How Harvard’s Epic Fight With Trump Is Costing the University

The federal government has slowed Harvard’s funding, despite the university’s legal victories. The conflict is forcing hard choices on campus.The Trump administration has found new ways of trying to pressure Harvard to comply with its wishes.

M Mark Arsenault and Irena Hwang

On the Radio, Trump Has a Reunion (of Sorts) With Michael Cohen

President Trump’s former personal lawyer tried to revisit the past in a radio interview. But this was not exactly a stroll down memory lane.Michael Cohen in front of promotional material for his new radio show, which is meant to look like him in the Oval Office, during a news conference in New York

S Shawn McCreesh

Return of Harry and Meghan to U.K. Renews Questions About Their Security Fears

The couple lost their publicly funded security after deciding to leave Britain in 2020, deepening their split with the royal family.Prince Harry with a security detail as he arrived at Britain’s High Court last year for a hearing over the downgrading of his personal security during visits to Britain

A Adam Goldman

Can Bessent’s ‘Big Tool Kit’ Calm Bond Investors?

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has said his agency has a “big tool kit” to try to placate turbulent bond markets.

A Andrew Ross Sorkin, Bernhard Warner, Sarah Kessler, Michael J. de la Merced, Niko Gallogly, Brian O’Keefe and Sri Muppidi

Giorgia Meloni Cuts the Hard Right a Path to Power

In a rare interview, the onetime political outcast reflects on her route from “the uncomfortable side of history” to the threshold of leading Italy’s most durable postwar government.Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni of Italy at Palazzo Chigi in Rome last month.

R Roger Cohen

Giorgia Meloni Has a Lot to Say: The Takeaways

The Italian prime minister is leading what will soon be the longest-lasting government in the country’s postwar history. She shows herself by turns funny and fierce in a rare interview.Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni of Italy.

R Roger Cohen

Orban’s Office, Thrown Open, Is Not the Den Hungarians Expected

The new government of Peter Magyar hoped to use the suite overlooking the Danube as evidence of an autocrat’s indulgence. The trappings fell short.Visitors on a balcony with a view of the Danube that Viktor Orban, the former prime minister, had built off his offices at a former monastery in Budapest

A Andrew Higgins

N.Y. State Senator’s Former Aides Say She Double-Billed for Travel

For years, Jessica Ramos used campaign money to pay for hotels and Amtrak tickets while also receiving state payments for travel, records and interviews show.State Senator Jessica Ramos, a Queens Democrat, has served as chairwoman of the upper chamber’s Labor committee since 2019.

J Jay Root and Bianca Pallaro

Landmarks Panel Approves Designs to Replace Parking Lot With High Rises

Local groups in the NoHo neighborhood of Manhattan opposed the plan, saying designs for two apartment buildings did not reflect the neighborhood’s historical character.A parking lot at the corner of Great Jones and Lafayette Streets in Manhattan, where two high-rise apartment buildings are likely to

C Caitlyn Freeman

FBI Arrests Woman in Plot to Bomb New York State Capitol Building

Federal prosecutors say the woman met with an F.B.I. informant several times to plan an attack on the building, which houses the governor’s office.The woman was arrested on Wednesday, according to people with knowledge of the arrest.

B Benjamin Oreskes and William K. Rashbaum

The China Shock 2.0

China is winning the industries of the future. What should the U.S. do about it?

E Ezra Klein and Rollin Hu

A City Under Siege

We look at how dire the situation has become inside Kyiv.At a subway station in Kyiv, Ukraine, yesterday.

S Sam Sifton