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      These 10 U.S. Cardinals Have a Vote in Selecting the Next Pope

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      Six are joining in their first papal conclave, and four others participated in the 2013 conclave that elected Pope Francis.The College of Cardinals includes 17 members from the United States. But only 10 of those are cardinal electors, meaning that they are allowed to participate in the conclave and vote for the next pope. The other seven are older than 80, the cutoff to be an elector.Six of the 10 cardinals were elevated to the position by Pope Francis and are largely known as vocal supporters of his priorities, particularly on immigration, the environment and poverty. This will be their first conclave:Cardinal Blase J. Cupich of Chicago, 76. Born in Nebraska, he was a bishop in South Dakota and an archbishop in Spokane, Wash. His appointment to Chicago in 2014 was one of Pope Francis’ early moves to reshape U.S. church leadership, particularly to show support for immigrants. Cardinal Cupich’s archdiocese covers about two million Catholics in Cook and Lake Counties.Cardinal Robert W. McElroy of Washington, 71. The former bishop of San Diego is known for regularly speaking out on behalf of migrants, women and L.G.B.T.Q. people in the church and the United States. He has said that the Trump administration’s plans for a “wider, indiscriminate, massive deportation across the country” would be “incompatible with Catholic doctrine.”Cardinal Joseph W. Tobin of Newark, 73. Before coming to Newark, he led the archdiocese of Indianapolis (where he bench-pressed 225 pounds at the gym). As a young priest, he ministered to people with AIDS in Chicago. He has said that he does not see “a compelling theological reason why the pope couldn’t name a woman cardinal.”Cardinal Wilton D. Gregory, archbishop emeritus of Washington, 77. The first African-American cardinal, he was president of the United States Catholic bishops’ conference in 2002 and pushed to pass the Dallas Charter, which instituted a zero-tolerance policy for sexual abuse of minors. Later the archbishop of Atlanta, he supported L.G.B.T.Q. Catholics and commissioned an action plan after Francis’ encyclical on the environment.Cardinal Kevin J. Farrell, prefect of the Dicastery for the Laity, the Family and Life, 77. The Irish-American was formerly bishop of Dallas. Pope Francis made him the camerlengo, or chamberlain, the Vatican’s acting administrator when a pope dies or resigns. He was responsible for verifying Pope Francis’ death.Cardinal Robert F. Prevost, prefect of the Dicastery for Bishops, 69. A Chicago-born priest, he advised the pope on bishop appointments around the world. He is also a member of the Order of Saint Augustine, a religious order of men and women who follow the teachings of the fourth-century saint. Cardinal Prevost is also seen by some as a contender for pope, though a long shot. (There has never been an American pontiff.)We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and log into your Times account, or subscribe for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber? Log in.Want all of The Times? Subscribe. More

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      What to Know about ‘Love Island USA’ Season 7

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      After finding a winning formula in Season 6, the Peacock dating competition will return to Fiji this summer.There is news from the villa: “Love Island USA,” the reality competition show that was so successful last year that it generated a spinoff, will return to Peacock this summer for Season 7.Here’s what we know so far.For the uninitiated, what is ‘Love Island USA?’The show is a reality dating competition that gathers a group of contestants, called islanders, into a luxury villa and has them couple up, either out of true love or friendship or simply for survival. Single islanders are kicked out of the villa, and every so often viewers can vote out their least favorite couple. The pair voted “most compatible” at the end wins a cash prize.Who will be on Season 7?Though the cast not been announced, Ariana Madix, of “Vanderpump Rules” fame, will be returning as the host, and the comedian Iain Stirling will reprise his role as the narrator. Together, the two helped draw a new audience to the competition last year, making it one of the summer’s buzziest shows.“What’s quite nice is me, as the voice, and Ariana are a lovely juxtaposition,” Mr. Sterling said in an interview last year. “You’ve got me as the voice going, ‘Oh that’s a silly thing we’re all looking at’ and you’ve got Ariana being like, ‘I genuinely really care about these people.’ And I think that sort of encapsulates the two emotions you feel while watching ‘Love Island.’”What else is there to know?Like Season 6, this season will also take place in Fiji. According to a news release from Peacock, “Temptations will rise and drama will ensue as Islanders face brand new couples’ challenges, jaw-dropping twists and turns, and even a few surprise guests.”Voting will, once again, be managed through a “Love Island USA” app.Peacock released a teaser for the new season yesterday, featuring Ms. Madix and Mr. Sterling gazing into a crystal ball as the drama unfolds before their eyes.And there is a spinoff?Yes! Last month, Peacock announced a new series, “Love Island: Beyond the Villa,” that will follow the cast of Season 6 around Los Angeles in more of a straightforward reality show. No release date has been set, but the series is expected to have most of the cast in main roles, with others appearing occasionally.When will Season 7 premiere?The show will premiere on Peacock on June 3 at 9 p.m. Eastern time, and new episodes will be released every day except Wednesday. More

