and resist interference, universities must look within.
• Can the Jesus of History Support the Christ of Faith? Why historically minded believers still find the New Testament credible.
• Security Breaches Can Be Fixed. People Without Honor Can’t Be Trusted. There’s a reason every warrior society has a code.
• ‘Many Americans Feel in Real Peril’: Four Columnists on the Democrats’ Weak Response to Trump. Why has fighting and opposing Trump proved so hard? It’s not just because Republicans hold all the cards in government.
• Hillary Clinton: How Much Dumber Will This Get? The Signal group chat is only the latest in a string of self-inflicted wounds by the new administration.
• The Last 2 Months — and Next 2 Years — of U.S. Politics. Ezra Klein answers listener questions about the first two months of the second Trump term and the options Democrats and civil society have in response.
• We Underestimate the Manosphere at Our Peril. We underestimate the manosphere at our peril.
• Sweden Has a Big Problem. The country’s backlash against migration stems from a deeper discontent.
• I Am the Turkish President’s Main Challenger. I Was Arrested. President Erdogan of Turkey has jailed me because he knows he cannot beat me in an election.
• A Surprising Route to the Best Life Possible. Why people do things that are unpleasantly hard.
• I Have a Capital Suggestion for a New Pronoun. It involves a capital letter, and it just might resolve some significant confusion.
• This Crackerjack Cabinet Is a Fiasco Foretold. Pete Hegseth & Co. weren’t chosen for their competence.
• About That Rule of Law …. Trump is taking the law into his own hands.
• The Group Chat Saga Exposes a Stunning Hypocrisy. In Trump world, the rules apply only to other people.
• The View From the Floor. After appearing on “Maury” 25 years ago, a singer without legs questions why she’s seen as inspirational in “View From the Floor.”
• Trump’s Attack on Trans Youth Research Is a Tragic Error. Gender-questioning young people deserve better information.
• David Leonhardt: ‘By the Time Trump Comes for Your University, It’s Probably Too Late’ And how universities can fight the president’s “destroying agenda.”
• Punish Russia, Make Money and End the War. By combining tariffs with the threat of sanctions on oil and gas sales, the U.S. can make money while pressuring Russia to end its war in Ukraine.
• We Are Caught in a Vast Web of Conspiracy, but the Strands Are Visible. We’re all conspiracy theorists now. Why?
• America Can’t Keep a Secret. It’s never been easier to steal secrets from the United States government.
• I Love ‘Severance,’ Which Is Why I Don’t Want to Watch Any More. It’s OK to love a TV show. It’s also OK to say goodbye without answers to every single question.
• I Resigned as an Act of Principle. So Should Schumer. Instead of clinging to power, he could step down honorably from his leadership role, setting an example for his party and the country.
• Trump and Musk Are Suffering From Soros Derangement Syndrome. The president thinks popular political opposition to his policies is manufactured.
• The Real Reason Young People Voted for Trump. Feeling empowered is different from numerical growth.
• What a Debate Over a Vaccine Side Effects Study Reveals. Why is it so hard to discuss the idea that vaccines have both risks and benefits?
• The Worst Part of Pete Hegseth’s Group Chat Debacle. And why the careless secretary of defense should resign.
• Trump and Xi Need a Shared Trust on A.I. Now. We need the two superpowers to get serious about devising a regulatory and technological framework that keeps A.I. under human control.
• What Is DOGE’s Real Goal? Santi Ruiz, a senior editor at the Institute for Progress, examines what DOGE has been trying to accomplish in its first few months.
• They Are America’s Most Powerful Law Firms. Their Silence Is Deafening. Bowing to Trump won’t protect their businesses and clients.
• ‘It Is Hard to Imagine a More Sweeping Agenda to Make Americans Less Healthy’ Trump says one thing about toxins and does another.
• This Is the Great Mystery of Bird Flu in America. The death rate in the U.S. has been much lower than expected.
• $15 Billion Is Enough to Fight the President. Every university president will face a choice similar to Columbia University’s in the coming months.
• Trump Has Broken the West in Two. Large global powers set the tectonic shifts of geopolitics in motion. Small players have always had to figure out how to survive in the cracks in between.
• The Trump Train Is Going Full Speed Ahead. This is certainly an administration that reminds us why the framers decided on separation of powers.
• Bernie Sanders Is Tapping Into a Deep Vein of Anger in America. Struggling working-class voters fear that the country they’ve always counted on is sliding away because of Trump.
• The Claim Trump Is Making That ‘Could Break the American System’ Understanding the president’s shift from unconstitutional to anti-constitutional actions.
• Columbia’s Capitulation Will Hurt Us All. The postwar compact on research that powered America’s economic and military dominance is under threat.
• Your Retirement Portfolio Is Like Kindling. Trump Just Lit a Match. Trump’s tariff threats are hammering the stock market and could mean trouble for our already vulnerable retirement portfolios.
• The Oil Oligarch Who Wants to Take Us Back to the 1990s. Harold Hamm, Trump’s energy mentor, wants to take us back to the 1990s.
• It’s Trump vs. the Courts, and It Won’t End Well for Trump. The judiciary will never surrender to the president its constitutional role to interpret the Constitution.
• Canada Is Donald Trump’s Ukraine. We already know what happens when great powers feel entitled to their zones of control and the strong try to dominate the weak.
• There Is Power in a Boycott. Church-led campaigns against businesses for retreating from D.E.I. promises are a form of pastoral ministry for those who feel ignored or forgotten.
• I Teach Memoir Writing. Don’t Outsource Your Life Story to A.I. When we let computers write our stories, we lose something essential.
• Why Dads Take Their Gay Sons to Hooters. Many fathers and grandfathers take their gay sons to the bar. It’s become a place of refuge — and how that happened is a curious story.
• Who Am I if the Mets Are Good? My dedication to the Mets has always been defined by their status as lovable losers. What happens if they start winning?
• Duterte Is Getting His Day in Court. His Victims Never Will. In Duterte’s Philippines, due process was not a right, it was a privilege that was not extended to the victims of his drug war.

Arts

• Can These Stories Possibly Be True? These twist-filled shows can offer a real-world escape from the drumbeat of news.
• 3 Video Games You May Have Missed in March. Karma: The Dark World takes inspirations like BioShock and “Severance” to the next level with creepily surreal and bizarrely utopian set pieces. Expelled! and Centum also delight.
• The Best True Crime to Stream: 1970s and ’80s Kidnappings. Across television, film and podcasting, here are five stories of child abductions that left Americans shaken.
• Who Even Knows What Famous Means These Days? They Do. As viral stars cross into the mainstream, the hosts of the “Who? Weekly” podcast consider: Is Addison Rae an actual celebrity? Yes. Brittany Broski? Definitely not.
• Bobby Sherman, Former Teen Idol, Has Stage 4 Cancer, His Wife Says. The 81-year-old is known for his breakout role on the 1960s television series “Here Come the Brides” and hits that included “Little Woman.”
• California Man Sentenced in Scheme to Steal Pricey Violins and Rob a Bank. Prosecutors said that the man persuaded music stores to lend him violins worth tens of thousands of dollars on a trial basis, which he did not return.
• This Nuclear Disaster Is Loaded With Tedium. An alternative history of the worst nuclear event in British history is burdened by narrative tropes and uninspired characters.
• Conan O’Brien Receives Mark Twain Prize at the Kennedy Center. The ceremony honoring Conan O’Brien with the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor was the first high-profile event at the Kennedy Center since President Trump ousted its top leaders and installed himself as chairman.
• Library Agency Targeted. An executive order has demanded that the Institute of Museum and Library Services be eliminated to the maximum extent allowed by law.
• An Attack Artfully Disguised as a Tribute. In accepting the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, the comedian mounted a bristling political attack artfully disguised as a tribute.
• Trump Is a Punchline At Twain Ceremony. The star-studded Mark Twain Prize for American Humor ceremony was the most notable event at the Washington arts center since the president installed himself as its chairman.
• Catch the Next Wave. That’s BAM’s Strategy. The performing arts venue does not draw the attention or audiences it once did. Now it has lost another leader as it works to adjust to an uncertain future for cultural institutions.

Art & Design

• What to Know About Trump’s Order Taking Aim at the Smithsonian. The president’s order called for curbing the independence of the sprawling network of museums and urging it to promote “American greatness.”
• Last Tango in the Guggenheim. Members of the dance company Ballet Hispánico weren’t the only ones who swirled amid the art in the museum’s rotunda during a recent presentation and tango class.
• MoMA’s Hunt for a New Director Ends With the Ascension of an Insider. The Museum of Modern Art in New York is promoting Christophe Cherix, the chief curator of its drawings and prints department. It will be his first time leading an institution.
• Trump Calls on Smithsonian Institution to Promote ‘American Greatness’ The president complained in an executive order that the Smithsonian had advanced “narratives that portray American and Western values as inherently harmful and oppressive.”
• Invention, Using Abstraction. Over nearly six decades, this fantastically inventive artist experimented with paint, turning it into a sculptural medium. Our critic calls his survey “scintillating and sweeping.”
• A Showcase for Once Imprisoned Artists. The nonprofit Center for Art and Advocacy, designed as a steppingstone to the art world, opens a public exhibition and education space in Bedford-Stuyvesant.
• Where the Concrete Reflects the Abstract. A deconstructed retrospective for the pioneer of Conceptual art shows off both the exhilarating highs and the sterile dead-ends of making ideas into artworks.
• When the Wild Child Egon Schiele Grew Up. Some of the artist’s most psychologically insightful work came in the final years of his life — a mature period cut short by a pandemic.
• A.I. Project Explores Mysteries of Delacroix. Eric and Wendy Schmidt and the Sorbonne will fund a new program to digitize Delacroix’s papers and identify other artists who may have contributed to his murals and paintings.
• Who Is the Artist Behind the Portrait Trump Hates? The portrait of President Trump that he criticized as “truly the worst” was swiftly removed from the Colorado Capitol. The woman who painted it has remained silent.
• Dressing Like an Artist? There’s an Art to That. An exhibition at the Louvre-Lens in France examines centuries of interplay between art and fashion, including what the sartorial choices of artists revealed about their place in society.
• Performa 2025 Biennial Announces New Commissions. Artists from around the world will converge in New York this fall for a program of live spectacles, combining music, sound, sculpture and commedia dell’arte.
• Gather Up Some Artists, Then Foster Their Energy. The actress is building a community of artists, thinkers and doers of all kinds, in a storied building in downtown Manhattan.

