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  1. Trump’s Voluntary A.I. Policing Echoes What Biden Did. But Is It Enough Today?

    Wed, 30 Sep 2026 20:27:20 -0000

    President Trump’s plan to let A.I. companies police themselves comes amid mounting examples that they are failing to put safeguards on the technology.
  2. Congress Set to Leave Washington for the Midterms With No A.I. Progress

    Wed, 30 Sep 2026 20:36:37 -0000

    Senate Democrats blocked a measure that would encourage, but not require, states to protect consumers from power rate hikes tied to data center growth, and had no limits on A.I. use or deployment.
  3. OpenAI’s Greg Brockman Backs Out of Second $25 Million Donation to A.I. Super PAC

    Wed, 30 Sep 2026 22:27:26 -0000

    Greg Brockman, OpenAI’s president and co-founder, said internally that the super PAC, Leading the Future, had become a “distraction” for the A.I. company.
  4. Who Attended Trump’s AI Luncheon, and Who Sat Where

    Wed, 30 Sep 2026 00:32:59 -0000

    A seating chart of the meeting illustrated growing divisions within the artificial intelligence industry and how it is viewed by the White House.
  5. Plane to Israel Narrowly Averts Disaster

    Wed, 30 Sep 2026 23:25:46 -0000

    Also, a Kelvin wave is heading to California. Here’s the latest at the end of Wednesday.
  6. A Bloody Attack on a FlyDubai Plane Headed to Israel, and a Terrifying Plunge

    Wed, 30 Sep 2026 21:38:12 -0000

    “I don’t deserve to die like this,” said one passenger on Flight 1073 from Dubai to Tel Aviv. The motive of the cockpit stabbing remains unknown, officials said.
  7. Panic and Heroics on FlyDubai Flight: ‘We Felt That This Was It’

    Wed, 30 Sep 2026 20:37:59 -0000

    A routine flight turned terrifying when a violent altercation broke out inside the cockpit and the aircraft dropped 17,000 feet in two minutes. Passengers subdued a knife-wielding attacker.
  8. FlyDubai Flight to Israel Diverted After Clash Between Pilots: What We Know and Don’t Know

    Wed, 30 Sep 2026 20:40:21 -0000

    Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel said one of the pilots may have been attempting to crash the flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv. The plane landed in Saudi Arabia and all passengers were safe.
  9. Democrats Block Stock-Trading Bill, Denying the G.O.P. a Pre-Midterm Win

    Wed, 30 Sep 2026 18:33:00 -0000

    A Republican measure to limit, but not bar, congressional stock trading faltered in the Senate as Democrats thwarted a G.O.P. bid to show progress on an issue that has rankled voters.
  10. Becerra and Hilton to Face Off in Televised California Governor Debate

    Wed, 30 Sep 2026 14:10:38 -0000

    Xavier Becerra, a Democrat who served in the Biden administration, will debate Steve Hilton, a Republican former talk show host, in what’s likely to be their only face-off before the election.
  11. In Speech, Hegseth Targets Diversity, Transgender People, Reporters and Iran

    Wed, 30 Sep 2026 23:25:52 -0000

    In his “State of the Force” address, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth focused on the culture war and accused reporters of “treason” over Iran war coverage.
  12. Hegseth Talks Tough as Republican Doubts About His Leadership Grow

    Wed, 30 Sep 2026 23:18:37 -0000

    Pete Hegseth has held onto his job by projecting a tough guy image, but his relationship with Republican lawmakers has never been worse.
  13. Cornell Students Question Greek Life Culture After Sexual Assault Claim

    Wed, 30 Sep 2026 23:14:46 -0000

    With their university under fire in the wake of a sexual assault lawsuit, students are having difficult conversations about Greek life, campus rituals and the possibility for lasting changes.
  14. What New York’s Rape Laws Mean for the Cornell Case

    Wed, 30 Sep 2026 23:23:43 -0000

    State law makes it harder to prosecute when victims drank willingly. The prosecutor in the Cornell case said that kept him from charging students accused of sexual assault.
  15. Chi Phi Says It Acted Quickly in 2024 to Expel Cornell Members Named in Sexual Assault Lawsuit

    Wed, 30 Sep 2026 20:30:12 -0000

    The national organization of the Chi Phi fraternity at the center of a Cornell University sexual assault lawsuit explained publicly for the first time how it handled the episode.
  16. Supreme Court Allows Execution of Christa Pike, Tennessee’s Lone Woman on Death Row

    Wed, 30 Sep 2026 23:14:32 -0000

    Christa Pike tortured and murdered a classmate in 1995. She had been set to die on Wednesday, the first woman executed in the state in 200 years, until a lower court paused the execution.
  17. Andrea Shaw Says Vaccines Killed Her Twins. Authorities Say She Suffocated Them.

