It was the two leaders’ first call since 2022, and the Russian president’s first with any major European leader since last year.

Here are five takeaways from New York City’s second experience with ranked-choice voting, and how it helped Zohran Mamdani secure a decisive victory.

Party leaders were able to muscle through considerable internal rifts, but the bill’s fate in the House was uncertain.

Will liberals keep making excuses for Mamdani?

Students said they had been overcharged for their educations as a result of incorrect data that they said the school had used to artificially inflate its ranking.

Mr. Mamdani roundly defeated Andrew M. Cuomo in the Democratic contest, widening his primary-night lead by a significant margin once ranked-choice tabulations were run.

The Nordic country for the first time has extended a lottery for compulsory military service to women in its latest move to expand its armed forces.

Brent Efron’s “boring” Tinder date wanted to hear all about his work at the Environmental Protection Agency, so Mr. Efron talked. If only he’d seen the hidden camera.

Mr. Mamdani’s victory upended city politics and reverberated nationally. He relied on a memorable message, charisma and a strong ground game.

The luxury retailer made an initial payment to bondholders on time, but six months after it acquired Neiman Marcus concerns about its finances remain.

Small improvements in taxes are overshadowed by cuts to health insurance and other federal aid, resulting in a package favoring the wealthy.

You cannot control outsiders without controlling insiders.

The Federal Reserve chair said the central bank would make decisions on interest rates based on data.

President Trump signed an executive order this week lifting most sanctions on Syria. Ahead of that action, U.S. officials laid out expectations from the new government in Damascus.

The violence last week in Kafr Malik, in the West Bank, comes amid a surge in assaults by Israeli settlers. It also set off a chain of violence in the area.

The federal website hosting five legislatively mandated reports stopped working Monday afternoon.

Among the most expensive pieces of legislation in years, the Republican legislation could reshape the country’s finances for a generation.

A fire-and-brimstone preacher, he reached millions and made millions in a global enterprise before tumbling from grace over his encounters with a prostitute.

Towns and troops long accustomed to merciless bombardment are adjusting to an even denser pattern of attacks.

Heather K. Gerken, the dean of the law school, will run the powerful philanthropy, known for pushing for social justice.

No country receives more discarded plastic from wealthy countries, but shipments from the United States are no longer welcome.

Timur Ivanov, a longtime deputy defense minister, was sentenced to 13 years in a penal colony, according to the Russian state news agency Tass.