Today’s Paper

After Biden’s Push for Truce, Netanyahu Calls Israel’s War Plans Unchanged

The timing of the remarks seemed to rebuff the president’s hopes for a speedy end to the war. But some analysts said the prime minister was aiming at domestic supporters, not the White House.

South African Voters Reject the Party That Freed Them From Apartheid

The African National Congress received less than 50 percent of the national vote for the first time since gaining power 30 years ago, setting the nation on an uncharted course.

In the West Bank, Guns and a Locked Gate Signal a Town’s New Residents

Why Mexico May Elect a Female President Before the United States

‘Not Everything Was Bad’: Saluting the Mercedes of Eastern Europe and a Communist Past

Jaap van Zweden’s Brief, Fraught Time Atop the New York Philharmonic

How 3 Texas Teenagers Grew Up to Be Broadway Stars (and Stayed Friends)

2,000 Sea Lions Roamed, Just to Make This Dock Their Home

They’re Asian. They’re American. But, They Wonder, Are They Asian American?

This Man Did Not Invent Bitcoin

Marian Robinson, Michelle Obama’s Steadfast Mother, Dies at 86