New York Times Top Stories
Nuclear-Armed India and Pakistan Have No Bridges Left to Burn
There’s been a profound and dangerous shift in their rivalry, and it threatens U.S. interests.
New York Times Top StoriesNew York Times Top StoriesAfter Criticism, Harris’s $900 Million Group Tries to Lay Out a Future
Future Forward, the big-money group supporting Kamala Harris’s presidential bid last year, resurfaced after her loss with an event in California.
New York Times Top StoriesLeo Lived Here: The Price Goes Up for the Pope’s Childhood Home
After Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost was selected to become the leader of the Roman Catholic Church, offers began flooding in to buy this modest house outside Chicago, the real estate broker said.
New York Times Top StoriesEric Adams to Meet With Trump in Washington About NYC ‘Priorities’
The meeting on Friday between Mayor Eric Adams of New York City and President Trump came as documents related to his abandoned federal corruption case were released.
New York Times Top StoriesTrump Officials Consider Suspending Habeas Corpus for Detained Migrants
Stephen Miller, a top aide, repeated a justification used in the immigration crackdown: that the country is fighting an invasion. But it is unclear the president has the power to take such a step.
New York Times Top StoriesU.S. Starts Investigation Into Imported Planes and Parts
The Trump administration could use the investigation to impose new tariffs on imported planes, jet engines and other aerospace parts.
New York Times Top StoriesDrought in Military Aid to Ukraine Enters Uncharted Territory
It has been 120 days since the last drawdown of weapons from Pentagon stockpiles was announced, outstripping Speaker Mike Johnson’s hold on Ukraine aid more than a year ago.
New York Times Top StoriesPope Leo’s Creole Roots Evoke Sense of Connection From Some Catholics of Color
That the new pontiff’s ancestry can be partially traced to a historic enclave of Afro-Caribbean culture in New Orleans has brought joy to some Catholics.
New York Times Top StoriesWhat to Know About the Hepatitis A Outbreak in L.A. County
A highly contagious liver infection is surging among groups who are not typically at risk. At least seven people have died.
New York Times Top StoriesThe Pope Begins to Set His Course
Also, David Souter, the Republican-turned-liberal justice, died. Here’s the latest at the end of Friday.
New York Times Top StoriesFirst Joint Visit of Four European Leaders to Ukraine
On Saturday, the leaders of four major European powers — France, Germany, Britain and Poland — will travel to Kyiv in a display of European unity.
New York Times Top StoriesFive Weeks Late, a $254 Billion New York Budget Still Has Its Charms
Lawmakers ratified a state budget that promised benefits for a host of New Yorkers, including the legislators themselves.
New York Times Top StoriesMother’s Day and Father’s Day Cards Are Sometimes the Only Performance Reviews We Get
Once in a year, in May or June, parents get a window, or a fun-house mirror, into how their children feel they’re doing.
New York Times Top StoriesA New Kind of Battle for India and Pakistan, Two Old Foes
Drone warfare has expanded the conflict in Kashmir between India and Pakistan, two nuclear-armed neighbors.
New York Times Top StoriesNewark Mayor Ras Baraka Arrested at Protest Outside ICE Detention Center
Ras J. Baraka and city officials have been trying to close the leased lockup, saying it’s part of President Trump’s unjust deportation campaign.
New York Times Top StoriesJack Katz, Pioneer of the Graphic Novel, Is Dead at 97
Hailed as a visionary (if a difficult one), he drew inspiration for his multivolume work “The First Kingdom” from no less a model than Homer.
New York Times Top StoriesPope Leo XIV Emerges as a Potential Contrast to Trump on the World Stage
Pope Leo XIV’s focus on refugees and his pluralistic background may offer a different view of U.S. values from the president’s America First approach.
New York Times Top StoriesJustice David Souter, Who Traded White Marble for the White Mountains
Retiring at just 69 after two decades on the Supreme Court, the justice left a legacy of case-by-case judging, intellectual rigor and a complete lack of pretension.
New York Times Top StoriesPutin Enlists Russian Pride for War in Ukraine During Moscow Parade
The military parade marking the Soviet victory over Nazi Germany was intended to impress allies and tap into Russia’s deep sense of national pride.
New York Times Top StoriesMenendez Brothers’ Resentencing Hearing Is Set for Next Week
The long-awaited hearing on whether Lyle and Erik Menendez should be eligible for release will take place May 13 and 14 in Los Angeles.
New York Times Top StoriesLee Zeldin Places a Mezuza at His E.P.A. Office
Environmentalists said a ritual at the office of Lee Zeldin, the agency head, highlighted a disconnect between religious principles and looser health and climate protections.
New York Times Top StoriesTrump Suggests Openness to Slashing China Tariffs Ahead of Trade Talks
The president said reducing tariffs to 80 percent from the current 145 percent “sounds right,” as U.S. and Chinese negotiators prepare to meet in Switzerland.
New York Times Top StoriesRediscovered Thomas the Tank Engine Pilot Is Released
The episode, from 1983, was found in storage by accident. It was restored and made available for viewing for the first time on Friday.
New York Times Top StoriesJudge Orders Release of Tufts Student Detained by ICE
The student, Rumeysa Ozturk, was being detained in Louisiana. A federal judge said her detention threatened to chill the speech of millions of noncitizens.
New York Times Top StoriesHow Trump Is Scrambling the G.O.P. Push to Cut Medicaid Spending
The president’s stated opposition to cutting the program has put Republicans laboring to enact his domestic agenda in a bind.
New York Times Top StoriesEl Salvador Put Trump Deportees Behind Bars. Now Their Families Are Suing.
A lawsuit filed with the Inter-American Commission of Human Rights seeks the release of Venezuelan migrants deported from the United States and jailed in a notorious Salvadoran prison.
New York Times Top StoriesWhat the World Needs From Pope Leo
Preaching about the supernatural and the digital.
New York Times Top StoriesPeru Celebrates Pope Leo XIV and Claims Him as Their Own
From delivering help to flood-ravaged regions to singing Christmas songs to blessing babies, Pope Leo XIV tried to be a cleric of the people in Peru.
New York Times Top StoriesKendrick Lamar and SZA Bring Storms and Celebrations to the Stadium Stage
The rapper and R&B star are taking victory laps for smash hits and albums. But their co-headlining tour is still threaded with angst and reflection.
New York Times Top StoriesThe Menendez Brothers Chicken Wing Empire That Never Was
Lyle Menendez had grand plans to franchise Chuck’s Spring Street Cafe before he was arrested. The New Jersey restaurant endures.