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Inside the Race to Save a U.S. Airman in Iran, and Artemis II Heads Behind the Moon
Plus, Ye’s attempted comeback prompts backlash.
New York Times Top StoriesNew York Times Top StoriesA Hidden Russian Hand in Hungary’s Election? Actually, It’s Quite Open.
Prime Minister Viktor Orban has made hostility to Ukraine a centerpiece of his campaign. Moscow seems determined to repay the favor.
New York Times Top StoriesIn Race to Replace Marjorie Taylor Greene, the Iran War Is a Dividing Line
Tuesday’s special House election runoff in a conservative stretch of Georgia is one of the first to showcase disagreements over the conflict, including within the G.O.P.
New York Times Top StoriesSavannah Guthrie to Return to ‘Today’
The anchor is set to join the show’s cast on Monday for the first time since the disappearance of her 84-year-old mother, Nancy, who remains missing.
New York Times Top StoriesMamdani Moves to Link Affordability Agenda With Racial Equity
Mayor Zohran Mamdani, who has been taking steps to try to strengthen his ties with Black voters, is issuing two reports that focus on the ways nonwhite New Yorkers are being left behind.
New York Times Top StoriesNASA Families Don’t Go to the Moon, but They’re on the Mission, Too
For the families of the Artemis II astronauts, the mission “begins at assignment.”
New York Times Top StoriesWhat’s the Point of Sending People Into Space? An Astronaut, Scientist and Journalist Debate.
Should we just send robots?
New York Times Top StoriesWhy Trees Are Key to Russia’s Spring Offensive in Ukraine
In the age of drone warfare, Russia is expected to exploit the return of vegetation to help conceal its troops.
New York Times Top StoriesEpstein in Paris: How a Sex Offender Hustled for Access to France’s Elite
Jeffrey Epstein spent his last days of freedom in Paris, meeting with influential figures. It was a playbook he used everywhere he lived to stamp a veneer of respectability on a life of sordid criminality.
New York Times Top StoriesForget the A.I. Apocalypse. Memes Have Already Nuked Our Culture.
From our jokes and slang to the White House’s policy messaging, internet “brain rot” has escaped our phones to take over … well, everything.
New York Times Top StoriesIt’s Called Silicon Sampling, and It’s Going to Ruin Public Opinion Polling
Instead of navigating the obstacles to conduct polls with human respondents, pollsters are running A.I. simulations instead. Why?
New York Times Top StoriesNewly Obtained Video of Minneapolis Shooting Undermines ICE Account
Prosecutors did not watch video of the nonfatal shooting until weeks after charging the wounded man, an official said.
New York Times Top Stories‘Firebird’ Finds Its Wings Again at Dance Theater of Harlem
And so does the company, which revives its lush, fantastical, large-scale production, set in the Caribbean.
New York Times Top StoriesPlunging International Student Enrollment Under Trump Squeezes Colleges
The Trump administration’s campaign to curtail international students is not just hitting the elite schools targeted by the government.
New York Times Top StoriesSan Francisco Sobers Up
San Francisco gets its act together.
New York Times Top StoriesSharpton Moves Longtime Civil Rights Group to New Home in Harlem
The Rev. Al Sharpton wants to leave his mark in the face of gentrification, which he says has diluted Harlem’s political power.
New York Times Top StoriesSomeone Changed His Party Registration. He Thinks He Knows Why.
Andrew Hevesi, a lifelong Democrat and New York State assemblyman from Queens, was told his voter registration had been changed without his knowledge. He has a culprit in mind.
New York Times Top StoriesThe War Is Turning Iran Into a Major World Power
Its newfound might derives from its control the Strait of Hormuz.
New York Times Top StoriesArtemis II Moon Flyby: Crew, Timeline and What to Know
The journey around the moon of three Americans and one Canadian is going into its sixth day, but it’s not too late to get caught up on it.
New York Times Top StoriesThis Is Not China’s War, but Beijing Started Preparing for It Years Ago
Long concerned about geopolitical crises, China redoubled efforts to secure energy security when President Trump started raising the stakes in his first term.
New York Times Top StoriesChina Mourned an Education Influencer. The Grief Was a Quiet Revolt.
Zhang Xuefeng helped people navigate the country’s unforgiving higher education system. The public outpouring after his death was a quiet rebuke to the punishing process.
New York Times Top StoriesNASA Artemis II Astronauts Race Into Moon’s Embrace After Quiet Easter
Ahead of a lunar flyby on Monday, the crew celebrated the astronaut Jeremy Hansen’s first spaceflight and got a special message from Charlie Duke, the Apollo 16 moonwalker.
New York Times Top StoriesTrump’s Lesson From Risky Rescue: Threaten to Go Harder at Iran
In an expletive-laced social media post, the president said Iran should open the Strait of Hormuz or he would bomb bridges and power plants.
New York Times Top StoriesICE Agents Detain Newlywed Spouse of Soldier Training to Deploy
The 22-year-old wife of an Army staff sergeant came to the U.S. as a toddler. She was taken from a military base where the couple planned to live.
New York Times Top Stories3 Dead After High Winds Topple Tree During Easter Egg Hunt in Germany
A 21-year-old woman, her baby and a 16-year-old girl were killed after a nearly 100-foot tree fell in a wooded area in northern Germany, the police said.
New York Times Top StoriesA Food Pantry Network Suddenly Shuttered, Leaving Thousands Scrambling
Ruby’s Pantry had 85 locations in communities in Minnesota, Wisconsin, North Dakota and Iowa.
New York Times Top StoriesThe Old Way of Campaigning Won’t Cut It Anymore
Is this a great way to audition and select our leaders, especially for executive offices? Not particularly.
New York Times Top StoriesA Harrowing Race Against Time to Find a Downed U.S. Airman in Iran
For the Iranians, the Air Force colonel whose fighter jet had been shot down was possible leverage. For the U.S. military, finding him was a moral imperative.
New York Times Top StoriesTrump Revels in Threats to Commit War Crimes in Iran
The president said he would bomb Iran “back to the Stone Ages.” Until this administration, American leaders had insisted they were trying to follow international law in war.
New York Times Top StoriesHockey Rinks Turn to Plastic Ice as Planet Warms
Some environmentalists question using plastic to address rising temperatures.