New York Times Top Stories
They Let Their Children Cross the Street and Now They’re Felons
They went to jail when their boy was killed. Why don’t road planners bear some guilt?
New York Times Top StoriesNew York Times Top StoriesAlec Luhn, Missing American Hiker, Is Found Alive in Norway
Rescue workers found Mr. Luhn, a journalist who had not been heard from for days after setting off alone in a Norwegian national park.
New York Times Top StoriesItaly Approves Project to Link Sicily to the Mainland by Bridge
The government says the road and rail link will create jobs and lift the economy of the region, but critics are concerned about the environmental and social impact.
New York Times Top StoriesKelley Mack, ‘Walking Dead’ Actress, Dies at 33
Ms. Mack was diagnosed with a malignant tumor in her nervous system late last year.
New York Times Top StoriesRaucous Town Halls
We explore the new political danger of a centuries-old format.
New York Times Top StoriesUber’s Sexual Assault Problem, and ICE’s $50,000 Signing Bonus
Plus, the shark bite club.
New York Times Top StoriesTruce Quiets Syrian City Torn by Sectarian Clashes
The fighting has stopped in the southern city of Sweida, three weeks after a deadly eruption of violence. But the area remains tense as clashes continue beyond the city.
New York Times Top StoriesStatue of French General Accused of Torture Divides His Hometown
An effort to have a statue of Marcel Bigeard removed has reignited the debate over how the colonial past should be remembered.
New York Times Top StoriesFor Some Wounded in Ukraine War, Surgery Helps Rebuild a Sense of Self
Surgeons have made significant strides in tending to the war’s wounded, particularly through the use of 3-D printing, creating patient-specific implants and surgical guides.
New York Times Top StoriesWhy the B.L.S. Regularly Revises Jobs Data
President Trump fired the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics last week and described a jobs report that included a big downward revision as “rigged.”
New York Times Top StoriesAldi’s Passionate, Cultlike Following Fuels Its Rapid Expansion Plans
“It feels like I’m at a bougie store, but I’m not paying bougie prices,” one shopper said of the discount grocer, which is set to open hundreds of stores as consumers look to save and buy organic.
New York Times Top StoriesWildfire In Wet Washington State Is Changing Under Climate Change
The famously rainy state is facing longer, hotter and drier fire seasons, raising the risk of a mammoth fire that will be nearly impossible to fight. All the state can do is prepare.
New York Times Top StoriesThe ‘Hamilton’ Effect: 10 Revolutionary Years on Broadway
Lin-Manuel Miranda’s much-loved musical opened on Broadway a decade ago, ushering in a new era of race-conscious casting, audience outreach and even stardom.
New York Times Top StoriesTrump Amps Up an Obama Strategy to Crack Down on Colleges
Under Obama, federal rules pushed universities to build new bureaucracies to address sexual misconduct. Trump is doubling down on that tactic for antisemitism claims.
New York Times Top StoriesSenator Mark Kelly: Don’t Gut NASA
Before he was a senator, Mark Kelly was an astronaut. He’s worried about America’s leadership in space.
New York Times Top StoriesHow Epstein Mania Finally Let Democrats Talk (and Meme) Like the Right
Hoping to widen the rift between Trump and his supporters, a few Democrats are dabbling in the kind of messaging that usually punches left.
New York Times Top StoriesIs the Tampa Bay Rays’ Owner Brilliant or a Failure?
Stu Sternberg used quantitative wizardry to turn the Tampa Bay Rays into a perennial contender. But the fans were the one equation he could never solve.
New York Times Top StoriesSudan’s Civil War Shifts Toward Kordofan
Since the Sudanese Army drove its paramilitary rival from the capital in March, the two sides are battling for territorial gains in the Kordofan region.
New York Times Top StoriesKennedy’s Crusade Against Food Safety Rule Threatens Supplement Industry
By going after an obscure regulatory designation he describes as a “loophole,” Mr. Kennedy has put an industry he champions on the defensive.
New York Times Top StoriesTheir Last Love Token: A Dinosaur Rebuilt From Its Excavated Bones
When his wife died, the paleontologist Barry James poured his grief into the reconstruction of a triceratops skeleton that they had started together.
New York Times Top StoriesHow One Company Maintained a Monopoly on U.S. Fire Retardant
Perimeter Solutions sought to undercut rivals, leaving federal officials worried about their reliance on a single company for a crucial product.
New York Times Top StoriesWar Shattered His Face. Technology Helped Reconstruct It.
Volodymyr is a Ukrainian marksman whose face was shattered by a Russian bomb in 2023. After multiple surgeries and titanium implants, he has returned to active duty near the closest point of the front line of the war with Russia. Calling in from there, he describes his recovery to Marc Santora, an international editor for The New York Times.
New York Times Top StoriesStephen Colbert Says Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ Could Cost the G.O.P. Its Popularity
“When they learned that, Republicans immediately saw the light, sprang into action, promised to tax the rich and restore people’s health care,” he joked.
New York Times Top StoriesTrump Sends His Envoy to Russia With Sanctions Deadline Looming
The envoy, Steve Witkoff, is making his fifth visit this year. He has managed to secure some prisoner exchanges but made no clear progress so far on ending the Ukraine war.
New York Times Top StoriesLegionnaires’ Outbreak in Harlem Kills 2 and Sickens More Than 50
The source of the illness has not been conclusively identified more than a week after people began getting sick.
New York Times Top StoriesVideo Forces Pakistan to Confront ‘Honor Killings’ and Gender Violence
Women in Pakistan die every day for supposedly dishonoring their families, and arrests are rare. But Bano Bibi’s defiant last words were caught on video.
New York Times Top StoriesEighty Years of Nuclear Weapons Is Enough
The nuclear taboo is on the verge of collapse.
New York Times Top StoriesThe Promise of Palestinian Statehood Is Ringing Hollow
Recognition will come with strings attached and little chance for holding Israel to account.
New York Times Top StoriesMary Sheffield and Solomon Kinloch Jr. Advance in Detroit Mayoral Election
Mary Sheffield and Solomon Kinloch Jr. will face off in a November election. Mike Duggan, Detroit’s mayor for a dozen years, is not seeking re-election.
New York Times Top StoriesChina Is a Nation of Savers. Many Are Drowning in Debt.
As Beijing pushes consumer lending to stimulate the economy, millions of Chinese borrowers, especially the young, are falling into debt spirals.