NYTIMES (Emmanuel Morgan) - Bad Bunny Means a Breakthrough for Puerto Rican Athletes, Too
Puerto Rican football players are thrilled that Spanish will resound at the Super Bowl. “The stage is bigger than the N.F.L. itself,” one lineman said.
NYTIMES (Katie Glueck) - Newsom, Shapiro and Other Democrats Whip Up the 2028 Book Buzz
A number of potential presidential candidates are releasing memoirs as the shadow primary heats up.
NYTIMES (Tracey Tully) - Primary for New Jersey House Seat Is First Race of Pivotal Midterms
Eleven candidates are running in a special primary election on Thursday to fill Gov. Mikie Sherrill’s former seat. They include a former member of Congress and the former lieutenant governor.
NYTIMES (Benjamin Oreskes) - After Taking on Trump and Backing Mamdani, Hochul Sees Her Star Rise
Gov. Kathy Hochul has warded off most serious challenges to her re-election, but still faces a primary contest against her lieutenant governor, Antonio Delgado.
NYTIMES (Shane Goldmacher) - To Win Back the House, Democrats Take the Fight to Deep-Red Areas
Democrats are tapping candidates with unusual résumés — a Tejano recording star, a smokejumper and a fourth-generation farmer — to compete in areas long seen as inhospitable.
NYTIMES (Farnaz Fassihi) - U.S. and Iran to Hold Talks in Oman on Friday
The White House confirmed a meeting would take place after days of conflicting reports on the talks’ timing, location and format.
NYTIMES (Erika Solomon, Leily Nikounazar and Sanam Mahoozi) - ‘It’s Collective Punishment’: Iran Exacts Heavy Price on Protest Supporters
The authorities are making mass arrests, seizing assets and hunting down doctors who treated protesters. Some Iranians keep showing defiance anyway.
NYTIMES (Reid Forgrave) - Jessie Diggins is the Olympian Testing the Limits of Endurance
Jessie Diggins has become the best-ever American cross-country skier because of what she pushes her body through.
NYTIMES (Jennifer Schuessler) - How Trump Brought the Fight Over American History to Philadelphia
The administration took a crowbar to a site that focused on George Washington and slavery. But can the contradictions of the Founding Era be erased?
NYTIMES (Tracy Mumford, Will Jarvis and Ian Stewart) - Major Nuclear Arms Treaty Expires, and Federal Prosecutor in Minnesota Says ‘This Job Sucks’
Plus, Savannah Guthrie makes a plea to her mother’s abductor.