7 Takeaways From the Inauguration of Mayor Zohran Mamdani

Mr. Mamdani reaffirmed that he would govern New York City as a democratic socialist and assured even those who had not voted for him: “I am your mayor.”Zohran Mamdani, standing with his wife, Rama Duwaji, waves to the crowd outside City Hall at his inauguration ceremony.

J Jeffery C. Mays and Emma G. Fitzsimmons

Mamdani’s First Orders Focus on Housing and Undoing Adams’s Decisions

Mayor Zohran Mamdani signed a flurry of executive orders on his first day as mayor of New York City. They were aimed at protecting tenants and revoking some of ex-Mayor Eric Adams’s past orders.Mayor Zohran Mamdani signed a series of executive orders to protect tenants at a rent stabilized building

E Emma G. Fitzsimmons and Emma Goldberg

Fire in Swiss Alps Leaves Dozens of New Year’s Revelers Dead

About 40 people celebrating at a ski resort bar were killed, and 115 were injured, many of them young, the authorities said.An officer near a bar in Crans-Montana, Switzerland, where a deadly fire broke out during a New Year’s celebration early Thursday.

S Ségolène Le Stradic, Christopher F. Schuetze, Aurelien Breeden and Richard Pérez-Peña

Witnesses Recount Fire That Killed 40 in Switzerland

It was a haven for the young, where they could find hot chocolate when they wanted quiet and affordable drinks when they did not. Then it turned into a place of death.Mourners gathered on Thursday evening near Le Constellation in the resort village of Crans-Montana, Switzerland.

S Ségolène Le Stradic and Til Bürgy

Swiss Alps Ski Resort Fire: What We Know

The fire at a bar in a popular ski resort killed around 40 people and injured more than 100, officials said. The cause was still unknown.Dozens of people were killed, and more than 100 others were injured, after a fire broke at Le Constellation, a bar in Crans-Montana, in the Swiss canton of Valais,

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Toby Morton, a Comedy Writer, Owns the Trump Kennedy Center URL

A comedy writer bought the web domain TrumpKennedyCenter.org and the satirical site he created is drawing attention amid the backlash over the institution’s renaming.A satirical website created by Toby Morton, a television writer and producer who has worked on “South Park,” is attracting attention a

J John Yoon and Victor Mather

Russia Asks United States to Stop Pursuit of Fleeing Oil Tanker

The tanker, which had been sailing to Venezuela to pick up oil, has claimed Russian protection, although the U.S. authorities say it is a stateless vessel.A U.S. Coast Guard helicopter flying in Puerto Rico last month.

N Nicholas Nehamas, Edward Wong and Tyler Pager

Venezuela Frees Dozens of Political Prisoners

At least 80 people were released, including one with U.S. ties, though more than 800 remain detained in Venezuela for opposing President Nicolás Maduro’s rule, rights groups say.A group of women holding handkerchiefs with the names of political prisoners in Caracas in November.

A Anatoly Kurmanaev and Annie Correal

90 Minutes to Give Baby Luna a New Heart

After eight years of training, Dr. Maureen McKiernan made her debut as the lead surgeon on an infant heart transplant — an operation on the edge of what’s possible.Before Luna’s heart transplant, Dr. Goldstone advised Dr. McKiernan to “plan the surgery out — every detail down to the suture,” she rec

S Simar Bajaj

Iran Protests Turn Deadly as Violence and Anger Spread

Financial pressures have fueled a fifth day of demonstrations around Iran, with at least one person killed in the protests so far, according to the authorities.A photo released by Iranian state media showed shops closed in Tehran’s Grand Bazaar on Tuesday, following protests over a currency crisis.

B Ben Hubbard, Sanam Mahoozi and Leily Nikounazar

Search Is Suspended for Passenger Who Went Overboard From Cruise Ship

The U.S. Coast Guard said on Thursday that it halted its hourslong search for a 77-year-old woman who went overboard from a Holland America Line cruise ship near Cuba.The Holland America Line cruise ship Nieuw Statendam in Portland, in southwest England, in 2024. A 77-year-old woman went overboard f

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