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  1. Second Strike Scrutiny Obscures Larger Question About Trump’s Boat Attacks

    Fri, 05 Dec 2025 02:49:58 -0000

    Congress is focusing on two deaths in one strike. But nine other people died in that same attack, and the United States has killed 83 in all. Were any of those killings legal?
  2. Boat Strike Video Shown to Lawmakers

    Fri, 05 Dec 2025 03:02:07 -0000

    Two survivors of the attack were said to struggle to cling to the boat before a second strike. After the briefing with lawmakers, the military disclosed a boat strike on Thursday that killed four people.
  3. Takeaways From the Pentagon Investigation on Hegseth’s Use of Signal

    Thu, 04 Dec 2025 20:48:02 -0000

    The inspector general concluded that the defense secretary violated the Pentagon’s instructions on using a private electronic device to share sensitive information.
  4. Supreme Court Clears Way for Texas Redistricting Maps Pushed by Trump

    Fri, 05 Dec 2025 00:26:09 -0000

    Texas officials had asked the court to allow the state to use the new maps in the midterm elections, part of a push by President Trump to gain a partisan advantage.
  5. Florida Republicans Start Redistricting Talks, but Some Aren’t in a Rush

    Fri, 05 Dec 2025 00:39:54 -0000

    Redistricting talks in Florida got off to a slow start on Thursday, as state lawmakers grapple with political and legal questions amid internal power struggles.
  6. Trump Trumpets Peace in Africa Amid War on Drug Boats, in Day of Dissonance

    Fri, 05 Dec 2025 00:59:09 -0000

    President Trump presided over a Congo-Rwanda peace deal on the same day his administration was being questioned about potential war crimes.
  7. Trump Switches Architects for White House Ballroom Project

    Fri, 05 Dec 2025 02:19:10 -0000

    The president had clashed with the original designer and insisted on increasing the size and scope of the ballroom on a short timeline.
  8. Days After Trump Pardoned One Honduran Politician, Another Gets 22 Years

    Thu, 04 Dec 2025 22:21:15 -0000

    President Trump pardoned the former Honduran president, who had been convicted for drug trafficking. Midence Oqueli Martinez Turcios, a former congressman, got nearly 22 years.
  9. Her Roof Was About to Be Fixed. Then Immigration Agents Showed Up.

    Thu, 04 Dec 2025 22:15:57 -0000

    The Trump administration’s deportation agenda is reverberating beyond immigrant communities as agents begin fanning out around New Orleans.
  10. ICE Separates Boy, 6, From Father During Effort to Deport Them to China

    Fri, 05 Dec 2025 03:06:51 -0000

    The child and his father fled China earlier this year and the boy had just been enrolled in school. Federal officials have tried and failed to send them back.
  11. Tim Walz Calls Trump’s Tirade Against Somalis in Minnesota ‘Vile’

    Thu, 04 Dec 2025 23:45:06 -0000

    Minnesota’s governor said the president’s xenophobic remarks were dangerous as the state continued to face fiscal questions about a fraud scandal.
  12. Best TV Shows of 2025

    Thu, 04 Dec 2025 17:09:36 -0000

    Many of the year’s best series seemed to be in conversation with one another, including “Severance,” “The Pitt,” “Andor,” “Pluribus,” “The Lowdown” and others.
  13. Suspect Arrested in Inquiry Into Pipe Bombs in D.C. Ahead of Jan. 6 Riot

    Thu, 04 Dec 2025 22:38:25 -0000

    The suspect was described as a 30-year-old man from Prince William County, Va. His arrest could ultimately provide an answer to one of the mysteries arising from the Jan. 6. attack.
  14. Inside RFK Jr.’s Methodical Quest to Shake Up America’s Vaccine System

    Thu, 04 Dec 2025 21:55:11 -0000

    The health secretary has walled himself off from government scientists and empowered fellow activists to pursue his vaccine agenda.
  15. Vaccine Advisory Panel Again Postpones Vote on Hepatitis B Shot for Newborns

    Thu, 04 Dec 2025 21:41:55 -0000

    After heated disagreements, the committee members, appointed by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., delayed the vote until Friday morning. It was the third time the vote had been postponed.
  16. In Her 90s, a Painter Finally Confronts Her Nazi Trauma

    Thu, 04 Dec 2025 19:58:31 -0000

    Cornelia Foss, better known as a confidante to other artists than as an artist herself, has put aside landscape painting for something far more visceral.
  17. Where Is Jacob? His Mother Won’t Say, and the Police Cannot Find Him.

