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  1. How Meta’s $17.1 Billion Social Media Settlement Came Together

    Sat, 29 Aug 2026 11:00:06 -0000

    State attorneys general spent months in negotiations. Then, as its legal losses mounted, the social media giant’s new top lawyer brought a huge settlement to the table.
  2. What’s Changing For Teens on Instagram and Facebook After Meta Settlement

    Wed, 26 Aug 2026 18:22:32 -0000

    Meta agreed to set more time limits and enhance protections in its platforms for young users, but was short on some specifics.
  3. Trump Says U.S. Struck Deal for Control of More Than 65 Billion Barrels of Venezuela’s Oil

    Sat, 29 Aug 2026 14:30:17 -0000

    The president said an agreement between the countries covered more than 65 billion barrels of reserves. A U.S. official said it would involve a partnership with a private company.
  4. For Trump, the Iran War Is Stuck Between Combat and Genuine Peace

    Fri, 28 Aug 2026 22:35:40 -0000

    The war has deteriorated over the past six months into Mr. Trump’s own version of a “forever war,” with no clear goals and no end in sight.
  5. ‘Lake America’? These Upstate New Yorkers Aren’t Letting Go of ‘Ontario.’

    Sat, 29 Aug 2026 00:41:18 -0000

    President Trump on Thursday signed an order rechristening Lake Ontario as Lake America, but businesses around Niagara Falls say they won’t be changing their tune.
  6. Judge Rules Trump Unlawfully Targeted Stanford Students Who Criticized Israel

    Sat, 29 Aug 2026 14:09:12 -0000

    The ruling was a win for Stanford’s student newspaper, The Stanford Daily, and it followed another court victory for students targeted by the Trump administration last year.
  7. Political Campaigns Are Quietly Paying Influencers to Support Candidates

    Sat, 29 Aug 2026 15:31:44 -0000

    Their videos have proliferated on social media, but the payments are frequently hidden from viewers.
  8. In Georgia, Jon Ossoff Courts Broad Appeal With an Anti-Trump Script for Senate Race

    Sat, 29 Aug 2026 15:25:22 -0000

    Senator Jon Ossoff, the youngest sitting senator and the only Democrat seeking re-election this year in a state President Trump won in 2024, hasn’t moderated his message in his critical race.
  9. High Debt and Rising Prices Catch Up to Trump, as Midterms Near

    Sat, 29 Aug 2026 14:54:48 -0000

    To win in 2024, the president promised an economic course correction. Almost two years later, his agenda has made that fight even harder.
  10. One Democrat to Face Three Republicans for Alaska Governor

    Sat, 29 Aug 2026 13:01:46 -0000

    The second-place finisher in a primary where the top four advance to the November ballot said he would drop out of the race so voters could coalesce behind a single Democratic candidate.
  11. Search Continues for 2,400 Missing in Nepal Floods Amid ‘Immense’ Devastation

    Sat, 29 Aug 2026 15:43:21 -0000

    As rescue efforts entered their fourth day, the scale of destruction came into focus, signaling a daunting recovery for the vulnerable nation.
  12. Catastrophic Flood Exposes the Risks of Nepal’s Hydropower Bet

    Sat, 29 Aug 2026 09:23:10 -0000

    The loss of power-generating capacity has raised questions about an ambitious expansion of renewable energy in one of the world’s most hazard-prone mountain regions.
  13. Nepali City Struggles to Handle the Many Bodies on Its Riverbanks

    Sat, 29 Aug 2026 15:05:20 -0000

    The remains of hundreds of people have washed downstream after devastating floods.
  14. 37 Killed After Russian Strike on Weapons Depot as Ukraine Blames Negligence

    Sat, 29 Aug 2026 14:40:22 -0000

    The depot, which was in a civilian area near Kyiv, “definitely shouldn’t have been there,” President Volodymyr Zelensky said.
  15. Unstable Manhattan Building Had More Damaged Columns Than Previously Known

    Fri, 28 Aug 2026 22:33:35 -0000

    Drawings obtained by The New York Times and reviewed by engineers show insufficient reinforcements on eight more steel columns than previously known at a Manhattan building.
  16. Ina Garten Says You Can Either Get on Her Train or Get Out of the Way

    Sat, 29 Aug 2026 09:15:07 -0000

    At 78, the cookbook author and Food Network host knows what she likes, knows what she wants and isn’t stopping anytime soon.
  17. Goodbye, Harry and Meghan. Turns Out We Didn’t Need Actual Royals.

    Sat, 29 Aug 2026 12:21:14 -0000

    With their departure, can America please shake off its obsession with royalty?
  18. Democrats Have an Identity Politics Problem. Just Not the One You Think.

