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  1. Trump Threatens to Withdraw Blanche as Attorney General, Dealing Blow to Nomination

    Thu, 30 Jul 2026 20:52:19 -0000

    President Trump’s threat followed a day of fruitless negotiations with two Republican holdouts, Senators John Cornyn and Thom Tillis.
  2. Why Todd Blanche’s Attorney General Confirmation Is Stalled

    Thu, 30 Jul 2026 16:11:48 -0000

    The decision by the acting attorney general, Todd Blanche, to grant President Trump protection from I.R.S. audits has become the central issue in his confirmation process.
  3. Big Tech’s A.I. Spending Keeps Rising. So Do the Jitters.

    Thu, 30 Jul 2026 20:48:20 -0000

    Amazon joined a procession of tech giants that ramped up their spending on artificial intelligence, as its capital expenditures soared 69 percent. Concerns over the industry’s spending are mounting.
  4. Apple’s Profit Increases 27 Percent, Topping Wall Street Expectations

    Thu, 30 Jul 2026 20:36:42 -0000

    The company recently raised prices on a number of products because of component supply shortages caused by the artificial intelligence boom.
  5. A.I. Hedge Fund Situational Awareness Rescued by Rival Citadel

    Thu, 30 Jul 2026 21:03:56 -0000

    The once-high-flying firm Situational Awareness, whose founder is 24, has been bailed out by Kenneth Griffin’s Citadel, according to three people briefed on the transaction.
  6. Elon Musk Plans at Least $100 Million in Midterm Spending to Help Republicans

    Thu, 30 Jul 2026 17:51:30 -0000

    Elon Musk, a year after a huge blowup with President Trump and the Republican Party, is said to be planning to spend in at least eight states to help them in November.
  7. Former Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes Exits Race for Wisconsin Governor

    Thu, 30 Jul 2026 20:49:56 -0000

    With a democratic socialist, Francesca Hong, leading in polls, former Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes said he was ending his campaign in the closely divided state.
  8. How Haley Stevens’s Accent Became a Flashpoint in Michigan’s Senate Race

    Thu, 30 Jul 2026 16:21:06 -0000

    How the politics of raised a’s and disappearing g’s briefly came to dominate the Michigan Senate race.
  9. Spain Mobilizes Military as Thousands of Migrants Cross Into Ceuta

    Thu, 30 Jul 2026 19:56:38 -0000

    The arrivals in Ceuta, a six-mile-long peninsula on Morocco’s northern coast that Spain has governed for centuries, have fueled political tensions.
  10. Who Put Candy on a Diet?

    Thu, 30 Jul 2026 09:00:57 -0000

    “Healthy” confections, whether marketed as “better-for-you” or “functional,” have overwhelmed grocery and convenience stores, and even found their way into gyms and supplement shops.
  11. Trump’s Tariff Exemptions Include Diamonds, Oil and Gas, Copper and Other Items

    Thu, 30 Jul 2026 20:24:36 -0000

    A new round of tariff carve-outs has raised familiar questions about who should receive the lucrative exceptions, and why.
  12. U.S. GDP Growth Slowed in Second Quarter of 2026

    Thu, 30 Jul 2026 16:29:06 -0000

    Gross domestic product grew at a slower rate in the second quarter and persistent price pressures are unsettling financial markets.
  13. Why Democrats Won’t Stop Forcing Votes On Trump’s Iran War Powers

    Thu, 30 Jul 2026 17:17:35 -0000

    Even after winning approval of a measure calling on President Trump to end the war, they continue to call votes to force Republicans to answer for it.
  14. Attack on Egyptian Port Shows Suez Canal’s Vulnerability

    Thu, 30 Jul 2026 15:21:47 -0000

    The port where the Wednesday strike occurred is near the Suez Canal, through which a significant amount of the world’s shipping moves.
  15. U.S. Sees Iran as Likely Behind Cyberattack on Minnesota Water Systems

    Thu, 30 Jul 2026 14:44:12 -0000

    Investigators cautioned that the assessment was preliminary. There were no indications that any water supply had been rendered unsafe to drink.
  16. A Bay Area Pastor Made an A.I. Twin to Talk About God at Any Time

