A Harrowing Race Against Time to Find a Downed U.S. Airman in Iran

For the Iranians, the Air Force colonel whose fighter jet had been shot down was possible leverage. For the U.S. military, finding him was a moral imperative.An image shared by Iranian state television on social media purported to show the site of the U.S. aircraft destroyed during the mission to fi

G Greg Jaffe, Helene Cooper, Eric Schmitt and Julian E. Barnes

Trump Revels in Threats to Commit War Crimes in Iran

The president said he would bomb Iran “back to the Stone Ages.” Until this administration, American leaders had insisted they were trying to follow international law in war.President Trump wrote on social media that “all Hell will reign down” on Iran unless it opens the Strait of Hormuz.

E Edward Wong

Stephen Miller Is Still Pursuing His Immigration Agenda, but More Quietly

The architect of President Trump’s mass deportation campaign wants “a moratorium on immigration from third world countries until we can heal ourselves as a nation.” The chaos in Minneapolis has not pushed him off that course.

Z Zolan Kanno-Youngs, Hamed Aleaziz, Christopher Flavelle, Emily Cochrane and Glenn Thrush

ICE Agents Detain Newlywed Spouse of Soldier Training to Deploy

The 22-year-old wife of an Army staff sergeant came to the U.S. as a toddler. She was taken from a military base where the couple planned to live.Staff Sergeant Matthew Blank and his mother, Jen Rickling, outside the detention center in Basile, La., where his wife is being held.

M Miriam Jordan

NASA Artemis II Astronauts Race Into Moon’s Embrace After Quiet Easter

Ahead of a lunar flyby on Monday, the crew celebrated the astronaut Jeremy Hansen’s first spaceflight and got a special message from Charlie Duke, the Apollo 16 moonwalker.A view of the near side of the moon, the side we always see from Earth, captured by the Artemis II astronauts on Sunday.

K Kenneth Chang

Artemis II Moon Flyby: Crew, Timeline and What to Know

The journey around the moon of three Americans and one Canadian is going into its sixth day, but it’s not too late to get caught up on it.The SLS rocket taking off from Launch Complex 39B to begin the Artemis II mission last Wednesday in Cape Canaveral, Fla.

K Kenneth Chang

China Mourned an Education Influencer. The Grief Was a Quiet Revolt.

Zhang Xuefeng helped people navigate the country’s unforgiving higher education system. The public outpouring after his death was a quiet rebuke to the punishing process.Mourners lined up in Suzhou, China, to pay their respects to Zhang Xuefeng, a prominent education influencer who died on March 24.

L Li Yuan

Renovate or Replace: The Fight Over How to Fix N.Y.C. Public Housing

The city thinks four developments in Chelsea are too run-down to be saved, and wants to rebuild them, adding mixed-income housing. Some residents are opposed.Public housing buildings on the campuses of the Fulton and Elliott-Chelsea Houses, left, have deteriorated over the years, even as the surroun

M Mihir Zaveri

3 Dead After High Winds Topple Tree During Easter Egg Hunt in Germany

A 21-year-old woman, her baby and a 16-year-old girl were killed after a nearly 100-foot tree fell in a wooded area in northern Germany, the police said.The three people killed were among a group of residents and staff members from a nearby welfare facility who had been searching for Easter eggs in

L Livia Albeck-Ripka