Dance

• Big Plans for Arts Upstate. Vallejo Gantner, a longtime arts administrator in New York City, has taken over as artistic and executive director at PS21 in Chatham, N.Y.
• Stepping Outside Well-Trod Ground. On a program with three New York premieres, the company seems stuck in an international style, though there are flickers of something more distinctive.
• She Leads the Way With Grace and Joy. Jenifer Ringer, the celebrated New York City Ballet principal, is back at the School of American Ballet in a new role: teacher and guiding light.

Music

• Lucy Dacus on the Art of Frames (and Busting Out of Them). The singer and songwriter chats about the movies (“Paris, Texas”), music (SZA) and books (“Healing Back Pain”) that shape her world as she releases her fourth LP.
• Maren Morris Lifts Herself Up, and 10 More New Songs. Hear tracks by Mumford & Sons, Mon Laferte, the Swell Season and others.
• Kennedy Center Classical Lineup, Minus One. The center’s opera company and orchestra are planning typical seasons. But one opera was withdrawn from the lineup by the artists who created it, who objected to the president’s takeover.
• 5 Classical Music Albums to Listen to Now. A new take on Wynton Marsalis’s “Blues Symphony,” a piano cycle by Gregory Spears and Rosa Feola’s solo debut are among the highlights.
• Scowl Made Hardcore Purists Angry. Now the Band Is Doubling Down. The punk band fronted by Kat Moss wound its way from a local scene to national attention. Its second album, “Are We All Angels,” unpacks the pain of the journey.
• All of a Sudden, Life Looks Bright To Bon Iver. The singer and songwriter Justin Vernon’s fast success led to unexpected opportunities and emotional depletion. His next LP, “Sable, Fable,” is a moment of reinvention.
• 6 (Up-tempo) New Songs You Should Hear Now. Get your blood pumping with the latest tracks from Chappell Roan, J Noa, Illuminati Hotties and more.
• Punk Pioneers Are Coming to Lincoln Center. The institution’s annual American Songbook series honors “singer outsiders” including Fanny and Poly Styrene in events curated by Kathleen Hanna and Tamar-kali.
• Making Dramatic Moves to Go Green. The Dutch National Opera in Amsterdam has made dramatic moves to go green, from the materials it uses in productions to the food it serves.
• Paying Respect To Masterworks. Marsalis leads a take on Keith Jarrett’s 1974 LP “Belonging,” and Lehman interprets “The Music of Anthony Braxton,” revealing fresh lessons.
• K-Pop Act’s Buzzy Night Ends in Tears. K-pop’s most imaginative group has been battling its powerhouse label. Our critic watched as its first concert in months was upended by a court ruling.
• A Music Festival Becomes a Study Of Various Tunings. The Los Angeles collective Wild Up brought its Darkness Sounding festival to New York, with some of the event’s appeal lost in transit.
• Mariah Carey Did Not Copy Her Christmas Hit From Another Song, Judge Rules. Two songwriters had filed a $20 million lawsuit accusing her of infringing on their copyright of a song with the same name: “All I Want for Christmas Is You.”

Television

• ‘Yellowjackets’ Season 3, Episode 8 Recap: ‘Eat It’ A familiar face comes back into the picture, but it’s a face with a different name. And questionable motives.
• 10 Wild Clips to Help You Understand Andy Kaufman’s Greatness. The standup, who’s the subject of a new documentary, expanded the ambition of comedy. These videos show how far ahead of his time he was.
• Laughing Through All Their Sorrows. Partway through filming Season 1, the beloved cast member Linda Lavin died. To honor her, the remaining cast and crew decided the show must go on.
• Jimmy Kimmel Updates the Never-Ending Signal Story. “There are many books and stories to come,” Kimmel said of the Trump administration’s leaky-group-chat scandal, comparing it to the Harry Potter saga.
• The Ultimate Highlight Reel Has Its Bases Covered. This three-part documentary about the 2024 World Series has an interesting task: Retell a story that is already pretty good and pretty legible.
• Late Night Can’t Quit the Group Chat. “This operation was about as secretive as a Fortnite Twitch stream,” Jimmy Kimmel said of U.S. officials’ leaked discussion of a plan to attack Yemen.
• ‘Common Side Effects’ Is a Stylish and Trippy Animated Thriller. Filled with smart dialogue, specificity and visual wonder, this Max series is a good choice to help fill the “Severance”-shaped hole in your heart.
• With ‘The Studio,’ Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg Grow Up. Sort Of. Creative partners since they were teenagers, the comedy duo’s new series, “The Studio,” pokes fun at the Hollywood system that practically raised them.
• Late Night Is Still Reeling Over the Government’s ‘War by Emoji’ “Signal might be a good app for you and me and our local drug dealer, but it’s not for the Pentagon to plan wars on,” Ronny Chieng said on Tuesday’s “Daily Show.”
• It’s Art vs. Commerce, and He’s Bound to Lose. Seth Rogen plays a stressed-out movie bigwig in a satire of an industry in decline.
• ‘Severance’ Fans Celebrate With Lumon Cosplay and Waffles. In Kingston, two restaurants that appeared in the series hosted a watch party for the Season 2 finale.
• Jon Stewart Thinks He May Be in the ‘Bomb Yemen’ Chat Group. The “Daily Show” host suspects that he, too, might have been invited to a discussion of secret war plans by a bumbling official in the Trump administration.
• ‘Adolescence’ Has People Talking. Its Writer Wants Lawmakers to Act. The Netflix hit has touched off debates about smartphone use by children and, in Britain, fed into calls for a social media ban.
• This Week on TV. A new comedy starring Nathan Lane and Matt Bomer comes to Hulu, and this season of “The Bachelor” wraps up.
• ‘The White Lotus’ Season 3, Episode 6 Recap: The Morning After. Drinks were drunk, decisions were made. This week’s episode was all about the consequences.
• They’ve Had Time To Mull Their Deeds. In the long-awaited sequel to “Wolf Hall,” Henry VIII’s royal fixer pays the price for success. (It’s his head.)

Theater

• 12 Plays and Musicals to Brighten the Spring. On stages across the country, there is no shortage of adventurous work, including plays by Lauren Yee, Larissa FastHorse and Zora Howard.
• Welcome or Not, He’s Back. Rudin stepped away from show business four years ago amid reports that he had bullied assistants. He says he has “a lot more self-control” now.
• Every Pixel Tells A Classic Story. The “Succession” actress plays all 26 roles in this Oscar Wilde classic reimagined as a video spectacle. If only there were less screen time and more IRL contact.
• Back on the New York Stage, With Glimpses of Potential. Brian Stokes Mitchell, Kate Baldwin and other top-shelf singers star in an overly sentimental production of the long-lost Kurt Weill and Alan Jay Lerner show.
• After 50 Years, Still Avant-Garde. Elizabeth LeCompte and Kate Valk reflect on their decades of making daring theater together. Just don’t call it a nostalgic exercise.
• ‘Buena Vista’ Song Soars Even Higher. Of all the “Buena Vista Social Club” songs, the beloved “Chan Chan” is the most recognizable. But figuring out where in the musical to put it became a challenge.
• No Kindness of Strangers Needed. The London-based actress has been heralded as one of the most talented of her generation. Still, she worried audiences would balk at her “very unconventional Blanche.”
• How a Musical Revealed Wartime Family Secrets. Descendants of characters in “Operation Mincemeat,” a hit British musical now in New York, have gotten more out of seeing it than a few catchy melodies.
• George Clooney Play Breaks a Broadway Box Office Record. “Good Night, and Good Luck” grossed $3.3 million last week, breaking a record that was set earlier this month by Denzel Washington’s “Othello.”
• Beauty in Blackness Amid Its Complexities. Written by Alice Childress in 1969, the play feels just as revelatory more than 50 years later in a new production from Classic Stage Company.
• A Star Keeps Playing in the Light. Five decades into her career, the Tony Award-winning actress and TV icon, making her Broadway directing debut, feels like “part of something bigger.”
• Prey and Predator, Both in Combat Boots. Shakespeare’s leanest tragedy gets a starry, headlong production that embraces the action but misses the mystery.

Books

• Molly Young on Space and Music. A Booker-winning novel; a rocking essay collection.
• Historical Fantasy Novels Offer a Magical Escape Into the Past. The author of “The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi” recommends fantastical tales grounded in real history.
• It’s Gatsby’s World, We Just Live in It. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s classic novel turns 100 this year. What does its hero tell us about how we see ourselves?
• The Truth About F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Drunken Brawl in Rome. Biographers took an account of a scuffle in “Tender Is the Night” as a record of a real-life event. But uncovered documents suggest Fitzgerald may have behaved worse than he wrote.
• For Joan Didion, Mementos of Her Daughter’s Childhood Became Material. The opening of the Joan Didion and John Gregory Dunne archives in the New York Public Library reveals unseen aspects of their family life, and approach to writing.
• 8 Great Noir Thrillers. Sara Gran — whose 2003 novel of demonic possession, “Come Closer,” is a cult favorite — recommends her favorites.
• A Hare, a Fox, an Owl, a Snail: Animal Memoirs Are Going Wild. Books about writers’ dogs and cats are a literary staple. Now there’s a booming subset of memoirs about writers’ relationships with less domestic creatures.

