New York Times

Scientists expect the large, brightly colored spider to arrive in the Northeast sometime this year.

Hamas and Islamic Jihad fighters were hiding inside three classrooms, a military spokesman said.

The outspoken Trump ally was convicted two years ago of contempt of Congress for refusing to comply with a subpoena from the House Jan. 6 committee. He faces a four-month sentence.

His marriage fell apart as his addiction to crack cocaine deepened. The Times would like to speak with families shaken by a loved one’s drug addiction.

Also, an Israeli strike killed dozens in central Gaza. Here’s the latest at the end of Thursday.

The Oklahoma City Council voted this week to clear the way for a 1,907-foot tower, surpassing One World Trade Center in New York.

California’s highest court rejected arguments that a proposed student housing project would violate laws on noise pollution.

Rex Heuermann, who has been accused of killing four women, has been charged with the murders of two more.

At 73, Thomas Creech is one of the few people to have survived a failed attempt at executing the death penalty. Now he waits to see if the state will try again.

Examining the rare one-term presidential limit.

But transit advocates said the suspension of the tolling program was no victory for the state’s beleaguered commuters.

On the 80th anniversary of D-Day, we are forgetting the lessons of World War II.

The new rules, which would also significantly rein in demonstrations at the university in other ways, come on the heels of a nationwide wave of student activism against Israel’s actions in Gaza.

Both Representatives Scott Perry of Pennsylvania and Ronny Jackson of Texas are close allies of the former president who have faced legal and ethical issues.

Two NASA astronauts, Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, opened the hatch of the spacecraft and boarded the outpost in orbit.

Speaking in Normandy, the president argued that similar principles were at stake in both wars: the defense of freedom and a rules-based international order.

The City Council approved one of Mayor Eric Adams’s plans to update New York City’s zoning rules. His next proposal, to build more housing, could be contentious.

David Folkenflik of NPR wrote that the offer, in exchange for agreeing to stop his coverage of a phone hacking scandal, was made “repeatedly — and heatedly.”

The deadly strike on a United Nations school-turned-shelter is a bitter reminder, Gazans say, that each place they flee eventually gets caught up in the bloodshed.

Using point-and-shoot cameras, she traveled to China, Russia and the coal mines of Kentucky to capture everyday life.