Ex-US Army Pilot Recalls Battle for Survival When Shot Down in Iraq NYT | Top Stories By: Pranav Baskar 4 April 2026 at 06:35 Ronald Young Jr. was in the Army when his Apache Longbow copter went down during the U.S. invasion of Iraq. © Wally Santana/Associated PressRonald Young Jr. boarding a transport plane near Baghdad in 2003, after escaping captivity.
In a Muzzled Russia, He Still Speaks His Mind NYT | Top Stories By: Valerie Hopkins 2 April 2026 at 17:44 While hundreds of other journalists fled into exile after Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022, the Nobel Peace Prize laureate Dmitri A. Muratov stayed. But he did not stay quiet. © Nanna Heitmann for The New York TimesDmitri A. Muratov at his office at Novaya Gazeta in Moscow in December.