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The White House Will Release $5.5 Billion for Schools
Also, scientists are trying to save the Great Barrier Reef with man-made clouds. Here’s the latest at the end of Friday.
New York Times Top StoriesNew York Times Top StoriesWhy Zelensky Backtracked on His Controversial Law
Facing growing pressure amid nationwide protests, President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine backtracked on controversial legislation that would have weakened the country’s independent anticorruption institutions. Katrin Bennhold, a senior writer, and Marc Santora, an international news editor for The New York Times, explain the events that led to the reversal.
New York Times Top StoriesNew Reports on Russian Interference Show Trump’s Claims on Obama Are Overblown
The administration’s claims are overblown, but newly declassified information provides some messy details about a January 2017 intelligence assessment of Moscow’s election interference.
New York Times Top StoriesFor One Man, It Didn’t Take Much to Make an Embassy in India
For almost eight years, the police said, an Indian man hid a range of criminal activities behind fake diplomatic missions before finally being caught this week.
New York Times Top StoriesTrump Administration to Release $5.5 Billion in Frozen Schools Funding
The Trump administration had faced growing pressure from within his own party to release the money.
New York Times Top StoriesOutrage After Alabama 3-Year-Old Dies in Hot Car While in State’s Care
The boy, who was in foster care, was being transported between a supervised visit and day care, his aunt said. State lawmakers said they were seeking answers and the police were investigating.
New York Times Top StoriesHow Will David Ellison Tackle the Big Problems at Paramount?
The cable business has cratered. The news division is in turmoil. A.I. is coming for movies. And those are just the obvious challenges.
New York Times Top StoriesBehind Trump’s War With Powell: A Battering Ram With 3 Million Followers
The director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency has made the removal of the Fed chair his personal mission.
New York Times Top StoriesControversial Interior Department Aide From DOGE to Leave Agency
Tyler Hassen, a former oil executive who had spent time on Elon Musk’s cost-cutting team, faced criticism because he had been given broad authority to make changes at the department.
New York Times Top StoriesU.S. and Mexico Sign Deal to Stop Sewage Release Into Tijuana River
The agreement addresses a longstanding problem that has sickened people in both countries.
New York Times Top Stories‘Happy Gilmore 2’ Review: Back on the Green
A Netflix sequel to Adam Sandler’s hit 1996 film briefly recaptures the warm silliness of the original, before devolving into a lazy fever dream of cameos.
New York Times Top StoriesJustice Dept. Officials File Suit, Saying They Were Dismissed Unlawfully
The lawsuit argues that employees who were fired for political reasons have no recourse, after President Trump neutralized a board that handles federal labor disputes.
New York Times Top StoriesCleo Laine, Acclaimed British Jazz Singer, Is Dead at 97
Known for a smoky voice that she could deploy over four octaves, she recorded albums across six decades and also had success as an actress.
New York Times Top StoriesUnder Siege From Trump and Musk, a Top Liberal Group Falls Into Crisis
Scrambling to pay legal fees, Media Matters has dialed back its criticism, trimmed its staff and contemplated closing entirely.
New York Times Top StoriesIsrael to Allow to Allow Aid Airdrops Over Gaza During Starvation Crisis
Jordan and the United Arab Emirates were expected to begin airdrops in the coming days, but experts warned that the bulk of necessary aid could come only by land.
New York Times Top StoriesHow Will David Ellison Tackle the Big Problems at Paramount?
The cable business has cratered. The news division is in turmoil. A.I. is coming for movies. And those are just the obvious challenges.
New York Times Top StoriesU.S. Conducts Rare Raid in Syria, Killing a Senior Islamic State Leader
The military gave few details on the ground operation, but counterterrorism raids have typically involved helicopter-borne Special Operations commandos.
New York Times Top StoriesMacron Recognizes a Palestinian State. But to What End?
The French president, expressing a moral obligation to address suffering in Gaza, made clear he had lost patience with the United States and Israel. The question is what effect he will have.
New York Times Top StoriesAs Consumers Lose Their Appetite, Food Brands Fight to Keep Wall St. Happy
Packaged food companies are struggling to adjust — and profit — as tastes, waistlines and wallets change.
New York Times Top StoriesTrump Flies to Scotland, Leaving Chaos Swirling in Washington
The five-day visit will be a mix of personal business and golf with some diplomacy thrown in.
New York Times Top StoriesFirst Deportation Flights Depart From Florida’s ‘Alligator Alcatraz’
Gov. Ron DeSantis said “hundreds” of federal detainees had departed a state-run detention center in the Everglades on planes, but provided few details about them or where they went.
New York Times Top StoriesTexas Democrats to Confer With California and Illinois Governors on Redistricting
Two groups of Democrats left Texas to confer with Govs. Gavin Newsom and JB Pritzker, who have suggested their Democratic-controlled states could counter a Texas Republican gerrymander.
New York Times Top StoriesHulk Hogan Used Clothing As a Key Part of His Brand
His look was jokey, but it was no joke.
New York Times Top StoriesWhat Did Trump’s Hard-Hat Tour of the Fed Accomplish?
The president wanted to take Jerome Powell, the Fed chair, to task over the cost of renovations to the central bank’s headquarters, but Mr. Powell was having none of it.
New York Times Top StoriesThe Starvation Spreading in Gaza
Gaza is descending into anarchy.
New York Times Top StoriesWas This Artifact From King Tut’s Tomb? It’s for Sale Anyway.
A London auction house says there is “no documented evidence” that an intricately carved grasshopper is from the boy king’s tomb. Its estimated price is up to $675,000.
New York Times Top StoriesSpat Between Thai and Cambodian Leaders Fuels Deadly Border War
A personal feud between two of Southeast Asia’s political titans is inflaming the worst violence on the border in more than a decade.
New York Times Top StoriesA Contentious Media Merger, and the F.B.I.’s Epstein Scramble
Plus, your Friday news quiz.
New York Times Top StoriesIs Decarbonization Dead?
Trump just shredded America’s most ambitious climate policy. Jane Flegal and Jesse Jenkins discuss what this means for the future of renewable energy in the U.S.
New York Times Top StoriesTrump, Obama and the Question of Treason
President Trump’s history of intemperate remarks has earned him a perverse kind of immunity; the more outrageous his statement, the faster it is often dismissed.