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  1. Supreme Court Allows Trump’s White House Ballroom Construction

    Mon, 31 Aug 2026 22:01:38 -0000

    Lower-court rulings would have blocked construction of the 90,000-square-foot ballroom after finding that the Trump administration should have first sought approval from Congress.
  2. Supreme Court Allows White House Ballroom Construction to Continue

    Mon, 31 Aug 2026 21:50:52 -0000

    Also, a principal helped save 900 children in Nepal. Here’s the latest at the end of Monday.
  3. Woman Stabs 2, Killing One, in Times Square and Is Shot Dead by N.Y.P.D.

    Tue, 01 Sep 2026 00:34:33 -0000

    The police fired at the woman, who was holding two knives, after trying to use less lethal force, officials said. A woman, 32, was killed, and a man, 68, is in stable condition.
  4. C.D.C. Director Challenges Pennsylvania’s Report of Two Measles Deaths

    Mon, 31 Aug 2026 22:35:47 -0000

    Questioning a state’s investigation is highly unusual for the public health agency, but reflects tensions between the Trump administration and many states over health issues.
  5. Olivia Rodrigo’s Daisy Chain Fields: A New Feminist Music Festival Takes Shape

    Mon, 31 Aug 2026 20:27:33 -0000

    At the first Daisy Chain Fields festival, the 23-year-old pop star presented a cross-generational vision of female empowerment. (With Taco Bell activations, too.)
  6. These Generals Fought for Israel. Now They See ‘Jewish Terrorism’ as the Threat.

    Mon, 31 Aug 2026 09:00:40 -0000

    A growing number of former Israeli generals, intelligence officials and prime ministers are accusing settlers in the West Bank of committing ethnic cleansing with government support. “Once a society behaves this way,” one said, “that society is doomed.”
  7. Mansour Abbas Recruits Yoav Segalovitz to Join Raam Party in Israeli Election

    Mon, 31 Aug 2026 22:08:38 -0000

    Mansour Abbas has recruited a Jewish lawmaker best known for reducing the crime rate in Arab cities. Could that be enough to get Mr. Abbas a seat in the next government?
  8. Summit With Russia, India and Iran Shows Leverage Wars Have Given Xi of China

    Mon, 31 Aug 2026 20:11:10 -0000

    A two-day conference of the 10-nation Shanghai Cooperation Organization in Kyrgyzstan shows the limits of U.S. economic warfare.
  9. U.S. Strikes May Have Targeted a New Type of Iranian Naval Mine

    Mon, 31 Aug 2026 21:19:38 -0000

    The U.S. military said its attacks against Iran were in response to a threat to the Strait of Hormuz.
  10. JD Vance Called Michigan Senate Candidate Abdul El-Sayed ‘Evil’ in Speech

    Tue, 01 Sep 2026 00:45:07 -0000

    Vice President JD Vance also told Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, Michigan’s Democratic Senate nominee, to “keep my wife’s name out of your mouth.”
  11. Senate Primary in Massachusetts Is a Generational Fight, With a Twist

    Mon, 31 Aug 2026 15:59:15 -0000

    In Massachusetts, the octogenarian senator Ed Markey faces a challenge from a much younger centrist, Representative Seth Moulton.
  12. Scott Brown Was a GOP Star. Will It Matter in the New Hampshire Senate Race?

    Mon, 31 Aug 2026 22:17:59 -0000

    Scott Brown is chasing the political limelight again with a seemingly improvised Senate campaign.
  13. A Principal Saved 900 Students Before His School Was Washed Away in Nepal

    Mon, 31 Aug 2026 19:16:35 -0000

    Rajendra Dawadi had less than 15 minutes to act on a warning of approaching floodwaters. His swift evacuation plan saved hundreds of lives.
  14. Nepal Puts Cost of Disaster at $5 Billion, Blaming Climate Change

    Mon, 31 Aug 2026 20:48:16 -0000

    The country is seeking urgent help from a special U.N. climate fund, but the program lacks money because the United States and others have been reluctant to contribute.
  15. This Marine Died in the Iraq War. His Mother Asks, ‘What Was It For?’

    Tue, 01 Sep 2026 00:10:14 -0000

    Travis Fuller was from my hometown. I went back and talked with his family about how they made sense of his death, 25 years after Sept. 11.
  16. Death Toll Rises in Grand Canyon Flood as Search Continues

    Mon, 31 Aug 2026 22:25:46 -0000

    Officials announced a second death and said that more than a dozen people remain unaccounted for after heavy rain.
  17. What to Know About the Grand Canyon Flooding

    Mon, 31 Aug 2026 19:12:15 -0000

    The bodies of at least two people were found and more than a dozen were missing. Further storms could hinder rescue efforts on Monday.
  18. What to Know About Hiking in Areas Prone to Flash Floods

    Mon, 31 Aug 2026 20:15:19 -0000

    Canyons, small streams and dry creek beds in the West can be deceptively dangerous, trapping hikers when rainfall upstream causes rapidly rising water.
  19. How El-Sayed Could Dispatch His Hasan Piker Problem

    Mon, 31 Aug 2026 23:13:50 -0000

    Republicans hold their trolls close. For Democrats, it’s more complicated.
  20. Putin Is Coming for Russian Literature

