The New York Times

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

  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.

• SpaceX IPO: How Our Reporters Assess the Sky-High Valuation and Potential Economic Impact

  Two Times tech reporters and their editor talk about assessing the sky-high valuation of the rocket and satellite maker, the potential economic impact of its public debut and the role of the world’s richest man in it all.

• What the SpaceX I.P.O. Means for You, and a Giant Act of Vandalism in D.C.

  Plus, the Friday news quiz.

• A Dangerous Limbo Leaves Iran, and the World, Between Peace and War

  Since announcing a nominal cease-fire two months ago, Iran, Israel and the U.S. have remained locked in low-intensity violence that has become a new normal.

• The World Is Draining Oil Reserves, Raising Pressure for a Peace Deal

  The amount of oil and fuel stored by businesses and governments has fallen sharply since the start of the U.S.-Israeli war against Iran.

• Risk Strait of Hormuz or Wait? Shipping Companies Face a Costly Dilemma.

  With more than 500 ships still stranded in the Persian Gulf, pressure on the shipowners and sailors is growing by the day.

• The World Cup Kicks Off in America With a Mix of Fretting and Fervor

  Astronomical ticket prices, soaring security costs and concern over traffic and transit snarls is mixed with pride in host cities and excitement over the U.S. team.

• Kennedy Center Appeals Order to Remove Trump’s Name

  One day before a deadline to take the president’s name off its facade, the arts institution appealed a federal judge’s ruling that also temporarily blocked it from closing.

• Opera Company Sues to Collect $17 Million From the Kennedy Center

  The Washington National Opera, which left the center amid the Trump administration’s takeover, says its efforts to retrieve its endowment and other assets have been blocked.

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

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