“When it happened, I was like, ‘Oh my God — it’s time,’” the conductor Elim Chan said of her appointment in San Francisco. “It is groundbreaking. It’s another ceiling broken.”

Executives at Walmart, the nation’s largest retailer, see some signs of stress among shoppers.

Elon Musk and Tim Cook, far right, were among the U.S. chief executives in attendance during a state banquet in Beijing last week.

Richneck Elementary School in Newport News, Va., as students returned following a shooting at the school in 2023.

Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s executive budget release earlier this month was given the star treatment by some of his followers on social media.

A SpaceX rocket in 2024. The company, led by Elon Musk, chose Goldman Sachs to be the lead bank for its initial public offering.

Eli Lilly’s headquarters in Indianapolis.

Morning traffic in Berlin in March.

A core campaign promise of Mayor Zohran Mamdani, who unveiled the plan for Hunts Point in a news conference on Monday, involved opening a city-run grocery store in each borough.

Susannah Flood, seated, and fellow cast members in “Liberation.”

Disney’s new chief executive, Josh D’Amaro, at Disneyland last year, when he was chairman of Disney experiences.

The median along Park Avenue is already planted with trees, grass and flowers, but is not welcoming to pedestrians.

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Demonstrators rallied in April against the use of generative artificial intelligence in New York City schools.

Bayer, the German conglomerate that acquired the maker of Roundup in 2018, argued that federal rules requiring herbicide safety labeling should bar people from filing state-level claims that accuse companies of failing to warn consumers of dangers.