Mark Zuckerberg Ramps Up Meta’s A.I. Spending as Competition Heats Up

Unhappy with his company’s artificial intelligence efforts, Meta’s C.E.O. is on a spending spree as he reconsiders his strategy in the contest to invent a hypothetical “superintelligence.”Read More
The Parents Who Helped Shape Zohran Mamdani’s Politics

Zohran Mamdani’s parents, a filmmaker and a professor, gave him the foundation for his run for mayor of New York. But their own political views may open him up to attacks.Read More
Right-wing Republicans in Congress attack Mamdani with Islamophobic comments.

The responses to Zohran Mamdani’s showing in the New York City mayoral primary were the latest examples of how some G.O.P. lawmakers have grown more overt in using bigoted language and tropes.Read More
Cuomo Doesn’t Blame Himself for Losing the Primary. Others Do.

Even some of his supporters say Andrew M. Cuomo ran an aloof campaign for mayor that underestimated his chief rival, Zohran Mamdani.Read More
Republicans Prepare to Open ‘Pandora’s Box’ of Budget Gimmicks

With the broad tax and health care bill they are now trying to muscle into law, Senate Republicans are preparing to upend Washington’s accounting standards.Read More
With Flu Shot Vote, Kennedy’s Vaccine Skepticism Comes Full Circle

The preservative thimerosal started Robert F. Kennedy Jr. down the path of questioning vaccine safety. A panel of experts he appointed will no longer recommend annual flu shots that contain it.Read More
The G.O.P. Scramble Over Trump’s Policy Bill, and Tracking Major Supreme Court Rulings

Plus, the Friday news quiz.Read More
On a Quiet Southern Border, Empty Farms and Frightened Workers

As federal immigration sweeps have prompted protests across the nation, the border is eerily quiet, as would-be migrants stay away and undocumented workers hide at home.Read More
Justice Dept. Opens Inquiry Into University of California Hiring Practices

The Trump administration has targeted the state system as part of its broad effort to eliminate diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives and programs.Read More
House Panel Subpoenas Harvard in Tuition-Pricing Inquiry

The subpoena letter adds yet another front to the battle between the university and Republicans in Washington.Read More