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  1. Trump Shrugs Off A.I. and Data Center Concerns as Voters Grow Anxious

    Mon, 10 Aug 2026 15:48:18 -0000

    The president and his top aides have been especially bullish about data centers, despite national blowback against the facilities.
  2. Sanders Calls on A.I. Companies to Pause Development to ‘Avoid Disaster’

    Mon, 10 Aug 2026 19:58:12 -0000

    Senator Bernie Sanders warned that corporations have already lost control of technology that could cause “potentially cataclysmic results” for millions of people.
  3. One Year Later, Trump’s ‘Takeover’ Has Changed D.C. Is It Better Off?

    Mon, 10 Aug 2026 20:01:53 -0000

    The deployment of National Guard troops and federal agents into the streets has been expensive. How effective it has been is debatable.
  4. One Source of Paxton’s Wealth: A Cell Tower at a Hospital He Knew Well

    Mon, 10 Aug 2026 19:01:44 -0000

    Ken Paxton, the Texas attorney general, makes six-figure income from a cellphone tower on the grounds of a hospital where he was a board member.
  5. America Is Atomizing

    Mon, 10 Aug 2026 11:21:23 -0000

    A nation of us versus them and them and them.
  6. Will Wisconsin Voters Think Francesca Hong Is Too Radical? Here’s Where She Stands.

    Mon, 10 Aug 2026 17:00:47 -0000

    The democratic socialist is the front-runner to win the Democratic primary for governor of Wisconsin on Tuesday.
  7. Minnesota’s Democratic Senate Primary Pits Angie Craig Against Peggy Flanagan

    Mon, 10 Aug 2026 14:04:07 -0000

    The Senate primary race in Minnesota will be the latest test of left-wing energy in the party, in a state that was convulsed by the Trump administration’s deadly immigration crackdown this winter.
  8. A Nighttime New York Boat Tour Turned Deadly in a Matter of Moments

    Mon, 10 Aug 2026 19:28:41 -0000

    Investigators are focusing on the tour operator and the pilot of the boat that capsized in New York Bay on Saturday, killing a mother and her infant daughter.
  9. How Shania Twain Won Over Gen Z

    Mon, 10 Aug 2026 09:00:45 -0000

    The pop-country megastar is still thrilling young audiences and influencing a new generation of musicians.
  10. Colombia’s Earthquake Puts Abelardo De La Espriella, Its New President, to the Test

    Mon, 10 Aug 2026 19:59:29 -0000

    Abelardo De La Espriella had never held public office until his inauguration on Friday. Now, he is at the helm of a major disaster response.
  11. Images Emerge From Quake-Battered Colombia

    Mon, 10 Aug 2026 19:56:34 -0000

    The most powerful temblor in a decade struck in a Pacific Coast region, killing over 100 people.
  12. Flock Cameras Can Track Every Car in America. Police Love Them. Citizens Don’t.

    Mon, 10 Aug 2026 20:04:23 -0000

    In Texas, there’s one thing liberals and conservatives agree on: They don’t want cameras trained on their cars.
  13. Why Are So Many People Upset About Flock Cameras?

    Mon, 10 Aug 2026 15:58:27 -0000

    Flock Safety’s automated license plate-reading cameras, used by thousands of law enforcement agencies in the U.S., have drawn intense criticism from civil liberties groups.
  14. Netanyahu Walks Tightrope on Trump’s Gaza Disarmament Deal

    Mon, 10 Aug 2026 19:14:20 -0000

    The Israeli prime minister, facing a tough upcoming election, is trying to satisfy the sometimes competing demands of his right-wing base and of President Trump.
  15. Iran Insists Strait of Hormuz Will Stay Closed Until Trump Agrees to Demands

    Mon, 10 Aug 2026 15:18:28 -0000

    A spokesman for the Iranian Foreign Ministry said that talks with Oman on shipping routes in the Strait of Hormuz were “separate” from discussions to fully reopen the waterway.
  16. Waymo Is Growing Faster Than Ever. So Are Its ‘Edge Cases.’

    Mon, 10 Aug 2026 13:56:20 -0000

    As Waymo deploys more driverless cars to 15 U.S. cities and counting, its vehicles keep encountering new and unexpected situations that they have no script to handle.
  17. Duane Davis, Who Wrote About Role in Tupac’s Murder, Now Says Memoir Was Fiction

    Mon, 10 Aug 2026 09:02:15 -0000

    Duane Davis’s book boasted of his role in the killing of Tupac Shakur. The memoir, which he now disavows, has become prime evidence in his murder trial, which starts this week.
  18. When Hobbies Come Before Romance

    Sun, 09 Aug 2026 16:18:58 -0000

    Is a packed social calendar the new relationship goals?
  19. Muggy Heat and Storms Continue to Grip the U.S., but an End Is in Sight

    Mon, 10 Aug 2026 16:24:11 -0000

    Weather at the start of the week looks like more of the same: heat and storms across the Eastern United States. But a subtle shift is in the cards.
  20. The Subway Is Sweltering. Is There a Way to Put That Heat to Good Use?

    Mon, 10 Aug 2026 18:05:00 -0000

    Mayor Zohran Mamdani and state transit officials announced a plan to study a heat-capture system that could cool a notoriously hot train station and help heat city buildings in the winter.
  21. Can Rob Sand Break the Republican Grip on Iowa?

    Mon, 10 Aug 2026 19:54:38 -0000

    Just shy of 44 with boyish good looks, Rob Sand is very much a moderate, but he has a withering critique of the political establishment in this country.
  22. Medical Breakthroughs Are a Thrill. Then Comes the Hard Part.

    Mon, 10 Aug 2026 18:58:57 -0000

    The Trump administration has dismantled the agency that ensures that research makes its way into medical practice.
  23. Ukraine Drone Attack on Industrial City in Russia Kills at Least 13

    Mon, 10 Aug 2026 15:17:41 -0000

    The strike, on an industrial center in Tatarstan, killed at least 13 people.
  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. 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.
  26. 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.
  27. 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.
  28. 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.
  29. 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.
  30. 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.”
  31. 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.
  32. Are Psychedelics Right-Wing Now?

    Fri, 07 Aug 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    How the conservative activist Bryan Hubbard, with help from Rick Perry and Joe Rogan, persuaded Trump and the G.O.P. to embrace ibogaine, a psychedelic drug derived from an African shrub.
  33. 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.
  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. 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. 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.
  41. 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.”
  42. Can Extreme Morning Sickness Be Cured?

    Fri, 07 Aug 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    For decades, the condition was thought to be psychological, and women were shamed for their illness. Now a scientist has found a biological cause.
  43. G.P.S. and the Lost Art of Getting Lost

    Thu, 06 Aug 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    A new book, “Little Blue Dot,” by Katherine Dunn, raises questions about the unintended consequences of knowing where we are.
  44. Max Miller’s Victim Mentality

    Wed, 05 Aug 2026 22:24:23 -0000

    The Republican congressman’s bitter domestic dispute—in which he’s accused of physical abuse by his ex-wife, the daughter of an Ohio senator—is testing his party’s willingness to defend the indefensible.
  45. Michigan Primary-Election Live Results: Abdul El-Sayed Wins

    Wed, 05 Aug 2026 14:18:48 -0000

    The former public-health official’s victory in a closely watched Democratic primary for the U.S. Senate carries major implications for the direction of the Party.
  46. The Electability of Abdul El-Sayed

    Wed, 05 Aug 2026 14:05:43 -0000

    The former public-health official won Michigan’s Democratic primary with an unapologetically progressive platform—and a total defiance of the Party establishment.
  47. 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.
  48. 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.