On Iran, Trump Keeps World Off Balance With Ever-Changing Threats

Global leaders are struggling in their efforts to find a way to end the American-Israeli war on Iran, and they are spooked about what President Trump might do next.President Trump has threatened to bomb crucial civilian infrastructure in Iran if Tehran does not agree to his demands by Tuesday.

M Michael D. Shear

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’s Lesson From Risky Rescue: Threaten to Go Harder at Iran

In an expletive-laced social media post, the president said Iran should open the Strait of Hormuz or he would bomb bridges and power plants.While President Trump still suggests that Iran is begging for a deal, intelligence analysis generated by the United States and some of its closest Western allie

D David E. Sanger

Plunging International Student Enrollment Under Trump Squeezes Colleges

The Trump administration’s campaign to curtail international students is not just hitting the elite schools targeted by the government.Lewis University hired a number of professors, including Zheng Zhou, to teach a surge of international students. Now some of his colleagues have left as internationa

A Alan Blinder and Kevin Serna

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 S.L.S. rocket taking off from Launch Complex 39B from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida to begin the Artemis II mission last Wednesday.

K Kenneth Chang

Why Trees Are Key to Russia’s Spring Offensive in Ukraine

In the age of drone warfare, Russia is expected to exploit the return of vegetation to help conceal its troops.Ukrainian soldiers moved under the cover of trees last May on the outskirts of Kupiansk. With spring weather, Russia will also look to use fresh foliage to its advantage.

C Constant Méheut and Olha Konovalova

Epstein in Paris: How a Sex Offender Hustled for Access to France’s Elite

Jeffrey Epstein spent his last days of freedom in Paris, meeting with influential figures. It was a playbook he used everywhere he lived to stamp a veneer of respectability on a life of sordid criminality.An apartment building at 22 Avenue Foch in Paris, where Mr. Epstein owned a sprawling 7,400-squ

M Mark Landler

Bard College Is Split Over Its President and His Epstein Ties

Leon Botstein saved Bard from near ruin. Now, as an outside firm conducts a review, the campus is home to arguments about his legacy and future.A group of students and alumni opposed to the continuation of Leon Botstein’s presidency have formed a group called Take Back Bard.

G Ginia Bellafante

‘Good to be Home’: Savannah Guthrie Returns to ‘Today’

The anchor joined the show’s cast on Monday for the first time since the disappearance of her 84-year-old mother, Nancy, who remains missing.Savannah Guthrie at the “Today” show at Rockefeller Plaza last month.

J John Koblin and Michael M. Grynbaum

Someone Changed His Party Registration. He Thinks He Knows Why.

Andrew Hevesi, a lifelong Democrat and New York State assemblyman from Queens, was told his voter registration had been changed without his knowledge. He has a culprit in mind.Andrew Hevesi, a New York State assemblyman from Queens, says his rival in the Democratic primary had a motive to file paper

G Grace Ashford

Sharpton Moves Longtime Civil Rights Group to New Home in Harlem

The Rev. Al Sharpton wants to leave his mark in the face of gentrification, which he says has diluted Harlem’s political power.The Rev. Al Sharpton said his civil rights organization, the National Action Network, was buying the Faison Firehouse Theater in Harlem to be its new home.

S Samantha Latson

Mamdani Moves to Link Affordability Agenda With Racial Equity

Mayor Zohran Mamdani, who has been taking steps to try to strengthen his ties with Black voters, is issuing two reports that focus on the ways nonwhite New Yorkers are being left behind.Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s administration has released two reports required in a referendum that look at racial equity

J Jeffery C. Mays

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