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  1. William Lawrence Wins Primary in Battleground Michigan House District

    Wed, 05 Aug 2026 06:52:43 -0000

    William Lawrence defeated two moderate candidates to challenge a vulnerable Republican incumbent, but some worry his views could hurt his chances in November.
  2. Arizona’s Democratic Governor Set to Pick a Republican Running Mate

    Wed, 05 Aug 2026 01:39:48 -0000

    Gov. Katie Hobbs, locked in a competitive re-election battle, plans to tap a moderate former mayor of Mesa, Ariz., John Giles, to serve as her lieutenant governor if she wins in November.
  3. Inside the Oval Office Showdown Between Trump and Jeanine Pirro

    Wed, 05 Aug 2026 05:03:29 -0000

    Jeanine Pirro, the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, told President Trump that his interior secretary, Doug Burgum, had misled him with a self-serving cover story for his own mistakes.
  4. Todd Blanche Clears Committee Vote, Nearing Confirmation as Attorney General

    Tue, 04 Aug 2026 23:15:22 -0000

    Todd Blanche’s nomination now advances to the Senate floor, where it was not immediately clear whether he would be confirmed given that he can afford to lose only two senators on a party-line vote.
  5. An Angry Trump Struggles to Understand Iran’s Defiant Leaders

    Tue, 04 Aug 2026 19:20:37 -0000

    Iran’s leaders have perplexed several American presidents, perhaps none more than President Trump.
  6. Russia’s Deadly Missile Attack on Kyiv Exploits Ukraine’s Depleted Air Defenses

    Wed, 05 Aug 2026 07:58:16 -0000

    At least 17 people were killed, officials said, as the country runs desperately low on interceptor missiles that could fend off Russian bombardments.
  7. China’s Nonsmokers Try to Clear the Air, One Confrontation at a Time

    Wed, 05 Aug 2026 04:00:05 -0000

    Disputes between smokers and nonsmokers are becoming more visible as a younger generation increasingly refuses to suffer secondhand smoke in silence.
  8. Officials Say They’ve Found the Cause of a Fire That Devastated L.A.

    Tue, 04 Aug 2026 23:07:39 -0000

    The 2025 Eaton fire, which killed 19 people and destroyed the Altadena community, began at an inactive tower belonging to Southern California Edison, officials said.
  9. S&P 500 Hits Record High as Stock Market Worries About Iran and AI Ease

    Tue, 04 Aug 2026 22:05:38 -0000

    The S&P 500 rose 1.8 percent, pushing past its previous peak at the start of June and capping a big turnaround from a recent sell off in technology stocks.
  10. Trump White House Readies AI Framework to Review Security Risks

    Wed, 05 Aug 2026 00:17:54 -0000

    The voluntary review process will cover closed-source artificial intelligence models, but exclude those that publish the underlying code.
  11. After Midtown Building Buckles, Violations Are Found at Many Other Sites

    Tue, 04 Aug 2026 22:22:44 -0000

    New York City officials conducted inspections at 180 construction sites. None of the violations posed an immediate danger to the public, they said.
  12. The New York City Parking Sticker of Shame Is Back

    Tue, 04 Aug 2026 19:21:05 -0000

    After 14 years, the city has returned to slapping bright stickers on cars that do not move for street sweepers.
  13. South Korea Wants to Raise Its Birthrate but Doesn’t Have Enough NICU Doctors

    Tue, 04 Aug 2026 21:00:06 -0000

    South Korea, which has one of the world’s lowest fertility rates, is in the throes of a breakdown in emergency care. It is particularly acute for at-risk newborns.
  14. Judge Pained as He Grants Dismissal of Jan. 6 Charges Against Oath Keepers

    Tue, 04 Aug 2026 22:42:28 -0000

    The judge, Amit P. Mehta, blasted the administration’s request for a dismissal in the case, saying it bestowed “unearned grace” on the Oath Keepers defendants “by wiping their records clean.”
  15. What One Witness Saw Before a Spokane Wildfire Started 

    Wed, 05 Aug 2026 02:51:03 -0000

    A resident of Spokane County, Wash., said he noticed a man acting suspiciously and called 911 after seeing smoke. The police later arrested a suspect tied to one of the wildfires in the area.
  16. I’m Begging You: Never Write With A.I.

    Wed, 05 Aug 2026 04:18:06 -0000

    It’s bad for your brain and worse for democracy.
  17. Can Trump Wriggle Out One Last Time?

    Tue, 04 Aug 2026 21:46:30 -0000

    Iran. The midterms. Can Trump wriggle out one last time?
  18. Video: Dolphin Carries Dead Calf in What Experts Call Mourning

    Tue, 04 Aug 2026 20:43:50 -0000

    Footage posted by a conservancy group offers an unusual glimpse of a common behavior by dolphins that often goes unobserved.
  19. 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.
  20. The Future, Made in China

    Mon, 03 Aug 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    Beijing is competing with the U.S. for tech supremacy. Who wins will have huge political implications.
  21. The Man Who Was Kidnapped Twice

    Mon, 03 Aug 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    Thousands of people in Nigeria have been held for ransom by bandit groups. One professor escaped his captors—only to be abducted again.
  22. The American Art of Blowing Stuff Up

    Mon, 03 Aug 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    Fireworks by Grucci has been in the pyrotechnics business for six generations.
  23. How Roy Cohn Taught Donald Trump Everything

    Mon, 03 Aug 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    The lawyer who showed an outer-borough striver how to ignore the rules, avoid a paper trail, and make up a good story for the media.
  24. Why Donald Trump Talks So Much About Foreign Election Interference

    Mon, 03 Aug 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    The White House is distorting intelligence assessments instead of working to protect the midterm elections.
  25. What Does It Even Mean to Be a Moderate?

    Mon, 03 Aug 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    The Michigan Senate primary has turned into a referendum on a word that has never had a fixed meaning.
  26. 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.
  27. 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.
  28. 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.”
  29. 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.
  30. 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.
  31. 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.
  32. Subaru Socialists and the Great Disappointed

    Tue, 04 Aug 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    The voters who are determining the future of the Democratic Party.
  33. Kevin Warsh Is Facing More Than a Communication Problem

    Mon, 03 Aug 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    The Fed chair’s biggest challenge is demonstrating his independence from Donald Trump.
  34. 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.
  35. 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?
  36. Michigan Primary-Election Map: Live Results

    Tue, 04 Aug 2026 13:12:51 -0000

    A closely watched Democratic primary for the U.S. Senate, between Haley Stevens and Abdul El-Sayed, carries major implications for the direction of the Party.
  37. 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.
  38. 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.”
  39. 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.
  40. 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.
  41. 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.
  42. 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?
  43. 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?