What Caused the Air India Plane Crash?

Safety experts said investigators would be looking at why and how the plane started descending during its take off.The tail of the Air India plane at the crash site in Ahmedabad, India, on Thursday.

N Niraj Chokshi and Christine Chung

Chaos at Site of Air India Plane Crash

“We didn’t know what to do — it was like our brains stopped working,” said one intern who escaped the building after an Air India jet crashed, killing at least 260 people.

S Suhasini Raj, Mujib Mashal, Hari Kumar and Amelia Nierenberg

Trump Administration Sues New York Over Law Barring ICE From Courthouses

State lawmakers passed the ban in 2020 when President Trump in his first term escalated arrests of undocumented immigrants at state and local courts.Pam Bondi, the attorney general, said a New York state law preventing immigration agents from conducting arrests in state or local courthouses shields

L Luis Ferré-Sadurní

How the 2020 George Floyd Protests Are Haunting Democrats in 2025

No longer demanding cuts to police budgets or straining to show solidarity with protesters, Democrats are taking a far more cautious approach.Demonstrators marching in Minneapolis in June 2020 to protest the police killing of George Floyd. That summer, many Democratic politicians voiced support for

K Katie Glueck

Republicans in Congress Grill Democratic Governors on Immigration

Amid unrest in California, Republicans pressed the governors of other blue states on their immigration policies, including on limiting cooperation with federal enforcement efforts.Gov. Kathy Hochul of New York is one of three Democratic governors set to testify before Congress about their states’ im

M Michael Gold and Grace Ashford

G.O.P. Senators Want Fewer Cuts to Food Aid, Teeing Up a Fight with the House

Republicans whose constituents rely on nutritional assistance worry that cuts to those programs approved by the House will saddle their states with huge costs and harm low-income children.“We can’t cut to the bone and hurt people,” Senator Jim Justice of West Virginia said in an interview.

C Catie Edmondson

Russian Scientist Released After Four Months in Federal Custody

Kseniia Petrova, a Harvard researcher, still faces criminal charges for failing to declare scientific samples she was carrying in her suitcase.Kseniia Petrova outside the John Joseph Moakley United States Courthouse in Boston on Thursday.

E Ellen Barry and Maya Shwayder

The Real-Life Dating Boot Camp That Inspired ‘Love on the Spectrum’

When U.C.L.A. psychologists first proposed teaching adults with autism how to date, funders wouldn’t go near it. Now we are in a new world.Psychologist Elizabeth A. Laugeson developed programs to help autistic adults with jobs searches and friends. When she first proposed a dating curriculum, though

E Ellen Barry

Trump’s Immigration P.R. Campaign Enters a New Militarized Phase

The government’s visuals appear intended to persuade migrants without legal status to leave the country, while also making clear the administration will not tolerate resistance.President Trump’s administration has cast the purge of undocumented immigrants as a patriotic endeavor.

Z Zolan Kanno-Youngs, Hamed Aleaziz and Arijeta Lajka

A Night Out for Trump at the Theater, With a Pocket of Dissent

Opening night of “Les Misérables” was meant to celebrate the president’s takeover of the Kennedy Center. But he also was forced to encounter his critics.President Trump and Melania Trump, the first lady, attending “Les Misérables” at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington o

S Shawn McCreesh

Trump Blocks California E.V. Rules in Latest Move to Rein In the State

California leaders said the state intends to challenge the move in court, and to find new ways to move drivers toward electric vehicles.President Trump signed a resolution on Thursday that blocks California’s effort to phase out gasoline-powered cars.

L Laurel Rosenhall and Lisa Friedman

Brian Wilson Wrote the California Dream, but He Didn’t Live It

An artist nearly synonymous with Los Angeles made his name crafting songs playing up his home state’s beachy vibes. His inner life, however, was anything but sunny.The Beach Boys learned that songs about California culture clicked with listeners. Four of their early singles and every one of their fi

R Rob Tannenbaum

10 Questions With Scott Stringer

Scott Stringer, the former New York City comptroller who is running for mayor, visited The New York Times for an interview.

E Emma G. Fitzsimmons

Where the Top N.Y.C. Mayoral Candidates Stand on Key Issues

The New York City mayoral primary is just under three weeks away. Our City Hall bureau chief, Emma Fitzsimmons, highlights the two front-runners and their plans for the three main issues for voters.

E Emma G. Fitzsimmons, Karen Hanley and James Surdam

Supreme Court Sides With Teenager in School Disability Discrimination Case

Disability rights groups had followed the case closely, warning that arguments by the school district could threaten broader protections for people with disabilities.The case hinged on what standard of proof was required to show discrimination by public schools in education-related disability lawsui

A Abbie VanSickle

Harvey Weinstein Retrial: Judge Declares Mistrial on Final Sex Crime Charge

The jury had earlier convicted Harvey Weinstein of one felony sex crime, but deliberations had devolved into threats and yelling.Harvey Weinstein, the former Hollywood mogul, was convicted on Wednesday on one sexual assault charge and acquitted on another. The jury will return on Thursday to conside

H Hurubie Meko, Maria Cramer and Anusha Bayya