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The expected flood of new congressional maps is likely to produce fewer competitive districts, fewer ways for voters to hold elected officials accountable and more polarized politics.
New York Times Top StoriesSenator Chuck Schumer, the New York Democrat and minority leader, considered the Maine governor his top recruit for winning the majority. Critics said her collapse showed he is out of touch with the party’s voters.
New York Times Top StoriesThe defense secretary testified on the eve of the 60-day mark of the war, a major statutory deadline for the president to withdraw forces or seek approval from Congress to continue the fight.
New York Times Top StoriesThe Supreme Court just overturned Louisiana’s congressional voting map, landing the latest blow to the landmark Voting Rights Act. Abbie VanSickle, a reporter covering the court for The New York Times, explains.
New York Times Top StoriesIn a statement, the camp said it told Texas regulators that it was “withdrawing its application for a summer 2026 camp license” after 28 people died in flooding last summer.
New York Times Top StoriesA New York Times tech reporter shares a dispatch from the press gallery of the showdown between Elon Musk and Sam Altman.
New York Times Top StoriesOne of Elon Musk’s abiding fears is that A.I. could one day threaten humans. But the jurors deciding his suit against OpenAI probably won’t hear about it.
New York Times Top StoriesTelevision executives have not ruled out a revival of Taylor Frankie Paul’s season of the reality show, but a custody battle has kept her volatile former relationship in the spotlight.
New York Times Top StoriesThe co-founder of Chic, the de facto house band of New York’s late-70s disco boom, talks about taking inspiration from the city’s club scene.
New York Times Top StoriesAn inmate said he discovered the note after Mr. Epstein was found injured in his jail cell, weeks before his death. It’s now locked in a courthouse.
New York Times Top StoriesShane McAnally, Brandy Clark and Josh Osborne talk about songwriting as a day job and the art of telling simple truths in a single line.
New York Times Top StoriesDr. Means’s nomination had stalled in part over her views on vaccines. The president said he was instead nominating Dr. Nicole B. Saphier, a radiologist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.
New York Times Top StoriesRepublicans were forced to use a special maneuver to steer around opposition in their own party and speed the measure to the floor, relying on Democrats to push it through.
New York Times Top StoriesTwo victims of Jeffrey Epstein will testify at the State Capitol next week in support of a bill that would enable them to seek punitive damages from his estate.
New York Times Top StoriesBlack Democrats in the South already face steep challenges when seeking political office. But the Supreme Court’s ruling could be felt for a generation.
New York Times Top StoriesThe jury of the world’s most important art exhibition had said it wouldn’t consider artists from countries whose leaders are accused of crimes against humanity.
New York Times Top StoriesAyatollah Mojtaba Khamenei said in a statement that Iran would establish “new legal frameworks” for the Strait of Hormuz. He also said his country would retain its nuclear capabilities.
New York Times Top StoriesIf President Trump flies to China as planned in May, the primary topic will clearly be the rippling economic effects of a war that Beijing has made clear it viewed as unnecessary.
New York Times Top StoriesA new report is the latest effort by the Justice Department to argue that it is removing political bias from prosecutorial decision-making.
New York Times Top StoriesThe Trump administration says the cities shouldn’t be penalized for unhealthy air because pollution can blow in from abroad. Some experts say that’s preposterous.
New York Times Top StoriesSince his early days as a lawyer and in his first years on the bench, the chief justice has worked to limit the force of the Voting Rights Act.
New York Times Top StoriesStrawberry shortcake, pasta salad, coleslaw and more recipes to kick off summer. Here’s what to make for picnics, barbecues and gatherings this long weekend.
New York Times Top StoriesCorn estimates were off by 4.5 million acres last year. A lack of survey responses, not job cuts, led to the miss, the Agriculture Department said.
New York Times Top StoriesThe New York Times has been publishing for 175 years. Some of that history may be sitting in a shoe box under your bed.
New York Times Top StoriesIt was not immediately clear whether Gov. Jeff Landry, a Republican, would postpone the May 16 primary election for House races after the court ruled the state’s congressional districts unconstitutional.
New York Times Top StoriesAnna Wintour, Martha Stewart and others greeted the royal couple at the King’s Trust Gala, during their official state visit to the United States.
New York Times Top StoriesDr. Sara Brenner is a physician, an F.D.A. official and a “MAHA mom” who has said people should not reflexively believe in the benefits of vaccines.
New York Times Top StoriesHer withdrawal reflects the energy of the party’s left and voters’ unease with older candidates and paves the way for Graham Platner to challenge Senator Susan Collins in November.
New York Times Top StoriesGross domestic product expanded at a 2 percent annual rate in the first three months of the year, a period including first weeks of conflict in the Middle East.
New York Times Top StoriesJerome H. Powell will remain a governor at the Federal Reserve after his term as chair ends, in a bid to guard against a further incursion by the Trump administration on the central bank’s independence.