    Fri, 05 Dec 2025 03:19:51 -0000

    Jacob Pritchett, 11, has been missing for months. A judge has said his mother must remain at Rikers Island until she reveals his whereabouts.
  18. Eurovision Is in Turmoil as Israel’s Participation Leads to Boycott

    Thu, 04 Dec 2025 21:56:25 -0000

    The Netherlands and Slovenia also said they would not take part in next year’s contest, meant to be its celebratory 70th edition.
  19. Meta Weighs Cuts to Its Metaverse Unit

    Thu, 04 Dec 2025 22:15:14 -0000

    Meta plans to direct its investments to focus on wearables like its augmented reality glasses but does not plan to abandon building the metaverse.
  20. Macron Urges Xi to Help End War in Ukraine

    Thu, 04 Dec 2025 10:03:34 -0000

    As President Emmanuel Macron of France visited China, its leader, Xi Jinping, said his country would play a constructive role in ending the fighting.
  21. Amid Russian Sabotage, U.K. Points Finger at Putin Over Novichok Death

    Fri, 05 Dec 2025 01:42:21 -0000

    A British woman died from exposure to a nerve agent because of a botched assassination plot that the Russian leader must have authorized, an official report found.
  22. What to Know About Putin’s Visit to India as Oil Trade Dries Up

    Thu, 04 Dec 2025 15:01:46 -0000

    The Trump administration, which crippled Russia’s oil sales to India with sanctions, will be watching Mr. Putin’s talks with Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
  23. Ilhan Omar: Somali Americans Aren’t Afraid of Trump’s Bigotry

    Thu, 04 Dec 2025 19:46:04 -0000

    Attacks on Somali Americans are a cruel distraction.
  24. The One Child Policy’s Legacy: A Surplus of Single Men

    Fri, 05 Dec 2025 01:17:23 -0000

    A decade after the end of the one-child policy, China has over 30 million so-called surplus men. Can this dating boot camp help them find love?
  25. Lawmakers Split on the Military’s Defense of Boat Strikes

    Fri, 05 Dec 2025 01:49:09 -0000

    Also, a man was arrested on charges of planting pipe bombs before Jan. 6. Here’s the latest at the end of Thursday.
  26. Stellantis Is in Default for Moving Jeep Production to U.S., Canada Says

    Fri, 05 Dec 2025 02:09:35 -0000

    The automaker switched production from Ontario in a bid to please President Trump. But the company defaulted on contracts covering hundreds of millions of dollars in assistance, Canada said.
  27. Human Remains Found Buried at San Diego Home

    Fri, 05 Dec 2025 02:55:09 -0000

    Prosecutors are looking at potential connections to a former resident, who faces a murder charge in another case.
  28. Biden to Attend First Event for Presidential Library

    Thu, 04 Dec 2025 21:35:47 -0000

    His plans for the library have been slow to take shape, but he has invited potential donors to a holiday reception in Washington this month.
  29. Charles Norman Shay, Tribal Elder and World War II Hero, Dies at 101

    Thu, 04 Dec 2025 19:08:54 -0000

    As a 19-year-old medic, he won a Silver Star for his service during D-Day. Later, in the Korean War, he earned a Bronze Star.
  30. War Is Peace, the Dozing Don Edition

    Fri, 05 Dec 2025 00:37:11 -0000

    The outcry grows over Trump's undeclared war in the Caribbean.
  31. When Participating in Politics Puts Your Life at Risk

    Mon, 01 Dec 2025 11:00:00 -0000

    During the Trump era, political violence has become an increasingly urgent problem. Elected officials from both parties are struggling to respond.
  32. A Very Big Fight Over a Very Small Language

    Mon, 01 Dec 2025 11:00:00 -0000

    In the Swiss Alps, a plan to tidy up Romansh—spoken by less than one per cent of the country—set off a decades-long quarrel over identity, belonging, and the sound of authenticity.
  33. How the Sports Stadium Went Luxe

    Mon, 01 Dec 2025 11:00:00 -0000

    Is the race to create ever more lavish spectator offerings in America’s largest entertainment venues changing the fan experience?
  34. Can Trump’s Peace Initiative Stop the Congo’s Thirty-Year War?