Book Review

• The Story of Crypto’s Rise: Tangled, Confusing and Frustrating. In “The Mysterious Mr. Nakamoto,” Benjamin Wallace is hot on the trail of the person — or people — behind a financial revolution.
• How Anarchists Helped Build Up Free Speech. As two recent books show, free speech protections were forged a century ago by people who fought for the rights of activists.
• A Novel That Offers a Chilling Peek Into U.S. Intelligence. “The Snares,” by Rav Grewal-Kök, examines the perils and moral quandaries of clandestine service.
• Death Ride. Our columnist reviews this month’s releases.
• Book Club: Let’s Talk About Han Kang’s ‘We Do Not Part’ This Korean novel by the 2024 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature turns a pet-sitting mission into a haunting reflection on grief and memory.
• The ‘Stuff’ of a New York Legend, From Skateboards to $12,000 Sweaters. A new book collects the Paper Magazine co-founder Kim Hastreiter’s most treasured belongings, and friends.
• Book Club: Read ‘Playworld,’ by Adam Ross, With the Book Review. In April, the Book Review Book Club will read and discuss “Playworld,” Adam Ross’s off-kilter coming-of-age novel about one boy growing up in New York in the 1980s.
• Historical Fiction Headline. Our critic on the month’s best releases.
• A Special Relationship. Missing for decades from the Anglophile version of its origin story was another great visual narrative tradition, of the East.
• 8 New Books We Recommend This Week. Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
• Maggie Smith. “I’ve had to set that limiting belief aside,” she says, “in order to write other kinds of books without feeling like an interloper.” Her new guidebook is called “Dear Writer.”
• 4 Shattering Romance Novels With Glorious Payoffs. Our critic on the month’s best new releases.
• Working While Homeless: In America, It’s All Too Common. A new book by the journalist Brian Goldstone puts a spotlight on people who have jobs but no homes, whose struggles remain largely invisible.
• In This 1910 True Crime Story, the Victim Finally Gets Some Respect. Hallie Rubenhold’s “Story of a Murder” chronicles a killing, featuring sex, dentures and tightrope walkers.
• Before QAnon and the Deep State, There Was Iron Mountain. A new book by Phil Tinline recounts the history of a 1967 hoax and its ongoing influence as source code for antigovernment conspiracy theories.
• A Refugee Odyssey Unfolds in a Novel Full of Unknowns. Boris Fishman’s new book follows a family that leaves a war-torn country for a shot at asylum in the United States.
• Do You Know the Classic Works That Inspired These Popular Family Movies? Try this quiz on beloved literature that was memorably adapted for the screen.
• Affirmative Action Is Gone. Can Class-Based Admissions Replace It? Richard D. Kahlenberg has long argued for colleges to weigh socioeconomic status to promote diversity. His position is more relevant than ever.
• One Exhilarating, Excruciating Night in Nell Zink’s Berlin. The city’s varied discontents skip into the spotlight in Zink’s new novel, “Sister Europe.”
• Is This Mysterious Swedish Commune an Eden or a Nightmare? Annika Norlin’s novel, “The Colony,” follows a group of misfits in a bucolic forest. The only thing its members share is a dark past.
• 9 Months Pregnant, and Navigating the Apocalypse. Emma Pattee’s debut novel, “Tilt,” takes place in the 24 hours after “the really big one” devastates the Pacific Northwest.
• Yoko Ono, Demonized No Longer. David Sheff’s new biography convincingly argues for John Lennon’s widow as a feminist, activist, avant-garde artist and world-class sass.
• A Novel Explores the Undersea Cables That Connect the World. The crew in Colum McCann’s new book makes complex repairs deep in the ocean. Human bonds prove harder to mend.
• What if We Select Ourselves Out of Existence? Parents looking to promote health and intelligence in their children can pick and choose their embryos now. There could be more downsides than we think.

Movies

• How to Live in the Mall. Want your living space a stone’s throw from the Aéropostale and Hot Topic? A new documentary, “Secret Mall Apartment,” will show you the way.
• Stream These 17 Titles Before They Leave Netflix in April. A few popular franchises are leaving this month for U.S. subscribers, including the first three “Karate Kid” movies. Catch these before they leave.
• Five Horror Movies to Stream Now. This month’s picks include everyday evildoers, Indonesian demons and a smug Brazilian serial killer.
• 11 New Movies Our Critics Are Talking About This Week. Whether you’re a casual moviegoer or an avid buff, our reviewers think these films are worth knowing about.
• In Sofia Carson, Netflix Finds a Go-To Streaming Star. After breaking out in Disney Channel’s “Descendants,” the actress has made a habit of starring in popular streaming films.
• ‘Secret Mall Apartment’ and the Blurred Line Between Life and Art. Jeremy Workman’s documentary looks back at a project that may sound like a joke but had serious underpinnings.
• Over Time, a Short Movie Grew. “The Ballad of Wallis Island” came together after a long wait and a little help from Carey Mulligan.
• Hollywood Struggles to Recover Work Lost During Strikes. Many entertainment industry workers have been jobless for months, leading state officials to consider increasing subsidies to keep film and television production in California.
• A Working Man. Jason Statham plays a construction worker who’s as deft at breaking bones as he is at building high-rises.
• Julie Keeps Quiet. A teenage regional tennis star moves on at her own pace after her ex-coach is dismissed under a cloud of suspicion.
• The Penguin Lessons. Steve Coogan plays Tom Michell, an English teacher in 1970s Argentina, whose small new friend makes his class a hit.
• Grand Tour. The Portuguese filmmaker Miguel Gomes’s black-and-white film follows a colonial official on a 20th-century odyssey across Asia, with his fiancée in pursuit.
• Holland. Set in a Michigan town designed to evoke the Netherlands, this thriller has red herring on the menu.
• Viet and Nam. Truong Minh Quy’s haunting romance between two Vietnamese coal miners contemplates war and loss with pained elegance.
• Becoming a Big Cheese Has Its Ups and Downs. Louise Courvoisier’s debut feature follows a teenager in the French Alps who, when thrust into caring for his sister, forges a path in cheese making.
• The Friend. Naomi Watts plays a writer in mourning who is given a formidable gift from a friend in this adaptation of the Sigrid Nunez novel.
• No, It’s Not a Myth: Just Look at This Roadkill. Paul Rudd and Jenna Ortega play a father and daughter who run down a mystical beast and end up running amok with a monstrous brood.
• Sour Notes Dominate This Command Performance. Carey Mulligan briefly warms this damp, downbeat comedy about two lonely men and their musical obsession.
• The Hidden Life of the ‘Painter of Light’ Thomas Kinkade turned himself into a ubiquitous brand — but there was more to him than that, a new documentary shows.
• ‘No Other Land’ Rides an Oscar Wave at the Box Office. The Oscar-winning documentary has surpassed $2 million at the box office despite the lack of a traditional distribution deal.
• Three Great Documentaries to Stream. In this month’s picks, sheep, shirkers and coup d’état soundtracks.
• Her Life Derailed By ‘Tango in Paris’ “Being Maria” uses the actress’s own words to show how the star’s frank discussion of the experience was an early salvo in the #MeToo movement.
• Being Maria. Starring Anamaria Vartolomei and Matt Dillon, this French drama chronicles the life of the actress Maria Schneider after her traumatic experience on the set of “Last Tango in Paris.”
• Lefty Blogger Takes a Hard Right Turn. Sasha Stone, who has been covering awards season since the ’90s, has recast herself as a voice against what she perceives as the industry’s liberal status quo.

Food

• You Can Never Go Wrong With Olive Oil Cake. Especially not Samantha Seneviratne’s five-star olive oil cake, which is “elegant, easy and frugal.”
• Our Ultimate Guide to Making Cassoulet. The humble meat and bean stew is a classic for a reason.
• How to Make Tagine. Learn the history and the techniques that make up the basis of this classic North African dish.
• Our Ultimate Guide to Buying and Drinking Wine. From getting to know the styles to learning how to find what you want, we’ll cover the basics and more.
• It’s Time to Love Your Desk Lunches. Be a better “bring your lunch to work” person with these expert tips.
• Our Ultimate Step-by-Step Guide to Making Soup. Let Samin Nosrat, the author of ‘Salt Fat Acid Heat,’ help you change the way you think about this beloved dish.
• Our Ultimate Guide to Making Baby Food. Feeding your littlest loved ones can be so easy, delicious and nutritious. Here’s how.
• Our Ultimate Guide to Making Coq au Vin. From history to technique, Melissa Clark will walk you through everything you need to know about the French classic.
• How to Make Cooking Substitutions. Do the most with what you have on hand with these smart tips for swaps.
• How to Roast Chicken: Our Ultimate Guide. Let Melissa Clark show how to make a stunning, burnished bird every single time.
• ‘I’d Always Wanted to Make Biryani, and This Did Not Disappoint’ Naz Deravian’s reader-favorite chicken biryani is a beautiful weekend dish, its preparation a satisfying process with delicious results.
• The Knife Skills Every Home Cook Needs to Know. Slicing, dicing, chopping and sharpening: Our ultimate guide tells you everything you need to know to level up your skills.
• Our Ultimate Step-by-Step Guide to Making a Gingerbread House. From baking to building and decorating, here’s everything you need to know to make your own holiday showstopper.
• Melissa Clark’s Thanksgiving. The New York Times writer offers her recipes for a meaningful feast.
• Make Perfect Rice Every Time With This Helpful Step-by-Step Guide. We’ll teach you how to master the technique, and how to tweak it to get each batch the way you like it.
• After Fasting for Ramadan, Only Doughnuts Will Do. For some Muslim Americans, the best (and only) way to celebrate Eid al-Fitr is with a couple dozen doughnuts.
• Our Ultimate Guide to Making Bagels. From proofing and shaping to boiling and baking, let Claire Saffitz show you the ins and outs of this breakfast favorite.
• Our Ultimate Guide to Making Sourdough Bread. Don’t be intimidated: Claire Saffitz’s step-by-step guide produces the finest bread with a crisp exterior and airy crumb.
• How to Make the Best Asparagus of Your Life (Truly!). Never have another gummy, overcooked spear with David Tanis’s expert advice.
• Our Ultimate Guide to Making Pizza. From dough to saucing and toppings, never make a bad pie again.
• Our Ultimate Guide to Making Burgers. Whether you’re cooking on the grill or the stovetop, going diner style or tavern style, here’s everything you need to know for the perfect burger.
• Three Restaurants Where Big Groups Are No Problem. We’re talking indoor pavilions, prix fixe deals and informal hangs.
• Our Ultimate Guide to Cooking Gravy. From making a great stock to perfecting the roux, Melissa Clark will walk you through the basics.
• Our Ultimate Guide to Thanksgiving Stuffing. Leave everyone at the table totally impressed with these expert tips from Melissa Clark.
• How to Make Steak, the French Way. Melissa Clark will show you how to pan-sear and pair it with a number of delicious sauces.
• Our Ultimate Guide to Cooking Salmon. It’s beloved for a reason, and our guide will teach you how to grill it, roast it and pair it to get the most out of every cut.
• Tesla Finds a Chef for Its Retro-Futuristic Diner in Los Angeles. Eric Greenspan, a developer of delivery-only restaurants, is reported to be the choice as the company faces political blowback.
• Our Ultimate Guide to Cooking Eggs. Boiling, poaching, frying, scrambling: Never miss with Julia Moskin’s expert tips.
• How to Make Fish, the French Way. Learn how to cook sole meunière, the dish that made Julia Child fall in love with French food.
• How to Make Ratatouille, the French Way. The traditional French dish is a classic for a reason. Melissa Clark will run you through its history, the equipment to use and making the perfect version.
• Our Ultimate Guide to Making Soufflé. Impress your friends and family with a restaurant-worthy result (that isn’t even that hard to pull off).
• Our Ultimate Guide to Making Pie Crusts. Get perfectly flaky crusts every time with Melissa Clark’s expert tips.
• Our Ultimate Guide to Cooking Ham. From shopping to carving, you’ll learn everything you need to know about preparing the holiday centerpiece.
• It’s Easy Being Green Onions. They’re versatile and welcome in all sorts of dishes, like quick stir-fried noodles, toasted sesame waffles and a platter of roasted spring vegetables.
• Our Ultimate Guide to Frosting a Cake. Perfect your recipe and your technique for a showstopping party centerpiece. Let Melissa Clark show you how.
• Our Ultimate Guide to Making Cocktails. From techniques to ingredients, this is everything you need to make your favorite drinks at home.
• Our Ultimate Guide to Making Salad. Take your desk lunch and reliable sides from tired to inspired with these tips for dressing and pairing, tossing and topping.
• Our Ultimate Guide to Making Ice Cream. It’s surprisingly easy, and unsurprisingly so satisfying. Let Melissa Clark show you how.
• Want to Eat More Fish? Start Here. These 14 delicious recipes — including this one-pan roasted fish with cherry tomatoes — make eating more fish a delight and a breeze.
• A Pantry Pasta Built for Early Spring. Melissa Clark’s pasta with green puttanesca is a lovely showcase for spring’s tender greens and green garlic (though plain old garlic is great, too).
• An Inventive Menu for Those on the Prowl. Like the big cat that presides over this Ridgewood restaurant, Hellbender knows how to stretch — mixing late-night vibes with polished cooking.
• At Kabawa, Paul Carmichael Takes a Local Approach to Caribbean Cuisine. Laliko serves traditional Georgian food in an intimate setting, Sal Lamboglia steps in for Ferdinando’s Focacceria and more restaurant news.
• A Go-To Protein for Economical Meals. Ground meat is the easy-to-prep foundation for meatballs, curries, nachos, burgers and more must-have dinners.
• Where Flying Solo Isn’t Appreciated. With solo reservations on the rise but many restaurants still restricting tables to two or more, solitary Americans often feel left out or stigmatized.
• This Creamy Pudding Is Worthy of Celebration. When prepared from scratch, this cardamom-scented dessert and Eid delicacy is as delightful to make as it is to eat.
• Miso Loves Grapefruit. Salty umami meets tangy sour in Ali Slagle’s new miso-butter chicken with grapefruit.
• Perfect Fish, Cooked Perfectly. Salmon roasted in butter, with some tender green herbs and thin rounds of lemon, is a memorable meal.
• How a Champion Turned a Grill Into a Cultural and Culinary Heavyweight. The former boxer transformed American cooking, and himself, with an appliance that remains a cultural touchstone.

