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  1. Trump Is Urged to Act on Iranian Site Feared Impervious to Airstrikes

    Fri, 17 Apr 2026 18:39:40 -0000

    Little is known about Pickaxe Mountain, but some experts say it illustrates the impossibility of relying on force alone to prevent Iran from acquiring a nuclear bomb.
  2. Trump Frames Iran War as All but Over in Optimistic Social Media Flurry

    Fri, 17 Apr 2026 23:11:04 -0000

    Iranian officials did not confirm most of Mr. Trump’s claims and disputed several of them.
  3. Stocks Extend Rally as Tensions Ease Over War in Iran

    Fri, 17 Apr 2026 20:12:12 -0000

    The S&P 500’s rise on Friday caps a striking three-week streak, powered by investors’ optimism about the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz and strong corporate earnings.
  4. Strait of Hormuz Is Declared ‘Open,’ Boosting Hope for a Deal

    Fri, 17 Apr 2026 21:24:38 -0000

    Also, a college with a cookie house. Here’s the latest at the end of Friday.
  5. Prosecutor Withdraws From Trump Team’s Investigation of Ex-CIA Director John O. Brennan

    Fri, 17 Apr 2026 20:55:56 -0000

    A career Justice Department lawyer, Maria Medetis Long, in Miami is said to have raised concerns about whether the evidence justified moving forward with a bid to prosecute John O. Brennan.
  6. Federal Appeals Court Opens Door to Moving Trans Inmates Under Trump Gender Order

    Fri, 17 Apr 2026 20:22:14 -0000

    A three-judge panel gave a group of 17 transgender women a few weeks to seek further recourse in court before their transfer to men’s facilities could take effect.
  7. Rumeysa Ozturk, Tufts Student Held in Immigration Detention, Returns to Turkey

    Fri, 17 Apr 2026 16:14:51 -0000

    Rumeysa Ozturk, who was detained for weeks by the Trump administration after co-writing a pro-Palestinian opinion essay, has graduated and returned home.
  8. DHS Expands Deportation Fleet With High-End Jets

    Fri, 17 Apr 2026 22:46:05 -0000

    The contract for five planes doubles the Department of Homeland Security’s fleet of jets to expel immigrants, and includes two Gulfstream planes, according to documents and interviews.
  9. White House and Anthropic Hold ‘Productive’ Meeting, Aiming for a Compromise

    Fri, 17 Apr 2026 23:45:45 -0000

    Friday’s meeting at the White House followed the introduction of Anthropic’s powerful new artificial intelligence model, Mythos, which U.S. officials believe could be critical for security.
  10. Trump’s Dispute With Pope Leo Deepens Divisions on the Right

    Sat, 18 Apr 2026 00:09:47 -0000

    Sean Hannity criticized the pope. Tucker Carlson attacked Mr. Hannity. And President Trump suggested ranking MAGA figures: “good, bad, and somewhere in the middle.”
  11. Hundreds of Fake Pro-Trump Avatars Emerge on Social Media

    Fri, 17 Apr 2026 17:37:10 -0000

    The artificial-intelligence-generated fake influencers have surged on TikTok, Instagram, Facebook and YouTube in an apparent bid to hook conservative voters.
  12. Aging in a Brightly Lit, Big City: Jay McInerney, With a New Novel

    Fri, 17 Apr 2026 11:40:56 -0000

    In 1984, Jay McInerney was a famous, young, hedonistic novelist. Now 71, he is wistful as he wraps up his tetralogy about a couple whose city, and marriage, are tested by the pandemic.
  13. Carney Courts Investors to Reduce Canada’s Economic Dependence on U.S.

    Fri, 17 Apr 2026 18:47:35 -0000

    Prime Minister Mark Carney has set up a meeting and a new office to speed project approvals and make Canada more attractive to investors.
  14. Lutnick Says Canada Trade Deal Needs to Be Reworked Ahead of Talks

    Fri, 17 Apr 2026 18:45:40 -0000

    Howard Lutnick, President Trump’s commerce secretary, derided Canada’s trade strategy and said a North American deal needed to be reworked.
  15. Lena Dunham Made Millennial Culture. Then She Was Undone by It.

