New York Times Top Stories
She’s Still in Love With Her Little Island
Readers were impressed with the audacity of Charlotte Gale, a massage therapist from New Jersey, who bought a small island in Maine.
New York Times Top StoriesNew York Times Top StoriesTikTok’s Influence on Young Voters Is No Simple Matter
Blaming social media for all kinds of social ills is more convenient to politicians than turning their shared anger into sensible legislation.
New York Times Top StoriesMichigan Republican Regrets Participation as Fake Trump Elector
The Trump supporter is the only one of the 16 fake Michigan electors who has agreed to cooperate with the authorities and had charges against him dropped.
New York Times Top StoriesBlinken Heads to Mexico as Migrant Caravan Moves Toward U.S. Border
Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken’s meeting with President Andrés Manuel López Obrador comes as border crossings have reached record numbers.
New York Times Top StoriesChinese Spy Agency Rising to Challenge the C.I.A.
The ambitious Ministry of State Security is deploying A.I. and other advanced technology to go toe-to-toe with the United States, even as the two nations try to pilfer each other’s trade secrets.
New York Times Top StoriesWhy Some Parents Give Their Children a Last Name Other Than the Father’s
Some American parents have been breaking the patrilineal tradition for generations, but the number who do so remains small.
New York Times Top StoriesIt Was a Year of Superhero Fatigue on the Big Screen
Audiences are showing fatigue when it comes to Marvel’s box office behemoths of recent years. Based on what they were served in 2023, it’s hard to blame them.
New York Times Top StoriesPracticing for a Mars Mission in the Utah Desert
To live on the red planet, humans will need to bring along small reminders of home.
New York Times Top StoriesTrump Is Not the Only Reason to Fix This Uniquely Dangerous Law
Democrats and Republicans should both want to deny any president unchecked authority to use the military in the homeland.
New York Times Top StoriesFamily, Food and Memories From the Midwest
My pursuit of culinary knowledge became an escape from the mundane, the provincial, the working class.
New York Times Top StoriesA Private Liberal Arts College Is Drowning in Debt. Should Alabama Rescue It?
Birmingham-Southern College was on the verge of receiving a multimillion-dollar loan, but the state treasurer balked, saying it was not a justifiable use of taxpayer money.
New York Times Top StoriesIn Canada, Assisted Death May Soon Be Available for the Mentally Ill
The country is divided over a law that would allow patients suffering from mental health illnesses to apply for assisted death.
New York Times Top StoriesTencent and Netease Rally on Signs China May Ease Gaming Proposal
After a market rout, gaming companies like Tencent and Netease rally on signals that regulators might apply proposed curbs on users less harshly than feared.
New York Times Top StoriesNYC Schools Warn of Disaster as City Set to Evict Homeless Migrant Children
About 3,500 migrant families in New York City shelters have received eviction notices. Children will have to change schools or face long commutes.
New York Times Top StoriesBoard Game Cafe Workers Went on a Quest for a Union and Won
“There is not a group of people better at organizing than a bunch of nerds,” said a worker at one of New York City’s cafes catering to the Dungeons & Dragons crowd.
New York Times Top Stories‘Parasite’ Actor Lee Sun-kyun Dies Amid Drug Use Allegations
Mr. Lee, a familiar face on Korean television and movie screens, had been under police investigation for months on suspicion of illegal drug use. He denied the accusations.
New York Times Top StoriesTesla Strike in Sweden Highlights a Culture Clash
Workers seeking a collective agreement from the automaker say they are pushing for their rights, but car owners see them as taking the fight too far.
New York Times Top StoriesMan Charged With Hate Crimes in Stabbing of 2 Teens at Grand Central
Esteban Esono-Asue uttered an anti-white slur before attacking two sisters from Paraguay who were on a family trip to New York, officials said.
New York Times Top StoriesVivek Ramaswamy Stops TV Ad Spending
The campaign’s abrupt shift, focusing on other voter outreach efforts, reflects a significant change in strategy less than three weeks before the Iowa caucuses.
New York Times Top StoriesIsrael Will Not Soon Ends Its War With Hamas, Officials Say
Amid global pressure to reach a cease-fire and fears of a widening regional war, Israel says it will continue to fight in Gaza until Hamas is defeated.
New York Times Top StoriesMichael Flynn’s Rhode Island Hall of Fame Inclusion Prompts Resignations
At least five board members resigned and said that Michael T. Flynn, the former national security adviser for President Trump, should not be recognized.
New York Times Top StoriesThe Evening: A Success and a Setback for Ukraine
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New York Times Top StoriesJeff Fortenberry Conviction Reversed by Appeals Court
Former Representative Jeff Fortenberry had been convicted on charges of lying to the federal authorities. An appeals court said his trial was in the wrong venue.
New York Times Top StoriesA Record-Breaking Warm, Snowless Winter Confounds Midwesterners
Jogging in a T-shirt in Minnesota in December? A scientist called the rare string of balmy days “a visceral feeling of what climate change looks and feels like.”
New York Times Top StoriesZita Carno, Concert Pianist, Coltrane Scholar and More, Dies at 88
A veteran of 25 years with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, she was known as much for her eccentricities as for her exceptional musicianship.
New York Times Top StoriesThis Year, Make a Resolution About Something Bigger Than Yourself
What if, instead of focusing on improving ourselves, we focused on improving the world?
New York Times Top StoriesLaphonza Butler Just Got to the Senate, but She’s Not Planning to Stay Long
In an interview with The Times, the junior senator from California, appointed after the death of Senator Dianne Feinstein to serve out her term, discussed adapting to the slow pace of the Senate.
New York Times Top StoriesPublic Letter Defends Depardieu After Assault Allegations
In a public letter, dozens of actors, directors and other celebrities said he was the victim of a “lynching,” as he faces allegations of sex crimes.
New York Times Top StoriesAfter Nashville School Shooting, Parents Push for Gun Control Action
A group of parents reeling from a mass shooting at their children’s private Christian school believed no one was in a better position to persuade the G.O.P. to enact limited gun control.
New York Times Top StoriesPaula Murphy, Once ‘the Fastest Woman on Wheels,’ Dies at 95
She proved that women could gain fame as speed demons on land by setting records on the Bonneville Salt Flats and on the nation’s racetracks.