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      JD Vance’s Half Brother Advances in Race for Cincinnati Mayor

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      Cory Bowman will next face Aftab Pureval, the Democratic incumbent, who outperformed him in Tuesday’s nonpartisan primary.A half brother of Vice President JD Vance who is running for mayor of Cincinnati advanced on Tuesday to compete in the general election.The candidate, Cory Bowman, a Republican coffee shop owner, won a small share of the votes in Tuesday’s nonpartisan primary, according to The Associated Press. He came in second to the current mayor, Aftab Pureval, a Democrat.They will now face each other again in November. The results pushed a third candidate, Brian Frank, also a Republican, out of the race.Cincinnati mayoral elections are technically nonpartisan, but it has been decades since the city elected a Republican to the office. Vice President Kamala Harris won 77 percent of the city’s voters last fall, even as President Trump and Mr. Vance, Ohio’s junior senator, took the state.David Niven, a professor of politics at the University of Cincinnati, said Mr. Bowman’s family connections were unlikely to change that dynamic. “You can’t get that far as a Trump-Vance Republican in the city of Cincinnati.” But anywhere else in the state of Ohio, Dr. Niven said, “He’d be in better shape as a candidate.”Mr. Pureval won both the primary and the general mayoral elections four years ago by wide margins. Until a few months ago, he had seemed poised to run unopposed for a second term. Both Republicans said that possibility spurred them to enter the race, which has focused on local matters like affordable housing, potholes and public safety.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and log into your Times account, or subscribe for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber? Log in.Want all of The Times? Subscribe. More

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      With a Pace Gallery Show, Robert Mangold Demonstrates His Consistency

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      At 87, the abstract artist Robert Mangold will exhibit 19 recent paintings and works, including one of his largest in decades.The abstract artist Robert Mangold has been so remarkably consistent and disciplined with his approach to painting and drawing that he makes pretty much everyone else look capricious and changeable.Mangold has been exploring geometry, form and color for more than 60 years, with a half-century of that time on a charming property here in the Hudson Valley with an old farmhouse and a barn.Now 87, Mangold has definitely slowed down. But he is still working, and he has a show of recent paintings and works on paper at Pace Gallery in Chelsea that opens on Friday.“Robert Mangold: Pentagons and Folded Space” is timed to coincide with the busy spring art season in New York and remains on view until Aug. 15.The exhibition has 19 works, and some have multiple components — including “Four Pentagons” (2022), a four-panel work that is one of his largest in decades — so it may seem even bigger, and it spreads over two floors. (“Four Pentagons” and a few other works are on loan from museums or private collections, in this case from the Art Institute of Chicago.)Mangold can spend years iterating on a shape. Circles and semicircles are forms that he has returned to again and again, sometimes embedded with or embedded in rectilinear forms, as in “Circle Painting #4” (1973), which sold for $365,000 at Christie’s in 2014.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and log into your Times account, or subscribe for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber? Log in.Want all of The Times? Subscribe. More

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      The Works of Christo and Jean-Claude Are Experiencing a Revival

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      Known for their outsized and revolutionary art projects, the couple’s work is seen again in Florida, New York and Germany.It was 42 years ago. Miami awoke to a strange, crooked line of hot pink images floating in the waters of panoramic Biscayne Bay.Eleven small islands had been wrapped in wide, rippling swaths of pink plastic. They were almost glowing as the morning sun swept over the beaches and skyscrapers of the city. Crowds came out in helicopters and speedboats and the family car. Some people perched on condo balconies.It was the work of Christo and his wife, Jeanne-Claude, the European artists who had wrapped the Reichstag building in Berlin, the Pont Neuf bridge in Paris and run a billowing, tall white nylon fence 24.5 miles over the cattle ranges just north of San Francisco and into the Pacific Ocean.People flew in from Europe and around the world to see the show, and collectors and museum directors and many others say it lifted the curtain on Miami as a city of natural beauty that would eventually become a dazzling global art center.“It was a world happening,” said Norman Braman, a former owner of the Philadelphia Eagles, a collector and a Miami car dealer with about a dozen brands, from Hyundai to Rolls-Royce.But it was a tough time for Miami. Cocaine seemed to be everywhere. Gunmen were in the streets. Time magazine had put the city on its cover as “Paradise Lost.” In 1984 — a year after the extravaganza on the bay — the “Miami Vice” TV show took the city’s crime and fashion into American living rooms.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and log into your Times account, or subscribe for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber? Log in.Want all of The Times? Subscribe. More