    Wed, 30 Sep 2026 20:17:52 -0000

    In a small Idaho town, a young mother is accused of killing her young twins. She blames the childhood vaccines they received.
  18. Fed’s Watchdog Finds No Misconduct or Illegal Activity in Costly Renovations

    Wed, 30 Sep 2026 20:16:46 -0000

    A new report by the Federal Reserve’s independent inspector general concluded that a nearly $2.5 billion construction project was poorly managed but made no referrals to the U.S. attorney general.
  19. Justice Dept. Tries to Rebuke Federal Judges for Speaking to The Times

    Wed, 30 Sep 2026 20:12:45 -0000

    Judge Patrick J. Schiltz had warned that the administration’s actions “created a grave threat to the rule of law.” The attorney general accused him of “obvious bias.”
  20. Senator Marsha Blackburn Sues Over Jack Smith’s Subpoena During Trump Inquiry

    Wed, 30 Sep 2026 21:27:04 -0000

    The lawsuit, brought by Senator Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee, tests the reach of the Constitution’s “speech or debate” clause.
  21. See How El Niño Is Washing Ashore in California

    Wed, 30 Sep 2026 14:00:36 -0000

    An enormous pulse of wave energy will soon reach Southern California and continue north, raising sea levels by half a foot and increasing threats from swells and tides.
  22. Another Day of Pounding Rain Raises Flooding Fears in Texas

    Wed, 30 Sep 2026 21:05:23 -0000

    Texas had a dry summer, and rain on Wednesday could run off the arid ground like water on concrete.
  23. Google Wants Hollywood to Stop Being So Afraid of Technology

    Wed, 30 Sep 2026 21:18:56 -0000

    100 Zeros, a collaboration between Google and Range Media Partners, aims to give the tech giant a foothold in movies, TV and emerging forms of entertainment.
  24. Legal Immigrants Lose Medicaid Coverage Under Trump’s Bill

    Wed, 30 Sep 2026 18:02:51 -0000

    Many immigrants without green cards will no longer be eligible for the health insurance program for low-income people.
  25. A Hasidic Jew Protested Against an Israeli Flag. He May Be Deported.

    Wed, 30 Sep 2026 20:30:29 -0000

    Yehonatan Ovadia, who opposed the mounting of the flag in a small New York town, belongs to a Hasidic branch that is anti-Zionist. He is now in ICE custody.
  26. Salah Sarsour, Islamic Leader in Wisconsin, Can Be Deported, Judge Rules

    Wed, 30 Sep 2026 23:11:36 -0000

    Salah Sarsour, a vocal supporter of Palestinian rights who leads the state’s largest Islamic group, says the case is politically motivated and plans to appeal the decision.
  27. I Thought Things Had Gotten Better. The Cornell Case Breaks My Heart.

    Wed, 30 Sep 2026 19:37:14 -0000

    How could so little have changed?
  28. America Used to Be Cool. What Happened?

    Wed, 30 Sep 2026 19:00:08 -0000

    The world order is changing. So is the United States’ place in it.
  29. Bruno Kramm, German Goth Musician Who Moonlighted in Politics, Dies at 58

    Wed, 30 Sep 2026 19:54:19 -0000

    When he wasn’t playing with the groundbreaking dark-wave band Das Ich, he was a prominent figure in his country’s fight for online free speech and digital privacy rights.
  30. At the Department of Justice, Many Lawyers Are Wondering If It’s Time to Quit

    Mon, 28 Sep 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    The quandary faced by government lawyers who think that the Trump Administration is subverting justice.
  31. Why Doesn’t Anyone Want to Fix One of America’s Scariest Roads?

