The 6 Social Security Myths That Won’t Go Away

The program gave birth to the idea of retirement and covers nearly all Americans — but now it faces major financial and customer service challenges.

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Can AriZona’s 99-Cent Iced Tea Survive Trump’s Tariffs?

The price has been AriZona’s calling card for nearly three decades. A 50 percent tariff on imported aluminum may change that.

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Trump Raids Help Stir a Political Reversal for Karen Bass

The mayor of Los Angeles has emerged as a leading voice of the city’s resistance to the Trump administration after facing criticism for her handling of the wildfires.

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Zuckerberg’s Compound Had Something That Violated City Code: A Private School

The school, called BBS, enrolled 14 children in kindergarten through fourth grade and employed three full-time teachers and other staff members.

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In Election Cases, Supreme Court Keeps Removing Guardrails

The justices, having effectively blessed partisan gerrymandering, may be poised to eliminate the remaining pillar of the Voting Rights Act.

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What We Know About the C.D.C. Shooting in Atlanta

A gunman who believed the Covid-19 vaccine had made him ill fired at the agency’s Atlanta offices, killing a police officer and rattling the public health community.

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Far-Right Israeli Minister Condemns Plan for Gradual Military Expansion in Gaza

Bezalel Smotrich, the hard-line finance minister, said that Israel needed to move more decisively and quickly to defeat Hamas.

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Dmitri Kozak Was a Key Putin Aide. He Lost Power When He Balked at the Ukraine War.

Dmitri N. Kozak, who has said privately that the invasion was a mistake, has lost power to another senior Putin ally, Sergei V. Kiriyenko, who has embraced the military action.

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Takeaways From The Times’s Reporting on Putin’s Powerful Aide

Showing an uncanny ability to adapt to circumstances, Sergei V. Kiriyenko has turned himself into a key engineer of President Vladimir V. Putin’s autocratic machine.

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Ukraine and Europe Project United Front Ahead of Trump-Putin Summit

Washington’s push to negotiate an end to the war has raised concerns the Trump administration will make concessions to Moscow that Kyiv cannot accept.

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