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For a Knicks Reporter, Good Basketball Wasn’t Always So Easy to Find

TERENCE MCGINLEY

In 2015, the team was so bad, The Times’s beat writer took a break to search for the game in its prettier forms.

Tornadoes Are Reported in Illinois as Storms Sweep the Midwest

JUDSON JONES

For the second day in a row, Chicago is in the bull’s-eye of severe weather on Thursday. Damage from tornadoes was reported Thursday evening.

Major League Baseball Will Question the Dodgers’s Doctor About Banned Drugs

MICHAEL S. SCHMIDT

The inquiry comes after a report that Dr. Neal ElAttrache, the physician for the team, supported the U.F.C. star Conor McGregor in using performance-enhancing drugs while recovering from an injury.

The World Cup Is Officially Underway

MATTHEW CULLEN

Also, Trump picks a new intelligence chief. Here’s the latest at the end of Thursday.

DOJ appeals Kennedy Center ruling ahead of deadline to remove Trump’s name

A judge gave the administration 14 days to remove Trump's name from the performing arts center.

Trump Suspends Funding for Los Angeles Homeless Agency

JILL COWAN

The Trump administration cited misspending among the reasons for blocking funds to the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority. Mayor Karen Bass warned that “people will lose their lives.”

WATCH: Celebrating 30 years of 'Toy Story' and beyond

A new, special edition of "20/20" takes a look at the creative history and secrets of "Toy Story" and more.

Children are being recruited as criminals at an 'industrial scale': Europol

Children are being recruited as criminals at an "industrial scale" and the single greatest threat to Europe -- and the rest of the world.

Former Uvalde school police chief set to appear in court

Former Uvalde school police chief Pete Arredondo will return to Texas court Friday, as the judge overseeing his criminal trial weighs moving the case out of Uvalde.

WATCH: California officer accidentally shot by colleague during 'horseplay'

Newly released video shows an officer being shot in the shoulder by a fellow cop during what police call "horseplay" inside a police parking garage.

WATCH: Massive explosions captured on video destroy multiple homes

The blasts in Clinton Township, Pennsylvania, leveled at least two homes and injured three people, including an 84-year-old woman, officials said.

Frisco Mayor’s Race Tests Anti-Muslim Politics in Texas

J. DAVID GOODMAN

A runoff in the Dallas suburb of Frisco is testing whether anti-Muslim rhetoric, prominent in G.O.P. primaries this year, can win over a broader set of voters.

What I Learned From David Hockney

NORMAN ROSENTHAL

The curator Norman Rosenthal knew the artist for over 60 years and still discovered something new when they collaborated on a final blockbuster show.

David Hockney, Who Restored the Human Form to Art, Dies at 88

HOLLAND COTTER

His colorful figurative paintings were both conservative and iconoclastic, defying the dominant abstract schools of the mid-20th century.

How SpaceX’s IPO Compares With Saudi Aramco, Uber and Others

JACQUELINE GU

The previous record was set over six years ago. But SpaceX, whose stock begins trading on Friday, is on track to raise tens of billions of dollars more.