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How an Instagram-Perfect Life in the Hamptons Ended in Tragedy
Candice and Brandon Miller showed the public a world of glittering parties and vacations. The money to sustain it did not exist.
New York Times Top StoriesNew York Times Top StoriesDemocratic Donors Will Gather to Plot Ways Forward Under Trump
The liberal group American Bridge is planning to bring donors together early next year in Palm Beach, Fla., as the Democratic big-money universe debates what it can do better in 2026 and 2028.
New York Times Top StoriesWorrying Signs From the Arctic
Scientists are seeing changes that could have consequences for the whole planet.
New York Times Top StoriesDatabricks Is Raising $10 Billion, in One of the Largest Venture Capital Deals
The artificial intelligence start-up’s funding shows investors remain enthusiastic about the A.I. boom.
New York Times Top StoriesTrump Sues The Des Moines Register, Escalating Threats Against the Media
President-elect Donald J. Trump has said he would use his power to punish people he claims have wronged him. Those goals are now coming into focus.
New York Times Top StoriesCommonwealth Fusion Systems to Build Power Plant in Virginia
Commonwealth Fusion Systems, an M.I.T. spinoff, aims to generate carbon-free electricity in an industrial park near Richmond in the early 2030s.
New York Times Top StoriesLawsuit Accuses Georgetown of Admitting Students Based Solely on Wealth
The schools were accused of giving special treatment to wealthy students who might not otherwise have been admitted.
New York Times Top StoriesA Weary Biden Heads for the Exit
Still stinging from the election, President Biden is pushing for his final priorities but has absented himself from the national conversation about Donald Trump after warning repeatedly that he was a threat to American democracy.
New York Times Top StoriesNew U.S. Vehicles Must Have Rear Seatbelt Alarms by Late 2027
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration changed an existing rule to expand and enhance seatbelt warning requirements.
New York Times Top StoriesAs Trump Turns Away From Ukraine, Even Supporters in Congress Rethink Aid
Reality has set in on Capitol Hill that with President-elect Donald J. Trump poised to take office, the era of U.S. military support for Ukraine is coming to an end.
New York Times Top StoriesWisconsin School Shooting: Madison Residents Grieve as They Wait to Learn More
Officials in Wisconsin were expected to give an update on Tuesday afternoon. The shooting left a student and a teacher dead and six others injured.
New York Times Top StoriesFor Years, U.S. Collected Tips About Austin Tice’s Disappearance in Syria
Nongovernmental workers and journalists have scoured prisons for clues about his fate in the absence of an official American presence in the country.
New York Times Top StoriesMen and Women Are Politically Divided. There Is Much More to It Than That.
The declining ability of many boys and men to compete at school and in the workplace has become both a social and a political issue.
New York Times Top StoriesBob Lee Killing: Nima Momeni Convicted of Second-Degree Murder
Nima Momeni, 40, was convicted by a San Francisco jury in the fatal stabbing of Bob Lee, a well-known tech executive.
New York Times Top StoriesElon Musk and SpaceX Face Federal Reviews After Violations of Security Reporting Rules
Federal agencies have opened at least three reviews into whether the company and its leader complied with disclosure protocols intended to protect state secrets, people with knowledge of the matter said.
New York Times Top StoriesBob Lee Killing: Tech Entrepreneur Convicted of Second-Degree Murder
Nima Momeni, 40, was convicted by a San Francisco jury in the fatal stabbing of Bob Lee, a well-known tech executive.
New York Times Top StoriesThe Search for van Gogh’s Lost Masterpiece
Cast off by the Nazis, but heralded by curators, the artist’s painting of his doctor, made just before van Gogh’s suicide, has not been seen in 34 years.
New York Times Top StoriesA Biodiversity Solution Might Be Hiding in Plain Sight.
We tend to look at environmental problems in isolation. A holistic approach would be more effective, a new report says.
New York Times Top StoriesA Grisly Discovery at a Bronze Age Mass Grave: The Victims Were Eaten, Too
“It’s taken us all aback,” said a professor who led a study revealing that 37 people in a prehistoric site in England were likely consumed by their attackers.
New York Times Top StoriesA Grisly Discovery at a Bronze Age Mass Grave: The Victims Were Eaten, Too
“It’s taken us all aback,” said a professor who led a study revealing that 37 people in a prehistoric site in England were likely consumed by their attackers.
New York Times Top StoriesWhat RFK Jr. Has Said About the Polio Vaccine in Recent Years
President-elect Donald Trump’s choice for health secretary has suggested that the polio vaccine cost more lives than it saved and that the vaccine did not wipe out the disease in the U.S.
New York Times Top StoriesJeff Bezos’ Blue Origin Ramps Up Competition with Elon Musk and SpaceX
A new rocket from Mr. Bezos’ company Blue Origin and a satellite system from Amazon could heat up competition with SpaceX, owned by Mr. Musk.
New York Times Top StoriesWhy OpenAI Needs So Much Money
Building a chatbot like ChatGPT requires billions upon billions of dollars. That’s the driving force behind OpenAI’s plans to change how it’s managed.
New York Times Top StoriesHow OpenAI Plans to Move From Being a Nonprofit
As the maker of ChatGPT battles Google and Meta for A.I. supremacy, it’s also fighting to end control by a nonprofit board.
New York Times Top StoriesPG&E Secures $15 Billion Loan From U.S. Energy Department
The loan, the biggest-ever commitment from the Loan Programs Office, is intended to fund the California utility’s grid and climate resiliency projects.
New York Times Top StoriesHuawei Mate 70 Contains Similar Chips to Previous Phone, Suggesting Stalled Progress
An analysis of Huawei’s latest series of smartphones, the Mate 70, found chips that showed little progress from those used in last year’s devices.
New York Times Top StoriesGilgo Beach Defendant Rex Heuermann Is Charged in a Seventh Killing
The man whom authorities call a serial killer was charged with second-degree murder in the case of Valerie Mack, who disappeared in 2000.
New York Times Top StoriesNetanyahu Travels to Israeli-Controlled Syria, His Office Says
The previously unannounced trip highlighted Israel’s military presence across the de facto border with Syria. Israeli forces have seized more Syrian territory since the fall of Bashar al-Assad.
New York Times Top StoriesWho Was Igor Kirillov, the Russian General Killed in a Moscow Bomb Blast?
The general had faced sanctions for using chemical weapons in Ukraine.
New York Times Top StoriesSyria’s Rebel Leader Vows to Disband Armed Factions
In the latest effort to present an image of stability, the leader of the rebel coalition that swept to power over a week ago said armed groups would be dissolved. It was not immediately clear how that would be achieved.