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  1. Suspected Iran Cyberattacks on U.S. Water Supply Follow Years of Warnings and Neglect

    Wed, 05 Aug 2026 18:00:01 -0000

    Federal and state officials are racing to address an assault on the nation’s water supply that they believe is the work of Iranian hackers.
  2. Trump Said Qatari Jet Was Destined for His Library. That May Change.

    Wed, 05 Aug 2026 21:03:15 -0000

    A White House official says no final decision has been made about which plane will go on display at the Trump presidential library. That leaves the fate of the Qatari jet unclear.
  3. Cost of Trump’s Namesake Warships Likely to Rise by 50 Percent or More

    Wed, 05 Aug 2026 20:11:00 -0000

    President Trump’s goal of building a “golden fleet” of 15 battleships could cost $275 billion, according to a government estimate.
  4. El-Sayed’s Michigan Senate Primary Win Sets Up the Left’s Biggest Test of the Fall

    Wed, 05 Aug 2026 21:00:11 -0000

    Abdul El-Sayed’s Senate candidacy poses a critical challenge for Democrats’ ascendant progressive wing: Can an insurgent candidate, with unabashedly liberal positions, win a general election in a moderate state?
  5. Takeaways From the Primary Elections in Michigan

    Wed, 05 Aug 2026 14:41:31 -0000

    Dr. Abdul El-Sayed narrowly prevailed over Representative Haley Stevens in the Democratic primary for Senate in Michigan, setting up a nervy race to November for the party.
  6. Shri Thanedar Is Ousted by a Democratic Socialist in a Michigan House Primary

    Wed, 05 Aug 2026 15:22:44 -0000

    Representative Shri Thanedar is among a wave of Democratic incumbents in Congress whom primary voters have sent packing in a surge of anti-incumbent fervor this cycle.
  7. Why Congress Wants a Closer U.S.-Israel Defense Partnership

    Wed, 05 Aug 2026 18:38:29 -0000

    A proposal making its way through Congress would integrate the U.S. and Israeli defense and intelligence apparatuses more tightly. Some worry that it is a bad idea.
  8. Israel Strikes Lebanon After Accusing Hezbollah of Cease-Fire Violation

    Wed, 05 Aug 2026 19:45:17 -0000

    At the same time, Israeli and Lebanese negotiators were holding talks in Rome aimed at fostering a long-term diplomatic settlement.
  9. Iran Says It Is Nearing Final Agreement With Oman on Strait of Hormuz

    Wed, 05 Aug 2026 17:08:46 -0000

    The agreement on an acceptable route for ships to pass through the strait would effectively ratify Tehran’s control over the crucial waterway.
  10. U.S. Cuts Ties With Organ Donor Group After Reports of Abuses

    Wed, 05 Aug 2026 20:57:55 -0000

    The federal government is ending its contract with a Kentucky nonprofit that it says pressured medical workers to remove organs from patients who were getting better.
  11. How China’s A.I. Is Surging Across Africa

    Wed, 05 Aug 2026 20:41:15 -0000

    In African tech hubs, developers are picking China’s cheap, freely available artificial intelligence models over more powerful U.S. ones.
  12. Trump’s Push for More A.I. Data Centers Will Mean Major Air Pollution

    Wed, 05 Aug 2026 18:05:54 -0000

  13. Lobga Rangzen, the Tibetan Activist Who Set Himself on Fire in Manhattan

    Wed, 05 Aug 2026 18:56:37 -0000

    No one doubted the intensity of Lobga Rangzen’s commitment to a Tibet free of Chinese control. But they were not prepared for what he did next.
  14. Death Renews Scrutiny of Delaney Hall. Here’s What to Know.

    Wed, 05 Aug 2026 20:45:53 -0000

    The death of a Salvadoran immigrant at the federal detention center in Newark has raised questions about the conditions there.
  15. ICE Threatens Sheriffs In Chicago and Minneapolis With Prosecution Over Access to Inmates

    Wed, 05 Aug 2026 16:38:16 -0000

    In a new tactic, federal immigration officials recently started saying they would criminally charge the elected county sheriffs in Minneapolis and Chicago.
  16. How Malta Became a Tax Haven for Crocs and Other U.S. Companies

    Wed, 05 Aug 2026 18:38:57 -0000

    The Mediterranean archipelago is a hot destination for U.S. companies seeking to shield profits from income taxes.
  17. Windy Weather Could Worsen Pacific Northwest Fires

    Wed, 05 Aug 2026 17:18:36 -0000

    Forecasters expect winds to pick up in eastern Washington and Oregon on Friday and Saturday, but not to be as strong as last weekend’s were.
  18. Climate Change Comes to Sesame Street

    Wed, 05 Aug 2026 15:38:43 -0000

    An episode this week focuses on the dangerous effects of warming, without mentioning climate change.
  19. Butterflies Take Flight in Face of Climate Change and Extreme Weather

    Wed, 05 Aug 2026 18:59:15 -0000

    In 32 of the countries included in a recent study, at least a quarter of the native butterfly species had moved to new areas.
  20. It’s the Summer of Soundwalking. He Is Your Sherpa.

    Wed, 05 Aug 2026 16:07:48 -0000

    “We may be hearing but not listening,” Jacek Smolicki said, showing a reporter how sound travels through tree roots in Central Park and amplifying the scraping of aquatic snails.
  21. Abdul El-Sayed Thinks Progressives Have a Way to Win. I Hope He’s Right.

    Wed, 05 Aug 2026 21:09:45 -0000

    Abdul El-Sayed is quick, magnetic, overflowing with infectious confidence. But he also has a blind spot endemic to his movement.
  22. Have We Turned Personality Into Diagnosis?

    Wed, 05 Aug 2026 20:12:19 -0000

    Why we keep searching for new ways to explain ourselves.
  23. Tell us Your Connections Tips, Strategies and Questions

    Wed, 05 Aug 2026 09:02:06 -0000

    We’re also looking to find out what questions solvers have about the game.
  24. A Four-Ton SpaceX Rocket Stage Hit the Moon, but No One Saw It

    Wed, 05 Aug 2026 18:41:20 -0000

    Amateur and professional astronomers pointed their telescopes at the impact site. Most did not detect anything.
  25. The Electability of Abdul El-Sayed

    Wed, 05 Aug 2026 14:05:43 -0000

    The former public-health official won Michigan’s Democratic primary with an unapologetically progressive platform—and a total defiance of the Party establishment.
  26. 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.
  27. 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.
  28. 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.
  29. 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.
  30. 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.
  31. 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.
  32. 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.
  33. 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.
  34. 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.
  35. 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.”
  36. 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.
  37. 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.
  38. 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.
  39. 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.
  40. 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.
  41. 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?
  42. Michigan Primary-Election Live Results: Abdul El-Sayed Wins

    Wed, 05 Aug 2026 14:18:48 -0000

    The former public-health official’s victory in a closely watched Democratic primary for the U.S. Senate carries major implications for the direction of the Party.
  43. 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.
  44. 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.”
  45. 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.
  46. 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.
  47. 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.
  48. 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?
  49. 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?