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High-Profile Squatting Incidents Are on the Rise Across the Country
States are responding to a rise in high-profile squatting cases, in luxury homes and public housing alike.
New York Times Top StoriesNew York Times Top StoriesForest Service Research Labs Are Closing
A research lab in Washington State tracks ecological changes in a warming climate and provides scientific guidance for forest managers. It is one of 57 such facilities being shuttered.
New York Times Top StoriesHow A.I. Killed Student Writing (and Revived It)
High school and college teachers are watching students write, in the classroom, in order to protect against the incursion of artificial intelligence.
New York Times Top StoriesMinimal Comfort Feeding Is a New, Controversial Approach in Late Dementia
Some consider the regular feeding of late-stage dementia patients to be nonnegotiable. Others see it as extending life unnecessarily.
New York Times Top StoriesPolice in Australia Were Warned of Terror Risk Before Bondi Attack, Report Says
A Jewish security group told police an attack on the community was “likely” because of heightened antisemitism, days before December’s mass shooting in Sydney.
New York Times Top StoriesJosh Johnson Gives King Charles Props for His Comedy Chops
“You know, I’ve always wondered what white Def Jam would be like,” Johnson said after King Charles cracked a few jokes at the White House.
New York Times Top StoriesMother Runs for Office in India After Daughter Was Raped and Killed
Ratna Debnath is a candidate for Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s party, which is campaigning on women’s safety in an Indian state election.
New York Times Top StoriesJ. Craig Venter, Scientist Who Decoded the Human Genome, Dies at 79
A risk-taking outsider, he brought speed, competition and controversy to one of science’s biggest races.
New York Times Top StoriesOil 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 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.