The 30-year relationship between Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson is the basis for Suzan-Lori Parks’s hilarious and harrowing nesting doll of a play.

Review: In ‘Sally & Tom,’ Plantation Scandal Meets Backstage Farce

Clerics in Indonesia are issuing fatwas, retrofitting mosques and imploring congregants to help turn the tide against climate change.

What Can ‘Green Islam’ Achieve in the World’s Largest Muslim Country?

Nemat Shafik said some contested phrases — like “from the river to the sea” — might warrant discipline, angering some supporters of academic freedom.

Columbia’s President Tells Congress That Action Is Needed Against Antisemitism

After the state passed a law barring government contractors from donating to politicians, fund-raising parties showed just how completely the reform effort failed.

Inside the Late-Night Parties Where Hawaii Politicians Raked In Money

The United Automobile Workers hopes contract gains at the Big Three carmakers will provide momentum in a broad effort to organize nonunion plants.

VW Workers in Tennessee Start Vote on U.A.W., Testing Union Ambitions

At a time of heightened confusion and legal battles over access to abortion, women are looking to social media for answers.

Women Talk Through Their Abortions on TikTok

Rusty Foster could never live in New York. But his hit newsletter, Today in Tabs, is an enduring obsession of the city’s media class.

From a Tiny Island in Maine, He Serves Up Fresh Media Gossip

Since the collapse of the Key Bridge, other East Coast ports have absorbed the cargo previously handled in Baltimore, but some parts of the supply chain like trucking are struggling.

Trains, Trucks and Tractors: The Race to Reroute Goods From Baltimore

Global digital rights advocates are watching to see if Congress acts, worried that other countries could follow suit with app bans of their own.

What a TikTok Ban Would Mean for the U.S. Defense of an Open Internet

New regimens in development, including once-weekly pills and semiannual shots, could help control the virus in hard-to-reach populations.

Long-Acting Drugs May Revolutionize H.I.V. Prevention and Treatment

The company’s directors are asking shareholders to again approve the multibillion-dollar compensation plan and to move the company’s registration to Texas, from Delaware.

Tesla Seeks to Revive Musk’s $47 Billion Pay Deal After Judge Says No

Democrats quickly swept aside the articles of impeachment accusing the homeland security secretary of refusing to enforce immigration laws and breach of public trust, calling them unconstitutional.

Senate Dismisses Impeachment Charges Against Mayorkas Without a Trial

In a first, a Colorado law extends privacy rights to the neural data increasingly coveted by technology companies.

Your Brain Waves Are Up for Sale. A New Law Wants to Change That.

Many older Black voters see moral and political reasons to vote. Younger Black voters feel far less motivated to cast a ballot for Democrats or even at all.

As Civil Rights Era Fades From Memory, Generation Gap Divides Black Voters

Both the prosecutors and defense are trying to frame it differently.

Is Trump’s Trial Really About ‘Hush Money’?

Israeli officials say they didn’t see a strike on a high-level Iranian target in Syria as a provocation, and did not give Washington a heads-up about it until right before it happened.

Miscalculation Led to Escalation in Clash Between Israel and Iran

Quotation of the Day for Wednesday, April 17, 2024.

Quotation of the Day: Bleak View of War’s Third Year as Ukraine Strains to Fire Back

Artists across pop genres are finding success with colored vinyl and different variants of their releases. For Swifties, the urge to collect them all is strong.

Taylor Swift Sells a Rainbow of Vinyl Albums. Fans Keep Buying Them.

Times reporters discuss the relationship between major C.E.O.s and Donald Trump.

Business and a Second Trump Term

Ancient humans left behind numerous archaeological traces in the cavern, and scientists say there may be thousands more like it on the Arabian Peninsula to study.

This Lava Tube in Saudi Arabia Has Been a Human Refuge for 7,000 Years

As the economy cools, pressure is building on the Bank of England to cut interest rates.

Inflation in U.K. Slows to 3.2%, Lowest in More Than 2 Years

Reality stars and other people with some degree of fame are making no secret of their hopes to join the next cast of the hit show “The Traitors.”

Who Doesn’t Want to Be a Traitor?

Regulators are expected to meet next week to discuss the $8.5 billion deal between Coach’s owner, Tapestry, and Michael Kors’s parent company, Capri Holdings, which would create a U.S. luxury conglomerate.

F.T.C. Said to Consider Blocking Major Fashion Merger

In “Staff Meal,” in previews at Playwrights Horizons, a restaurant becomes a refuge as the world ends.

Abe Koogler’s New Play Is an Ode to Intense Culinary Experiences

The election is a giant undertaking that requires millions of poll workers, voting machines and security forces to cover deserts, mountains, forests and megacities.

April 17, 2024

Headlines from April 17, 2024

Review: In ‘Sally & Tom,’ Plantation Scandal Meets Backstage Farce

What Can ‘Green Islam’ Achieve in the World’s Largest Muslim Country?

Columbia’s President Tells Congress That Action Is Needed Against Antisemitism

Inside the Late-Night Parties Where Hawaii Politicians Raked In Money

VW Workers in Tennessee Start Vote on U.A.W., Testing Union Ambitions

Billboard 200

Cowboy Carter

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Historical Context for April 17, 2024