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Yesterday — 11 April 2025Main stream

Review: In a Musical Comedy Makeover, ‘Smash’ Lives Up to Its Name

11 April 2025 at 10:30
En route to Broadway, the TV series about backstage shenanigans and Marilyn Monroe has been rejiggered, with the same great songs but a whole new plot.

© Richard Termine for The New York Times

In “Smash,” Robyn Hurder, center, stars as the actress Ivy Lynn, who plays Marilyn Monroe in a musical-within-the-musical at the Imperial Theater in Manhattan.
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In the Bronx, a Battle Over the Future of Jennifer Lopez’s Alma Mater

10 April 2025 at 15:00
The religious order that owns Preston High School says it can no longer operate it. Supporters are appealing to the New York attorney general for help.

© Elias Williams for The New York Times

Andrea Donkor, seated, a Preston High School graduate and former board member of the school, at a public hearing about the proposed closure of the all-girls’ Catholic school.

New York and Texas Rulings Curb Deportations of Venezuelans to El Salvador

The decisions suggest that the battle over using a wartime law, the Alien Enemies Act, to deport migrants is certain to persist.

© Marvin Recinos/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

Inmates at a notorious prison in El Salvador where a group of Venezuelan migrants were sent from the United States.

Coalition Deal in Germany Clears Way for Friedrich Merz to Become Chancellor

9 April 2025 at 22:41
The agreement was concluded relatively quickly but still took about six and half weeks, during which the country had been virtually rudderless at a critical moment for Europe.

© Annegret Hilse/Reuters

Friedrich Merz had been under pressure to get a coalition government moving.

Queens Businessman Sentenced to Prison for Acting as Agent of China

20 March 2025 at 07:10
An Quanzhong, who will spend 13 months behind bars, harassed a resident whom China’s government wanted back home. His conviction was one of several that prosecutors have won against operatives in New York.
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