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The Big Change Between the 2020 and 2024 Races: Biden Is Unpopular
Donald Trump has the largest national lead in an NYT poll since first running for president in 2015.
New York Times Top StoriesNew York Times Top StoriesThe Paradox at the Heart of Elon Musk’s OpenAI Lawsuit
Mr. Musk says in his complaint that the company’s technology is now so good that it must be made freely available to the public — and held back from Microsoft.
New York Times Top StoriesWhy Elon Musk’s OpenAI Lawsuit Leans on A.I. Research From Microsoft
In his lawsuit against OpenAI and its chief executive, Sam Altman, Mr. Musk relies on a provocative paper from the start-up’s closest partner.
New York Times Top StoriesVoters Doubt Biden’s Leadership and Favor Trump, Times/Siena Poll Finds
The share of voters who strongly disapprove of President Biden’s handling of his job has reached 47 percent, higher than in Times/Siena polls at any point in his presidency.
New York Times Top StoriesScenes From the Smokehouse Creek Fire in Texas
The fire, which has burned over a million acres in the state’s Panhandle, is still largely uncontrolled. Here’s a look at the damage it has done so far.
New York Times Top StoriesMany Maine Households Are Installing Climate-Friendly Heat Pumps
The percentage of households burning home heating oil is the highest in the country. Yet no other state is adopting climate-friendly heat pumps as fast.
New York Times Top StoriesCalifornia Rainfall Totals: L.A. Saw a Historically Wet February
Last month was the fourth-wettest February in the city’s recorded history.
New York Times Top StoriesRacial Turnout Gap Has Widened With a Weakened Voting Rights Act, Study Finds
The Black share of the electorate had been on the rise for decades, but in some counties, a Supreme Court decision in 2013 changed that, according to a new analysis.
New York Times Top StoriesColombia’s Special Word for ‘You’
Two centuries after independence from Spain, many Colombians still use “sumercé,” meaning “your mercy” as an everyday address.
New York Times Top StoriesA Tax Sunset Will Change What You Owe the I.R.S.
Important regulations expire at the end of next year, thwarting tax planning and creating a monumental fiscal challenge for Congress.
New York Times Top StoriesOn the Trail of the Denisovans
DNA has shown that the extinct humans thrived around the world, from chilly Siberia to high-altitude Tibet — perhaps even in the Pacific islands.
New York Times Top StoriesBlasphemy Is a Crime in Pakistan. Mobs Are Delivering the Verdicts.
Being convicted of the charge can bring a death sentence in the country. But simply being accused of disrespect toward Islam can also be enough to get a person killed.
New York Times Top StoriesAs Trump’s Criminal Trial Approaches, He May Be His Own Worst Enemy
In civil cases, Donald J. Trump has ordered attorneys around from the defense table and insisted on testifying. The stakes will get higher March 25, when his first criminal case begins.
New York Times Top StoriesAfter Gains at Big Three, U.A.W. Aims at Nonunion Plants
A looming union election at a Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga could determine the trajectory of union organizing at more than a dozen auto factories.
New York Times Top StoriesBohemians: The Irish Team Selling Soccer With a Side of Activism
The Dublin club Bohemians has made support for social causes a crucial part of its identity. Critics say the hipsters have taken over, but the approach has attracted fans around the world.
New York Times Top StoriesSouth Korea Is Desperate for Foreign Workers
Though a shrinking population makes imported labor vital, migrant workers routinely face predatory employers, inhumane conditions and other abuse.
New York Times Top StoriesBiden Says U.S. Will Begin Aid Airdrops in Gaza
The president said that the United States would work with Jordan and other allies to deliver aid by air and that supplies could eventually be delivered by sea.
New York Times Top StoriesThis Team of Teenagers Helps Adults File Their Taxes
At a high school in California, students help run a tax-return clinic. They get academic credit, breakfast burritos and life lessons.
New York Times Top StoriesOregon Is Recriminalizing Drugs, Dealing Setback to Reform Movement
Oregon removed criminal penalties for possessing street drugs in 2020. But amid soaring overdose deaths, state lawmakers have voted to bring back some restrictions.
New York Times Top StoriesRegulators to Review Death of Nex Benedict, a Nonbinary Student, in Oklahoma
The U.S. Department of Education said it had opened an investigation into whether a high school “failed to appropriately respond” to reports of harassment of Nex Benedict, who died a day after a fight in a school bathroom.
New York Times Top StoriesWhat Are the Largest Wildfires in U.S. History?
The Smokehouse Creek fire in the Texas Panhandle is now one of the largest fires the country has faced. Here are five of the others.
New York Times Top StoriesIris Apfel, Eye-Catcher With a Kaleidoscopic Wardrobe, Dies at 102
She came to fame in the fashion world in her 80s and 90s, and her wildly eclectic wardrobe formed a hit exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
New York Times Top StoriesBiden Unites With Italy’s Prime Minister to Champion Ukraine
In a visit to the White House by Italy’s far-right prime minister, Giorgia Meloni, the president declared that “we have each other’s backs” and “we also have Ukraine’s back.”
New York Times Top StoriesInside the E.P.A. Decision to Narrow Two Big Climate Rules
Michael Regan, the E.P.A. administrator, said the Biden administration would meet its climate goals despite tweaking regulations on automobiles and power plants
New York Times Top StoriesCan Donald Trump clinch the nomination next week?
We explain delegate math, polls and Super Tuesday.
New York Times Top StoriesWho Is Winnie Greco, the Adams Aide Whose Houses the F.B.I. Searched?
Federal agents descended on two properties owned by Ms. Greco, the mayor’s director of Asian affairs who traveled with him to China.
New York Times Top StoriesParamedic Sentenced to Five Years in Death of Elijah McClain
The case was a rare prosecution of medical personnel that stirred strong reaction from paramedics following the case.
New York Times Top StoriesWitnesses to Deaths Near Gaza Aid Convoy Describe Shooting and Panic
“I saw people falling to the ground after being shot,” said one witness, “and others simply took the food items that were with them and continued running for their lives.”
New York Times Top StoriesBiden Said the U.S. Will Airdrop Supplies Into Gaza
Also, thousands attended Aleksei Navalny’s funeral in Moscow. Here’s the latest at the end of Friday.
New York Times Top StoriesFor Navalny’s Followers, a ‘Surge of Inspiration’ at a Sad Event
Although the funeral of Aleksei Navalny seemed to underline Vladimir Putin’s dominance of Russia, it was also a day when pent-up dissent, and optimism, re-emerged, if only briefly.