New York Headlines

• Stocks Extend Rally and Oil Prices Stabilize as Investor Optimism Grows

  (by The New York Times for The New York Times 19 minutes ago)
  Oil prices stabilized and stocks rose on optimism that diplomatic talks could yield a permanent peace deal.
  
  

• Mamdani Enlists Philanthropists to Raise $20 Million for Child Care

  (by Emma G. Fitzsimmons for The New York Times 31 minutes ago)
  Mayor Zohran Mamdani of New York will announce a campaign to raise money from private donors through a city-run nonprofit to support his child care plan. He already has raised $3.5 million.
  
  

• Law would force NYC shops to let customers use their own cups — but not everybody’s drinking to that

  (by Haley Brown, Natalie O'Neill for The New York Post 2 hours ago)
  Workers tasked with turning away customers with cups that are too big or dirty aren't toasting the idea.
  
  
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• Trump’s Scattershot Week, and a Stock Market Record

  (by Tracy Mumford, Will Jarvis, Margaret Kadifa, Ian Stewart and Raja Abdulrahim for The New York Times 4 hours ago)
  Plus, forget sneakers — Allbirds is going A.I.
  
  

• Mamdani Announces Plan to Lower Insurance Costs for Landlords

  (by Mihir Zaveri for The New York Times 4 hours ago)
  Mayor Zohran Mamdani of New York, acknowledging that landlords are struggling with rising costs, said a cheaper “publicly backed” program would aim to insure 100,000 homes by 2030.
  
  

• NYC to Spend $4 Billion From Pension Funds on Affordable Homes

  (by Mihir Zaveri for The New York Times 4 hours ago)
  The money could jump-start affordable housing projects across the metropolitan region.
  
  

• 15-year-old dead, 2 injured, in gang-related shooting at popular Long Island park

  (by Larry Celona, Zoe Hussain for The New York Post 7 hours ago)
  An invitation for a barbecue at the park was sent out to gang members on social media. An argument then broke out at the event, sparking the gunfire.
  
  

• Newport Beach business scammed by phony Bieber staff who claimed the pop star needed rentals for Coachella, then drove them to Mexico

  (by Daniel Farr for The New York Post 9 hours ago)
  A Newport Beach rental company says it has been left reeling after four of its compact Moke-style buggies, worth more than $200,000, allegedly vanished in what appears to be a carefully orchestrated scam tied to pop star Justin Bieber. Newport Beach Moke co-owner Chad Marta told The California Post the trouble began when a man...
  
  

• Trump’s Portrayal of the War in Iran Collides With Reality

  (by Anton Troianovski for The New York Times 15 hours ago)
  President Trump is confronting a crisis that is not bending to his narrative of a “pretty reasonable” new regime in Iran and all-but-assured victory for the United States.