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  1. Trump, in an Escalation, Calls for Republicans to ‘Nationalize’ Elections

    Mon, 02 Feb 2026 23:05:29 -0000

    The comments, made on a conservative podcast, follow a string of moves from his administration to try to exert more control over American elections.
  2. Trump Is Said to Have Dropped Demand for Cash From Harvard

    Tue, 03 Feb 2026 06:19:36 -0000

    Hours after The Times reported that President Trump had lowered the bar for a deal, he denied backtracking and made new threats against Harvard.
  3. Gabbard Arranges Trump Call With FBI Agents After Georgia Election Center Search

    Tue, 03 Feb 2026 02:41:02 -0000

    Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence, brokered the call and President Trump directly questioned frontline agents on the inquiry, The Times has learned.
  4. Pirro Threatens Jail Time for Lawful Gun Owners Who Travel to D.C. With Firearms

    Tue, 03 Feb 2026 04:52:56 -0000

    The remarks by Jeannine Pirro, the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, prompted swift pushback from the Republican Party’s pro-Second Amendment wing.
  5. Clintons Capitulate on House Epstein Inquiry, Agreeing to Testify

    Mon, 02 Feb 2026 23:27:44 -0000

    Former President Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton, the ex-secretary of state, agreed to depositions they had long resisted days before the House was to vote to hold them in contempt.
  6. N.F.L. Says It Will Look Into Steve Tisch’s Ties to Epstein

    Tue, 03 Feb 2026 02:46:28 -0000

    Recently released emails reveal that Jeffrey Epstein sought to connect Mr. Tisch, whose family is a part-owner of the New York Giants, with multiple women.
  7. Epstein Victims Ask Judge to Shut D.O.J. Website After Names Disclosed

    Tue, 03 Feb 2026 02:14:39 -0000

    A judge will hold a hearing on Wednesday after attorneys for victims in the Epstein case said the recent batch of documents released by the government included their names.
  8. Peter Attia, CBS News Contributor, ‘Ashamed’ After Epstein Files Made Public

    Mon, 02 Feb 2026 21:53:57 -0000

    The longevity influencer said he “never witnessed illegal behavior” but would not defend his crude remarks about women and comments on Jeffrey Epstein’s “outrageous” life.
  9. Immigration Officers in Minneapolis Will Wear Body Cameras, Noem Says

    Tue, 03 Feb 2026 05:10:50 -0000

    The change comes as the federal government has provided accounts of fatal shootings that have sometimes conflicted with local officials and witness videos.
  10. Federal Judge Blocks Trump Administration From Ending TPS for Haitians

    Tue, 03 Feb 2026 02:55:08 -0000

    The ruling pauses the Trump administration’s plan to end a program that has allowed more than 350,000 people from Haiti to remain in the United States.
  11. Trump Says He’s Only Renovating the Kennedy Center

    Tue, 03 Feb 2026 01:41:11 -0000

    Even though President Trump held a movie premiere for his wife’s new film there last week, he said the state of the building was “actually sort of dangerous.”
  12. From ‘Hamilton’ to Issa Rae to Philip Glass: Here’s a List of Kennedy Center Cancellations

    Tue, 03 Feb 2026 04:47:34 -0000

    More than two dozen musicians, dancers, theater companies and other creative groups have pulled out of performing at the Kennedy Center since President Trump returned to the White House.
  13. Trump Presses House G.O.P. to Back Deal to Reopen Government

    Tue, 03 Feb 2026 03:17:41 -0000

    Some hard-line House Republicans have balked at the deal Senate Democrats struck with President Trump to fund the government, complicating its path to enactment.
  14. Trump Administration Sued Over Cutting Off Funds for $16 Billion Tunnel

    Tue, 03 Feb 2026 03:42:07 -0000

    The Gateway Development Commission said that if the federal government continued to withhold funding for a rail link under the Hudson River, it would have to stop construction this week.
  15. New York City’s First Real Winter in a Long Time Is Relentless

    Mon, 02 Feb 2026 20:41:45 -0000

    Mountains of rock-solid filthy snow. Narrow, icy sidewalks. Temperatures that sound like shoe sizes. When will it end?
  16. Frigid Temperatures Forecast to Continue this Week

    Mon, 02 Feb 2026 19:36:19 -0000

    Arctic air will chill much of the United States, but New York’s streak of consecutive freezing days ended on Monday.
  17. ‘Today’ Anchor Savannah Guthrie’s Mother Is Missing, Authorities Say

