How Oil, Drugs and Immigration Fueled Trump’s Venezuela Campaign

New details of deliberations show how aides with overlapping agendas drove the United States toward a militarized confrontation with Venezuela.Secretary of State Marco Rubio, left, and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, right, have been key players, alongside the presidential adviser Stephen Miller, in

E Edward Wong, Tyler Pager, Charlie Savage, Julian E. Barnes and Maria Abi-Habib

A Dancing Dictator and Bankers in Chains: The Other Venezuela Blockade

A crisis more than a century ago involved U.S. aims to assert military supremacy, a hard-partying dictator and frictions among the great powers.Cipriano Castro, who ruled Venezuela from 1899 to 1908. Known as the “Lion of the Andes,” he defied the great powers of the era.

S Simon Romero

Trump Pursues His Legacy One Name at a Time

In attaching his name to buildings and programs while still president, Donald Trump is walking a path paved by conquerors and autocrats.President Trump announcing the Navy’s new “Trump Class” battleships.

M Matthew Purdy

Russia Pummels Kyiv Before Trump-Zelensky Meeting

President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine said that the assault with hundreds of drones and missiles, lasting nearly 10 hours, showed that Moscow was not serious about peace.Firefighters at the site of a Russian strike on an apartment building on Saturday in Kyiv, Ukraine.

C Cassandra Vinograd

This Ukrainian Soldier Spent More Than a Year on the Front Line

Serhii Tyschenko, a Ukrainian combat medic, spent 472 days in a bunker. His case appears to be an extreme example of a problem that has long plagued Kyiv’s military.Sgt. Serhii Tyschenko last month in his home village near Kyiv, Ukraine.

C Cassandra Vinograd and Oleksandr Chubko

How One Father Created an Organ Empire

The National Kidney Registry has matched thousands of kidney donors with recipients. It has also paid millions of dollars to a company owned by its founder.The organization, which began as a nonprofit, charges hospitals for access to its donor registry.

D Danielle Ivory, Grace Ashford and Robert Gebeloff

Park Chan-wook and the Funny Thing About Stomach-Churning Horror

When American studios wouldn’t back his film about a laid-off manager committing gruesome murders, the director returned to Korea. Now he has a hit on his hands.When Park adds humor to his films, “it sometimes skips a couple of steps, so it can go over people’s heads,” Lee said.

R Robert Ito

More Student Loan Borrowers Are Shedding Debts in Bankruptcy

A new study suggests that distressed borrowers using a simpler bankruptcy process are succeeding — and that more people like them should try.Amy Howdyshell, 43, used a bankruptcy filing to get more than $78,000 in federal student debt dismissed.

T Tara Siegel Bernard

A Second Lawsuit Accuses Tyler Perry of Sexual Assault

Mario Rodriguez, who had a role in one of Mr. Perry’s films, sued him on Thursday, months after another actor filed a similar lawsuit.The actor and director Tyler Perry was named as a defendant in a sexual harassment lawsuit filed on Thursday in California.

F Francesca Regalado and Mark Walker

Gary Graffman, Piano Virtuoso and Renowned Teacher, Dies at 97

Mr. Graffman was a onetime child prodigy whose career was curtailed by a neurological condition that restricted him to his left hand.Gary Graffman in 2018, when he turned 90. He was an acclaimed concert pianist before developing focal dystonia, the neurological disorder that restricted him to his le

V Vivien Schweitzer