New York Times Top Stories
Want to Invest in SpaceX or Stripe? There’s a Fund for That.
A new publicly traded fund allows individual investors to own a piece of 23 private tech companies, including Stripe, SpaceX, OpenAI and Discord.
New York Times Top StoriesNew York Times Top StoriesHow Iowa’s Caitlin Clark Builds Her Shooting Skills and Endurance
The University of Iowa basketball star has made one half-court shot after another. Her coach and other fitness experts say it’s all in the physical and mental training.
New York Times Top StoriesFulfilling Our Mom’s Dream to See the Solar Eclipse
A total eclipse is worth moving heaven and earth to see.
New York Times Top StoriesCounting Inflation, the Stock Market May Have Hit a Peak
But Robert Shiller, the Nobel laureate, says valuations adjusted for high inflation suggest stock returns for the next decade are likely to be modest.
New York Times Top StoriesDwindling Ammunition Stocks Pose Grave Threat to Ukraine
What few munitions remain are often mismatched with battlefield needs as the country’s forces gird for an expected Russian offensive this summer.
New York Times Top StoriesHer Art Is at Odds With Museums, and Museums Can’t Get Enough
Gala Porras-Kim has confronted the restitution of cultural artifacts and now — with melting Antarctic ice — climate change.
New York Times Top StoriesBack in the ’90s, This Eclipse Webcast Put the Cosmos on Demand
A total solar eclipse in Aruba was streamed to millions of users of the World Wide Web in 1998, helping to start an ongoing era of viral videos of space and astronomy.
New York Times Top StoriesShe Finally Reunited With Her Father. Then He Was Killed in the Subway.
Janna Volz’s father, Jason Volz, was largely absent from her life as he fought addiction. They were rebuilding their relationship when he was pushed to his death on the subway tracks.
New York Times Top StoriesNew York Has a Budget Trick to Try on the Federal Government
The state hopes to take advantage of Medicaid reimbursement rules to divert federal funds into state coffers.
New York Times Top StoriesBaltimore Shipping Channel Will Partially Reopen By End of April
The Army Corps of Engineers plans to reopen the channel at full capacity by late May, as officials scramble to resume operations at one of the nation’s busiest ports.
New York Times Top StoriesChina’s Youth Are Giving Up on Saving for Retirement
Citing a rapidly aging society, difficult job market and uncertainty about the future, some young people are rejecting the idea of saving for old age.
New York Times Top StoriesKnowing She was the One, with Surgical Precision
Anika Bieg was ready to swear off dating. Then she met Dr. Olivia Sacks — and after 10 minutes, kissed her.
New York Times Top StoriesThe Israeli spy chief and Egyptian and Qatari officials is joining the C.I.A. director in the talks.
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/04/04/world/israel-hamas-war-gaza-news/the-israeli-spy-chief-and-egyptian-and-qatari-officials-will-participate-in-the-talks-too
New York Times Top StoriesIsrael to Add Gaza Aid Routes After Biden’s Tense Call With Netanyahu
The president denounced the killing of seven aid workers in a tense call with Israel’s prime minister. Within hours, White House officials said Israel had agreed to more aid routes into Gaza.
New York Times Top StoriesPrisoners Who Sued Over Lockdown Will Be Allowed to View Solar Eclipse
The six inmates at an upstate New York prison had said the eclipse was “a religious event that they must witness.” A statewide prison lockdown will remain in place.
New York Times Top StoriesWhy Some Billionaires Will Back Trump
It’s about taxes — and a false belief in their own impunity.
New York Times Top StoriesTechnology Hates Me
I want my technology to have many capacities, but free will is not among them.
New York Times Top StoriesA Looming Question for Paramount’s Board: How to Navigate Shari Redstone
The board of directors has to walk a fine line, looking out for investors without running afoul of Ms. Redstone, the company’s most influential shareholder.
New York Times Top StoriesStanford’s New President Is Jonathan Levin, Dean of Business School
Dr. Levin faces the challenge of guiding the university through politically fraught times.
New York Times Top StoriesMusic Teacher Is Charged With Taking Teenagers on Trips to Abuse Them
Paul Geer taught for decades at the Family Foundation School, a rural reform academy where he abused students, an indictment states.
New York Times Top StoriesAaron Peskin to Join Race to Challenge London Breed for San Francisco Mayor
The contest has been dominated by Mayor London Breed and her moderate challengers. Supervisor Aaron Peskin seeks to change that.
New York Times Top StoriesBiden Threatens to Condition Israel Aid
Also, ocean temperatures signal a daunting hurricane season. Here’s the latest at the end of Thursday.
New York Times Top StoriesHochul Orders M.T.A. to Stop Pressuring Marathon to Pay for Lost Tolls
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority wanted the New York City Marathon to pay $750,000 to make up for toll revenue lost when the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge was closed.
New York Times Top StoriesNATO Wants to Show Support for Ukraine, but Only So Much
Admitting Kyiv is a nonstarter as long as the war with Russia is raging. But the member nations want to show they are supporting Ukraine “for the long haul.”
New York Times Top StoriesIran Says 17-Hour Battle With Separatists Leaves 28 Dead in 2 Cities
Jaish al-Adl, an ethnic Baluch group designated by the United States as a terrorist organization, claimed responsibility for the attacks.
New York Times Top StoriesJudge Rejects Trump Dismissal Effort in Classified Documents Case
Judge Aileen Cannon ruled that the former president cannot escape prosecution by arguing that the Presidential Records Act allowed him to claim secret government material as his own property.
New York Times Top StoriesUnder Half of Illegal Gun Cases Tracked by A.T.F. Were Involved in Black Market Sales
The report, part of an effort by the Biden administration to make public previously undisclosed data, offered a portrait of the country’s growing illegal firearms market.
New York Times Top StoriesWill Israel Finally Listen to Biden?
It’s not clear that Netanyahu will take Biden’s threats seriously.
New York Times Top StoriesSeptic Installer Is Sentenced to 7 Years for Urging Jan. 6 Mob With Megaphone
Taylor James Johnatakis, 40, coordinated rioters to rush a police barricade at the Southwest stairs to the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6.
New York Times Top StoriesJack Smith Finally Loses His Patience
He’s clearly had enough of Judge Cannon’s bizarre rulings in Trump’s criminal case on keeping secret documents.