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The Justice Department is examining Gustavo Petro for possible ties to drug traffickers. U.S. officials have told him that for now he does not face criminal charges arising from the probes. from NYT > Top Stories https://ift.tt/MGuDBrn

Parts of the state are expected to see light rain this week. from NYT > Top Stories https://ift.tt/0flvYmp

Two men who had been held on Rikers Island died in the past week, and Mayor Zohran Mamdani he would “pursue every avenue” to shut the troubled facility as soon as possible. from NYT > Top Stories https://ift.tt/r6Ie2aY

Cuban health care was once the pride of the island. Now the U.S. oil blockade is upending even basic medical care. from NYT > Top Stories https://ift.tt/d4eMNrF

Winds from Tropical Cyclone Narelle stirred up rust-colored dust from iron-rich soil, tinging the sky over Western Australia with a reddish Mars-like hue. from NYT > Top Stories https://ift.tt/8RJDSBY

The urgent instructions at the Trump administration’s behest to gather and relay the files on Representative Eric Swalwell have alarmed some career law enforcement officials. from NYT > Top Stories https://ift.tt/pMq7Nnd

In at least five cases, customers sought medical attention to remove bristles “from their digestive tract or throat,” a federal agency said. from NYT > Top Stories https://ift.tt/mpTbG7n

There has long been concern that the Houthis, an Iran-backed militia, could disrupt shipping in the Red Sea if they entered the broader war. from NYT > Top Stories https://ift.tt/HLsGmoc

Noelia Castillo Ramos, 25, who was in chronic physical and psychological pain, had sought an assisted death since 2024, but her father sued to prevent it. from NYT > Top Stories https://ift.tt/cU3aF0h

The event will be held in downtown Los Angeles starting in 2029 as part of a deal between the academy and AEG, a developer of entertainment venues. from NYT > Top Stories https://ift.tt/baoBt74

Trump cannot see that his opposition is real. He cannot see that it can act of its own accord. from NYT > Top Stories https://ift.tt/Pp2TtXN

A Reddit forum has become a haven for those deciding whether it’s time to shave it all. from NYT > Top Stories https://ift.tt/r1i6vYX

The Times visited a village where the United States and Ecuador said they destroyed an armed group’s training camp. Residents said it was actually a dairy farm. from NYT > Top Stories https://ift.tt/Wr5qLld

A California jury found that Mr. Cosby had abused Donna Motsinger in 1972 after inviting her to attend one of his comedy shows. from NYT > Top Stories https://ift.tt/4jqnslz

Federal judges appointed Robert Frazer to run New Jersey’s U.S. attorney’s office, which has been in disarray over the past year because of uncertainty about who was in charge. from NYT > Top Stories https://ift.tt/e8z5n9u

The group’s director general said 13 children were among those killed in the latest violence in the Darfur region, and he decried the targeting of health care facilities in the civil war. from NYT > Top Stories https://ift.tt/ETRoGiF

France’s municipal elections ended on Sunday evening. Full results were not expected for hours, but the first projections suggested the far right may not have made major gains. from NYT > Top Stories https://ift.tt/dnUN5fo

No one was injured, but a woman was startled on Saturday when a meteorite pierced the roof of her home, ricocheted off the floor and struck a bedroom ceiling. from NYT > Top Stories https://ift.tt/ui69tZe

You would think you’d get texts, emails, phone calls and letters if your insurer was about to drop you. But you may be wrong. from NYT > Top Stories https://ift.tt/xstaORn

People are using generative A.I. chatbots for help on everything from starting to ending a relationship. Have you? How did it turn out? from NYT > Top Stories https://ift.tt/BscZ4Nx

Boston Scientific announced multiple recalls but has said its battery issues were limited. One internal test in 2025 found batteries with an “extremely high failure rate.” from NYT > Top Stories https://ift.tt/PDaZxR2

The outbreak has sickened people in California, Texas and Florida. The agency said Cheddar cheese products from Raw Farm are “the likely source,” but the company denies it and has not recalled them. from NYT > Top Stories https://ift.tt/ejJTatF

At least 143 people were killed in a Pakistani airstrike that hit a drug rehabilitation facility in Kabul on Monday, according to a top U.N. official. from NYT > Top Stories https://ift.tt/kLpmiA6

The academy said an employee of an outside security firm hired for the Oscars had “incidental contact” with the actress, which it called “not acceptable.” from NYT > Top Stories https://ift.tt/lQgBcvG

