New York Times Top Stories
As Consumers Lose Their Appetite, Food Brands Fight to Keep Wall St. Happy
Packaged food companies are struggling to adjust — and profit — as tastes, waistlines and wallets change.
New York Times Top StoriesNew York Times Top StoriesTrump Flies to Scotland, Leaving Chaos Swirling in Washington
The five-day visit will be a mix of personal business and golf with some diplomacy thrown in.
New York Times Top StoriesFirst Deportation Flights Depart From Florida’s ‘Alligator Alcatraz’
Gov. Ron DeSantis said “hundreds” of federal detainees had departed a state-run detention center in the Everglades on planes, but provided few details about them or where they went.
New York Times Top StoriesTexas Democrats to Confer With California and Illinois Governors on Redistricting
Two groups of Democrats left Texas to confer with Govs. Gavin Newsom and JB Pritzker, who have suggested their Democratic-controlled states could counter a Texas Republican gerrymander.
New York Times Top StoriesHulk Hogan Used Clothing As a Key Part of His Brand
His look was jokey, but it was no joke.
New York Times Top StoriesWhat Did Trump’s Hard-Hat Tour of the Fed Accomplish?
The president wanted to take Jerome Powell, the Fed chair, to task over the cost of renovations to the central bank’s headquarters, but Mr. Powell was having none of it.
New York Times Top StoriesThe Starvation Spreading in Gaza
Gaza is descending into anarchy.
New York Times Top StoriesWas This Artifact From King Tut’s Tomb? It’s for Sale Anyway.
A London auction house says there is “no documented evidence” that an intricately carved grasshopper is from the boy king’s tomb. Its estimated price is up to $675,000.
New York Times Top StoriesSpat Between Thai and Cambodian Leaders Fuels Deadly Border War
A personal feud between two of Southeast Asia’s political titans is inflaming the worst violence on the border in more than a decade.
New York Times Top StoriesA Contentious Media Merger, and the F.B.I.’s Epstein Scramble
Plus, your Friday news quiz.
New York Times Top StoriesIs Decarbonization Dead?
Trump just shredded America’s most ambitious climate policy. Jane Flegal and Jesse Jenkins discuss what this means for the future of renewable energy in the U.S.
New York Times Top StoriesTrump, Obama and the Question of Treason
President Trump’s history of intemperate remarks has earned him a perverse kind of immunity; the more outrageous his statement, the faster it is often dismissed.
New York Times Top StoriesBoeing Emerges as a Winner in Trump’s Trade Wars
Countries striking agreements with the United States have pledged to buy more Boeing planes, but it’s not clear whether those orders were the result of President Trump’s tactics.
New York Times Top StoriesNew York Historical Acquires Bill Cunningham Archive
Tens of thousands of photos, negatives and memorabilia from the New York Times photographer (himself designated a living landmark) will go to the museum and have a permanent home.
New York Times Top StoriesBehind a Maine Coffee Company’s Decision to Raise Prices
Like many companies, Rock City Coffee resisted increasing prices as President Trump’s trade war drove its costs up. Then it ran out of options.
New York Times Top StoriesThe Manmade Clouds That Could Help Save the Great Barrier Reef
Inside a bold — and controversial — effort to cool the water around this beloved ecosystem.
New York Times Top StoriesA Drag Queen Leaves the Stage on Her Own Terms
Kai Lee Mykels often said her goal was to make straight men uneasy, but that was a gag. Her creator had a bigger goal in mind.
New York Times Top StoriesThe First ‘Fantastic Four’: The Superhero Movie That Never Was
The first attempt at making a film about the superheroes was an extremely low-budget affair that was shot, abandoned and mostly forgotten about in the 1990s.
New York Times Top StoriesSaving New York’s Midcentury Signs
The New York Sign Museum in Brooklyn preserves the stories of shuttered local businesses.
New York Times Top StoriesStates Look to Europe to Improve U.S. Prison Conditions
States of all political stripes, including Oklahoma, North Dakota and Massachusetts, have sent officials to tour prisons in Germany in search of ways to improve conditions for American inmates.
New York Times Top StoriesVolkswagen Hit Hard by Trump’s Tariffs
The German automaker said that the U.S. import duties erased about $1.5 billion from its profit in the first half of the year.
New York Times Top StoriesColumbia Walked a Tightrope on Its Way to a $200 Million Settlement With Trump
Talks in Washington. An expert on negotiation. A balancing act. The university chose cooperation over litigation, a strategy both pilloried and praised.
New York Times Top StoriesAhead of Shutdown Deadline, Democrats Face a Dilemma on Spending
Democrats are leery of supporting Republican spending measures after the White House forced through clawbacks of funding already approved by Congress.
New York Times Top StoriesThe Gen Z New Yorkers Selling Their Parents on Mamdani
Young voters went for Zohran Mamdani by a large margin. Can they persuade their parents to do the same?
New York Times Top StoriesAustralia Says Gaza Situation Beyond ‘Worst Fears’ as Pressure Mounts on Israel
Some of Israel’s closest allies have stepped up criticism of its restrictions on aid to Gaza, where doctors and aid organizations say people are dying of starvation.
New York Times Top StoriesFor Late Night, Epstein-Trump Is the Comedy Gift That Keeps On Giving
Josh Johnson said that “not since Tupac Shakur has a dead man dropped so many bangers.”
New York Times Top StoriesTo End the War in Ukraine, Trump Needs Real Negotiations
No one knows what Putin would accept to end his invasion of Ukraine if he were presented with a real negotiation process.
New York Times Top StoriesAt Least 16 People Dead as Thailand’s Clashes With Cambodia Enter Second Day
The conflict along the border is the deadliest between the two nations in 14 years.
New York Times Top StoriesHulk Hogan’s Villainous Turn Changed Pro Wrestling
Hulk Hogan cultivated an image as an all-American hero. But one night in 1996, he decided to stick it to his fans, brother.
New York Times Top StoriesThe Kakapo, Its Parasites and a Shared Struggle to Escape Extinction
The endangered kakapo is a flightless bird native to New Zealand. Its population is growing, but its parasites have dwindled. Could that spell trouble?