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  1. Trump Defended A.I. Data Centers on Truth Social, and Commenters Clapped Back

    Wed, 16 Sep 2026 01:20:59 -0000

    The president’s posts about artificial intelligence on the social media platform he founded were met with an unusual volume of criticism.
  2. Mark Zuckerberg Takes Aim at Anthropic in Debate Over A.I. Slowdown

    Wed, 16 Sep 2026 00:19:23 -0000

    On social media, Meta’s chief executive appeared to jab at Anthropic by saying that leading A.I. labs should be focused on safety rather than improving their own technology.
  3. OpenAI Considers New Financing at a $1.5 Trillion Valuation

    Wed, 16 Sep 2026 04:01:30 -0000

    The funding round would double the value of the start-up behind ChatGPT and establish it as the world’s most valuable private company.
  4. Kennedy Center Closes Its Doors Despite a Judge’s Order

    Tue, 15 Sep 2026 23:08:55 -0000

    The announcement came after President Trump said he would cancel a $257 million renovation of the venue if his name is not returned to the building.
  5. Federal Employees Were Paid $9.5 Billion Not to Work in 2025 Under DOGE Effort

    Tue, 15 Sep 2026 23:47:02 -0000

    As part of the Department of Government Efficiency’s program to shrink the federal work force, paid administrative leave costs rose by 435 percent.
  6. House Directs Trump to Halt War With Iran or Secure Congress’s Approval

    Wed, 16 Sep 2026 03:01:01 -0000

    It was the fifth time that a chamber of the Republican-controlled Congress has voted to rein in President Trump’s war powers as discontent with the conflict grows among voters.
  7. Trump Approves $2.8 Billion Arms Sale to Israel, Including 40,000 One-Ton Bombs

    Wed, 16 Sep 2026 00:12:57 -0000

    The package would be among the largest deliveries of U.S. munitions to Israel.
  8. Pentagon Inspector General Details U.S. Losses and Challenges in Iran War

    Wed, 16 Sep 2026 02:27:56 -0000

    Helicopters for evacuating casualties were pulled from four countries, and hundreds of military facilities were destroyed, according to a new report.
  9. News Helicopter Crashes in Los Angeles, Killing at Least 3

    Wed, 16 Sep 2026 07:38:48 -0000

    NBC4 Los Angeles said the helicopter belonged to the station and its reporter and pilot had been killed.
  10. Trump Slams Supreme Court Over Mail-In Voting Ruling

    Tue, 15 Sep 2026 14:01:16 -0000

    In a blistering attack on the court, President Trump said “these are not the people I interviewed” to serve as justices.
  11. Trump, the Supreme Court and the Postal Service: A History of Mail Voting

    Wed, 16 Sep 2026 01:09:25 -0000

    The mail system took on new prominence during the Civil War by enabling soldiers to vote from afar. On Monday, the Supreme Court blocked President Trump’s effort to give it a new role in elections.
  12. Scrutiny of Jury May Complicate Future of Lindsay Clancy Case

    Tue, 15 Sep 2026 23:21:29 -0000

    The intense public focus on the jurors whose deadlock led to a mistrial could complicate any attempt to retry the case, and to seat jurors in other high-profile cases.
  13. Trump Plans Blitz of $138 Million and Counting to Save Midterm Republicans

    Wed, 16 Sep 2026 00:10:52 -0000

    His powerful super PAC is suddenly spending heavily on some races, after drawing fire from some Republicans that the group might not throw its weight behind the party’s candidates.
  14. House Kills Bid to Impeach Trump as Democrats Split

    Tue, 15 Sep 2026 21:03:47 -0000

    Dozens of Democrats declined to register a position on articles of impeachment by one of their own members, Representative Al Green, that cited President Trump’s immigration crackdown.
  15. In the Age of A.I., Some in China Wonder if Learning English Is Worth the Trouble

    Wed, 16 Sep 2026 06:18:46 -0000

    A math teacher’s viral post prompted a debate over the language, which some see as an optional skill — and a symbol of Western dominance.
  16. It’s Already Too Late to Stop the A.I. Threat

    Tue, 15 Sep 2026 22:15:30 -0000

    China and the United States must work to repair the damage A.I. has done now, not look to future developments.
  17. JD Vance, Here’s a Catholic Politician You Should Get to Know

    Wed, 16 Sep 2026 05:00:06 -0000

    Andy Burnham is in some ways a throwback to U.S. Catholic politicians of past decades. He might be a signpost for the future.
  18. Stephen Colbert Returns to Late Night on ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live’