    Fri, 17 Apr 2026 18:19:07 -0000

    The era of “Girls” is long gone, but its creator still has much to teach us.
  16. Supreme Court Sides With Oil Companies in Louisiana Coastal Lawsuits

    Fri, 17 Apr 2026 20:55:41 -0000

    The companies had asked the justices to clear the way to move environmental lawsuits out of state courts, to friendlier federal venues.
  17. Starmer’s Credibility Just Took Another Body Blow Over the Mandelson Scandal

    Fri, 17 Apr 2026 18:41:34 -0000

    Prime Minister Keir Starmer appears to have been kept in the dark repeatedly over Peter Mandelson, the Jeffrey Epstein associate — fueling an image of weakness.
  18. Through A.I. Glasses-Powered Translation, Korea’s Theaters Hope for a K-Pop Moment

    Fri, 17 Apr 2026 15:32:15 -0000

    Producers and the cultural authorities hope that technology can overcome a language barrier and take the country’s shows to the world.
  19. Cerebras, an A.I. Chip Maker, Files to Go Public as Tech Offerings Ramp Up

    Fri, 17 Apr 2026 22:03:45 -0000

    The Silicon Valley chip maker filed a prospectus just as SpaceX, Anthropic and OpenAI prepared for their own listings, in what is shaping up to be a wave of enormous initial public offerings.
  20. Japan’s Cherry Blossom Database, 1,200 Years Old, Has a New Keeper

    Fri, 17 Apr 2026 20:55:27 -0000

    The remarkable catalog of dates is one of the longest-running records of climate change. Its creator died, setting off a search for a successor.
  21. Western States Need Water. San Diego Has Extra. Will They Make A Deal?

    Fri, 17 Apr 2026 22:05:15 -0000

    San Diego County is shopping a surplus of desalinated seawater to Western states that are facing increasingly urgent drought and short supplies.
  22. Rescuers Try to Save Timmy, a Whale Stranded Off Germany

    Fri, 17 Apr 2026 22:16:41 -0000

    A month of efforts to help a stranded humpback escape the Baltic Sea have culminated in a tourist and media spectacle, with no guarantee of success.
  23. Our Tax System Should Make You Furious

    Fri, 17 Apr 2026 16:15:26 -0000

    The tax expert Ray Madoff explains why the American tax system is broken, and how to make it fairer.
  24. A Paris Court Just Rewrote the Rules of Corporate Morality

    Sat, 18 Apr 2026 00:03:11 -0000

    The profit motive was on trial. The verdict was scathing.
  25. Tornados Reported Across the Midwest as Powerful Storms Slam the Region

    Fri, 17 Apr 2026 23:48:13 -0000

    One reported tornado downed trees and damaged cars in Lena, Ill., an official said.
  26. F.B.I. Launches Manhunt for Youth Volleyball Coach Accused of Sex Abuse

    Fri, 17 Apr 2026 21:46:03 -0000

    The bureau has informed high schools, colleges and volleyball clubs in the New York City area that the coach, Edgar Lazaro Castillo, is being investigated in connection with sexual assault.
  27. An Explosion Rattles a Toronto Neighborhood. A Drake Video Was to Blame.

    Fri, 17 Apr 2026 23:36:40 -0000

    A blast on Thursday night turned out to be for a video shoot, but it unnerved residents who had lived through a propane plant explosion in 2008.
  28. El retorno de la detención familiar

    Fri, 17 Apr 2026 19:40:01 -0000

    Durante el gobierno de Trump, miles de niños inmigrantes han sido detenidos y muchos han sufrido de negligencia médica.
  29. Why I Wanted to Keep My Marriage a Secret, by David Sedaris

    Mon, 13 Apr 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    It’s not that I was embarrassed by Hugh or that I thought someone better might come along. I just shudder when I hear a man say the words “my husband.”
  30. New Orleans’s Car-Crash Conspiracy

    Mon, 13 Apr 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    High-speed accidents, crooked lawyers, and poor people desperate for cash—it was the kind of scheme that could have been cooked up only in the Big Easy.
  31. The Return of Family Detention

    Mon, 13 Apr 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    Under the Trump Administration, thousands of immigrant children have been detained, and many have suffered from medical neglect.
  32. The Wild Mind of the Romanian Director Radu Jude

    Mon, 13 Apr 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    The director’s native city drives him crazy—and drives him to make loony, brilliant films.
  33. The South Texas Democrat Who Will Sing at Your Quinceañera

    Fri, 17 Apr 2026 19:06:55 -0000

    Bobby Pulido, a Tejano musician who’s trying to unseat a Republican in Congress, has turned some of his district’s splashiest parties into campaign stops.
  34. Who Is the U.S. Negotiating with in Iran?

