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  1. U.S. Debt Hits $40 Trillion as America’s Borrowing Binge Continues

    Wed, 19 Aug 2026 20:32:13 -0000

    President Trump’s promises to restore fiscal order and reduce the amount of America’s debt burden have been hampered by spending on the Iran war, tax cuts and tariff refunds.
  2. Markets Rally After U.S. Treasury Eases Bond Investor Stress

    Wed, 19 Aug 2026 20:50:56 -0000

    Government bond yields fell and stocks rose on a move by the Treasury Department to double the amount of debt that it can buy back from investors.
  3. Why Treasury Yields Are Rising, and What That Means for the Economy

    Wed, 19 Aug 2026 21:16:20 -0000

    Interest rates on U.S. government bonds can affect everything from auto and student loans to mortgages.
  4. More Fed Officials Lost Patience About Elevated Inflation at Latest Meeting

    Wed, 19 Aug 2026 19:46:15 -0000

    Minutes from the Federal Reserve’s July gathering showed broadening support for higher borrowing costs to stamp out lingering price pressures.
  5. How the U.S. Navy Is Helping Get Oil Through the Strait of Hormuz

    Wed, 19 Aug 2026 19:59:31 -0000

    With Iran making ship traffic perilous, a U.S. operation offers a way out for some energy exports, stealthily shepherding tankers on dangerous journeys.
  6. Israel Opens Criminal Investigation Into Killings of Hind Rajab and Gaza Medical Workers

    Wed, 19 Aug 2026 20:18:49 -0000

    Two high-profile cases that had spurred international condemnation of the country’s conduct in Gaza were transferred to the military police. Such investigations have rarely led to convictions.
  7. Harry and Meghan Will Move Back to Britain After 6 Years in U.S.

    Wed, 19 Aug 2026 21:37:56 -0000

    The prince and his wife, whose relations with King Charles and the rest of the royal family have long been strained, will remain non-working royals, according to a person familiar with the decision.
  8. 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.
  9. Alabama Democrats Look for a Black Backlash Over Voting Rights

    Wed, 19 Aug 2026 21:39:49 -0000

    Democrats in Alabama and beyond are trying to harness Black anger over the Supreme Court’s weakening of the Voting Rights Act and the Republican redistricting that followed.
  10. ‘I’m Not That Informed on National Security,’ Graham Says in South Carolina Debate

    Wed, 19 Aug 2026 16:46:36 -0000

    Senator Darline Graham made the remark in a debate against Representative Ralph Norman, her opponent in the runoff election to succeed her brother, Lindsey Graham. Here are five takeaways from the debate.
  11. Everyone’s Using This A.I. Dictation App That I Want to Murder With a Hammer

    Wed, 19 Aug 2026 09:00:54 -0000

    Wispr Flow is supposed to make writing effortless and magical. So I “wrote” this column with it.
  12. Google’s Pixel 11 Comes With Plenty of A.I. Does Anyone Want That?

    Wed, 19 Aug 2026 19:06:05 -0000

    The phone’s artificial intelligence can order groceries, book tables and take photos on a user’s behalf. But is it something people really want?
  13. A County Got Rich From Data Centers. Some Question ‘At What Cost?’

    Wed, 19 Aug 2026 16:50:35 -0000

    Loudoun County, Va., hosts more than 250 data centers that bring in huge tax revenues. But some officials and residents worry the county has become too dependent on that cash.
  14. Voters Aren’t Waiting for November to Try Ousting Officials Over Data Centers

    Wed, 19 Aug 2026 20:05:47 -0000

    As a backlash grows over data centers, more local officials are facing recall elections for their support of the computing sites.
  15. ‘It’s Bonkers’: Jennifer Hegseth’s Hands-On Role in Her Husband’s Pentagon

    Wed, 19 Aug 2026 17:32:25 -0000

    After an 18-year career at Fox News, she is now her husband’s most influential adviser and de facto producer, shaping the job like no Pentagon spouse has before.
  16. Moderna, Merck Say mRNA Vaccine Prevents Melanoma From Returning

    Wed, 19 Aug 2026 19:38:14 -0000

    Moderna and Merck say the experimental vaccine prevented the return and spread of the cancer in high-risk melanoma patients.
  17. What to Know About Melanoma

    Wed, 19 Aug 2026 14:40:23 -0000

    New therapies are transforming the treatment of the skin cancer, which can be deadly.
  18. North Korean Official Dismisses Reduced Drills Between US and South Korea

    Wed, 19 Aug 2026 18:17:09 -0000

    Kim Yo-jong, a powerful adviser and sister of Kim Jong-un, also said she was “unaware” of any communication with Washington, contradicting President Trump’s claim her brother had responded to his outreach.
  19. Former Fauci Adviser Pleads Guilty to Trying to Conceal Covid-Related Records

    Wed, 19 Aug 2026 16:38:06 -0000

    Dr. David Morens, a former N.I.H. official, admitted to attempts to conceal emails that discussed the origins of the pandemic.
  20. Judge Is Asked to Block Inscription of Trump’s Name on Kennedy Center

    Wed, 19 Aug 2026 17:31:19 -0000

    The request from a Democratic lawmaker follows a decision by the Trump-allied board to add “Restored and Renovated by President Donald J. Trump” to the building.
  21. Mamdani Sues City Council Over $10,000 Bonuses to Teachers’ Aides

    Wed, 19 Aug 2026 21:47:51 -0000

    New York City says the Council’s legislation violates collective bargaining law. The dispute could set up the first high-profile battle between the mayor and a public sector union.
  22. What Will It Take to Fix New York’s Housing Shortage?

    Wed, 19 Aug 2026 18:42:08 -0000

    A draft report from the city estimates that 700,000 new units would need to be built over the next decade to meet the need for homes.
  23. For Caitlin Simmers, Surfing Is a Dance Born on the Waves

    Wed, 19 Aug 2026 09:00:25 -0000

    Caitlin Simmers, a world champion surfer, sees her sport as dance. How does this translate? She’s as seamless as a ribbon.
  24. Status Defines Friendship for Too Many Americans

    Wed, 19 Aug 2026 14:18:12 -0000

    The four-year degree isn’t just an economic signal; it’s become a lifestyle determinant.
  25. The ‘Crack Spread’ Is Going to Make Your Life Unpleasant

    Wed, 19 Aug 2026 19:53:15 -0000

    Gas prices are going to remain high. Don’t blame the price of crude oil.
  26. Derrick Parker, Known as New York’s ‘Hip-Hop Cop,’ Dies at 65

    Wed, 19 Aug 2026 19:27:24 -0000

    A veteran detective with deep connections in the city’s rap scene, he served as a one-man intelligence unit and liaison to the music world.
  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. 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.
  45. 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.
  46. 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.
  47. 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.
  48. 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.
  49. 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.
  50. 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.
  51. 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.