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  1. Saudis Reach Deal With U.S. That Could Let Them Enrich Nuclear Fuel

    Wed, 22 Jul 2026 03:44:50 -0000

    U.S. lawmakers and Israeli officials have expressed opposition to such a plan, to be announced Wednesday, fearing that the kingdom could use a civilian nuclear project to develop nuclear weapons.
  2. With His Latest Threats, Trump Signals to Iran That He Is Willing to Escalate

    Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:00:14 -0000

    President Trump is facing a critical moment in the war, which has failed to bring about the “unconditional surrender” he once demanded.
  3. Hegseth Estimates Iran War Has Cost $37.5 Billion

    Tue, 21 Jul 2026 21:30:34 -0000

    Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is requesting as much as $70 billion in emergency military spending after nearly five months of war.
  4. Mamdani Calls Netanyahu a ‘War Criminal’ and Calls on U.S. to Arrest Him

    Wed, 22 Jul 2026 03:49:08 -0000

    Mayor Zohran Mamdani challenged the United States to execute an international arrest warrant against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel, which New York itself cannot do.
  5. Zelensky Dismisses Ukraine’s Top General After Protests

    Tue, 21 Jul 2026 21:39:10 -0000

    The move followed the firing of a popular defense minister, who had clashed with the general over how to fight the war.
  6. Mykhailo Drapatyi: What to Know About Ukraine’s New Top General

    Tue, 21 Jul 2026 23:39:36 -0000

    Maj. Gen. Mykhailo Drapatyi, a decorated commander, is popular both inside and outside of his country.
  7. Trump Pick Wins G.O.P. Nomination to Challenge Arizona Governor

    Wed, 22 Jul 2026 03:06:56 -0000

    Representative Andy Biggs, a conservative Republican and an ally of the president, will try to unite Republicans against Gov. Katie Hobbs in a crucial swing state.
  8. Election Denier Wins G.O.P. Nomination to Be Arizona’s Top Election Official

    Wed, 22 Jul 2026 03:22:21 -0000

    State Representative Alexander Kolodin will take on Adrian Fontes, the incumbent Democratic secretary of state, after defeating a more moderate Republican in the primary.
  9. Troy Jackson Tightens Hold on Democratic Senate Nomination in Maine

    Tue, 21 Jul 2026 21:42:09 -0000

    State Democrats released a ballot for their nominating convention on Saturday that includes Mr. Jackson and two long-shot candidates with little public support from delegates.
  10. Cyclospora Cases in the U.S. Hit Record High

    Tue, 21 Jul 2026 23:30:24 -0000

    Federal health officials have confirmed another 2,500 cases of the parasitic infection.
  11. Cyclospora Spreads Through Human Feces. How Did It Get Into Our Food Supply?

    Tue, 21 Jul 2026 09:03:33 -0000

    The large number of cases suggests that excrement entered the food system on a “surprising scale.”
  12. House Narrowly Passes Stopgap Spending Bill, but Shutdown Fight Looms

    Wed, 22 Jul 2026 02:37:17 -0000

    Republicans managed to push through legislation to fund the government through Dec. 4. But with Democrats opposed, the stage is set for a broader battle.
  13. Trump Officials Withhold $1 Billion in Medicaid Funds From California and Minnesota Over Suspected Fraud

    Tue, 21 Jul 2026 21:31:13 -0000

    The administration accused California and Minnesota of fraudulent activity in their public health insurance programs.
  14. Trump Pushes Chinese Election Threat, but Files Show Russia’s Heavy Hand

    Tue, 21 Jul 2026 18:27:45 -0000

    Intelligence documents that the White House released to back up President Trump’s claims about China highlight Russian efforts to influence U.S. elections.
  15. Whitney Cummings’s Trump Joke at Kennedy Center Is Cut From Netflix Special

    Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:22:02 -0000

    At the Mark Twain Prize ceremony, the comedian Whitney Cummings made a joke about the president that seemed to refer to Jeffrey Epstein.
  16. What Happened When Meta Used A.I. to Ban Accounts on Facebook and Instagram

    Wed, 22 Jul 2026 03:10:17 -0000

    Users said the technology mistakenly deleted their accounts. To resolve the issue, they still had to rely on A.I.
  17. OpenAI Says Its A.I. Models Went Rogue and Attacked a Digital Library

    Tue, 21 Jul 2026 23:50:59 -0000

    The incident, which targeted the computer systems of another company called Hugging Face, happened while OpenAI was testing the systems.
  18. Inside the Fight to Rid South Africa of Black Immigrants

    Tue, 21 Jul 2026 18:00:20 -0000

    As immigration surges in the country, activists are going to extreme lengths to expel foreign nationals, often taking the law into their own hands.
  19. 3 Myths Fueling Anti-Immigrant Sentiment in South Africa

    Tue, 21 Jul 2026 18:00:06 -0000

    As the nation convulses with protests and violence, data and research suggest that some of the biggest arguments against foreigners don’t stand up against the facts.
  20. Tornado Watch Issued for New York and Other Northeast Areas as Storms Bring Heavy Rain and Winds

    Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:37:31 -0000

    New York was under a tornado watch, and forecasters warned that flash flooding was possible into the evening.
  21. Tornadoes Are Reported in Kentucky as Storms Sweep Across the U.S.

    Wed, 22 Jul 2026 02:32:00 -0000

    Storms set off tornado warnings all the way to New York on Tuesday. Forecasters also warned of flash flooding.
  22. NYC Businesses Brace for More Flooding With Severe Storms in the Forecast

    Tue, 21 Jul 2026 20:41:04 -0000

    Some businesses in low-lying areas of New York City have developed routines to keep their goods and customers dry.
  23. Meet Jimothy, the Seattle Raccoon Who Is Taking Over the Internet

    Tue, 21 Jul 2026 21:52:56 -0000

    The stout raccoon, which has a spinal condition, is “an example to all of us that you don’t have to be perfect to be loved,” a Seattle City Council member said.
  24. Call the Veep, Agent Mulder!

