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Oil Prices Soar as Iran Standoff Shows No End in Sight
Oil prices push higher, approaching another wartime high, as President Trump asserted that the naval blockade of Iran’s ports would persist.
New York Times Top StoriesNew York Times Top StoriesRising Fuel Prices Could Force Excruciating Choices on Economic Policies
The European Central Bank and Bank of England were expected to hold interest rates steady on Thursday while searching for signs of possible longer-term damage.
New York Times Top StoriesIn France, Trump’s Triumphal Arch Draws Eye Rolls
The Arc de Triomphe in Paris, which the president vows to top in Washington, offers a lesson in the complicated history of monuments.
New York Times Top StoriesHouse Adopts Budget to Unlock $70 Billion for Immigration Enforcement
The measure will allow the G.O.P. to begin working on a filibuster-proof bill to fund ICE and C.B.P., part of their plan to reopen the long-shuttered Department of Homeland Security.
New York Times Top StoriesD4vd Bought Chain Saws to Dispose of Celeste Rivas Hernandez’s Body, Prosecutors Say
In a legal filing, prosecutors outlined for the first time how they say the singer murdered and dismembered Celeste Rivas Hernandez.
New York Times Top StoriesBritish Royals Crisscross Manhattan in Brief Visit Packed With Photo Ops
King Charles III and Queen Camilla laid flowers at the Sept. 11 memorial before stopping by an urban farm, the New York Public Library, a business event and a gala.
New York Times Top StoriesMamdani’s Advice to Royals: Give That Priceless Diamond Back to India
Mayor Zohran Mamdani and King Charles did not meet privately. But if they had, the mayor said, he probably would have raised the issue of the Koh-i-Noor Diamond.
New York Times Top StoriesParaguay Says It’s Not Abandoning Taiwan. China Has Other Plans.
Beijing is trying to unravel an unlikely long-distance relationship that has endured for decades. Could Paraguay be tempted to stray?
New York Times Top StoriesG.O.P. Congress Struggles to Do the Basics Amid Party Infighting
House Republicans toiled to pass major measures as lawmakers scrambled to fund homeland security, extend spy powers and deliver a farm bill.
New York Times Top StoriesTrump Threatens to Pull Troops From Germany as He Lashes Out at Merz
The comments came after the German chancellor said that Iran has “humiliated” the United States.
New York Times Top StoriesTakeaways From Hegseth’s Testimony on Iran War and His Tenure
It was Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s first public appearance before Congress since Operation Epic Fury began in late February.
New York Times Top StoriesThey Left for the School Bus. ICE Picked Them Up Instead.
A school transfer disrupted two brothers’ visas, their lawyer said, leaving them vulnerable to arrest and unsettling their Mississippi school community.
New York Times Top StoriesQueen Camilla Unites Winnie-the-Pooh With a Long-Lost Friend
On Wednesday, the Queen of England presented the New York Public Library with a bespoke replica of Roo, the smallest companion of the Bear of Very Little Brain.
New York Times Top StoriesRoger Sweet, Creator of the He-Man Action Figure, Dies at 91
The musclebound character he developed as a toy designer for Mattel gave rise to the Masters of the Universe franchise and helped define the machismo of the 1980s.
New York Times Top StoriesWhat the Royal State Dinner Guest List Says About Trump’s America
There were at least 10 American billionaires, six Fox News hosts, assorted presidential pals, no Democratic politicians and not so many British.
New York Times Top StoriesThe Supreme Court Just Erased What Was Left of the Voting Rights Act
In the name of disentangling race from politics, the court has given white voters more power at the expense of racial minorities.
New York Times Top StoriesWhy the U.A.E. is Quitting OPEC
The United Arab Emirates is walking away from OPEC this May. The New York Times’ energy reporter, Rebecca Elliott, breaks down how the war with Iran provided the perfect opening for the U.A.E. to go solo.
New York Times Top StoriesSupreme Court Strikes Down Louisiana Map, Another Blow to Voting Rights Act
The court struck down the voting map as an unconstitutional racial gerrymander in a move that could make it harder for lawmakers to create majority-minority voting districts.
New York Times Top StoriesMississippi Middle School Students Avert Bus Crash After Driver Loses Control
Footage of the incident shared this week by a school district in Mississippi shows a group of students working together to avert disaster on a highway.
New York Times Top StoriesHegseth Cites Falsehood to Defend His Firing of Senior Officers
The defense secretary said at a House hearing that President Barack Obama had fired 197 generals, a figure that the Pentagon previously acknowledged was false.
New York Times Top StoriesThese Runners Kept Going to 100 or Beyond
Many picked up running late in life. They all shared an uncommon competitive drive.
New York Times Top StoriesLester Wright, the Fastest Known Centenarian, Dies at 103
In 2022, at 100, he set what was believed to be a world record in the 100-meter dash at the Penn Relays in Philadelphia, beating 86- and 92-year-old competitors.
New York Times Top StoriesBrown University Gunman Planned Attack for Years, F.B.I. Says
Investigators said the man’s transient lifestyle and social isolation made his intentions hard to track before shootings that killed two Brown students and an M.I.T. professor.
New York Times Top StoriesSupreme Court Limits Reach of Voting Rights Act
Also, the Pentagon estimates the Iran war cost at $25 billion. Here’s the latest at the end of Wednesday.
New York Times Top Stories‘A Lot of Rocket’: Trump Celebrates Artemis II Astronauts at the White House
President Trump wants Americans going into space to be a part of his legacy, even as he has proposed cutting NASA’s education, research and diversity programs.
New York Times Top StoriesCongress Races to Renew Surveillance Law After House Approval
Republicans put down a right-wing revolt to push the measure through the House, but it faces changes in the Senate that could delay its final passage past a Friday expiration.
New York Times Top StoriesCivil rights leaders see the voting rights ruling as a ‘betrayal.’
Leaders and activists said a Supreme Court ruling had the potential to unravel decades of work toward giving Black Americans fair representation.
New York Times Top StoriesMusk Says He ‘Was a Fool’ to Provide OpenAI’s Early Funding
In the second day of a trial pitting Mr. Musk against OpenAI, he said he was misled by the company’s chief executive, Sam Altman. But OpenAI’s lawyer said evidence showed the opposite.
New York Times Top StoriesIndian Tycoon Offers Refuge to Pablo Escobar’s Condemned Hippos
Colombia was planning to slaughter 80 hippopotamuses after a small herd imported in the 1980s by the drug lord grew out of control. An Indian tycoon has offered them a new home instead.
New York Times Top StoriesA.I. Spending Sets a Record, With No End in Sight
Google, Amazon, Microsoft and Meta reported more than $130 billion in quarterly capital expenditures on Wednesday as they build A.I. data centers. There’s more to come.