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  1. After Two Decades, U.S. Forces Leave Iraq to an Uncertain Future

    Wed, 30 Sep 2026 09:31:01 -0000

    Some Iraqis are celebrating the end of an American military presence that unleashed waves of bloodshed. Others fear what happens next for their country, trapped between Washington and Tehran.
  2. American Forces Withdraw From Iraq 23 Years After Invading

    Wed, 30 Sep 2026 09:31:22 -0000

    The Americans did not understand the country when they invaded in 2003. Over a correspondent’s many trips there, it was not clear that this ever changed much.
  3. U.S. Withdraws From Iraq After Two Decades, and Trump Tells A.I. Giants to Police Themselves

    Wed, 30 Sep 2026 10:00:08 -0000

    Plus, the nepo babies take Fat Bear Week.
  4. How Meta Uses A.I. Data Centers to Avoid Billions in Federal Taxes

    Wed, 30 Sep 2026 09:00:48 -0000

    Meta is exploiting a lucrative tax break intended to support research and experimentation. Its own accountants say the gambit is risky.
  5. Troubles at Situational Awareness Point to Record Stock Market Leverage

    Wed, 30 Sep 2026 09:02:18 -0000

    A meltdown at Situational Awareness, an A.I.-focused investment firm, is raising tough questions about the Wall Street banks that lent billions to the upstart firm.
  6. Hispanic Voters on the Texas Border Have Soured on Trump

    Wed, 30 Sep 2026 09:00:36 -0000

    In 2024, these voters were an essential part of the winning Republican coalition. Now, many feel abandoned and furious, complicating the party’s chances in November.
  7. Ken Paxton, G.O.P. Nominee in Texas, Privately Said Trump’s Convention Hurt Him

    Wed, 30 Sep 2026 09:03:20 -0000

    Ken Paxton, one of the party’s top Senate candidates and a Trump loyalist, said that “everybody’s numbers dropped” after the event, according to audio obtained by The Times.
  8. As Violence Falls, Crime Isn’t Paying as a Republican Line of Attack

    Wed, 30 Sep 2026 09:01:21 -0000

    Across the country, especially in the North Carolina Senate race, Republicans have charged opponents with being soft on crime, even as President Trump brags over plunging crime rates.
  9. Los Angeles Mayoral Candidates Vie for Undecided Voters

    Wed, 30 Sep 2026 04:42:38 -0000

    Mayor Karen Bass and her onetime ally, Nithya Raman, made their case to voters with just five weeks left until the election.
  10. D.A. in Cornell Case Hopes to Speak to Accuser as He Weighs New Evidence

    Wed, 30 Sep 2026 05:44:01 -0000

    District Attorney Matthew Van Houten said a woman’s report to police in 2024 saying she had been raped at a fraternity did not support a criminal case. But he said he is now reaching out to her.
  11. Cornell University Rape Investigation: What We Know

    Tue, 29 Sep 2026 21:42:31 -0000

    Prosecutors have reopened the case of a woman who said she was sexually assaulted on campus in 2024. The woman’s lawsuit brought renewed pressure to reopen the investigation.
  12. Can President Trump Demolish the Kennedy Center? Experts Say Not Easily.

    Wed, 30 Sep 2026 09:03:01 -0000

    The president has entertained the idea of tearing down the performing arts venue. Analysts say any plan would face multiple daunting challenges.
  13. Trump’s New Tariffs Face a Familiar Court Challenge

    Wed, 30 Sep 2026 09:03:50 -0000

    For the third time in less than two years, the Trump administration is set to return to court on Wednesday to defend its power to wage a punishing global trade war.
  14. How Ukraine’s Naval Drones Are Remaking War at Sea

    Wed, 30 Sep 2026 09:00:11 -0000

    They began as modified motorboats. Now, Ukrainian sea drones act as miniature aircraft carriers, and other countries want in.
  15. New Cancer Drugs Are Revolutionary. Why Don’t More Patients Get Them?

    Wed, 30 Sep 2026 09:01:30 -0000

    Targeted gene therapies are highly effective at stopping cancers, but the very abundance of the treatments, plus cost and sluggish change, are hindering access.
  16. Jack Smith Defends Trump Charges as Senator’s Perjury Claim Falls Apart

    Tue, 29 Sep 2026 23:37:56 -0000

    A Republican eager to prove the former special counsel was dishonest appeared to instead demonstrate his own confusion over basic facts.
  17. As E-Bikes and Scooters Surge on New York Streets, So Do Fatal Crashes

    Wed, 30 Sep 2026 07:00:10 -0000

    More than two dozen people have died in crashes involving electric bikes and scooters in New York City this year. Officials are moving to address a growing safety crisis.
  18. After Fatal Crashes, N.Y.C. Lawmakers Seek to Regulate E-Bikes

    Wed, 30 Sep 2026 07:00:22 -0000

    Lawmakers are expected on Wednesday to discuss a raft of proposals to regulate the use of electric bikes and scooters, after a series of fatal crashes.
  19. Donor Gives $3 Billion to Carnegie Mellon, the Largest University Gift Ever

    Wed, 30 Sep 2026 09:02:27 -0000

    Kenneth C. Griffin, the hedge fund executive, pledged to give $3 billion, much of it to build a campus in Miami.
  20. Religion Is the Roberts Court’s Unfinished Business

    Wed, 30 Sep 2026 09:01:52 -0000

    This case has flown under the radar, but it won’t stay there.
  21. What Would John Maynard Keynes Say About A.I.? The Keynes Bot Told Us.

