New York Times Top Stories
Neil Shubin on Trusted Science in a ‘Deeply Partisan Age’
An eminent fossil hunter takes the reins at the National Academy of Sciences in a turbulent moment for American researchers.
New York Times Top StoriesNew York Times Top StoriesA Guide to Chicago’s South Side, Home of the New Obama Center
The Obama Presidential Center, opening on June 19, is poised to attract visitors to an often-overlooked area. Here’s what you’ll find in Hyde Park and beyond.
New York Times Top StoriesFraming David Hockney’s Greatest Art
Whether in Los Angeles, in his native England or traveling the world, the artist always reinvented the world he saw, with psychological insight.
New York Times Top StoriesFISA, a Key U.S. Spying Power, Is Expiring. What Does That Mean for Foreign Surveillance?
Top officials and some lawmakers say letting a powerful spying authority expire on Saturday will leave the United States dangerously blind. But surveillance can still continue.
New York Times Top StoriesRick Jackson, Georgia Governor Candidate, Is Also a Film Producer Battling the IRS
Rick Jackson, a billionaire, wants to be Georgia’s next governor. But the I.R.S. has questioned how his low-budget movies turned into tax windfalls.
New York Times Top StoriesThey Bought a Famous Puzzle in Cryptography. Now They’re Opening It Up.
A San Francisco company paid nearly $1 million for the solution to an unsolved code in Kryptos, a sculpture on the C.I.A. grounds. Soon it will become an online challenge.
New York Times Top StoriesThis Conservative Insider Is Skeptical That the G.O.P. Can ‘Buck Historical Trends’ in the Midterms
Why “top Republicans should actually be more concerned.”
New York Times Top StoriesHockney’s Sense of Style Never Wavered
The painter David Hockney’s clothes roared with mirth and maximalism.
New York Times Top StoriesOhio 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 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.