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1. Hegseth Faces Impeachment Effort and Bipartisan Scrutiny After Midterm Elections

   Fri, 06 Nov 2026 19:00:02 -0000

   A looming impeachment push could put President Trump’s polarizing defense secretary in a standoff with Democrats and Republicans.

2. U.S. Attorney Who Oversaw Centerpiece of Trump’s Revenge Campaign Resigns

   Fri, 06 Nov 2026 18:38:11 -0000

   Jason Reding Quiñones joins what is expected to be a succession of departures at the Justice Department after the midterm elections, including that of the leader of the national security division.

3. Strong Hiring Reinforces a Sturdy Job Market

   Fri, 06 Nov 2026 17:05:27 -0000

   Unemployment fell in October, extending years of stability for a U.S. work force threated by inflation and artificial intelligence.

4. Global Stocks Follow U.S. Sell-Off as A.I. Spending Fears Spread

   Fri, 06 Nov 2026 15:07:20 -0000

   Global markets were rattled after a deep U.S. sell-off on Thursday, but a rally emerged at the end of a turbulent week for investors.

5. A.I. Was Supposed to Come for Our Jobs. So Far, Evidence Is Mixed.

   Fri, 06 Nov 2026 16:02:33 -0000

   White collar industries that are most exposed to artificial intelligence continued to add jobs in October, although that growth has been weak.

6. Fed Up With Politics and Struggle, Young Voters Powered Democrats’ Midterm Victory

   Fri, 06 Nov 2026 12:26:56 -0000

   Young people powered Democratic candidates, joining global demands for generational change from a cohort weary of older people sitting on jobs and devouring resources.

7. The Voters Who Powered the Blue Tsunami

   Fri, 06 Nov 2026 16:41:05 -0000

   A younger, more diverse electorate than is typical in midterm elections helped drive Democrats’ decisive victory, along with gains among swing voters and support from some Republican voters. Nate Cohn, The New York Times’s chief political analyst, explains.

8. How A.I. Just Blew Up a Key Tenet of Computer Science

   Fri, 06 Nov 2026 10:02:06 -0000

   A longstanding hypothesis held that some problems would always be hard for computers to solve quickly. But OpenAI disproved it — raising the possibility of radical new efficiencies.

9. Microsoft’s Buyout Offer Sets Its Workforce on Edge

   Fri, 06 Nov 2026 12:23:09 -0000

   As Microsoft pours billions into artificial intelligence, the company has offered buyouts to about 60,000 employees. The work force was already on edge.

10. Gina Hinojosa Will Be Texas’s First Democratic Governor in Decades. Republicans Won’t Make It Easy.

    Fri, 06 Nov 2026 10:03:37 -0000

    After a sweeping Democratic victory, Governor-elect Gina Hinojosa will try to reshape a state molded by decades of conservative policymaking, with Republicans still in control of the State Senate.

11. Texas Led the Conservative Overhaul of Education. What Now?

    Fri, 06 Nov 2026 13:06:20 -0000

    In Texas, teaching on race and gender was restricted, Christianity was encouraged and private school vouchers expanded. It may be hard for Democrats to reverse those policies.

12. Houston Police to Stop Alerting ICE During Traffic Stops

    Fri, 06 Nov 2026 18:34:20 -0000

    Mayor John Whitmire has instructed Houston police to stop notifying immigration agents when they encounter someone without legal status during routine street stops.

13. She Commands the Sunken Titanic, From 1,000 Miles Away

    Fri, 06 Nov 2026 14:05:20 -0000

    A Virginia judge, empowered by quirks in maritime law, has overseen the salvage of the remote shipwreck for decades. Now her rule is being challenged.

14. U.S. Global Health Strategy Jeopardizes Prevention of Pandemics, Experts Warn

    Fri, 06 Nov 2026 17:17:40 -0000

    The Trump administration has been negotiating agreements with dozens of individual countries. Public health experts say a global agreement would be far more effective.

