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  1. Supreme Court Grapples With Trump’s Plan to Revoke Deportation Protections

    Wed, 29 Apr 2026 19:52:29 -0000

    The case deals with Temporary Protected Status for hundreds of thousands of Haitians and Syrians but could have implications for more than a million from troubled nations.
  2. What the Supreme Court’s Voting Rights Ruling Could Mean for the Midterms

    Wed, 29 Apr 2026 22:34:55 -0000

    Democrats stand to lose at least one blue-leaning district in Louisiana, but the timing was unclear. Florida has approved a redder map, and Republicans in several other states are weighing new districts.
  3. Florida Approves Redistricting Map That Could Add 4 Republican House Seats

    Wed, 29 Apr 2026 20:23:50 -0000

    Several voting rights groups have said that they plan to challenge the map in court once Gov. Ron DeSantis signs it into law.
  4. Supreme Court Sides With Anti-Abortion Clinic in Fight Over Donor Records

    Wed, 29 Apr 2026 18:27:23 -0000

    A crisis pregnancy group had asked the justices to allow it to sue in federal court over a demand for donor information by New Jersey officials.
  5. Supreme Court Limits Reach of Voting Rights Act

    Wed, 29 Apr 2026 22:04:19 -0000

    Also, the Pentagon estimates the Iran war cost at $25 billion. Here’s the latest at the end of Wednesday.
  6. Fed Meeting Underscores Tough Task Ahead for Warsh

    Wed, 29 Apr 2026 22:06:29 -0000

    Jerome H. Powell on Wednesday announced he would stay on as a governor at the central bank as internal divisions sharpen about the policy path forward.
  7. Powell Says He Will Stay On as Fed Governor After Term as Chair Ends

    Wed, 29 Apr 2026 21:45:46 -0000

    Jerome H. Powell cited lingering legal threats against him and the Federal Reserve in explaining his decision to remain at the central bank.
  8. Melania Trump, Queen Camilla and the Look of the Special Relationship

    Wed, 29 Apr 2026 15:09:55 -0000

    Parsing a state visit told in photo ops, and style.
  9. Queen Camilla Unites Winnie-the-Pooh with a Long-Lost Friend

    Wed, 29 Apr 2026 22:28:00 -0000

    On Wednesday, the Queen of England presented the New York Public Library with a bespoke replica of Roo, the smallest companion of the Bear of Very Little Brain.
  10. Pentagon Puts Iran War Cost at $25 Billion as Hegseth Berates Skeptics

    Wed, 29 Apr 2026 22:07:12 -0000

    During his first public appearance on Capitol Hill since the war began, the defense secretary lashed out at lawmakers in both parties who have questioned the conflict.
  11. Hegseth Cites Falsehood to Defend His Firing of Senior Officers

    Wed, 29 Apr 2026 22:28:20 -0000

    The defense secretary said at a House hearing that President Barack Obama had fired 197 generals, a figure that the Pentagon previously acknowledged was false.
  12. Extended War Dents Hopes for Housing Market Rebound

    Wed, 29 Apr 2026 09:03:08 -0000

    Buyers across the country are cautious, while the Miami market seems immune.
  13. Lucinda Williams Explains What It Takes to Write a Great Song

    Wed, 29 Apr 2026 16:02:10 -0000

    The singer-songwriter talks about being self-taught, and reaching down into the deepest, darkest parts of herself to pull out a song.
  14. How Taylor Swift Writes a Song, In Her Own Words

    Tue, 28 Apr 2026 08:14:43 -0000

    The artist shares stories behind some of her biggest hits, her love of a “rant bridge” and how life in the public eye informs the stories she tells in her songs.
  15. Musk Says He ‘Was a Fool’ to Provide OpenAI’s Early Funding

    Wed, 29 Apr 2026 21:44:15 -0000

    In the second day of a trial pitting Mr. Musk against OpenAI, he said he was misled by the company’s chief executive, Sam Altman. But OpenAI’s lawyer said evidence showed the opposite.
  16. A.I. Spending Sets a Record, With No End in Sight

    Wed, 29 Apr 2026 22:53:54 -0000

    Google, Amazon, Microsoft and Meta reported more than $130 billion in quarterly capital expenditures on Wednesday as they build A.I. data centers. There’s more to come.
  17. Meta Deal Reversal Deepens Split Between China and Silicon Valley

