The New York Times

The New York Times

When asked on Tuesday who he would like to rule Iran, President Trump responded: “Most of the people we had in mind are dead.” “Now we have another group,” he continued. “They may be dead also, based on reports. So I guess you have a third wave coming. Pretty soon we’re not going to know anybody.”

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Breaking News: The U.S. conducted joint military operations with Ecuador against “designated terrorist organizations,” the Pentagon said. The U.S. Southern Command called it an effort to “combat the scourge of narco-terrorism,” but did not provide other details. nyti.ms/4cld7aV

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Mojtaba Khamenei, a son of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, appears to be a front-runner to become his father’s successor. Known for having close ties to the Revolutionary Guards, Mr. Khamenei first joined the Islamic military corps around 1987 after finishing high school. nyti.ms/4rTua8U

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Iranian strikes conducted over the weekend and on Monday damaged structures that are part of or near communication and radar systems on at least seven U.S. military sites across the Middle East, according to a New York Times analysis of satellite imagery and verified videos.

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Polls have closed in Texas, where results in a combative and expensive Senate primary have begun arriving as the first races of the midterm elections were being decided on Tuesday. Follow live results as votes are counted.

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A Toronto synagogue was damaged by gunfire on Monday night, the beginning of the Jewish holiday Purim, the police said. No one was hurt. A vehicle was reportedly seen leaving the area after the shots, but there is no description of any suspect, the police said. nyti.ms/4bqWI2L

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More than 870 people have been killed in the fighting in the Middle East since the U.S. and Israel attacked Iran on Saturday. The vast majority of those reported so far have been in Iran, but others have died in Bahrain, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates, Lebanon and Israel as well.

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Two people were left dangling more than 900 feet in the air after their hot air balloon that had been floating in the almost cloudless sky was punctured, ripped to shreds and left fluttering from the 1,000-foot communications tower it struck near in Texas on Saturday. nyti.ms/4l9N0pF

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No Democrat has won a statewide election in Texas since 1994. In fact, only one major statewide race has even been close this century — when Beto O’Rourke came within three points of knocking out Senator Ted Cruz in 2018.

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President Trump has endorsed hundreds of Republican candidates running for office this year. See results for the candidates running in tonight’s primaries.

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Roy Cooper, a former Democratic governor of North Carolina, and Michael Whatley, a former chairman of the RNC, won their respective primaries for a U.S. Senate seat in North Carolina on Tuesday.

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A conservative member of the Texas Legislature is facing a tough challenge in Tuesday’s Republican primary from an Air Force veteran who went to prison for breaching the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6.

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U.S. officials have identified four of the U.S. soldiers killed by an Iranian drone on Sunday. They were Army Reserve officers from Nebraska, Florida, Iowa and Minnesota. One was wrapping up his final deployment and hoped to open a martial arts studio. nyti.ms/4r9Cnoa

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President Trump is trying to tamp down an uproar over whether Israel had dragged the U.S. into a war with Iran, even as he and top officials offered contradictory explanations for why, exactly, Trump had ordered military action. nyti.ms/4rXVbbh

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The State Department urged Americans to depart immediately from 14 Middle East countries. Iran has targeted U.S. facilities in Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain and the UAE. And the Israeli military moved to seize more areas inside Lebanon. Track the widening war across the Middle East with these maps.

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Dallas police officers took a man into custody outside of a hotel where the state’s attorney general, Ken Paxton, was set to hold his election night watch party on Tuesday. Officers appeared to find magazines for a rifle when searching his car.

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A photo distributed by Iranian state media showed thousands in the streets of a town in southern Iran on Tuesday during the funeral for victims of an airstrike on a girls’ elementary school that killed at least 175 people, many of them students, on Saturday. nyti.ms/3N6jh4i

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Joichi Ito, a prominent figure in a technology and entrepreneurship project led by the government in Japan, is leaving the initiative after renewed scrutiny over his past ties to Jeffrey Epstein. nyti.ms/47dC7NR

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Polls are closed in much of Texas, where both parties have held costly and contentious Senate primaries. Follow results here.

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The Pentagon released the names of four U.S. troops who were killed by an Iranian drone attack in Kuwait in an opening salvo of strikes on U.S. military facilities amid President Trump’s widening war with Iran. nyti.ms/4aMaaiu

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In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “In their focus on the self and detachment from real experiences, looksmaxxers intensify Gen Z’s generation’s approach to romance — or the lack thereof,” writes Christine Emba.

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President Trump weighed in on many races ahead of Tuesday’s Republican primary in Texas. Here are some of the candidates Trump has endorsed in the high-stakes elections.

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The senior clerics responsible for selecting Iran’s next supreme leader met on Tuesday to deliberate, and the son of the slain former leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, emerged as the clear front-runner, according to Iranian officials familiar with the deliberations.

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Tuesday’s primary elections will provide an important snapshot of the 6.5 million Hispanic voters in Texas, as both parties are trying to figure out the best way to appeal to them. Here are some of the races where Latinos are poised to have the biggest influence.

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President Trump on Tuesday acknowledged the deep uncertainty about what comes next in Iran, saying that officials whom the United States had eyed as potential new leaders had been killed in the U.S.-Israeli bombing campaign. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/03/w...

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The head of the Veterans Affairs Department has said that the agency needs to hire more doctors and nurses, even as President Trump seeks to shrink the federal government. But the VA has cut thousands of medical positions that were left vacant after a wave of resignations and retirements last year.

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The New York attorney general is investigating Columbia University for its handling of allegations against Robert Hadden, a former university gynecologist who continued to work at one of its hospitals for weeks after his 2012 arrest on sex crimes.

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More than 10,000 Haitians call Springfield, Ohio, home. Trying to protect their neighbors from immigration raids, some of the city’s residents have converted their basements and spare bedrooms into shelters for Haitian families who could be targeted by the Trump administration.

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News Analysis: With President Trump's decision to authorize war against Iran, he is taking the biggest gamble of his presidency, risking the lives of American troops, more deaths and instability in the world’s most volatile region and his own political standing.

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