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MAGA’s New Target: Trump
The president is in a deep-state fugue.
New York Times Top StoriesNew York Times Top StoriesA Pro-Trump Community Reckons With Losing a Beloved Immigrant Neighbor
Republicans had a point when they complained that Democrats overreached on immigration. But that’s what the G.O.P. is doing now.
New York Times Top StoriesThe ‘Little Epstein Theory’ vs. ‘Big Epstein Theory’
“The Opinions” round table discusses Trump and MAGA’s very bad week.
New York Times Top StoriesThe Icelandic Landscape Is Changing, and It’s Changing Us
It is impossible to separate our language from its island at the edge of the Arctic.
New York Times Top StoriesOpen Season
The popular notions of summer fun and the things we actually feel like doing can sometimes be at odds with each other.
New York Times Top StoriesMore Than 20 Injured in Los Angeles as Vehicle Drives Into Crowd
At least four people were in critical condition, the Los Angeles Fire Department said early Saturday.
New York Times Top StoriesDemocrats’ 2024 Autopsy Is Described as Avoiding the Likeliest Cause of Death
An audit being conducted by the D.N.C. is not looking at Joe Biden’s decision to run or key decisions by Kamala Harris’s team, according to six people briefed on the report.
New York Times Top StoriesWhy Are More Than 100 People Still Missing in Texas, 2 Weeks After the Floods?
The number of people unaccounted for dropped this week but remains stubbornly high as some searchers lose hope of finding them.
New York Times Top StoriesThe Kurosawa You May Never Have Heard Of
The great Japanese genre director Kiyoshi Kurosawa, whose latest film is “Cloud,” has mastered the cinema of psychological fright. Here’s why you should watch his work.
New York Times Top StoriesVance Boelter’s Life Before the Minnesota Shootings
Periods of religious zealotry and an unsettled professional career were intertwined for years before he was accused of murder.
New York Times Top StoriesHow a Sequoia Capital Partner’s Mamdani Posts Dragged the Firm Into Politics
Sequoia Capital, which backed Nvidia, Google and Apple when they were start-ups, has long stayed above the fray. But one partner’s post about Zohran Mamdani set off a chain reaction.
New York Times Top StoriesRussia Makes Gains in Ukraine in Summer Offensive
The most important factors may be far from the battlefield.
New York Times Top StoriesShould Food Stamps Pay for Soda?
Colorado and Texas are among the states aiming to change what food and drink can be bought with SNAP benefits.
New York Times Top StoriesAn Ancient Law Could Shape the Modern Future of America’s Beaches. Here’s How.
The growing battle over how to manage sea level rise turns partly on a legal principle set down in Roman times.
New York Times Top StoriesScams and a Rent Spike Follow New York City’s New Broker Fee Law
The law mostly shifts fees from tenants to landlords. But since it took effect, some landlords have raised rents, and tenants say some brokers still try to make them pay fees.
New York Times Top StoriesJapan Election 2025: What to Know
Shigeru Ishiba of the long-governing Liberal Democratic Party could face calls to resign if his party fares poorly in Sunday’s Upper House elections.
New York Times Top StoriesTear It Down, They Said. He Just Kept Building.
Defying demolition orders, a Chinese man turned his home into a rickety 11-story tower. Now tourists are coming.
New York Times Top StoriesSohei Kamiya Brings Trump-Style Populism to Japan’s Election
With his calls to limit foreign workers, fight globalism and put “Japanese First,” Sohei Kamiya has brought a fiery right-wing populism to Japan’s election on Sunday.
New York Times Top StoriesAstronomer CEO Andy Byron Placed on Leave After Video at Coldplay Concert Exposes Alleged Affair
A video from a concert dominated internet discourse as people joked about a man and woman who appeared very upset to be shown on camera.
New York Times Top StoriesTrump Sues Wall Street Journal for Article on Note to Epstein
The lawsuit argues that The Journal falsely claimed President Trump “authored, drew and signed” a lewd birthday card to Jeffrey Epstein.
New York Times Top StoriesUnder Trump, a New Focus for a Birth Control Program: Helping Women Get Pregnant
A little-noticed plan for an “infertility training center” signals that the administration intends to take a new approach with Title X, which has long helped low-income women access contraception.
New York Times Top StoriesJane Austen’s Best Books
A peerless chronicler of class and romance, the “Pride and Prejudice” author was never prolific. But her work remains remarkably relevant, more than two centuries after her death.
New York Times Top StoriesNY Agrees to Settle Ex-Cuomo Aide’s Harassment Claims for $450,000
The former executive aide, Brittany Commisso, accused Andrew M. Cuomo of groping her when he was governor. The state did not admit wrongdoing.
New York Times Top StoriesGabbard Claims Obama Administration Tried to Undermine Trump in 2016
Democrats denounced a report issued by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence as politically motivated and error-ridden.
New York Times Top StoriesBill Dellinger, Runner and Track Coach Who Mentored Stars, Dies at 91
After running the 5,000 meters in three Olympics, he coached the likes of Steve Prefontaine and Joaquim Cruz at his alma mater, the University of Oregon.
New York Times Top StoriesTrump Administration Requests Release of Epstein Grand Jury Records. What’s Next?
The records are at the center of President Trump’s effort to manage fallout from the Epstein case. But unsealing them is complex and requires a judge to sign off.
New York Times Top StoriesRubio Restricts U.S. Criticism of Tainted Foreign Elections
A State Department cable telling officials to avoid comments on the “fairness or integrity” of most elections continues a U.S. turn away from promoting democratic values abroad.
New York Times Top StoriesTrump Asked a Court to Unseal Epstein Grand Jury Testimony
Also, Americans were released in a prisoner swap with Venezuela. Here’s the latest at the end of Friday.
New York Times Top StoriesWhen Getting Fired Is Only the Beginning for Federal Workers
One thing is clear from a reporter’s conversations with laid-off federal workers this year: The cuts have been anything but straightforward and efficient.
New York Times Top StoriesE.P.A. Says It Will Eliminate Its Scientific Research Arm
The decision comes after a Supreme Court ruling allowing the Trump administration to slash the federal work force and dismantle agencies.