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Amid stepped-up surveillance flights and an energy embargo, the White House weighs a federal indictment of Cuba's former President Raúl Castro over the 1996 killing of four volunteer airmen whose civilian planes were shot down. CIA Director John Ratcliffe visited Havana this week.

Back from China, Trump faces a decision on whether to resume military strikes on Iran, saying Tehran must show "real" commitment to removing nuclear fuel. Executions have surged in Iran since the April ceasefire, rights groups say. Republicans in Congress warn challenging the president may already be "too late."

Izz ad-Din al-Haddad, "one of the architects of the October 7 massacre," was killed in a Gaza City air strike. Lebanon reports six dead in a separate Israeli strike as the US announces a 45-day ceasefire extension with Hezbollah. Palestinian leaders hold a rare Fatah faction meeting amid rising public discontent.

Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham confirmed a return to Parliament as a sitting MP stepped aside. Health Secretary Wes Streeting backed him as "best candidate." Meanwhile, Reform UK leader Nigel Farage faces a probe over a £5 million donation from a Thai-based billionaire supporter.

From a £29.50-a-week schoolboy to a £1.2 billion empire spanning football clubs, fashion and licensing — David Beckham has crossed the billionaire threshold, becoming the first British sports star to do so. The Beckhams also made the UK rich list for the first time alongside Oasis's reunion income.

A routing software glitch sent multiple Waymo vehicles to the same Atlanta cul-de-sac repeatedly. Separately, thousands of Waymos were recalled after one robotaxi was swept into a creek, raising new questions about AI-driven vehicle safety infrastructure and regulatory oversight.

Eurovision celebrates its Platinum Jubilee in Vienna, but faces its biggest boycott in 70 years over Israel's participation. John Travolta won a surprise honorary Palme d'Or at Cannes the same week. Separately, the search for a new James Bond to replace Daniel Craig officially kicked off with auditions underway.

Susan Hutson, the sheriff of Orleans Parish, faces 30 counts, and the jail’s chief financial officer was also indicted.

The changes are in keeping with the administration’s pledge to cut back on gun restrictions.

The comments came after the German chancellor said that Iran has “humiliated” the United States.

The musclebound character he developed as a toy designer for Mattel gave rise to the Masters of the Universe franchise and helped define the machismo of the 1980s.

There were at least 10 American billionaires, six Fox News hosts, assorted presidential pals, no Democratic politicians and not so many British.

A school transfer disrupted two brothers’ visas, their lawyer said, leaving them vulnerable to arrest and unsettling their Mississippi school community.

In the name of disentangling race from politics, the court has given white voters more power at the expense of racial minorities.

House Republicans toiled to pass major measures as lawmakers tried to fund homeland security, extend spy powers and deliver a farm bill.

The defense secretary said at a House hearing that President Barack Obama had fired 197 generals, a figure that the Pentagon previously acknowledged was false.

Many picked up running late in life. They all shared an uncommon competitive drive.

In 2022, at 100, he set what was believed to be a world record in the 100-meter dash at the Penn Relays in Philadelphia, beating 86- and 92-year-old competitors.

Footage of the incident shared this week by a school district in Mississippi shows a group of students working together to avert disaster on a highway.

On Wednesday, the queen of Britain presented the New York Public Library with a bespoke replica of Roo, the smallest companion of the Bear of Very Little Brain.

Investigators said the man’s transient lifestyle and social isolation made his intentions hard to track before shootings that killed two Brown students and an M.I.T. professor.

Jurors found the man guilty of conspiracy to support the terrorist group that took credit for a horrific bombing, but deadlocked on whether he was responsible for the attack itself.

Almost every ideology can be wielded to make women feel that they’re failing.

The White House press secretary said the United States would evaluate oil shipments to Cuba on a “case-by-case basis,” after a Russian tanker full of crude reached the island.

The airport near West Palm Beach will be rebranded the President Donald J. Trump International Airport on July 1, if approved by the Federal Aviation Administration.

