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  1. Supreme Court Voting Rights Ruling Could Fuel New Era of Redistricting Wars

    Thu, 30 Apr 2026 19:56:03 -0000

    The expected flood of new congressional maps is likely to produce fewer competitive districts, fewer ways for voters to hold elected officials accountable and more polarized politics.
  2. After Supreme Court Decision, Louisiana Weighs Redrawing House Maps

    Thu, 30 Apr 2026 22:23:15 -0000

    The Louisiana secretary of state said the House primary election would be delayed after the court ruled the state’s congressional districts unconstitutional. The Senate primary will go forward on May 16.
  3. How the Voting Rights Decision May Block the Rise of Young Black Leaders

    Thu, 30 Apr 2026 16:39:29 -0000

    Black Democrats in the South already face steep challenges when seeking political office. But the Supreme Court’s ruling could be felt for a generation.
  4. The Homeland Security Shutdown Ends

    Thu, 30 Apr 2026 22:11:36 -0000

    Also, Maine’s governor bows out of a crucial Senate race. Here’s the latest at the end of Thursday.
  5. Comey Indictment Shows Justice Dept. Got the Message From Bondi’s Firing

    Thu, 30 Apr 2026 22:46:32 -0000

    In naming only an interim successor as acting attorney general, President Trump has established even greater incentives to execute his most extreme demands, current and former officials say.
  6. Trump Picks Nicole Saphier for Surgeon General After Withdrawing Casey Means Nomination

    Thu, 30 Apr 2026 22:15:31 -0000

    Dr. Means’s nomination had stalled in part over her views on vaccines. The president said he was instead nominating Dr. Nicole B. Saphier, a radiologist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.
  7. Crop Undercount Raises Questions About Reliability of U.S.D.A. Data

    Thu, 30 Apr 2026 15:22:40 -0000

    Corn estimates were off by 4.5 million acres last year. A lack of survey responses, not job cuts, led to the miss, the Agriculture Department said.
  8. Hegseth Says Iran Cease-Fire Stops Clock for Congressional Approval

    Thu, 30 Apr 2026 22:18:25 -0000

    The defense secretary testified on the eve of the 60-day mark of the war, a major statutory deadline for the president to withdraw forces or seek approval from Congress to continue the fight.
  9. How Trump’s Iran Blockade Is Complicating a High-Stakes Trip to China

    Thu, 30 Apr 2026 16:23:27 -0000

    If President Trump flies to China as planned in May, the primary topic will clearly be the rippling economic effects of a war that Beijing has made clear it viewed as unnecessary.
  10. Hezbollah Using Fiber-Optic Drones Against Israeli Targets

    Thu, 30 Apr 2026 21:10:18 -0000

    The Lebanese militant group is attacking Israeli troops with explosive drones controlled by fiber-optic cables, like those commonly used in the war in Ukraine.
  11. Iran’s Supreme Leader Signals Plan to Maintain Control Over Strait of Hormuz

    Thu, 30 Apr 2026 16:41:26 -0000

    Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei said in a statement that Iran would establish “new legal frameworks” for the Strait of Hormuz. He also said his country would retain its nuclear capabilities.
  12. Decoding the King: Brits Hear Subtle Rebuke to Trump that Americans Might Miss

    Thu, 30 Apr 2026 22:10:11 -0000

    Royal watchers in Britain called the visit of King Charles III to America a master class in understated criticism.
  13. Last on King Charles’s U.S. Tour: A Potluck and a Win for Scottish Whisky

    Thu, 30 Apr 2026 22:35:40 -0000

    King Charles III and Queen Camilla had a ceremonial farewell at the White House before attending a block party in Front Royal, Va.
  14. ‘The Devil Wears Prada 2’ Review: A Rhapsody in Cerulean

    Thu, 30 Apr 2026 17:52:41 -0000

    In this sequel, Andy (Anne Hathaway) and Miranda (Meryl Streep) encounter a series of crises that set the stage for a larger, existential catastrophe.
  15. For Many in Maine, No Tears Over Mills’s Exit From Senate Race

    Thu, 30 Apr 2026 21:49:38 -0000

    Voters who watched Gov. Janet Mills struggle to gain traction in the Democratic Senate primary said they were unsurprised — and in many cases, relieved — to see her exit.
  16. Mills Exit Is a Blow to Schumer as Democrats Question His Strategy

    Thu, 30 Apr 2026 19:51:20 -0000

    Senator Chuck Schumer, the New York Democrat and minority leader, considered the Maine governor his top recruit for winning the majority. Critics said her collapse showed he is out of touch with the party’s voters.
  17. Jeffrey Epstein’s Possible Suicide Note Hidden From Public View

    Thu, 30 Apr 2026 21:55:18 -0000

    An inmate said he discovered the note after Mr. Epstein was found injured in his jail cell, weeks before his death. It’s now locked in a courthouse.
  18. Epstein Victims’ Pursuit of Justice Finds a New Venue: Albany, N.Y.

