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  1. Kushner Meets With Hamas to Advance Trump’s Gaza Plan

    Sun, 16 Aug 2026 21:16:17 -0000

    The president’s son-in-law met the Palestinian militant group’s leaders in Egypt, officials said. He will soon see Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli leader.
  2. U.S. and Iran Blow Through Deadline to Agree to a Broad Deal to End War

    Mon, 17 Aug 2026 04:01:18 -0000

    President Trump said a cease-fire agreed in June would lead to limits on Iran’s nuclear program and finish the conflict, but the countries appear far apart.
  3. How a False Nuclear Claim About Iran Ricocheted From India to Washington

    Sun, 16 Aug 2026 09:01:55 -0000

    A dubious post that spread on X became the basis of false claims that Iran’s leadership had declared it a nuclear power.
  4. Trump Orders Pentagon to Curtail Military Exercises With Ally South Korea

    Mon, 17 Aug 2026 06:16:21 -0000

    In a social media post, the president scolded South Korea for not helping denuclearize Iran, and also praised North Korea and its leader.
  5. Blanche Refuses to Say He’ll Always Be Independent of Trump as Attorney General

    Sun, 16 Aug 2026 16:14:13 -0000

    The new head of the Justice Department said on “Meet the Press” on Sunday that the president had never asked him to prosecute specific people — and never would.
  6. How The New York Times Reported on Trump’s Air Force One Ruse in Turkey

    Fri, 14 Aug 2026 19:20:46 -0000

    President Trump’s Air Force One subterfuge duped potential adversaries — and the press. Here’s what happened.
  7. Top Admiral Praises Sailors but Concedes Hardships After Visit to U.S.S. Lincoln

    Sun, 16 Aug 2026 20:40:41 -0000

    Admiral Brad Cooper, head of U.S. Central Command, acknowledged the difficulty of the carrier’s nearly nine-month deployment but said mental health issues were lower than on other vessels.
  8. Hayden Panettiere, Star of ‘Nashville’ and ‘Heroes,’ Dies at 36

    Mon, 17 Aug 2026 06:06:50 -0000

    In May, she published a memoir after a tumultuous decade that involved depression, substance abuse, losing custody of her daughter and stints in rehab.
  9. What We Know About the Storms Battering the Midwest

    Sun, 16 Aug 2026 19:22:05 -0000

    A lingering weather system has brought severe flooding and intense winds — including a few tornadoes — to Illinois, Indiana and Ohio, killing at least eight.
  10. Indiana Prepares for More Rain After Days of Deadly Storms

    Mon, 17 Aug 2026 02:51:03 -0000

    Since last week, hazardous weather has caused seven deaths, forced people from their homes and required some to be rescued by boat. The region was at risk for more flooding on Sunday.
  11. Could El-Sayed Cost Democrats Michigan?

    Sun, 16 Aug 2026 19:12:15 -0000

    Not all progressives are equal: Candidates of the activist left typically don’t perform as well as other Democrats.
  12. How Republicans Embraced Brandon Herrera, a Texas Republican Candidate and Gun Influencer

    Sun, 16 Aug 2026 15:57:47 -0000

    Brandon Herrera, long an anti-establishment outsider, is trying to help the party defend a red-leaning House district in West Texas. It’s proving messy.
  13. Years of Trump Support Came Undone in 15 Minutes in an Airport.

    Sun, 16 Aug 2026 16:05:44 -0000

    The case represents a new front in President Trump’s mass deportation drive: arrests at airports of people who have active immigration cases and no criminal history.
  14. Trump’s Other Hold on the Americas: The Visa

    Sun, 16 Aug 2026 09:00:11 -0000

    As part of its expansionist approach to the Western Hemisphere, the Trump administration is trying to reassert its dominance, one U.S. visa at a time.
  15. Worker Pay Isn’t Keeping Up With Inflation Once Again

    Sat, 15 Aug 2026 09:02:16 -0000

    When prices spiked in 2021-22, wages failed to keep up for many workers, new research shows. Now the pattern is repeating.
  16. Zale Parry, Aquatic Hollywood Star and Early Acid Tripper, Dies at 93

    Sun, 16 Aug 2026 21:07:25 -0000

    A diving feat landed her on the cover of Sports Illustrated and led to a film and TV career. She also took part in one of the first LSD studies.
  17. Bread Rations. Endless Blackouts. How Much More Can Cubans Endure?

    Mon, 17 Aug 2026 05:00:03 -0000

    Governments can afford to keep playing the waiting game. Ordinary Cubans cannot.
  18. Cutting Your Parents Off Isn’t the Answer

    Sun, 16 Aug 2026 16:48:41 -0000

    Many queer people are going no contact — cutting off their families for myriad reasons. It’s not always the right answer.
  19. ‘Posh George,’ the Convicted Fraudster in Nigel Farage’s Inner Circle

    Mon, 17 Aug 2026 04:01:15 -0000

    Scrutiny over the gifts and support provided by George Cottrell to Mr. Farage, the Reform U.K. leader, will continue even after he won last week’s special election in Clacton.
  20. Donald Trump Is Still Trying to Make It Harder to Vote

    Sun, 16 Aug 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    The SAVE America Act is just one part of a package that includes an executive order and threats of prosecution, all in an effort to make Trump’s math work.
  21. The Doulas Who Help Us Die

    Mon, 10 Aug 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    In an aging America, thousands of people have adopted a new vocation: supporting others as they confront the end of life.
  22. Are You a Human?

