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  1. Trump Flip-Flops on Strait of Hormuz, Creating New Risks for Global Economy

    Tue, 14 Jul 2026 18:50:34 -0000

    The president now wants Gulf nations to invest in the U.S. in exchange for safe passage. Shipping industry experts worry other nations will follow that lead.
  2. ‘We Love Iraq,’ Trump Tells New Prime Minister in Oval Office Meeting

    Tue, 14 Jul 2026 19:09:58 -0000

    The meeting comes as President Trump’s administration has been ratcheting up pressure on Baghdad to diminish Iran’s influence in Iraq.
  3. Iran’s Former Leader Denies Times Report

    Tue, 14 Jul 2026 18:44:39 -0000

    The Times reported that Israel had planned to reinstall Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as Iran’s leader after the war.
  4. Trump Paid $2 Million by South Korean Company Facing Trade Investigation

    Tue, 14 Jul 2026 16:35:57 -0000

    The payment illustrates the minefield Mr. Trump has created by maintaining personal financial ties with foreign businesses while he is in office.
  5. ‘I Am Frustrated’: Emails Show Blanche’s Role in Trump’s Retribution Campaign

    Tue, 14 Jul 2026 13:50:11 -0000

    The cooperation of Todd Blanche will be a flashpoint in his confirmation hearing to be attorney general on Wednesday.
  6. Mahmoud Khalil Accuses Trump Officials of Conspiring Against Him

    Tue, 14 Jul 2026 17:28:44 -0000

    Mr. Khalil will now have to convince a judge that the defendants coordinated to take action against him and other pro-Palestinian activists.
  7. ICE Ordered to Cease Most Vehicle Stops After Fatal Shootings in Maine and Houston

    Tue, 14 Jul 2026 17:02:07 -0000

    Agents fatally shot a man in Houston and another in coastal Maine, both in their vehicles. The killings were the latest in a string of ICE shootings during President Trump’s second term.
  8. Maine ICE Shooting: What We Know About the Death of Joan Sebastian Guerrero

    Tue, 14 Jul 2026 13:16:33 -0000

    A federal immigration agent shot and killed a man in a car on Monday morning in Biddeford, Maine. It was the second fatal encounter in a week involving an agent and a person in a vehicle.
  9. ICE Shot Lorenzo Salgado Araujo Through Open Passenger Window in Houston, Witnesses Say

    Tue, 14 Jul 2026 00:14:50 -0000

    A congresswoman and a lawyer relayed witness accounts that diverge from Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s version of the fatal encounter.
  10. Man in Florida Fatally Hit by Truck While Fleeing ICE, Official Says

    Tue, 14 Jul 2026 17:20:19 -0000

    Details about what exactly happened at a gas station in St. Augustine before the man was hit were unclear Tuesday.
  11. Takeaways From Rare Congressional Testimony by Two Supreme Court Justices

    Tue, 14 Jul 2026 18:41:03 -0000

    Elena Kagan and Amy Coney Barrett, the first Supreme Court justices to testify since 2019, talked about ethics and security threats during a collegial hearing.
  12. E. Jean Carroll Receives $5.6 Million Payment From Trump in Civil Case

    Tue, 14 Jul 2026 18:58:25 -0000

    A federal jury found President Trump liable for sexually abusing and defaming Ms. Carroll. He exhausted his appeals last month, prompting a judge to order that the money be paid.
  13. A Beastie Boy Returns to the Mic, With Some Help

    Tue, 14 Jul 2026 09:02:18 -0000

    Thanks to an assist from his sons, Mike D is set to release “Thank You,” the first new music from a member of the pioneering rap trio in 15 years.
  14. Big Banks Smash Earnings Records, but ‘Tectonic’ Risks Loom

    Tue, 14 Jul 2026 17:56:01 -0000

    The quarterly results reflect the dichotomy between geopolitical uncertainty and the stable American economy.
  15. Warsh Reiterates Fed’s Pledge to Get Inflation Down but Doesn’t Specify How

    Tue, 14 Jul 2026 19:27:53 -0000

    Kevin M. Warsh, in his first testimony to Congress as chairman of the Federal Reserve, did not shed light on whether he supported higher interest rates to tame price pressures.
  16. Inflation Slowed During Pause in War With Iran

    Tue, 14 Jul 2026 19:00:08 -0000

    The Consumer Price Index fell to a 3.5 percent annual increase in June, and prices marked their biggest drop from a month earlier since 2020.
  17. T. Rex Fossil Sells for $50.1 Million, Putting the King Back On Top

    Tue, 14 Jul 2026 16:42:13 -0000

    In a booming fossil market, the T. rex had been dethroned by a stegosaurus. No longer.
  18. Roger Worthington Is Suing Over a Heat Wave

    Tue, 14 Jul 2026 14:50:57 -0000

    Roger Worthington is helping to lead a $50 billion lawsuit against oil producers. This week he’ll face powerful critics in Congress.
  19. Restaurant Review: Ambassadors Clubhouse in New York

    Tue, 14 Jul 2026 09:02:06 -0000

    At the high-flying New York outpost of Ambassadors Clubhouse, the Punjabi cooking is beguiling and the city feels miles away.
  20. The Housing Crisis Is Also a Retirement Crisis