Wine, Beer & Cocktails

• Why Is It So Hard to Find a Good Nonalcoholic Wine? Extracting the alcohol from a wine can also remove richness and body from the finished product. But these 10 producers have cracked the code.

Style

• Want Eggs? Let Me Check the Coop. Chicken rentals are soaring as Americans look to make their egg sourcing as local as their backyard. Just don’t expect to save money.
• Hey D.J., Please Don’t Play That Song. Some couples create wedding “do not play” lists, for reasons ranging from the personal to the political.
• Gen X Creatives Hit a Career Wall. Just when they should be at their peak, experienced workers in creative fields find that their skills are all but obsolete.
• At a Prison Appearance, a $50,000 Watch Stands Out. Kristi Noem’s trip to a prison in El Salvador drew social media attention for the homeland security secretary’s choice to wear a gold Rolex in such a setting.
• Is Kermit the Frog What the Class of 2025 Needs? The University of Maryland says it is honoring Jim Henson, an alumnus, with its choice of commencement speaker. Some students think it is avoiding “real issues.”
• Her Snapshots Captured Hollywood in the 1970s. The actress Candy Clark documented her unlikely journey through 1970s Hollywood in a series of Polaroids, now published in a memoir.
• Fallout From Taking a Sip of Water. Online grandstanding, intergenerational head-butting and a lost job, all thanks to one inopportunely timed water break during a hot yoga class.
• During Quarantine, Easing Off the Brake Pedal. Jason Santiago and Tiffany Roller planned to have a baby before getting married, but amid fertility struggles, opted to change the order of events.
• An Ode to a Situationship That Did Not Age Well. As my friends buy houses and start families, why am I at Abba Night with a 24-year-old in a faux-fur head wrap?
• The Pineapple on the Head Left an Impression. Daniel Nester and Geno Yoscovits met nine years ago at a Pride event at a bar in Toledo, Ohio. Mr. Nester arrived alone, but left with a phone number and the spark of a possible new relationship.
• Flourishing on, by or Under the Water. Harry Hoffman and Anne Hardee spent much of their youth in the water, on the water or by the water, often snacking on mangoes.
• After Those 12 Steps, Another Journey Begins. Greg Reck and Emily Starkey met at a 12-step meeting seven years ago and bonded over their similar backgrounds and career pursuits.
• The People Bring the Power for a Tribute to Patti Smith. Celebrated artists and actors, including Bruce Springsteen, Michael Stipe and Scarlett Johansson, took the stage in tribute.
• Overwhelmed by Cuteness? There’s a Word for That. The Oxford English Dictionary added 42 new words borrowed from other languages, including gigil, a Tagalog expression for witnessing something adorable.
• People Love Studio Ghibli. But Should They Be Able to Recreate It? An update to ChatGPT made it easy to simulate Hayao Miyazaki’s style of animation, which has flooded social media with memes.
• Is the Poppers Party Over? A potential crackdown on a readily available party drug seems to be afoot. But don’t panic just yet.
• Seasonal Reset Starts at the Top. Memorable styles at recent fashion weeks offer loads of inspiration for your next cut.
• Their One Rule: Always Make Time for Family Dinners. George Arison, the C.E.O. of Grindr, and Dr. Robert Luo have embraced domestic life with their “twiblings” while balancing rigorous work lives.
• Nails Are the Canvas for Her Mind-Boggling Creations. Mei Kawajiri hand-paints and sculpts custom designs for a clientele that includes Heidi Klum and Bad Bunny.
• Duke University Wants No Part of ‘The White Lotus’ In a show that features an array of disturbing story lines, the actions — and wardrobe — of a character have gone “too far” for the university.
• Tiny Love Stories: ‘I Asked Him Back to My Place’ Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words.
• Melania Trump’s Dress, Or Not, Goes on eBay. Is the first lady’s 2005 Dior couture gown really available for resale? Or is this a hoax?
• Your Kids Can’t Stay. After nine years of regular visits from his children, now 19 and 23, a father is steamed by his partner’s suggestion that he book a short-term rental for future get-togethers.
• A No-Frills Irish Pub Now Draws a Martini Crowd. T.J. Byrnes, a low-key bar in the financial district of Manhattan, has survived Sept. 11, Hurricane Sandy and Covid lockdowns. Can it survive becoming cool?
• Bubbly Over Their Gut Health. Fans of brands like Olipop and Poppi say it’s simple: Now more than ever, they need a guilt-free treat. And if it says it has fiber? All the better.
• The Dark Corners of a Group Chat. A journalist’s inclusion in a national security discussion served as a reminder that you might not know every number in the chat — and that could be a big problem.
• Complete Your Mornings by Dunking Your Face Into Cold Water. Ashton Hall’s unconventional morning routine has drawn close to a billion views, and scores of copycat videos.
• Sisters With ‘Ketchup and Mustard’ Shoes. Bright yellow and red footwear went together like classic condiments.
• A Figure Skating Star Who Breaks the Mold. Amber Glenn jumps like a pole-vaulter, collects lightsabers, is pansexual and, at 25, has blossomed at an age when many peers have retired.
• In a Sea of Political Change, Bernie Sanders Keeps Truckin’ An aging star playing to massive crowds of supporters in head-to-toe merch? It’s not the Grateful Dead, it’s the Fighting Oligarchy tour.
• What’s Going On With Clothing Prices? Our critic explains the difference between the cost to manufacture a piece of clothing and the price you end up paying for it, and how tariffs might affect these markups.
• It Only Looks as if She’s Playing Herself. Jennifer Tilly, a poker champ and scream queen, talks about her hardscrabble past and fortunate present.
• Cute Dolls, Served With a Side of Cheese. Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, is a fan.
• The ‘Iconic’ Stare That Conquered the Internet. Millions have been transfixed by videos of Karis Dadson, a California teenager who shows pigs at livestock competitions. She finds the whole thing very weird.

Magazine

• Megyn Kelly Is Embracing Her Bias and Rejecting the ‘Old Rules’ The former Fox News and current YouTube host on her professional evolution, conservative media and why she endorsed Trump.
• We Are All Living in George Orwell’s World Now. He is easy to quote, but what would the iconoclastic British socialist really have thought about politics today?
• My Teenage Son Has a Girlfriend. Do Her Parents Need to Know? The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on what parents owe to other parents.
• Can You Clip Your Nails While You’re on the Phone? Can you clip your nails while you’re talking on the phone? What if it’s a lawyer?
• Wo begräbt man einen Nazi? Während in Deutschland rechte Kräfte erstarken, hadert das Land noch mit seiner faschistischen Vergangenheit — und mit dem Umgang mit deren Überresten.
• Unburying the Nazi Past. As the German right ascends, the nation is still grappling with its fascist past — and how to handle its remains.
• Can I Hold Stock in a Company if I Loathe the C.E.O.’s Politics? The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on investing your money ethically.
• Trouble on the Mound. Why has pro baseball made it so hard for today’s pitchers to achieve greatness?
• Home and Away: In the lusciousness of a long-simmered chicken stew, one cook finds a way to connect to the culture of her ancestors. With Ecuadorean “seco,” one cook finds a way to connect to the culture of her ancestors.
• The Discomfort Zone. A new documentary shows how Andy Kaufman’s upside-down world of anti-comedy prefigured our own.
• Howie Rose. Amid a changing game, the voice of the Mets since 1995 has anchored its fans to a shared identity.

