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New Jersey Transit Strike Set to Begin at Midnight After Talks Break Down
The strike by the locomotive engineers would disrupt the lives of tens of thousands of commuters in the New York metropolitan region.
New York Times Top StoriesNew York Times Top StoriesTrump Officials Say James Comey Is Under Investigation Over Social Media Post
James Comey shared and later took down a post with a phrase used by critics of the president, saying there had been no ill intent.
New York Times Top StoriesTrump Administration Fires Hundreds of Voice of America Employees
The layoffs amounted to over a third of the media organization’s staff, and came as the Trump administration put up for sale the federal building in Washington that houses the network.
New York Times Top Stories36 Deaths in Police Custody Should Have Been Called Homicides, Report Finds
An audit of deaths in Maryland found that in cases of people who died after being restrained by the police, medical examiners often classified the deaths as natural or accidental.
New York Times Top StoriesThe Prize-Winning Novel Challenging ‘Ableist Machismo’ in Japan
Saou Ichikawa is the country’s first severely disabled author to win a top literary prize. Her novel “Hunchback” is an angry cry against “ableist machismo.”
New York Times Top StoriesCan C-SPAN Pull Off ‘Crossfire,’ but With Civility?
“Ceasefire” will be the low-key public affairs channel’s first new weekly show in two decades. The question is whether Republicans and Democrats will show up.
New York Times Top StoriesTrump Says Talks on Iran’s Nuclear Program Are ‘Very Serious’
Envoys for Iran and the United States have engaged in four rounds of talks. But exactly what a deal would look like remained unclear.
New York Times Top StoriesAn Afrikaner Farming Family Trades South Africa for Alabama
Errol Langton and eight members of his family were among the first group of white South Africans to arrive in the United States this week after President Trump created an expedited path to citizenship.
New York Times Top StoriesShe Vanished for 3 Weeks in the Sierra. Then the Phone Rang: ‘Dad, I’m Alive.’
A search for Tiffany Slaton, 28, covered roughly 600 square miles of mountainous terrain in California. She was found at a cabin, where she waited out a blizzard.
New York Times Top StoriesTakeaways From Cassie’s 3rd Day of Testimony in Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs Trial
For the first time, Casandra Ventura was questioned by Sean Combs’s defense lawyers, who confronted her with many messages from their relationship.
New York Times Top StoriesTrump’s Computer Chip Deals With Saudi Arabia and UAE Divide US Government
Big deals to sell chips to the U.A.E. and Saudi Arabia have divided the U.S. government over whether they could be remembered for shipping cutting-edge A.I. overseas.
New York Times Top StoriesLaw Firms Fighting Back Against Trump Report Security Clearance Suspensions
WilmerHale and Jenner & Block pleaded with the courts to intervene as the Justice Department moved to implement President Trump’s orders targeting their business.
New York Times Top StoriesSpringsteen, in England, Blasts Trump Administration as ‘Treasonous’
His remarks, delivered to an audience abroad, stood out at a time when other superstar artists have seemed to mute their criticism of the president.
New York Times Top StoriesFederal Officials May Limit Recommendations for Covid Vaccine
With new testing requirements, it’s not even clear how new Covid or flu shots can be made available this fall.
New York Times Top StoriesCharles Strouse, Composer of ‘Annie’ and ‘Bye Bye Birdie,’ Dies at 96
He wrote some of the most enduring musical theater numbers of his era and earned three Tony Awards, a Grammy and an Emmy.
New York Times Top StoriesConservative Republicans Revolt Over Domestic Policy Bill, Threatening Its Path
The opposition of a pair of right-wing lawmakers who are pressing for deeper spending cuts appeared to be enough, at least for now, to block the bill from advancing past its next hurdle and to the House floor.
New York Times Top StoriesNational Guard Tapped for Migrant Crackdown
Plus, the first personalized gene-editing treatment
New York Times Top StoriesNew Guidelines Address I.U.D. Insertion Pain and Offer Management Options
Recommendations from the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists outline a range of pain management options for routine procedures.
New York Times Top StoriesPope Leo XIV Grew Up in This Chicago Home. Now, It Could Be Yours.
The same auction house that sold President Trump’s childhood home for millions in 2017 will take bids for the modest three-bedroom where Pope Leo XIV once lived.
New York Times Top Stories‘We Are the Most Rejected Generation’
There’s a cost to making it so hard to be a young person right now.
New York Times Top StoriesU.S. Unveils Sweeping A.I. Project in Abu Dhabi
President Trump signed deals to create a 10-mile campus that would transform the United Arab Emirates into an A.I. powerhouse
New York Times Top StoriesHere’s What’s in House Republicans’ Big Tax Bill to Deliver Trump’s Agenda
A large tax cut, as well as more money for defense and immigration enforcement, would be financed by slashing health, nutrition, education and clean energy programs.
New York Times Top StoriesHe Denounced the Gaza War at Graduation. N.Y.U. Withheld His Diploma.
The university says that a student’s remarks condemning “genocide” were not approved and that he “violated the commitment he made to comply with our rules.”
New York Times Top StoriesIn Birthright Citizenship Case, Supreme Court Wrestles With Limiting Judges’ Power
The justices heard arguments on whether a federal judge in a single district can block Trump administration policy across the country.
New York Times Top StoriesMarco Rubio Meets Syria’s Foreign Minister, in Another Sign of Warming Ties
The meeting came days after President Trump announced he would end sanctions against Syria and met with the country’s president, a former jihadist.
New York Times Top StoriesFor Trump, Citizenship Has Long Served as a Political Tool
Raising questions about who gets to claim to be an American powered the president’s political rise. A Supreme Court case may allow him reinterpret a right enshrined in the Constitution since the 1800s.
New York Times Top StoriesLawmakers in Both Parties Resist Trump’s Attempt to Seize Control of Their Library
The surprise firing of the head of the Library of Congress and efforts to install Trump loyalists at the iconic institution have stirred bipartisan pushback on Capitol Hill.
New York Times Top StoriesVengeful at Home, Trump Takes His Forgiving Side on Middle East Tour
During the first major foreign trip of his second term, President Trump has told audiences in the Middle East that he’s willing to set the past aside in the interests of peace and profit.
New York Times Top StoriesTrump Administration Escalates Harvard Feud With New Justice Dept. Investigation
The Trump administration is targeting the Ivy League university under a law typically used to go after government contractors for swindling.
New York Times Top StoriesDoes Meta Have a Social Media Monopoly? Here’s What the U.S. Has Argued.
The government showed hundreds of internal documents as it sought to prove that the social media company bought Instagram and WhatsApp to neutralize a threat.