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new video loaded: How the Job Market Is Leaving New Graduates BehindSydney Ember, a Times business reporter, has been speaking with recent college graduates struggling to find work. She explains why starting a career in the current economy could leave lasting scars on wages and opportunities.By Sydney Ember, Nour Idriss and Stephanie SwartJune 5, 2026

new video loaded: Mistrust Spreads With the Ebola Virus in CongotranscriptBacktranscriptMistrust Spreads With the Ebola Virus in CongoIn a remote mining town at the center of the Democratic Republic of Congo’s Ebola outbreak, grief and mistrust are complicating efforts to stop the virus. Health workers are trying to treat the ill and bury the dead, but some residents are still in denial that the disease is even real.Another mother is grieving at the main hospital in Mongbwalu, believed to be ground zero of Congo’s most recent Ebola outbreak. She’s alone and overwhelmed. We’re told her 26-year-old daughter has just died…

The New York Times has been investigating the number of boat strikes and the death toll in the Caribbean and Eastern Pacific carried out by the Trump administration. Eric Schmitt, a national security correspondent for The Times, explains what those numbers mean.By Eric Schmitt, Gilad Thaler, Nikolay Nikolov, Shawn Paik, Rafaela Balster, Stephanie Swart, Lazaro Gamio and Whitney ShefteJune 4, 2026

new video loaded: Why Do Most New Movies Look Meh?Jessica M. Goldstein, an arts and culture reporter, inspects why movies today look different than they did 20 years ago.By Jessica M. Goldstein, Edward Vega, Laura Salaberry and Whitney ShefteJune 4, 2026

new video loaded: Ukraine’s Daily Moment of SilenceEvery day at 9 a.m., Ukrainians observe a minute of silence to honor people killed during the Russia-Ukraine war. Our reporter, Maria Varenikova, who has covered the hostilities since 2014, takes us to her hometown to experience this moment.By Maria Varenikova, Coleman Lowndes, Rebecca Suner and Joey SendaydiegoJune 3, 2026

Marcia Lucas, a film editor and important collaborator on the early movies of Martin Scorsese and George Lucas, her first husband, who won an Academy Award for her work on “Star Wars,” died on Wednesday at her home in Rancho Mirage, Calif. She was 80.The cause was cancer, Deidre Von Rock, the lawyer for her estate, said.In the late 1960s, while working with the editor Verna Fields, Marcia Griffin, as she was known then, was assigned to train a newly hired film school graduate named George Lucas.They fell in love and, in 1969, married. Ms. Lucas edited and influenced her…

new video loaded: Battling a Deadly Ebola Outbreak in Eastern CongotranscriptBacktranscriptBattling a Deadly Ebola Outbreak in Eastern CongoAt the heart of the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo, health care workers are racing to open new treatment centers and ramp up testing. But after years of war, the deadly virus is just one of many challenges they’re facing.“We’re at one of four Ebola treatment centers in Bunia. A 48-year-old woman who is a mother of five has arrived here feeling unwell. Doctors are asking her questions, assessing her, before they take her back to test her for Ebola.”…

new video loaded: The Fashion References in ‘Cats: The Jellicle Ball’Cats: The Jellicle Ball” has received nine Tony nominations, including one for Qween Jean, the costume designer. Our chief fashion critic, Vanessa Friedman, joins our chief theater critic Helen Shaw to talk with Qween Jean and to uncover some of the show’s hidden references.By Helen Shaw, Vanessa Friedman, Léo Hamelin, Laura Salaberry and Sutton RaphaelJune 2, 2026

new video loaded: What We Saw Driving Through VenezuelaOur reporter Simon Romero takes a roadtrip from Caracas to Cumaná in Venezuela, showing the multiple military checkpoints the regime has along the coast, a constant reminder of the state’s presence.By Simon Romero, Leila Medina, Thomas Vollkommer, Joey Sendaydiego and Adriana Loureiro FernandezJune 1, 2026

A new all-electric aircraft made a test flight in New York City. Our transportation reporter Niraj Chokshi describes what to know.