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Voters who watched Gov. Janet Mills struggle to gain traction in the Democratic Senate primary said they were unsurprised — and in many cases, relieved — to see her exit.
New York Times Top StoriesThe statue depicts a man marching with a flag that covers his face. It appeared in a section of London near statues of 19th-century British military and colonial figures.
New York Times Top StoriesPresident Trump banned commercial flights to Venezuela during his first term, but the flights are the latest step in re-establishing ties between the two countries.
New York Times Top StoriesThe Lebanese militant group is attacking Israeli troops with explosive drones controlled by fiber-optic cables, like those commonly used in the war in Ukraine.
New York Times Top StoriesRoyal watchers in Britain called the visit of King Charles III to America a master class in understated criticism.
New York Times Top StoriesThe Trump administration wants President Claudia Sheinbaum to arrest a Mexican governor. She is faced with few good options in response.
New York Times Top StoriesOfficers in California observed the pop star driving fast and erratically in March. After she was arrested, she checked herself into a treatment facility.
New York Times Top StoriesWildlife experts have been tracking the Steller sea lion since he appeared last month at a popular tourist spot near the end of Fisherman’s Wharf.
New York Times Top StoriesThe redrawing of America’s congressional districts is sure to escalate after the Supreme Court’s decision, with some maps that would have seemed laughable a year ago.
New York Times Top StoriesThe 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.