Opinion | He Knows It’s Important to Admit Mistakes. He’s Made Many.
Glenn Loury thought maybe the world — maybe he — had been wrong about Derek Chauvin, the police officer convicted of murdering George Floyd in 2020. Loury had watched a…
R.F.K. Jr. Says Doctors Found a Dead Worm in His Brain
In 2010, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was experiencing memory loss and mental fogginess so severe that a friend grew concerned he might have a brain tumor. Mr. Kennedy said he…
Afraid of Cicadas? This Entomologist Wants to Change That.
Spring has sprung, and coming with it is a mass emergence of two broods of cicadas. After more than a decade underground, they will tunnel through the soil and up…
LaToya Ruby Frazier Is Paying It Forward
A continuous high-pitched din — a bit whirring, a bit crunching — echoed over the Bottom, the residential sliver of Braddock, Pa., nearest to the industrial plants and the Monongahela…
Democrats, Sensing Shift on Abortion Rights Among Latinas, Push for More Gains
Hours before Arizona state legislators voted to repeal an 1864 abortion ban last month, a group of mostly Latina Democrats huddled at a nearby Mexican restaurant for a strategy session…
France Says It Built the Olympics Safely. Migrant Workers Don’t Count.
France’s president, Emmanuel Macron, promised to build the Summer Olympics safely, free of the construction hazards and migrant worker abuses that tarnished soccer’s 2022 World Cup in Qatar. Months before…
The Knicks Are Finally Good Again. And New York City Loves Them for It.
They poured out of Madison Square Garden and the surrounding bars, draped in Jalen Brunson jerseys and other Knicks paraphernalia, chanting and yelling and exulting as they clogged Seventh Avenue…
N.Y. Prisons Holding Mentally Ill People in Solitary, Lawsuit Says
Each time Stephanie Peña was placed alone in a prison cell the length and width of a parking spot, she could feel herself losing it. Ms. Peña, 23 and living…
With a Gaza Cease-Fire in the Balance, Netanyahu Maneuvers to Keep Power
Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s prime minister, is known as a man who likes to play for time and postpone big decisions. But he may not be able to do that much…
Biden Puts Arms Shipment to Israel on Hold Amid Dispute Over Rafah Attack
President Biden paused an arms shipment to Israel last week to prevent the U.S.-made weapons from being used in a long-threatened assault on the city of Rafah, administration officials said…