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  1. Trump’s Order to Cut Military Exercises With South Korea Carries Risks, Experts Say

    Thu, 20 Aug 2026 09:04:19 -0000

    President Trump’s decision to curtail the military exercises came as allies question the U.S. commitment to longstanding alliances.
  2. $40,047,425,768,420 in U.S. Debt, and an Experimental Vaccine for Skin Cancer

    Thu, 20 Aug 2026 10:41:35 -0000

    Plus, could tweaking flight paths reduce global warming?
  3. China Sentences Evergrande Founder to Life in Prison

    Thu, 20 Aug 2026 10:28:27 -0000

    Hui Ka Yan’s punishment caps the downfall of a property empire whose collapse set off a prolonged crisis in the Chinese economy.
  4. How Trump Is Trying to Crush California’s Climate Policies

    Thu, 20 Aug 2026 09:03:47 -0000

    At least a half-dozen federal agencies have taken action against the state that has long led the nation in environmental protections.
  5. U.S. Debt Hits $40 Trillion as America’s Borrowing Binge Continues

    Wed, 19 Aug 2026 22:24:22 -0000

    President Trump’s promises to restore fiscal order and reduce the amount of America’s debt burden have been undercut by spending on the Iran war, tax cuts and tariff refunds.
  6. Why Treasury Yields Are Rising, and What That Means for the Economy

    Wed, 19 Aug 2026 22:32:51 -0000

    Interest rates on U.S. government bonds can affect everything from auto and student loans to mortgages.
  7. Hating Matcha, Yet Loving Life, Made Him a TikTok Star at 89

    Thu, 20 Aug 2026 04:01:09 -0000

    Werner Kalecinski is a social media sensation among young Germans. How did he go from heartbroken widower to partying on a yacht?
  8. As Iran and U.S. Settle Into an Uneasy Standoff, Who Will Blink First?

    Thu, 20 Aug 2026 09:04:07 -0000

    For weeks, there has been no diplomatic progress, but also no full-scale fighting, as both sides seem to believe they can hold out longer than the other.
  9. Oil Prices Jump After Trump’s Latest Iran Threat

    Thu, 20 Aug 2026 10:51:57 -0000

    Bond markets remained volatile, as investors assessed the geopolitical turmoil.
  10. What to Know About Iran’s Economic Ties With Gulf Countries

    Wed, 19 Aug 2026 22:41:24 -0000

    The United Arab Emirates, Iran’s most important regional trading partner, announced a total embargo on transactions with Tehran on Tuesday.
  11. Under Trump, Protected Wild Horses Are Going to Slaughter

    Thu, 20 Aug 2026 09:00:18 -0000

    A legal loophole allows the government to sell mustangs on the cheap, stripping them of protections and clearing their path to destruction.
  12. As Harry and Meghan Plan Their Return, Britain Wonders: What Changed?

    Thu, 20 Aug 2026 10:37:03 -0000

    Just last year, Prince Harry said he couldn’t imagine ever bringing his family back home from America.
  13. Harry and Meghan’s Break With Britain and Planned Return: a Timeline

    Thu, 20 Aug 2026 06:27:55 -0000

    The couple will remain non-working royals. It is unclear where they will live.
  14. Moderna’s Shift to Cancer Company Lifts Stock Up 177%

    Thu, 20 Aug 2026 09:04:12 -0000

    The company’s fortunes cratered as demand for Covid-19 vaccines plummeted. But it was busy working on something else.
  15. Ken Paxton’s $1,000 Pen Incident Resurfaces in Texas Senate Race

    Thu, 20 Aug 2026 09:04:05 -0000

    The pen Mr. Paxton pocketed more than a decade ago has resurfaced as a campaign issue.
  16. More of Trump’s Chosen Candidates Lose Republican Primaries

    Wed, 19 Aug 2026 20:20:46 -0000

    A series of recent losses has eroded the president’s winning record, raising new questions about his hold over the party’s voters.
  17. Missouri Judge Says Redrawn Congressional Map May Be Used in Midterms

    Thu, 20 Aug 2026 02:49:13 -0000

    The decision was a win for Republicans, who have been pushing for the new map in an effort to help maintain the party’s narrow control in the U.S. House in November.
  18. Russian Missiles Kill at Least 13 in Kyiv as Air Defenses Dwindle

    Thu, 20 Aug 2026 10:04:12 -0000

    Moscow is taking advantage of Ukraine’s depleted stock of interceptors and is intensifying attacks, worsening the civilian death toll.
  19. Bare Grocery Shelves Are a New Wartime Hardship for Ukrainians

