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  1. In Dropping Reflecting Pool Case, Pirro Draws Trump’s Wrath

    Sun, 02 Aug 2026 00:49:27 -0000

    Jeanine Pirro, the U.S. attorney in Washington, blamed shoddy construction, contradicting President Trump’s pet theory. Mr. Trump said he disagreed “100%” with her.
  2. Timeline of Trump’s Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool Renovation Saga

    Sat, 01 Aug 2026 22:49:51 -0000

    President Trump vowed to restore the Reflecting Pool, a defining feature of Washington. Months later, it is empty and closed to the public.
  3. Trump Calls for $1.8 Billion Fund Over Blanche Attorney General Fight

    Sat, 01 Aug 2026 20:14:09 -0000

    The president vowed to push for the payout fund if Senate Republicans fail to confirm Todd Blanche as attorney general, reigniting a dispute over the settlement.
  4. Justice Dept. Subpoenas Times Freelancer in Effort to Identify Sources

    Sat, 01 Aug 2026 16:32:22 -0000

    A previously undisclosed subpoena, involving reporting on a failed SEAL Team 6 mission in North Korea, reflects the government’s expanding campaign to investigate leaks of secrets.
  5. Iran Plotted Wider War With Help of Its Proxies

    Sat, 01 Aug 2026 20:26:35 -0000

    During a fleeting truce, Iranians covertly devised a plan to raise the war’s costs for President Trump if U.S. forces attacked anew.
  6. Evidence Indicates U.S. Dropped Bomb on Residential Area in Iran, Killing 3 Civilians

    Sat, 01 Aug 2026 03:40:13 -0000

    The weapon, one of the largest in the U.S.’s arsenal, struck a house in a heavily populated area, according to a Times analysis.
  7. Israel Says It Killed Several Hezbollah Members on Key Lebanon Hilltop

    Sat, 01 Aug 2026 20:14:08 -0000

    The confrontation, over a strategic ridge in southern Lebanon, challenged a fragile cease-fire between Israel and the Iran-backed militant group.
  8. Scope of Hacks on U.S. Water Supply Widens as Evidence Points to Iran

    Sat, 01 Aug 2026 19:54:48 -0000

    Michigan and Minnesota are among at least seven states coping with cyberattacks aimed at disrupting water systems nationwide.
  9. Mitch McConnell, Still Hospitalized, Misses Signature Kentucky Political Picnic

    Sat, 01 Aug 2026 22:59:45 -0000

    Senator Mitch McConnell’s ongoing hospitalization meant he missed his final chance to attend the signature western Kentucky event while in office.
  10. She Voted for a Justice Who Overturned Roe. Now it Haunts Her on the Trail.

    Sat, 01 Aug 2026 15:24:45 -0000

    Senator Susan Collins, who supports abortion rights, endorsed Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination for the Supreme Court. It has emerged as a major issue in her campaign for re-election.
  11. Anthony Bourdain’s Wild Summers Still Echo in Provincetown

    Fri, 31 Jul 2026 16:17:10 -0000

    As a new film evokes his coming-of-age in this bohemian Cape Cod town, Pete Wells goes looking for the people and restaurants that shaped him.
  12. The Right Can’t Even Make a Revenge Movie Well

    Sat, 01 Aug 2026 17:31:25 -0000

    ‘Citizen Vigilante’ is a bargain-bin movie for the ages.
  13. The Silicon Valley Health Trend Making Doctors Nervous

    Wed, 29 Jul 2026 19:52:14 -0000

    Is more data about your body actually good for you?
  14. Shooting at In-and-Out Burger in Idaho Leaves at Least 3 Dead and 2 Injured, Official Says

    Sun, 02 Aug 2026 03:25:41 -0000

    A spokesman for Twin Falls cautioned that the number of victims was “expected to be higher.” The police said the shooter was dead.
  15. 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.
  16. How Netanyahu’s Top General Became His Strongest Challenger

    Mon, 27 Jul 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    Gadi Eisenkot, whose view of war is shaped by the loss of his son, is, in manner and character, the anti-Bibi.
  17. What Would It Mean to See a New Color?

    Mon, 27 Jul 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    Olo can be described as the “greenest green,” though it can never be captured by a camera. But its development tells us a lot about our color vision.
  18. Johnny Knoxville, America’s God of Mischief

    Mon, 27 Jul 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    What moves the star of “Jackass” to risk his life for our entertainment? A very serious investigation.
  19. A Woman Lost Two Partners to Guns—Then the N.R.A. Came to Collect

    Mon, 27 Jul 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    The majority of suicides in the U.S. involve guns, and eighty per cent of those are done by white men, a pattern that the gun-rights organization has spent decades denying.
  20. 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.
  21. 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.”
  22. 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.
  23. 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.
  24. Abdul El-Sayed’s Argument for America—and Against His Own Party

    Fri, 31 Jul 2026 18:00:00 -0000

    The Michigan U.S. Senate candidate on campaigning with Hasan Piker, being a capitalist, and why his fellow-Democrats need to “stop compromising.”
  25. 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.
  26. 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.
  27. 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.
  28. 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.
  29. 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?
  30. LeBron James: An Odyssey

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

    Tell the old story for our modern times.
  31. Can Andy Burnham’s Manchesterism Save the U.K.’s Center Left?

    Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    With a populist touch, and a focus on affordability and raising up left-behind communities, Britain’s new Prime Minister has drawn comparisons to Zohran Mamdani.
  32. 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.
  33. 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.
  34. 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?
  35. 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?
  36. “No One Knows When It Will End”: A Doctor on the Ebola Emergency

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

    Health-care workers in the Democratic Republic of the Congo are fighting the third-largest outbreak in history—and trying not to get infected themselves.
  37. 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.
  38. How a Chinese Immigrant Driver Got Entangled in a Drug Bust

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

    In early 2025, a man from Queens arranged to pick up a passenger in New York’s North Country. He’s been in jail upstate ever since.
  39. Maine’s Mad Scramble to Replace Graham Platner

    Wed, 22 Jul 2026 17:15:54 -0000

    The state’s Democratic primary was dominated by an unlikely left-wing insurgent—it became a three-week sprint for Party insiders to select the next best thing.