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Dec 31, 2025
See how people across the globe celebrated.
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Dec 31, 2025
The mayor-elect's turnaround came as he selected Kamar Samuels to lead New York City's school system at a precarious moment.
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Dec 31, 2025
Zohran Mamdani, the mayor-elect, announced several key appointments who could help implement central promises of his agenda, including universal child care.
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Dec 31, 2025
Dozens of protesters had been indicted after the state attorney general said that their movement amounted to a violent criminal enterprise.
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Dec 31, 2025
Amid mounting street protests, businesses, universities and government offices stayed closed Wednesday under government orders, in 21 of 31 provinces, including Tehran.
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Dec 31, 2025
Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani, gregarious with constituents and vilified by a range of critics, is taking office at a time of anxiety about political violence.
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Dec 31, 2025
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.
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Dec 31, 2025
His work, including the 2002 documentary "Jenin, Jenin," exposed the often harsh realities of life experienced by his fellow Arabs in Israel.
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Dec 31, 2025
French lawmakers are expected next month to discuss a ban on social media for children. In his New Year's Eve address, the French president restated his support for restricting their access.
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Dec 31, 2025
There were few tears at a funeral for the MetroCard, which included chants of "swipe, swipe" and an urn.
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Dec 31, 2025
Holdings from the library at the Goddard Space Flight Center, which includes unique documents from the early 20th century to the Soviet space race, will be warehoused or thrown out.
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Dec 31, 2025
The robbers stole valuables with an insured value of at least $36 million from a bank in Gelsenkirchen, western Germany.
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Dec 31, 2025
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.
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Dec 31, 2025
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.
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Dec 31, 2025
The Kremlin leader kept his speech short, spoke only briefly about the fighting in Ukraine, and did not mention U.S.-mediated talks on ending the war.
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Dec 31, 2025
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.
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Dec 31, 2025
In its parallel efforts to prosecute Mr. Abrego Garcia and to re-expel him from the country, the Justice Department has spent countless hours and untold sums of money pursuing a single immigrant.
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Dec 31, 2025
The president said he blocked the bills to save taxpayers' money. But he has grievances against a tribe in Florida and officials in Colorado.
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Dec 31, 2025
Zohran Mamdani, New York City's first Muslim mayor, will use two family Qurans and one that belonged to the writer Arturo Schomburg at his two swearing-in ceremonies.
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Dec 31, 2025
The actress, who died this week at 91, was an icon of 1960s cinema. She was also a hero to the French far right.
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Dec 31, 2025
Mayor Eric Adams has handed out dozens of ceremonial golden keys during his single term. Since 2023, they have come from across the Hudson River.
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Dec 31, 2025
Mahsa Khanbabai's client, a graduate student, had been whisked away by masked agents and held in lockup for weeks. Would a court free her — and would the government let her go?
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Dec 31, 2025
The number of female filmmakers dropped to 8.1 percent this year from 13.4 percent in 2024, according to a study from the University of Southern California.
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Dec 31, 2025
Rafael Quero Silva faces a lawsuit brought by five people who say he oversaw their abuse and mistreatment as a military officer in Venezuela. But he could be deported before the case is heard.
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Dec 31, 2025
Plus, the viral video that got the White House's attention.
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Dec 31, 2025
The next three years will require a vigilant defense of free speech and open debate.
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Dec 31, 2025
The number represents a more precise, and potentially much larger, figure than earlier estimates. The department is seeking to enlist about 400 lawyers to help in the review.
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Dec 31, 2025
Cutters are still stopping smugglers and seizing drugs, but the prosecutions of go-fast boat crews are dwindling in a realignment of federal resources.
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Dec 31, 2025
Some of the season's most frigid temperatures are expected this week.
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Dec 31, 2025
A video purporting to expose extensive fraud at child care centers in Minnesota shows the relationship between the Trump administration and self-described citizen journalists.
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Dec 31, 2025
The boom in artificial intelligence was the biggest driver of gains in the stock market. That could pose a risk in 2026.
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Dec 31, 2025
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.
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Dec 31, 2025
A second Gilded Age, a single solution.
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Dec 31, 2025
How much more chaotic could a second Trump term be? 2025 did not disappoint.
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Dec 31, 2025
The New York Times started the tradition in 1907, and this year's ball drop will be a reminder that The Times played a role in making New Year's Eve what it is.
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Dec 31, 2025
Mr. Mamdani will become mayor of New York City on Thursday, carrying the hopes of the left, Muslims and younger voters as he looks to improve affordability.