    Thu, 30 Apr 2026 16:52:49 -0000

    Two victims of Jeffrey Epstein will testify at the State Capitol next week in support of a bill that would enable them to seek punitive damages from his estate.
  19. Sheinbaum’s Dilemma in Mexico: Defy the U.S. or Arrest an Ally

    Thu, 30 Apr 2026 20:34:54 -0000

    The Trump administration wants President Claudia Sheinbaum to arrest a Mexican governor. She is faced with few good options in response.
  20. Is Yoko Ono Still Our Most Radical Artist?

    Thu, 30 Apr 2026 18:35:46 -0000

    In the 1960s, she invited an audience to cut off her clothes. As attacks on women’s rights escalate, “Cut Piece” and other decades-old works of feminist art feel more relevant than ever.
  21. Nigerian Military Runs a Fulani ‘Concentration Camp,’ Group Says

    Thu, 30 Apr 2026 22:30:06 -0000

    Amnesty International said about 1,500 people have been detained by the military for three months and that many of those who have died from disease and starvation have been children.
  22. Elon Musk’s A.I. Claims of Danger Face Limits in OpenAI Trial

    Thu, 30 Apr 2026 22:01:44 -0000

    One of Elon Musk’s abiding fears is that A.I. could one day threaten humans. But the jurors deciding his suit against OpenAI probably won’t hear about it.
  23. How A.I. Killed Student Writing (and Revived It)

    Thu, 30 Apr 2026 16:25:53 -0000

    High school and college teachers are watching students write, in the classroom, in order to protect against the incursion of artificial intelligence.
  24. Three of Nashville’s Finest Writers Explain How Country Hits Get Written

    Thu, 30 Apr 2026 17:53:38 -0000

    Shane McAnally, Brandy Clark and Josh Osborne talk about songwriting as a day job and the art of telling simple truths in a single line.
  25. How Taylor Swift Writes a Song, In Her Own Words

    Thu, 30 Apr 2026 17:56:18 -0000

    The artist shares stories behind some of her biggest hits, her love of a “rant bridge” and how life in the public eye informs the stories she tells in her songs.
  26. A Democratic Version of the Tea Party Is Emerging

    Thu, 30 Apr 2026 22:21:40 -0000

    No one should underestimate the white-hot fury of the party’s voters.
  27. Why Are We Still Driving?

    Thu, 30 Apr 2026 09:02:49 -0000

    Confronting the weirdness of a Waymo future.
  28. Oil Price Hits Wartime High Above $120 a Barrel as Iran War Standoff Continues

    Thu, 30 Apr 2026 20:10:50 -0000

    Strong earnings and economic data buck fears that prolonged disruption to Middle East fuel supplies will eventually dent economic growth.
  29. Britney Spears Is Charged With D.U.I. Involving Drugs and Alcohol

    Thu, 30 Apr 2026 20:30:24 -0000

    Officers in California observed the pop star driving fast and erratically in March. After she was arrested, she checked herself into a treatment facility.
  30. New Banksy Statue Causes Stir in Central London

    Thu, 30 Apr 2026 21:35:06 -0000

    The statue depicts a man marching with a flag that covers his face. It appeared in a section of London near statues of 19th-century British military and colonial figures.
  31. 6 Are Injured in Stabbing at a High School in Washington State

    Thu, 30 Apr 2026 22:59:02 -0000

    Five students were injured, four of them critically, after an altercation at Foss High School in Tacoma, Wash., the authorities said. A security guard was also injured.
  32. A King (or Two), a President, and a Troll

    Thu, 30 Apr 2026 22:54:32 -0000

    Reflections on Charles’s State Visit.
  33. Laurie Metcalf’s Third Act

    Mon, 27 Apr 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    The once cancelled producer Scott Rudin has staked his own comeback on making her the First Lady of American Theatre.
  34. Can the E.P.A. Survive Lee Zeldin?

    Mon, 27 Apr 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    The agency, which was founded to protect the environment and human health, has cancelled safety regulations, supported coal, and stopped caring about climate change.
  35. Donald Trump’s Pardon Economy

    Mon, 27 Apr 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    For some wealthy offenders, clemency is just a golf game—or a million-dollar plate at Mar-a-Lago—away.
  36. What Happens When Someone Throws a Message in a Bottle Into the Sea?

