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As Trump’s Tariffs Reshape Trade, Businesses Struggle With Economic Uncertainty

Policymakers and business owners are navigating a highly uncertain moment for the economy, wary of overreacting but watchful of a meaningful downturn.

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Trump Removed Crypto Warnings from Retirement Plans. Will It Affect 401(k)s?

Regulators under President Trump are taking a neutral position on crypto, retreating from the Biden administration’s more cautionary stance.

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Fired by D.O.G.E., More Federal Workers Are Flooding the Job Market

The drastic, sudden pullback in federal dollars is collapsing opportunities for many who’ve spent years in public service.

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It’s a Really Bad Time to Be an Expert in Washington

The Trump administration has eviscerated the expert class that generated alternative views in its best moments, and engaged in groupthink at its worst.

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Why Trump and the New Right Declared War on Bureaucrats

Why anti-managerialism is back.

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A Professor Was Fired for Her Politics. Is That the Future of Academia?

Maura Finkelstein is one of many scholars discovering that the traditional protections of academic freedom are no longer holding.

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For Decades of N.B.A. Finals, This Photographer Has Been Courtside

The photographer Nathaniel Butler reflects on his enduring images of stars like Bill Russell, Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant.

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Doctors Were Preparing to Remove Their Organs. Then They Woke Up.

A federal investigation found a Kentucky nonprofit pushed hospital workers toward surgery despite signs of revival in patients.

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An Engineering Marvel, Decades in the Making: A Rail Line to Kashmir

Officials say the train will help the troubled region, but many Kashmiris see it as a tool to entrench the Indian government’s control.

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How Manhattan Country School Suddenly Collapsed

Inspired by the civil rights movement, Manhattan Country School educated the children of aristocrats and undocumented immigrants. Then it got into real estate.

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Cuomo Was Contrite About His Sexual Harassment Scandal. Not Anymore.

Former Gov. Andrew Cuomo left office in 2021 amid a wave of sexual harassment allegations. As he runs for mayor, he is counting on voters’ having moved on.

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2025 Tony Awards Predictions: Best New Musical, Best Leading Actress and More

Expect wins for the musicals “Maybe Happy Ending” and “Sunset Boulevard,” but the races for best play and leading actress in a musical are too close to call.

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Journalism the Horse Shows How Some Winners Come From Behind

In an era wound tight with urgency, Journalism, who moves with patience and lets the chaos pass, is the horse we didn’t know we needed.

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U.K. Faces ‘Extraordinary’ Threat from Russian and Iranian Plots, Official Warns

Jonathan Hall, a British government adviser, said in an interview that hostile states were paying local criminals to carry out acts of violence, espionage and intimidation.

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South Koreans Have a New President, and Mixed Emotions

After six months of turmoil, citizens hope for better times. But political polarization and international tensions over trade mean many worries remain.

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Trump and Musk Trade Threats, From Broaching Impeachment to Cutting Contracts

The sudden fallout ended a nearly yearlong partnership, during which Mr. Musk helped propel Mr. Trump to the White House and became one of the president’s top advisers.

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Russia Launches Broad Assault on Kyiv and Other Cities in Ukraine

Air defense crews in the capital were racing to combat a large-scale bombardment before dawn on Friday, officials said.

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Trump’s New Travel Ban Is Rife With Contradictions

The Trump administration appears to have relied on a variety of considerations as it put together its latest restrictions.

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New Travel Ban Brings Contradictions and Concerns

The order, which primarily targets countries in Africa and the Middle East, revives an effort from President Trump’s first term that led to court battles.

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Trump Compares Russia and Ukraine to Children Fighting

During a visit by the German leader, President Trump essentially threw up his hands, saying that there was nothing the United States could do right now to end the war.

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Video Shows Fiery Fatal Crash After Police Chase

Francisco Guzman Parra, 31, died after crashing a stolen Honda in Upper Manhattan. Two officers chasing him drove away after the car caught fire, according to video surveillance footage.

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8 Ways Elon Musk and Trump Could Inflict Pain on Each Other

The falling-out between Elon Musk and President Trump went into overdrive on Thursday. Both men have powerful ways to keep it going.

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How NASA Would Struggle Without SpaceX if Trump Cancels Musk’s Contracts

If President Trump cancels the contracts for Elon Musk’s private spaceflight company, the federal government would struggle to achieve many goals in orbit and beyond.

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Landlords Commit $2.5 Million to Help Cuomo’s Mayoral Campaign

The money, the largest example of outside spending by a single donor in the New York City mayor’s race, will go toward campaign ads on Andrew M. Cuomo’s behalf.

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Medical Care for Transgender Youth: ‘The Protocol’ Podcast

A six-part podcast exploring the story of medical treatment for transgender young people — how the care began, the lives it changed, and the legal and political fights that could end it in the United States.

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Trump’s Travel Ban Prompts Fear and Frustration for U.S. Immigrants

Immigrants from the targeted countries said the ban would upend their lives. “I don’t understand why the president has to target us nonstop,” one Haitian asylum seeker said.

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Trump and Musk’s Relationship Melts Down in Spectacular Fashion

The speed of the fallout was breathtaking, with President Trump celebrating Elon Musk during an Oval Office farewell just last Friday.

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Trump’s New Travel Ban Is Built on Lessons From First-Term Fights

The addition of visa overstays as a rationale could provide an opening for new legal challenges, migrant advocates say.

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Shari Redstone Says She Has Thyroid Cancer

Ms. Redstone was diagnosed this spring while trying to close the sale of her family’s media empire to Skydance, a Hollywood studio backed by Larry Ellison.

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As Ousters Continue, F.B.I. Singles Out Employee Over Friendship With Trump Critic

Threated with demotion, a veteran agent with ties to a former official on the F.B.I. director’s so-called enemies list opted to resign. Two others were forced to move and retire.

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