15. John D. Rockefeller IV, West Virginia Governor and Senator, Dies at 89

    Fri, 06 Nov 2026 14:10:45 -0000

    The rare Democrat in a fabled family of wealthy Republicans, he served 30 years as senator and helped bring health insurance to millions of low-income children.

16. Saudi-Led Forces Bombed Yemeni Home, Killing Nine Family Members, Relatives Say

    Fri, 06 Nov 2026 16:59:43 -0000

    A 500-pound bomb supplied by the United States appears to have been used in the Oct. 18 strike, according to video footage examined by The New York Times.

17. New York Is Set to Take On Amazon Over Drivers, if Its Leaders Can Agree

    Fri, 06 Nov 2026 18:28:40 -0000

    Mayor Zohran Mamdani backs a bill to stop Amazon from outsourcing its deliveries, which would be a blow to the company. The City Council speaker, Julie Menin, and business leaders have concerns.

18. After These Midterms, JD Vance Is in a Bind

    Fri, 06 Nov 2026 17:04:21 -0000

    He will need to sell voters on a tarnished Trump brand.

19. Trump’s Tariffs Have Failed. Bring Back Reaganomics.

    Fri, 06 Nov 2026 17:37:13 -0000

    The country needs a careful, restrained government — and always has.

20. The Changing Politics of Identity

    Fri, 06 Nov 2026 11:43:27 -0000

    This is one reason voters are swinging between parties.

21. Tesla Is Ending Production of Its Cybertruck and Refocusing on the Cybercab

    Fri, 06 Nov 2026 17:38:29 -0000

    Production of the electric trucks will stop in the middle of 2027 to make room for increased production of its autonomous ride-share vehicle, Elon Musk said.

22. What This Week’s Elections Mean for The Future of Elections

    Thu, 05 Nov 2026 23:29:54 -0000

    Democrats had a big night on Tuesday. What about democrats?

23. An Exiled Filmmaker’s Unsparing View of Contemporary Russia

    Mon, 02 Nov 2026 11:00:00 -0000

    Andrey Zvyagintsev’s “Minotaur” is the first independent feature to portray Russian life during the war with Ukraine.

24. Did the World Just Gain Hundreds of Millions of Alzheimer’s Patients?

    Mon, 02 Nov 2026 11:00:00 -0000

    A new definition of Alzheimer’s includes people without symptoms. Experts are fiercely divided over whether that makes sense—and whether the new drugs really help.

25. Why Immigration Agents Don’t Quit in Protest

    Mon, 02 Nov 2026 11:00:00 -0000

    How a culture of dehumanization and denial keeps ICE and Border Patrol personnel “at war with an enemy that does not fight back.”

26. The Year Math Changed Forever

    Sun, 01 Nov 2026 11:00:00 -0000

    A.I. is solving problems that stumped the field for decades. Mathematicians look to Terence Tao for guidance on their altered world.

27. After the Midterms, Washington Lawyers Up

    Wed, 04 Nov 2026 21:21:14 -0000

    With Democratic majorities in Congress, oversight, and its frustrations, return.

28. How Democrats Are Reclaiming the Politics of Populism

    Mon, 02 Nov 2026 11:00:00 -0000

    In the midterms’ most competitive races, Democratic candidates are reviving an old Party message: that the Republicans are selling out to the highest bidder.

29. Corruption on the Ballot

    Sun, 01 Nov 2026 11:00:00 -0000

    Corruption is always an issue, but this year will it finally catapult from a topic of chronic bellyaching to an actual mechanism for changing votes?

30. Brazil’s President Faces Down the Online Right

    Sat, 31 Oct 2026 17:57:46 -0000

    In the internet age, national elections are increasingly international. What does Lula’s victory mean for the world?

31. Jamie Raskin Is Not Afraid to Impeach Trump Again

    Fri, 30 Oct 2026 18:00:00 -0000

    The Maryland congressman talks about how the Democratic Party is fighting the President’s “gangster state.”

