Zohran Mamdani will hold two swearing-in ceremonies, with a large ceremonial event set for City Hall on New Year’s Day.
By midafternoon crowds were jammed into Times Square waiting for the midnight ball drop.
A street in Syracuse’s downtown area, known as Armory Square, was still covered in snow after the city’s second snowiest day on record.
A U.S. military helicopter flying over the Panama-flagged Centuries, which was intercepted in the Caribbean Sea. American officials have suggested that they intend to seize another ship, Bella 1, which they are currently tracking.
Brigitte Bardot, center, appeared in court in 1997 on charges of inciting racial hatred.
A view of Aleppo, Syria, where a suicide bomber struck on Wednesday.
Two Times journalists joined Miles Taylor, a YouTuber and transport enthusiast, on a daylong journey across New York City area buses and trains before sale of the card ends on Dec. 31.
Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani named Kamar Samuels as New York City’s schools chancellor. He starts on Thursday.
Jacqueline de Ribes in 1953. She designed clothes for herself and for a socially prominent clientele.
Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. in May. By tradition, he releases his report about the state of the nation’s courts on the last day of the year.
President Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela at a rally in Caracas, the capital, earlier this month.
Tehran on Wednesday as businesses, universities and most government offices were told to close.
How much more chaotic could a second Trump term be? 2025 did not disappoint.
The Arkansas Valley Conduit would provide clean water to 50,000 Colorado residents by diverting water from the Arkansas River, seen here at the base of the dam of the Pueblo Reservoir.
A second Gilded Age, a single solution.
Tatiana Schlossberg’s essay for The New Yorker, published online in November and in print this month, moved David Remnick, the magazine’s editor, with its “heart and intelligence and honesty,” he said.
Dana Escoffier in his West Village apartment in 2000.
President Trump’s two vetoes were the first of his second term.
Mahsa Khanbabai’s account provides a window into the experience of immigration lawyers this year, who are fighting for clients against an administration that they no longer trust to follow the rules.
We asked you to vote on the best films of the year. The results ranged from big box office hits to small art-house indies.