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  1. Iran Considered Retaliatory Strike on Ukrainian Seaport

    Wed, 29 Jul 2026 02:05:12 -0000

    A flurry of diplomacy has eased tensions, officials said, after an incident risked triggering a wider war.
  2. Some Jordanians Demand that American Troops Leave the Kingdom

    Wed, 29 Jul 2026 04:01:19 -0000

    Hundreds of political, legal and other figures signed a public letter warning that Jordan’s close alliance with the United States poses a risk.
  3. Behind Closed Doors, Trump Huddles With Netanyahu and Zelensky

    Tue, 28 Jul 2026 21:19:03 -0000

    The visits by the leaders of Israel and Ukraine underscored just how deeply President Trump was enmeshed in conflicts he had promised — and failed — to end quickly.
  4. ICE Arrests Surge at Airports, Opening New Front in Deportation Drive

    Wed, 29 Jul 2026 01:46:18 -0000

    Federal agents are arresting spouses of Americans, tech workers and others whose visas have expired, including many who have active applications to stay in the country.
  5. A U.S. Citizen Deleted His Phone’s Data. Now He Faces a Felony Charge.

    Tue, 28 Jul 2026 21:54:48 -0000

    Federal prosecutors charged a man returning to the United States with obstruction because he gave them a passcode that erased his smartphone during a customs search.
  6. ICE Arrests Surge at Airports

    Tue, 28 Jul 2026 21:53:13 -0000

    Also, a powerful earthquake hits Japan. Here’s the latest at the end of Tuesday.
  7. Senate Confirms Jay Clayton to Lead U.S. Intelligence Community

    Wed, 29 Jul 2026 00:47:18 -0000

    Mr. Clayton, who shed Democratic support after he refused to clearly say Joseph R. Biden Jr. won the 2020 election, will take over the Office of the Director of National Intelligence from Bill Pulte.
  8. Trump’s Spy Chief Spends Final Hours in Job Boasting of Mass Firings

    Tue, 28 Jul 2026 23:25:50 -0000

    Bill Pulte, the acting director of national intelligence, said he has terminated nearly a third of the officials in his office, but others doubt the figures are accurate.
  9. Trump Asks Supreme Court to Overturn $83.3 Million Award in Carroll Defamation Case

    Wed, 29 Jul 2026 00:26:11 -0000

    President Trump paid E. Jean Carroll more than $5 million from a 2023 lawsuit, but he is now asking the court to overturn a much larger award that a jury ordered him to pay in 2024 for defaming her.
  10. Trump Will End Subsidies for Medicare Drug Premiums

    Tue, 28 Jul 2026 23:12:12 -0000

    Millions of older Americans could pay more for their prescription drug coverage next year.
  11. At Graham’s Farewell, a Glimpse Into Power in Trump’s Washington

    Tue, 28 Jul 2026 23:17:06 -0000

    The political evolution of Lindsey Graham, the South Carolina senator, both captivated and confused many of his old friends but reflected the changing order in the nation’s capital.
  12. 9 Things Experts Wish You’d Do in Midlife to Increase Longevity

    Tue, 28 Jul 2026 13:20:51 -0000

    How you care for yourself at this life stage matters a lot for your later years.
  13. What’s Going on With Mitch McConnell? Kentucky’s Governor Has Questions.

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

    Gov. Andy Beshear called on Senator McConnell, who has been hospitalized since June, to prove his capacity to serve, or resign.
  14. Domestic Abuse Allegations Rock Max Miller’s Ohio House Race

    Tue, 28 Jul 2026 23:23:20 -0000

    Representative Max Miller, a Republican, is facing accusations of abuse from his ex-wife in a bitter family feud that might put his otherwise safe seat in play.
  15. South Dakota Governor Seeking Full Term Clinches G.O.P. Nomination

    Wed, 29 Jul 2026 01:17:40 -0000

    Gov. Larry Rhoden, who ascended to the office last year when Kristi Noem left for the Trump cabinet, overcame a large Republican primary field and won a runoff election.
  16. Gov. Sherrill in the Hot Seat After U.S. Demand for Noncitizens’ Names

    Tue, 28 Jul 2026 22:11:43 -0000

    After disclosing that thousands of ineligible people were added to the voter rolls, New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill is trying to bring accountability while resisting President Trump’s narrative.
  17. Mark Zuckerberg Blasts Centralization of A.I. Power

    Wed, 29 Jul 2026 00:59:08 -0000

    In an interview with The Times, Meta’s chief executive took aim at Anthropic and OpenAI, which have pushed to tightly control A.I. development, and said he supported “more openness.”
  18. What Is Open-Weights A.I.?

