For years, the country has failed to enact financial and governance overhauls required by lenders. The recent fighting has made that problem urgent.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/24/world/europe/lebanon-hezbollah-israel-government-economy.html
The case, which centers on whether Louisiana’s congressional districts are an illegal racial gerrymander, tests the leeway that states have in drawing voting maps.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/24/us/politics/supreme-court-louisiana-voting.html
Republicans in Montana and other states complain that liberal judges are tossing out the laws they pass. Now, conservative legislators are trying to change the rules, and the judges.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/24/us/montana-republican-judicial-legislation.html
Nearly all the people running for New York City mayor appeared at a Covid memorial event with a shared message: Former Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo’s pandemic response is a reason not to support him.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/23/nyregion/cuomo-nursing-homes-nyc-mayoral-candidates.html
District attorneys say that a 2019 law ordering them to give reams of evidence to defense lawyers has resulted in thousands of scuttled cases.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/24/nyregion/hochul-prosecutors-discovery-evidence.html
This is certainly an administration that reminds us why the framers decided on separation of powers.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/24/opinion/trump-columbia-courts-law-firms.html
Harold Hamm, President Trump’s energy mentor, wants to take us back to the 1990s.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/24/opinion/trump-gas-solar-energy.html
The Bipartisan Policy Center estimates that the so-called X-date could fall between mid-July and early October if Congress does not lift or suspend the nation’s debt limit.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/24/us/politics/x-date-debt-limit-treasury-republicans-trump.html
Mr. Brown, the Ohio Democrat who lost his race for re-election last year, is forming the Dignity of Work Institute, which will highlight workers’ struggles.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/24/us/politics/sherrod-brown-2026-senate-ohio.html
Ms. Love, who represented Utah in Congress from 2015 to 2019, was diagnosed with brain cancer in 2022.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/24/us/politics/mia-love-dead.html
The star-studded Mark Twain Prize for American Humor ceremony was the most notable event at the Washington arts center since the president installed himself as its chairman.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/24/arts/conan-obrien-kennedy-center.html
Five decades into her career, the Tony Award-winning actress and TV icon, making her Broadway directing debut, feels like “part of something bigger.”https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/24/theater/phylicia-rashad-purpose-broadway.html
Gaza’s Health Ministry does not distinguish between civilians and combatants. Experts say the official death toll is probably an undercount.https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/03/23/gaza-death-toll-israel-hamas/
Pope Francis was released home to the Vatican following a hospitalization in which he suffered two respiratory episodes that almost cost him his life.https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/03/23/pope-francis-hospital-release-angelus-appearance/
The drone attack on Kyiv killed a father, his 5-year-old daughter and an 80-year-old woman, the first fatalities in Ukraine’s capital in more than two months.https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/03/23/russia-drone-attack-kyiv-ceasefire/
The contest between Mark Carney and Pierre Poilievre is likely to be dominated by one question: Who can best handle President Donald Trump and his threats?https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/03/23/canada-snap-election-carney/
“One way or the other,” President Donald Trump told Congress, the United States needs to “get” Greenland, strategically located and rich in rare metals.https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/interactive/2025/greenland-trump-defense-russia-china/
Mayor Anne Hidalgo has floated a plan to “revegetate” 500 Parisian streets to make the city more liveable. Critics say it would deepen divides between urbanites and commuters.https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/03/23/paris-car-free-vote-anne-hidalgo/
European capitals are reviewing vulnerabilities and want to wean themselves from dependence on American weapons, but expanding homegrown options will take time.https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/03/23/europe-us-weapons-dependence-trump/
Israel’s political and military leaders are considering plans for a fresh ground campaign that could include a military occupation of Gaza for months or more.https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/03/23/israel-gaza-war-plans/