    Thu, 20 Aug 2026 09:28:09 -0000

    After years of pounding power plants and cities, Russia’s air war has taken aim at Ukraine’s supermarket warehouses.
  20. The Indian City Where AI Is Creating Jobs for Humans

    Thu, 20 Aug 2026 09:02:45 -0000

    In the fast-growing field of data annotation, workers in a small city in south India train A.I. to improve how it performs tasks traditionally done by people.
  21. The Teens Taking On A.I. Data Centers

    Thu, 20 Aug 2026 11:13:48 -0000

    Gen Z-ers are forming after-school clubs, speaking at community meetings — and sometimes wrestling with their own dependence on the technology.
  22. A Simple, One-Word Trick to Turn Everyday Life Into Grand Fantasy

    Thu, 20 Aug 2026 09:03:52 -0000

    How “lore” turns fact into fiction — and vice versa.
  23. The Scales Can’t Fall From Our Eyes Fast Enough

    Thu, 20 Aug 2026 09:04:18 -0000

    More Republicans and Democrats are seeing reality for what it is. Does it matter?
  24. We’re Doing Drugs

    Thu, 20 Aug 2026 11:11:15 -0000

    We look at a new study about Americans’ use of cannabis.
  25. Jimmy Fallon Teases Trump’s Efforts to Rekindle North Korea Bromance

    Thu, 20 Aug 2026 06:05:13 -0000

    “Man, you know you’re depressed when you’re texting an old hookup from seven years ago,” Fallon said of the president and North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong-un.
  26. D.E.A. Joins Investigation Into Hayden Panettiere’s Death

    Thu, 20 Aug 2026 01:27:35 -0000

    The actress spoke candidly about her drug use and “the downfall of addiction.” The local police have said there is no evidence of foul play in her death.
  27. The Real Meaning of the Jason Arday Scandal

    Wed, 19 Aug 2026 18:33:51 -0000

    In a young Black professor’s academic misconduct, a “race-realist” found a “hook for a story.”
  28. How Far Will the Trump Administration Go to Deport Mahmoud Khalil?

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

    Khalil protested Israel as a student at Columbia. Now he’s on the verge of being kicked out of the country.
  29. The Big, Dumb, Gluttonous Fun of America’s Semiquincentennial

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

    In D.C. and the Dakotas, at rodeos and powwows, celebrating the country means taking in pride and disappointment and fellow-feeling.
  30. The End of the European Summer

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

    As extreme heat overwhelms the Continent’s great cities, they are racing to transform themselves for a climate that they were never built to withstand.
  31. The Children a Scientist Took Home

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

    Carleton Gajdusek won the Nobel Prize for his work on a disease in Papua New Guinea. But his biggest experiment was on the children he took back to the U.S.
  32. Nayib Bukele’s Content Machine Is Reshaping Latin America

    Tue, 18 Aug 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    How El Salvador’s authoritarian leader loomed over Colombia’s Presidential race.
  33. Donald Trump Is Still Trying to Make It Harder to Vote

    Sun, 16 Aug 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    The SAVE America Act is just one part of a package that includes an executive order and threats of prosecution, all in an effort to make Trump’s math work.
  34. How Trump Is Trying to Weaken Migrant Children’s Legal Defense

    Sat, 15 Aug 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    After failing to eliminate funding for unaccompanied minors’ lawyers altogether, the Administration is pushing cases toward entities that lack both immigration expertise and the capacity to take them on.
  35. 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.
  36. 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.
  37. 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.”
  38. 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.
  39. 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.
  40. How I Became a Subaru Socialist

    Tue, 18 Aug 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    By the time Bernie Sanders ran for President, in 2015, I was financially secure. But the previous decade had left a mark.
  41. A Trump Grift Too Far?

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

    A scheme to charge Wall Street traders for an early look at the President’s comments on Truth Social has generated outrage and a lawsuit.
  42. The Red Sox Cannot Be Made to Make Any Sense

    Sun, 16 Aug 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    Teams get hot, then cold; they get lucky, then unlucky. Records rarely paint a full picture of a season—especially for fans determined to believe in another comeback story.
  43. 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.
  44. After Six Months of War, Trump Is Still Losing to Iran

    Thu, 20 Aug 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    The conflict marks a “precipitous collapse of American power and American prestige.”
  45. Bernie Sanders Takes on Data Centers

    Tue, 18 Aug 2026 17:00:00 -0000

    The Vermont senator co-sponsored a bill that calls for a moratorium on building data centers. He discusses the environmental and economic concerns, and what the government can do.
  46. 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.
  47. 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.
  48. 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.
  49. 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.
  50. 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.
  51. 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.