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  1. Trump Threatens Defamation Suit Over National Guard Report, Aiming to Intimidate a Critic

    Fri, 21 Aug 2026 14:51:53 -0000

    It was the latest example of President Trump’s bid to use the legal system against those who voice unflattering facts and opinions generally protected by the First Amendment.
  2. Chief Justice Allows Trump to Continue White House Ballroom Construction, for Now

    Fri, 21 Aug 2026 20:42:44 -0000

    The 90,000-square-foot ballroom project has grown in size and scope, with the president’s lawyers saying it is intertwined with the renovation of an underground military bunker.
  3. The Case of the Disappearing, Reappearing White House Ballroom Stairs

    Fri, 21 Aug 2026 20:11:37 -0000

    Derided by architects as serving no purpose, a grand staircase was never approved by a planning commission but appears back in President Trump’s plans.
  4. Chief Justice Allows White House Ballroom Construction, for Now

    Fri, 21 Aug 2026 21:26:24 -0000

    Also, A.I. is everywhere in China. Here’s the latest at the end of Friday.
  5. Canada-U.S. Tariff Talks Continue as Trump’s Midnight Deadline Looms

    Fri, 21 Aug 2026 16:22:44 -0000

    Canadian negotiators were in Washington to finalize a deal that would stave off new tariffs and improve the terms of existing ones, but Mark Carney faces a tough sell back home.
  6. Trump Announces Move to Lift Ground Beef Tariffs in Bid to Lower Prices

    Fri, 21 Aug 2026 20:49:35 -0000

    The move prompted blowback from cattle ranchers and Republicans who represent them.
  7. Meghan of Sussex Eyes Role in Netflix Show ‘The Gentlemen’

    Fri, 21 Aug 2026 22:14:11 -0000

    The duchess’s representatives have had exploratory talks about her joining a third season of “The Gentlemen,” two people said. Netflix has not yet ordered a third season of the show.
  8. ‘They’re Always Going to Be Polarizing’: Britons Split on Harry and Meghan’s Return

    Fri, 21 Aug 2026 15:23:39 -0000

    Recent surveys suggest the broader public views both of them negatively, especially in comparison to Harry’s brother, William, and his wife, Kate.
  9. Prince Harry, Elton John and Others Told to Pay Daily Mail Publisher $13 Million

    Fri, 21 Aug 2026 18:22:00 -0000

    Harry and six other high-profile figures lost a privacy lawsuit against Associated Newspapers. They may eventually have to pay more than twice the initial sum, a judge said.
  10. U.S. Agreed to Pay Liberia $5 Million in Connection with Deportees, Documents Say

    Fri, 21 Aug 2026 21:46:56 -0000

    The Trump administration approved the payment after Liberia said it would consider taking migrants from other countries.
  11. 5 Deportees Are Flown by US to Equatorial Guinea After they Resist Deplaning in Liberia

    Fri, 21 Aug 2026 23:36:57 -0000

    At least five of the people flown to Liberia under the Trump administration’s third-country deportation program resisted leaving the plane. They were then flown to Equatorial Guinea.
  12. Desperation Mounts as Thousands in Indiana Endure 10 Days Without Power

    Fri, 21 Aug 2026 23:11:39 -0000

    Floods from powerful thunderstorms devastated Gary, where a third of residents live below the poverty line and full restoration isn’t expected until next week.
  13. How New York’s Second-Home Tax Turned Into a Headache for Mamdani

    Fri, 21 Aug 2026 16:16:04 -0000

    The bumpy rollout of the tax created an opportunity for Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s opponents to fight him in court and in the City Council.
  14. Staten Island Becomes the Place to Challenge Mamdani’s Policies in Court

    Fri, 21 Aug 2026 22:00:20 -0000

    The ruling is a win for Mayor Zohran Mamdani, who argued that the case be heard in Manhattan. The lawsuit challenging the rent freeze had been filed in Staten Island.
  15. He Said He Was the World’s Healthiest Man. Then Came a Stunning Diagnosis.

    Fri, 21 Aug 2026 19:37:41 -0000

    Bryan Johnson, the longevity guru, wants to live forever. But the big question is why.
  16. Palestinian Teenager Killed After Israeli Settlers Enter West Bank Village

    Fri, 21 Aug 2026 18:32:08 -0000

    Palestinian and Israeli authorities offered divergent accounts of the incident, which came as settler violence has surged across the Israeli-occupied territory.
  17. Turkey Requests Netanyahu’s Arrest, Saying Israel Abused Flotilla Activists

    Fri, 21 Aug 2026 20:35:40 -0000

    Turkey’s request for an Interpol ‘red notice’ came at a time of escalating tensions between the two countries.
  18. Shein, a Fast-Fashion Giant, Struggles to Grow Ahead of a Much-Delayed IPO

    Fri, 21 Aug 2026 14:58:39 -0000

    Facing pressure in the United States and Europe, Shein is struggling to find new ways to grow ahead of its much-delayed initial public offering.
  19. Rare South American Diseases Offer Clues on the Next Pandemic

    Fri, 21 Aug 2026 16:06:45 -0000

    Ebola virus, hantavirus and the pathogen that causes Covid-19 likely jumped from animals to humans. So do these viruses — and scientists say climate change is speeding their spread.
  20. Richard Gadd Had Never Heard of the Manosphere

    Fri, 21 Aug 2026 09:02:54 -0000

    The creator and star of “Half Man” didn’t have a particular agenda for this dark tale of male repression. But “people think that it’s a political piece of work,” he said.
  21. Court Slashes Award Alex Jones Was Ordered to Pay Sandy Hook Parents

    Fri, 21 Aug 2026 22:05:03 -0000

    An appeals court reduced the award to the parents of one victim to $6 million from $49 million, citing a Texas damages cap. The conspiracy theorist owes over $1 billion in other cases.
  22. I’m a Former Dean of Admissions. Colleges Shouldn’t Be Paying Rich Kids to Enroll.