T Magazine

• A Tropical Haven for Design and Seafood Is Back on the Tourist Map. Insider tips on where to eat, sleep and shop in the Sri Lankan city of Colombo.
• Adrian Appiolaza. Adrian Appiolaza, the recently appointed Moschino creative director, pulls back the curtain on his creative process.
• House Tour | Adrian Appiolaza. The Moschino creative director displays selections from his 4000-piece collection of post-1980s Japanese and French fashion in the Paris apartment he shares with his partner, Ryan Benacer.
• Who Wants to Smell Like ‘American Psycho’? Plus: long beaded necklaces, a floral designer’s book of unusual arrangements and more recommendations from T Magazine.
• Comfortable Chairs. Ten seats you won’t want to get up from.
• For a Spring Wardrobe Refresh, Try a Statement Sock. Designers are giving the often-overlooked accessory plenty of personality with bold colors and textures. Here are some of our favorites.
• A New Collection of Minimal Men’s Clothes That Nod to ’90s Sportswear. The designer Zane Li’s first men’s line combines bright colors with sharp silhouettes.
• House Rules. Casual hanging-out-at-home staples get a boost from bold accessories and pops of red.
• Blanket Statements. The artist’s tapestries, which incorporate distorted self-portraits and screenshots from the internet, feel both ephemeral and nostalgic.
• Beige Is Beautiful. In London, restaurants serving classic English cuisine are having a resurgence. (Yes, that means a lot of beige.)
• Funny Girls. For centuries, clowns have mostly been men. A new group of talent is changing that.

Travel

• Food Poisoning While Traveling: What You Should Know. Whether you’re traveling off-the-beaten path or staying at a high-end resort, paying attention to how food is prepared and handled can help keep you safe.
• Flying With a Child on Your Lap? You Might Want to Reconsider. Recent airplane accidents have fueled concerns about whether young children are sufficiently protected on flights and prompted parents and caregivers to re-evaluate how, and even whether, they should fly with infants.
• 36 Hours in Budapest. New museums, galleries and spruced-up parks counterbalance this Central European city’s classic architecture and thermal baths.
• After Heathrow Debacle: Who Pays for a Ruined Vacation? When the airport shut down travelers were on the hook for reservations that could not be canceled, expensive new flights and missed events that airlines don’t reimburse for. How can you protect yourself next time?
• Foreign Visitors Are Rethinking Travel to the U.S. A growing number of travelers say they are worried about feeling unwelcome or unsafe in America and are reluctant to support the economy of a country that may be destabilizing other nations.
• 5 Train Routes That Highlight the Beauty of Europe. Most of these routes run daily, come at no extravagant cost and have special details that will make your journey comfortable, scenic and memorable.
• Perched in Luxury, as Shantytowns Roll By. On a trip from Cape Town to Pretoria, a reporter grapples with the whiplash of traveling through South Africa’s two worlds, from majestic mountains to struggling shantytowns.
• 22 Miles on Foot, 10 Minutes on a Tram: An ‘Extraordinary’ Day Hike. The Cactus to Clouds ascent just outside Palm Springs, Calif., is grueling, but natural treasures, and a speedy trip down, await anyone who is up to the challenge.
• The New Lounge Play: Charge More, Offer Less. As airport lounges see increasing demand, United Airlines is changing how travelers can access its lounges, raising prices and cutting the amenities.

Real Estate

• Readers Commiserate on Brokers’ Commissions. One year after a settlement, sellers and buyers alike say that some agents are using loopholes to resist change.
• My Neighbors Smoke Weed All Day. Can I Get Them to Stifle the Smell? Asking pot smokers to better ventilate their apartments may not work in older buildings or ones with poor air circulation.
• $1.3 Million Homes in Costa Brava, Spain. The coastal region in northeastern Spain has a long artistic and cultural heritage, as well as both modern and historic homes.
• Squeak. Creak. Groan. You Can Fix Those Noisy Wood Floors. Nailing a loose floorboard into the joist below should eliminate the rattle or squeak. But even if it doesn’t, we’ve got you covered.
• Bree and Chuck West on Art Imitating Life. The film and TV producers champion the importance of family, at home and in the media.
• Locking Up One Debate, Opening Another. Students and neighbors are suing the school, magnifying the broader complaint that institutions stifle free expression when they restrict access to public spaces following protests.
• How Columbia Touched Off a Debate Over Public Space. Columbia University’s gates, closed in 2023 in anticipation of demonstrations over the war in Gaza, are at the center of a lawsuit. In an emailed statement, a university spokesperson said the school is “focused on ensuring that all of our students...
• For a New Adventure, They Wanted a Home on the Sea. But How Much Does a Boat Cost? After decades of nomadic land-based living, a couple decided to search for a fishing vessel that could take them on their next journey. How far would $350,000 go?
• Homes for Sale in Manhattan and Staten Island. This week’s properties are in Yorkville, the East Village and St. George.
• Homes for Sale in Connecticut and New York. This week’s properties are a three-bedroom house in Stamford, Conn., and a four-bedroom house in Scarsdale, N.Y.
• Americans Hold On to Their Homes. Americans are staying in their homes much longer than they did 20 years ago. Especially in California.
• What Will It Mean for Home Buyers if Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac Go Private? Privatizing the government-sponsored mortgage giants could be a windfall for investors and raise interest rates for home buyers.
• $550,000 Homes in West Virginia, South Carolina and Massachusetts. A Queen Anne Revival in Harpers Ferry, a condo in an 1840 house in Charleston, and a shingled house in New Bedford.
• Bees Do It. And So Can You. There are endless possibilities for breeding coleus plants with wildly creative leaf colors and shapes. Home propagators can start with a windowsill.
• $900,000 Homes in California. A midcentury modern condo in Los Angeles, a cabin in Lake Arrowhead and an end-unit condo in Palm Springs.
• Standing on a Rooftop in Manhattan, a Couple Saw Their Future. What was next? Launching a plan, surviving the chaos of an apartment hunt, moving to New York, going back to school, and settling in.

Health

• Using a ‘Tiny Bit of Math’ May Improve Your Heart Health, Study Suggests. Your average daily heart rate is a useful metric; so is your daily step count. Combining the two might be even better.
• Top F.D.A. Vaccine Official Resigns, Citing Kennedy’s ‘Misinformation and Lies’ Dr. Peter Marks, a veteran of the agency, wrote that undermining confidence in vaccines is irresponsible and a danger to public health.
• Under Pressure, Psychology Accreditation Board Suspends Diversity Standards. As the Trump administration threatens to strip accrediting bodies of their power, many are scrambling to purge diversity requirements.
• Kennedy Turns to a Discredited Vaccine Skeptic for Autism Study. David Geier has been hired as a senior data analyst at H.H.S. According to several people, he will examine any potential links between vaccines and autism that were debunked long ago.
• New York County Blocks Action Against Doctor Over Abortion Pills. The showdown catapults the interstate abortion wars to a new level.
• John Green: ‘We Fell Down the Staircase’ The best-selling author “got a little emotional” while talking with The Times about tuberculosis. Listen to the conversation.
• Measles Cases Rise in Kansas; 10 Sick in Ohio. State health officials worry that declining vaccination rates have left many communities vulnerable nationwide.
• Funding Cut for Many Studies Of Vaccines and Treatments. Federal officials cited the end of the Covid-19 pandemic in halting the research. But much of the work was focused on preventing outbreaks of other pathogens.
• U.S. Abruptly Cuts Billions From State Health Services. States have been told that they can no longer use grants that were funding infectious disease management and addiction services.
• U.S. to Halt Vaccine Aid In Broad U.S.A.I.D. Cuts. A 281-page spreadsheet obtained by The Times lists the Trump administration’s plans for thousands of foreign aid programs.
• Senate Confirms Bhattacharya and Makary to H.H.S. Posts. Dr. Jay Bhattacharya will direct the N.I.H., and Dr. Martin A. Makary will lead the F.D.A. Both have reputations as medical contrarians.
• Texas Doctors Treat Measles Patients Who Followed Kennedy’s Remedy. After the health secretary promoted vitamin A as a cure, parents in West Texas began giving their children high doses, sometimes to prevent infection.
• Trump Nominates Susan Monarez to Lead C.D.C. Currently the agency’s acting director, Dr. Monarez would be the first nonphysician to head the agency in more than 50 years.
• F.D.A. Approved Lab-Grown Blood Vessel Despite Warnings. The agency OK’d an artificial vessel to restore blood flow in patients, even though its own scientists flagged questionable study results and potentially fatal ruptures of the product.
• ‘Chaos and Confusion’ at American Science Pillar. Senior scientists at the National Institutes of Health fear that research on conditions like obesity, heart disease and cancer will be undermined by President Trump’s policies.
• Kennedy Instructs Anti-Vaccine Group to Remove Fake C.D.C. Page. Children’s Health Defense, founded by the health secretary, had published online a vaccine-safety page that looked like the agency’s but that suggested links to autism.

Well

• L.A. Firefighters Who Fought Blazes Show Elevated Mercury and Lead Levels. The findings, which compared the firefighters’ blood samples against those taken from other firefighters after past fires, suggest unique risks to blazes that burn in populated areas.
• Utah Becomes First State to Ban Fluoride in Public Water. Medical experts warn the move could have consequences for oral health, especially among children.
• The Worst Habits for Your Back, According to Spine Surgeons. Avoid a world of hurt with these four tips.
• 5 Books on Healing From Trauma. Neuroscientists, psychologists and other experts share the titles they recommend most.
• West Virginia Bans 7 Artificial Food Dyes, Citing Health Concerns. At least 20 other states are considering bills restricting the use of certain food dyes and additives.

Mind

• 7 Questions About A.D.H.D. Drugs, Answered. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has called them poison, but doctors say prescription stimulants like Ritalin and Adderall help millions of people.
• My Daughter’s Stepfather Is Walking Her Down the Aisle. Can I Skip the Wedding? I’m heartbroken that she chose him over me.
• Staying Sharp After Retiring Is Its Own Job. It’s challenging to stay mentally sharp and healthy through the major transition. Careful planning is key.
• Will Stimulating My Brain as I Age Keep It Sharp? Puzzles, word games, reading, needlepoint — here’s what experts say about what may help.

Move

• Is Skipping Really a Good Workout? It feels like play. Here’s what fitness experts say about using the activity as a training tool.
• Knees Hurt? This Exercise Can Help. Strength training can be one of the best treatments for chronic knee pain. Here’s how to do it safely.
• A 10-Minute Evening Yoga Routine for Better Sleep. These beginner-friendly poses can help you wind down before bed.

Times Insider

• An Executive Editor Who Was the Last of His Kind. When Max Frankel ascended to The Times’s top spot in 1986, he set out to respect traditions as the paper entered a period of vast transformation.
• Answer Their Questions to Find Your Next Book. A quiz that delivers reading recommendations helps bookworms find their next reads.
• A Driving Force Behind One Reporter’s Beat. Life has looked a little different for a New York Times journalist covering the U.S. auto industry — and the tech billionaire at its forefront.
• Photos of Willem de Kooning, Unseen Until Now. Images from 1965 of the pre-eminent artist were stored in The Times’s archives and only recently revealed.