    Mon, 31 Aug 2026 14:46:21 -0000

    The Kremlin is redefining what it means to be a writer in Russia.
  21. Wendell Berry, Writer Who Extolled America’s Agrarian Past, Dies at 92

    Tue, 01 Sep 2026 00:16:17 -0000

    A Kentucky farmer, he railed against agribusiness and championed small family farms and the environment, winning widespread acclaim.
  22. The MAHA Custody Battle

    Mon, 31 Aug 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    A father wanted to vaccinate his children. Their mother didn’t. Then the kids got sick.
  23. Smokejumpers Leap Out of Planes to Fight Wildfires

    Mon, 31 Aug 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    Since the nineteen-forties, smokejumpers have been parachuting into remote parts of the U.S. to contain dangerous blazes.
  24. What Happened in Minneapolis

    Mon, 31 Aug 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    Living through Operation Metro Surge, and what came after.
  25. Susan Te Kahurangi King’s Way of Seeing

    Sun, 30 Aug 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    At seventy-five, she may be New Zealand’s greatest living artist.
  26. The Big, Dumb, Gluttonous Fun of America’s Semiquincentennial

    Mon, 17 Aug 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    In D.C. and the Dakotas, at rodeos and powwows, celebrating the country means taking in pride and disappointment and fellow-feeling.
  27. Mark Zuckerberg’s Social Reckoning

    Sun, 30 Aug 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    The Meta settlement will force meaningful changes on Facebook and Instagram. It also reflects the degree to which public outrage is outmatched by the speed and size of Big Tech.
  28. How Alex Eala Became a Symbol of the Philippines

    Sat, 29 Aug 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    At only twenty-one, the tennis phenom is likely already the best-ever player from Southeast Asia. Now she is seeking her first Grand Slam title at this summer’s U.S. Open.
  29. The Floods Nepal Didn’t Cause

    Sat, 29 Aug 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    Flash floods, triggered by a glacial collapse in the Himalayas, have killed at least five hundred people in a nation that has contributed little to climate change but is disproportionately affected by it.
  30. How the Meta Settlement Could Change the Internet

    Fri, 28 Aug 2026 19:48:22 -0000

    Even while refusing to admit legal fault, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram has accepted, for the first time, that much of its business model is unacceptable for children.
  31. Why Israeli Authorities Are Encouraging Settler Violence Against Palestinians

    Mon, 24 Aug 2026 22:30:10 -0000

    The retired I.D.F. colonel Doron Meiner, who was arrested while trying to protect a Palestinian community from settlers in the West Bank, discusses Israel’s strategy in the run-up to October’s election.
  32. 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.
  33. 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.”
  34. 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.
  35. How Much Is the Iran War Costing Americans?

    Mon, 31 Aug 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    A proper calculation must take in more than just the military costs.
  36. Why Isn’t Everyone Talking About Olivia Miles?

    Sun, 30 Aug 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    The W.N.B.A. has never attracted more attention. But, increasingly, the conversation around the league can overshadow the game itself—and its players.
  37. How the Job Market Will Shape the Next Generation

    Tue, 25 Aug 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    Young people are already discontented. It’s not going to get better anytime soon.
  38. The Humbling of Scott Bessent

    Mon, 24 Aug 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    Thirty-odd years ago, the Treasury Secretary was one of the speculators who broke the Bank of England in a famous trade. Now he’s on the other side of the markets, struggling to contain rising bond yields.
  39. New Maps Show How Israel Has Thwarted Hopes for a Palestinian State

    Sat, 29 Aug 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    The breakneck expansion of settlements in the West Bank has rendered American talk of a two-state solution increasingly irrelevant.
  40. Could Data Centers Swing an Election in Wisconsin?

    Fri, 28 Aug 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    As A.I. becomes increasingly unpopular among voters, the politics of data centers are scrambling political lines across the country—including in a tight race for the Wisconsin governor’s mansion.
  41. What If Canada Joined the E.U.?

    Thu, 27 Aug 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    The Trump Administration’s trade war with Canada has pushed a fringe idea into mainstream conversation, on both sides of the Atlantic.
  42. The Great Floating Homes of Los Angeles

    Thu, 27 Aug 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    In the city’s burnt neighborhoods, rebuilding is brutally expensive. Now residents have turned to a lost art: moving entire houses to their vacant lots.
  43. Adam Hamilton and Taking Back Religion from the Right

    Wed, 26 Aug 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    Democratic socialists are getting more of the attention, but Democratic Christians may prove more influential this November.
  44. South Carolina Republican Senate-Primary-Runoff Results: Darline Graham Wins

    Tue, 25 Aug 2026 15:02:19 -0000

    Graham defeated Ralph Norman to earn the G.O.P.’s nomination in November’s general election.
  45. Is R.F.K., Jr., Winning or Losing?

    Tue, 25 Aug 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    A case for cautious optimism about the Trump Administration’s war on vaccines.
  46. Does Anybody Know Who Darline Graham Is?

    Mon, 24 Aug 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    Lindsey Graham’s younger sister, who was appointed to his South Carolina Senate seat upon his death, may soon be elected to a full term. Political insiders say she is a “black box.”