ABCNEWS - WATCH: Exchange program helps teens see the USA
In more than 80 communities, students will be traveling with about a dozen others to experience another culture and corner of the U.S. for a week.
NYTIMES (Jeffery C. Mays) - Mamdani Moves to Link Affordability Agenda With Racial Equity
Mayor Zohran Mamdani, who has been taking steps to try to strengthen his ties with Black voters, is issuing two reports that focus on the ways nonwhite New Yorkers are being left behind.
NYTIMES (Samantha Latson) - Sharpton Moves Longtime Civil Rights Group to New Home in Harlem
The Rev. Al Sharpton wants to leave his mark in the face of gentrification, which he says has diluted Harlem’s political power.
NYTIMES (Grace Ashford) - Someone Changed His Party Registration. He Thinks He Knows Why.
Andrew Hevesi, a lifelong Democrat and New York State assemblyman from Queens, was told his voter registration had been changed without his knowledge. He has a culprit in mind.
NYTIMES (Tim Balk) - In Race to Replace Marjorie Taylor Greene, the Iran War Is a Dividing Line
Tuesday’s special House election runoff in a conservative stretch of Georgia is one of the first to showcase disagreements over the conflict, including within the G.O.P.
NYTIMES (John Koblin and Michael M. Grynbaum) - Savannah Guthrie to Return to ‘Today’
The anchor is set to join the show’s cast on Monday for the first time since the disappearance of her 84-year-old mother, Nancy, who remains missing.
NYTIMES (Ginia Bellafante) - Bard College Is Split Over Its President and His Epstein Ties
Leon Botstein saved Bard from near ruin. Now, as an outside firm conducts a review, the campus is home to arguments about his legacy and future.
NYTIMES (Mark Landler) - Epstein in Paris: How a Sex Offender Hustled for Access to France’s Elite
Jeffrey Epstein spent his last days of freedom in Paris, meeting with influential figures. It was a playbook he used everywhere he lived to stamp a veneer of respectability on a life of sordid criminality.
NYTIMES (Willy Staley) - Forget the A.I. Apocalypse. Memes Have Already Nuked Our Culture.
From our jokes and slang to the White House’s policy messaging, internet “brain rot” has escaped our phones to take over … well, everything.
NYTIMES (Andrew Higgins) - A Hidden Russian Hand in Hungary’s Election? Actually, It’s Quite Open.
Prime Minister Viktor Orban has made hostility to Ukraine a centerpiece of his campaign. Moscow seems determined to repay the favor.