The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Michael C. Rockefeller collection from Africa, the Ancient Americas and Oceania reopens with a pantheon of historic art stars.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/arts/design/michael-rockefeller-metropolitan-africa-oceania-americas.html
Russian oligarchs use the offshore system to shield their luxury assets. The Trump administration is ending an effort to find and seize them.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/27/magazine/trump-offshore-money-russia-oligarchs.html
The Haitian government has signed a contract with Mr. Prince, the private military contractor who founded Blackwater, a company notorious for a civilian massacre in Iraq.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/us/haiti-erik-prince-blackwater-gangs.html
Much was riding on Flight 9 for Elon Musk’s giant moon and Mars rocket after debris from January and March flights fell into the Atlantic Ocean, disrupting air travel.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/27/science/spacex-starship-launch-elon-musk-mars.html
In the U.S., the re-enactment of historical battles has long been a niche hobby. But fake battles that echo an ongoing war are a relatively recent phenomenon.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/us/russia-ukraine-war-military-simulation-oklahoma.html
In Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani’s four-plus years in the New York State Capitol, only three of his bills have become law. His influence is comparatively greater.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/nyregion/mamdani-record-albany-mayor.html
Former Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, the front-runner in the New York City mayor’s race, will announce a plan to raise the city’s minimum wage to $20 an hour by 2027.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/nyregion/cuomo-minimum-wage-20-dollar.html
It is time once again to head to your nearest crosstown view for New York City’s best annual sunsets, if the weather cooperates.https://www.nytimes.com/article/manhattanhenge-2025-time-how-to-watch.html
I’ve seen the signs before. I’m seeing them now.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/opinion/trump-danger-normalization-shock.html
Senator Elissa Slotkin of Michigan and David Leonhardt on the fundamental question Democrats need to answer.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/opinion/elissa-slotkin-democrats-future.html
A small new study offers insight into this trendy anti-aging treatment.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/well/plasma-exchange-longevity.html
A legal battle between Harvard and a woman who says two slave portraits are of her ancestors will end in a settlement, with the photos going to a Black history museum in South Carolina.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/harvard-slavery-daguerreotypes-lawsuit.html
As founding editor of The Texas Observer, he fought bigotry and exposed corporate greed, political chicanery and government corruption.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/27/business/media/ronnie-dugger-dead.html
After their Vatican meeting last month, the Ukrainian leader said he was under the impression Trump would impose sanctions on Russia if no ceasefire deal was reached.https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/05/28/zelensky-trump-ukraine-russia-war-sanctions/
Adopting dogs abandoned on the battlefields has become a national duty in Ukraine.https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/interactive/2025/ukraine-battlefields-dogs-abandoned/
The U.S. president lashed out at the Kremlin on Tuesday as the White House continued to consider increasing sanctions against Russia.https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/05/27/trump-putin-ukraine-sanctions-ceasefire/
The king’s whirlwind visit to Canada is widely considered by royal watchers to be a symbolic rebuke of President Trump’s 51st-state threats.https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/05/27/canada-king-charles-canada-parliament/
The warnings over the offensive come as a U.S.-brokered peace process has limped along with inconclusive meetings and little concrete results.https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/05/27/ukraine-russia-summer-offensive/
These are our favorite cheap WIRED-tested mattresses you can buy online for $1,000 or less.https://www.wired.com/gallery/best-cheap-mattresses/
Nintendo’s “game-key cards” may end up being physical gaming media’s last gasp—even though they don’t have a game on them at all.https://www.wired.com/story/the-switch-2-may-signal-the-end-of-physical-games/