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  1. Bill Cassidy Will Back Todd Blanche as Attorney General, Salvaging His Confirmation

    Fri, 07 Aug 2026 16:46:31 -0000

    The Louisiana senator said that, despite reservations, he would back President Trump’s pick for attorney general, giving Republicans enough votes for a majority.
  2. Prosecutor Sues Justice Dept. Over Dismissal After Right-Wing Influencer’s Claim

    Fri, 07 Aug 2026 17:42:05 -0000

    Will Rosenzweig joins a growing list of former prosecutors and federal agents who have gone to court to contest the purge of law enforcement deemed disloyal.
  3. Don Lemon Accuses Justice Dept. of Vindictive Prosecution in Church Protest Case

    Fri, 07 Aug 2026 17:25:18 -0000

    Lawyers for the former CNN anchor asked a judge to throw out the case, saying prosecutors had “acted on the president’s animus by filing unprecedented charges against a journalist for doing his job.”
  4. Iranians Say Trump’s Promises Have Fallen by the Wayside as Iran War Drags On

    Fri, 07 Aug 2026 16:20:52 -0000

    As President Trump struggles to extricate the United States from the war in Iran, his promises to protesters in the country have fallen by the wayside.
  5. Seized on Their Way to Gaza, Activists Tell of Abuse in Israeli Custody

    Fri, 07 Aug 2026 09:00:14 -0000

    In interviews, more than 20 people who tried to break an Israeli blockade described beatings, electric shocks and other abuse after being captured. Israel denied the accusations.
  6. Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Pakistan Sign Joint Defense Pact

    Fri, 07 Aug 2026 16:29:24 -0000

    The agreement treats an attack on any of the countries as an attack on all, but in a region of volatile rivalries, it was unclear how it would work in practice.
  7. We Thought Tech Would Make War More Precise. We Were Wrong.

    Fri, 07 Aug 2026 13:24:44 -0000

    Until recently, attacking civilian energy infrastructure was unacceptable. The dynamics of modern war have changed that.
  8. Labor Market Shifts Into Reverse as Employers Balk at Hiring

    Fri, 07 Aug 2026 17:54:48 -0000

    A spring surge rapidly faded as the summer brought higher prices and more uncertainty for businesses, even as they avoided layoffs.
  9. The Bond Market Is Signaling Rising Risks. Investors Should Listen.

    Fri, 07 Aug 2026 16:58:58 -0000

    While the Fed didn’t raise rates, the bond market did. That means hardship for home buyers and higher hurdles for A.I. data centers and the stock market. But it’s also a boon for retirees.
  10. Pope Leo XIV Was Elected. The Chicago White Sox Were Resurrected.

    Fri, 07 Aug 2026 10:58:03 -0000

    The elevation of Pope Leo XIV, a Chicago native and lifelong supporter of the Sox, was a godsend for a team failing on the field and with fans.
  11. Abdul El-Sayed Talks About His Victory, Chuck Schumer and His Mom

    Fri, 07 Aug 2026 12:02:45 -0000

    In an interview with The New York Times, Dr. El-Sayed recalled some of his conversations with establishment figures who once opposed his candidacy.
  12. Candidate Field Set After Republicans Redrew Tennessee District Lines

    Fri, 07 Aug 2026 09:02:24 -0000

    Tennessee’s primary elections on Thursday came after Republican legislators carved up the state’s only majority-Black district in a bid to win all nine of the state’s House seats.
  13. An ICE Detention Center Roils a Colorado Town and Jolts a House Race

    Fri, 07 Aug 2026 15:19:22 -0000

    Tiny Hudson, Colo., was mostly known as a speed trap between plains and suburbs. Then ICE announced it was coming, setting off months of protests.
  14. Voter-Registration Error Could Cost Immigrants a Shot at a Green Card

    Thu, 06 Aug 2026 22:21:54 -0000

    New Jersey improperly added as many as 6,600 noncitizens to its voter rolls. Those people could now be forced out of the country.
  15. Twin Falls Embraces Man Who Confronted Idaho In-N-Out Shooting