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Dec 31, 2025
Two brutal killings, less than three months apart, in New York State's prison system raised troubling questions: Had other inmates met similar fates?
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Dec 31, 2025
Two brutal killings, less than three months apart, in New York State's prison system raised troubling questions: Had other inmates met similar fates?
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Dec 31, 2025
The Republican served for almost three decades in Congress. He said he was withdrawing from public life after the diagnosis.
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Dec 31, 2025
A tale of two cities, told through its pubs.
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Dec 31, 2025
Protests have erupted in Aceh Province on the northern tip of Sumatra island, where anger and frustration are mounting over what many see as inadequate relief efforts by a distracted government.
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Dec 30, 2025
A Democrat turned Republican, he was the only Native American during three terms in the House of Representatives and in 12 years in the Senate. He was also a judo expert and an Olympian.
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Dec 30, 2025
The U.S. military tried to intercept the Bella 1 last week in the Caribbean Sea as it headed to Venezuela to pick up oil.
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Dec 30, 2025
By holding a left-leaning seat in suburban Des Moines, Democrats ensured that Republicans would not have a supermajority in the State Senate.
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Dec 30, 2025
Tatiana Schlossberg, who died on Tuesday, was the granddaughter of John F. Kennedy. But as a journalist, her first editor remembers, she insisted on putting in the work.
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Dec 30, 2025
In one of his most enduring roles, he played a corrupt state senator known for his ability to fashion an expletive into an outstretched catchphrase.
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Dec 30, 2025
The number represents a more precise, and potentially much larger, figure than earlier estimates. The department is seeking to enlist about 400 lawyers to help in the review.
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Dec 30, 2025
The mayor-elect said the selections indicate his administration's commitment to help New York City's vulnerable residents.
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Dec 30, 2025
The pause affects a funding stream that provides $185 million in annual aid to the state's day care centers, as federal investigations into fraud in Minnesota's social services programs continue.
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Dec 30, 2025
The selection of Kamar Samuels, who leads schools on the West Side of Manhattan, could help Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani craft his schools agenda.
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Dec 30, 2025
The release of the emails raised serious questions about whether the Justice Department had misled a judge in telling him that local prosecutors had acted alone in charging Mr. Abrego Garcia.
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Dec 30, 2025
Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, whose rise to prominence foreshadowed Zohran Mamdani's success, will speak at his swearing-in outside City Hall on Thursday.
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Dec 30, 2025
Plus, the inside story of how the U.S. split with Ukraine. Here's the latest at the end of Tuesday.
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Dec 30, 2025
The actor and his wife, human rights lawyer Amal Clooney, were granted French citizenship. He has spoken fondly of life with their children in a farmhouse they bought in Provence.
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Dec 30, 2025
The authorities closed access to part of Mount Baldy, the tallest peak in the San Gabriel Mountains in Southern California. They cited dangerous and unpredictable terrain and weather.
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Dec 30, 2025
The president feels no guilt and has no qualms.
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Dec 30, 2025
A Times investigation reveals the inside story of the Trump administration's chaotic push for a peace deal and its erratic role in the war.
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Dec 30, 2025
The organizations, including Doctors Without Borders, have resisted providing Israel with detailed information about their workers.
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Dec 30, 2025
States across the country have also passed new rules around cellphone usage for minors, medically assisted death and gender-related care.
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Dec 30, 2025
The drone attack, said to be on a dock where drugs were being prepared for loading on boats, represented a further escalation of the Trump administration's campaign against Nicolás Maduro.
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Dec 30, 2025
An environmental journalist and child of Caroline Kennedy, she recently wrote of her battle with leukemia in The New Yorker, drawing worldwide sympathy.
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Dec 30, 2025
How, and why, does the president get away with it?
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Dec 30, 2025
Cornelius Eady, a National Book Award finalist, shared an excerpt from "Proof," an original poem he has written for Zohran Mamdani's inauguration as mayor of New York City.
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Dec 30, 2025
Making sure your furry friend's nails and coat are groomed properly does not come cheap. As pet care costs continue to climb, how are you keeping up?
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Dec 30, 2025
Iranian leaders face pressure over a currency collapse and threats of possible military strikes from Israel and the United States over Tehran's nuclear activities.
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Dec 30, 2025
Over six decades she worked in theater, opera, film and television alongside luminaries like Alvin Ailey, Lena Horne, Agnes de Mille and Harry Belafonte.
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Dec 30, 2025
President Trump achieved his goal of shrinking the work force. But many current and former officials say the government is less dependable and efficient than it was a year ago.
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Dec 30, 2025
The high-speed service between Britain and continental Europe was paralyzed during one of the busiest travel weeks of the year because of a power outage in the Channel Tunnel.
