New York Times Top Stories
Florida Is Buying Plane Tickets for Unauthorized Immigrants to Self-Deport
Immigrants in custody, with no felony convictions, may be offered direct commercial flights home — and avoid “Alligator Alcatraz.”
New York Times Top StoriesNew York Times Top StoriesRadioactive Wasps Found at Nuclear Site in South Carolina Could Be a ‘Red Flag,’ Expert Says
Four radioactive wasp nests may indicate previously undetected environmental contamination at the decades-old Savannah River Site. Here’s what to know.
New York Times Top StoriesStates Sue Over Trump Efforts to End Pediatric Transgender Medical Care
The lawsuit comes amid escalating efforts by the U.S. government to restrict the availability of certain services for transgender adolescents.
New York Times Top StoriesTrump Turns to Untested Tariffs to Reorder Global Trade
President Trump has long wanted to rework world trade. The tariffs set to go into effect next week will carry out that plan.
New York Times Top StoriesPutin Blames Frustration Over Ukraine Talks on ‘Inflated Expectations’
The Russian president didn’t directly respond to President Trump’s ultimatum that Moscow halt its offensive by the end of next week or face financial penalties.
New York Times Top StoriesMike Donilon Had $4 Million Incentive to Secure a 2024 Biden Win
Mike Donilon was promised a bonus that would have doubled his payment for work on the campaign if the former president had been re-elected.
New York Times Top StoriesHow U.S. Officials Grappled With the Release of a Triple Murderer
The decision to free an American convicted of murder in a prisoner swap with Venezuela threatened to undercut President Trump’s claims of keeping the worst of the worst out of the United States.
New York Times Top StoriesWhat J.M.W. Turner Saw, and What We Still Can See
In the 250 years since the artist was born, the natural world he loved so much has changed. But he still reminds us to look with truth, clarity, and feeling.
New York Times Top StoriesThe Stock Market Is Good, Bad and Ugly, Often in Quick Succession
The market’s best days frequently occur in the midst of misery, our columnist says, so don’t bother trying to figure out where stocks are heading.
New York Times Top StoriesRobert Wilson Expanded Our Sense of Theatrical Possibility
Wilson, who died this week at 83, created works of otherworldly dreaminess that were also deeply human.
New York Times Top StoriesStates Have More Data About You Than the Feds Do. Trump Wants to See It.
Critics fear that personal data might be used to monitor immigrants and political foes, and to spread false tales of fraud.
New York Times Top StoriesThe Publicist on Call for Controversy
Mitchell Jackson was fired from a high-profile journalism job at 25. Now he represents some of the most divisive figures in America, including the right-wing podcaster Candace Owens.
New York Times Top StoriesStocks Drop as Trump’s New Tariffs Weigh on Markets
Signs of cracks in the U.S. labor market and President Trump’s newest barrage of tariffs shook investors around the world, weighing on stocks, the dollar and more.
New York Times Top StoriesEmployers Pulled Back on Hiring, Adding 73,000 Jobs
The labor market showed signs of weakening, as job gains for the previous two months were also revised lower.
New York Times Top StoriesTrump Administration Cuts UCLA Funding Over Claims of Antisemitism, Chancellor Says
The university is the latest to be targeted by the federal government over accusations that it has not done enough to fight antisemitism on campus.
New York Times Top StoriesThe Politics of Masks
How masking is a source of both power and protection.
New York Times Top StoriesTrump Envoy Witkoff Is Set to Visit Gaza as Aid Crisis Deepens
Steve Witkoff is set to visit the enclave on Friday amid growing pressure on Israel to ease the hunger crisis. Hamas said the trip would be a “propaganda show.”
New York Times Top StoriesMary Gaillard, Who Broke a Ceiling in Subatomic Research, Dies at 86
Overcoming discrimination in a mostly male preserve, she did groundbreaking work that showed experimentalist physicists where and how to look for new particles.
New York Times Top StoriesThe New Tariff Twist, and a $250 million A.I. Job Offer
Plus, your Friday news quiz.
New York Times Top StoriesThe Book That Explains JD Vance’s Worldview
Yoram Hazony, the author of “The Virtue of Nationalism,” discusses the principles of national conservatism.
New York Times Top StoriesSo Long, ‘South Park’ Conservatives
There’s no more pretending that it’s rebellious to be reactionary.
New York Times Top StoriesManhattan Has More Secure Buildings Than Most Cities. That Wasn’t Enough.
Decades of threats have heightened security in New York City. But Monday’s attack in a Park Avenue office building shows the limits of preparedness.
New York Times Top StoriesWith Epstein, Trump Betrays His Brand. His Supporters Notice.
Trump’s handling of the Epstein issue runs counter to the sense that he is an outsider fighting against a hostile class of insiders.
New York Times Top StoriesVirginia Education Board Could Oust George Mason’s President
Republicans have attacked the president, Gregory Washington, over his support for diversity efforts at the university, Virginia’s largest public institution.
New York Times Top StoriesCorruption Scandal Puts Mexico’s President on Defense Against Trump
Mexico’s president, battling U.S. accusations that the cartels have gripped her government, is facing a scandal in which two former officials are on the run and their old boss is now a top senator.
New York Times Top StoriesHow to Know When a World Event Could Shock the Market
The largest shifts come from geopolitical disruptions that put pressure on the mechanisms of the global economy.
New York Times Top StoriesAn Ex-Stone Says the Met Has His Lost Guitar. The Museum Says No Way.
Representatives for Mick Taylor, the Rolling Stones’ former guitarist, said the Les Paul was stolen from him decades ago. The museum says he never owned it and has not made a claim.
New York Times Top StoriesI’m a Therapist. ChatGPT Is Eerily Effective.
I was shocked to see ChatGPT echo the very tone I’d once cultivated.
New York Times Top StoriesIn Delhi and New York, Hindu Right Wing Lines Up Against Mamdani
As Zohran Mamdani gets within striking distance of becoming New York’s first Muslim mayor, he is drawing fire from supporters of India’s populist prime minister, who accuse him of being anti-Hindu.
New York Times Top StoriesFleeing Domestic Violence, and the Russian Advance
“I wanted something decent,” said a woman at a shelter near Ukraine’s border with Russia. “But this is how it turned out.”