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3 Convicted of Murder for Luring Men From Gay Bars to Their Deaths
Two men were fatally drugged as their bank accounts were being drained. The killers lurked outside Manhattan clubs near closing time.
New York Times Top StoriesNew York Times Top Stories5 Notes from the Big Paris A.I. Summit
At times, Kevin Roose writes, it feels like he is watching policymakers on horseback trying to install seatbelts on a passing Lamborghini.
New York Times Top StoriesJudge Rules That Trump Administration Defied Order to Unfreeze Billions in Federal Grants
The federal judge in Rhode Island said the Trump administration had failed to comply with his order unfreezing billions of dollars in federal grants.
New York Times Top StoriesNonstop Earthquakes Leave Santorini Empty and Its Residents on Edge
Thousands of tremors, sometimes every few minutes, have shaken Santorini, Greece. More than 13,000 of its 15,500 inhabitants have left.
New York Times Top StoriesWoman Files First U.S. Lawsuit Against Andrew Tate and His Brother
A woman who gave testimony to Romanian prosecutors accused Andrew and Tristan Tate in a lawsuit of conspiring to traffic her for sex work. The brothers have sued her for defamation.
New York Times Top StoriesChina Is at Heart of Trump Tariffs on Steel and Aluminum
Existing American tariffs already restrict steel and aluminum shipments from China, which is now flooding other markets with its exports instead.
New York Times Top StoriesHow Charlie Kirk Became the Youth Whisperer of the American Right
Collecting donors, voters, TikTok viewers and high-powered friends on his way into Trump’s inner circle.
New York Times Top StoriesHamas Suspends Hostage Release, Accusing Israel of Violating Cease-Fire Agreement
Stalling the next release of hostages from the Gaza Strip, scheduled for the coming weekend, raises new challenges for the already tenuous six-week truce and chances for a lasting end to the war.
New York Times Top Stories7 Years After Losing My House in a Wildfire, I Still Have My Moments
A cartoonist reflects on loss and recovery after the Woolsey wildfire in 2018.
New York Times Top StoriesIsraeli Police Raid Two Palestinian Bookshops in East Jerusalem
The police said the stores were selling books that supported terrorism and that two members of the family who owned the business had been arrested. A lawyer said their detention was “political” rather than legal.
New York Times Top StoriesTrump’s Tariffs on Steel and Aluminum Re-Up Contentious First-Term Policies
The 25 percent tariff the president is proposing is almost identical to a move in his first term. Economists and foreign governments know what will come next.
New York Times Top StoriesTrump Wants to Clear Bombs From Gaza. He’s Sidelined Groups That Would Do It.
Shortly before the president said he would have to clear unexploded bombs to redevelop Gaza, he ordered all U.S.-funded demining groups globally to stop their work.
New York Times Top StoriesNetflix Scurries to Stem Oscar Fallout From ‘Emilia Pérez’ Scandal
Netflix had thought the movie could deliver the company its first best picture award. But comments from its star have put it on the defense.
New York Times Top StoriesScientists Detect Shape-Shifting Along Earth’s Solid Inner Core
The new research adds to the mysteries of the planet’s deepest interior region.
New York Times Top StoriesTrump Says Palestinians Will Not Be Allowed to Return to Gaza
President Trump, speaking to Fox News, reiterated his plan to rebuild the Gaza Strip and said its population would be resettled in a “permanent place” elsewhere.
New York Times Top StoriesTrump Argues That Courts Cannot Block Elon Musk’s DOGE Team From Treasury Systems
The president’s lawyers argued that the distinction between civil servants and political appointees was unworkable and unconstitutional. A hearing is set for Friday.
New York Times Top StoriesTop Judge Favors a Second Chance for Those Languishing in Prison
Rowan Wilson, the chief judge of New York State’s highest court, used his State of the Judiciary address to push back against prolonged incarceration.
New York Times Top StoriesTrump’s Actions Have Created a Constitutional Crisis, Scholars Say
Law professors have long debated what the term means. But now many have concluded that the nation faces a reckoning as President Trump tests the boundaries of executive power.
New York Times Top StoriesKendrick Lamar’s Super Bowl Halftime Show: The Peak of All Rap Battles?
The first rapper to headline the N.F.L.’s biggest stage solo made his Drake diss “Not Like Us” the centerpiece of his set at the expense of a larger statement.
New York Times Top StoriesAt A.I. Summit in Paris, a Push for Innovation Before Regulation
Europe wants to be a top contender in the race to become a world leader in artificial intelligence, but investors are concerned that it has too much red tape and that its taxes are too high.
New York Times Top StoriesWhy Trump’s Tariffs on China Might Not Be the Solution
President Trump is tough on China when it comes to trade. He especially points to one number to say we’re being ripped off: our trade deficit. Ana Swanson, who covers trade and international economics for The New York Times, explains Trump’s approach to lowering the trade deficit with China and why some economists question his strategy.
New York Times Top StoriesWatch Demi Moore Transform in ‘The Substance’
The writer and director Coralie Fargeat narrates a sequence from her film, which is nominated for best picture.
New York Times Top StoriesDid Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro Order a Murder in Chile?
The discovery of Ronald Ojeda’s body encased in concrete in Chile has raised new fears over how far President Nicolás Maduro will go to keep his stranglehold on Venezuela.
New York Times Top StoriesTrump Muses About a Third Term, Over and Over Again
The president’s suggestion that he would seek to stay in office beyond the constitutional limit comes as he has pushed to expand executive authority.
New York Times Top StoriesRobert Rubin, Lawrence Summers, Timothy Geithner, Jacob Lew, Janet Yellen: DOGE Is a Threat to U.S. Democracy.
Former Secretaries Rubin, Summers, Geithner, Lew and Yellen argue that DOGE is a threat to America.
New York Times Top StoriesAt the Super Bowl, Taylor Swift Was Dressing to Win
Sometimes game-day strategy extends to style.
New York Times Top StoriesWhat Was the Happiest Moment of Your Life, So Far? Share It With Us.
The New York Times is working on a video project about happiness. We’d love to hear from you.
New York Times Top StoriesChina Seems Unstoppable. Trump Thinks Otherwise.
What’s behind the trade war that the president didn’t back away from.
New York Times Top StoriesSupreme Court Signals That Landmark Libel Ruling Is Secure
Attacked by two justices, lower-court judges and litigants, the 1964 ruling in New York Times v. Sullivan keeps getting cited approvingly in the Supreme Court’s decisions.
New York Times Top StoriesWhy Allison Janae Hamilton Turned Her Studio Into a Family Archive
More than a thousand ancestral records and photographs surround Allison Janae Hamilton while she works.