New York Times Top Stories
Among New York’s Sidewalk Sideshows, 2 Goats and a Story of Despair
In a city thick with spectacles and showmen, Beverly Shaw arrived from Indiana with a desperate plea.
New York Times Top StoriesNew York Times Top StoriesNashville Chief’s Son, Wanted in Shooting of Two Officers, Is Found Dead
John Drake Jr. was accused of shooting two police officers outside a Dollar General store on Saturday. Officials said he was found dead on Tuesday night.
New York Times Top StoriesBiden Seeks to Tame Oil Prices if Mideast Conflict Sends Them Soaring
The president has previously drawn down the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to ease price pressures, but that could be more difficult now
New York Times Top StoriesChasing Big Mergers, Oil Executives Dismiss Peak Oil Concerns
Exxon Mobil and Chevron are spending tens of billions of dollars buying oil and gas assets, betting that the International Energy Agency’s predictions of declining oil demand are wrong.
New York Times Top StoriesSam Bankman-Fried Set to Testify at His Fraud Trial
The FTX founder’s plan to take the witness stand sets up a dramatic few days of testimony at the federal courthouse in Manhattan.
New York Times Top StoriesWhat I Read and Watch to Decompress
Some Jane Austen and a tennis rom-com are just right the right relief when news of fighting and war takes a toll.
New York Times Top StoriesWhy Hurricane Otis Caught Many By Surprise
Storms don’t normally go from a tropical storm to a Category 5 hurricane in a day.
New York Times Top StoriesFood and Water Grow Scarce in Gaza Amid Israeli Siege and Strikes
Residents wait in line for hours for bread and water, with fights sometimes breaking out. The United Nations has called the situation a humanitarian catastrophe.
New York Times Top StoriesTraveler Stranded in Acapulco Recounts ‘Apocalyptic’ Hurricane Otis
“It was really terrifying,” said one visitor who was attending a mining convention in the Mexican city.
New York Times Top StoriesGavin Newsom, on Climate Mission to China, Meets With Xi Jinping
The California governor is on a weeklong visit to China aimed at negotiating climate partnerships.
New York Times Top StoriesRichard Roundtree, Star of ‘Shaft,’ Dies at 81
While indelibly tied to the role that made him famous in 1971, he remained active for more than four decades afterward.
New York Times Top StoriesThe War Between Israel and Gaza Is Complicated. But Not on Social Media.
Social media demands that you’re with us or against us.
New York Times Top StoriesAs Bombs Fall in Gaza, History Hangs Over a Family Fighting to Survive
From his Los Angeles home, Mohammed Abujayyab has sought to help his grandmother and other relatives survive the Israeli bombardment. Memories of displacement are never far.
New York Times Top StoriesChaos in the House
The Republican Party is in disarray.
New York Times Top StoriesWhy Israel Is Delaying the Ground Invasion
More than two weeks after the attack by Hamas, Israeli troops are still massing near the Gaza border.
New York Times Top StoriesTrump’s Lawyers Are Going Down. Is He?
It’s hard to know what to make of the guilty pleas in Georgia.
New York Times Top StoriesAnother Day of G.O.P. Chaos Winds Up With Speaker Nominee No. 4
House Republicans turned on themselves as they immolated yet another of their leaders in the bonfires of the speaker fight. Then they chose their next nominee.
New York Times Top StoriesIn Trump Georgia Case, Fanni Willis Builds Momentum With Plea Deals
The Fulton County district attorney often uses her state’s racketeering law to pressure lower-rung defendants to cooperate and exert pressure on her main targets.
New York Times Top Stories‘Chaos Doesn’t Scare Me. American Decline Does.’
The Republican Party’s “lunge toward extremism” shows no sign of abating.
New York Times Top Stories‘We Still Don’t Have Answers’: A Uvalde Mother Is Running for Mayor
After her daughter was killed in a mass shooting in Uvalde, Kimberly Mata-Rubio figured it was time to get answers and help her city heal.
New York Times Top StoriesCan We Save the Redwoods by Helping Them Move?
The largest trees on the planet can’t easily ‘migrate’ — but in a warming world, some humans are helping them try to find new homes.
New York Times Top StoriesWhat the U.S. Has Argued in the Google Antitrust Trial
As the government wraps up its case in the landmark monopoly trial, it has built a picture of how Google became dominant in online search — and the harms that it says resulted.
New York Times Top StoriesMark Rothko at Full Scale, and in Half Light
Sublime and vulgar all at once, his diaphanous stains of color have come together in a once-in-a-generation show in Paris.
New York Times Top StoriesEven Before the Israel-Hamas War, Being Palestinian Was Controversial
The task of the Palestinian is to audition for empathy and compassion. To prove that we deserve it.
New York Times Top StoriesAs Ukraine War Grinds On, Widows Try to See Life After Loss
Support groups formed to help thousands of new widows see a dual role in healing their nation. “Our society was not ready to face such scale of grief,” one widow said.
New York Times Top StoriesViews of the Empire State Building Are Being Blocked
Views of the Empire State Building are being obscured by a new 860-foot luxury tower rising just blocks away. Should New York regulate its skyline?
New York Times Top StoriesHawaii Bribery Scandal Casts a Shadow Over Lahaina’s Ruins
For years, a local businessman paid off officials in exchange for lucrative contracts. The system he exploited has been left largely unchanged.
New York Times Top StoriesIn Vietnam, You Can Take a Cable Car to the Colosseum
The country is in the middle of a cable-car bonanza, much of it driven by the over-the-top developments of the Sun Group, which feature giant Buddhas, ersatz European enclaves and selfie spots galore.
New York Times Top StoriesWomen Will Vote at a Vatican Meeting for the First Time
Some women participating in a conference on sensitive church issues said they feel heartened by the discussions taking place, though change may remain slow.
New York Times Top StoriesHow New York City Plans to Tackle Its Housing Crisis
A new plan unveiled this month aims to make way for new housing and ease the pressures that drive up rents and home prices. Whether it will work is less clear.