    Tue, 14 Jul 2026 19:03:50 -0000

    A home has stopped being just a place to live — it has also become an asset.
  21. The Ukraine-Russia War Reaches a New Phase

    Tue, 14 Jul 2026 16:39:45 -0000

    The ground war in Ukraine has stalemated and the crucial fight has shifted to the skies — missiles and interceptors.
  22. As White House Leans on Smithsonian, Little Uproar Over Board Vacancies

    Tue, 14 Jul 2026 09:02:42 -0000

    An odd silence has surrounded a delay to fill several open seats on the board of the Smithsonian, even as a fierce battle to control the institution ensues.
  23. Democratic Schadenfreude and the Latino Vote

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

    Trump’s once strong approval rating among Latinos has collapsed, but Democrats can’t count on their support.
  24. Rope-a-Dope

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

    Are the Enhanced Games an existential threat to fairness or a cure for death?
  25. When A.I. Is a Member of the Family

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

    A single mom, her two daughters, and the chatbots that fill in the gaps.
  26. Inside ICE’s Largest Detention Center

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

    On a military base in West Texas, where the government has built a sprawling tent complex to hold thousands of immigrants, deprivation and dire conditions are part of the design.
  27. The Art of Ana Mendieta Comes Into Focus at the Tate Modern

    Sun, 12 Jul 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    Four decades after her death, her bold innovations are finally coming into focus.
  28. The Remaking of Lindsey Graham

    Sun, 12 Jul 2026 20:30:19 -0000

    Once a harsh critic of Donald Trump, the South Carolina senator became one of the President’s most dependable allies—a sign of what it takes to remain influential in today’s Republican Party.
  29. An O.M.B. Plan to Defund Science—and Anything Trump Doesn’t Like

    Sun, 12 Jul 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    Under a new proposal, Administration officials could deny government grants to any group or project on the ground that it didn’t fit the President’s agenda.
  30. Can Office-to-Residential Conversions Survive the Pfizer-Building Crisis?

    Sat, 11 Jul 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    The thirty-seven-story tower in midtown was stabilized, after almost falling over earlier this week. Now Nathan Berman, the real-estate developer behind its renovation, will have to deal with the fallout.
  31. The Story of France vs. Morocco

    Fri, 10 Jul 2026 13:49:57 -0000

    The match began as a snooze, then became a romp. But the brilliance of the French team, and of its biggest star, Kylian Mbappé, shone through.
  32. 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.
  33. 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.
  34. 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.
  35. 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.
  36. V.A.R. and the Rise of Our New Tech Overlords

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

    The World Cup replay system has fostered a very contemporary kind of paranoia about who controls the machines.
  37. Donald Trump’s Needless War with Iran Is His Biggest Economic Blunder

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

    As the midterm elections approach, gas prices have started to rise again, and the President’s poll ratings are in the cellar.
  38. The U.S. Crashes Out of the World Cup

    Tue, 07 Jul 2026 13:49:25 -0000

    Despite a strong start to the tournament, and an egregious intervention by President Trump into FIFA’s suspension of its star striker, the U.S. men’s soccer team couldn’t keep up with Belgium.
  39. A New American Soccer Culture Is Emerging

    Tue, 07 Jul 2026 12:34:18 -0000

    A decade ago, the fandom around Major League Soccer and the U.S. men’s national team was very white and very imitative. That’s starting to change.
  40. Michigan Is the Next Big Test for the Democratic Party

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

    The Senate primary race between Haley Stevens and Abdul El-Sayed reflects the Party’s growing ideological schism, but it’s also a contest of competing campaign styles.
  41. The Race to Be the First Democratic Primary State

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

    How the debate over the first-in-the-nation primary became a battle over the future of the Democratic Party.
  42. Can A.I. Keep a Parent Alive?

    Thu, 09 Jul 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    You can now make a virtual replica of a loved one. The question is what it can give you in return.
  43. Trump and NATO Court Erdoğan, Turkey’s Strongman

    Thu, 09 Jul 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    In Ankara, the leaders of the alliance appeared more concerned about Western geopolitical power than about Western democratic values.
  44. An Inconvenient Moment for an Extreme Global Heat Wave

    Thu, 09 Jul 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    Will it light a fire under politicians?
  45. Graham Platner’s Point of No Return

    Tue, 07 Jul 2026 18:29:20 -0000

    Following an allegation of sexual assault, the Democratic Senate nominee in Maine is considering his future. What would his exit mean for the race, and for the broader direction of American politics?
  46. Donald Trump Celebrates America’s Two-Hundred-and-Fiftieth Birthday

    Fri, 03 Jul 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    At the Great American State Fair, in Washington, D.C., and at the opening of the Theodore Roosevelt Library, in North Dakota, the President casts himself as the rightful heir to American greatness.
  47. The Intimate Legacies of a White-Supremacist Coup

    Fri, 03 Jul 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    A racist takeover in Wilmington, North Carolina, in 1898, has reverberated across generations as a reminder of American democracy’s terrifying vulnerability.