    Tue, 28 Jul 2026 22:38:23 -0000

    As Silicon Valley debates how artificial intelligence software should be created, “open weights” have been a major part of the discussions. Here’s what to know.
  19. Rates of High Blood Pressure Are Rising in Pregnant Women, Study Finds

    Wed, 29 Jul 2026 04:01:25 -0000

    Hypertension during pregnancy is associated with stillbirth, heart disease among mothers and other serious complications.
  20. Japan Races to Reach People Trapped After Earthquake Kills at Least 13

    Wed, 29 Jul 2026 02:37:44 -0000

    Rescue personnel are working to free those trapped in collapsed buildings after a 6.8-magnitude earthquake struck Kumamoto on Tuesday.
  21. Investigation of School Epstein Helped Finds Abuses Went Beyond Him

    Wed, 29 Jul 2026 00:55:18 -0000

    A law firm hired by Interlochen, the arts school and camp, to look into alumni complaints of sexual abuse fielded dozens of disturbing accounts, primarily from decades ago.
  22. The Big Questions About Jeffrey Epstein: What The Times Has Learned

    Sun, 26 Jul 2026 09:05:12 -0000

    Here is what we know about the sexual predator whose secrets spurred an international reckoning over money, power and complicity. Check back for updates.
  23. The Doctor and His Diary: What Fauci’s Innermost Musings Reveal

    Wed, 29 Jul 2026 02:07:13 -0000

    Dr. Anthony S. Fauci seemed to be the life of the party, even in the midst of a deadly pandemic.
  24. Aide Who Had Affair With Newsom 20 Years Ago Details Her Experience

    Tue, 28 Jul 2026 19:54:10 -0000

    Ruby Rippey had stayed mostly quiet since her relationship with the San Francisco mayor rocked the city.
  25. Drilling for Oil the Old-Fashioned Way in ‘Little Texas,’ Indonesia

    Tue, 28 Jul 2026 09:34:15 -0000

    Small pumps and truck engines are used to extract crude from the ground in parts of the country, which has tens of thousands of community-run oil wells.
  26. A Blunt Warning for Israel

    Tue, 28 Jul 2026 23:56:10 -0000

    Jewish terrorism is also a threat to Zionism.
  27. The Democratic Party Needs Change

    Tue, 28 Jul 2026 09:41:05 -0000

    Ben Wikler, a former state party chair, thinks the Democratic Party needs to reinvent itself.
  28. Lilly Yokoi, Acrobat Who Dazzled on a Golden Bicycle, Dies at 96

    Tue, 28 Jul 2026 21:17:49 -0000

    With her family troupe — and later as a solo star — she performed balletic, gymnastic tricks in circuses and theaters, at fairs and on television.
  29. 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.
  30. 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.
  31. 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.
  32. 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.
  33. 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.
  34. 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?
  35. 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?
  36. “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.
  37. 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.
  38. 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.
  39. 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.
  40. 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.
  41. Is Putin Finally Feeling Pressure?

    Thu, 18 Jun 2026 21:50:54 -0000

    The Russian President is facing growing domestic discontent after a series of successful attacks by the Ukrainian Army, including a major attack on Moscow.
  42. 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?
  43. LeBron James: An Odyssey

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

    Tell the old story for our modern times.
  44. 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.
  45. 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.
  46. 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.
  47. 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.
  48. 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.
  49. 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.
  50. 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.
  51. 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.
  52. Donald Trump’s Election-Fraud Bait and Switch

    Fri, 17 Jul 2026 21:13:15 -0000

    The President promised “really, really big news” before his prime-time speech. But the declassified, heavily redacted documents he delivered felt more like Pam Bondi’s bogus Epstein binders than any true revelation.
  53. How Mudlarking Became London’s Hottest Hobby

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

    Searching for ancient objects in the Thames used to be a niche pastime. Then came Instagram, permits, and a desperate desire for connection with the past.