    Wed, 30 Sep 2026 09:01:45 -0000

    Nearly a century ago, Keynes predicted that technology would liberate us from work. To imagine what he would think of artificial intelligence today, a Princeton economist used A.I.
  22. Jimmy Fallon Pokes Fun at America’s New A.I. Chatbot

    Wed, 30 Sep 2026 05:21:14 -0000

    “Yeah, everyone’s afraid of A.I., and nobody trusts the federal government, so Trump was like, ‘Let’s combine them,’” Jimmy Fallon said.
  23. In Fractious France, Politicians Agree on One Thing: Pope Leo Was a Hit

    Wed, 30 Sep 2026 09:07:16 -0000

    In a four-day visit, Pope Leo XIV won praise across the political spectrum, even from its most avowedly secular figures.
  24. How Paweł Pawlikowski Learned to Film Europe’s Fractures

    Mon, 28 Sep 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    The Polish director has made a career out of examining the mysteries of borders, both spiritual and political.
  25. Why Doesn’t Anyone Want to Fix One of America’s Scariest Roads?

    Mon, 28 Sep 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    The Million Dollar Highway, prone to rockfall and avalanches, is the site of horrific crashes and courageous rescues.
  26. At the Department of Justice, Many Lawyers Are Wondering If It’s Time to Quit

    Mon, 28 Sep 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    The quandary faced by government lawyers who think that the Trump Administration is subverting justice.
  27. Hockey Dads and Hockey Sons

    Mon, 28 Sep 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    Parenting is a practice. You learn from your mistakes and then repeat them anyway.
  28. A Night Living in Penn Station

    Sat, 26 Sep 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    For the outreach workers trying to place homeless New Yorkers in shelters, each evening presents familiar faces and fresh challenges.
  29. The President vs. the Press

    Sun, 27 Sep 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    Donald Trump’s behavior cannot be called unexpected at this point. What was noteworthy last week, however, was the way that the media responded.
  30. Iran’s Bitterness and Bewilderment Over How to Make Peace with Trump

    Sat, 26 Sep 2026 14:45:36 -0000

    After a heated week at the U.N. General Assembly, a new ceasefire proposal came and apparently went.
  31. Nolan Wells’s Family Still Wants Answers

    Sat, 26 Sep 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    A Mississippi grand jury declined to bring charges in connection with the death of a Black teen-ager during a boating trip, but it’s still unclear exactly how he died.
  32. Susan Collins’s Maine Money Machine

    Fri, 25 Sep 2026 22:06:29 -0000

    The senator uses her seniority in Congress to bring significant resources to her state. Is that enough for voters who hate her party?
  33. What Life Is Actually Like in Gaza Today

    Mon, 21 Sep 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    Nearly a year after the ceasefire, the analyst Jaser AbuMousa explains the impediments to rebuilding, and the devastation of his own family.
  34. Why China Isn’t Getting Existential About A.I.

    Fri, 18 Sep 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    China’s fears about the technology are increasingly distinct from those of the U.S. What does that mean for international coöperation?
  35. How, Exactly, Could A.I. Kill Us?

    Thu, 17 Sep 2026 00:00:00 -0000

    Employees of A.I. companies are increasingly sounding the alarm. What should we make of their warnings?
  36. Can East Germany’s Cold War History Explain the Rise of the AfD?

    Tue, 08 Sep 2026 22:46:03 -0000

    After winning a state election this past weekend, the German far right is closer to power than it has been in decades.
  37. Individual Choices Won’t Fix America’s Public Schools

    Tue, 29 Sep 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    Nikole Hannah-Jones sent her daughter to a struggling local school and has come to regret it. But personalizing the problem is the wrong approach.
  38. The Week Republicans Finally Panicked About Trump

    Thu, 24 Sep 2026 23:25:21 -0000

    The President’s party, facing a midterm reckoning, is begging for a way out of his Iran-war doom loop.
  39. How the Absence of Shame Weakens Democracy

    Tue, 22 Sep 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    A sense of shame binds us together—and can hold the powerful in check.
  40. Will A.I. Overwrite Our Sense of Shame?

    Tue, 15 Sep 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    The tech world has long been run by iconoclasts whose ideas about right and wrong are self-consciously different from those of most people.
  41. Mayors vs. Nationalists

    Wed, 30 Sep 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    Leaders of cities around the world are standing up for democracy, even if the leaders of their countries are not.
  42. Ari Emanuel on Donald Trump, Elon Musk, and Mixing Business with Politics

    Fri, 25 Sep 2026 18:11:57 -0000

    The entertainment agent and executive talks with David Remnick about his dealings with the President, the tech mogul, and Mohammed bin Salman, and operating within “shades of gray.”
  43. There Is No A.I. “Race”

    Thu, 24 Sep 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    We’re constantly told that Chinese advances would have catastrophic consequences. But the first to innovate is rarely the one who wins.
  44. What China’s Vibe-Coding Capital Can Tell Us About the A.I. Boom

    Wed, 23 Sep 2026 18:25:32 -0000

    Tech workers have flocked to Liangzhu, a small town outside Hangzhou, looking to escape China’s corporate culture and build their future with A.I.
  45. The Worlds That Donald Trump and Xi Jinping Want

    Wed, 23 Sep 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    As the President stages a gala welcome for the Chinese leader, it appears that, in curious ways, the two men mirror each other.
  46. Is Trump’s Latest Press Attack Just Another Distraction?

    Tue, 22 Sep 2026 18:29:05 -0000

    After CNN, MS NOW, and Politico were barred from the White House, the entire TV press pool announced a boycott of the President.
  47. The Lost Descendants of Thomas Jefferson

    Mon, 21 Sep 2026 14:08:19 -0000

    Scientists have new proof that the President had children with his enslaved chambermaid Sally Hemings—and that their bloodline endures across the country.
  48. A Populist Revival in Iowa

    Mon, 21 Sep 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    In close contests for governor and a Senate seat, candidates from both parties claim that they’re fighting a corrupt system.