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  1. Trump’s Justice Dept. Targets Smaller Fraud Cases

    Fri, 14 Aug 2026 09:02:49 -0000

    As the Trump administration drops charges against corporations and the wealthy, it is also taking aim at small-scale fraud cases, including against the operator of a weathered food truck in California.
  2. Trump Gives Green Light to U.S. Companies to Aim Hacks at Cybercriminals

    Thu, 13 Aug 2026 20:34:21 -0000

    The practice would align the United States more closely with countries like China and Russia, where spy agencies have long relied on private-sector hackers to help with national security missions.
  3. Concerns Grow Over Conditions on Aircraft Carrier, and Trump Pushes New Hacking Effort

    Fri, 14 Aug 2026 10:00:15 -0000

    Plus, your Friday news quiz.
  4. U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln Has Been Deployed for Months, Prompting Concerns

    Thu, 13 Aug 2026 21:49:04 -0000

    The U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln has been deployed for nearly nine months. Members of Congress are worried about the crew’s well-being.
  5. What to Know About Luigi Mangione’s Court Cases and Potential Plea

    Fri, 14 Aug 2026 13:13:32 -0000

    Mr. Mangione faces federal charges of stalking that resulted in the death of a health insurance executive. A guilty plea could close the federal case — and complicate a separate state murder trial.
  6. Russia Campaigned to Derail Moldova’s Pro-Western Government

    Fri, 14 Aug 2026 13:40:59 -0000

    In the tiny nation, Moscow paid Orthodox priests, conducted a vote-buying scheme and set up training camps on election interference — all in an effort to derail the Western-leaning government.
  7. How Thrillers Hook You With Their First Sentence

    Fri, 14 Aug 2026 09:00:45 -0000

    Can our Book Review editor, Tina Jordan, guess thrillers from their first sentence? In this game we explore a few of the books from The New York Times’s “50 Best Thrillers of the 21st Century” list; and learn a bit more about why opening sentences are so important to get people reading.
  8. Readers Choose the Best Thrillers and Mysteries of the Century

    Thu, 13 Aug 2026 20:30:13 -0000

    The backbone of the list: nine novels by Tana French, and five novels each from John le Carré, Kate Atkinson and Mick Herron.
  9. Great Movie and TV Adaptations From 21st- Century Thrillers

    Thu, 13 Aug 2026 21:08:05 -0000

    From “Slow Horses” to “Big Little Lies,” our list of great psychological thrillers, spy novels and crime fiction have inspired a heap of great adaptations.
  10. Farage Wins Special U.K. Election That He Initiated, as Expected

    Fri, 14 Aug 2026 11:56:55 -0000

    Nigel Farage, the leader of Reform U.K., won the Clacton by-election with 63 percent. Count Binface, a novelty candidate, came second with 27 percent, a personal best.
  11. Deaths of 3 ICE Detainees Prompt Questions About Medical Care

    Thu, 13 Aug 2026 23:31:10 -0000

    Immigrants at Delaney Hall in Newark have complained about health services. Federal officials defended the treatment provided there and elsewhere.
  12. Mamdani’s ‘Bro’ Culture in City Hall: Sports, Memes, Nicknames for All

    Fri, 14 Aug 2026 10:37:12 -0000

    As much as Zohran Mamdani’s team runs on leftist idealism and social media hits, its style of governing also relies on humor, sports references and pop culture.
  13. As Europe Gets Hotter, Its Transportation Systems Struggle to Cope

    Fri, 14 Aug 2026 09:07:25 -0000

    The continent’s railways and roads “were engineered for a climate that no longer exists,” one expert said.
  14. More Wildfires and Extreme Heat Roil Europe, but Relief Is on the Horizon

    Fri, 14 Aug 2026 12:41:10 -0000

    Another day of near record heat baked the continent on Friday, but temperatures could retreat to seasonal averages in the coming days.
  15. Chatbots Are Pushing Us Toward a Post-Human Internet

    Fri, 14 Aug 2026 09:00:27 -0000

    In matters of work, school and even romance, we turn to A.I. chatbots. But what happens when the bots begin talking to one another?
  16. An Unlikely Emergency Appeal to the Supreme Court From a Dog Named Bruce

    Fri, 14 Aug 2026 13:29:01 -0000

    A last-ditch filing this week came on behalf of a dog that a judge found to be “vicious” and shows how the court’s emergency docket has been growing.
  17. New Yorkers Can’t Stop Lining Up for This Sushi

    Fri, 14 Aug 2026 12:38:55 -0000

    At a proliferating number of stores, discounts on sushi and other items are offered after 8 p.m. To get the best meals, you have to be there early.
  18. Is Ocasio-Cortez Ready for the Glass Cliff?

