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1. Susie Wiles Is the Latest Powerful Woman to Exit the Trump Administration

   Fri, 06 Nov 2026 23:53:13 -0000

   A wave of high-ranking women have left the Trump administration in the past year. Many were replaced by men.

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

   Fri, 06 Nov 2026 21:27:47 -0000

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

3. 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.

4. The Evening: Trump Replaces Chief of Staff

   Fri, 06 Nov 2026 22:47:21 -0000

   Plus, a surprisingly good jobs report. Here’s the latest at the end of Friday.

5. How Elon Musk Frittered Away Nearly $500 Million on the Midterm Elections

   Fri, 06 Nov 2026 21:05:42 -0000

   Behind the scenes, the world’s richest person spent a record amount over two years to bend the country’s politics to his will. He couldn’t.

6. China’s Top Spy Agency Recruited Woman Who Targeted Jensen Huang

   Sat, 07 Nov 2026 00:25:19 -0000

   A memo that circulated among U.S. policymakers cited intelligence that Alice Huang, a Chinese executive who developed a relationship with Nvidia’s leader, was an asset of Beijing’s Ministry of State Security.

7. Southern Democrats Now Have a Chance to Lead. What Will They Do With It?

   Fri, 06 Nov 2026 21:57:57 -0000

   Sweeping midterm successes in Georgia and North Carolina have given the party an opportunity, and a test, to lay out a vision for governing in the South.

8. Republicans’ Losses in New York’s Midterms Were Bad. Then Came Their Post-Election Freakout.

   Fri, 06 Nov 2026 18:45:49 -0000

   The party’s losses in New York mirrored those across the nation, but leading Republicans in the state quickly blamed each other for the results.

9. 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.

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

    Fri, 06 Nov 2026 21:11:05 -0000

    With a lot of information to process in a short time, many market watchers said that the moves were extreme — in both directions.

11. The Stock Market Can Be Volatile. Here’s How to Stay Calm.

    Fri, 06 Nov 2026 19:20:40 -0000

    Feeling a bit wobbly? Here are four things to consider that might provide some peace of mind.

12. Cornell Faculty Passes Vote of No Confidence Over Handling of Sexual Assault Case

    Sat, 07 Nov 2026 00:06:37 -0000

    The largely symbolic vote serves as a sharp rebuke of campus leadership’s handling of an explosive rape allegation that put the university in the national spotlight.

13. 86 Deaths and Counting: N.Y.C. Fire Fatalities Have Nearly Doubled This Year

    Sat, 07 Nov 2026 00:01:39 -0000

    The Brooklyn blaze that killed six people this week renewed focus on the soaring death toll and raised questions about whether e-bike batteries have played a role.

14. Prosecutors Vow to Keep Pursuing Death Penalty in California

    Sat, 07 Nov 2026 00:57:32 -0000

    Unless the next governor, Xavier Becerra, keeps commuting sentences, California’s death row is likely to slowly repopulate in the coming years.

15. They Spent Millions to Keep Their Dream Cruise Afloat. It Died Anyway.

    Fri, 06 Nov 2026 18:58:23 -0000

    Secrecy, debt and soaring fuel costs all contributed to the Odyssey’s downfall. Here’s an inside look at how the “endless cruise” unraveled.

16. What to Expect From Lame-Duck Trump

    Fri, 06 Nov 2026 10:02:31 -0000

    “When he feels cornered, when he feels attacked, he fights back,” the columnist Carlos Lozada says of Donald Trump, who is now entering the lame-duck phase of his presidency. Columnists from across Times Opinion share their predictions for what the final two years of Trump’s term might look like — and they’re not pretty.

17. 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.

18. Zoo Atlanta Unveils Its New Pandas: Fu Shuang and Ping Ping

    Fri, 06 Nov 2026 22:22:06 -0000

    Two years after two other pandas were returned to China, giant pandas were back on display in Atlanta.

19. 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?

20. 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.

21. 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.

22. 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.”

23. 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.

24. After the Midterms, Washington Lawyers Up

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

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

25. 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.

26. 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?

27. 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?

28. 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.”

29. 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.

30. 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?

31. 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.

32. 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.

33. 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.

34. 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.

35. 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.

36. 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.

37. “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.

38. 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.

39. 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.

40. 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.

41. 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.

42. 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.”

43. 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.