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Dec 30, 2025
Cecilia Giménez's repainting of an image of Jesus in 2012 was widely mocked online. But tourists flocked to see her work, reviving her struggling hometown.
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Dec 30, 2025
A star who never played coy for the camera was once an emblem of France.
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Dec 30, 2025
A retired widower married Sara Jane Moore, who shot at President Ford in 1975. It tore his family apart.
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Dec 30, 2025
After Christmas-week storms, two rounds of rainfall starting on New Year's Eve could cause more flooding and mudslides.
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Dec 30, 2025
Off the battlefield, each side is trying to influence President Trump's perception of the military conflict as they look to negotiate a peace settlement in their favor.
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Dec 30, 2025
PostNord, the country's longtime service, is delivering its last letters. Few Danes send snail mail anymore, but some are mourning the end of an era.
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Dec 30, 2025
Off the battlefield, each side is trying to influence the American leader's perception as they look to negotiate a peace settlement in their favor.
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Dec 30, 2025
The high-speed train service connecting Britain and continental Europe was paralyzed on Tuesday during one of the busiest travel weeks of the year.
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Dec 30, 2025
We look at some of our best stories from 2025 that Times editors thought deserved more attention.
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Dec 30, 2025
China's military also sent warships and aircraft during a second day of exercises designed to show its ability to claim the democratic island.
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Dec 30, 2025
Mr. Clooney, who owns a farmhouse in France, has said that living there enabled him and his wife, a human rights lawyer, to pursue a quieter existence with their children.
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Dec 30, 2025
Thousands of documents and interviews with Assad-era officials reveal how the regime worked to conceal evidence of its atrocities during the Syrian civil war.
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Dec 30, 2025
We documented how the dictator Bashar al-Assad and his henchmen conspired to hide evidence of torture and deaths of detainees during Syria's long civil war.
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Dec 30, 2025
Plus, the mountain climbing brothers trying to rewrite the world's maps.
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Dec 30, 2025
The band's label said it had dropped one of the girl group's five members. NewJeans's legal battle has drawn public scrutiny of the K-pop industry.
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Dec 30, 2025
An inmate says that no one wanted to listen when he tried repeatedly to confess to a crime at a facility known for violence.
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Dec 30, 2025
America could all but lose vaccine access. Here's how.
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Dec 30, 2025
Here's a cheat sheet for decoding this year's A.I.-driven tech lingo, from RAG to superintelligence.
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Dec 30, 2025
It's Sweden's longest criminal trial. I was there because of a different historic distinction.
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Dec 30, 2025
A.I. has made it easy to put words in people's mouths, and Prime Minister Keir Starmer of Britain has become a favorite target. The motive, experts say, is not political but financial.
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Dec 30, 2025
Chinese panels are now so affordable that businesses and families are snapping them up, slashing their bills and challenging utilities.
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Dec 30, 2025
Katherine Maher has taken an unyielding approach to NPR's biggest battles — which has sometimes put her at odds with her colleagues in public media.
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Dec 30, 2025
Detty December means a month of "back to back to back" partying in Nigeria's megacity, both for locals and visiting members of the diaspora. Bring your stamina, dancing shoes and wads of cash.
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Dec 30, 2025
Here is what to expect if you're expecting relief from the soaring cost of day care in New York City.
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Dec 30, 2025
The Saudi-led coalition said its strike, at a port in southern Yemen, targeted weapons bound for a separatist group backed by the United Arab Emirates.
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Dec 30, 2025
China flew bombers and fired long-range artillery during a second day of exercises designed to show its ability to claim the island-democracy by force.
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Dec 30, 2025
Marquee names all, they found international fame in the arts, politics, the sciences and beyond.
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Dec 30, 2025
The department said the state's policy of granting unauthorized immigrants in-state financial aid at public colleges and universities violates federal law.
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Dec 30, 2025
Yonaguni, a tiny Japanese island near Taiwan, is getting soldiers, radar and missiles. As China's dispute with Tokyo escalates, some residents are worried.
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Dec 29, 2025
The attack last week, on a dock purportedly used for shipping narcotics, did not kill anyone, people briefed on the operation said. But it was the first known U.S. operation inside Venezuela.
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Dec 29, 2025
The American and Israeli leaders showed few signs of disagreement after meeting in Florida, giving no public indication of their growing strains over Gaza, Syria and other issues.
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Dec 29, 2025
More than 500 women claimed that they had received unnecessary operations. Hospital leaders said they were not aware of a doctor's misconduct.
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