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  1. Facing Quagmire in Iran, Trump Turns to a Familiar Face: North Korea’s Kim Jong-un

    Mon, 17 Aug 2026 23:24:59 -0000

    Seven years ago, President Trump failed to disarm North Korea and walked away. Could the same thing happen with Iran?
  2. As Iran Truce Expires and Options Shrivel, Trump Lashes Out

    Mon, 17 Aug 2026 20:02:21 -0000

    President Trump took aim at Oman, a U.S. ally that has been mediating the talks, as efforts to end a war he started have faltered.
  3. Kushner Meets Netanyahu in Israel in Effort to Break Logjam Over Gaza

    Mon, 17 Aug 2026 21:23:29 -0000

    Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel has refused to pull back the country’s military until Hamas fully disarms. But the Trump administration is under pressure to show progress.
  4. Trump Threatens a Middle East Mediator

    Tue, 18 Aug 2026 00:56:26 -0000

    Also, killings plunge in Baltimore. Here’s the latest at the end of Monday.
  5. Lake Powell Hits Lowest Level On Record As Water Crisis Continues

    Mon, 17 Aug 2026 23:51:38 -0000

    Levels in Lakes Mead and Powell have not been so low since 1957, underscoring a water crisis that plagues seven states that rely on the Colorado River.
  6. ‘Buy Now, Pay Later’ Lenders Pitch Loans for Needs Like Electricity and Rent

    Mon, 17 Aug 2026 19:53:24 -0000

    The rapid growth of pay-later loans raises questions about whether their popularity is driven by consumer preference or desperation.
  7. Family Presses for Information About Fatal ICE Shooting in Maine

    Tue, 18 Aug 2026 00:50:59 -0000

    The Department of Homeland Security said there would be an investigation. But so far little has been disclosed about the killing last month.
  8. Border Construction in Big Bend Is Halted After Drawing Criticism

    Mon, 17 Aug 2026 19:30:25 -0000

    The Trump administration has been carving a path through some of the beloved national park’s major natural attractions.
  9. Appeals Court Rejects Trump’s Strategy of Picking U.S. Attorneys

    Mon, 17 Aug 2026 22:37:18 -0000

    It was the second federal appellate decision to take issue with the administration’s custom of leaving interim prosecutors in place to lead U.S. attorney’s offices to circumvent congressional approval.
  10. Hayden Panettiere Was in Cardiac Arrest When Authorities Responded to 911 Call

    Tue, 18 Aug 2026 01:46:58 -0000

    After the authorities responded to a 911 call in Greenville, S.C., an initial police investigation found no evidence of “foul play or suspicious circumstances.”
  11. Hayden Panettiere’s Best Performances: Where to Stream

    Mon, 17 Aug 2026 19:02:41 -0000

    The actress was a staple of two popular network TV dramas and had memorable early-career roles in film.
  12. Elizabeth Smart Is Rethinking the True-Crime Podcast

    Mon, 17 Aug 2026 09:02:31 -0000

    Her abduction as a child became a national story. In a new true crime podcast, Smart speaks to survivors of violent crimes about what they endured and the lifelong process of healing.
  13. Mary Peltola Shakes Up Campaign Staff Days Before Alaska’s Senate Primary

    Mon, 17 Aug 2026 21:36:10 -0000

    Ms. Peltola, the Democratic Senate candidate, fired a longtime senior aide and named a new campaign manager.
  14. Trump to Travel to Myrtle Beach to Rally for Darline Graham

    Mon, 17 Aug 2026 22:19:44 -0000

    The sister of Lindsey Graham was appointed to his Senate seat on an interim basis. She must win a runoff next week against a conservative House member to serve a full six-year term.
  15. Trump Votes by Mail Again in Florida

    Tue, 18 Aug 2026 01:41:42 -0000

    The president also voted by mail in 2020 and in a Florida special election in March, even as he has railed against the practice and equated it to cheating.
  16. Florida Race to Replace Byron Donalds Features Candidates Who Have Already Run for Congress

    Tue, 18 Aug 2026 00:48:36 -0000

    We look at the crowded race to replace Byron Donalds.
  17. How One Woman With a Very Rare Disease Secured a Clinical Trial

    Mon, 17 Aug 2026 20:17:31 -0000

    Through sheer determination, Neena Nizar has become the first patient in a clinical trial testing a treatment for her disease — one so rare it affects just 30 people worldwide.
  18. More U.S. Parents Opting Children Out of Vaccine Requirements, C.D.C. Reports

    Tue, 18 Aug 2026 01:13:16 -0000

    New data on exemptions from state vaccine mandates for schoolchildren come a week after President Trump signed an executive order calling to scale back childhood shots.
  19. AI Slop Is Everywhere. Spotify, LinkedIn and Others Have Had Enough.

