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Melania Trump Says She Has Been Working With Putin to Reunite Missing Ukrainian Children
“President Putin and I have had an open line of communication regarding the welfare of these children,” the first lady announced.
New York Times Top StoriesNew York Times Top StoriesDeaths Are Reported in Explosion at Tennessee Munitions Plant
A number of people were missing after a “devastating blast” at Accurate Energetic Systems, about 60 miles southwest of Nashville, a county sheriff said.
New York Times Top StoriesDavid Del Rio Leaves ‘Matlock’ After CBS Investigation
David Del Rio portrayed a young lawyer on one of television’s most popular shows.
New York Times Top StoriesTrump Moves to Cancel Esmeralda 7, a Giant Solar Project
Known as Esmeralda 7, the project planned in the Nevada desert would have produced enough energy to power nearly two million homes.
New York Times Top StoriesMount Everest Just Recorded Some of Its Most Intense Snowfall Ever
A storm buried tents and stranded people on the mountain last weekend. Some experts think it might have set a record.
New York Times Top StoriesJohn Lodge, Moody Blues Singer and Bassist, Dies at 82
He wrote some of the band’s signature songs, including “Ride My See-Saw” and “I’m Just a Singer (in a Rock and Roll Band).”
New York Times Top StoriesUnder Trump, E.P.A. Explored if Abortion Pills Could Be Detected in Wastewater
Scientists at the Environmental Protection Agency found that they could develop methods to identify traces of the medication if necessary — a practice long sought by the anti-abortion movement.
New York Times Top StoriesM.I.T. Rejects a White House Offer for Special Funding Treatment
The Trump administration offered nine universities benefits in exchange for signing an agreement to protect conservative voices, among other things. M.I.T. was the first to refuse.
New York Times Top StoriesRenato Casaro, ‘Michelangelo of Movie Posters,’ Dies at 89
Few moviegoers knew his name, but directors like Sergio Leone, Sylvester Stallone and Quentin Tarantino considered his vivid work invaluable.
New York Times Top StoriesReport on Soros Cited by Justice Dept. Does Not Show Funding for Terrorism
The head of a conservative watchdog organization acknowledged that its report did not find evidence that the network of liberal billionaire George Soros had broken the law.
New York Times Top StoriesSuperintendent, Devon Horton, Accused of Stealing Thousands From Illinois School District
The superintendent, now head of schools in DeKalb County, Ga., had been lauded for his efforts to help students of color. Prosecutors say he led a kickback scheme in suburban Chicago.
New York Times Top StoriesJames Comey. Letitia James. Who’s Next?
America is now in a dangerous period, in which the president can order investigations and indictments against his enemies.
New York Times Top StoriesThe Fiscal Gambit at the Center of the Shutdown
It is a well-worn strategy to temporarily create a government benefit and hope that its eventual expiration will create a standoff like the shutdown fight.
New York Times Top StoriesIn the Wake of the Edmund Fitzgerald
The mighty ship, immortalized in song by Gordon Lightfoot, sank 50 years ago on Lake Superior. Our reporter spent a week on a Great Lakes freighter that survived the storm.
New York Times Top StoriesTrump’s Aides and Officials Take Political Battles Online
President Trump’s long, avid embrace of social media has been eagerly adopted by his top aides, replacing longstanding governmental norms with online ones.
New York Times Top StoriesThe W.N.B.A Gets More Attention Now. That’s Not Always a Good Thing.
The league’s popularity has given rise to online sexism and racism — and misinformation that traffics in both.
New York Times Top StoriesLetitia James Is Among Prominent Black Women Targeted by Trump
Fani T. Willis, a district attorney who brought election interference charges against Mr. Trump, and Lisa Cook, who serves on the Federal Reserve Board, have also been investigated.
New York Times Top StoriesMachado’s Peace Prize Is Latest Nobel Honor for Female Democracy Campaigners
Women in Iran, Liberia, Yemen and Myanmar have been recognized for their activism, occasionally while they were in prison and faced serious personal risk.
New York Times Top StoriesFrance’s Domestic Instability Has Weakened Its Diplomatic Clout
President Emmanuel Macron’s inability to find a government that can pass a new budget is hobbling his efforts to influence Europe’s agenda.
New York Times Top StoriesHow Letitia James, Now Indicted, Will Stay as New York’s Attorney General
New York state’s chief legal officer, now a criminal defendant, runs an 800-lawyer agency that is at the center of state government.
New York Times Top StoriesA Cease-Fire Begins
We explain the latest on the deal between Israel and Hamas.
New York Times Top StoriesIsrael Says Cease-Fire Is in Effect in Gaza
The statement came after Israel approved a deal between Israel and Hamas to pave the way for the release of hostages in exchange for Palestinian prisoners.
New York Times Top StoriesWho Is María Corina Machado, the Winner of the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize?
Ms. Machado built one of Venezuela’s most important political movements, and lives in hiding from President Nicolás Maduro’s authoritarian government.
New York Times Top StoriesVenezuela’s Maduro Offered the U.S. His Nation’s Riches to Avoid Conflict
Venezuela’s autocrat had proposed allocating his country’s oil wealth and other natural resources to the U.S. and ending deals with American adversaries to appease President Trump.
New York Times Top StoriesTrump’s Retribution Lands on Latest Target, and U.S. Troops Head to Israel
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New York Times Top StoriesJames Indictment Mirrors Her Civil Case Against Trump in Miniature
The president and New York’s attorney general accused each other of real estate fraud. But the sum involved in her case is $18,933, while millions were at stake in his.
New York Times Top StoriesHow Trump Got Israel and Hamas to a Truce
Israel approved an agreement brokered by President Trump that paves the way for a cease-fire in the war in Gaza and the return of all remaining hostages.
New York Times Top StoriesCurious Reindeer and Charging Polar Bears: The Changing Wildlife at the Top of the Earth
Climate change is transforming ecosystems in the far north. An international team of scientists has made some surprising discoveries.
New York Times Top StoriesWhat Courts Have Said in Challenges to Trump’s National Guard Deployments
Federal courts across the country have heard legal challenges to the mobilization of troops in Los Angeles, Washington, Portland, Ore., and Chicago. Here’s how some judges have ruled.
New York Times Top StoriesHow Right-Wing Influencers Are Shaping the Guard Fight in Portland
President Trump and his administration are amplifying the voices of pro-White House podcasters and streamers eager to ratify the president’s description of Oregon’s largest city as a “hellscape.”