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Dozens Killed in New Year’s Fire, and Trump Abandons National Guard Push in 3 Major Cities
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New York Times Top StoriesNew York Times Top StoriesThere Was Probably a Flashover in the Swiss Bar Fire. Here’s What That Means.
A flashover is an event where an entire room is rapidly engulfed in flames.
New York Times Top StoriesTrump Says U.S. Is ‘Locked and Loaded’ if Iran Kills Protesters
Mr. Trump’s remarks are a sharp escalation as protests over economic hardship turned deadly.
New York Times Top StoriesWhy a Nuclear Plant Is a Big Sticking Point in the Ukraine Peace Plan
The Zaporizhzhia plant, occupied by Russia, would be crucial to powering Ukraine’s postwar recovery.
New York Times Top StoriesIn the Arctic, Drones Help Identify Deadly Virus in Whales
Scientists took samples from whale blow, identifying possible disease risks for marine mammals in northern seas.
New York Times Top StoriesAfter Watergate, the Presidency Was Tamed. Trump Is Unleashing It.
In the 1970s, Congress passed a raft of laws to hold the White House accountable. President Trump has decided they don’t apply to him.
New York Times Top StoriesOn ‘Best Medicine,’ Josh Charles Has a Heart
After years of playing smarmy characters, the actor is stepping up as the lead in a comedy about a grumpy but charming doctor.
New York Times Top StoriesWith Obamacare’s Higher Premiums Come Difficult Decisions
As enhanced subsidies expire, many Americans covered under the Affordable Care Act are having trouble paying for insurance.
New York Times Top StoriesTech Giants Are Racing to Embed A.I. in Schools Around the Globe
More governments are rolling out chatbots in schools. Some experts warn the tools could erode teaching and learning.
New York Times Top StoriesWelcome to the Office. Now Take Off Your Shoes.
Some start-ups, blurring the lines between home and office, are embracing a “no shoes” policy.
New York Times Top Stories50 Years Ago, He Was an Olympian. At 80, He’s Just as Happy to Finish Last.
Jeff Galloway, who popularized the run-walk-run method, is determined to complete one more marathon.
New York Times Top StoriesThe Unseen Human Workers Behind Self-Driving Cars
The unseen workers who help train self-driving cars to see.
New York Times Top StoriesSwitzerland’s Burn Centers Are Overwhelmed After New Year’s Fire
Transfers of patients to hospitals in Germany, Italy and France began on Thursday. France said on Friday that 11 injury victims would be hospitalized there.
New York Times Top StoriesFive Laws Going Into Effect for New York in 2026
Among them, benefits for minimum wage workers, cancer patients and parents of young children. Also, a change to child abuse reporting.
New York Times Top StoriesMamdani Revokes Executive Orders That Adams Signed to Support Israel
Former Mayor Eric Adams and some conservative-leaning Jewish leaders criticized the revocation of his executive orders, one of which he signed just last month.
New York Times Top StoriesIn China, A.I. Finds Pancreatic Cancer That Doctors May Miss
A tool for spotting pancreatic cancer in routine CT scans has had promising results, one example of how China is racing to apply A.I. to medicine’s tough problems.
New York Times Top StoriesCan the Most Indebted Team in Global Soccer Fix Its Finances?
F.C. Barcelona’s liabilities have reached 2.5 billion euros, the result of financial mismanagement and vaulting ambition.
New York Times Top StoriesSearch Is Suspended for Passenger Who Went Overboard From Cruise Ship
The U.S. Coast Guard said on Thursday that it halted its hourslong search for a 77-year-old woman who went overboard from a Holland America Line cruise ship near Cuba.
New York Times Top StoriesMamdani’s First Orders Focus on Housing and Undoing Adams’s Decisions
Mayor Zohran Mamdani signed a flurry of executive orders on his first day as mayor of New York City. They were aimed at protecting tenants and revoking some of ex-Mayor Eric Adams’s past orders.
New York Times Top Stories7 Takeaways From the Inauguration of Mayor Zohran Mamdani
Mr. Mamdani reaffirmed that he would govern New York City as a democratic socialist and assured even those who had not voted for him: “I am your mayor.”
New York Times Top StoriesImages From the Dawn of the Mamdani Era
Thousands of New Yorkers packed the plaza ouside City Hall and the streets of Lower Manhattan to see Mayor Zohran Mamdani take office.
New York Times Top StoriesMamdani Vows to Govern ‘Audaciously’ and Protect New York’s Vulnerable
Zohran Mamdani gave his first public speech as mayor of New York City, after a public inauguration that drew tens of thousands of people.
New York Times Top StoriesWitnesses Recount Fire That Killed 40 in Switzerland
It was a haven for the young, where they could find hot chocolate when they wanted quiet and affordable drinks when they did not. Then it turned into a place of death.
New York Times Top StoriesMamdani Pays Tribute to the Foods That Define and Sustain New York
In his inaugural address, Mayor Zohran Mamdani frequently invoked the cuisines of New York as metaphors for the city’s diversity, ambitions and promise.
New York Times Top StoriesSwitzerland’s burn centers are so overwhelmed that fire victims are being sent to other countries.
New York Times Top StoriesTrump Is the Jan. 6 President
Tragically, America is still living in a political era that began on Jan. 6, 2021.
New York Times Top StoriesThe Full Transcript of Zohran Mamdani’s Inauguration Speech
New York’s new mayor challenged his supporters and his opponents to make the city better, and to hold him to account.
New York Times Top StoriesFire in Swiss Alps Leaves Dozens of New Year’s Revelers Dead
About 40 people celebrating at a ski resort bar were killed, and 115 were injured, many of them young, the authorities said.
New York Times Top StoriesNew York Magazine Put Mamdani’s Team on Its Cover. One Aide Was Erased.
Catherine Almonte Da Costa was part of a photo shoot on the mayor-elect’s inner circle. The next day she resigned amid an uproar over antisemitic statements she had posted on social media years earlier.
New York Times Top StoriesVenezuela Frees Dozens of Political Prisoners
At least 80 people were released, including one with U.S. ties, though more than 800 remain detained in Venezuela for opposing President Nicolás Maduro’s rule, rights groups say.