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  1. RFK Jr. Allies Target States to Overturn Vaccine Mandates for Schools

    Fri, 13 Feb 2026 20:29:49 -0000

    Proponents of vaccines warn that the efforts will further dismantle the immunization infrastructure and lead to more outbreaks of disease.
  2. Trump’s ‘Board of Peace’ Said to Raise Billions in First Pledges for Gaza

    Fri, 13 Feb 2026 23:05:05 -0000

    The United Arab Emirates and the United States have each committed more than $1 billion to President Trump’s new international initiative, officials said.
  3. ’The Interview’: Gisèle Pelicot Shares Her Story

    Fri, 13 Feb 2026 18:02:15 -0000

    In her first interview with an American media outlet, Pelicot opens up about surviving years of secret abuse — and a trial that shocked the world.
  4. Congress Leaves DC as DHS Shuts Down

    Fri, 13 Feb 2026 20:01:31 -0000

    Despite a deadlock over funding for the agency, lawmakers left town and left Democratic and White House negotiators to try to work out a deal in their absence.
  5. A Surge of ICE Arrests Overwhelms the Federal Court System

    Fri, 13 Feb 2026 18:44:31 -0000

    A surge of immigration arrests in the state sent thousands of people to detention centers in Texas, New Mexico and elsewhere. Federal courts have been overwhelmed with their pleas for release.
  6. Beyond the Big Cities, ICE Is Rattling Small-Town and Exurban America

    Fri, 13 Feb 2026 18:48:21 -0000

    Far from the national spotlight, towns like Cornelius, Ore., and Coon Rapids, Minn., are dealing with President Trump’s expanding mass deportation effort, and the effects can be acute.
  7. Trump’s Minnesota Retreat Points to the Power of Public Anger

    Fri, 13 Feb 2026 15:03:22 -0000

    The withdrawal came as polls show Americans opposing the president’s immigration tactics, and as some Republican lawmakers began to find ways to distance themselves.
  8. The Mutually Beneficial Ties Between Jeffrey Epstein and Thorbjorn Jagland

    Fri, 13 Feb 2026 23:02:41 -0000

    Thorbjorn Jagland, a former prime minister of Norway who led the Nobel Committee, promised influence, and the disgraced financier had gifts to give, new emails show.
  9. Amid Fallout From Epstein Files, Dubai’s DP World Boss Is Replaced

    Fri, 13 Feb 2026 18:35:50 -0000

    Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem was credited with turning the state-backed DP World into a global logistics powerhouse. He was recently identified in correspondence with Jeffrey Epstein.
  10. Conspiracy Theories Only Flourish With More Epstein Evidence

    Fri, 13 Feb 2026 10:02:43 -0000

    The dump of millions of documents has fueled a new wave of speculation, A.I.-generated hoaxes and foreign disinformation.
  11. White House Sees Win After 2 Strong Economic Reports

    Fri, 13 Feb 2026 21:06:20 -0000

    Solid jobs data and a soft inflation reading for January are welcome news for President Trump. But the bigger economic picture is less encouraging.
  12. Crises Everywhere, but the Markets Don’t Seem to Mind

    Fri, 13 Feb 2026 14:00:08 -0000

    Stocks have prospered while the world has plunged into disorder, an economist says. “Keep calm and carry on” may be the best investors can do.
  13. U.S. Inflation Eased at Start of the Year

    Fri, 13 Feb 2026 18:49:57 -0000

    The Consumer Price Index fell in January to 2.4 percent from 2.7 percent a month
  14. German Officials Needle Trump at Munich Security Conference

    Fri, 13 Feb 2026 14:08:22 -0000

    Friedrich Merz, the chancellor of Germany, said that under President Trump, the United States’ claim to global leadership “has been challenged, and possibly squandered.”
  15. AOC Ties Inequality to Rise of Authoritarians at Munich Security Conference

    Fri, 13 Feb 2026 20:56:09 -0000

    Speaking at a security conference, the New York progressive argued that “extreme levels of income inequality lead to social instability” and eventually far-right populism.
  16. Looks Aren’t Everything? Clavicular Begs to Differ.

