Zohran Mamdani officially took office as mayor after the New Year’s Eve ball drop, in a private ceremony held at a shuttered relic of the city’s subway.Zohran Mamdani will hold two swearing-in ceremonies, with a large ceremonial event set for City Hall on New Year’s Day.
The New Year’s Eve celebration drew spectators from around the world to New York City, despite cold and blustery weather.By midafternoon crowds were jammed into Times Square waiting for the midnight ball drop.
The mayor-elect’s turnaround came as he selected Kamar Samuels to lead New York City’s school system at a precarious moment.Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani named Kamar Samuels as New York City’s schools chancellor. He starts on Thursday.
The president said he blocked the bills to save taxpayers’ money. But he has grievances against a tribe in Florida and officials in Colorado.President Trump’s two vetoes were the first of his second term.
The president seems to be at war with the Democratic-led state as he raises the pressure on Colorado leaders to release a convicted election denier, Tina Peters, from state prison.The Arkansas Valley Conduit would provide clean water to 50,000 Colorado residents by diverting water from the Arkansas
The attack was the 30th announced by the U.S. military since early September. It came days after President Trump said the U.S. had struck a coastal site related to drugs and Venezuela.The strike, conducted at the direction of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, had targeted a boat sailing along a “known
The listing could make it more challenging for U.S. forces to board the ship, which an arm of the Kremlin’s maritime authority says is now flying the Russian flag.A U.S. military helicopter flying over the Panama-flagged Centuries, which was intercepted in the Caribbean Sea. American officials have
The number of American citizens held in Venezuela has grown since the start of the U.S. military and economic campaign against President Nicolás Maduro.President Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela at a rally in Caracas, the capital, earlier this month.
Amid mounting street protests, businesses, universities and government offices stayed closed Wednesday under government orders, in 21 of 31 provinces, including Tehran.Tehran on Wednesday as businesses, universities and most government offices were told to close.
The attacker likely had links to the Islamic State and was possibly targeting a Christian church in the center of Aleppo, according to a government spokesman.A view of Aleppo, Syria, where a suicide bomber struck on Wednesday.
When Tatiana Schlossberg submitted an essay to The New Yorker, it had not been assigned or even expected. It was accepted immediately and barely edited.Tatiana Schlossberg’s essay for The New Yorker, published online in November and in print this month, moved David Remnick, the magazine’s editor, wi
The actress, who died this week at 91, was an icon of 1960s cinema. She was also a hero to the French far right.Brigitte Bardot, center, appeared in court in 1997 on charges of inciting racial hatred.
A star who never played coy for the camera was once an emblem of France.She was an original 1950s bombshell, alongside Sophia Loren, Gina Lollobrigida, Jayne Mansfield and Marilyn Monroe.
We asked you to vote on the best films of the year. The results ranged from big box office hits to small art-house indies.
Syracuse, N.Y., has received nearly twice its usual monthly amount of snow in December.A street in Syracuse’s downtown area, known as Armory Square, was still covered in snow after the city’s second snowiest day on record.
How much more chaotic could a second Trump term be? 2025 did not disappoint.
A second Gilded Age, a single solution.
Two Times journalists joined Miles Taylor, a YouTuber and transport enthusiast, on a daylong journey across New York City area buses and trains before sale of the card ends on Dec. 31.
Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. did not directly address the tensions between the Trump administration and federal judges who have blocked the president’s agenda.Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. in May. By tradition, he releases his report about the state of the nation’s courts on the last day of
Dana Escoffier was indicted on a charge of criminally negligent homicide in the death of Dean Whetzel, 82, a neighbor whom he had known for decades.Dana Escoffier in his West Village apartment in 2000.
One of few people in the world of style who could legitimately claim the status of icon, she dressed to impress even before she became a designer.Jacqueline de Ribes in 1953. She designed clothes for herself and for a socially prominent clientele.
