New York Times Top Stories
What Happened to Biden’s 2020 Campaign Promises?
President Biden campaigned on stopping construction of the border wall, allowing Medicare to negotiate drug prices and ending the death penalty.
New York Times Top StoriesNew York Times Top StoriesCongressional Split on Immigration Hangs Over Year-End Spending Fights
Republicans and Democrats, including President Biden, appear to agree that any war spending package must include immigration changes, but the parties are divided over how far such a deal should go.
New York Times Top StoriesIsrael and Hamas Nearly Struck a Deal to Free Up to 50 Hostages
Indirect talks between mediated by Qatar snagged after Israel’s ground invasion of Gaza on Oct. 27. They have resumed, but hopes for a quick release have faded.
New York Times Top StoriesFDA Approves Zepbound, A Drug Like Ozempic, for Weight Loss. Here’s What to Know.
The obesity medication contains tirzepatide, the same active ingredient in the diabetes drug Mounjaro.
New York Times Top StoriesJustice Dept.’s Watchdog Describes Unsanitary Conditions at Florida Prison
Moldy bread, rodent droppings and leaky roofs: An inspector general offered a vivid and at times nauseating glimpse of a vast, dysfunctional system.
New York Times Top StoriesF.D.A. Approves New Obesity Drug Tirzepatide That Will Compete With Wegovy
Zepbound, which is already sold by Eli Lilly as the diabetes treatment Mounjaro, was shown to reduce patients’ weight by as much as one-fifth in drug trials.
New York Times Top StoriesTuesday Was Great for Democrats. It Doesn’t Change the Outlook for 2024.
A pattern continued with success in low-turnout elections, which favors highly engaged voters. Presidential years tend to be different.
New York Times Top StoriesParis’s Newest Hotels Embrace Color and Quirk
From the Marais to the Champs-Élysées, the French capital is suddenly full of small, exuberantly designed places to stay.
New York Times Top StoriesReading List: Scams and Scammers
Sam Bankman-Fried’s conviction reminds us of the real talent behind the schemes — knowing what people yearn for.
New York Times Top StoriesThe Next Costume Institute Fashion Blockbuster Is Revealed
Gala-goers, start thinking green.
New York Times Top StoriesAs Houston Suburb Sugar Land Booms, a Mass Grave Sits Unresolved
The Houston suburb Sugar Land got its name from a business reliant on the forced labor of convicts. But efforts to memorialize those people have stalled.
New York Times Top StoriesSetting a Table for the Holidays? Designers Share Their Secrets
For starters, don’t worry if there isn’t much space: “The closer the people are, the better the party.”
New York Times Top Stories2023 Virtually Certain to Be the Hottest Year on Record, Scientists Say
Analyzing data from October, European climate scientists found another record-breaking month for temperatures around the world.
New York Times Top StoriesVivek Ramaswamy Loves His Heritage. Just Don’t Call Him an Indian American.
The Republican presidential candidate says the celebration of diversity in America has come at the cost of national unity.
New York Times Top StoriesU.S. Finance Agency Lends to Sri Lankan Port to Counter Chinese Influence
The U.S. International Development Finance Corporation is joining forces with the Adani Group, strengthening ties to India and an embattled conglomerate.
New York Times Top StoriesAs Pandas Leave National Zoo, Is Panda Diplomacy Over?
The giant pandas are leaving Washington. Some fans find it unbearable.
New York Times Top StoriesHow to Hijack a Quarter of a Million Dollars in Rare Japanese Kit Kats
The long, strange criminal trail of one stolen load of valuable sweets.
New York Times Top StoriesIvanka Trump to Testify in New York Fraud Trial
The former president’s daughter, who has sought to distance herself from the Trump Organization, has hired her own lawyer, separate from Donald J. Trump’s legal team.
New York Times Top StoriesNikki Haley Wears the Skirts
Whether on the debate stage or “The Daily Show,” the Republican presidential candidate is strategic about standing out — in every way.
New York Times Top StoriesDrought in Syria, Iran and Iraq Made ‘Extreme’ by Global Warming, Attribution Study Says
Syria, Iraq and Iran were parched by high temperatures that would have been “virtually impossible” without the effects of global warming, scientists said.
New York Times Top StoriesUkraine Gets an Encouraging Sign in Its Bid to Join the E.U.
The European Union’s executive arm recommended beginning membership talks with Ukraine on condition of some further changes in Kyiv.
New York Times Top StoriesThe Streak Continues
A look at last night’s election results.
New York Times Top StoriesThe Trumps Take the Stand
Former President Donald J. Trump and some of his children have given testimony in his civil fraud trial in Manhattan.
New York Times Top StoriesWins for Abortion Rights in 3 States, and More
Plus, a House censure for Representative Rashida Tlaib and an expansion in fossil fuel extraction.
New York Times Top StoriesMeta to Require Political Advertisers to Disclose Use of A.I.
The social networking giant, which has long had a contentious relationship with political ads, is reckoning with a wave of generative A.I. tools.
New York Times Top StoriesThe Problem of Campus Speech Is Even Harder Than You Think
As a principle of academic debate, speech should be presumptively allowed. The details of achieving that may get messy, but that goal is fundamental.
New York Times Top StoriesAbortion Rights Fuel Big Democratic Wins, and Hopes for 2024
Election results from Tuesday showed that Democrats, independents and even some moderate Republicans can coalesce around the issue.
New York Times Top StoriesNikki Haley Is Gaining Ground
Nikki Haley clearly thinks there’s a way to do this that combines enough of what hard-line and moderate conservatives care about in real life.
New York Times Top StoriesBehind Hamas’s Bloody Gambit to Create a ‘Permanent’ State of War
Hamas leaders say they waged their Oct. 7 attack on Israel because they believed the Palestinian cause was slipping away, and that only violence could revive it.
New York Times Top Stories‘Modern Love Podcast’: Did I Fail as a Parent?
Rick Reiss couldn’t control his troubled teenage son, so he had him taken away. Years later, he and his son re-examine that decision.