New York Times - Top Stories

Mamdani Vows to Govern ‘Audaciously’ and Protect New York’s Vulnerable

Zohran Mamdani gave his first public speech as mayor of New York City, after a public inauguration that drew tens of thousands of people.

7 min read

7 Takeaways From the Inauguration

7 min read

Mamdani’s First Orders Focus on Housing and Undoing Adams’s Decisions

4 min read

Mimi Dwyer, Meg Felling and Michael Anthony Adams

Amid Poetry, Song and the Cold, Mamdani’s Inauguration Evokes Hope

5 min read

Mamdani Pays Tribute to the Foods That Define and Sustain New York

2 min read

New York Magazine Put Mamdani’s Team on Its Cover. One Aide Was Erased.

2 min read

Fire in Swiss Alps Leaves Dozens of New Year’s Revelers Dead

About 40 people celebrating at a ski resort bar were killed, and 115 were injured, many of them young, the authorities said.

4 min read

Witnesses Recount a Bar Fire That Broke a Village’s Heart

It was a haven for the young where they could gather in quiet times. On busier nights, it was more like a nightclub. Then it turned into a place of death.

3 min read

Swiss Burn Centers Are So Overwhelmed, Victims Are Being Sent to Other Countries

1 min read

What We Know About the Fire

4 min read

Trump’s Tangled Web of Deal-Making, Policy and Riches

President Trump, his family and some of their closest associates have engaged in a sprawling campaign of deals, stretching across industries and the globe.

Trump Has Renamed the Kennedy Center, but a Satirist Owns the URL

3 min read

How Russia’s War Machine Brutalizes and Exploits Its Own Soldiers

Confidential complaints filed by troops and their families reveal patterns of wrongdoing in the ranks that are hidden from the Russian public.

Two soldiers carrying a body bag in a snowy forest. — Tyler Hicks/The New York Times

Got a Tip? The Times offers several ways to send important information confidentially ›

LIVE

No. 3 Georgia Leads No. 6 Ole Miss in the Sugar Bowl

The Bulldogs take on the Rebels in an SEC rematch in New Orleans, with a spot in the semifinals on the line.

From The Athletic

No. 1 Indiana Rolls Past No. 9 Alabama, Punching Ticket to Semifinals

The undefeated Hoosiers, led by the Heisman-winner Fernando Mendoza, blew out the Crimson Tide in a quarterfinal matchup at the Rose Bowl.

From The Athletic

Oregon Shuts Out Texas Tech to Advance to Semifinal

From The Athletic

Russia Asks United States to Stop Pursuit of Fleeing Oil Tanker

The tanker, which had been sailing to Venezuela to pick up oil, has claimed Russian protection, although U.S. authorities say it is a stateless vessel.

3 min read

Venezuela Frees Dozens of Political Prisoners

3 min read

A U.S. Coast Guard helicopter flying in Puerto Rico last month. — Eva Marie Uzcategui/Reuters

For Some Nazi Loot, Value Is Measured on a Different Scale

Heirs of families that suffered in the Holocaust have gotten back precious items: not treasured art, but the keepsakes of dead relatives.

5 min read

An open wallet with the photograph of a woman, a receipt and a postage stamp lying across it. — Magdalena Bernhard/Arolsen Archives

The Great Read

90 Minutes to Give Baby Luna a New Heart

After eight years of training, Dr. Maureen McKiernan made her debut as the lead surgeon on an infant heart transplant — an operation on the edge of what’s possible.

12 min read

Iran Protests Turn Deadly as Violence and Anger Spread

Financial pressures have fueled a fifth day of demonstrations, with at least one person killed in the protests so far, according to the authorities.

3 min read

An arched, dimly lit passageway is filled with many people walking past shuttered market stalls. — Majid Asgaripour/Wana News Agency, via Reuters

Janet Fish, Painter of Luminous Still Lifes, Dies at 87

From her student days, she stubbornly refused to follow popular artistic trends. Instead, she spent decades exploring the effects of light on glass.

4 min read

A young Janet Fish with shoulder-length blond hair, wearing glasses, a voluminous blue shirt and jeans, standing next to an easel in the middle of a white studio. — Uri Davidov

This Diminutive Reptile Plays Rock-Paper-Scissors

Side-blotched lizards probably don’t call the game that, but they play a version of it anyway. A new study explains the hidden biology that makes this possible.

6 min read

A side-blotched lizard with a blue throat faces the camera. — Ammon Corl

Weather

Opinion

How Knitting Can Heal, Even at Our Most Broken

2 min read

Kim Phillips-Fein

Since When Is It Radical to Reclaim New York for New Yorkers?

6 min read

A flat-screen TV containing the image of a television from a couple of decades ago, containing an image of an earlier television, and an earlier one still, and so on.

John McWhorter

These Are the 10 Old Television Series Every Kid Needs to Watch

5 min read

Carlos Lozada

How Did We Get to Such a Bad Question?

3 min read

SKIP ADVERTISEMENT

Watch Today’s Videos

More News

Japanese Scallops Have Become a Pawn in Diplomatic Tensions With China

Beijing is using a ban on the humble mollusk to punish Japan over its apparent willingness to defend Taiwan.

5 min read

The Most Disappointing N.B.A. Players This Season

Draymond Green and Trae Young are among those who have fallen short of expectations, a senior writer for The Athletic argues.

From The Athletic

A row of workers in white safety suits removes scallops from the shells and places them into blue buckets. — via Kyuichi

Search Is Suspended for Passenger Who Went Overboard From Cruise Ship

The U.S. Coast Guard said that it halted its hourslong search for a 77-year-old woman who went overboard from a Holland America Line ship near Cuba.

2 min read

Guinea’s Coup Leader Wins Election After Barring Leading Opponents

Gen. Mamady Doumbouya, who seized power more than four years ago, took over 80 percent of the vote, according to a government-controlled agency that he set up.

2 min read