Corrections

• Quote of the Day. Quotation of the Day for Saturday, March 29, 2025.
• Corrections. Corrections that appeared in print on Saturday, March 29, 2025.
• Quote of the Day. Quotation of the Day for Friday, March 28, 2025.
• Corrections. Corrections that appeared in print on Friday, March 28, 2025.
• Quote of the Day. Quotation of the Day for Thursday, March 27, 2025.
• Corrections. Corrections that appeared in print on Thursday, March 27, 2025.
• Quote of the Day. Quotation of the Day for Wednesday, March 26, 2025.
• Quote of the Day. Quotation of the Day for Tuesday, March 25, 2025.
• Corrections. Corrections that appeared in print on Wednesday, March 26, 2025.
• Corrections. Corrections that appeared in print on Tuesday, March 25, 2025.
• No Corrections: March 24, 2025. No corrections appeared in print on Monday, March 24, 2025.
• Quote of the Day. Quotation of the Day for Monday, March 24, 2025
• Saving the Paper, and a Record of Upheaval. A print archive of 2020 preserves “what the editors were thinking” when the coronavirus pandemic erupted.

Crosswords & Games

• Wordle Review No. 1,380. Scroll down for hints and conversation about the puzzle for Sunday, March 30, 2025.
• Connections Companion No. 658. Scroll down for hints and conversation about the puzzle for Sunday, March 30, 2025.
• Spelling Bee Forum. Feeling stuck on today’s puzzle? We can help.
• Head Honcho. Christina Iverson and Jacob McDermott team up on a puzzle with claws that merits applause.
• Wordle Review No. 1,379. Scroll down for hints and conversation about the puzzle for Saturday, March 29, 2025.
• Connections Companion No. 657. Scroll down for hints and conversation about the puzzle for Saturday, March 29, 2025.
• Sudoku Solvers Have Made the Game Their Own. The game’s most devoted solvers have unlocked creativity and complexity in the classic logic game.
• Easily Victorious. Zhouqin Burnikel returns to deliver a Friday puzzle that is packed with misdirected clues.
• Wordle Review No. 1,378. Scroll down for hints and conversation about the puzzle for Friday, March 28, 2025.
• Connections Companion No. 656. Scroll down for hints and conversation about the puzzle for Friday, March 28, 2025.
• What Some Toothpastes Do. Psst: Brad Lively is playing Ping-Pong with parts of the theme entries. Pass it on.
• Connections Companion No. 655. Scroll down for hints and conversation about the puzzle for Thursday, March 27, 2025.
• Wordle Review No. 1,377. Scroll down for hints and conversation about the puzzle for Thursday, March 27, 2025.
• You Might Have One to Pick. Nathan Hale’s puzzle is fully loaded with fun.
• Wordle Review No. 1,376. Scroll down for hints and conversation about the puzzle for Wednesday, March 26, 2025.
• Connections Companion No. 654. Scroll down for hints and conversation about the puzzle for Wednesday, March 26, 2025.
• Crew Propellers. Bob Benson makes his New York Times Crossword debut.
• Connections Companion No. 653. Scroll down for hints and conversation about the puzzle for Tuesday, March 25, 2025.
• Wordle Review No. 1,375. Scroll down for hints and conversation about the puzzle for Tuesday, March 25, 2025.
• Fruit of the Palm. Victor Schmitt makes his New York Times Crossword debut.
• Connections Companion No. 652. Scroll down for hints and conversation about the puzzle for Monday, March 24, 2025.
• Wordle Review No. 1,374. Scroll down for hints and conversation about the puzzle for Monday, March 24, 2025.
• Where’d You Go? Andrew Colin Kirk makes a seductive New York Times puzzle debut.

The Learning Network

• What Kind of Competitor Are You? Do you have swag, an all-about-winning attitude, or a game face? How about an icy stare like that of Karis Dadson, a teenager who shows pigs at livestock competitions?
• Mahjong Tiles. Tell us a story, real or made up, that is inspired by this image.
• Word of the Day: simpatico. This word has appeared in 23 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year. Can you use it in a sentence?
• The Runners-Up in Our Second Annual ‘Where We Are’ Photo Essay Contest. A look at nine fascinating communities from around the world, as documented by teenagers there.
• ‘I Am Free’: Hip-Hop and the Power of Resistance in Dharavi. Gauri Gupta, 17, documents a refuge for young dreamers in a Mumbai slum.
• The Winners of Our Second Annual ‘Where We Are’ Photo Essay Contest. From 619 teen entries, we are featuring 10 extraordinary pieces. Take a look.
• Teens Debate Whether It’s OK for Parents to Lie to Their Children. We invited students to discuss a guest essay written by a mother who says sugarcoating painful truths doesn’t help children.
• What’s Going On in This Graph? | April 9, 2025. What do you notice from these seven metrics (or indicators) about the prosperity and quality of life of the United States, compared to other countries? What do you wonder?
• What’s Going On in This Picture? | April 7, 2025. Look closely at this image, stripped of its caption, and join the moderated conversation about what you and other students see.
• Dozens of Engaging Ways to Make Media Literacy Meaningful to Teenagers. This collection of interactive exercises uses Times resources to help young people find the news that matters to them, understand how it’s made, connect it to their lives — and make media of their own.
• How Important Is a Free Press to Our Democracy? Is It Under Threat? The new Trump administration has attacked the news media in ways that are markedly different from those of previous presidents. Have you been following this news?
• Helping Digital Natives Overcome Digital Naïveté: Four Steps to Media Literacy. Advice from an English teacher in Massachusetts for guiding teenagers to think critically but not cynically about the information they consume.
• Listen: ‘A Turning Point for Ultraprocessed Foods’ How concerned should we be about these ubiquitous foods — a category that includes many sodas, processed meats, breakfast cereals and snacks?
• A Baby and Pointing Fingers. What do you think this image is communicating?
• Word of the Day: quizzical. This word has appeared in 21 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year. Can you use it in a sentence?
• Do You Like Talking on the Phone? A teenager and a New York Times writer explore why we’ve stopped making phone calls, and why we should bring them back. What do you think?
• Rubik’s Cube. Do you like puzzles? Are you good at solving them?
• Word of the Day: spacewalk. This word has appeared in 37 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year. Can you use it in a sentence?
• Weekly Student News Quiz: Deportations, Columbia University, Happiness Report. Have you been paying attention to current events recently? See how many of these 10 questions you can get right.
• What Are Your Biggest Fears? In an illustrated story, a guest author describes how the simple act of going to the grocery store can be a nightmare for her.
• Story Time. What is your favorite memory of someone reading to you?
• Word of the Day: talisman. This word has appeared in 217 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year. Can you use it in a sentence?
• Are Girls Doing Better Than Boys in School? New surveys report that boys are feeling discouraged in the classroom and are less likely to go to college. Is this true in your experience?
• Word of the Day: repartee. This word has appeared in 22 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year. Can you use it in a sentence?

Lesson Plans

• Let’s Discuss: ‘An Epidemic of Vicious School Brawls, Fueled by Student Cellphones’ Are cellphones the cause of increased student conflicts? If so, what can be done to address this disturbing trend? Read the article and post your comments and questions for our journalist, Natasha Singer, by April 10.

En español

• 4 maneras de evitar el dolor de espalda. Porque una vez que te lastimas, es más complejo aliviar la situación.
• ¿Qué puedo hacer para evitar perder la memoria en la vejez? Rompecabezas, juegos de palabras, lectura, bordado con aguja: esto es lo que dicen los expertos sobre qué podría ayudar.
• ¿Deberíamos poder recrear el estilo del Studio Ghibli gracias a la IA? Una actualización de ChatGPT permite recrear imágenes al estilo de animación de Hayao Miyazaki y la gente está inundando las redes sociales con ellas.
• Un periodista ha entrado al chat. Además: Corea del Sur pide perdón, cómo escoger jeans que te favorezcan, la oficina de “Severance” y más.
• Palabra del día: ‘simpatico’ Esta palabra ha aparecido en 23 artículos en NYTimes.com en el último año. ¿Puedes usarla en una frase?
• Una nueva película reivindica a la actriz Maria Schneider. “Being María” muestra cómo la estrella habló con honestidad sobre su experiencia en “El último tango en París”, mucho antes del #MeToo.
• La tumba de un faraón desconocido es descubierta en Egipto. La cámara funeraria probablemente perteneció a un gobernante de una línea de reyes antaño perdida para la historia, dijeron los investigadores.
• Palabra del día: ‘quizzical’ Esta palabra ha aparecido en 21 artículos en NYTimes.com en el último año. ¿Puedes usarla en una frase?
• ¿Qué pasa con tu cerebro cuando te jubilas? Hay una delgada línea entre el merecido descanso y el deterioro cognitivo. Una planificación cuidadosa es esencial para seguir saludable.
• Trump resta importancia a la filtración de Signal y respalda a Waltz. Los demócratas denunciaron a los altos funcionarios de inteligencia del país por “comportamiento descuidado, negligente e incompetente” al discutir planes militares secretos en un chat grupal.
• ¿Existe una crisis de infertilidad? Los expertos señalan que las métricas sobre la fertilidad son muy difíciles de precisar. Sin embargo, existen algunas tendencias actuales que podrían afectarla en EE. UU.
• Palabra del día: ‘spacewalk’ Esta palabra ha aparecido en 37 artículos en NYTimes.com en el último año. ¿Puedes usarla en una frase?
• Una técnica sencilla para ayudarte a conciliar el sueño. Esta estrategia ayuda a tu mente a liberarse de los bucles de preocupación y a entrar en un estado propicio para descansar.
• Palabra del día: ‘talisman’ Esta palabra ha aparecido en 217 artículos en NYTimes.com en el último año. ¿Puedes usarla en una frase?
• Trump, Groenlandia y una visita inesperada. El presidente de EE. UU. sigue insistiendo en sus pretensiones sobre la isla.
• Palabra del día: ‘repartee’ Esta palabra ha aparecido en 22 artículos en NYTimes.com en el último año. ¿Puedes usarla en una frase?
• ¿Por qué algunas personas nunca tienen resaca? Aún no se comprenden todos los factores que causan la resaca, pero los investigadores tienen algunas teorías sobre por qué ciertos bebedores dicen sentirse perfectos tras una noche de fiesta.