    Tue, 21 Jul 2026 21:00:06 -0000

    Have the “space Jews” come to get us at last?
  25. Trump, Netanyahu and Putin Have All Blundered Into Dead-End Wars

    Tue, 21 Jul 2026 20:37:50 -0000

    The quick-fix fantasies of the world’s strongmen.
  26. The End of the Aqueduct Racetrack

    Tue, 21 Jul 2026 19:09:12 -0000

    The closure of the scrappy New York landmark is just one of the signs that U.S. horse racing is running out of track.
  27. Florentina Holzinger’s Naked Ambition

    Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    The artist’s extreme use of the body has caused viewers to puke, faint, and leave her shows. At the Venice Biennale, though, her vision has made her a star.
  28. María Corina Machado’s Opposition in Exile

    Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    The Venezuelan politician hoped to become her country’s leader with help from the U.S. The Trump Administration had other priorities.
  29. One Man’s Quest to Fix Every Deadly Guardrail

    Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    In 2016, Steve Eimers’s daughter died when she hit a defective guardrail. Then he learned that the country was full of them.
  30. How Biden Enabled Israel’s Aggression Toward Gaza—and Iran

    Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    Top officials from the previous Administration now express regret over their failure to rein in Netanyahu.
  31. Trump’s War on Journalists

    Sat, 18 Jul 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    The recent subpoenas of reporters make clear that the President is trying to threaten the press. Few protections are in place to stop him.
  32. Donald Trump’s Election-Fraud Bait and Switch

    Fri, 17 Jul 2026 21:13:15 -0000

    The President promised “really, really big news” before his prime-time speech. But the declassified, heavily redacted documents he delivered felt more like Pam Bondi’s bogus Epstein binders than any true revelation.
  33. Donald Trump’s Ad-Lib Strategy on Iran

    Fri, 17 Jul 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    The President promised to end what had been a quarter century of forever wars in the Middle East. Now the U.S. is mired in an intractable conflict of his own making.
  34. How Ukraine Brought the War to Russia

    Wed, 15 Jul 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    Long-range drone and missile strikes on Russian soil have shifted the balance of the conflict—will they be enough to end it?
  35. 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.
  36. How Political Is This Supreme Court?

    Mon, 06 Jul 2026 21:57:53 -0000

    The legal commentator Elie Honig thinks that the Trump-appointed Justices are getting unfair criticism.
  37. Do Netanyahu’s Domestic Opponents Offer a Real Alternative?

    Mon, 22 Jun 2026 18:51:53 -0000

    Moshe Tur-Paz is one of many centrist Israeli politicians criticizing Donald Trump’s deal to temporarily stop the war with Iran.
  38. Is Putin Finally Feeling Pressure?

    Thu, 18 Jun 2026 21:50:54 -0000

    The Russian President is facing growing domestic discontent after a series of successful attacks by the Ukrainian Army, including a major attack on Moscow.
  39. Can Andy Burnham’s Manchesterism Save the U.K.’s Center Left?

    Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    With a populist touch, and a focus on affordability and raising up left-behind communities, Britain’s new Prime Minister has drawn comparisons to Zohran Mamdani.
  40. Method Beats Madness at the World Cup Final

    Mon, 20 Jul 2026 01:45:00 -0000

    Spain stood for Europe, the industrial heart of modern soccer, while Argentina, a great but flawed team, was fuelled by myth.
  41. How Worldy Is the World Cup?

    Fri, 17 Jul 2026 22:44:17 -0000

    With every tournament, the possibility of a genuine surprise is shrinking.
  42. Spain’s Beautiful Balance

    Wed, 15 Jul 2026 14:07:32 -0000

    Lamine Yamal, the team’s wunderkind, is thrilling, but discipline and patience have seen them through to the final.
  43. Arizona Gubernatorial-Primary Map: Live Results

    Tue, 21 Jul 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    The G.O.P. is picking a nominee to challenge the state’s Democratic incumbent governor, Katie Hobbs, and a Republican congressional race is upended by allegations of sexual impropriety.
  44. How Mudlarking Became London’s Hottest Hobby

    Fri, 17 Jul 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    Searching for ancient objects in the Thames used to be a niche pastime. Then came Instagram, permits, and a desperate desire for connection with the past.
  45. I Won’t Cry for You, Argentina

    Thu, 16 Jul 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    The team is headed back to the World Cup final, but one lifelong fan has fallen out of love.
  46. Democratic Schadenfreude and the Latino Vote

    Tue, 14 Jul 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    Trump’s once strong approval rating among Latinos has collapsed, but Democrats can’t count on their support.
  47. V.A.R. and the Rise of Our New Tech Overlords

    Tue, 14 Jul 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    The World Cup replay system has fostered a very contemporary kind of paranoia about who controls the machines.
  48. Donald Trump’s Needless War with Iran Is His Biggest Economic Blunder

    Mon, 13 Jul 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    As the midterm elections approach, gas prices have started to rise again, and the President’s poll ratings are in the cellar.
  49. The Remaking of Lindsey Graham

    Sun, 12 Jul 2026 20:30:19 -0000

    Once a harsh critic of Donald Trump, the South Carolina senator became one of the President’s most dependable allies—a sign of what it takes to remain influential in today’s Republican Party.
  50. An O.M.B. Plan to Defund Science—and Anything Trump Doesn’t Like

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

    Under a new proposal, Administration officials could deny government grants to any group or project on the ground that it didn’t fit the President’s agenda.