How Marco Rubio is Running Venezuela From Afar

The secretary of state effectively controls Venezuela’s finances, the distribution of its natural resources and its government. His grip on the country is a vivid manifestation of American power in the Trump era.

T Tyler Pager and Anatoly Kurmanaev

Bipartisan Housing Bill Becomes Law Even Though Trump Refuses to Sign It

After a 10-day clock, the housing bill turned into law at midnight without the president’s signature. But his decision not to sign reflects a growing rift between him and Senate Republicans.President Trump with Senator John Thune, the majority leader, at the Capitol last month, on the day he had bee

M Michael Gold

Platner’s Rise and Fall Revives Old Questions About ‘Bernie Bros’ and Women

The collapse of Graham Platner’s Senate bid in Maine after a rape allegation renewed attention to a movement built by Senator Bernie Sanders that some say is too forgiving of male misconduct.Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont has been widely seen as attempting to burnish his legacy this year by anoin

P Patricia Mazzei and Kellen Browning

How The Times Reported on Graham Platner

Two senior editors discuss the difficult effort to track down allegations against the leading Democrat for Senate in Maine and the questions that soon followed.Graham Platner, once a top Democratic Senate candidate in Maine, is now out of the race.

P Patrick Healy

Iran’s Top Diplomat Is in Oman for Talks on Strait of Hormuz

The visit comes after heavy clashes this week between the U.S. and Iran. On Saturday, the country’s supreme leader vowed revenge for his father’s killing.The Strait of Hormuz seen from Musandam, Oman, this month. While the Trump administration has said that a cease-fire would fully lift Iran’s block

A Aaron Boxerman

ICE Killing in Houston Puts Focus on Surge in Immigration Arrests

The shooting death of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo occurred as immigration enforcement has ramped up across the country, with thousands being arrested daily.Representative Sylvia Garcia spoke during a news conference on the case of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston on Friday.

J Jazmine Ulloa, Hamed Aleaziz and Emiliano Rodríguez Mega

Buckling Manhattan High Rise Becomes Focus of Criminal Investigation

The inquiry, being conducted by the New York City Department of Investigation and the Manhattan district attorney’s office, was in an early stage, and its focus was unclear.Workers were converting an office building on East 42nd Street in Manhattan to apartments when they noticed bending steel and c

W William K. Rashbaum, Hurubie Meko, Claire Fahy and Mihir Zaveri

Gravitational Pull

We think and dream and fuss and project entire worlds into existence. Meanwhile, the earth’s orbit continues and the sun goes on shining.

M Melissa Kirsch

Historian Kerri K. Greenidge and Her Book ‘The Grimkes’ Come Under Fire

Kerri K. Greenidge appeared to lose her professorship at Tufts University after scholars began scrutinizing her 2022 book, “The Grimkes,” which is no longer listed on its publisher’s website.Historians are questioning the validity of multiple works by the historian Kerri K. Greenidge, who is no long

N Neil Vigdor