Fans had high hopes for Barbie Dream Fest, a Mattel-sanctioned gathering in Fort Lauderdale. But in a cavernous convention center, the dream seemed to fizzle.

A reporter who claimed the network had fired him for challenging its coverage failed to prove retaliation and discrimination, a federal judge said.

Videos posted Saturday showed the pro-Trump musician saluting two Apache attack choppers, which appeared to be the same ones that flew low over a “No Kings” rally in Nashville.

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Barely out of prototype testing, the Precision Strike Missile is shrouded in secrecy — including which Persian Gulf countries the Army is launching them from.

Claudia Sheinbaum, president of Mexico, said her country would take legal steps to demand better conditions at immigration detention facilities, where she said 14 Mexican citizens had died since President Trump took office.

The man who rammed his vehicle into the synagogue was purposely targeting the Jewish community, officials said on Monday, detailing his days of planning.

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He created dances performed worldwide, and, under his leadership, the Houston Ballet grew into one of America’s largest and most prominent troupes.

The former South Carolina governor and congressman filed papers to run for his old seat, six years after running for president and nearly two decades after a high-profile affair.

Also, T.S.A. workers start getting back pay. Here’s the latest at the end of Monday.

Earlier, President Trump suggested on social media that he could try to persuade the Supreme Court to reconsider its rejection of his tariffs.

Parents will receive notifications if a child has used the platform repeatedly to search for terms related to suicide or self-harm, but users must opt in to get them.

Marquee primary contests will determine the major-party nominees for an open U.S. Senate seat. The real action could unfold lower down the ballot.

Alberto Carvalho, superintendent of the Los Angeles Unified School District, was placed on paid leave after F.B.I. agents raided his home and district office this week.

Netanyahu and his government deserve the growing bipartisan opprobrium they’re receiving.

Our readers in the state offer a window into the current center of the political universe.

The singer and songwriter, who died on Friday at 86, gave voice to teenage dreams, then executed one of music’s most unexpected comebacks.

Also, the president said he is “not happy” with Iran’s negotiators. Here’s the latest at the end of Friday.

Federal agents do not have any special privileges on campuses. To arrest a student at Columbia University this week, they used a tactic of questionable legality.

Actions by the president and the Pentagon appeared to drive a wedge between Washington and the tech industry, whose leaders and workers spoke out for the start-up.

The demonstration at the Lincoln Memorial was the latest in a string of school walkouts across the country, which have resulted in arrests and condemnation from some officials, and plaudits from others.

Any Lucia López Belloza was deported by mistake. A judge ordered her return by Friday. When the Trump administration sent a plane, she decided not to get on.

After a month with little visible progress, the sheriff in Pima County, Ariz., is sending some deputies back to their regular units.

He sang and co-wrote some of the definitive teenage anthems of the 1950s and early ’60s, including “Breaking Up Is Hard to Do,” and then reinvented his career in the ’70s.

Despite plans to close the building this summer for a two-year reconstruction project, the renamed ceremony will be held elsewhere, the center’s president said.

Her characters were as varied as they were eccentric and lovable. These are some of the best.

The Trump administration used a federal law prohibiting blockades of abortion clinics and places of worship to charge Mr. Lemon and others in Minnesota.

The New Shepard rocket from Blue Origin, which brought 92 people on trips to the edge of space, will cease flying for at least two years as the company prioritizes NASA contracts.

The House still must clear the legislation for President Trump’s signature, but is not expected to return to Washington to do so before Monday.

Brooklyn federal prosecutors have been conducting a corruption investigation into Frank Carone, who served as Mayor Eric Adams’s chief of staff.

The administration has ordered that further changes be made to Independence National Historical Park, according to internal National Park Service documents obtained by The New York Times

Demonstrators rallied across the country, leaving school and work and closing businesses in a show of solidarity with Minneapolis.

