The Cactus to Clouds ascent just outside Palm Springs, Calif., is grueling, but natural treasures, and a speedy trip down, await anyone who is up to the challenge.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/25/travel/cactus-to-clouds-hike-palm-springs.html
The disclosure of battle plans on a chat app created a new predicament for the defense secretary.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/25/us/politics/pete-hegseth-signal-chat-pentagon.html
Democrats denounced the country’s top intelligence officials for “sloppy, careless, incompetent behavior” for discussing secret military plans in a group chat.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/25/us/politics/trump-signal-leak-war-plans.html
Plus, fraud at Versailles.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/podcasts/the-headlines/npr-pbs-gaza-versailles-trump.html
Fears that competitors could take its top rainmaking talent added to the law firm’s worries about a Trump executive order that targeted it.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/business/paul-weiss-trump-deal.html
Some Republican lawmakers have called for an investigation, but most have shied away from criticizing the Trump administration.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/25/us/democrats-hegseth-waltz-resign-signal.html
Whether the agencies open an investigation will bring into sharp relief the intended approach of their leaders, Kash Patel and Pam Bondi, who promised to administer impartial justice.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/25/us/politics/doj-fbi-signal-leak.html
An executive order underscored the extent to which the president, who faced four indictments after he left office, aims to exact a price from anyone associated with past investigations of him.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/25/us/politics/trump-executive-order-law-firm-jenner-block.html
Administration officials cited cracking down on immigrants illegally on voter rolls as one of the executive order’s main goals, amplifying Mr. Trump’s grievances about electoral integrity.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/25/us/politics/trump-elections-executive-order.html
A group of House Democrats referred to as the New Economic Patriots introduced themselves on Capitol Hill promising to lead their party out of its funk. It wasn’t clear how they planned to do so.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/25/us/politics/new-economic-patriots-house-democrats.html
Since World War II, American forces have been stationed on the island. Today, from a remote outpost, they watch the skies.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/25/world/europe/greenland-us-space-base.html
Students sued to stop Columbia from giving their disciplinary records to the federal government, which has demanded that the university rein in demonstrations.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/25/nyregion/columbia-campus-rules-khalil-lawsuit.html
And why the careless secretary of defense should resign.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/25/opinion/pete-hegseth-security-breach-resign.html
Also, Ukraine and Russia agreed to stop fighting in the Black Sea. Here’s the latest at the end of Tuesday.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/25/briefing/trump-signal-leak-cease-fire-black-sea.html
Mushrooms in 19th-century watercolors: The paintings of a self-taught female mycologist are featured at the New York State Museum.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/25/science/mushrooms-fungi-new-york-state-museum.html
The move, which drew pushback from Kyiv, came alongside a U.S.-brokered agreement between Russia and Ukraine to expand a limited ceasefire to the Black Sea.https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/03/25/russia-ukraine-black-sea-exports/
The agreement comes after separate U.S.-sponsored talks with Ukraine and Russia in Riyadh and includes facilitating Russia’s access to world food markets for its exports.https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/03/25/ukraine-russia-black-sea-agreement-ceasefire/
The head of Turkey’s largest opposition party visited jailed Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu in prison on Tuesday, after his detention sparked a week of protests.https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/03/25/turkey-istanbul-mayor-erdogan-imamoglu/
European officials saw the screenshots as more proof in private of what the Trump team has indicated in public: scorn for America’s traditional allies.https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/03/25/trump-administration-europe-signal-chat-leak/
Disillusioned by communism, he shared secrets with British intelligence while working for the KGB, then fled the Soviet Union in the trunk of a car.https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2025/03/25/oleg-gordievsky-dead/