    Wed, 29 Apr 2026 21:08:05 -0000

    Beijing’s insistence that Meta unwind its deal with a Chinese A.I. start-up escalates the geopolitical fight over advanced tech.
  18. U.S. Indictment Accuses Mexican Governor of Conspiring With Sinaloa Cartel

    Wed, 29 Apr 2026 22:46:15 -0000

    Prosecutors accused Rubén Rocha Moya, the governor of Sinaloa state, and other Mexican officials of a yearslong conspiracy to protect the powerful cartel.
  19. Congress Races to Renew Surveillance Law After House Approval

    Wed, 29 Apr 2026 22:46:52 -0000

    Republicans put down a right-wing revolt to push the measure through the House, but it faces changes in the Senate that could delay its final passage past a Friday expiration.
  20. White House Correspondents’ Dinner Shooter Planned Attack Weeks Before Gala, Prosecutors Say

    Wed, 29 Apr 2026 20:32:14 -0000

    A new prosecution memo details the preparations made in the days and weeks before the assault on the White House correspondents’ dinner.
  21. Why Can’t Parkland Be Used as a Park? Ask the Judges Who Park There.

    Wed, 29 Apr 2026 16:40:59 -0000

    A decades-old fight over a parking lot reserved for judges in Brooklyn has picked up steam with a new generation of combatants.
  22. Trump and Putin Call for a Brief Cease-Fire in Ukraine

    Wed, 29 Apr 2026 19:40:37 -0000

    Previous truces have broken down amid competing accusations of violations, and it is not clear that Ukraine will agree to Moscow’s terms.
  23. Russia’s Victory Day Parade Will Be Missing Tanks and Other Heavy Military Armor

    Wed, 29 Apr 2026 17:32:36 -0000

    The absence of tanks and other heavy military vehicles on Red Square will highlight the heavy toll of the war in Ukraine.
  24. ‘Excruciating and Agonizing’: A New Reality for Jewish Democrats

    Wed, 29 Apr 2026 15:58:41 -0000

    With Israel increasingly unpopular and antisemitism on the rise, Jewish politicians find themselves more and more under attack.
  25. The Murky Ethics of Swimming With Killer Whales

    Wed, 29 Apr 2026 21:10:20 -0000

    Only two places in the world allow tourists to enter the water with the ocean’s apex predator. But the safety of both species is a growing concern.
  26. The Supreme Court Just Erased What Was Left of the Voting Rights Act

    Wed, 29 Apr 2026 22:57:09 -0000

    In the name of disentangling race from politics, the court has given white voters more power at the expense of racial minorities.
  27. What Worries Me Most About ‘Abundance’

    Wed, 29 Apr 2026 21:37:12 -0000

    It’s been a big year for the abundance movement, but what has it really achieved? Ezra Klein talks with his “Abundance” co-author Derek Thompson and with Marc Dunkelman, the author of “Why Nothing Works.”
  28. Brown University Gunman Planned Attack for Years, F.B.I. Says

    Wed, 29 Apr 2026 22:16:25 -0000

    Investigators said the man’s transient lifestyle and social isolation made his intentions hard to track before shootings that killed two Brown students and an M.I.T. professor.
  29. Mississippi Middle School Students Avert Bus Crash After Driver Loses Control

    Wed, 29 Apr 2026 22:41:29 -0000

    Footage of the incident shared this week by a school district in Mississippi shows a group of students working together to avert disaster on a highway.
  30. New Yorkers and European World Cup Fans Debate Walking to MetLife in New Jersey

    Wed, 29 Apr 2026 17:19:36 -0000

    Instead of paying $150 for NJ Transit tickets to get to the stadium, some Europeans online are suggesting a scenic stroll through New Jersey’s interstates and swamps.
  31. Almost All of Europe Was Abnormally Hot in 2025, Report Finds

    Wed, 29 Apr 2026 20:53:54 -0000

    The continent, which is warming faster than the global average, saw wildfires, floods and a sub-Arctic heat wave, the European State of the Climate report said.
  32. Laurie Metcalf’s Third Act

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

    The once cancelled producer Scott Rudin has staked his own comeback on making her the First Lady of American Theatre.
  33. Can the E.P.A. Survive Lee Zeldin?

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

    The agency, which was founded to protect the environment and human health, has cancelled safety regulations, supported coal, and stopped caring about climate change.
  34. What Happens When Someone Throws a Message in a Bottle Into the Sea?

