Mamdani Emerges as Kingmaker, Pushing His Slate to a Primary Sweep

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

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

Congress Clears Housing Bill, Cementing a Rare Bipartisan Feat

A lopsided House vote cleared the measure for President Trump’s signature after a lengthy back and forth and several nearly fatal blows to the legislation.Factory-built apartment construction in Columbus, Ohio, earlier this year. The country is short several million new housing units, according to s

R Ronda Kaysen

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

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

N.S.A. Lost Access to Powerful A.I. Model Amid Anthropic Dispute

A recent episode underscored the Trump administration’s increasing reliance on advanced A.I. systems for cybersecurity even as it battles a leading U.S. developer.Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has labeled Anthropic, the maker of Mythos 5, a supply chain risk.

D Dustin Volz and Julian E. Barnes

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

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

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

How Trump Turned America’s Refugee Program Into a Pathway for White People

President Trump has created an exception to his refugee ban for white South Africans, reshaping a program intended for people fleeing persecution and disaster.A white South African, Charl Kleinhaus secured refugee status and moved with his family to the United States in a matter of months.

Z Zolan Kanno-Youngs and Hamed Aleaziz

A Look Inside the Welcome Bags Planned for White South African Refugees

The United States is putting together bags with a children’s book on so-called reverse racism, and with a document that defends the country’s founding on the basis of slavery.Afrikaner refugees from South Africa arriving at Dulles International Airport in Virginia last May.

H Hamed Aleaziz and Zolan Kanno-Youngs

Meta Has Created a Prediction Markets App

The experimental app, internally called “Arena,” would be independent of Facebook and Instagram. It could compete for attention with Polymarket and Kalshi, the biggest prediction markets.Mark Zuckerberg, Meta’s chief executive, is making a broader push to create new types of apps based on emerging s

M Mike Isaac and David Yaffe-Bellany

U.S. Presses Meta to Agree to A.I. Reviews

Federal officials are urging the lone major tech company holdout to allow government safety evaluations, weeks after ordering Anthropic to pull its latest model.Meta released its most recent artificial intelligence model in April.

T Tripp Mickle, Eli Tan and Sheera Frenkel

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