EditorialExciting 2023 Ascent with snow at the top and Remi Bonnet beating the longstanding course record. Sophia Laukli wins for the women., Pikes Peak, Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA - 16 Sep 2023
Editorial A portrait of Pope Francis hangs outside an RCIA class at the St. Michael's Church rectory in Flushing, Queens on April 2, 2019. (Victor J. Blue/The New York Times)
EditorialFormer President Donald Trump at a rally in Miami on Nov. 6, 2022. Since the former president’s political ascent in 2016, Republicans have made gains among Latino voters in Florida. (Scott McIntyre/The New York Times)
EditorialJulie Paterson, a trip organizer, and Jacobus Nederpelt, a hiker, at the summit of a 650-foot ascent through a mountain pass in Egypt, Nov. 15, 2019. (Sima Diab/The New York Times)
EditorialA celebration for Diwali, known as the festival of lights, in the Wembley area of northwest London, home to one of Britain’s largest Hindu communities, Oct. 24, 2022. (Andrew Testa/The New York Times)
EditorialAn artist’s concept of various vehicles associated with a return of samples from Mars to Earth, including, clockwise from far left: a helicopter, a Mars-Earth return orbiter, a Mars ascent vehicle, a retrieval lander and the Perseverance rover. (NASA/ESA/JPL-Caltech via The New York Times)
EditorialPresident Joe Biden joins other NATO leaders for a group photo at the NATO summit in Madrid, June 29, 2022. (Kenny Holston/The New York Times)
EditorialTaranath Adhikari, right, the director general at Nepal’s Department of Tourism, presents another Everest summit certificate to Narender Singh Yadav in Nepal on Wednesday, June 1, 2022. (Bhadra Sharma/The New York Times)
EditorialRyan Cochran-Siegle of the United States at men’s downhill training for the 2022 Winter Olympics in Yanqing, China on Feb. 3, 2022. (Hiroko Masuike/The New York Times)
EditorialGene Freidman leaves a courthouse in Albany, N.Y., in 2019. He avoided prison by cooperating with a federal investigation into one of his partners, the lawyer Michael Cohen. Evgeny Alender Freidman, known as Gene, a cabdriver’s son who schemed his way to become the nation’s biggest taxi mogul and came to personify both the inflated ascent of the industry in New York City and its crushing financial collapse, died on Sunday, Oct. 24, 2021 in Manhattan. He was 50. His death, in a Manhattan hospital, apparently from complications of a heart attack, was confirmed by the Riverside Memorial Chapel funeral home. (Patrick Dodson/The New York Times)
EditorialDancer Robyn Cascio performs “Ascent” at Outlook Hill on Governors Island during Richard Move’s “Herstory of the Universe” during the premiere of the six-part, nearly three-hour journey, in New York, Oct. 9, 2021. (Julieta Cervantes/The New York Times)
EditorialThe new Ministry of Invitation, Guidance and Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, a home for the Taliban?s religious morality police, now occupies this building that formerly housed the Ministry of Women?s Affairs, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sept. 17, 2021. (Jim Huylebroek/The New York Times)