América Latina

• Jair Bolsonaro será juzgado en Brasil por intento de golpe de Estado. El máximo tribunal de Brasil dictaminó que el expresidente irá a juicio por su papel en un vasto complot para aferrarse al poder tras su derrota en las elecciones de 2022.
• Trump amenaza con aranceles a los países que compren petróleo a Venezuela. El presidente amagó con usar aranceles como si fueran sanciones financieras, al afirmar que EE. UU. gravará las importaciones de los países que compren petróleo venezolano.

Ciencia y Tecnología

• El eclipse solar parcial de 2025: cuándo, dónde y cómo verlo. En algunas partes de Norteamérica, el acontecimiento comienza por la mañana temprano, alrededor del amanecer, y para cuando salga el Sol, este ya estará parcialmente eclipsado.
• ‘Una oportunidad de vivir’: 2 familias se enfrentan a la trisomía 18. Los casos de trisomía 18 pueden aumentar a medida que muchos estados restringen el aborto. Pero algunas mujeres deciden tener a los bebés, amarlos con ternura y cuidarlos con devoción.
• Unos investigadores graban a un tiburón emitiendo un sonido. Unos biólogos de Nueva Zelanda grabaron lo que creen que es el primer caso de un tiburón que hace ruido activamente.
• El gobierno de Trump recorta abruptamente miles de millones de dólares de los servicios de salud estatales. Se ha comunicado a los estados que ya no pueden usar las subvenciones para la gestión de enfermedades infecciosas, servicios de salud mental, tratamiento de adicciones y otros problemas de salud.
• ‘Caos y confusión’ en los Institutos Nacionales de la Salud, joya de la corona de la ciencia en EE. UU. Científicos de los NIH temen que la investigación sobre enfermedades como la obesidad, las cardiopatías y el cáncer se vea socavada por las políticas del presidente Trump.

Cultura

• ‘Adolescencia’ reaviva el debate: ¿se debe prohibir el acceso a redes a los chicos? El éxito de Netflix ha generado discusiones sobre el uso de los celulares por parte de los niños y, en el Reino Unido, ha suscitado peticiones para que se prohíban las redes sociales.
• Los trucos de ‘Severance’ para hacer de su oficina un infierno. La serie utiliza viejos recursos cinematográficos que evocan a los clásicos de oficina. Pero también utiliza algunos recursos exactamente al revés.
• Blancanieves y los 7 montones de controversias. Los enanitos. El reparto. Las posturas políticas de la actriz principal. ¡Y esa peluca! ¿Será el remake de Disney víctima de las guerras culturales?

Estados Unidos

• Estudiantes y académicos propalestinos están en la mira del gobierno de Trump. Esto es lo que sabemos. La Casa Blanca afirma que estas medidas, muchas de las cuales afectan a migrantes con visados y tarjetas de residencia, son necesarias porque las personas detenidas representan una amenaza para la seguridad nacional.
• JD Vance encuentra pura frialdad en su visita a Groenlandia. El viaje fue tanto una misión de reconocimiento como un recordatorio pasivo-agresivo de la determinación del presidente Trump de cumplir sus ambiciones territoriales, sin importar los obstáculos.
• El lujoso Rolex de Kristi Noem se roba las miradas durante su visita a una cárcel de El Salvador. El reloj de la funcionaria estadounidense provocó numerosas críticas en las redes sociales por parte de quienes cuestionaban la decisión de usar un reloj tan caro durante su visita a un centro penitenciario de alta seguridad.
• Trump lleva sus deportaciones a la Corte Suprema. El gobierno de Trump pidió a los jueces que le permitieran utilizar una ley en tiempo de guerra para continuar con las deportaciones de venezolanos sin apenas garantías procesales.
• Los pilotos militares de EE. UU. enfurecen tras la filtración del chat de Signal. La inclusión por error del editor jefe de The Atlantic en el chat y la insistencia de Hegseth en que no hizo nada malo al revelar los planes, echan por tierra décadas de doctrina militar sobre seguridad operativa
• El gobierno de Trump evade la culpa de la filtración en Signal y la minimiza. El presidente Trump y otros funcionarios han dado explicaciones cambiantes, variadas, inverosímiles y a veces contradictorias sobre cómo se compartió información militar altamente sensible en un chat de grupo.
• Las autoridades deniegan la petición de libertad condicional de Yolanda Saldívar, la mujer que asesinó a Selena. La decisión se produjo pocos días antes del 30 aniversario del asesinato, que conmocionó a sus seguidores y generó un fenómeno social y mediático.
• 10.000 trabajadores del Departamento de Salud de EE. UU. serán despedidos. Los despidos forman parte de una reestructuración para que las comunicaciones y otras funciones dependan directamente del secretario de Salud, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
• Trump anuncia aranceles del 25% a los autos y los repuestos automotrices importados. La medida, que pretende atraer fábricas de automóviles a Estados Unidos, podría elevar significativamente los precios para los consumidores.
• Las deportaciones no han aumentado con Trump, pero así es como han cambiado. Según una revisión de The New York Times, desde que Trump asumió el cargo se han realizado 258 vuelos de deportación, el nivel alcanzado en los últimos meses del gobierno de Biden.
• El efecto Trump perjudica al turismo en EE. UU. Cada vez más viajeros dicen que les preocupa no sentirse bienvenidos o seguros en Estados Unidos, y rechazan apoyar la economía de un país que podría estar desestabilizando a otras naciones.
• La Corte Suprema de EE. UU. confirma los límites impuestos por el gobierno de Biden a las ‘armas fantasma’ El gobierno había endurecido la normativa sobre los kits que pueden ensamblarse con facilidad para convertirse en armas de fuego casi imposibles de rastrear.
• Un tribunal de apelaciones mantiene el bloqueo de las deportaciones que invocan la Ley de Enemigos Extranjeros. El tribunal dijo que, aunque se necesitaban más argumentos, los abogados de los migrantes probablemente tendrían éxito en sus alegaciones de que a los venezolanos se les había denegado el debido proceso.
• El gobierno de Trump detuvo a una estudiante turca de la Universidad de Tufts. La estudiante fue detenida fuera del campus universitario. El miércoles circuló por las redes sociales un video en el que se veía a una mujer con hiyab, esposada y conducida por agentes.
• Pete Hegseth y las dificultades de sus primeros meses en el Pentágono. Los tropiezos del secretario de Defensa de EE. UU. comenzaron poco después de jurar su cargo en enero.
• Trump firma una orden que exige comprobante de ciudadanía para votar. Las autoridades dijeron que uno de los principales objetivos era retirar del padrón electoral a los migrantes indocumentados, amplificando las quejas del presidente sobre la integridad electoral.
• ¿Trump o los migrantes? En esta ciudad de Colorado los residentes están divididos sobre la mayor amenaza. El presidente Trump ha convertido a la tercera metrópolis más grande del estado en sinónimo del supuesto impacto de las pandillas venezolanas, pero algunos se preguntan si sus redadas están perjudicando más a la ciudad que a los migrantes.
• Kennedy dice que quiere hacer a EE. UU. más saludable. ¿Qué dicen sus actos? Los líderes de la salud pública afirman estar escandalizados por la postura de Robert F. Kennedy Jr. ante el sarampión, pero el gobierno y la industria comenzaron a adaptarse a su agenda.
• Las claves del chat filtrado de Signal con información de seguridad nacional de EE. UU. Los mensajes entre funcionarios revelaban detalles operativos de los ataques contra la milicia hutí en Yemen. Un periodista de The Atlantic fue agregado por error al grupo.
• El gobierno de Trump invoca ‘secreto de Estado’ en los vuelos de deportación de venezolanos. El Departamento de Justicia dijo que no revelaría más información a un juez federal sobre dos vuelos a El Salvador este mes, a pesar de la orden judicial de hacer regresar los aviones.
• Elon Musk se prepara para incursionar en la industria restaurantera. Hace dos años, el líder de Tesla y jefe de la DOGE empezó a construir un restaurante y autocine en Los Ángeles. Entonces se convirtió en un pararrayos político.
• Olvidados en la cárcel sin abogado: así le falla un pueblo de Texas a los acusados pobres. En el condado de Maverick, las autoridades pueden tardar meses en informar de una detención a los fiscales, mientras los acusados esperan en la cárcel. Rara vez se asignan abogados a quien los solicita.
• Trump impulsa la desinformación en su segundo mandato. Trump y sus asesores han introducido al país en una nueva era política de posverdad, en la que se cuestionan los hechos y se utilizan ficciones para conseguir objetivos políticos.
• De papas a Tesla: los exportadores buscan dar forma a los aranceles de Trump. Los fabricantes de una amplia gama de productos estadounidenses están sopesando los riesgos, y los posibles beneficios, de los aranceles generalizados que el presidente ha prometido el 2 de abril.
• Pete Hegseth, secretario de Defensa de EE. UU., reveló planes secretos de guerra en un chat grupal. La conversación entre el secretario de Defensa y otros funcionarios de seguridad nacional en una aplicación comercial de mensajería incluía por error al jefe de redacción de The Atlantic, Jeffrey Goldberg.
• Colorado retirará el retrato presidencial que Trump calificó como ‘realmente el peor’ “A nadie le gusta una mala foto o pintura de sí mismo”, dijo el presidente Trump sobre el retrato, que muestra al presidente con rasgos notablemente suavizados.
• Una delegación de EE. UU. llegará a Groenlandia esta semana. No será bien recibida por todos. Usha Vance, la segunda dama, y Michael Waltz, el asesor de seguridad nacional, visitarán la isla. Los funcionarios groenlandeses calificaron la medida de “agresiva”.
• Venezolanos en EE. UU. pedirán a un juez federal mantener su estatus de protección. Casi 350.000 personas podrían ser deportadas en breve después de que el gobierno de Trump pusiera fin al Estatus de Protección Temporal, conocido como TPS.
• Trump hizo lo que los Castro no pudieron: sacar del aire a Radio Martí. Durante cuatro décadas, una emisora de radio financiada por Estados Unidos provocó la ira del gobierno comunista de Cuba. El presidente Trump la desmanteló en cuestión de días.
• Los migrantes deportados a Panamá se preguntan: ¿Adónde voy a ir? Decenas de migrantes varados duermen en colchonetas en el gimnasio de una escuela. En entrevistas, 25 personas deportadas de todo el mundo dicen estar atrapadas en el limbo.
• ‘¿Nos odiarán?’: viajeros de EE. UU. temen ser rechazados en el extranjero. Desde la toma de posesión de Trump, algunas agencias están notando un descenso en las ventas de viajes internacionales entre los estadounidenses.
• La mano dura de Trump en migración se extiende a turistas y migrantes legales. Los agentes fronterizos estadounidenses están empleando tácticas más agresivas en los puertos de entrada, a medida que el gobierno examina a los titulares de tarjetas de residencia y visados que han expresado su oposición a las políticas del gobierno.

