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Tom Friedman: Trump Is a ‘Small Man in a Big Time’
Nearly 60 days in, the president is failing to engage in long-term thinking.
New York Times Top StoriesNew York Times Top StoriesHow Trump Is Trying to Consolidate Power Over Courts, Congress and More
President Trump’s expansive interpretation of presidential power has become the defining characteristic of his second term.
New York Times Top StoriesHow Trump Is Trying to Consolidate Power Over Courts, Congress and More
President Trump’s expansive interpretation of presidential power has become the defining characteristic of his second term.
New York Times Top StoriesDoug Ford Defends Canada as He Steps Up to Take On Trump
Doug Ford, the premier of Ontario, is reinventing himself as one of Canada’s staunchest defenders against President Trump’s economic and sovereignty threats.
New York Times Top StoriesThe Houston Rodeo Is the Super Bowl of Country Culture
Spending a few days eating turkey legs, watching piglet races and ‘mutton bustin’ at the world’s largest rodeo and livestock show.
New York Times Top StoriesTrump’s Battles With Colleges Could Change American Culture for a Generation
Many in higher education worry Trump’s efforts to bend academia to his will could end American leadership in research and science. Universities are not finding many allies to defend them.
New York Times Top StoriesTrump Is Breaking Things. They Can’t All Be Fixed by the Courts.
Trump’s goal isn’t necessarily to win. It’s to break it all.
New York Times Top StoriesHow Carl and Karin Larsson’s Homes Came to Define Scandinavian Style
The houses of two of Sweden’s most influential artists and designers, Carl and Karin Larsson, came to shape the country’s national identity — and now represent an aesthetic ideal.
New York Times Top StoriesMeet Steve Davis, Elon Musk’s Top Lieutenant Who Oversees DOGE
Steve Davis, a longtime Musk loyalist, is effectively the leader of the Department of Government Efficiency. Mr. Musk has likened him to chemotherapy.
New York Times Top StoriesTrump Officials Ordered NYC Congestion Pricing to End by March 21. What Happens Now?
As the March 21 deadline looms, the M.T.A. has refused to stop the tolls and sued the transportation secretary, Sean Duffy, and federal officials in federal court in Manhattan.
New York Times Top StoriesMexico Sent Cartel Bosses to U.S. Knowing They Could Face Execution
Rafael Caro Quintero, who faces trial in Brooklyn, and at least four other drug cartel figures are vulnerable to the death penalty because they were expelled from Mexico rather than extradited.
New York Times Top StoriesLate Night Tackles the Attacks on Tesla
Jordan Klepper said no one should be blowing up Elon Musk’s cars, “especially because if you just wait a few minutes, they’ll probably do it by themselves.”
New York Times Top StoriesNASA Astronauts Don’t Receive Overtime Pay for Space Mission But Get $5 a Day
Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore do not get overtime for their unexpectedly long stay on the International Space Station, according to NASA rules. But they do get $5 a day for “incidentals.”
New York Times Top StoriesIn Rush to Release Kennedy Files, Personal Information Went Public, Too
Social Security numbers and other personal details were included in the 64,000 pages of documents that the Trump administration declassified this week.
New York Times Top StoriesHow George Lewis Made Comedy Gold Imagining Two Toddlers Chatting
George Lewis’s riffs on the absurdities of millennial parenting — and the inner lives of 2-year-olds — have won him legions of fans online and galvanized his once middling stand-up career.
New York Times Top StoriesTrump Should Stop Iran’s Nuclear Threat With a Deal
The Trump administration should back away from threats and engage Iran in an effort to bring a diplomatic halt to its nuclear weapons capability.
New York Times Top StoriesHow the High-Stakes Arrest of Rodrigo Duterte Unfolded
The man who ordered the Philippines’ bloody war on drugs is now in a cell at The Hague. Getting him there was far from a sure thing.
New York Times Top StoriesCanada Condemns China’s Execution of 4 Canadians on Drug Convictions
Canada’s foreign minister said the government would continue to ask for leniency from China for other Canadians in similar situations.
New York Times Top StoriesD.H.S. Detains a Georgetown University Academic
Badar Khan Suri, an Indian national teaching on a student visa, was deemed “deportable,” a spokeswoman for the Department of Homeland Security said.
New York Times Top StoriesThe University of California Will Stop Requiring Diversity Statements in Hiring
The statements had risen in popularity as colleges sought to improve campus culture, but they drew criticism from conservatives who argued they were a political test.
New York Times Top StoriesReinstated, but Not Back to Work: Fired Workers Linger in ‘Limbo’
More than a dozen federal agencies have reinstated employees and immediately placed them on administrative leave, according to court filings.
New York Times Top StoriesNonprofit’s Leader Convicted of Siphoning Off $240 Million in Federal Food Aid
Aimee Bock was accused of overseeing a scheme that exploited lax pandemic-era controls, and reaped millions with fake invoices for nonexistent meals.
New York Times Top StoriesTrump Is Said to Sign Order Aimed at Dismantling Education Department
The order will lay the groundwork for eventually shuttering the agency, reassigning some of its primary duties.
New York Times Top StoriesTrump Says Houthis in Yemen Will Be ‘Annihilated,’ as U.S. Keeps Up Strikes
The president warned Iran to stop arming the militant group, which has been attacking ships in the Red Sea.
New York Times Top StoriesTakeaways From the Kennedy Files
The big reveal from almost 64,000 documents was that there wasn’t much of a reveal at all.
New York Times Top StoriesStudents at Elite Schools Tell Sex-Offender Teacher How He Scarred Them
Winston Nguyen, who taught math at Saint Ann’s School in Brooklyn, was sentenced to seven years in prison after pressuring students from several private schools to send him lewd images.
New York Times Top StoriesShielded Kennedy Files Hid Spies, Not Conspiracies
Newly unredacted documents reveal details about Cold War spycraft, not a second gunman on grassy knolls. The revelations have “nothing to do with who killed Kennedy,” one expert said.
New York Times Top StoriesThe Fed Sees Higher Inflation and Lower Growth
Also, Zelensky agreed to a limited cease-fire in a call with Trump. Here’s the latest at the end of Wednesday.
New York Times Top StoriesCouple Who Abused Adopted Children Are Sentenced to Decades in Prison
The West Virginia couple, who are white, forced their adopted children, who are Black, to perform heavy labor and stand for hours with their hands on their heads, prosecutors said.
New York Times Top StoriesAstronomers Get ‘More Than a Hint’ That Dark Energy Isn’t What They Thought
New data further challenge the best scientific theory of the history and the structure of the universe. But a separate recent result reinforces it.