    Mon, 28 Sep 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    The Million Dollar Highway, prone to rockfall and avalanches, is the site of horrific crashes and courageous rescues.
  32. How Paweł Pawlikowski Learned to Film Europe’s Fractures

    Mon, 28 Sep 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    The Polish director has made a career out of examining the mysteries of borders, both spiritual and political.
  33. Hockey Dads and Hockey Sons

    Mon, 28 Sep 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    Parenting is a practice. You learn from your mistakes and then repeat them anyway.
  34. A Night Living in Penn Station

    Sat, 26 Sep 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    For the outreach workers trying to place homeless New Yorkers in shelters, each evening presents familiar faces and fresh challenges.
  35. The President vs. the Press

    Sun, 27 Sep 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    Donald Trump’s behavior cannot be called unexpected at this point. What was noteworthy last week, however, was the way that the media responded.
  36. Iran’s Bitterness and Bewilderment Over How to Make Peace with Trump

    Sat, 26 Sep 2026 14:45:36 -0000

    After a heated week at the U.N. General Assembly, a new ceasefire proposal came and apparently went.
  37. Nolan Wells’s Family Still Wants Answers

    Sat, 26 Sep 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    A Mississippi grand jury declined to bring charges in connection with the death of a Black teen-ager during a boating trip, but it’s still unclear exactly how he died.
  38. Susan Collins’s Maine Money Machine

    Fri, 25 Sep 2026 22:06:29 -0000

    The senator uses her seniority in Congress to bring significant resources to her state. Is that enough for voters who hate her party?
  39. What Life Is Actually Like in Gaza Today

    Mon, 21 Sep 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    Nearly a year after the ceasefire, the analyst Jaser AbuMousa explains the impediments to rebuilding, and the devastation of his own family.
  40. Why China Isn’t Getting Existential About A.I.

    Fri, 18 Sep 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    China’s fears about the technology are increasingly distinct from those of the U.S. What does that mean for international coöperation?
  41. How, Exactly, Could A.I. Kill Us?

    Thu, 17 Sep 2026 00:00:00 -0000

    Employees of A.I. companies are increasingly sounding the alarm. What should we make of their warnings?
  42. 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.
  43. Individual Choices Won’t Fix America’s Public Schools

    Tue, 29 Sep 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    Nikole Hannah-Jones sent her daughter to a struggling local school and has come to regret it. But personalizing the problem is the wrong approach.
  44. The Week Republicans Finally Panicked About Trump

    Thu, 24 Sep 2026 23:25:21 -0000

    The President’s party, facing a midterm reckoning, is begging for a way out of his Iran-war doom loop.
  45. How the Absence of Shame Weakens Democracy

    Tue, 22 Sep 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    A sense of shame binds us together—and can hold the powerful in check.
  46. 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.
  47. Mayors vs. Nationalists

    Wed, 30 Sep 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    Leaders of cities around the world are standing up for democracy, even if the leaders of their countries are not.
  48. Ari Emanuel on Donald Trump, Elon Musk, and Mixing Business with Politics

    Fri, 25 Sep 2026 18:11:57 -0000

    The entertainment agent and executive talks with David Remnick about his dealings with the President, the tech mogul, and Mohammed bin Salman, and operating within “shades of gray.”
  49. There Is No A.I. “Race”

    Thu, 24 Sep 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    We’re constantly told that Chinese advances would have catastrophic consequences. But the first to innovate is rarely the one who wins.
  50. What China’s Vibe-Coding Capital Can Tell Us About the A.I. Boom

    Wed, 23 Sep 2026 18:25:32 -0000

    Tech workers have flocked to Liangzhu, a small town outside Hangzhou, looking to escape China’s corporate culture and build their future with A.I.
  51. The Worlds That Donald Trump and Xi Jinping Want

    Wed, 23 Sep 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    As the President stages a gala welcome for the Chinese leader, it appears that, in curious ways, the two men mirror each other.
  52. Is Trump’s Latest Press Attack Just Another Distraction?

    Tue, 22 Sep 2026 18:29:05 -0000

    After CNN, MS NOW, and Politico were barred from the White House, the entire TV press pool announced a boycott of the President.
  53. The Lost Descendants of Thomas Jefferson

    Mon, 21 Sep 2026 14:08:19 -0000

    Scientists have new proof that the President had children with his enslaved chambermaid Sally Hemings—and that their bloodline endures across the country.
  54. A Populist Revival in Iowa

    Mon, 21 Sep 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    In close contests for governor and a Senate seat, candidates from both parties claim that they’re fighting a corrupt system.