New York Times Top Stories
Smaller N.Y.C. Classes Will Cost Millions. Can Mamdani Pull It Off?
Mayor Zohran Mamdani wants to make classes smaller across the largest U.S. school system. Like other parts of his agenda, it’s a costly task.
New York Times Top StoriesNew York Times Top StoriesOlympics Officials Signal Sanctions on Russia in Sports May End
In Milan this week, Olympics officials signaled a willingness to ease years of restrictions imposed on the country over its state-backed doping program and invasion of Ukraine.
New York Times Top StoriesHegseth Says Defense Department Will Cut Ties With Harvard
Mr. Hegseth’s order appeared to target his alma mater, Harvard’s Kennedy School for public policy.
New York Times Top StoriesDeath Row Reversal by China Is a Gesture to Canada
The ruling by China’s highest court followed a recent meeting between China and Canada’s top leaders led to a thaw in the two countries’ relations.
New York Times Top StoriesIn a Close Election, Voters Send a Sharp Anti-Trump Message
The Democratic primary to replace Gov. Mikie Sherrill of New Jersey in Congress is still too close to call. Much of the advertising focused on opposition to the president and his immigration policies.
New York Times Top StoriesSuper Bowl Visitors Find San Francisco Better Than Its Apocalyptic Image
Problems with homelessness and open-air drug use have been widely broadcast, but many visitors this week said they found the city surprisingly pleasant.
New York Times Top StoriesHow Is Security Different at These Olympic Games?
Our sports correspondent Tariq Panja talks with Katrin Bennhold about the security at the Olympics in Italy, including the presence of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, who the U.S. says are there only in an advisory role.
New York Times Top StoriesOfficials Pressed Schumer to Help Name Penn Station and Dulles Airport for Trump
Administration officials told the top Senate Democrat the president would release frozen funding for the Gateway project if the transportation hubs were renamed for him.
New York Times Top StoriesRepublican Chairman of Homeland Security Spending Panel to Exit Congress
Representative Mark Amodei of Nevada added his name to the growing list of Republicans planning to give up their seats as their party faces losses that could cost them the House.
New York Times Top StoriesThe Culture War Is Over. Bad Bunny Won.
American pop culture is global pop culture, and vice versa.
New York Times Top StoriesStocks Rebound After Volatile Week as Dow Hits Record High
The Dow Jones industrial average surpassed 50,000 points for the first time, as old line stocks come back into vogue.
New York Times Top StoriesCuban Deportees Who Were Transferred to Guantánamo Sent Back to U.S.
Dozens of men appear to be caught up in a political standoff between the Trump administration and Cuba.
New York Times Top StoriesLil Jon’s Son Is Found Dead in a Georgia Pond, Police Say
Nathan Smith, whose stage name is DJ Young Slade, was reported missing on Tuesday after running out of his home in a community north of Atlanta.
New York Times Top StoriesLet the Games Begin
Also, mass market paperbacks are heading toward extinction. Here’s the latest at the end of Friday.
New York Times Top StoriesJD Vance Is Booed at Winter Olympics Opening Ceremony in Milan
Before the event, protesters marched in Milan in opposition to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, whose personnel are in Italy to advise local officials in securing the Winter Games.
New York Times Top StoriesSaalumarada Thimmakka Dies; Planted and Nurtured Thousands of Trees
Believed to be 113, she spent decades building an environmental legacy in India, inspired by her grief at being unable to conceive children.
New York Times Top StoriesIn the Grip of Gangs, Haiti Faces a Government Leadership Vacuum
The tenure of a presidential council that has been running Haiti expires on Saturday. It’s unclear what will come next.
New York Times Top StoriesModerates Pitch Tough-on-Crime Message for Democrats Amid Immigration Talks
A polling memo circulated among centrist senators urged Democrats to talk tougher on crime, an issue where they lag Republicans, while noting an opportunity for the party to appeal to voters with criticism of ICE.
New York Times Top StoriesModerates Pitch Tough-on-Crime Message for Democrats Amid Immigration Talks
A polling memo circulated among centrist senators urged Democrats to talk tougher on crime, an issue where they lag Republicans, while noting an opportunity for the party to appeal to voters with criticism of ICE.
New York Times Top StoriesWhite House Suggests Smithsonian Add a Trump Display
Administration officials met with staff at the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery and discussed putting multiple artworks of the president in a section of the museum.
New York Times Top StoriesTrump Is Hosting Governors at the White House, but Only Republicans
The president’s decision to exclude Democratic governors from an annual meeting later this month breaks a longstanding tradition.
New York Times Top StoriesA Trump Deal With Iran May Hinge on the Number Zero
Can the two sides get past Iran’s claim that it has a “right” to enrich uranium?
New York Times Top StoriesN.Y.P.D. Sergeant Found Guilty in Death of Bronx Man He Threw Cooler At
The officer, Erik Duran, was found guilty of second-degree manslaughter for throwing a cooler at a man on a motorbike.
New York Times Top StoriesBard College President Leon Botstein Was Close With Jeffrey Epstein
Bard College’s president, Leon Botstein, said his school needed cash. But a rare watch and a Caribbean visit show how his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein sometimes veered into the personal.
New York Times Top StoriesPaul Weiss Partners Turned on Brad Karp After Learning Extent of His Epstein Ties
Mr. Karp resigned as chairman of the elite law firm after senior partners met to decide his future.
New York Times Top StoriesNancy Guthrie’s Disappearance Rekindles Kidnapping Fears
High-profile abductions, like those of Patty Hearst and J. Paul Getty III, have captured the nation’s attention, but experts say kidnappings by strangers are exceedingly rare.
New York Times Top StoriesNancy Guthrie’s Abduction Set Off a Storm. This Sheriff Is Riding It Out.
Sheriff Chris Nanos is surrounded by chaos but is trying to keep his cool as the search for a celebrity news anchor’s mother grinds on.
New York Times Top StoriesTrumpRx: What to Know About Insurance Benefits, Pricing and Savings
People may be able to pay less for prescriptions with their insurance rather than via the new government website. The Trump drugstore is meant to help people buy medications using their own money.
New York Times Top StoriesStudying Antarctica’s Ice From the Side of a Helicopter
The fastest way into the gaps between gigantic blocks of a broken-up glacier is by lowering instruments from above, through the door of a helicopter.
New York Times Top StoriesMangione State Trial Will Start in June, Manhattan Judge Says
The decision on Friday illuminated the intensifying race between state and federal prosecutors to be the first to try Luigi Mangione. His lawyers said their client was stuck in a “tug of war.”