    Mon, 17 Aug 2026 19:51:10 -0000

    Spotify, LinkedIn and others are trying to dig out of a digital sewage heap full of low-quality content made with artificial intelligence.
  20. Nvidia to Back Ohio Data Center With as Much as $105 Billion

    Mon, 17 Aug 2026 21:13:00 -0000

    The data center, one of the world’s largest, could cost as much as $500 billion and will be leased by OpenAI.
  21. After Jason Arday’s Death, Mistaken Calls for Censorship

    Tue, 18 Aug 2026 01:28:36 -0000

    Some who once championed Arday seem to be trying to deflect from their own embarrassing credulity.
  22. What We Know About Damages From Hurricane Lala in Hawaii

    Mon, 17 Aug 2026 20:28:03 -0000

    The storm narrowly missed land, but its outer bands left the Big Island with power outages, road closures and flooded homes.
  23. 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.
  24. 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.
  25. The Scientist Who Lived with Dozens of Children from the Pacific Islands

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

    Carleton Gajdusek won the Nobel 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.
  26. 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.
  27. The Doulas Who Help Us Die

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

    In an aging America, thousands of people have adopted a new vocation: supporting others as they confront the end of life.
  28. Donald Trump Is Still Trying to Make It Harder to Vote

    Sun, 16 Aug 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    The SAVE America Act is just one part of a package that includes an executive order and threats of prosecution, all in an effort to make Trump’s math work.
  29. How Trump Is Trying to Weaken Migrant Children’s Legal Defense

    Sat, 15 Aug 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    After failing to eliminate funding for unaccompanied minors’ lawyers altogether, the Administration is pushing cases toward entities that lack both immigration expertise and the capacity to take them on.
  30. Is D.N.C. Chair the Worst Job in Washington?

    Thu, 13 Aug 2026 16:13:00 -0000

    The organization is holding its annual summer meeting, and onlookers are calling for the head of its leader, Ken Martin. Then again, the Democrats are always doing that kind of thing.
  31. Who Killed Lorenzo Salgado Araujo?

    Thu, 13 Aug 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    A death during an ICE traffic stop raises outrage in Houston—and in Mexico.
  32. 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.
  33. 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.”
  34. 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.
  35. 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.
  36. 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.
  37. The Red Sox Cannot Be Made to Make Any Sense

    Sun, 16 Aug 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    Teams get hot, then cold; they get lucky, then unlucky. Records rarely paint a full picture of a season—especially for fans determined to believe in another comeback story.
  38. If A.I. Takes the Jobs of Young People, How Will They React?

    Tue, 11 Aug 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    The Democratic electorate is already moving left, but that may be nothing compared with what happens when unemployment really starts to rise.
  39. What Does the Humbling of Leopold Aschenbrenner Mean for the A.I. Bubble?

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

    The troubles of a twenty-four-year-old hedge-fund manager highlight some larger questions about the tech-driven stock boom.
  40. Bernie Sanders Takes on Data Centers

    Fri, 14 Aug 2026 18:00:00 -0000

    The Vermont senator co-sponsored a bill that calls for a moratorium on building data centers. He discusses the environmental and economic concerns, and what the government can do.
  41. Israel’s Leaders Find Allies Among the Global Far Right

    Thu, 13 Aug 2026 17:36:48 -0000

    Support for the nation is becoming an increasingly polarizing issue in politics around the world.
  42. What Francesca Hong’s Defeat Means for Democrats

    Wed, 12 Aug 2026 18:23:56 -0000

    The democratic socialist’s rise in Wisconsin was supposed to portend a major breakthrough for the left. Her narrow loss should still be a wake-up call for the Party’s establishment.
  43. Minnesota Primary-Election Results

    Wed, 12 Aug 2026 13:37:23 -0000

    Peggy Flanagan wins the state’s Democratic primary for U.S. Senate; Mike Lindell, a close ally to President Donald Trump, loses the Republican gubernatorial primary.
  44. South Carolina Primary-Election Results: Graham and Norman Advance

    Wed, 12 Aug 2026 13:37:02 -0000

    In the special Republican primary to replace Senator Lindsey Graham, who passed away in July, his sister Darline Graham and Representative Ralph Norman will move on to a runoff election in late August.
  45. Wisconsin Primary-Election Results: David Crowley Wins

    Wed, 12 Aug 2026 13:36:31 -0000

    The Milwaukee County executive defeated Francesca Hong, a Democratic Socialist who was widely considered the front-runner in the Democratic primary for governor.
  46. What a Blighted Beach Town Says About England’s Forgotten North

    Wed, 12 Aug 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    Blackpool, a vacation spot known as the Vegas of the North, has become a symbol of working-class fun.
  47. An Israeli Satirist’s Bid to Save His Country’s Democracy

    Tue, 11 Aug 2026 15:25:35 -0000

    Lior Schleien used to host hit TV shows. Now he posts videos of discussions with young people, the majority of whom currently tend right, which garner millions of views.