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

    Most simply disappear. One enthusiast is on a quest to find the notes—and the people behind them.
  35. Donald Trump’s Pardon Economy

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

    For some wealthy offenders, clemency is just a golf game—or a million-dollar plate at Mar-a-Lago—away.
  36. King Charles and Queen Camilla Come to Washington

    Wed, 29 Apr 2026 18:18:44 -0000

    A flag flub, a White House construction zone, a pollinator photo op, and Trump’s love of royal cosplay all contributed to the bizarre atmosphere of Charles and Camilla’s visit.
  37. How Putin and Zelensky View the War in Iran

    Tue, 28 Apr 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    The war’s ripple effects have exacerbated conflicts, economic insecurity, and regional tensions around the world, including in Ukraine.
  38. Kash Patel’s Implausible Lawsuit Against The Atlantic

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

    The F.B.I. director’s lawyers seem to misunderstand how the law (or logic) works.
  39. Donald Trump’s Spring Cleaning

    Sun, 26 Apr 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    The exact reasons are often left vague and the successors to be determined, but people are leaving the Administration—including three Cabinet secretaries.
  40. Donald Trump’s Lose-Lose Negotiations with Iran

    Mon, 27 Apr 2026 21:50:31 -0000

    How the President’s insistence on Tehran’s unconditional surrender made it impossible to make a deal.
  41. What the U.S.-Iran War Means for China

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

    Jonathan Czin, a fellow at the Brookings Institution’s China Center, discusses how the ties between China and Iran have been overstated, and what the conflict might mean for the future of Taiwan.
  42. The Extremes of Israeli Public Opinion

    Wed, 15 Apr 2026 18:42:29 -0000

    Israeli voters are against a ceasefire with Iran, and think Benjamin Netanyahu has not gone far enough.
  43. Israel’s War in Lebanon Has Not Stopped

    Fri, 10 Apr 2026 00:20:29 -0000

    While America and Iran negotiate a ceasefire, Beirut remains under siege.
  44. The Lessons from Jerome Powell’s Defiance of Donald Trump

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

    An independent Fed needs an independent leader. Is Kevin Warsh up to the job?
  45. After Magnus Carlsen, Chess Has Entered a New Age

    Sun, 26 Apr 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    A new book by Jordan Himelfarb follows the game’s rising young players, including the reigning world champion Gukesh Dommaraju, as they compete in an era defined by computers.
  46. LIV Golf Is Dying of Boredom

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

    Once you got past the Saudi-backed league’s business drama, what you were left with was watching sensationally wealthy, morally compromised middle-aged men go to work.
  47. Is Dynamic Pricing Ruining the World Cup?

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

    Soccer fans and host-city politicians are up in arms about the prices that FIFA is charging for tickets under its new sales system.
  48. Has Steve Kerr Had Enough?

    Sun, 26 Apr 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    The head coach for the Golden State Warriors on his future with the team, his complicated relationship with Draymond Green, and whether he might give politics a try.
  49. Inside the White House Correspondents’ Dinner as Gunshots Rang Out

    Sun, 26 Apr 2026 05:39:34 -0000

    I thought a caterer might have dropped a stack of plates, but then I heard shouts of “Shots fired!”
  50. A Chernobyl Widow’s Tragedy, Forty Years Later

    Sat, 25 Apr 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    Nataliia Khodymchuk lived in memory of her late husband, the first worker to die at the nuclear reactor, until she fell victim to a Russian attack.
  51. How Big a Threat Are Iranian-Backed Cyberattacks?

    Fri, 24 Apr 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    A recent CISA advisory was a blunt reminder that, in the digital age, the battlefield has expanded to encompass the geography of everyday life.
  52. The Rise of the Epstein Democrat

    Fri, 24 Apr 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    In demanding the release of the Epstein files, the Party has embraced a radically new way of fighting Donald Trump. Is it a good idea?
  53. Trump and the Iran Deal That Wasn’t

    Thu, 23 Apr 2026 19:38:13 -0000

    It’s tough to reach an agreement with a President whose word is not his bond.
  54. What Nicolás Maduro’s Life Is Like in a Notorious Brooklyn Jail

    Tue, 21 Apr 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    The President of Venezuela has reportedly been stuck in a unit for high-profile inmates, known for housing rappers and tech moguls, while his country forms an uneasy relationship with Trump.
  55. A Genocide Scholar Asks “What Went Wrong” in Israel

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

    The Israeli historian Omer Bartov argues in his new book that a “state ideology” of Zionism has led to what he calls genocide in Gaza.