    Mon, 10 Aug 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    From branding irons to iris scans, the ancient business of proving who you are has never been stranger—or more lucrative.
  23. Inside Russia’s New Gulag

    Mon, 10 Aug 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    Human-rights groups estimate that more than ten thousand Ukrainian civilians have disappeared into the Russian prison system. This is the story of one cell.
  24. The Delusions of John Roberts

    Mon, 10 Aug 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    The Chief Justice insists that his Supreme Court isn’t biased even as it keeps making dramatic leaps rightward.
  25. How Trump Is Trying to Weaken Migrant Children’s Legal Defense

    Sat, 15 Aug 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    After failing to eliminate funding for unaccompanied minors’ lawyers altogether, the Administration is pushing cases toward entities that lack both immigration expertise and the capacity to take them on.
  26. Is D.N.C. Chair the Worst Job in Washington?

    Thu, 13 Aug 2026 16:13:00 -0000

    The organization is holding its annual summer meeting, and onlookers are calling for the head of its leader, Ken Martin. Then again, the Democrats are always doing that kind of thing.
  27. Who Killed Lorenzo Salgado Araujo?

    Thu, 13 Aug 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    A death during an ICE traffic stop raises outrage in Houston—and in Mexico.
  28. What Francesca Hong’s Defeat Means for Democrats

    Wed, 12 Aug 2026 18:23:56 -0000

    The democratic socialist’s rise in Wisconsin was supposed to portend a major breakthrough for the left. Her narrow loss should still be a wake-up call for the Party’s establishment.
  29. What Do India’s Gen Z Protests Mean for Modi?

    Mon, 03 Aug 2026 22:19:00 -0000

    A movement of young people frustrated with India’s education system and economy has become the most serious challenge yet to an increasingly authoritarian government.
  30. Abdul El-Sayed’s Argument for America—and Against His Own Party

    Mon, 03 Aug 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    The Michigan U.S. Senate candidate on campaigning with Hasan Piker, being a capitalist, and why his fellow-Democrats need to “stop compromising.”
  31. Will Left-Wing Democrats Reinvent the Party or Hurt Its Chances in November?

    Thu, 30 Jul 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    Bernie Sanders’s erstwhile campaign manager explains why he thinks it’s the former.
  32. The Human Cost of DOGE’s War on U.S.A.I.D.

    Sun, 12 Jul 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    Elon Musk, Donald Trump, and the “public man-made death” that they’ve caused.
  33. The Red Sox Cannot Be Made to Make Any Sense

    Sun, 16 Aug 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    Teams get hot, then cold; they get lucky, then unlucky. Records rarely paint a full picture of a season—especially for fans determined to believe in another comeback story.
  34. If A.I. Takes the Jobs of Young People, How Will They React?

    Tue, 11 Aug 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    The Democratic electorate is already moving left, but that may be nothing compared with what happens when unemployment really starts to rise.
  35. What Does the Humbling of Leopold Aschenbrenner Mean for the A.I. Bubble?

    Mon, 10 Aug 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    The troubles of a twenty-four-year-old hedge-fund manager highlight some larger questions about the tech-driven stock boom.
  36. Did the Dodgers Ruin Baseball?

    Sun, 09 Aug 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    Already the title favorites, Los Angeles acquired the league’s best pitcher at the trade deadline—and may have insured a lockout after the season.
  37. Bernie Sanders Takes on Data Centers

    Fri, 14 Aug 2026 18:00:00 -0000

    The Vermont senator co-sponsored a bill that calls for a moratorium on building data centers. He discusses the environmental and economic concerns, and what the government can do.
  38. Israel’s Leaders Find Allies Among the Global Far Right

    Thu, 13 Aug 2026 17:36:48 -0000

    Support for the nation is becoming an increasingly polarizing issue in politics around the world.
  39. Minnesota Primary-Election Results

    Wed, 12 Aug 2026 13:37:23 -0000

    Peggy Flanagan wins the state’s Democratic primary for U.S. Senate; Mike Lindell, a close ally to President Donald Trump, loses the Republican gubernatorial primary.
  40. South Carolina Primary-Election Results: Graham and Norman Advance

    Wed, 12 Aug 2026 13:37:02 -0000

    In the special Republican primary to replace Senator Lindsey Graham, who passed away in July, his sister Darline Graham and Representative Ralph Norman will move on to a runoff election in late August.
  41. Wisconsin Primary-Election Results: David Crowley Wins

    Wed, 12 Aug 2026 13:36:31 -0000

    The Milwaukee County executive defeated Francesca Hong, a Democratic Socialist who was widely considered the front-runner in the Democratic primary for governor.
  42. What a Blighted Beach Town Says About England’s Forgotten North

    Wed, 12 Aug 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    Blackpool, a vacation spot known as the Vegas of the North, has become a symbol of working-class fun.
  43. An Israeli Satirist’s Bid to Save His Country’s Democracy

    Tue, 11 Aug 2026 15:25:35 -0000

    Lior Schleien used to host hit TV shows. Now he posts videos of discussions with young people, the majority of whom currently tend right, which garner millions of views.
  44. How Socialist Is the D.S.A.? Megan Romer Explains

    Mon, 10 Aug 2026 12:58:53 -0000

    Romer, a co-chair of the Democratic Socialists of America, defends some of the D.S.A.’s controversial positions: “I think people like us being rather bold. . . . People want a fighter.”