New York Times Top Stories
The California Lake Billed as the ‘Saudi Arabia of Lithium’
Residents of Imperial County, Calif., are in dire need of an economic boost. Experts say the answer lies beneath the Salton Sea, where a lithium trove sits.
New York Times Top StoriesNew York Times Top StoriesThe Big Bang: A.I. Has Created a Code Overload
Companies are scrambling to deal with the glut.
New York Times Top StoriesFederal Agency Unveils Three Potential Osteoarthritis Treatments
With funding from ARPA-H, three teams of researchers have regrown bone and cartilage, even entire knees, in animal studies. Human trials are not far off.
New York Times Top StoriesTrump’s Foreign Aid Overhaul Sent Millions More Dollars to Big U.S.-Based Contractors
While organizations in the developing world were nearly shut out, the big aid agencies DOGE had called wasteful received huge infusions of cash, a new analysis found.
New York Times Top StoriesWhat Does an Ultra-Luxury First Class Ticket Get You? Flying in a Frictionless Bubble.
A writer reports from inside the premium bubble, where there’s no such thing as too much, petty annoyances are nonexistent and the real world never intrudes.
New York Times Top StoriesThe Latest Blows to Iran’s Leadership
An Iranian intelligence chief killed overnight on Monday was one of several Iranian officials who occupied their posts for only a few months.
New York Times Top StoriesNew Revelations Reignite Crypto Scandal Involving Argentina’s President Milei
Court documents raise questions about the Argentine president’s statements that he had no connection to the launch of the $Libra cryptocurrency.
New York Times Top StoriesRepublicans Unveil a $342 Million Battle Plan to Keep the Senate
The main super PAC for Senate Republicans is focusing on eight states, and plans to spend big money to defend G.O.P.-held seats in Alaska, Iowa and Ohio.
New York Times Top StoriesTeaching in an American University Feels Very Strange Right Now
We’re supposed to give students a map. I don’t even know the terrain.
New York Times Top StoriesWhat We Know About the Kidnapping of Nancy Guthrie, Savannah Guthrie’s Mother
Nancy Guthrie, 84, the “Today” show anchor’s mother, vanished from her Arizona home on Feb. 1. In the time since, very little new information has come to light.
New York Times Top StoriesOn Iran, Trump Keeps World Off Balance With Ever-Changing Threats
Global leaders are struggling in their efforts to find a way to end the American-Israeli war on Iran, and they are spooked about what President Trump might do next.
New York Times Top StoriesInside 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 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.