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There Are 6 NYC Ballot Measures. Here’s What to Know.
Voters will have a chance to weigh in on ballot questions concerning the housing crisis and when local elections should be held.
New York Times Top StoriesNew York Times Top StoriesStephen Colbert Tears Into the East Wing Demolition
The East Wing now “looks like a rotisserie chicken your dog got into,” Colbert said on Thursday.
New York Times Top StoriesYou Can Kill a Democracy Without a Dictator
What happens when the state doesn’t curb predatory private powers?
New York Times Top StoriesHow Trump and Xi Can Stop a War Before It Starts
Dangerous close calls are rising, but the U.S. and China still lack the communication channels needed to stop a crisis from becoming a war.
New York Times Top StoriesGerman Company Launches Ad After Its Lift Is Used in Louvre Heist
The brazen daylight robbery of the Louvre on Sunday has turned into a marketing opportunity for Böcker, a German maker of cranes and elevators whose product was used in the heist.
New York Times Top StoriesWith Power Move on Rare Earths, China Plays Both Victim and Bully
In weaponizing its dominance over the crucial minerals, Beijing is using tactics that it once denounced, potentially alienating nations it wants to court.
New York Times Top StoriesIndia’s Most Valuable Export: Tens of Millions of Workers
India plans to send its vast work force abroad to countries with labor shortages, like Germany and Japan.
New York Times Top StoriesTrump Says He’s Cutting Off Trade Negotiations With Canada
The president said his move, which again throws relations with one of the United States’ closest trading partners into turmoil, was motivated by an advertisement he deemed fraudulent.
New York Times Top StoriesProtester Who Played ‘Star Wars’ Song Sues After Arrest in Washington
Sam O’Hara was playing the “Imperial March” theme from the movie while protesting the deployment of National Guard troops in the capital when he was handcuffed by city police officers.
New York Times Top StoriesSuspect in Palisades Fire Pleads Not Guilty to Setting Blaze
Prosecutors say Jonathan Rinderknecht deliberately set a fire in January that led to one of the most destructive blazes in California history. If convicted, he would face up to 45 years in prison.
New York Times Top StoriesFrom Truman to Trump: A Tale of Two White House Renovations
President Harry S. Truman consulted Congress, architects and a fine arts commission on everything from construction plans to fabric samples. President Trump is taking a different approach.
New York Times Top StoriesTensions Mount as Agents, Including Gregory Bovino, Clash With Chicagoans
Mr. Bovino, a Border Patrol leader, appeared to use tear gas during a confrontation with residents on Thursday. Plaintiffs in a suit over federal tactics say that violated a court order.
New York Times Top StoriesTrump Says He Will Not Seek Authorization for Cartel Strikes
The president said he would bypass Congress rather than ask for approval for his military campaign against drug traffickers, even as he said it would expand from sea to land.
New York Times Top StoriesTrump Official Says U.S. Can House Migrants at All of Its Overseas Bases
A Justice Department lawyer made the claim in response to a challenge to the administration’s use of the base at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, to hold detainees designated for deportation.
New York Times Top StoriesMeta Layoffs Included Employees Who Monitored Risks to User Privacy
While the company announced job cuts in artificial intelligence, it also expanded plans to replace privacy and risk auditors with more automated systems.
New York Times Top StoriesMusk Attacks NASA Leader Over Threat to Reconsider Lunar Contract
The billionaire’s swipes at Sean Duffy are the latest example of his tangling with members of the Trump administration.
New York Times Top StoriesTrump Calls Off Federal Operation in San Francisco
President Trump said he had halted a planned federal deployment of immigration agents to the city. It was not clear what that meant for the rest of the Bay Area.
New York Times Top StoriesAfter Remark About Mamdani and Sept. 11, Cuomo Faces Democratic Rebukes
When a radio host suggested that Zohran Mamdani would celebrate another Sept. 11-style attack, Andrew Cuomo chuckled. Democrats denounced the exchange as Islamophobic.
New York Times Top StoriesNBA Gambling Scandal: What We Know
Two indictments detailed schemes involving sports betting and rigged poker games, prosecutors said. The link was current and former N.B.A. players and coaches.
New York Times Top StoriesU.S. Charges N.B.A. Figures in Gambling Schemes That Tainted Games
Terry Rozier, a Miami Heat guard, and Chauncey Billups, coach of the Portland Trail Blazers, were among those arrested. Two indictments spanned the worlds of professional sports, Mafia families and online betting.
New York Times Top StoriesHere Are the Defendants Named in the N.B.A. Gambling Indictments
More than 30 people were charged in what prosecutors said was a gambling scheme involving N.B.A. players and coaches.
New York Times Top StoriesRuth A. Lawrence, Doctor Who Championed Breastfeeding, Is Dead at 101
As a pediatrician, she helped elevate breastfeeding from a medical afterthought to a specialty of its own. As a mother of nine, she practiced what she preached.
New York Times Top StoriesN.B.A. Figures Charged in Gambling Schemes
Also, Trump halted his plan to send federal agents to San Francisco. Here’s the latest at the end of Thursday.
New York Times Top StoriesThe U.S. and Europe Are Trying New Ways to Pressure Russia
For the first time in his second term, President Trump is imposing new sanctions, but they may not shift the course of Russia’s war in Ukraine.
New York Times Top StoriesA Pile of Rubble: After 123 Years, the East Wing Is Gone
Mourners are outraged over President Trump’s demolition of the East Wing to make way for his $300 million ballroom. Others say it was time for change.
New York Times Top StoriesHow Mamdani Has Evolved in the Mayoral Race
Zohran Mamdani entered the final debate in the New York City mayoral race ahead in the polls. Nicholas Fandos, who covers New York politics and government for The New York Times, describes Mr. Mamdani’s strategy to appeal to the wider electorate before early voting begins.
New York Times Top StoriesThe Death of Democracy Is Happening Within You
Yes, Trump is assaulting democracy, but what worries me more is what has happened to the rest of us — the loss of the convictions and norms that undergird democracy.
New York Times Top StoriesTrump’s Sanctions on Russian Oil Sector Ratchet Up Economic War
After months of restraint, President Trump’s move to blacklist Lukoil and Rosneft will hit Russia where it hurts.
New York Times Top StoriesArchbishop of U.S. Anglican Church Is Accused of Sexual Harassment
Another leader in the breakaway denomination has been accused of responding slowly to accusations of abuse and grooming against a lay leader.
New York Times Top StoriesKim Kardashian Says She Was Diagnosed With a Brain Aneurysm
About one in every 50 people has an unruptured brain aneurysm. It was not clear whether Ms. Kardashian had experienced symptoms.