    Wed, 16 Sep 2026 07:37:58 -0000

    “People still do these shows?” Colbert said as he sat down for his first late night interview since his show ended.
  19. How Electric Cars Took Hold in Australia

    Tue, 15 Sep 2026 20:30:07 -0000

    Rising oil prices helped push E.V. sales ahead of gas cars for the first time, even in a country that loves long road trips.
  20. Mail-In Voting Survives

    Tue, 15 Sep 2026 17:28:50 -0000

    In an unsigned ruling, the Supreme Court demonstrated that it is willing to limit Donald Trump’s agenda.
  21. Jared Kushner’s Dollar Diplomacy

    Mon, 14 Sep 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    Donald Trump’s son-in-law represents the kind of Washington figure for whom public office serves as a means to extraordinary wealth.
  22. The American Religion of Self-Storage Facilities

    Mon, 14 Sep 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    Why are we so obsessed with putting our belongings in metal boxes and then never looking at them again?
  23. The Incredible Journey of a Migratory Shorebird

    Mon, 14 Sep 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    Godwits make the longest non-stop migration in the bird world. That might be the least of their marvels. Can they survive a changing planet?
  24. She Made Me Do It

    Mon, 14 Sep 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    A prominent dressage trainer shot a belligerent student—and now maintains that he’s the real victim.
  25. How to Protect Democracy

    Sun, 13 Sep 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    The emergence of Germany’s far right as a political force represents an old dilemma.
  26. The U.S. Was Never Going to Win the “War on Terror”

    Fri, 11 Sep 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    In the twenty-five years since 9/11, the U.S. has waged several military campaigns against extremism around the world, resulting in the deaths of almost a million people. What has it accomplished?
  27. Troy Jackson Is Still Surprised That He’s Running for Senate

    Thu, 10 Sep 2026 14:24:56 -0000

    The former state senator replaced Graham Platner as Maine’s Democratic nominee. But, as he reminded voters over Labor Day weekend, “it could have been anyone else.”
  28. Is the Democratic Party Still Too Woke?

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

    The political operative Adam Jentleson once believed “the way for Democrats to win was to get your base really riled up.” He’s now trying to wrest the Party away from its far-left flank.
  29. 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.
  30. 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.
  31. 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.
  32. 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.”
  33. 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.
  34. Ben Shelton Comes Into Full Focus

    Sat, 12 Sep 2026 16:42:36 -0000

    In a riveting U.S. Open semifinal against Frances Tiafoe, the twenty-three-year-old showed that his composure and problem-solving are as central to his game as his extraordinary athleticism.
  35. The Death of Shame Is Tearing Us Apart

    Tue, 08 Sep 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    Increasingly, people are ignoring social norms in favor of a narrow self-interest. The results are disastrous.
  36. Has the A.I. Job Apocalypse Been Postponed?

    Mon, 07 Sep 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    So far, the proliferation of A.I. models such as Claude and ChatGPT hasn’t led to mass displacement of workers. But deployment is accelerating and economic pressures are rising.
  37. “The Journey,” a Five-Part Audio Investigation from The New Yorker

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

    Why did a mysterious couple collect babies in a Los Angeles mansion? Examining a scandal that threatens to undermine the surrogacy industry.
  38. On Not Being a Homeowner

    Sat, 12 Sep 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    Generational wealth shapes our futures and friendships, whether we talk about it or not.
  39. Colin Kaepernick Misses the Game

    Fri, 11 Sep 2026 18:00:00 -0000

    In his new memoir, “The Perilous Fight,” the former N.F.L. star recounts the backlash he faced from the league.
  40. Remembrance of September 11th

    Wed, 09 Sep 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    It became immediately evident that this was terrorism on an unexampled scale. The twentieth century had ended, and the twenty-first had begun.
  41. The Warning Benjamin Netanyahu Ignored

    Tue, 08 Sep 2026 22:29:01 -0000

    New reporting from Haaretz shows that, before October 7th, the Israeli Prime Minister was told to expect an “earthquake” from Gaza—and didn’t inform his security chiefs.
  42. A Political Operative on the Verge of Self-Deportation

    Sun, 06 Sep 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    Daysi González, who works to elect Democrats, is gearing up to leave the U.S. as soon as this month. She wants her own party to pay attention.
  43. 9/11 at Twenty-Five

    Sun, 06 Sep 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    A quarter century after the attacks, the grief, wars, and political furies of their aftermath still shape American life.
  44. The Path to the Lindsay Clancy Mistrial

    Fri, 04 Sep 2026 18:38:14 -0000

    Both the prosecution and the defense tried to tell tidy stories. But, in the end, five weeks of testimony from more than eighty witnesses couldn’t resolve the central mystery of Clancy’s state of mind.