New York Times Top Stories
A Hostage Released From Gaza Campaigns for the Release of Others
Trepidation over the fate of other captives has left Ilana Gritzewsky little time for self-healing after her own violent abduction.
New York Times Top StoriesNew York Times Top StoriesAs Trump’s Policies Worry Scientists, France and Others Put Out a Welcome Mat
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.
New York Times Top StoriesSecret War Plans Shared in Group Chat, and U.S. Food Banks Scramble
Plus, why you might develop allergies as an adult.
New York Times Top StoriesJapanese 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.
New York Times Top StoriesAmerica’s Most Powerful Law Firms Won’t Stand Up to Trump
Bowing to Trump won’t protect their businesses and clients.
New York Times Top StoriesR.F.K.’s Prescription for Bird Flu Is Dangerous
The death rate in the U.S. has been much lower than expected.
New York Times Top StoriesPBS and NPR prepare for a showdown with Congress.
Top executives from the public media networks are bracing for a hearing on Wednesday organized by Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene.
New York Times Top StoriesAmber Glenn Is Carving a New Path for Figure Skaters
Amber Glenn jumps like a pole-vaulter, collects lightsabers, is pansexual and, at 25, has blossomed at an age when many peers have retired.
New York Times Top StoriesHow Crises on Colleges Campuses Might Affect Students
The largest-ever class of high school seniors is about to graduate, just as colleges are facing massive upheaval. Here’s what they could face as they head to campus.
New York Times Top StoriesOlvidados 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.
New York Times Top StoriesAndy Kaufman Anticipated Our Reality-Bent World
A new documentary shows how Andy Kaufman’s upside-down world of anti-comedy prefigured our own.
New York Times Top StoriesLayoffs and Unemployment Grow Among College Graduates
The unemployment rate for college graduates has risen faster than for other workers over the past few years. How worried should they be?
New York Times Top StoriesHow a Cheap Drone Punctured Chernobyl’s Steel Shield During the Ukraine War
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.
New York Times Top StoriesWashington Bends to RFK Jr.’s ‘MAHA’ Agenda on Measles, Baby Formula and French Fries
Public health leaders are horrified by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s approach to measles, but government and industry are responding to him.
New York Times Top StoriesHow a South Texas Court System Is Failing Poor Defendants
People in Maverick County spend months in jail waiting to be charged with minor crimes. Some are simply lost in the system.
New York Times Top StoriesA Journey on South Africa’s Blue Train
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.
New York Times Top StoriesHillel, the Campus Jewish Group, Is Thriving, and Torn by Conflict
The war in Gaza brought more students into the Hillel fold, but has sown divisions among Jewish students over the group’s mission.
New York Times Top StoriesHiking the Cactus to Clouds Route in Palm Springs, Calif.
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.
New York Times Top StoriesIn Germany’s New Parliament, Women Will Be a Rarer Sight
The class of lawmakers taking office is noticeably more male and less diverse than the constituents it will represent.
New York Times Top StoriesRoad Salt From Suburban Roads Is Damaging 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.
New York Times Top StoriesA Fungi Pioneer’s Lifelong Work on Exhibit
Mushrooms in 19th-century watercolors: The paintings of a self-taught female mycologist are featured at the New York State Museum.
New York Times Top StoriesJon 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.
New York Times Top StoriesAmerica Has Betrayed Eastern Europe
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.
New York Times Top StoriesU.S. Infrastructure Improves, but Cuts May Imperil Progress, 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.
New York Times Top StoriesWhat Do Artists Wear? An Exhibition at the Louvre-Lens in France Provides Answers.
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.
New York Times Top StoriesWhat Makes Sydney’s Pondi 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.
New York Times Top StoriesHegseth Disclosed Secret War Plans in Group Chat With Atlantic Journalist
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.
New York Times Top StoriesU.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.
New York Times Top StoriesIs 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.
New York Times Top StoriesWhy Netflix’s ‘Adolescence’ Has Parents Talking About Phones
The Netflix hit has touched off debates about smartphone use by children and, in Britain, fed into calls for a social media ban.