Estilos de Vida

• Cómo saber si el agua está demasiado contaminada para nadar. Darte un chapuzón en el momento o el lugar equivocados puede enfermarte. Esto es lo que debes tener en cuenta.
• ¿Mi marido es un tapete? Un test de personalidad cambió nuestro matrimonio.
• Algunos consejos para evitar los gérmenes de las piscinas. Hay lugares más peligrosos que otros.
• ¿Dolor de rodillas? Ejercita tu fuerza. El entrenamiento de fuerza puede ser uno de los mejores tratamientos para el dolor crónico de rodilla. Te decimos cómo hacerlo con seguridad.
• Ejercítate, medita y mete la cara en agua fría antes de las 8 a. m. La poco convencional rutina matutina de Ashton Hall ha atraído cerca de mil millones de visitas y decenas de videos de imitación.
• 10 minutos de yoga para dormir mejor. Estas posturas para principiantes pueden ayudar a relajarte antes de ir a la cama.
• Un poco de asombro puede mejorar tu salud. Los expertos afirman que el asombro es una emoción humana esencial y un bálsamo para las mentes turbulentas.
• Una razón más para intentar hacer ejercicio. Los entrenamientos constantes pueden ser una forma poderosa de combatir la inflamación crónica.
• Los médicos le dijeron que iba a morir, pero la IA le salvó la vida. Los científicos están utilizando el aprendizaje automático para encontrar nuevos tratamientos entre miles de medicamentos antiguos.
• ¿Qué hay en tu bolsa de emergencia cuando viajas? No importa si la llamas bolsa de emergencia o kit básico de equipaje, siempre debe contener esas cinco o seis cosas que pueden hacer que unas vacaciones sean un éxito o fracasen.
• 30 horas en una carrera sin rumbo bajo un huracán. Los competidores soportan una mezcla entre un triatlón Ironman y una búsqueda del tesoro en la naturaleza no solo por poner a prueba sus límites, sino para vivir su propio viaje del héroe.

Mundo

• Ucrania hace una nueva incursión en Rusia, según funcionarios y expertos. La operación tiene como objetivo la región de Belgorod, según funcionarios ucranianos, analistas de inteligencia de fuentes abiertas y blogueros militares rusos. El avance se produce mientras continúan las conversaciones sobre el alto el fuego.
• 4 concesionarios de Tesla en Canadá dijeron que vendieron 8653 coches en 3 días. ¿Es cierto? El gobierno de Canadá quiere saber cómo el fabricante de coches eléctricos consiguió vender dos coches por minuto del 10 al 12 de enero, lo que le permitió reclamar decenas de millones en reembolsos estatales.
• El papa Francisco estuvo a punto de morir en el hospital, dijo su médico. En una entrevista, el jefe del equipo médico de Francisco calificó de “milagro” que el pontífice de 88 años saliera del hospital, pero dijo que para recuperarse necesita cambiar su ritmo de trabajo.
• Así se ven los daños del terremoto en Birmania y Tailandia. El sismo de magnitud 7,7 causó daños generalizados en un país ya sumido en el caos debido a la guerra civil.
• Terremoto en Birmania: esto es lo que sabemos. Se informó de la muerte de más de 140 personas en todo el sudeste asiático.
• En el frente de batalla de Ucrania, las conversaciones de paz son una fantasía peligrosa. Mientras diplomáticos y líderes europeos hablan de una posible tregua, las batallas en las que Rusia y Ucrania se enfrentan son tan intensas como cualquier otra que se haya librado en esta guerra.
• Rusia exige grandes concesiones económicas y militares, mientras negocia el alto al fuego. Los expertos dijeron que las exigencias de Moscú están ralentizando el proceso y dándole ventaja en las conversaciones mientras Estados Unidos está a la expectativa por los acuerdos.
• El ‘exportador de bebés’ más grande del mundo admite fraude en las adopciones. Una comisión de la verdad de Corea del Sur concluyó que hubo falsificación de documentos de los niños y envío de bebés “como equipaje” para obtener ganancias, entre otras faltas.
• El príncipe Enrique renuncia como benefactor de la organización benéfica que fundó. Enrique y el príncipe de Lesoto, fundadores de Sentebale, anunciaron que habían dimitido en solidaridad con los miembros de la junta directiva.
• Los mensajes filtrados de altos funcionarios de Trump profundizan la brecha entre EE. UU. y Europa. Funcionarios de Trump han exigido más gasto militar europeo y han cuestionado los valores del continente. Varios mensajes filtrados revelan la profundidad de las desavenencias.
• Gérard Depardieu admite haber manoseado a una colega, pero descarta agresión sexual. El actor brindó testimonio por primera vez ante la justicia luego de años de graves acusaciones sobre su comportamiento.
• ¿Por qué conducir en Singapur es como ‘llevar un Rolex’? La ciudad-Estado, donde el derecho a tener un vehículo cuesta hasta 84.000 dólares, es uno de los lugares más caros para conducir.
• El director palestino de ‘No Other Land’ fue agredido y detenido, dicen testigos. Hamdan Ballal, uno de los directores del documental que obtuvo el Oscar, fue agredido por atacantes en la Cisjordania ocupada, dijeron testigos. El ejército israelí dijo que lo habían detenido para interrogarlo.
• Las maniobras de Trump por Groenlandia parecen ser contraproducentes. En las últimas 24 horas, el gobierno groenlandés ha abandonado su postura anterior de timidez y ambigüedad ante la prepotencia de Trump.
• Para Rusia, Trump tiene mucho que ofrecer, incluso si no hay acuerdo sobre Ucrania. Para Moscú, mejorar los lazos con Washington representa una ventaja económica y geopolítica, que puede lograrse incluso mientras los misiles rusos siguen golpeando Ucrania.
• Corea del Sur tiene un nuevo presidente interino. Un tribunal ha decidido que Han Duck-soo, primer ministro del país que fue destituido del cargo en diciembre, retome la presidencia mientras se decide el futuro del presidente Yoon Suk Yeol, destituido por declarar la ley marcial.
• El papa Francisco reaparece en público tras semanas en el hospital. Desde un balcón, Francisco saludó a cientos de personas que esperaban fuera del hospital donde había sido tratado por problemas respiratorios.

Negocios

• ¿Qué tanto afectarán los aranceles de Trump a los fabricantes de autos? Depende de la marca. La magnitud de los daños varía, según las circunstancias de la cadena de suministro de cada empresa.
• San Pedro, una ciudad de Argentina dividida por una estafa de criptomonedas. En esta localidad al noroeste de Buenos Aires, 16.000 personas, una quinta parte de la población, se apuntaron a un mercado de criptomonedas en el que todos ganaban. Hasta que perdieron.
• Los aranceles de Trump conmocionan a los aliados de EE. UU. que fabrican automóviles. Nada de lo que los vecinos y aliados de EE. UU. hicieron para evitar los aranceles a automóviles y repuestos automotrices fue suficiente. El gravamen del 25 por ciento entrará en vigor el 3 de abril.
• Tesla y Musk podrían verse beneficiados por los aranceles. La empresa dirigida por el hombre de confianza del presidente Trump fabrica en el país todos los coches que vende en Estados Unidos y estará exenta de aranceles sobre los vehículos terminados.
• ¿Qué tan segura es Signal? La aplicación, que se creó en 2014 y cuenta con cientos de millones de usuarios, se considera la herramienta de mensajería más segura gracias a su tecnología de encriptación.

Opinión

• Hillary Clinton: ¿Hasta dónde pueden llegar las tonterías? El chat grupal de Signal es solo la más reciente de una serie de heridas autoinfligidas por el nuevo gobierno estadounidense.
• Un mensaje de los espías extranjeros al equipo de Trump: 👊🇺🇸🔥. Nunca ha sido tan fácil robar secretos del gobierno de Estados Unidos.
• Los jóvenes votan por Trump, pero eso no cambia su ideología. Sentirse empoderado es diferente del crecimiento numérico.
• Pete Hegseth dimitiría, si tuviera algo de honor. Nunca he oído hablar de algo tan atroz: un secretario de Defensa utilizando intencionadamente una aplicación de mensajería civil para compartir planes de guerra sensibles.
• Debería preocuparnos que Elon Musk vaya tras las bóvedas de semillas. Los bancos de genes son como un alijo de supervivencia: la salvaguarda de nuestra nación frente a todos los retos futuros para cultivar los alimentos que necesitamos.
• La retórica de Trump con Canadá recuerda a la de Putin con Ucrania. Ya sabemos lo que ocurre cuando las grandes potencias se sienten con derecho a sus zonas de control y los fuertes intentan dominar a los débiles.

Tiempo y clima

• ¿Qué bolsas debo usar para las compras? No todas las bolsas tienen el mismo impacto en el medioambiente. Y las de papel podrían no ser tan ecológicas como parecen.

Weather

• Severe Storms and Tornado Threat Loom Over Central and Eastern U.S. Forecasters warn of severe weather this weekend from Texas to the East Coast.
• Pacific Northwest Could See Rare Thunderstorms on Wednesday. Severe weather could knock Oregon and Washington with winds over 60 miles per hour and hail larger than golf balls.
• 99 Degrees? In March?! Phoenix Shatters a Heat Record. Much of the West and Southwest faced unseasonably warm temperatures this week. But it won’t last long.
• Wildfires Burn More Than 4,000 Acres in North Carolina. Forecasters posted an elevated fire-weather risk for an area from northern Georgia through western portions of the Carolinas, and into central Virginia.

Education

• University of Michigan to Scuttle Its Flagship D.E.I. Program. Michigan, once at the forefront of school diversity efforts, is rapidly changing course amid campus pushback and broad scrutiny by the Trump administration.

International Home

• Depardieu Admits Grabbing a Female Colleague but Denies Sexual Assault. The French actor testified in court for first time against accusations that he groped a co-worker, after years of serious allegations over his behavior.
• As U.S. Scientists Lose Funds, Europe Offers a Place to Land. European universities have begun recruiting researchers who lost their jobs in the administration’s cost-cutting efforts, or are anxious over perceived threats to academic freedom.