New Deadline Looms for U.S. and Iran as Truce Wavers

Fractures were already emerging in the limited cease-fire. Vice President JD Vance will lead a U.S. delegation in talks this weekend.Vice President JD Vance in the Oval Office with President Trump last month. Mr. Vance is to lead a U.S. delegation to Islamabad for a meeting on Saturday with Iranian

M Michael Crowley

After Cease-Fire, Iranians Are Left to Pick Up the Pieces

Hours after a tenuous pause to a nearly six-week war, Iranians expressed relief and trepidation about the future. Some fear the government will crack down on its domestic critics.

S Sanam Mahoozi, Leily Nikounazar, Yeganeh Torbati and Shirin Hakim

Trump Finds Himself With Fragile Iran Cease-Fire After the Scramble to Make a Deal

After careening from one diplomatic extreme to another, President Trump finds himself with a fragile deal that is already showing signs of fraying.President Trump’s efforts to circumvent the reality on the ground in the Middle East and move into a peace process have been hampered by an adversary tha

T Tyler Pager, Katie Rogers and Farnaz Fassihi

Gilgo Beach Killer’s ‘Unusual’ Deal Could Help Solve Other Murders

Rex Heuermann agreed to talk to behavioral analysts at the F.B.I. when he pleaded guilty. The unit has interviewed Ted Bundy, John Wayne Gacy and Richard Speck.“They’re going to hopefully gain insight into the things that created him, that drove him, what causes this?” the Suffolk County district at

E Ed Shanahan

In 20 Minutes, Gilgo Beach Killer Admits to Murdering 8 Women

As he pleaded guilty on Wednesday, Rex Heuermann gave the same one-word answer each time he was asked how he killed one of his victims.Rex Heuermann, on left in dark suit and tie, confessed to eight murders at Suffolk County court on Wednesday.

C Claire Fahy

Bondi Won’t Appear on Capitol Hill for Scheduled Epstein Deposition

Pam Bondi had already been working to avoid testifying before she was fired as attorney general. The House Oversight Committee said she would not honor her subpoena because she was no longer in the post.Pam Bondi’s stumbles in handling the Epstein investigation played a pivotal role in President Tru

M Michael Gold

Trump Administration Investigating L.A. Schools’ Gender Disclosure Policies

The investigation into the nation’s second-largest school district was prompted by a lawsuit from parents who say the policies contributed to their child’s death.In January, the Supreme Court heard arguments concerning transgender athletes. Groups involved in the parents’ rights movement have helped

M Michael C. Bender

No, Britain Is Not Having a Christian Revival

A study said church attendance had soared among British young people, a trend reversal that excited religious conservatives around the world. Turns out it wasn’t true.Churches like the St. Nicholas in Pluckley were once the beating heart of every British village, but have declined in number.

L Lauren Jackson

‘Ketamine Queen’ Sentenced to 15 Years in Matthew Perry’s Overdose Death

The sentence for Jasveen Sangha, who prosecutors say was known to customers as the Ketamine Queen, is the stiffest yet for those charged in the “Friends” star’s death.The medical examiner’s office attributed the actor Matthew Perry’s death to the “acute effects” of ketamine after he was found unresp

E Emmanuel Morgan and Matt Stevens

Hasan Piker Can Stream, but Can He Stump?

The progressive and popular Twitch streamer, who is controversial with some Democrats, tests his political influence on the 2026 campaign trail.Dr. Abdul El-Sayed took a selfie with Hasan Piker and the crowd at a rally in Michigan on Tuesday.

N Nathan Taylor Pemberton

Clean Energy Team Wins Salt River Project Election in Arizona

Proponents of renewable power will control the Phoenix area utility’s policymaking for the first time after they won an unusually contentious race that drew attention from national groups.The Salt River Project Agua Fria Generating Station in Glendale, Ariz., powers much of the Phoenix valley.

R Reis Thebault

Mamdani Acknowledges ‘Troubling’ Job Losses in 100 Days’ Interview

Mayor Zohran Mamdani is focused on economic justice. Some budget watchdogs and business leaders want him to concentrate on economic development.Mayor Zohran Mamdani acknowledged concern over a recent labor report showing the city lost 19,500 private-sector jobs last year.

S Sally Goldenberg and Dana Rubinstein

Jim Whittaker, First American to Reach Everest’s Summit, Dies at 97

As an executive with the outdoor-supply retailer REI and an experienced climber, he conquered Mount Everest in 1963, when fewer than 10 people were known to have done so.Jim Whittaker in 1975, before his unsuccessful attempt to summit K2, the world’s second-highest mountain. More than a decade earli

J John Branch

Hawaii Doctor Convicted of Attempted Manslaughter in Attack on Wife

Gerhardt Konig, 47, an anesthesiologist from Maui, attacked his wife, Arielle Konig, on a hiking trail near Honolulu, prosecutors said. He claimed it was self-defense.Gerhardt Konig on Tuesday during closing arguments in his attempted-murder trial in Honolulu.

N Neil Vigdor