Trump Administration Guts Education Department With More Layoffs

About a fifth of the agency’s remaining staff was affected, including employees working on special education, funding for low-income students and civil rights enforcement.An estimated 466 workers at the Education Department have been fired since Friday, and the breadth and depth of those cuts appear

S Sarah Mervosh, Michael C. Bender and Dana Goldstein

How the U.S. and the Arab World Teamed Up to Seal the Gaza Deal

The cease-fire talks in Egypt showed that with pressure on Hamas and Israel, seemingly huge impediments could be overcome or set aside.President Trump and other leaders gathered on Monday in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, where mediators successfully pushed for a deal between Hamas and Israel the previous

A Adam Rasgon, David M. Halbfinger, Natan Odenheimer, Ronen Bergman and Luke Broadwater

Trump Says He May Give Tomahawks to Ukraine. Is He Bluffing?

President Trump’s threats to provide the missiles to Ukraine, whether he follows through on them or not, are a sign of his growing frustration with Moscow.A Tomahawk missile launches from the U.S.S. Barry in 2011.

L Luke Broadwater and Eric Schmitt

U.S. Military Kills 6 People in Boat Attack Near Venezuela, Trump Says

In a social media post, the president said the people aboard a boat were suspected of smuggling drugs for an unspecified group his team had labeled terrorists.President Trump aboard Air Force One on Tuesday. The administration has not explained how a boat in the southern Caribbean Sea posed an immin

C Charlie Savage

Trump Awards Charlie Kirk the Presidential Medal of Freedom

President Trump presented the medal to Charlie Kirk’s widow, Erika, on what would have been his 32nd birthday.President Trump escorted Erika Kirk, the widow of Charlie Kirk, to a Presidential Medal of Freedom ceremony on Tuesday.

T Tyler Pager

Jack Smith Calls Idea That Politics Infected Trump Prosecutions ‘Ludicrous’

The former special counsel’s first extended remarks since resigning in January were released the same day House Republicans summoned him to testify.Jack Smith in Washington in 2023. In his remarks released on Tuesday, Mr. Smith painted a dire picture of the Justice Department’s future. “Nothing like

G Glenn Thrush and Annie Karni

D’Angelo: 14 Essential Songs

The soul singer, songwriter and producer, who died on Tuesday at 51, released three studio albums of meticulously constructed, vocally ambitious, genre-crossing music.D’Angelo onstage at Bonnaroo in 2012. He could be a one-man studio band in the mold of Prince and Stevie Wonder, or multitrack himsel

J Jon Pareles

The Chicago Rat Hole Was Not Made by a Rat

A statistical analysis of an infamous indentation in a sidewalk suggested a 99 percent likelihood that another rodent made the mark.To put the rodent-shaped impression into context, a team of scientists measured mammal specimens in museum collections.

J Jack Tamisiea

The Matcha Market Cracks Under Pressure

Once consumed mainly in small, formal tea ceremonies, matcha is now mixed into fruity lattes and preyed on by counterfeiters. Can it survive its own popularity?

P Pete Wells

Why Israel Won the War

Israelis went to war to defeat an existential threat — and an existential lie.

B Bret Stephens

Inmates Make Brazen Escape in Guatemala

“I’m not going to deny the reality — there’s no good explanation,” the interior minister said of how the 20 inmates had slipped out, perhaps over a period of time.The Guatemalan interior minister, Francisco Jiménez, at a news conference on Monday.

A Annie Correal and Jody García

Artists Plan Nationwide Protests Against ‘Authoritarian Forces’

The visual artist Dread Scott, the playwright Lynn Nottage and others have organized a series of actions to unite the arts community against the Trump administration.Participants in the protests will include (from left, first row), Laura Raicovich and Jenny Polak; (second row) Kris Grey, Dread Scott

Z Zachary Small

As Trump Hurls Fresh Threats and Insults, Hochul Has Mamdani’s Back

Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic front-runner in the New York City mayor’s race, appeared with Gov. Kathy Hochul for the first time since she endorsed him last month.Gov. Kathy Hochul appeared in Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani’s district for an event on Tuesday, where she vowed to fight President Trump’s

E Emma G. Fitzsimmons and Nicholas Fandos