Binance Employees Find $1.7 Billion in Crypto Was Sent to Iranian Entities

Binance pledged to crack down on crime. But internal investigators at the world’s largest crypto exchange continued to find evidence of potential legal violations on the platform.Internal investigators found last year that people in Iran had gained access to more than 1,500 accounts on the Binance p

D David Yaffe-Bellany and Michael Forsythe

What to Know About the Killing of ‘El Mencho’

The Mexican government has killed Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, the longtime leader of one of Mexico’s most powerful gangs, the Jalisco New Generation Cartel.Firefighters extinguishing a burning bus in Jalisco state, Mexico, on Sunday. Organized crime groups set fire to buildings and vehicles across t

E Ephrat Livni

Puerto Vallarta Jolted By Violence After Cartel Boss Killing

When violence broke out after the killing of Mexico’s most-wanted cartel boss, vacation spots ordinarily spared from the drug wars were also targeted.Firefighters work to extinguish a bus on fire in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, Sunday.

A Amelia Nierenberg and David Shortell

Border Patrol Shoots Armed Person Near Canadian Border, Authorities Say

The F.B.I. said that the person, who was not killed, “allegedly fired at” a Border Patrol agent in Pittsburg, N.H., around 1 a.m. on Sunday.Outside the town of Pittsburg, N.H, in 2024. Federal authorities said that a Border Patrol agent shot an armed individual near the Canadian border in Pittsburg

M Madeleine Ngo

The Evolution of Eyes Began With One

Even Charles Darwin was puzzled by the evolution of the vertebrate eye. New research suggests that it traces back to a cyclopean invertebrate with a single eye atop the head.Scientists believe invertebrates 560 million years ago had a single eye at the top of their head, which only later split in tw

C Carl Zimmer

Trump-Appointed Judge Bars Release of Jack Smith’s Report in Documents Case

Judge Aileen Cannon, a Trump-appointed federal judge in Florida, slammed the former special counsel, Jack Smith, for drafting the report even after she had dismissed the case.The ruling by the judge, Aileen M. Cannon, was her latest effort in the past several months to keep the public from seeing Ja

A Alan Feuer

Judges Grow Angry Over Trump Administration Violating Their Orders

At least 35 times since August, federal judges have ordered the administration to explain why it should not be punished for violating their orders in immigration cases.In internal communications, the Justice Department’s leadership in Washington has taken a defiant posture toward federal judges.

M Mattathias Schwartz, Zach Montague and Ernesto Londoño

The European Union Hits Pause on Its U.S. Trade Deal

The E.U. isn’t throwing out the deal it agreed with the United States before President Trump’s tariffs were overruled, but European officials want more clarity first.A European lawmaker warned that U.S. tariffs on cheeses like Parmesan and Camembert could nearly double, to about 30 percent.

J Jeanna Smialek

Trump’s Challenge to Free Market Capitalism

Stakes in private companies. Handshake deals with chief executives. The president’s economic policy has drifted far from principles that long defined the Republican Party. Is it capitalism at all?

B Ben Casselman

Trump Administration Scrambles to Pick Up the Pieces of Broken Tariffs

President Trump is already working to piece his tariff program back together, after a Supreme Court ruling ruptured a centerpiece of his economic agenda.President Trump has said that tariffs will help America’s manufacturing sector and create factory jobs, though many economists have questioned thos

A Ana Swanson

What’s Happened Since the Supreme Court’s Tariff Ruling

After the Trump administration’s punishing tariffs were invalidated, the president said he would impose new tariffs using a different authority. It’s been a whirlwind.The Supreme Court on Friday, in a 6-to-3 ruling, found that the statute that President Trump invoked to bypass Congress did not allow

K Kim Bhasin

Architecture Prize Responds After Tom Pritzker’s Epstein Ties Surface

A Pritzker Prize statement cited the award’s independence after Mr. Pritzker, who directs the foundation behind the award, resigned as chairman of the Hyatt Corporation.Tom Pritzker, the director of the foundation that awards the Pritzker Prize, has said he “exercised terrible judgment in maintainin

R Robin Pogrebin

‘Survivor’ Is America

It’s our greatest game and our truest mirror. And in its tiki-torch-festooned way, it’s captured our society as an ever-changing collection of tribes.

J James Poniewozik

BAFTAs 2026: The Best and Worst Moments

Alan Cumming forced fishy British snacks onto movie stars. Paddington Bear presented an award. And a racist slur and swearing.Jessie Buckley gave the night’s most emotional and twisty speech after winning the BAFTA for best actress.

A Alex Marshall and Eleanor Stanford

Prince William and Kate Made a Pointed Appearance at BAFTA

After Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor’s arrest, the Prince and Princess of Wales made a pointed BAFTA appearance.The Prince and Princess of Wales arriving at the BAFTAS with Jane Millichip, the chief executive of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, and Ken Olisa, the Lord-Lieutenant of Great

V Vanessa Friedman

For Iran’s Rulers, Refusing U.S. Demands Is a Risk Worth Taking

The government in Tehran sees capitulating to Washington’s demands on uranium enrichment and ballistic missiles as riskier to its survival than going to war, analysts say.A march in Tehran this month marked the anniversary of the Islamic revolution. Iran is facing an economic crisis and a major buil

E Erika Solomon

The Next Conflict

We’re looking at the potential for a U.S. attack on Iran.In Tehran yesterday.

S Sam Sifton