    Fri, 07 Aug 2026 09:03:50 -0000

    While the motive in the strip mall shooting rampage in Twin Falls, Idaho, remains elusive, a community embraces a bystander who stepped in.
  16. A Drying Danube River Reveals Nazi-Era Vessels, and Hazards of Heat

    Fri, 07 Aug 2026 15:09:38 -0000

    The river’s water levels have fallen as extreme heat has afflicted Europe, exposing sunken German vessels from World War II that are impeding navigation.
  17. Photos Show England Turning Brown in Drought

    Fri, 07 Aug 2026 15:41:33 -0000

    Beset by historically dry weather, much of the nation is losing its signature hue.
  18. Parts of Eastern and Central Europe Broke Heat Records This Week

    Fri, 07 Aug 2026 15:53:09 -0000

    The hot weather has exacerbated dry conditions, creating conditions for wildfires and receding rivers.
  19. Boy Kills Grandparents and Then Five Teachers, Thai Authorities Say

    Fri, 07 Aug 2026 13:47:17 -0000

    A student killed his grandparents before opening fire at his high school and shooting himself, the authorities said. The episode revived a debate about gun laws.
  20. A Naked Bicycle Protest Is Also a Party. Is That Bad?

    Fri, 07 Aug 2026 17:55:22 -0000

    A split among protest groups has led to dueling rides, which combine nudity and cycling in the name of change.
  21. Monica Barbaro and Callum Turner on Rom-Coms and the Politics of ‘One Night Only’

    Fri, 07 Aug 2026 09:01:46 -0000

    In “One Night Only,” Monica Barbaro and Callum Turner play singles living in a world where the government has banned premarital sex. How far-fetched is that?
  22. ‘One Night Only’ Review: A 12-Hour Sexual Reprieve

    Wed, 05 Aug 2026 16:00:05 -0000

    This dystopian rom-com follows Allie (Monica Barbaro) and Owen (Callum Turner), on their parallel hunts for passion.
  23. A Generation on Antidepressants Searches for the Exit

    Fri, 07 Aug 2026 11:12:02 -0000

    Many people feel that antidepressants block their true emotions, but they don’t have guidance about how to get off these drugs.
  24. ‘The First Time I Voted for Donald Trump, I Thought It Was Going to Make a Difference’

    Fri, 07 Aug 2026 13:54:23 -0000

    In Georgia, where Black voters could help decide control of the Senate, Mara Gay asks what they want from America and the Democratic Party.
  25. Curious Minds

    Fri, 07 Aug 2026 10:59:15 -0000

    We’re answering reader questions.
  26. Luigi Mangione Is Facing Two Trials. Isn’t That Double Jeopardy?

    Fri, 07 Aug 2026 11:55:44 -0000

    The legal principle prevents a person from being tried twice for the same crime. But Mr. Mangione’s situation shows how complicated the judicial system can be.
  27. Are Psychedelics Right-Wing Now?

    Fri, 07 Aug 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    How the conservative activist Bryan Hubbard, with help from Rick Perry and Joe Rogan, persuaded Trump and the G.O.P. to embrace ibogaine, a psychedelic drug derived from an African shrub.
  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. 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.
  30. 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.
  31. 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.
  32. Max Miller’s Victim Mentality

    Wed, 05 Aug 2026 22:24:23 -0000

    The Republican congressman’s bitter domestic dispute—in which he’s accused of physical abuse by his ex-wife, the daughter of an Ohio senator—is testing his party’s willingness to defend the indefensible.
  33. 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.
  34. 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.
  35. 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.
  36. 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.
  37. 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.”
  38. 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.
  39. 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.
  40. 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.
  41. 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.
  42. 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.
  43. 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?
  44. Can Extreme Morning Sickness Be Cured?

    Fri, 07 Aug 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    For decades, the condition was thought to be psychological, and women were shamed for their illness. Now a scientist has found a biological cause.
  45. G.P.S. and the Lost Art of Getting Lost

    Thu, 06 Aug 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    A new book, “Little Blue Dot,” by Katherine Dunn, raises questions about the unintended consequences of knowing where we are.
  46. 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.
  47. 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.
  48. 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.
  49. 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.
  50. 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.”
  51. 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.