New York Times Top Stories
Trump Is in China as Iran War Continues With No End in Sight
Before leaving Washington on Tuesday, the president reiterated threats to decimate Iran if it doesn’t agree to a deal to resolve the conflict.
New York Times Top StoriesNew York Times Top StoriesWith a Friend in Trump, the Tobacco Industry Secures a Lucrative Win
In a dispute over vapes, the president sided with tobacco companies that filled his groups’ coffers over his own F.D.A. commissioner, who resigned in protest.
New York Times Top StoriesChaos in Philippines Senate as Duterte Ally Faces Arrest
The sound of gunshots, apparently from inside the chamber, were broadcast on live television as a senator in the Philippines, who was an ally of the former leader Rodrigo Duterte, faced arrest.
New York Times Top StoriesWholesale Prices Jumped in April, in Latest Sign of War’s Economic Ripples
The Producer Price Index rose in April at its fastest pace in four years, government data showed, a day after consumer prices showed inflation was surging.
New York Times Top StoriesTariff Refunds Begin to Reach Businesses as Trump Lashes Out at Court
The government must return about $160 billion, plus interest, collected from duties deemed illegal and potentially more if it loses a related tariff case.
New York Times Top StoriesA Physicist Who Thinks in Poetry from the Cosmic Edge
In her second pop-science book, theoretical cosmologist Chanda Prescod-Weinstein returns to her celestial and cultural roots.
New York Times Top StoriesFrench Hantavirus Patient Is Critically Ill as Outbreak Reaches 11 Cases
The woman, who was a passenger on the MV Hondius, was breathing with the help of an artificial lung, officials in Paris said.
New York Times Top StoriesShould You Worry About Hantavirus?
Here’s what to know about the virus, how it spreads and the risk to the general public.
New York Times Top StoriesThe Supreme Court Has Left Us in a Dangerous Place
The ruling in Louisiana v. Callais might drive America’s politics to an even more precarious place of partisan tension and ideological Balkanization.
New York Times Top StoriesKing’s Speech Comes at an Awkward Time for Starmer
King Charles III read out Keir Starmer’s legislative agenda in the traditional manner, even as the British prime minister’s leadership remained under pressure.
New York Times Top StoriesTrump in China
We preview the Trump-Xi summit.
New York Times Top StoriesAs Starmer Rejects Calls to Resign, Some Make Comparisons to President Biden
In Britain, some argue that Prime Minister Keir Starmer, by rejecting calls to step aside, risks repeating the mistakes of President Joseph R. Biden Jr.
New York Times Top StoriesU.S. Intelligence Undercuts Trump’s War Claims, and the Cost of ‘Alligator Alcatraz’
Plus, the controversy engulfing Eurovision.
New York Times Top StoriesSilicon Valley’s A.I. Lobbying Blitz Reaches a Fever Pitch
OpenAI and Anthropic are opening offices in Washington, hiring lobbyists and spending more than ever to win over federal lawmakers.
New York Times Top StoriesWhat You Need to Know About the Federal Gas Tax
President Trump said he would like to suspend the 18.4-cent-a-gallon tax, but it’s a move that may save drivers only a few dollars a month.
New York Times Top StoriesAre These the Bones of the Fourth Musketeer? This Dutch Village Hopes So.
Wolder, near the Belgian border, is waiting to see if the skeleton it dug up in a church is Count d’Artagnan, from Alexandre Dumas’s tale.
New York Times Top StoriesYour School District Is Probably Scoring Worse Than 10 Years Ago
The drops in U.S. scores go beyond the pandemic and cut across income, geographic and racial divides, new data shows.
New York Times Top StoriesWhere Did All the AK-47s Go?
A family of guns that was once ubiquitous in the U.S. firearms marketplace has started to vanish for a variety of reasons.
New York Times Top StoriesAndreessen Horowitz Is Playing Politics Like No Other
“If you think there’s a lot of money in politics now,” Marc Andreessen said in 2000, “you haven’t seen anything yet.” His firm is now the biggest known spender on this campaign cycle.
New York Times Top StoriesEating Healthy? No, They’re Eating Biblically.
A diet inspired by the Bible has found new audiences online in the Make America Healthy Again era.
New York Times Top StoriesHow Our Personal Stories Became the New Soap Opera
Even though only four original soap operas remain on the air, our appetite for high drama has never been more insatiable.
New York Times Top StoriesLithuania’s Peat Bogs Could Help the Climate and Defend the Border, Too
Lithuanian officials hope restored peat bogs can reinforce the border in addition to locking away planet-warming carbon.
New York Times Top StoriesCorpus Christi Faces Water Crisis as Drought and Industrial Growth Strain Supply
Rising demand, municipal dysfunction and drought have pushed Corpus Christi to the edge of a water emergency, offering a cautionary tale for the rest of the country.
New York Times Top StoriesWalking the Streets of Ben Franklin’s Paris
The aging statesman braved rough seas and arduous carriage rides to reach Paris, where he persuaded the French to back the American rebels. We followed in his footsteps.
New York Times Top StoriesTrump’s Shrinking Ambitions on China
The president came into office planning harsher trade moves on China than on the rest of the world. Here’s why he’s had to scale them back.
New York Times Top StoriesAffordable N.Y.C. Homes Stay Empty for Months. That May Soon Change.
With affordable housing in extremely high demand, Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s administration is announcing plans to reduce red tape and get people into those apartments faster.
New York Times Top StoriesA Bronx Neighborhood Loses Its ‘Monarch’ to Arson
The police charged a 45-year-old man with three counts of homicide and one count of arson in a bodega fire that spread upstairs and killed a beloved resident.
New York Times Top StoriesMamdani’s Opponents Raise More Than $1 Million to Fight His Agenda
The new group, which will be led by Jim Walden, a lawyer who ran for mayor last year, will run attack ads and be prepared to sue the Mamdani administration.
New York Times Top StoriesJordan Klepper Wants the President to Get More Sleep
“Well, well, well, looks like the Sleepy Joe-er has become the sleepy Joe-ee,” Klepper said after President Trump was seen with his eyes closed during an event in the Oval Office.
New York Times Top StoriesAs Becerra Rises in Polls, He Draws Fire for Trying to Direct Interview
“This is not a ‘gotcha’ piece, right?” the leading Democratic candidate for California governor asked a television reporter before an interview.