    Fri, 14 Aug 2026 11:18:18 -0000

    She will run as a woman but unlike how every woman before her was forced to run.
  19. Extreme Heat Is the New Normal

    Fri, 14 Aug 2026 11:28:35 -0000

    Firefighters in Phoenix race to save lives in a city that’s only getting hotter.
  20. Are Political Polls Accurate?

    Fri, 14 Aug 2026 10:47:16 -0000

    We look at recent problems with political polling.
  21. Jimmy Fallon Reacts to Karoline Leavitt’s White House Exit

    Fri, 14 Aug 2026 05:34:38 -0000

    The “Tonight Show” host said President Trump had been surprised by the press secretary’s decision to step down. “She was like, ‘I wanted to wait for a good time but there hasn’t been one, so.’”
  22. Afghan Women Erased From Public Life in Five Years of Taliban Rule

    Fri, 14 Aug 2026 05:08:37 -0000

    Decrees restricting the rights of women and girls to study, work, travel and act independently now threaten to damage Afghanistan permanently, experts say.
  23. 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.
  24. The Doulas Who Help Us Die

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

    In an aging America, thousands of people have adopted a new vocation: supporting others as they confront the end of life.
  25. Are You a Human?

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

    From branding irons to iris scans, the ancient business of proving who you are has never been stranger—or more lucrative.
  26. Inside Russia’s New Gulag

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

    Human-rights groups estimate that more than ten thousand Ukrainian civilians have disappeared into the Russian prison system. This is the story of one cell.
  27. The Delusions of John Roberts

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

    The Chief Justice insists that his Supreme Court isn’t biased even as it keeps making dramatic leaps rightward.
  28. 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.
  29. 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.
  30. What a Blighted Beach Town Says About England’s Forgotten North

    Wed, 12 Aug 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    Blackpool, a vacation spot known as the Vegas of the North, has become a symbol of working-class fun.
  31. An Israeli Satirist’s Bid to Save His Country’s Democracy

    Tue, 11 Aug 2026 15:25:35 -0000

    Lior Schleien used to host hit TV shows. Now he posts videos of discussions with young people, the majority of whom currently tend right, which garner millions of views.
  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. 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. 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.
  37. What Does the Humbling of Leopold Aschenbrenner Mean for the A.I. Bubble?

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

    The troubles of a twenty-four-year-old hedge-fund manager highlight some larger questions about the tech-driven stock boom.
  38. Did the Dodgers Ruin Baseball?

    Sun, 09 Aug 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    Already the title favorites, Los Angeles acquired the league’s best pitcher at the trade deadline—and may have insured a lockout after the season.
  39. Subaru Socialists and the Great Disappointed

    Tue, 04 Aug 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    The voters who are determining the future of the Democratic Party.
  40. 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.
  41. 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.
  42. 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.
  43. Wisconsin Primary-Election Results: David Crowley Wins

    Wed, 12 Aug 2026 13:36:31 -0000

    The Milwaukee County executive defeated Francesca Hong, a Democratic Socialist who was widely considered the front-runner in the Democratic primary for governor.
  44. How Socialist Is the D.S.A.? Megan Romer Explains

    Mon, 10 Aug 2026 12:58:53 -0000

    Romer, a co-chair of the Democratic Socialists of America, defends some of the D.S.A.’s controversial positions: “I think people like us being rather bold. . . . People want a fighter.”
  45. The Great Delegalization

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

    More than a million immigrants are seeing protections that granted them safe lives in the U.S. suddenly swept away.
  46. A.I. Is Now a Major Election Issue

    Sun, 09 Aug 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    As Abdul El-Sayed, Michigan’s newly elected Democratic nominee for the U.S. Senate, put it, “People really effing hate data centers.”
  47. The Senate’s Shameful Acquiescence to Todd Blanche as Attorney General

    Fri, 07 Aug 2026 22:15:22 -0000

    A number of Republicans resisted his confirmation, but enough ultimately accepted the notion that Trump could do even worse.