    Fri, 13 Feb 2026 16:11:35 -0000

    Braden Peters, known as Clavicular, has emerged as a beacon for a group of narcissistic, status-obsessed young men. He wants to take his fixation with “looksmaxxing” mainstream.
  17. Venezuela’s Natural Gas, Not Oil, Might Be a Big Early Prize

    Fri, 13 Feb 2026 23:10:28 -0000

    The South American country has natural gas that could be extracted and exported quickly, but U.S. sanctions, which are now being eased, have stymied development.
  18. U.N. Condemns U.S. Measures Halting Oil Deliveries to Cuba

    Fri, 13 Feb 2026 21:47:42 -0000

    The measures were installed last month by the Trump administration after the U.S. captured Nicolás Maduro and seized control of Venezuela’s oil industry.
  19. What It Means to Be a White ‘Race Traitor’

    Fri, 13 Feb 2026 22:19:07 -0000

    From Schwerner and Goodman to Good and Pretti, white people putting themselves in harm’s way has helped galvanize Americans for justice.
  20. Virginia’s Top Court Clears Path for Democratic Push to Redraw House Map

    Fri, 13 Feb 2026 19:54:10 -0000

    The State Supreme Court allowed a spring statewide referendum that is necessary for Democrats to redraw Virginia’s congressional map before the midterm elections.
  21. Au Pair Juliana Peres Magalhães Sentenced to 10 Years in Banfield Double Murder Case

    Fri, 13 Feb 2026 20:08:32 -0000

    Juliana Peres Magalhães, 25, had cooperated with prosecutors, who sought a lenient sentence. But the judge said the woman, who pleaded guilty to manslaughter, merited the state maximum.
  22. How ‘The Traitors’ Builds Its Perfect Reality TV Cast

    Thu, 12 Feb 2026 10:03:36 -0000

    The casting executives behind the Emmy-winning reality competition reveal how they create a mad mix of modern celebrity.
  23. One Last Chat With David Brooks

    Fri, 13 Feb 2026 18:42:28 -0000

    Before leaving The Times after 22 years, David Brooks responds to readers’ questions.
  24. The Infrastructure of Jeffrey Epstein’s Power

    Fri, 13 Feb 2026 20:02:46 -0000

    The journalist Anand Giridharadas examines the power and influence that Jeffrey Epstein brokered and that the latest batch of Epstein files puts on display.
  25. The Government Is Set to Partially Shut Down, Again

    Fri, 13 Feb 2026 22:39:48 -0000

    Also, Gisèle Pelicot shares her story. Here’s the latest at the end of Friday.
  26. Four Killed in Plane Crash Near Steamboat Springs, Colo.

    Fri, 13 Feb 2026 22:03:04 -0000

    The plane crashed in remote mountain terrain at about 12:20 a.m. on Friday “under unknown circumstances,” according to the National Transportation Safety Board.
  27. Can’t Buy Love? Kenya Bans Bouquets Made of Cash.

    Fri, 13 Feb 2026 19:00:14 -0000

    Floral arrangements crafted from carefully-folded, colorful bank notes, had become a popular symbol of love in Nairobi.
  28. A Climate Supercomputer Is Getting New Bosses. It’s Not Clear Who.

    Fri, 13 Feb 2026 22:37:30 -0000

    The National Science Foundation said management of the machine, used by researchers for forecasts, disaster warnings and pure science, would be transferred to a “third-party operator.”
  29. Gifted and Talented in Mamdani’s New York

    Fri, 13 Feb 2026 16:59:37 -0000

    Four mayors in a row have inflamed the debate over gifted-and-talented programs. Why does G. & T. stir such strong emotions?
  30. Can Ozempic Cure Addiction?

    Mon, 09 Feb 2026 11:00:00 -0000

    GLP-1 drugs, which have helped some people curb drug and alcohol use, may unlock a pathway to moderation.
  31. The Babies Kept in a Mysterious Los Angeles Mansion

    Mon, 09 Feb 2026 11:00:00 -0000

    A wealthy couple obtained dozens of children through surrogates. Did they want a family, or something else?
  32. What Is Claude? Anthropic Doesn’t Know, Either

    Mon, 09 Feb 2026 11:00:00 -0000

    Researchers at the company are trying to understand their A.I. system’s mind—examining its neurons, running it through psychology experiments, and putting it on the therapy couch.
  33. The Landscape Artist Andy Goldsworthy Contemplates His Own Natural Decay

    Mon, 09 Feb 2026 11:00:00 -0000

    In rural Scotland, Andy Goldsworthy, the sculptor famed for his use of natural materials, contemplates his own decay.
  34. Pam Bondi’s Contempt for Congress

    Thu, 12 Feb 2026 21:28:38 -0000

    The Attorney General treats oversight like roller derby.
  35. Even the Hospitals Aren’t Safe in Iran

    Wed, 11 Feb 2026 11:00:00 -0000

    As the regime imposes a forced forgetting of the massacres in January, it has begun targeting not only wounded protesters but medical workers, who have borne witness to some of the worst atrocities.
  36. Is There a Remedy for Presidential Profiteering?