He led the N.R.A. and, for 29 years, the American Conservative Union, which organizes the influential annual Conservative Political Action Conference, or CPAC. He was also a columnist. from NYT > Top Stories https://ift.tt/OBP2vWb

While some European countries said they were discussing ways to help reopen the Strait of Hormuz, several rejected President Trump’s calls to send warships. from NYT > Top Stories https://ift.tt/2la6WFe

The Israeli military said it killed the brother of Ayman Mohamad Ghazali in an airstrike in Lebanon a week before the attack on the synagogue. from NYT > Top Stories https://ift.tt/d0r49hF

She wrote about postpartum depression when it was an unmentionable like abortion or birth control, and her research on her own suffering helped countless women. from NYT > Top Stories https://ift.tt/nCLX8y2

Turning Point is involved, as is the Sierra Club. But voting rules that seem to echo feudalism exclude renters, favor large landowners and limit who can influence a Phoenix utility board. from NYT > Top Stories https://ift.tt/1p5wsQl

Mayor Zohran Mamdani responded to Islamophobic comments from Senator Tommy Tuberville and a Texas congressman, saying they were dehumanizing Muslims. from NYT > Top Stories https://ift.tt/JaoDVbn

The K-pop supergroup’s upcoming reunion concert prompted a rush for the cafes, which offer solid connections and a sense of community. from NYT > Top Stories https://ift.tt/gyosEnB

Rebuffing pressure from President Trump, a legal office says the prime minister should be pardoned only if he resigns, confesses or is convicted. from NYT > Top Stories https://ift.tt/7DwCKPV

Young conservatives in Florida are fascinated by James Fishback, a long-shot gubernatorial candidate known for his provocative online posts. from NYT > Top Stories https://ift.tt/21wgHFe

The storm, called a kona low, is expected to churn slowly across the islands all week. from NYT > Top Stories https://ift.tt/9Bs4SUb

Guy Rivera is charged with murder in the shooting of Detective Jonathan Diller, 31. The officer’s death became a flashpoint during the presidential race. from NYT > Top Stories https://ift.tt/EuILg7d

When disruption becomes destruction. from NYT > Top Stories https://ift.tt/wjOfo0m

A new report says the lack of information provided for a required annual examination was so “pervasive” that auditors declined to opine on the agency’s financial numbers. from NYT > Top Stories https://ift.tt/y2GEURt

Screening delays created lines that stretched around William P. Hobby and Louis Armstrong airports, causing many to miss flights at the start of spring break season. from NYT > Top Stories https://ift.tt/i3YESrJ

One of the starring acts at Woodstock, he and his band, the Fish, came out of the Bay Area’s psychedelic rock scene. He went on to a long career as a solo artist. from NYT > Top Stories https://ift.tt/NxPmvVE

The episodes, which happened late Friday and early Saturday, came after a third synagogue was damaged by gunfire on Monday, officials said. from NYT > Top Stories https://ift.tt/INsovf4

Dozens of former employees say René Redzepi inflicted physical and psychological violence on the staff for years. from NYT > Top Stories https://ift.tt/Yt8g2BE

How two seemingly unrelated policies, one to reduce car insurance costs, the other to allow driverless taxis, became tangled up in Albany politics. from NYT > Top Stories https://ift.tt/PoEjOAz

Chris Kempczinski’s rather tentative chomp drew mirth online, even from some competitors. from NYT > Top Stories https://ift.tt/zDYVIjM

TerraPower’s project in Wyoming, which uses novel technology, is the first new commercial reactor to receive federal approval in nearly a decade. from NYT > Top Stories https://ift.tt/bpamKoU

The authorities in Sag Harbor, N.Y., said they would not yet release footage of the singer’s 2024 arrest while they work out a resolution with his lawyers. from NYT > Top Stories https://ift.tt/AG8jeM5

Earth’s shadow will temporarily drape the moon in a copper hue before sunrise on Tuesday. from NYT > Top Stories https://ift.tt/1coJXrK

Heinous allegations have prompted state officials to restart an inquiry, which went cold in 2019, into the convicted sex offender’s lesser-known property. from NYT > Top Stories https://ift.tt/Sa8slK9

American hearts should be moved by moments like this, when free nations band together to administer justice and supply hope. from NYT > Top Stories https://ift.tt/zEs84A7

President Trump did not deliver a formal address to the American public to explain why the country was at war, a departure from his predecessors. from NYT > Top Stories https://ift.tt/xqS5j28