    Thu, 30 Jul 2026 17:11:59 -0000

    To meet the growing needs of his congregation, Justin Lester created an A.I. duplicate of himself. Every day he sees more people using it.
  17. DOJ Seeks to Use Court to Deport Mother of Convicted ISIS Supporter

    Thu, 30 Jul 2026 20:38:54 -0000

    The case is a test of the Alien Terrorist Removal Court, where much of the evidence is presented in secret and defendants cannot challenge how it was collected.
  18. Ebola Outbreak Is Now the Second-Deadliest Ever, and in Record Time

    Thu, 30 Jul 2026 19:40:04 -0000

    The disease has killed more than 1,500 people in the Democratic Republic of Congo in just over two months, causing deaths faster than officials have ever recorded.
  19. Colin Gray, Father of Teenage Shooter in Georgia, Sentenced to 15 Years in Prison

    Thu, 30 Jul 2026 18:51:27 -0000

    Prosecutors argued that Colin Gray bore responsibility for the 2024 shooting because he had given his son a gun and failed to act as the teen’s mental health deteriorated.
  20. After Claiming ‘Bias’ at Smithsonian, Trump Officials Stage Patriotic Exhibition

    Thu, 30 Jul 2026 20:20:58 -0000

    Trump officials have promised to “make visual arts great,” with a museum exhibition that includes artwork by several people with personal connections to the planners.
  21. For Museum Boss Who Became a Trump Target, It’s Déjà Vu All Over Again

    Thu, 30 Jul 2026 16:06:14 -0000

    Kim Sajet left as director of the National Portrait Gallery when she found herself in the White House cross hairs. Now she’s watching another Smithsonian chief go through it.
  22. What We Really Learned From the Fauci Hearing

    Wed, 29 Jul 2026 21:51:11 -0000

    Show trials are bad for democracy.
  23. How Older Americans Hoard the Future

    Thu, 30 Jul 2026 13:45:21 -0000

    Aging politicians are just the “tip of the iceberg.”
  24. ‘This Is Very Strange’: Ancient Smallpox May Have Been Less Deadly

    Thu, 30 Jul 2026 18:00:07 -0000

    Scientists have found smallpox viruses in the remains of people in Chile from around 500 years ago, revealing how the virus may have evolved into a global killer.
  25. 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.
  26. 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.
  27. 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.
  28. 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.
  29. 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.
  30. 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.
  31. 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?
  32. 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?
  33. “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.
  34. 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.
  35. 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.
  36. 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.
  37. Do Netanyahu’s Domestic Opponents Offer a Real Alternative?

    Mon, 22 Jun 2026 18:51:53 -0000

    Moshe Tur-Paz is one of many centrist Israeli politicians criticizing Donald Trump’s deal to temporarily stop the war with Iran.
  38. 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?
  39. LeBron James: An Odyssey

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

    Tell the old story for our modern times.
  40. 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.
  41. Method Beats Madness at the World Cup Final

    Mon, 20 Jul 2026 01:45:00 -0000

    Spain stood for Europe, the industrial heart of modern soccer, while Argentina, a great but flawed team, was fuelled by myth.
  42. 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.
  43. 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.
  44. 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.
  45. 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.
  46. Arizona Gubernatorial-Primary Results: Andy Biggs Secures Decisive Win

    Wed, 22 Jul 2026 10:58:54 -0000

    Andy Biggs wins the Republican gubernatorial primary; Mark Lamb is the G.O.P.’s pick to fill Biggs’s seat in Congress.
  47. The New Yorker Festival Offers a First Look at Its 2026 Lineup

    Wed, 22 Jul 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    Early tickets are now on sale, with events taking place October 23rd through 25th and featuring leading figures from the worlds of literature, entertainment, and more.
  48. The End of the Aqueduct Racetrack

    Tue, 21 Jul 2026 19:09:12 -0000

    The closure of the scrappy New York landmark is just one of the signs that U.S. horse racing is running out of track.
  49. Trump’s War on Journalists

    Sat, 18 Jul 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    The recent subpoenas of reporters make clear that the President is trying to threaten the press. Few protections are in place to stop him.