    Tue, 03 Feb 2026 00:28:02 -0000

    Savannah Guthrie’s mother, Nancy, 84, was last seen on Saturday near her home in Tucson, Ariz. A sheriff said on Monday that investigators were treating her disappearance as a crime.
  18. Mayor Mamdani and the Taxi Driver

    Sun, 01 Feb 2026 08:00:31 -0000

    Richard Chow befriended Zohran Mamdani five years ago and has driven him to City Hall and Gracie Mansion.
  19. Attempt to Drill Through Thwaites Glacier Is Foiled

    Mon, 02 Feb 2026 18:49:36 -0000

    Scientists lost their instruments within Antarctica’s most dangerously unstable glacier, though not before getting a glimpse at the warming waters underneath.
  20. The Long Game Behind Xi Jinping’s P.L.A. Purge

    Tue, 03 Feb 2026 06:00:05 -0000

    His sweeping military shake-up may look like weakness but it’s clearing the way for a more dangerous force under his full control.
  21. How a Conservative Texas District Rejected the Politics of Division

    Mon, 02 Feb 2026 22:35:15 -0000

    Many Americans are growing both exhausted and frightened by Trump’s scorched-earth, hyperpartisan, fire-ready-aim approach to the presidency.
  22. Trump Talked to Agents Investigating Election Claims

    Mon, 02 Feb 2026 23:09:41 -0000

    Also, the Supreme Court secretly made itself even more secretive. Here’s the latest at the end of Monday.
  23. Woodie King Jr., Impresario of Black Theater, Dies at 88

    Mon, 02 Feb 2026 23:25:44 -0000

    His New Federal Theater in New York provided a rare stage for Black playwrights and emerging actors, among them Denzel Washington, Phylicia Rashad and Chadwick Boseman.
  24. Woman’s Dismembered Body Is Found in a Brooklyn Basement, Officials Say

    Tue, 03 Feb 2026 02:31:12 -0000

    The police are investigating the death of Michelle Montgomery, whose remains were found in a public housing building in the Williamsburg neighborhood.
  25. Elon Musk Merges SpaceX With His A.I. Start-Up xAI

    Tue, 03 Feb 2026 02:22:02 -0000

    The deal further intermingles Mr. Musk’s companies and creates the most valuable private company on earth.
  26. Third Candidate Enters Heated Race for Open House Seat

    Tue, 03 Feb 2026 00:54:43 -0000

    Julie Won, a New York City councilwoman, will face two other Democrats, one backed by the departing incumbent, Nydia Velázquez, and the other by Mayor Zohran Mamdani.
  27. Inside Russia’s Secret Campaign of Sabotage in Europe

    Mon, 02 Feb 2026 11:00:00 -0000

    How Russian military intelligence is recruiting young people online to carry out espionage, arson, and other attacks across the Continent.
  28. Living in Tracy Chapman’s House

    Mon, 02 Feb 2026 11:00:00 -0000

    Fresh out of college, we were a bunch of misfits, in a chaotic, run-down communal home, desperately trying to figure out who we were meant to be.
  29. Deepfaking Orson Welles’s Mangled Masterpiece

    Mon, 02 Feb 2026 11:00:00 -0000

    Will an A.I. restoration of “The Magnificent Ambersons” right a historic wrong or desecrate a classic?
  30. David Remnick on S. N. Behrman’s “The Days of Duveen”

    Sun, 01 Feb 2026 11:00:00 -0000

    In a wry Profile of the British-born art dealer Joseph Duveen, Behrman captures the workings of a canny commercial intelligence wreathed in connoisseurship and charm.
  31. Gavin Newsom Is Playing the Long Game

    Sun, 01 Feb 2026 11:00:00 -0000

    California’s governor has been touted as the Democrats’ best shot in 2028. But first he’ll need to convince voters that he’s not just a slick establishment politician.
  32. Why the D.H.S. Disaster in Minneapolis Was Predictable

    Sun, 01 Feb 2026 11:00:00 -0000

    For decades, ICE and Border Patrol have operated with fewer constraints than typical law-enforcement agencies.
  33. ICE’s Assault on a Minnesota School District

    Sat, 31 Jan 2026 11:00:00 -0000

    Liam Ramos, whose photo became a symbol of Operation Metro Surge, is one of several students in Columbia Heights who are now in federal custody.
  34. Miami’s Haitian Community Braces for Deportations

    Fri, 30 Jan 2026 22:15:20 -0000

    The Trump Administration’s plan to end Temporary Protected Status for immigrants from Haiti puts hundreds of thousands at risk of returning to a country in crisis.
  35. Are Democrats Right to Cut an Immigration Deal with Trump?