    Mon, 24 Nov 2025 11:00:00 -0000

    The President declared a diplomatic triumph. The view from the ground is more complex.
  35. Mikie Sherrill Intends to Move Fast

    Thu, 04 Dec 2025 11:00:00 -0000

    Sherrill, the governor-elect of New Jersey, argues that if Democrats don’t learn to work at Donald Trump’s pace, “we’re going to get played.”
  36. What America Can Learn from Its Largest Wildfire of the Year

    Wed, 03 Dec 2025 11:00:00 -0000

    When Dragon Bravo ignited, in Grand Canyon National Park, officials decided to let it burn. Then the fire spread out of control.
  37. The Dishonorable Strikes on Venezuelan Boats

    Tue, 02 Dec 2025 01:08:32 -0000

    New reporting suggests that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth violated multiple rules of war.
  38. The Undermining of the C.D.C.

    Sun, 30 Nov 2025 11:00:00 -0000

    The Department of Health and Human Services maintains that it is hewing to “gold standard, evidence-based science”—doublespeak that might unsettle Orwell.
  39. The Legal Consequences of Pete Hegseth’s “Kill Them All” Order

    Mon, 01 Dec 2025 20:57:57 -0000

    A former military judge on the Trump Administration’s contradictory—and likely unlawful—justifications for its Caribbean bombing campaign.
  40. How M.B.S. Won Back Washington

    Tue, 18 Nov 2025 21:43:55 -0000

    After the killing of Jamal Khashoggi, the Saudi leader became a pariah. He’s been slowly rehabilitated, and is now being celebrated in the Oval Office.
  41. How the Conflict in Sudan Became a Humanitarian Catastrophe

    Tue, 18 Nov 2025 11:00:00 -0000

    After a coup devolved into open warfare, countries across the region have pursued their own policy and commercial interests by backing one side or the other.
  42. What the Democrats’ Good Night Means for 2026 and Beyond

    Wed, 05 Nov 2025 19:05:20 -0000

    The senior elections analyst at RealClearPolitics on what the Party might’ve learned, and how the electorate is changing.
  43. What Can Economists Agree on These Days?

    Mon, 01 Dec 2025 11:00:00 -0000

    A new book, “The London Consensus,” offers a framework for rethinking economic policy in a fractured age of inequality, populism, and political crisis.
  44. The N.B.A.’s Breakneck Momentum

    Sun, 30 Nov 2025 11:00:00 -0000

    Are the higher speed and intensity that have made the game so fun to watch the very forces that are sidelining its stars with injuries?
  45. Jeffrey Epstein, Marjorie Taylor Greene, and the Future of American Politics

    Tue, 25 Nov 2025 11:00:00 -0000

    Life after Trump may not be what we expect.
  46. The Odd, Shifting Role of the N.F.L. Punter

    Sun, 23 Nov 2025 11:00:00 -0000

    He is the vestigial organ of a football team, a remnant of the time before the forward pass. And yet, now and again, he can be vitally important.
  47. What are Putin’s Ultimate Demands for Peace in Ukraine?

    Thu, 27 Nov 2025 11:00:00 -0000

    The Trump Administration has claimed that it’s nearing a deal to end the war, but, for now, the conflict’s essential impasse still holds: Moscow won’t accept what Kyiv can stomach.
  48. Ukrainian Men Approaching Military Age Are Fleeing in Droves

    Tue, 25 Nov 2025 18:53:52 -0000

    A new policy has led to an exodus of male citizens. Will they return if the war ends?
  49. Big Apple Jackpot

    Mon, 24 Nov 2025 11:00:00 -0000

    Inside the fight to bring casinos to New York City.
  50. For Trump, “Fostering the Future” Looks a Lot Like the Past

    Sun, 23 Nov 2025 11:00:00 -0000

    By putting the religious rights of potential foster parents above the civil rights of L.G.B.T.Q. youth, a new executive order reënacts the original sin of the child-welfare system.
  51. The Justice Department Hits a New Low with the Epstein Files

    Sun, 23 Nov 2025 11:00:00 -0000

    Not only is the department’s behavior not normal; it is also, as is becoming increasingly clear, self-defeating.
  52. Dick Cheney’s Long, Strange Goodbye

    Thu, 20 Nov 2025 23:51:38 -0000

    On seeing Rachel Maddow at the former Vice-President’s funeral, while Donald Trump threatened Democrats on social media with death by hanging.
  53. A Startup’s Bid to Dim the Sun

    Thu, 20 Nov 2025 19:15:47 -0000

    The gloomy arguments in favor of solar geoengineering are compelling; so are the even gloomier counter-arguments.
  54. The Sikh-Separatist Assassination Plot

    Wed, 19 Nov 2025 19:17:52 -0000

    A murder in Canada and an attempted one in New York suggest a transnational campaign of violence that has imperilled Indian diplomacy with the West.