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  1. Trump Proposes U.S. Takeover of Gaza and Says Palestinians Should Move

    Wed, 05 Feb 2025 06:32:10 -0000

    The president met with the Israeli prime minister at the White House, meeting in person with another world leader for the first time since returning to power.
  2. An Unbound Trump Pushes an Improbable Plan for Gaza

    Wed, 05 Feb 2025 07:44:57 -0000

    Once a critic of nation building, the president now envisions taking over a Middle East enclave, driving out its Palestinian population and transforming it into “the Riviera of the Middle East.”
  3. Conditions May Have Stymied Black Hawk Crew Before Fatal Crash

    Wed, 05 Feb 2025 00:28:12 -0000

    The Army pilots were juggling dark skies, low altitude, a busy airspace and a cockpit without certain traffic detectors before the helicopter’s midair crash with a regional passenger jet.
  4. Final Remains Recovered From Plane Crash Over the Potomac

    Wed, 05 Feb 2025 00:54:35 -0000

    Officials in Washington said they had recovered 67 sets of remains. There were 64 people on the jet, and three crew members on the Army helicopter that collided with it.
  5. Sweden School Shooting Leaves at Least 10 Dead in Country’s ‘Worst’ Gun Attack

    Wed, 05 Feb 2025 01:27:45 -0000

    The shooting occurred at a center for adult education in the city of Orebro. The suspect is believed to be among the dead, officials said.
  6. The Aga Khan IV, Wealthy Leader of the Ismaili Muslims, Dies at 88

    Wed, 05 Feb 2025 00:08:48 -0000

    At the age of 20, Prince Karim Al-Hussaini inherited the reins of a Shia Muslim lineage and used his entrepreneurship to become one of the world’s richest hereditary rulers.
  7. Too Busy Blurbing Books to Write One

    Tue, 04 Feb 2025 10:02:35 -0000

    For the novelist Rebecca Makkai, writing blurbs had become nearly a full-time job. She explains why blurbs matter — and why she’s taking a break.
  8. What Are Book Blurbs, and How Much Do They Matter in Publishing?

    Tue, 04 Feb 2025 19:45:15 -0000

    An announcement from Simon & Schuster’s publisher left the literary community wondering whether blurbs, the little snippets of praise on a book jacket, are all they’re cracked up to be.
  9. After the Fires, Los Angeles Has No Shortage of Reconstruction Czars

    Wed, 05 Feb 2025 00:05:12 -0000

    Civic leaders in the region believe that side efforts are necessary to rebuild after the wildfires. They just can’t settle on which one.
  10. L.A. Faces Pressure From Wealthy Residents as the Pacific Palisades Rebuilds

    Tue, 04 Feb 2025 23:10:51 -0000

    The neighborhood is likely to grow more expensive and exclusive as millionaire Angelenos demand a fast-track recovery.
  11. Newsom to Meet With Trump as He Seeks Federal Aid for Fire Relief

    Tue, 04 Feb 2025 22:50:43 -0000

    Gov. Gavin Newsom, the Democratic governor of California, has tried to cooperate with President Trump as he seeks federal aid for wildfire relief.
  12. Want Eggs With Your Breakfast? Pay a Surcharge, Waffle House Says.

    Tue, 04 Feb 2025 20:58:34 -0000

    The restaurant chain, which serves breakfast all day, said it was adding the temporary 50-cent surcharge because the bird flu has caused a shortage in the egg supply.
  13. Our Bar-Napkin Presidency

    Wed, 05 Feb 2025 05:08:23 -0000

    The president’s impulsive tariffs are a symptom of a deeper challenge to U.S. manufacturing.
  14. 1 Killed in Warehouse Shooting in Central Ohio

    Wed, 05 Feb 2025 07:41:18 -0000

    At least five others were injured on Tuesday, the authorities said. The police said that the shooter did not pose a threat to the public.
  15. Collector Sues David Geffen to Reclaim a Sculpture Worth Millions

    Tue, 04 Feb 2025 23:16:43 -0000

    In court papers, the collector says an adviser, without authorization, schemed to sell a Giacometti sculpture he bought for $78 million to the entertainment mogul.
  16. Man Sentenced to 44 Years in Prison After Pleading Guilty to Qaeda Ties

    Wed, 05 Feb 2025 02:49:51 -0000

    Minh Quang Pham was accused of plotting a suicide bombing at Heathrow Airport in London in support of Al Qaeda’s Yemen branch.
  17. Daniel Penny Is Hired by Venture Capital Firm Whose Founder Backed Trump

    Wed, 05 Feb 2025 00:46:19 -0000

    Mr. Penny, who was acquitted after choking a mentally ill subway passenger to death, will work for Andreessen Horowitz. Before the killing, he had been an architecture student.
  18. Some Travelers Capture Their Vacation Memories With Sketching

    Tue, 04 Feb 2025 10:01:33 -0000

    Some travelers are picking up a creative pastime, sketching, in order to slow down and fully appreciate their destinations.
  19. The Not-Quite-Anti-Woke Caucus

    Tue, 04 Feb 2025 18:54:14 -0000

    Democratic members of Congress are fed up with their party’s discourse on identity, but they can’t get on board with Donald Trump’s campaign to destroy D.E.I.
  20. The U.S. Military’s Recruiting Crisis

