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After months of political turmoil in South Korea, Lee Jae-myung has won the presidential election by a wide margin. Mr. Lee’s campaign has ridden a wave of anger against former President Yoon Suk Yeol after he tried to impose martial law in December.

On June 1, Mexico will become the only country in the world to elect all of its judges and magistrates. Emiliano Rodriguez Mega, a New York Times reporter based in Mexico City, breaks down why this new approach is so controversial.

It’s late at night in South Nashville, and the seventh day of a weeklong immigration sweep here. Tennessee state troopers, trailed by federal ICE agents in unmarked cars, raced down deserted streets in this predominantly Hispanic neighborhood. “Are you in Harding? Now — this white one went back down there too.” These are volunteers from The ReMIX Tennessee, an immigrant advocacy organization. They’re trying to document and disrupt what they say is an unprecedented partnership between state troopers and ICE agents. “Yeah it’s putting a lot of fear in the community. Like, I’m having conversations with people’s families who are…

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For years, Russia used Brazil as a launchpad for its most elite intelligence officers, known as illegals. They started businesses, made friends and had love affairs — events that, over many years, became the building blocks of entirely new identities. Jane Bradley and Michael Schwirtz, investigative reporters for The New York Times, discuss one case.

The attendees of a plant walk in Tompkins Square Park were not who you might typically imagine seeing on a New York City tour.

Former President Joseph R. Biden Jr. was diagnosed on Friday with an aggressive form of prostate cancer that has spread to his bones, his office said in a statement on Sunday.The diagnosis came after Mr. Biden reported urinary symptoms, which led doctors to find a “small nodule” on his prostate. Mr. Biden’s cancer is “characterized by a Gleason score of 9” with “metastasis to the bone,” the statement said.The Gleason score is used to describe how prostate cancers look under a microscope; 9 and 10 are the most aggressive. The cancer is Stage 4, which means it has spread.“While this…

What’s causing major flight delays and disruptions at Newark Liberty International Airport? Niraj Chokshi, a reporter at The New York Times covering transportation, explains how a staffing shortage has contributed to the chaos and what’s being done to address it.

Three countries on President Trump’s Middle East tour this week are also the sites of recent investments in Trump businesses that benefit the president. Eric Lipton, an investigative reporter for The New York Times, describes those investments, and what those countries — Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates — are, at the same time, seeking from Mr. Trump and the United States.

May 14, 2025, 11:20 a.m. ETCasandra Ventura in 2018. She testified on Wednesday that Sean Combs was banging, kicking and yelling outside her apartment door after he assaulted her in a hotel.Credit…Frazer Harrison/FilmMagic, via Getty ImagesCasandra Ventura, the singer and model known as Cassie, began her second day of testimony on Wednesday morning in the federal trial of Sean Combs, her former boyfriend and label boss, by detailing the aftermath of his attack on her at a Los Angeles hotel in 2016.As recorded in a surveillance video that has been shown several times already at trial — and broadcast in…