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Andrew Yang is leading. Scott Stringer is under a cloud. Their rivals are jostling. View in browser | nytimes.com Continue reading the main story April 30, 2021 By Giovanni Russonello Andrew Yang during a campaign stop in the Bronx. Gabriela Bhaskar for The New York Times With less than two months to go until the all-important Democratic primary, the New York City mayor's race is one of the costliest and most closely watched political campaigns in the country this year. It's also one of the most uncertain. The businessman Andrew Yang is widely seen as the front-runner, mostly thanks to the celebrity profile that he accrued on the presidential campaign trail last year, when he mounted a quixotic run. But with a ranked-choice voting system in place for the first time, and most voters still relatively unengaged and unaware of the candidates involved, no one has emerged with a clear path to victory. "Yang is the front-runner, but a vulnerable front-runner," Doug Schoe

Plus a deadly stampede in Israel and a preview of the Kentucky Derby. View in browser | nytimes.com Continue reading the main story April 30, 2021 Your Friday Evening Briefing By Remy Tumin and David Poller Good evening. Here's the latest. Abhishek Chinnappa/Getty Images 1. The U.S. will restrict travel from India in light of the country's surging coronavirus caseload and spread of multiple variants. The order goes into effect Tuesday but will not apply to U.S. citizens or permanent residents. India set another global record on Friday with nearly 383,000 new infections, pushing the global coronavirus case count to more than 150 million . Above, a crematory in Bengaluru today. As the U.S. Air Force delivered the first shipments of oxygen cylinders, test kits, masks and other emergency supplies, several Indian states said they could not expand vaccinations to all adults as planned on Saturday because they lacked doses. Only a small fraction of the country has been vaccinat