Mamdani-Backed Candidates Sweep in NYC Democratic Primaries

Mayor Zohran Mamdani shook the Democratic establishment by helping drive three progressive candidates to victory.Brad Lander, center right, was one of the three congressional candidates backed by Mayor Zohran Mandani who won their primaries on Tuesday.

N Nicholas Fandos

Insurgency Over Incumbency: 7 Takeaways From New York’s Primaries

All three congressional candidates who were backed by Mayor Zohran Mamdani won in Tuesday’s primary, bolstering his political movement.Mayor Zohran Mamdani celebrated the victory of state Assemblywoman Claire Valdez, right, in a Democratic primary for a congressional seat.

M Maya King, Sally Goldenberg and Emma Goldberg

Victories by Pro-Palestinian Democrats Show the Party’s Shift on Israel

Three Democrats who have been outspoken in their criticism of Israel won primaries in New York on Tuesday, signaling their party’s new skepticism of the country and its actions.Darializa Avila Chevalier, who was endorsed by Mayor Zohran Mamdani of New York City, won an upset Democratic primary victo

J Jennifer Medina and Reid J. Epstein

Schlossberg’s Defeat Dampens Dream of a Renewed Camelot

Jack Schlossberg fell well short of his bid to win a highly contested Democratic primary in Manhattan, his campaign hurt by staff defections and missed meetings.Jack Schlossberg, with his father, Edwin Schlossberg, right, saw his early polling lead evaporate.

J Jesse McKinley and Tim Balk

Iran’s Loyalists Promote a Wider Nationalism, Unveiled Women Included

Government supporters are showing off new ties with alleged former dissidents in a bid to show that they can withstand enemies at home as well as abroad.A pro-government demonstration in Tehran last month where some of the women were partially veiled and some dressed more conservatively.

E Erika Solomon and Sanam Mahoozi

Trump Is Making Big Claims About the Iran Talks. Iran Keeps Contradicting Him.

President Trump appears to be describing his preferences as fully negotiated deals, in hopes of locking the Iranians in. The question is whether a succession of such disputes will sink the whole venture.In the negotiation between the United States and Iran, leaks are replaced by official, if fragmen

D David E. Sanger and Yeganeh Torbati

Rubio Seeks to Reassure Persian Gulf Allies on Iran Deal

Secretary of State Marco Rubio was scheduled to meet with leaders in Abu Dhabi, Kuwait and Bahrain, which were targeted by Iranian attacks during the war.Secretary of State Marco Rubio greeting the Emirati ambassador to the U.S., Yousef al-Otaiba, in Abu Dhabi, U.A.E., on Tuesday.

J John Yoon

Senate Votes to Direct End to Iran War, Rebuking Trump on War Powers

A few Republicans joined Democrats in favor of a measure instructing President Trump to halt military operations against Iran or seek congressional authorization.The Capitol seen on Tuesday. The vote came amid tensions over the war among the G.O.P., which faces a punishing political environment ahea

R Robert Jimison

Trump’s Pick for Top I.R.S. Lawyer Works at Firm That Represents Him

James R. Gadwood, the president’s nominee for chief counsel at the Internal Revenue Service, works at Miller & Chevalier, which has represented Mr. Trump in tax matters.The Internal Revenue Service building in Washington. James R. Gadwood is the second person President Trump has nominated to the age

A Andrew Duehren

Trump to Meet With G.O.P. Senators Amid New Divisions

The president has been unhappy with pushback from Republican senators and a resistance to abandoning the filibuster to pass new voting restrictions.President Trump has been in a simmering feud with Senator John Thune, Republican of South Dakota and the majority leader, over a range of political and

C Carl Hulse and Michael Gold

Alibaba Sues Pentagon Over China Military Label

The Chinese tech giant said it had no ties to China’s military and that the U.S. government had violated the law by making that claim.Alibaba has become one of China’s leading artificial intelligence companies.

M Meaghan Tobin

Extreme Heat Across Europe Creates Divide Over Leaving Schools Open

Few schools in Britain or France have air-conditioning to keep children cool in soaring temperatures, leaving parents, teachers and officials divided about what to do.Students standing near a fan at L’Ecole des Petits, a bilingual school in London on Wednesday.

A Amelia Nierenberg and Ségolène Le Stradic

Myanmar’s Civil War Has Become an Apocalypse

Overshadowed by conflicts in Ukraine, Gaza and Lebanon, the fighting in Myanmar’s isolated heartland has reached new depths.On a forgotten frontline, the rebels fight deep in the jungle.

H Hannah Beech and Daniel Berehulak

What to Know About Myanmar’s Chaotic War

The Southeast Asian nation recently experienced its highest monthly civilian death toll since the war began in 2021.A rebel soldier at a frontline position in the Anyar region of Myanmar.

H Hannah Beech

Welcome to the Luxury City Built by Taiwan’s A.I. Boom

Fortunes, luxury buildings and birthrates are rising in the city at the center of Taiwan’s chip supply chain.The shopping mall in Hsinchu, called Big City, ranks among Taiwan’s top retail centers.

A Amy Chang Chien and Meaghan Tobin

Looking Back on the U.S.A.’s Many Founders, 250 Years In

In the past 50 years, the way we tell the story of the Revolution has become dramatically more complex. Can it still inspire us all?The five-man drafting committee presenting the Declaration of Independence to Congress, in an early 19th-century painting by John Trumbull.

J Jane Kamensky

The Ukraine War Amputees Embracing Wake Boarding and Jujitsu

As the number of amputees in Ukraine soars, many are bonding by learning new sports, challenging both their bodies and their ideas of what they can do.Ukrainian war veteran Volodymyr Kuzmenko tries wakeboarding for the first time in Kyiv, in May.

S Siobhán O’Grady, Liubov Sholudko, Yurii Shyvala and Oksana Parafeniuk