    Fri, 30 Jan 2026 21:26:34 -0000

    Congress has justifiably been criticized for rolling over to the President. But how it actually uses its leverage involves genuinely difficult trade-offs.
  36. Do Federal Officials Really Have “Absolute Immunity”?

    Mon, 26 Jan 2026 23:03:11 -0000

    After killings by ICE and Border Patrol in Minneapolis, a legal expert discusses how agents might be held to account by local authorities.
  37. How Europe Can Respond to Trump’s Greenland Imperialism

    Wed, 21 Jan 2026 12:25:06 -0000

    The President’s obsession with acquiring the Danish territory has put the transatlantic alliance at risk.
  38. Can Trump Really Use the Insurrection Act?

    Sat, 17 Jan 2026 21:40:07 -0000

    An expert on Presidential emergency powers discusses the history and legality of military deployments in American cities.
  39. How Donald Trump Has Transformed ICE

    Thu, 15 Jan 2026 00:46:06 -0000

    A former D.H.S. oversight official on what, legally, the agency can and can’t do—and the accountability mechanisms that have been “gutted beyond recognition.”
  40. How Trump Is Debasing the Dollar and Eroding U.S. Economic Dominance

    Mon, 02 Feb 2026 11:00:00 -0000

    The President’s coercive policies, including his latest threats against Greenland, are prompting some foreign investors to think twice about parking their money with Uncle Sam.
  41. What We Expect Athletes to Say Now

    Sun, 01 Feb 2026 11:00:00 -0000

    Not long ago, taking political stands almost seemed to become part of the job. These days, in another moment of social crisis, expectations have shifted.
  42. Why an Agnostic Animal-Rights Activist Went to Seminary

    Tue, 27 Jan 2026 11:00:00 -0000

    Wayne Hsiung has gone to court and done jail time to improve the lives of animals. Now he’s going to church.
  43. Amanda Anisimova’s Resilient Return

    Sun, 25 Jan 2026 11:00:00 -0000

    After stepping away from the game in 2023, the tennis star had a dream run at Wimbledon last year end with a humiliating defeat in the final. But it’s the clarity of her confidence that continues to define her.
  44. Trump’s Profiteering Hits $4 Billion

    Sat, 31 Jan 2026 11:00:00 -0000

    In August, I reported that the President and his family had made $3.4 billion by leveraging his position. After his first year back in office, the number has ballooned.
  45. What ICE Should Have Learned from the Fugitive Slave Act

    Fri, 30 Jan 2026 11:00:00 -0000

    Americans took to the streets to defend their neighbors in the nineteenth century, too.
  46. Operation Trump Rehab

    Thu, 29 Jan 2026 23:57:25 -0000

    After a wave of public revulsion over the President’s immigration crackdown in Minnesota, he offers a familiar playbook: distraction, disinformation, denial, delay.
  47. The Cruel Conditions of ICE’s Mojave Desert Detention Center

    Wed, 28 Jan 2026 11:00:00 -0000

    How immigration authorities have weaponized medical neglect to encourage self-deportations.
  48. Revisiting Minnesota’s “Open House” Exhibition in the Age of ICE

    Mon, 26 Jan 2026 21:36:05 -0000

    Long before the federal onslaught, a Twin Cities museum showed what it meant to find a home in America.
  49. Maybe the United States Can Be One of Mark Carney’s “Middle Powers”

    Mon, 26 Jan 2026 11:00:00 -0000

    The Canadian Prime Minister offers the possibility of a calmer future.
  50. The Battle for Minneapolis

    Sun, 25 Jan 2026 21:06:49 -0000

    As Donald Trump brings his retribution to a liberal city, citizens, protesters, and civic leaders try to protect one another.
  51. Trump’s Greenland Fiasco

    Sun, 25 Jan 2026 11:00:00 -0000

    The President caused a crisis in NATO and deepened European distrust toward the U.S. to end up with basically the same set of options that existed months ago.