    Mon, 27 Apr 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    Most simply disappear. One enthusiast is on a quest to find the notes—and the people behind them.
  37. The Irish Drug Kingpin Daniel Kinahan Is Arrested in Dubai

    Thu, 30 Apr 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    After living freely in Dubai for a decade, the notorious Irish drug dealer has finally been arrested, and is likely to be sent back to Dublin to stand trial.
  38. King Charles and Queen Camilla Come to Washington

    Wed, 29 Apr 2026 18:18:44 -0000

    A flag flub, a White House construction zone, a pollinator photo op, and Trump’s love of royal cosplay all contributed to the bizarre atmosphere of Charles and Camilla’s visit.
  39. How Putin and Zelensky View the War in Iran

    Tue, 28 Apr 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    The war’s ripple effects have exacerbated conflicts, economic insecurity, and regional tensions around the world, including in Ukraine.
  40. Kash Patel’s Implausible Lawsuit Against The Atlantic

    Mon, 27 Apr 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    The F.B.I. director’s lawyers seem to misunderstand how the law (or logic) works.
  41. Donald Trump’s Lose-Lose Negotiations with Iran

    Mon, 27 Apr 2026 21:50:31 -0000

    How the President’s insistence on Tehran’s unconditional surrender made it impossible to make a deal.
  42. What the U.S.-Iran War Means for China

    Thu, 23 Apr 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    Jonathan Czin, a fellow at the Brookings Institution’s China Center, discusses how the ties between China and Iran have been overstated, and what the conflict might mean for the future of Taiwan.
  43. The Extremes of Israeli Public Opinion

    Wed, 15 Apr 2026 18:42:29 -0000

    Israeli voters are against a ceasefire with Iran, and think Benjamin Netanyahu has not gone far enough.
  44. Israel’s War in Lebanon Has Not Stopped

    Fri, 10 Apr 2026 00:20:29 -0000

    While America and Iran negotiate a ceasefire, Beirut remains under siege.
  45. The Lessons from Jerome Powell’s Defiance of Donald Trump

    Mon, 27 Apr 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    An independent Fed needs an independent leader. Is Kevin Warsh up to the job?
  46. After Magnus Carlsen, Chess Has Entered a New Age

    Sun, 26 Apr 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    A new book by Jordan Himelfarb follows the game’s rising young players, including the reigning world champion Gukesh Dommaraju, as they compete in an era defined by computers.
  47. LIV Golf Is Dying of Boredom

    Thu, 23 Apr 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    Once you got past the Saudi-backed league’s business drama, what you were left with was watching sensationally wealthy, morally compromised middle-aged men go to work.
  48. Is Dynamic Pricing Ruining the World Cup?

    Mon, 20 Apr 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    Soccer fans and host-city politicians are up in arms about the prices that FIFA is charging for tickets under its new sales system.
  49. Donald Trump’s Spring Cleaning

    Sun, 26 Apr 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    The exact reasons are often left vague and the successors to be determined, but people are leaving the Administration—including three Cabinet secretaries.
  50. Has Steve Kerr Had Enough?

    Sun, 26 Apr 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    The head coach for the Golden State Warriors on his future with the team, his complicated relationship with Draymond Green, and whether he might give politics a try.
  51. Inside the White House Correspondents’ Dinner as Gunshots Rang Out

    Sun, 26 Apr 2026 05:39:34 -0000

    I thought a caterer might have dropped a stack of plates, but then I heard shouts of “Shots fired!”
  52. A Chernobyl Widow’s Tragedy, Forty Years Later

    Sat, 25 Apr 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    Nataliia Khodymchuk lived in memory of her late husband, the first worker to die at the nuclear reactor, until she fell victim to a Russian attack.
  53. How Big a Threat Are Iranian-Backed Cyberattacks?

    Fri, 24 Apr 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    A recent CISA advisory was a blunt reminder that, in the digital age, the battlefield has expanded to encompass the geography of everyday life.
  54. The Rise of the Epstein Democrat

    Fri, 24 Apr 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    In demanding the release of the Epstein files, the Party has embraced a radically new way of fighting Donald Trump. Is it a good idea?
  55. Trump and the Iran Deal That Wasn’t

    Thu, 23 Apr 2026 19:38:13 -0000

    It’s tough to reach an agreement with a President whose word is not his bond.
  56. What Nicolás Maduro’s Life Is Like in a Notorious Brooklyn Jail

    Tue, 21 Apr 2026 10:00:00 -0000

    The President of Venezuela has reportedly been stuck in a unit for high-profile inmates, known for housing rappers and tech moguls, while his country forms an uneasy relationship with Trump.