    Fri, 21 Aug 2026 21:05:12 -0000

    We can do better than this. We have to.
  23. Status Defines Friendship for Too Many Americans

    Fri, 21 Aug 2026 16:48:16 -0000

    The four-year degree isn’t just an economic signal; it’s become a lifestyle determinant.
  24. A City Under Siege

    Fri, 21 Aug 2026 10:31:46 -0000

    We look at how dire the situation has become inside Kyiv.
  25. Rosie O’Donnell Ends Late Night Stint With a Ditty to ‘Donny Boy’

    Fri, 21 Aug 2026 05:44:38 -0000

    “It’s kind of weird to think he spent more nights with me this week than Melania,” O’Donnell said of President Trump on her last night guest-hosting “Jimmy Kimmel Live.”
  26. Defense Rests Case in Lindsay Clancy Murder Trial

    Fri, 21 Aug 2026 22:48:19 -0000

    The two sides focused Friday on whether Ms. Clancy was experiencing psychosis when she strangled her three young children in 2023. Closing arguments could begin on Monday.
  27. The Real Meaning of the Jason Arday Scandal

    Wed, 19 Aug 2026 18:33:51 -0000

    In a young Black professor’s academic misconduct, a “race-realist” found a “hook for a story.”
  28. How Far Will the Trump Administration Go to Deport Mahmoud Khalil?

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

    Khalil protested Israel as a student at Columbia. Now he’s on the verge of being kicked out of the country.
  29. 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.
  30. The End of the European Summer

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

    As extreme heat overwhelms the Continent’s great cities, they are racing to transform themselves for a climate that they were never built to withstand.
  31. The Children a Scientist Took Home

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

    Carleton Gajdusek won the Nobel Prize for his work on a disease in Papua New Guinea. But his biggest experiment was on the children he took back to the U.S.
  32. Nayib Bukele’s Content Machine Is Reshaping Latin America

    Tue, 18 Aug 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    How El Salvador’s authoritarian leader loomed over Colombia’s Presidential race.
  33. Donald Trump Is Still Trying to Make It Harder to Vote

    Sun, 16 Aug 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    The SAVE America Act is just one part of a package that includes an executive order and threats of prosecution, all in an effort to make Trump’s math work.
  34. How Trump Is Trying to Weaken Migrant Children’s Legal Defense

    Sat, 15 Aug 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    After failing to eliminate funding for unaccompanied minors’ lawyers altogether, the Administration is pushing cases toward entities that lack both immigration expertise and the capacity to take them on.
  35. Is D.N.C. Chair the Worst Job in Washington?

    Thu, 13 Aug 2026 16:13:00 -0000

    The organization is holding its annual summer meeting, and onlookers are calling for the head of its leader, Ken Martin. Then again, the Democrats are always doing that kind of thing.
  36. 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.
  37. 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.”
  38. 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.
  39. 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.
  40. How I Became a Subaru Socialist

    Tue, 18 Aug 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    By the time Bernie Sanders ran for President, in 2015, I was financially secure. But the previous decade had left a mark.
  41. A Trump Grift Too Far?

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

    A scheme to charge Wall Street traders for an early look at the President’s comments on Truth Social has generated outrage and a lawsuit.
  42. The Red Sox Cannot Be Made to Make Any Sense

    Sun, 16 Aug 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    Teams get hot, then cold; they get lucky, then unlucky. Records rarely paint a full picture of a season—especially for fans determined to believe in another comeback story.
  43. If A.I. Takes the Jobs of Young People, How Will They React?

    Tue, 11 Aug 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    The Democratic electorate is already moving left, but that may be nothing compared with what happens when unemployment really starts to rise.
  44. A Political Awakening in Arab America

    Fri, 21 Aug 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    A Midwestern Muslim family’s story of immigration, assimilation, and how one year changed the life of its youngest son.
  45. After Six Months of War, Trump Is Still Losing to Iran

    Thu, 20 Aug 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    The conflict marks a “precipitous collapse of American power and American prestige.”
  46. Bernie Sanders Takes on Data Centers

    Tue, 18 Aug 2026 17:00:00 -0000

    The Vermont senator co-sponsored a bill that calls for a moratorium on building data centers. He discusses the environmental and economic concerns, and what the government can do.
  47. Israel’s Leaders Find Allies Among the Global Far Right

    Thu, 13 Aug 2026 17:36:48 -0000

    Support for the nation is becoming an increasingly polarizing issue in politics around the world.
  48. Who Killed Lorenzo Salgado Araujo?

    Thu, 13 Aug 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    A death during an ICE traffic stop raises outrage in Houston—and in Mexico.
  49. What Francesca Hong’s Defeat Means for Democrats

    Wed, 12 Aug 2026 18:23:56 -0000

    The democratic socialist’s rise in Wisconsin was supposed to portend a major breakthrough for the left. Her narrow loss should still be a wake-up call for the Party’s establishment.
  50. Minnesota Primary-Election Results

    Wed, 12 Aug 2026 13:37:23 -0000

    Peggy Flanagan wins the state’s Democratic primary for U.S. Senate; Mike Lindell, a close ally to President Donald Trump, loses the Republican gubernatorial primary.
  51. South Carolina Primary-Election Results: Graham and Norman Advance

    Wed, 12 Aug 2026 13:37:02 -0000

    In the special Republican primary to replace Senator Lindsey Graham, who passed away in July, his sister Darline Graham and Representative Ralph Norman will move on to a runoff election in late August.