New York Times Top Stories
How TV Shows Like ‘The X-Files’ Trained Us to Be Conspiracy Theorists
Pop culture didn’t create the real-world mythologies roiling our politics, but it helped write the scripts.
New York Times Top StoriesNew York Times Top StoriesCyclist and Pedestrian Killed After Vehicle Jumps Curb in Manhattan
The car had been traveling west on the Manhattan Bridge before it struck the victims at the base of the bridge in Chinatown early Saturday morning.
New York Times Top StoriesInside the Long Friendship Between Trump and Epstein
For nearly 15 years, the two men socialized together in Manhattan and Palm Beach, Fla., before a falling out that preceded Mr. Epstein’s first arrest.
New York Times Top StoriesW.N.B.A.’s All-Star Weekend Is Still Buzzing, Even Without Caitlin Clark
Despite an injury that sidelined the Fever star, thousands of fans descended on festivities across Indianapolis.
New York Times Top StoriesWhat Life Is Like for Four Young Adults Supporting Their Aging Parents
Most young adults don’t expect to support their aging parents. Here’s what happened when four people had to.
New York Times Top StoriesSouth Korea Pulls Report Into Jeju Air Crash After Victims’ Families Protest
Relatives of the Jeju Air disaster victims objected to the report in a stormy scene at a news conference, complaining that it blamed the pilots prematurely.
New York Times Top StoriesGaza Health Ministry Says Israeli Military Killed 32 in Attack Near Aid Site
The latest deaths add to U.N. figures showing that more than 670 Palestinians have been killed since May near sites built under a new Israel-backed aid system.
New York Times Top StoriesSyria Declares Cease-Fire After a Week of Upheaval
The government announcement came hours after a top U.S. envoy to the region said that the country and Israel had agreed to a truce after sectarian-tinged clashes had left hundreds dead.
New York Times Top StoriesWall Street Wants to Make Private Markets a Little More Public
As value grows in private markets, fund managers, brokerage houses, and savvy start-ups are building products that aim to expand access to them.
New York Times Top StoriesMAGA’s New Target: Trump
The president is in a deep-state fugue.
New 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.