    Thu, 16 Apr 2026 17:07:57 -0000

    As Trump searches for a friendly successor to the Ayatollah in Tehran, the leadership vacuum in the Iranian regime has been filled by hard-line members of the Revolutionary Guard.
  35. What Brought Down Eric Swalwell

    Wed, 15 Apr 2026 19:52:26 -0000

    How the attention economy produced a moment of congressional reckoning.
  36. How Much Has the War in Iran Depleted the U.S. Missile Supply?

    Tue, 14 Apr 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    Defense officials inside the Trump Administration were already concerned that American stockpiles were insufficient for a potential standoff with China. A war of choice in the Middle East has only made matters worse.
  37. 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.
  38. 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.
  39. How Pakistan Became a Major Player in Peace Negotiations Between the U.S. and Iran

    Mon, 30 Mar 2026 23:40:23 -0000

    Pakistan’s military has wooed Donald Trump, and fallen out with its former Taliban allies, as the country looks to wield more influence in the region.
  40. How Donald Trump May Have Sabotaged His Chances for a Deal with Iran

    Wed, 25 Mar 2026 17:38:52 -0000

    The Iranian regime has shut down the Strait of Hormuz, destabilizing global markets and leaving the U.S. with no good options.
  41. How Jomboy Is Changing the Way Baseball Is Watched

    Sun, 12 Apr 2026 17:49:59 -0000

    Major League Baseball, in the hope of expanding the game’s appeal and reaching younger fans, bought a minority stake in the popular media company founded by Jimmy O’Brien.
  42. An Economist’s Quest to Solve America’s Wage Problem

    Mon, 06 Apr 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    Arindrajit Dube argues that the answer is empowering workers and setting mandatory wage standards across industries.
  43. The N.B.A.’s Race to the Bottom

    Sun, 05 Apr 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    Despite the league’s many attempts to combat tanking, the incentive to lose remains strong for teams hoping to strategize for the future. Is there a fix?
  44. The Spectacle of War and the Struggle to Protest

    Tue, 31 Mar 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    On social media, images of destruction in Iran are giving way to commentary from talking heads, dulling the reality of war.
  45. A Genocide Scholar Asks “What Went Wrong” in Israel

    Fri, 17 Apr 2026 18:00:00 -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.
  46. Saving a Lost Generation of Young Men—with Chop Saws

    Fri, 17 Apr 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    The College of St. Joseph the Worker, which combines the trades with a liberal-arts education, is trying to restore its students’ sense of their own competence, and revive the city of Steubenville, Ohio, along the way.
  47. Queen Elizabeth II and the Lost Art of Fashion Diplomacy

    Fri, 17 Apr 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    “The Queen’s Style,” a new exhibition at Buckingham Palace, offers a lesson in how to make powerful statements without saying a word.
  48. America’s Orange Jesus

    Thu, 16 Apr 2026 23:25:07 -0000

    Reflections on a week in which Donald Trump decided to feud with the Pope while comparing himself to the Saviour.
  49. “The Peace President” Gets Belligerent with Iran and the Pope

    Mon, 13 Apr 2026 21:27:19 -0000

    After negotiations to end the war failed to produce a deal, Trump imposed a naval blockade to cut off the Islamic Republic’s ability to trade through the Strait of Hormuz.
  50. The Hungarian Election Shows That Even Strongmen Can Lose

    Mon, 13 Apr 2026 17:04:45 -0000

    Many people in the country had trouble imagining that Viktor Orbán could be defeated. But a philosopher also warned that defeatism can abet authoritarianism.
  51. Sam Altman’s Trust Issues at OpenAI

    Mon, 13 Apr 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    Ronan Farrow and Andrew Marantz on the rise of the C.E.O. of OpenAI, and how allegations of deceptive behavior continue to dog one of the most powerful figures in tech.
  52. Zohran Mamdani, Perpetual Student of the City

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

    The Mayor, along with some teen-agers from Bronx Science, takes stock of his first hundred days.