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Ohio City Worker Union Complains That Goats Are Eating Its Lunch
A union in Columbus made a formal complaint after the city farmed out brush-clearing duties at a wastewater plant. The competitors? Goats.
New York Times Top StoriesNew York Times Top StoriesOpera Company Sues to Collect $17 Million From the Kennedy Center
The Washington National Opera, which left the center amid the Trump administration’s takeover, says its efforts to retrieve its endowment and other assets have been blocked.
New York Times Top StoriesFact-Check: Trump’s Claims About His Arch, Reflecting Pool Repairs and Other Renovation Projects
President Trump has made false or exaggerated claims of a Civil War-era push for a triumphal arch, hundreds of millions spent on repairs on the Reflecting Pool, and an absence of working fountains.
New York Times Top StoriesTo Defeat Democrats, Texas Governor Embraces the Hard Right
After years of keeping his distance, Gov. Greg Abbott is set to address Texas Republicans’ activist-led convention as hard-line conservatives gain influence within the party.
New York Times Top StoriesCan Democrats Overcome G.O.P. Gerrymandering?
Our chief political analyst, Nate Cohn, who writes The Tilt newsletter, looks at the Republicans’ advantage in the House of Representatives after partisan redistricting. To win the House, how much of the popular vote would Democrats need to win?
New York Times Top StoriesAnti-Immigrant Riots after Belfast Stabbing Leave City on Edge
In two nights of violence in Northern Ireland after a brutal stabbing, people were targeted because of their skin color, the authorities said.
New York Times Top StoriesThe Consequences of SpaceX’s Trillion-Dollar I.P.O.
SpaceX’s trading debut is expected to smash records. Wall Street is watching to see what else it disrupts.
New York Times Top StoriesDavid Hockney, Who Restored the Human Form to Art, Dies at 88
His colorful figurative paintings were both conservative and iconoclastic, defying the dominant abstract schools of the mid-20th century.
New York Times Top StoriesA Trillionaire?
SpaceX is expected to make Elon Musk even richer when its stock begins trading today.
New York Times Top StoriesWhat I Learned From David Hockney
The curator Norman Rosenthal knew the artist for over 60 years and still discovered something new when they collaborated on a final blockbuster show.
New York Times Top StoriesWith iPhones and Faxes, David Hockney Embraced Tech
Polaroids and photocopiers also gave the artist possibilities for creating in forms vastly different from his paintings.
New York Times Top StoriesWhat the SpaceX I.P.O. Means for You, and a Giant Act of Vandalism in D.C.
Plus, the Friday news quiz.
New York Times Top StoriesRisk Strait of Hormuz or Wait? Shipping Companies Face a Costly Dilemma.
With more than 500 ships still stranded in the Persian Gulf, pressure on the shipowners and sailors is growing by the day.
New York Times Top StoriesHow SpaceX’s IPO Compares With Saudi Aramco, Uber and Others
The previous record was set over six years ago. But SpaceX, whose stock begins trading on Friday, is on track to raise tens of billions of dollars more.
New York Times Top StoriesBring the Kids and Grab Some Barbecue: A Day at the Ukrainian Drone Races
Competitions that give soldiers a brief break from the front have a festival-like atmosphere, a mix of potentially deadly weapons and frolicking children.
New York Times Top Stories‘Yes’ Is a Scathing Portrait of Israeli Depravity. Why Are European Leftists Boycotting It?
The inanity of the leftists who’d censor such a film shouldn’t distract us from the right-wing nightmare it reveals.
New York Times Top StoriesNeither Peace Nor War: Iran Conflict Leaves World in Dangerous Limbo
Since announcing a nominal cease-fire two months ago, Iran, Israel and the U.S. have remained locked in low-intensity violence that has become a new normal.
New York Times Top StoriesSteven Spielberg on How to Build Suspense in ‘Disclosure Day’
The director narrates a scene from his movie that is a continuation, of sorts, of a sequence he filmed for his feature-length debut, “Duel,” in 1971.
New York Times Top StoriesSlayyyter Had One Last Chance for Pop Stardom, and She Nailed It
After a few attempts that didn’t fully connect, the St. Louis singer was ready to walk away, but not before making a raw album of thrashed pop, “Worst Girl in America.”
New York Times Top StoriesThe World Is Draining Oil Reserves, Raising Pressure for a Peace Deal
The amount of oil and fuel stored by businesses and governments has fallen sharply since the start of the U.S.-Israeli war against Iran.
New York Times Top StoriesSheriffs in Maryland Challenge State Limits on Cooperation With ICE
A lawsuit by a group of 17 county law enforcement officers is another front in the Trump-era fight over local police’s role in immigration enforcement.
New York Times Top StoriesFrisco Mayor’s Race Tests Anti-Muslim Politics in Texas
A runoff in the Dallas suburb of Frisco is testing whether anti-Muslim rhetoric, prominent in G.O.P. primaries this year, can win over a broader set of voters.
New York Times Top StoriesSpaceX’s I.P.O. Will Help Fulfill Elon Musk’s Political Vision of America
The SpaceX I.P.O. will enable its founder to build — and scale — his peculiar vision of society.
New York Times Top StoriesAIPAC Wants Democrats to Back Israel. Instead, They’re Turning on AIPAC.
Once the guardian of the bipartisan pro-Israel consensus, it is now a polarizing force in the party.
New York Times Top StoriesExcitement and Frustration Mix as the World Cup Comes to America
Astronomical ticket prices, soaring security costs and concern over traffic and transit snarls is mixed with pride in host cities and excitement over the U.S. team.
New York Times Top StoriesA Globe-Spanning Collection of Children’s Art May Lose Its Home
For 40 years, a museum in Norway has showcased art by children from around the world, even toddlers. Now it has lost the state support it depended on.
New York Times Top StoriesInside Cesar Chavez’s Labor Union, Women Faced a Culture of Sexual Abuse
Many of the women who helped lead the fight for Latino civil rights say they were quietly waging their own battles with harassment, misogyny and sexual assault inside the powerful United Farm Workers union.
New York Times Top StoriesShe Was Dying of Cancer. How Should She Live?
Thanks to new treatments, some patients with Stage 4 cancer are living longer — leaving them in limbo for years.
New York Times Top StoriesThe A.I. Proxy Fight Roiling the Race for a New York House Seat
Groups tied to OpenAI, Anthropic and other industry players have spent $16 million trying to pick the next member of Congress from Manhattan.
New York Times Top StoriesKnicks in Five? Please Don’t Tempt the Jinx Gods.
Some Knicks fans have predicted series sweeps. Others, conditioned by decades of failure, pay more heed to jinxes and superstitious rituals.