New York Times

April 26, 2025 | 3 MIN READ

A senior Russian military commander was killed Friday in a car explosion in a Moscow suburb, investigators said, the latest in a series of apparent assassinations targeting Ukraine’s opp...

April 26, 2025 | 2 MIN READ

A coalition of 19 states sued the Trump administration Friday over its threat to withhold federal funding from states and districts with certain diversity programs in their public schools....

April 26, 2025 | 5 MIN READ

CENTRAL ISLIP, NY. — Former Rep. George Santos, R-N.Y., whose outlandish fabrications and criminal schemes fueled an unforeseen rise and spectacular fall, was sentenced to more than seve...

April 26, 2025 | 4 MIN READ

NEW YORK — The judge overseeing the federal prosecution of Luigi Mangione, the man accused of killing a health insurance executive in Manhattan, on Friday warned the U.S. attorney genera...

April 25, 2025 | 2 MIN READ

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth had the consumer messaging app Signal set up on a computer in his office at the Pentagon so that he could send and receive instant messages in a space where pers...

April 25, 2025 | 5 MIN READ

Harold Macmillan, the midcentury British prime minister, supposedly said that what statesmen feared most were “events, dear boy, events.” Misfortunes happen: a natural disaster, a...

April 24, 2025 | 8 MIN READ

WASHINGTON — For a president who advertises himself as a paramount dealmaker, the next 11 weeks will be a pivotal test, as his advisers race to accomplish what no other administration ha...

April 24, 2025 | 3 MIN READ

At least 156 million Americans, about 46% of the population, live with unsafe levels of ozone, particulate pollution or both, according to the American Lung Association’s annual State of...

April 24, 2025 | 2 MIN READ

WASHINGTON — Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Wednesday called for major overhauls to the missions of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank but said the United States rem...

April 24, 2025 | 1 MIN READ

The rituals of the Vatican can seem timeless, impervious to change. But look closer.

April 23, 2025 | 8 MIN READ

WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth arrived at the Pentagon in January with almost no government experience and huge ambitions to remake the way the military was being run....

April 23, 2025 | 2 MIN READ

The spread of measles in the Southwest now constitutes the largest single outbreak since the United States declared the disease eliminated in 2000, federal scientists told state officials in a...

April 23, 2025 | 2 MIN READ

ROME — Pope Francis’ funeral will be held Saturday in front of St. Peter’s Basilica in Vatican City, with simpler rituals than in the past, followed by a burial in a relative...

April 23, 2025 | 1 MIN READ

A day after Harvard University sued the Trump administration over its decision to freeze billions in federal funds to the school, more than 220 higher education leaders from around the country...

April 22, 2025 | 7 MIN READ

Months into his papacy in 2013, Pope Francis was asked about gay priests, and he responded, “Who am I to judge?” Across the United States, Catholics and non-Catholics alike took a...

April 22, 2025 | 3 MIN READ

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