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      At Frieze New York, Performance Art Takes Center Stage

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      This year, Frieze New York will offer three pieces by artists who approach performance “in radically different ways.”Listen to the birds sing, strike up a conversation with a stranger or walk along the High Line, a potted seedling in hand. Those are the ideas behind the performance pieces that will unfold at Frieze New York.Performance art has been a feature of the fair since its debut in 2012, but this year will see the most expansive lineup to date.“Frieze’s investment in performance art began with the recognition that much of today’s exciting, relevant work happens live in ways that are process-driven, participatory and time-based,” Christine Messineo, the director of Frieze New York and Los Angeles, said.This year’s edition of the fair — which runs from Thursday through Sunday at the Shed at Hudson Yards — will offer three performance pieces: “Immortal Coil” by the Berlin-based Asad Raza; “Freestyle Hard,” from Carlos Reyes, who divides his time between Williamsburg, Brooklyn, and Caguas, P.R.; and “The Pin” created by the Berlin-based Pilvi Takala. All three have previously participated in Frieze London but are newcomers to the New York edition.The focus on performance works is specific to New York, Messineo said, because the city has a “rich history of dance, theater and avant-garde performance.”In 2022, Frieze New York began a partnership with the nonprofit arts gallery Artists Space in TriBeCa that debuted with a performance, “Grandmother Cindy,” by the dancer and choreographer Devynn Emory.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and log into your Times account, or subscribe for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber? Log in.Want all of The Times? Subscribe. More

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      Trump Administration Plans to Send Migrants to Libya on a Military Flight

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      Human rights groups have called conditions in the country’s network of migrant detention centers “horrific” and “deplorable.”The Trump administration is planning to transport a group of immigrants to Libya on a U.S. military plane, according to U.S. officials, another sharp escalation in a deportation program that has sparked widespread legal challenges and intense political debate.The nationalities of the migrants were not immediately clear, but a flight to Libya carrying the deportees could leave as soon as Wednesday, according to the officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the operation.The decision to send deportees to Libya was striking. The country is racked with conflict, and human rights groups have called conditions in its network of migrant detention centers “horrific” and “deplorable.”The Libya operation falls in line with the Trump administration’s effort to not only deter migrants from trying to enter the country illegally but also to send a strong message to those in the country illegally that they can be deported to countries where they could face brutal conditions. Reuters earlier reported the possibility of a U.S. deportation flight to Libya.The planning for the flight to Libya has been tightly held, and could still be derailed by logistical, legal or diplomatic obstacles.The White House declined to comment. The State Department and Defense Department did not immediately respond to requests for comment.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and log into your Times account, or subscribe for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber? Log in.Want all of The Times? Subscribe. More

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      NYT Crossword Answers for May 7, 2025

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      Tom McCoy makes a few corrections.Jump to: Today’s Theme | Tricky CluesWEDNESDAY PUZZLE — I have been to the city at the center of today’s crossword theme only once, roughly four years ago, but it has had my heart since then. There’s just something about it — and there’s something about today’s crossword, too. Tom McCoy’s puzzle is both clever and subtle. The clues are charming even in their occasional silliness. It’s exceptionally buoyant but has just the right amount of Wednesday bite.It will no doubt appeal to denizens of the city, but I think there’s something in this puzzle for you all — or yinz, as their regional dialect goes.Today’s ThemeThis one takes some thinking, so let’s walk through it slowly. The revealer at 62A hints at a certain [City that had the final letter of its name removed in 1891, only to be restored in 1911]. This reversal seems to align with the way that the themed clues are written: The first part of the clue is crossed out and rewritten, then crossed out again, and restored to its original. (I’ve put the crossed-out parts of the clues in bold for easy reference.)16A’s [Nonviolent protest A farewell to artist Chagall? Nonviolent protest] solves to PEACE MARCH, which fits with protest but not with Chagall. 30A’s [Endure Display some humorous posters? Endure] solves to PUT UP WITH. This definitely works with “endure,” but not so much with displaying posters. What gives?The answer to 62A is PITTSBURGH, which means that the letter H was removed and restored. If we do the same to our themed entries, we discover why their clues are written the way they are: Without the letter H, 16A would read PEACE MARC — a cute farewell to the artist Marc Chagall. At 30A, the entry would read PUT UP WIT, as in display humorous posters.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and log into your Times account, or subscribe for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber? Log in.Want all of The Times? Subscribe. More