    Sat, 29 Aug 2026 14:19:04 -0000

    Instead of rallying around their candidates, Democrats are falling out among themselves.
  19. Fast Forward

    Sat, 29 Aug 2026 09:22:54 -0000

    How do we balance our desire for modern conveniences with our nostalgia for the uncomplicated felicity of our pre-internet past?
  20. With Shoppers Wary of Illness, Farmers Destroy Millions of Heads of Lettuce

    Sat, 29 Aug 2026 09:00:49 -0000

    After a drop in demand driven by a nationwide outbreak of cyclosporiasis, California growers are plowing lettuce back into the soil and laying off workers.
  21. How Alex Eala Became a Symbol of the Philippines

    Sat, 29 Aug 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    At only twenty-one, the tennis phenom is likely already the best-ever player from Southeast Asia. Now she is seeking her first Grand Slam title at this summer’s U.S. Open.
  22. The Big, Dumb, Gluttonous Fun of America’s Semiquincentennial

    Mon, 17 Aug 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    In D.C. and the Dakotas, at rodeos and powwows, celebrating the country means taking in pride and disappointment and fellow-feeling.
  23. How Far Will the Trump Administration Go to Deport Mahmoud Khalil?

    Mon, 17 Aug 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    Khalil protested Israel as a student at Columbia. Now he’s on the verge of being kicked out of the country.
  24. The Children a Scientist Took Home

    Mon, 17 Aug 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    Carleton Gajdusek won the Nobel Prize for his work on a disease in Papua New Guinea. But his biggest experiment was on the children he took back to the U.S.
  25. The End of the European Summer

    Mon, 17 Aug 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    As extreme heat overwhelms the Continent’s great cities, they are racing to transform themselves for a climate that they were never built to withstand.
  26. The Floods Nepal Didn’t Cause

    Sat, 29 Aug 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    Flash floods, triggered by a glacial collapse in the Himalayas, have killed at least five hundred people in a nation that has contributed little to climate change but is disproportionately affected by it.
  27. How the Meta Settlement Could Change the Internet

    Fri, 28 Aug 2026 19:48:22 -0000

    Even while refusing to admit legal fault, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram has accepted, for the first time, that much of its business model is unacceptable for children.
  28. Could Data Centers Swing an Election in Wisconsin?

    Fri, 28 Aug 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    As A.I. becomes increasingly unpopular among voters, the politics of data centers are scrambling political lines across the country—including in a tight race for the Wisconsin governor’s mansion.
  29. Adam Hamilton and Taking Back Religion from the Right

    Wed, 26 Aug 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    Democratic socialists are getting more of the attention, but Democratic Christians may prove more influential this November.
  30. Why Israeli Authorities Are Encouraging Settler Violence Against Palestinians

    Mon, 24 Aug 2026 22:30:10 -0000

    The retired I.D.F. colonel Doron Meiner, who was arrested while trying to protect a Palestinian community from settlers in the West Bank, discusses Israel’s strategy in the run-up to October’s election.
  31. 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.
  32. 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.”
  33. 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.
  34. How the Job Market Will Shape the Next Generation

    Tue, 25 Aug 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    Young people are already discontented. It’s not going to get better anytime soon.
  35. The Humbling of Scott Bessent

    Mon, 24 Aug 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    Thirty-odd years ago, the Treasury Secretary was one of the speculators who broke the Bank of England in a famous trade. Now he’s on the other side of the markets, struggling to contain rising bond yields.
  36. How I Became a Subaru Socialist

    Tue, 18 Aug 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    By the time Bernie Sanders ran for President, in 2015, I was financially secure. But the previous decade had left a mark.
  37. A Trump Grift Too Far?

    Mon, 17 Aug 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    A scheme to charge Wall Street traders for an early look at the President’s comments on Truth Social has generated outrage and a lawsuit.
  38. New Maps Show How Israel Has Thwarted Hopes for a Palestinian State

    Sat, 29 Aug 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    The breakneck expansion of settlements in the West Bank has rendered American talk of a two-state solution increasingly irrelevant.
  39. What If Canada Joined the E.U.?

    Thu, 27 Aug 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    The Trump Administration’s trade war with Canada has pushed a fringe idea into mainstream conversation, on both sides of the Atlantic.
  40. The Great Floating Homes of Los Angeles

    Thu, 27 Aug 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    In the city’s burnt neighborhoods, rebuilding is brutally expensive. Now residents have turned to a lost art: moving entire houses to their vacant lots.
  41. South Carolina Republican Senate-Primary-Runoff Results: Darline Graham Wins

    Tue, 25 Aug 2026 15:02:19 -0000

    Graham defeated Ralph Norman to earn the G.O.P.’s nomination in November’s general election.
  42. Is R.F.K., Jr., Winning or Losing?

    Tue, 25 Aug 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    A case for cautious optimism about the Trump Administration’s war on vaccines.
  43. Does Anybody Know Who Darline Graham Is?

    Mon, 24 Aug 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    Lindsey Graham’s younger sister, who was appointed to his South Carolina Senate seat upon his death, may soon be elected to a full term. Political insiders say she is a “black box.”
  44. Iran Is Using Foreign Criminals to Attack Its Critics Overseas

    Mon, 24 Aug 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    Pouria Zeraati, a dissident who was living in London, was stabbed by a group of Romanian thugs. His case is part of a widening campaign by the Iranian regime to silence its detractors.
  45. Sean Duffy in the Real World

    Sun, 23 Aug 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    Donald Trump’s Transportation Secretary got his big break on reality TV, and is now out with a six-part YouTube show about a family road trip. How bad could it be?