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  1. Republicans Let Trump Keep Unparalleled Benefit: I.R.S. Immunity

    Mon, 03 Aug 2026 23:02:29 -0000

    The rebellion against Todd Blanche’s nomination to be attorney general, now seemingly contained, at no point fundamentally questioned President Trump’s new protections from the I.R.S.
  2. Pirro Meets With Trump at the White House After He Said She ‘Choked’ in Reflecting Pool Case

    Tue, 04 Aug 2026 00:23:06 -0000

    President Trump said Jeanine Pirro, the U.S. attorney for Washington, D.C., “folded like an umbrella.” For now, her job appeared to be safe, according to two people familiar with the meeting.
  3. An Emerging Deal Between Iran and Oman to Reopen Hormuz Would Come at a Cost for Trump

    Tue, 04 Aug 2026 01:19:28 -0000

    The deal would address President Trump’s most urgent political problem by allowing ships to move again. But it would give Iran strategic leverage it did not have before the war.
  4. Sailors Working in Strait of Hormuz Are Caught in Crossfire of Iran War

    Tue, 04 Aug 2026 04:01:09 -0000

    Thousands of civilian workers remain stranded on ships at risk of attack by Iran. On one vessel, sailors have been held by the Iranian navy for more than three months.
  5. A Currency Trader at Heart, Bessent Bets on Japan’s Yen

    Tue, 04 Aug 2026 04:00:14 -0000

    Coordinated intervention allowed Japan to support its currency without selling off its U.S. debt holdings.
  6. Author of Democrats’ 2024 Autopsy Says Party Left Out Key Chapter

    Mon, 03 Aug 2026 15:16:24 -0000

    A dispute over the chapter between the author and the Democratic National Committee has added to the party’s turmoil as it tries to look forward, not backward.
  7. Inside the Democratic Socialists of America Summit

    Mon, 03 Aug 2026 22:49:57 -0000

    Our politics reporter Kellen Browning went to the Democratic Socialists of America’s national summit in Chicago to learn more about the group’s new platform.
  8. In Michigan’s 7th District’s Democratic Primary, a Centrist Split Boosts Progressive Hopes

    Mon, 03 Aug 2026 22:11:33 -0000

    Unable to unite behind a single candidate in Michigan’s Seventh Congressional District, moderate Democrats worry that they’ve complicated their chances in a key November battleground.
  9. Trump, Graham Dominate Senate Race: 5 Takeaways from South Carolina Debate.

    Tue, 04 Aug 2026 03:41:43 -0000

    The legacy of Lindsey Graham loomed over the field to replace him in a debate Monday. All eyes were on his sister, Darline, who was endorsed by President Trump.
  10. Cambridge Professor’s Jason Arday’s Work Challenged Ahead of Book Launch

    Tue, 04 Aug 2026 00:19:07 -0000

    A knife-wielding masked man. A pig’s head outside his parents’ door. Running 30 marathons in 35 days. The Cambridge professor Jason Arday, accused of plagiarism, says he’s been through it all. Not everyone believes him.
  11. Immigrant Held at Delaney Detention Center Has Died, Officials Say

    Tue, 04 Aug 2026 00:05:43 -0000

    The mayor of Newark identified the dead man as Edwin Lopez-Cornejo. The New Jersey center has been the focus of intense scrutiny for its treatment of detainees.
  12. U.S. Sends Flight With Deportees to Venezuela for First Time Since Earthquakes

    Tue, 04 Aug 2026 00:55:34 -0000

    A plane with 147 Venezuelans landed on Monday in the South American country amid criticism over the deaths of deportees housed in a collapsed building during June’s quakes.
  13. N.Y. Law Barring ICE Agents From Wearing Masks Is Blocked by Judge

    Mon, 03 Aug 2026 22:17:01 -0000

    While the ruling dealt a blow to New York’s efforts to rein in ICE, a ban on formal cooperation with local police officers will move forward.
  14. Spotlight on Fauci Said to Boost Book Sales for Kennedy and His Publisher

    Tue, 04 Aug 2026 01:49:06 -0000

    Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., his son, and Senator Rand Paul have all written books criticizing Dr. Anthony S. Fauci. All were published by a company led by a close Kennedy adviser.
  15. Andy Burnham’s First Weeks as UK Prime Minister: TikToks, Podcasts and Promises

    Tue, 04 Aug 2026 04:01:19 -0000

    Andy Burnham’s social media push appears to be resonating with some voters. But he faces big decisions about how to pay for his promises.
  16. ‘A War Zone’: Spokane Wildfires Leave a Devastating Trail of Destruction

    Tue, 04 Aug 2026 06:56:47 -0000

    Despite the scale of the damage, there have been no reported fatalities in the fires that started over the weekend. Late on Monday, officials arrested a man suspected of setting one of the fires.
  17. Man Arrested on Suspicion of Arson in Spokane Wildfire

    Tue, 04 Aug 2026 06:57:11 -0000

    Aaron Farinacci, 37, was arrested after a witness reported seeing him kneeling near the ignition site of a major fire in Washington State, officials said.
  18. Pakistan’s Kashmir Problem

    Tue, 04 Aug 2026 04:00:13 -0000

    A wave of protests is posing the most significant challenge in years to Islamabad’s authority in the region.
  19. New Zealand Has Ended Greyhound Racing. Now It Has to Manage the Aftermath.