    Mon, 03 Feb 2025 11:00:00 -0000

    The ranks of the American armed forces are depleted. Is the problem the military or the country?
  21. The Aesthetic Empire of Alma Mahler-Werfel

    Mon, 03 Feb 2025 11:00:00 -0000

    Notorious for her marriages and affairs, the widow of genius is gaining new attention for her music.
  22. The Leaning Tower of New York

    Mon, 03 Feb 2025 11:00:00 -0000

    How a luxury condo building in Manhattan went sideways.
  23. The Long Quest for Artificial Blood

    Mon, 03 Feb 2025 11:00:00 -0000

    One of the most valuable substances in the world has never been replicated. Are we close?
  24. Donald Trump’s Combative Pursuits in Panama

    Mon, 03 Feb 2025 11:00:00 -0000

    The President accused China of “lovingly, but illegally, operating the Panama Canal.” The truth is more complicated.
  25. Donald Trump’s Anti-Woke Wrecking Ball

    Sun, 02 Feb 2025 11:00:00 -0000

    Was Trump just “weaving” when he ranted about diversity initiatives after a horrific plane crash, or getting back on message after a week of executive overreach?
  26. How to Understand the Reagan Airport Crash

    Sat, 01 Feb 2025 20:59:45 -0000

    A federal investigation will take time, but the lines of inquiry that it will pursue are clear.
  27. The Mystery of Tulsi Gabbard

    Sat, 01 Feb 2025 00:27:41 -0000

    Though the former Democrat has aligned herself with Trump, her true loyalties remain elusive as ever.
  28. How Donald Trump Is Transforming Executive Power

    Mon, 03 Feb 2025 11:00:00 -0000

    A flurry of seemingly illegal orders and firings could tee up the Supreme Court to cement a vast expansion of Presidential authority.
  29. The Historical Roots of Donald Trump’s Aggressive Nationalism

    Tue, 28 Jan 2025 14:13:25 -0000

    What the President’s confrontations with Panama, Greenland, Canada, and Colombia suggest about his expansionist vision.
  30. What Trump 2.0 Means for Ukraine and the World

    Tue, 21 Jan 2025 16:15:31 -0000

    The President’s various foreign-policy “personas” vacillate between a desire for domination and withdrawal.
  31. Why the Israel-Hamas Ceasefire Is Happening Now

    Fri, 17 Jan 2025 00:59:40 -0000

    After months of frustrating the Biden Administration, Benjamin Netanyahu seems poised to accept a deal on the eve of Trump’s return to the White House.
  32. Trump’s Trade War Is Only Getting Going

    Tue, 04 Feb 2025 18:18:08 -0000

    To the relief of Wall Street, the President agreed to pause his tariffs against Mexico and Canada, but he remains as determined as ever to upend the international trading order.
  33. Is DeepSeek China’s Sputnik Moment?

    Mon, 03 Feb 2025 11:00:00 -0000

    The Chinese company’s low-cost, high-performance A.I. model has shocked Silicon Valley, and a longtime China watcher warns that the West is being leapfrogged in many other industries, too.
  34. Jimmy Butler’s Messy Splits

    Sun, 02 Feb 2025 11:00:00 -0000

    The basketball star has been known to force his way off teams. So what makes his attempt to break free of the Miami Heat seem so fraught?
  35. What’s the Point of Trump’s War on D.E.I.?

    Fri, 31 Jan 2025 11:00:00 -0000

    To distract from his larger plan to gut the federal government, the President has taken a relatively powerless program and turned it into an excuse for everything that goes wrong in the country.
  36. Mourning David Lynch in a City on Fire

    Tue, 04 Feb 2025 11:00:00 -0000

    In L.A., the death of the director of “Mulholland Drive” and “Inland Empire” leaves an unfillable void.
  37. Bill Gates and the New Trumpian Tech Oligarchs

    Sun, 02 Feb 2025 11:00:00 -0000

    The Microsoft founder discusses vaccine skepticism, his fellow-billionaires’ political pivots, and his dinner with the President at Mar-a-Lago.
  38. Trump’s Orders Sow Chaos Inside the Nation’s Enforcer of Equal Opportunity

    Fri, 31 Jan 2025 11:00:00 -0000

    Can the federal government eliminate “diversity, equity, and inclusion” and “gender ideology” without violating civil rights?
  39. Hardwick, the Motley Vermont Town Trying to Tell Its Own Story

    Fri, 31 Jan 2025 11:00:00 -0000

    At the Civic Standard, in Hardwick, community building is a kind of performance art, where the usual tales of a fractured America are quickly upstaged.
  40. Donald Trump’s Cabinet of Revenge

    Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:12:25 -0000

    Tulsi Gabbard, Kash Patel, and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., bobbed and weaved around senators’ questions, but their own words came back to bite them.
  41. Kash Patel’s Political-Persecution Fantasies

    Thu, 30 Jan 2025 13:55:24 -0000

    How Donald Trump’s presumptive F.B.I. head whitewashed the J6ers’ political violence.
  42. Behind the Chaotic Attempt to Freeze Federal Assistance

    Wed, 29 Jan 2025 19:37:13 -0000

    The potential for devastation is made plain by another order, concerning the crucial work of U.S.A.I.D.
  43. The Junk Science of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

    Wed, 29 Jan 2025 11:00:00 -0000

    For the first time in modern American history, a skeptic of medical research could be responsible for safeguarding public health.