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Matthew Cullen
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared today that Israel was “on the eve of a forceful entry to Gaza.” Israel’s security cabinet voted last night to approve a new plan for tens of thousands of additional soldiers to seize and hold territory in Gaza and relocate Palestinians to the south.
Netanyahu said Israel’s military leaders told him that “it’s time to launch the concluding moves.”
The escalation followed more than two months in which Israel continued to blockade and bombard the enclave as cease-fire talks to free the remaining hostages ground to a near standstill. Israel has barred any humanitarian aid to Gaza in an effort to press Hamas to surrender, leading to “catastrophic” shortages of food, water and medicine, the U.N. said.
An Israeli spokesman said the offensive would aim to increase pressure on Hamas to release the hostages and to destroy all of the group’s infrastructure. Officials said it would start slowly ahead of President Trump’s trip next week to the region. Cease-fire negotiations are ongoing, but the officials said that if a deal is not reached soon, the expanded ground operation would commence in earnest.
In related news, Israeli fighter jets bombed Yemen today after Houthi militants fired a missile that landed near Israel’s main airport.
In an effort to ramp up deportations, the Trump administration has begun to offer $1,000 and a flight home to any undocumented immigrant who agrees to willingly leave the U.S. Already, one migrant from Honduras has taken up the offer.
The program is the latest effort by the administration to encourage migrants to “self deport,” which officials consider cheaper and easier than arresting, detaining and flying people out of the country.
In other immigration news, the administration is in talks with Rwanda to accept U.S. deportees. Also, the tents that the U.S. erected at Guantánamo Bay have not held any migrants.
The Trump administration asked a judge to dismiss a lawsuit that sought to restrict access to abortion pills — echoing a Biden position.
Senate Democrats are demanding changes to cryptocurrency legislation, responding in part to evidence that the Trump family is using the president’s power to profit from trading cryptocurrency.
Senior officials at the National Endowment for the Arts are resigning, days after the Trump administration began withdrawing grants.
A coalition of states sued the Trump administration in an effort to block its slashing of the Department of Health and Human Services grants and staff.
Trump said he would impose a 100 percent tariff on movies “produced” outside the U.S.
Trump also said he wanted Alcatraz to be restored as a functioning maximum-security prison.
Trump and Harvard both want “viewpoint diversity.” What does it mean?
Jury selection started today in the Manhattan trial of Sean Combs, who is also known as Diddy. The 12-member panel will be confronted with the question of whether Combs led a typical celebrity entourage or, as prosecutors will argue, a criminal enterprise that enabled years of sexual exploitation and other crimes.
The government says employees set up hotel rooms, procured drugs and arranged for male prostitutes ahead of “drug-fueled coercive sex marathons.” Testimony is expected to take two months. Combs has pleaded not guilty to the charges against him.
The idea of “value investing” existed well before Warren Buffett began his career. But no one did it as well, or for as long, as he did. In the process, Buffett, 94, built up a $168 billion fortune and influenced generations of investors, promoting the now-common advice about investing for the long term.
This weekend, Buffett, who said “our favorite holding period is forever,” announced something that the finance world had been discussing for many years: the “Oracle of Omaha” was stepping down and handing his $1.1 trillion conglomerate to a new leader, Gregory Abel. My colleague Andrew Ross Sorkin, who has reported on Buffett for decades, described the emotional scene in the room.
Vatican: Some papal contenders delivered homilies in Rome that hinted at what kind of pope they might want, or want to be.
Europe: The E.U. is making a pitch to scientists who have lost funding from the Trump administration’s cuts, which includes a $566 million research investment.
Trade: After the U.S. closed a loophole that allowed tariff-free imports of small orders of inexpensive goods, Chinese garment manufacturers are considering relocating.
Business: UnitedHealth Group lent $9 billion to practices affected by a cyberattack on its payment systems last year. It’s now demanding repayment; in response, clinics are suing.
Travel: Air traffic controllers temporarily lost communication with planes at Newark Liberty International Airport last week, the workers’ union said.
Education: Santa Ono is set to leave the University of Michigan for the University of Florida, where he’ll become one of the highest paid public university presidents ever.
Tech: A.I. has become more powerful, but its hallucinations have gotten worse.
Brazil: The police said that they stopped a plot to attack a Lady Gaga concert with improvised explosives on Copacabana Beach.
Utah: The Great Salt Lake is drying up, which could become a public health disaster.
Texas: Elon Musk now has a city: Starbase, populated mostly by SpaceX employees. Take a tour.
The Pulitzer Prizes
The Times won four Pulitzer Prize awards, including one for photos of the July 13 attempt on Trump’s life. ProPublica won the public service prize. See all of the winners.
The stars are now arriving at the Met Gala, which means the most discussed, debated and dissected red carpet of the year is now underway. Here’s how to watch.
Sometimes that can sound like hyperbole, but this year it’s actually true, our fashion critic Vanessa Friedman said. This year’s theme, which honors a Met exhibition about the Black dandy, has put the event on a collision course with the shift to the right in politics and helped it raise a record-setting $31 million.
Follow along with our live updates to see all of the night’s best looks.
Jean-Claude Silbermann was a teenager when he joined André Breton’s enigmatic group of acolytes, who called themselves Surrealists. Now, at 90, Silbermann is having his dreamlike artworks shown in the U.S. for the first time. He calls himself “the last Surrealist alive,” but he insists that Surrealism is simply a frame of mind that future generations of artists will interpret.
Style at the race: Check out the most fashionable hats from the Kentucky Derby.
An unlikely pair: The YouTube star known as MrBeast is writing a novel with James Patterson.
Mother Pigeon is on the case: Someone is stealing pigeons from New York City’s streets.
Automated voices: How should a woman sound?
Cook: This guacamole recipe has a punch from roasted tomatillos.
Watch: Here are five international movies to stream right now.
Read: My colleague recommended two books that could be an alternative to meditation.
Listen: Check out Barbra Streisand’s silky duet with Hozier and nine other new songs.
Gaze: A meteor shower made by Halley’s comet will reach its peak tonight.
Focus: Spend 10 minutes with van Gogh’s “The Starry Night,” and tell us how you feel.
Compete: Take this week’s Flashback history quiz.
Play: Here are today’s Spelling Bee, Wordle and Mini Crossword. Find all our games here.
Formula 1 teams often spend more than $100 million a year to build some of the fastest and most highly engineered cars in the world. But this weekend at the Miami Grand Prix, the sport’s drivers seemed more excited to take a spin in the toy cars.
For the event, Lego made 10 full-size, drivable F1 cars from its tiny plastic bricks. Each one required about 400,000 bricks, weighed more than a ton and took about three weeks to construct. My colleague at The Athletic visited Lego’s big builds factory outside Prague to see how the cars were made.
Have a creative evening.
Thanks for reading. I’ll be back tomorrow. — Matthew
Philip Pacheco was our photo editor.
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Matthew Cullen is the lead writer of The Evening, a Times newsletter covering the day’s top stories every weekday.
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