    Tue, 04 Aug 2026 06:36:06 -0000

    As the country holds its final greyhound race, the government has committed to finding homes for dogs and supporting people whose livelihoods depended on racing.
  20. Gen Z Can’t Afford a First Date

    Mon, 03 Aug 2026 14:02:46 -0000

    From $130 dinners to expensive cocktails and even exorbitant movie tickets, a crushing economy in New York City is creating a fresh barrier to love.
  21. What Do Dictators Fear Most? Just Ask Nicaragua.

    Tue, 04 Aug 2026 05:00:04 -0000

    Nicaragua shows what happens when even dictators fear a rigged election.
  22. I Helped Run Lululemon. The A.I. Revolution Is a Hot Mess.

    Mon, 03 Aug 2026 20:05:28 -0000

    The A.I. revolution is stalling because companies don’t want to admit that integrating the technology is expensive and slow and requires human effort.
  23. Late Night Reacts to Trump’s Latest Iran Deal Comments

    Tue, 04 Aug 2026 05:20:01 -0000

    “I’m not saying that they’re out of ideas, but the best option they came up with was pinning the war on Dr. Fauci,” Jimmy Fallon said.
  24. JPMorgan Again Entangled in a Soccer Fiasco

    Tue, 04 Aug 2026 05:33:26 -0000

    After promising to learn from its role in a failed “Super League” that fueled fan anger, the Wall Street bank is involved in FIFA’s latest meltdown.
  25. 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.
  26. The Future, Made in China

    Mon, 03 Aug 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    Beijing is competing with the U.S. for tech supremacy. Who wins will have huge political implications.
  27. The Man Who Was Kidnapped Twice

    Mon, 03 Aug 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    Thousands of people in Nigeria have been held for ransom by bandit groups. One professor escaped his captors—only to be abducted again.
  28. The American Art of Blowing Stuff Up

    Mon, 03 Aug 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    Fireworks by Grucci has been in the pyrotechnics business for six generations.
  29. How Roy Cohn Taught Donald Trump Everything

    Mon, 03 Aug 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    The lawyer who showed an outer-borough striver how to ignore the rules, avoid a paper trail, and make up a good story for the media.
  30. Why Donald Trump Talks So Much About Foreign Election Interference

    Mon, 03 Aug 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    The White House is distorting intelligence assessments instead of working to protect the midterm elections.
  31. What Does It Even Mean to Be a Moderate?

    Mon, 03 Aug 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    The Michigan Senate primary has turned into a referendum on a word that has never had a fixed meaning.
  32. Why Is Europe Burning?

    Sat, 01 Aug 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    “We put all these ingredients in a cocktail shaker, and the result is massive fires that far exceed the extinguishing capacity of firefighting teams,” a Spanish firefighter said.
  33. The Failures of the Fauci Hearing

    Sat, 01 Aug 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    Senator Rand Paul may have approached the matter with theatrics and ill will, but Dr. Anthony Fauci’s decision not to testify was a loss.
  34. 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.”
  35. 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.
  36. 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.
  37. How Political Is This Supreme Court?

    Mon, 06 Jul 2026 21:57:53 -0000

    The legal commentator Elie Honig thinks that the Trump-appointed Justices are getting unfair criticism.
  38. Kevin Warsh Is Facing More Than a Communication Problem

    Mon, 03 Aug 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    The Fed chair’s biggest challenge is demonstrating his independence from Donald Trump.
  39. The World Cup Is Not for Sale

    Sat, 01 Aug 2026 22:17:46 -0000

    Gianni Infantino’s private-equity scheme backfired—but the commodification of soccer is already well under way.
  40. The Kids Are Kind of All Right

    Tue, 28 Jul 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    Recently, there has been much hand-wringing about downwardly mobile young adults living with their parents into their twenties or thirties. What’s really going on?
  41. LeBron James: An Odyssey

    Fri, 24 Jul 2026 22:19:36 -0000

    Tell the old story for our modern times.
  42. Glen Hansard’s Street-Corner Stories

    Fri, 31 Jul 2026 22:41:00 -0000

    Both as a young busker and as a famous singer-songwriter, Hansard understood how to make people stop and listen and feel one single thing.
  43. The Outlandish Case Against James Comey

    Fri, 31 Jul 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    The prosecution’s central claim “would be laughable,” one former federal judge noted, if it weren’t intended “to deprive a man of his liberty.”
  44. Inside OpenAI’s Hack of Hugging Face

    Thu, 30 Jul 2026 16:01:36 -0000

    Hugging Face’s chief science officer recounts the cybercrime that signals a terrifying new era for A.I.
  45. How Donald Trump Silenced the Voice of America

    Thu, 30 Jul 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    The agency was created to spread the story of freedom and democracy around the world. Now, with many of its journalists being paid to stay home, it’s delivering a very different message.
  46. Trump’s Isolationism Is Losing the Great E.V. Race

    Tue, 28 Jul 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    The United States risks becoming a theme park of internal combustion, as the rest of the world moves on.
  47. Which Way Should the Democratic Party Go Now?

    Sun, 26 Jul 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    It’s been a tumultuous primary season, but is this the Democrats’ Tea Party moment? Or is something more pragmatic emerging?
  48. The Complications of Graham Platner’s Veteran Identity

    Fri, 24 Jul 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    How much of the former Senate candidate’s behavior should be read through the lens of what combat did to him, and how much of it is simply who he is, independent of war?
  49. Marco Rubio Takes Aim at Globalists and the Left

    Thu, 23 Jul 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    Primary among the Secretary of State’s targets is the International Criminal Court.