An internal memo changed the standard from whether people are unlikely to show up for hearings to whether they could leave the scene.

American and Canadian “Heated Rivalry” fans are hot for the jacket worn by the character Shane Hollander.

The coyote struggled onto the rocky shore this month. It is the first documented coyote on Alcatraz since the island was transferred to the National Park Service in 1972.

Also, Kevin Warsh is Trump’s pick to lead the Fed. Here’s the latest at the end of Friday.

The Canadian actress’s career spanned decades and genres, including memorable roles in “Home Alone” and “Schitt’s Creek.”

Mr. Musk has tried to put distance between himself and the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein, but emails show the two were on friendly terms.

The party was mostly unified on the issue not long ago, but splinters are everywhere now.

A World Golf Hall of Famer who could drive a ball more than 300 yards in his prime, he recorded 113 victories.

The release of the emails raised serious questions about whether the Justice Department had misled a judge in telling him that local prosecutors had acted alone in charging Mr. Abrego Garcia.

Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, whose rise to prominence foreshadowed Zohran Mamdani’s success, will speak at his swearing-in outside City Hall on Thursday.

Plus, the inside story of how the U.S. split with Ukraine. Here’s the latest at the end of Tuesday.

The authorities closed access to part of Mount Baldy, the tallest peak in the San Gabriel Mountains in Southern California. They cited dangerous and unpredictable terrain and weather.

The baby was found unresponsive in a Queens home, where the mother had tried to kill herself, a police report said.

A Times investigation reveals the inside story of the Trump administration’s chaotic push for a peace deal and its erratic role in the war.

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The organizations, including Doctors Without Borders, have resisted providing Israel with detailed information about their workers.

As President Trump sought a peace deal and Vladimir V. Putin sought victory, factions in the White House and Pentagon bled the Ukrainian war effort.

The drone attack, said to be on a dock where drugs were being prepared for loading on boats, represented a further escalation of the Trump administration’s campaign against Nicolás Maduro.

Times journalists are accompanying a group of scientists on an arduous, weekslong trip to study a key glacier in Antarctica. Here’s what to know.

The decision temporarily preserved deportation protections for more than 200 South Sudanese.

Officials at the central bank have splintered over whether rising unemployment or elevated inflation poses the bigger economic risk.

In works like “Travesties” and “Arcadia,” the playwright embraced the really big questions and wrestled words into coherent, exhilarating shape.

Natan Last’s puzzle is a gem.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner plan to discuss peace terms again after an uproar over a 28-point proposal drafted with Russian input.

Former officials said the C.I.A. diligently assessed those who partnered with its forces, like the man accused of shooting two National Guard members in Washington.

More than 1,100 flights were canceled at Chicago airports as the storm disrupted travel for those headed home after Thanksgiving.

The man was initially hailed for his efforts to protect his daughter, 8, and two sons, 4 and 2, but the authorities concluded that he put them at risk by taking them on perilous terrain.

The confrontation appeared to foil a possible ICE raid nearby, underscoring the numerous challenges the federal government faces in trying to stage raids in a dense city like New York.

President Trump’s statements on social media less than 24 hours apart showed the dissonance in his campaign against drug trafficking.

The closure happened in 2023, prosecutors said. As part of the video, drivers conducted doughnuts around a performer, who was charged with conspiracy to commit exhibition of speed.

She won two world titles and six Canadian national championships, and was also a television anchor, reporter and commentator.

A hundred years after it first went live, Nashville’s famed country music show celebrated its history with a series of performances.

The Israeli military said it had fired on two “suspects” on Saturday who had crossed cease-fire lines in southern Gaza and did not comment on reports that they were young children.

Data on spending this week shows that consumers are shopping big for the holidays despite inflation and economic worries.

Drawing comparisons to the greatest of dramatists, he entwined erudition with imagination in stage works that won accolades on both sides of the Atlantic.

The police said they expected the death toll of 128 to rise as the authorities began combing through the charred apartment towers.