32. The Founder of Arab Americans for Trump Has Some Regrets

    Wed, 28 Oct 2026 16:16:25 -0000

    As the President and his party launch a wave of bigoted attacks on Abdul El-Sayed, Bishara Bahbah reflects on what, exactly, Trump has delivered in his second term.

33. How Macron Destabilized France

    Fri, 23 Oct 2026 22:44:14 -0000

    Widespread protests against his policies were followed by violent riots across the country. Does this mean Marine Le Pen is all but certain to be the next President of France?

34. Gina Hinojosa Thinks Texas Is Different This Time

    Wed, 21 Oct 2026 22:04:47 -0000

    The Democratic gubernatorial candidate argues that crony capitalism, distrust of data centers, and attacks on public education have disenchanted voters enough to finally bring a blue wave to the state.

35. Donald Trump’s Repudiation, America’s Revenge in the Midterms

    Wed, 04 Nov 2026 18:06:37 -0000

    Even J. D. Vance admits that the righteous blue wave in the midterms wasn’t a result of Republicans failing to show up—it’s that they showed up for the Democrats.

36. Finally, the Beginning of Trump’s End

    Tue, 03 Nov 2026 11:00:00 -0000

    Reflections on a midterm campaign in which our octogenarian President waged war—against algae in the Reflecting Pool.

37. Obama’s Great Skewering of Trump

    Thu, 29 Oct 2026 23:10:06 -0000

    The former President’s riff on Saddam Hussein, the Cheesecake Factory, and our gold-besotted leader was not only funny but politically brilliant.

38. The World Series No One Wanted

    Mon, 26 Oct 2026 17:44:14 -0000

    A matchup between the Milwaukee Brewers and the Tampa Bay Rays was considered a “nightmare,” a bloodbath of small-ball hermeneutics. But the two old-school, thrifty teams have turned the Fall Classic into a showcase for what money can’t buy.

39. A Cruise to End All Cruises

    Fri, 06 Nov 2026 11:00:00 -0000

    The Odyssey was supposed to last a lifetime. Instead, it was a floating fiasco.

40. “Regime Change Came in Texas Before Tehran”

    Thu, 05 Nov 2026 11:00:00 -0000

    Donald Trump’s war of choice with Iran—a strategic debacle that has hurt ordinary Americans—is at the heart of a historic rebuke to his Presidency and his party.

41. The Enduring Lesson of the Exploding Whale

    Thu, 05 Nov 2026 11:00:00 -0000

    In Winslow Crane-Murdoch’s film “Oh, Whale,” a journalist reflects on a weird, odorous story that defined his career—and on what it taught him about fate.

42. The Night that Texas’s Seemingly Unchangeable Republican Identity Vanished

    Wed, 04 Nov 2026 20:27:15 -0000

    Texans have something to teach the country about fighting for an apparently hopeless cause; conservatives aren’t the only ones who remember the Alamo.

43. Election 2026: Live Results Map | A Landslide Win For Democrats

    Wed, 04 Nov 2026 17:49:56 -0000

    The vote counts from key Senate, House, and gubernatorial elections around the country.

44. Midterms Analysis: A Blue Wave Just Crashed on Trump

    Wed, 04 Nov 2026 06:16:09 -0000

    The Republican Party has only the President and his policies to blame for its historic losses in the 2026 midterms.

45. Haley Stevens’s Chaotic Comments on Her Endorsement of Mike Rogers

    Tue, 03 Nov 2026 21:28:26 -0000

    During a mystifying election week in Michigan, the congresswoman reflects on her endorsement switch, people thinking she’s in “some sort of cahoot” with Republicans, and her fiancé—“the amazing and the one and only Jason Turkish.”

46. The MAGA Faithful Eye the Exits

    Mon, 02 Nov 2026 11:00:00 -0000

    With polls suggesting a bleak midterms for the G.O.P., Trumpworld in D.C. is girding itself for congressional subpoenas and preparing pardon requests.