    Sun, 08 Feb 2026 11:00:00 -0000

    Until now, Trump always seemed unembarrassed to crow about his side hustles. But, if the Emirati payment was kept secret, what else might be?
  37. The Pope’s Man Arrives in New York

    Fri, 06 Feb 2026 14:47:59 -0000

    In appointing Ronald Hicks to the most prominent post in the U.S. Church, is Leo XIV assembling his own Team U.S.A.?
  38. Xi Jinping’s Purge and What Trump’s Foreign Policy Means for China

    Thu, 12 Feb 2026 11:00:00 -0000

    The machinations behind his recent military purge, and whether China sees an opportunity in Donald Trump’s aggression toward Europe.
  39. The Woman Behind Japan’s Rightward Shift

    Tue, 10 Feb 2026 00:22:11 -0000

    How Sanae Takaichi, the country’s first female Prime Minister, won big in last weekend’s election.
  40. Is ICE Leading Us Into a Constitutional Crisis?

    Tue, 03 Feb 2026 18:48:28 -0000

    A look at the agency’s astonishing record of defying court orders, and what the judiciary might do to respond.
  41. Do Federal Officials Really Have “Absolute Immunity”?

    Mon, 26 Jan 2026 23:03:11 -0000

    After killings by ICE and Border Patrol in Minneapolis, a legal expert discusses how agents might be held to account by local authorities.
  42. “McMindfulness” and the Fate of Spirituality Under Capitalism

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

    Thich Nhat Hanh saw mindfulness as a way to understand the “interbeing” between all forms of life, but its social dimension has been largely forgotten.
  43. Jeffrey Epstein’s Bonfire of the Élites

    Mon, 09 Feb 2026 11:00:00 -0000

    His correspondence illuminates a rarefied world in which money can seemingly buy—or buy off—virtually anything, and ethical qualms are for the weak-minded.
  44. How Lindsey Vonn and Mikaela Shiffrin Have Defined Greatness

    Sun, 08 Feb 2026 13:17:47 -0000

    The two skiers have each had claims to be the best ever in their sport. But they have chased that ideal in very different ways.
  45. A Theology of Immigration

    Tue, 03 Feb 2026 15:43:51 -0000

    “None of us have a permanent residence here in this world,” the Reverend Dan Groody says.
  46. The Epstein Files Reveal What Trump Knew

    Fri, 13 Feb 2026 19:00:00 -0000

    A newly released F.B.I. report shows that Donald Trump contacted the police about Epstein’s crimes as early as 2006. The Miami Herald reporter Julie K. Brown discusses the revelations.
  47. “If We Don’t Have Free Speech, Then We Just Don’t Have a Free Country”

    Thu, 12 Feb 2026 23:57:31 -0000

    Donald Trump’s attempt to criminalize political expression is crossing a line that’s held since 1798.
  48. Ben Shapiro Is Waging Battle Inside the MAGA Movement

    Mon, 09 Feb 2026 11:00:00 -0000

    The conservative commentator on the antisemitism in MAGA media and why he condemns President Trump as corrupt yet sticks with him.
  49. A Bridge to Venezuela

    Sat, 07 Feb 2026 11:00:00 -0000

    The Colombian border city of Cúcuta braces for more turmoil.
  50. Dan Bongino’s Podcast Homecoming

    Fri, 06 Feb 2026 11:00:00 -0000

    The short-lived No. 2 at the F.B.I. returns to the MAGA mediaverse he helped create. What’s changed?
  51. Donald Trump Already Knows the 2026 Election Is “Rigged”

    Fri, 06 Feb 2026 00:08:13 -0000

    The question is not if he will undermine confidence in the midterms but how.
  52. The People Who Will Actually Make Universal Child Care Happen

    Thu, 05 Feb 2026 11:00:00 -0000

    Zohran Mamdani delivered a political victory—but making his plans a reality will require the help of a workforce that’s already struggling.
  53. The Assault on Ukraine’s Power Grid

    Thu, 05 Feb 2026 11:00:00 -0000

    How Russia has weaponized the most frigid winter in more than a decade.