Trump’s Fixation on Arctic Ships Led to Billions in No-Bid Contracts
The president decided to buy 11 polar icebreakers after a game of golf with Finland’s president. Experts say it’s far from clear the United States needs so many.
Justice Dept. Subpoenas Times Freelancer in Effort to Identify Sources
A previously undisclosed subpoena, involving reporting on a failed SEAL Team 6 mission in North Korea, reflects the government’s expanding campaign to investigate leaks of secrets.A SEAL Team 6 mission conducted in 2019 in North Korea was detailed in a New York Times article last year.
Scope of Hacks on U.S. Water Supply Widens as Evidence Points to Iran
Michigan and Minnesota are among at least seven states coping with cyberattacks aimed at disrupting water systems nationwide.Michigan officials said some of their water systems had been affected but continued to operate safely.
Iran Plotted Wider War With Help of Its Proxies
During a fleeting truce, Iranians covertly devised a plan to raise the war’s costs for President Trump if U.S. forces attacked anew.Mourners on Wednesday carried a coffin draped in the Iranian flag during a funeral for those killed in airstrikes on bases belonging to Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Forc
Evidence Indicates U.S. Dropped Bomb on Residential Area in Iran, Killing 3 Civilians
The weapon, one of the largest in the U.S.’s arsenal, struck a house in a heavily populated area, according to a Times analysis.
Kuwait Says It Downed Iranian Drones as Mideast Braces for Possible Escalation
The wave of strikes came as President Trump threatened to intensify the American campaign against Iran. U.S. embassies in the region warned of the “potential for unforeseen escalation.”Iranian missiles on display in Tehran.
Fact-Checking Trump’s Claims About the Effect of the Iran War on Oil Prices, Munitions and More
The president misleadingly blamed the Biden administration’s weapons transfers to Ukraine for current concerns over munitions stockpiles, among other claims about the Iran war.President Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth attending a dignified transfer last month for Army soldiers killed while
She Voted for a Justice Who Overturned Roe. Now it Haunts Her on the Trail.
Senator Susan Collins, who supports abortion rights, endorsed Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination for the Supreme Court. It has emerged as a major issue in her campaign for re-election.
Why Mitch McConnell Isn’t Giving Up His Senate Seat
Democrats are demanding that the Kentucky Republican resign. Others who were sidelined for far longer faced no such calls, but times are changing.Senator Mitch McConnell heading to a vote in May.
How Ukraine Is Making Inroads With MAGA and a Trump Ally, Laura Loomer
Ukraine and its supporters have invested years in trying to undo the skepticism of the country’s war effort harbored by President Trump’s MAGA movement and the president himself.President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine with President Trump during the NATO summit in Ankara last month.
The U.S. Deported Him to Jail in Russia. Then He Escaped.
Facing a long prison sentence or a forced trip to the front line of a war he opposes, Artyom Vovchenko believed it was worth taking a risk.Artyom Vovchenko deserted the Russian military, fled to the United States, was deported back to Russia and escaped again.
Russian Missiles Kill 9 in Kyiv After Trump Backs Off Air-Defense Pledge
Ukraine’s supply of Patriot missile interceptors is dwindling, and on Friday, President Trump backed away from his promise to let Ukraine make them itself.Rescuers working on Saturday outside a residential building damaged in a strike on Kyiv, Ukraine.
How 50,000 Migrants Surged Into Ceuta, a Spanish Exclave Near Morocco
On Thursday, tens of thousands of Moroccans broke into Ceuta, a Spanish territory that neighbors Morocco. By Friday evening, most of them had left, hungry and disappointed.Migrants near the Spain-Morocco border on Friday. Tens of thousands of people illegally entered the Spanish territory of Ceuta t
Spain Installs Floating Barrier in Ceuta After Influx of Migrants
Most of those who came to the territory, a Spanish exclave in Africa, have returned across the border to Morocco. At least 67 people died trying to enter, the authorities said.Migrants waiting for humanitarian assistance on a beach in the Spanish territory of Ceuta on Saturday.
Anthony Bourdain’s Wild Summers Still Echo in Provincetown
As a new film evokes his coming-of-age in this bohemian Cape Cod town, Pete Wells goes looking for the people and restaurants that shaped him.
To Find Happiness, I Stopped Talking. It Helped.
A silent retreat turned out to be exactly what I needed.
The Working Class Is Fleeing Trump
Democrats have an anger problem. Republicans have a Trump problem.
Making Rounds
Errands get us out of our homes and into the world, on missions providing both serendipity and satisfaction.
Nirmal Purja, Renowned Mountaineer, Is Found Dead After Pakistan Avalanche
The British-Nepali mountaineer was one of 10 climbers who were struck by an avalanche on Thursday on Broad Peak, one of the world’s highest mountains.Nirmal Purja at a celebration in Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan, following his team’s historic first winter ascent of K2 in January 2021.