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Trump Just Shrugs as Kennedy Undermines His Vaccine Legacy
President Trump’s laissez-faire approach is notable, given that the development of the Covid vaccine was seen as one of his first term’s most notable achievements.
New York Times Top StoriesNew York Times Top StoriesFirefighters Begin to Contain Growing Wildfire Northwest of L.A.
The blaze, called the Canyon fire, began early Thursday afternoon near Lake Piru, a reservoir about 60 miles northwest of downtown Los Angeles.
New York Times Top StoriesWhat’s Behind the Thailand-Cambodia Conflict
A series of border skirmishes between Thailand and Cambodia escalated into a military conflict in July that killed dozens of people and rattled the region. As negotiations take place, Sui-Lee Wee, The New York Times’s Southeast Asia bureau chief, talks to Katrin Bennhold, a senior writer on the International desk, about the context behind the evolving dispute.
New York Times Top StoriesTrump Directed the Military to Target Foreign Drug Cartels
Also, Israel said it was preparing to take control of Gaza City. Here’s the latest at the end of Friday.
New York Times Top StoriesThe Smithsonian Changes Its Description of Trump’s Role on Jan. 6
The National Museum of American History removed some details of the charges President Trump faced when it replaced a display about his two impeachments.
New York Times Top StoriesVance and Lammy Mix Fishing and Foreign Policy at UK Estate
JD Vance and his family are spending two nights at the country residence of the British foreign secretary, David Lammy, with whom he has a somewhat unlikely friendship.
New York Times Top StoriesJames A. Lovell Jr., Commander of Apollo 13, Is Dead at 97
He led the three-man crew that survived a near catastrophic explosion in space in 1970, and was later immortalized by Tom Hanks in the movie “Apollo 13.”
New York Times Top StoriesTexas Attorney General Moves to Oust Democrats From Office Over Walkout
Democratic lawmakers maintained their walkout to thwart a Republican gerrymander, promting Attorney General Ken Paxton to ask the State Supreme Court to remove 13 of them from their seats.
New York Times Top StoriesWhy Are Tariffs on Switzerland So High?
President Trump sees Switzerland as doing too little to address its trade deficit with the U.S., a gap he focused on as he imposed a 39% tariff on Swiss goods.
New York Times Top StoriesTrump Wants U.C.L.A. to Pay $1 Billion to Restore Its Research Funding
The Trump administration has ended about $500 million for the Los Angeles-based university. The president said he wanted nearly double that to restart the flow of funds.
New York Times Top StoriesTrump Is Replacing Billy Long as I.R.S. Commissioner
The change comes just two months into the former Republican congressman’s tenure leading the tax agency.
New York Times Top StoriesTrump Wants U.C.L.A. to Pay $1 Billion to Restore Its Research Funding
The Trump administration has ended about $500 million for the Los Angeles-based university. The president said he wanted nearly double that to restart the flow of funds.
New York Times Top StoriesTexas Redistricting Fight: Is Any of This Legal?
Democrats have left the state, the Republican governor and attorney general have vowed to remove them from office, and a senator has called in the F.B.I.
New York Times Top StoriesWar of Words Erupts Between Colombia and Peru Over Island in Amazon
Both nations claim Santa Rosa de Yavarí, a tiny island of just 3,000 people that sits in the Amazon River, more than a thousand miles from their capitals.
New York Times Top StoriesSeven Ticks Hitched Very Long Rides to Connecticut
The nonnative species from Europe, Latin America and Eastern Africa reached the United States by latching on to travelers, a study by researchers in the state shows, offering clues about how ticks spread in a warming world.
New York Times Top Stories‘Hunting Wives,’ a Raunchy and Pulpy Drama, Is Netflix’s Most Popular Show
The drama has all the ingredients of a binge-watch: culture wars, murder and sex.
New York Times Top StoriesIndia’s Modi Left Soul-Searching After Failed Courtships of Xi and Trump
The collapse of the prime minister’s high-stakes efforts to transform ties with the world’s two superpowers has exposed the limits of India’s leverage.
New York Times Top StoriesPutin Briefs Leaders of China and India on Talks With U.S. on Ukraine
President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia may be seeking to build support among countries that have backed Moscow or remained neutral in the conflict.
New York Times Top StoriesAppeals Court Ends Judge Boasberg’s Contempt Inquiry of Trump Officials
The case involves deportation flights to El Salvador and whether the administration ignored the judge’s verbal order that they return to the United States.
New York Times Top StoriesMexico’s President Says U.S. Forces Are Unwelcome in Her Country
The Mexican government thought it had turned a corner in cooperating with the Trump administration on combating the cartels, having launched an aggressive crackdown of its own.
New York Times Top Stories‘Alligator Alcatraz’ in the Florida Everglades Is Testing Environmental Law
Officials building a Florida detention center appear to be skipping environmental reviews made mandatory decades ago after a fight over an airport at the very same spot.
New York Times Top StoriesSeed Oils Are Fine, Really
Nutrition science demonizing individual foods or ingredients is often based on flawed science and misses the bigger picture.
New York Times Top StoriesJustice Department Subpoenas Office of Letitia James, a Trump Nemesis
Ms. James, New York’s attorney general, won a civil fraud case against President Trump that is on appeal. One of the two subpoenas is related to that case.
New York Times Top StoriesNew Jersey Synagogue Burns to Ground as Rabbi and Family Escape
Congregation Beth El in Rutherford, more than a century old, was destroyed. The mayor said there was no indication of arson so far.
New York Times Top StoriesPossible Planet Spotted Around Alpha Centauri A by NASA’s James Webb Telescope
Astronomers found strong evidence that a gassy Jupiter-size world is orbiting Alpha Centauri A, one of three stars in the solar system closest to our own.
New York Times Top StoriesHow Three Journalists Tracked the Deadly Aid Crisis in Gaza
Interviews, data, witness footage, satellite imagery, photography and more helped the reporters capture a deteriorating situation.
New York Times Top StoriesTrump Directs Military to Target Foreign Drug Cartels
The president has ordered the Pentagon to use the armed forces to carry out what in the past was considered law enforcement.
New York Times Top StoriesSenate Heads for a ‘Nuclear’ Showdown on Trump Nominees
Republicans say they are preparing to impose rules changes to speed confirmations after Democrats thwarted them before Congress headed into recess.
New York Times Top StoriesTruck Companies Sour on California’s Strict Clean Air Rules
A deal designed to force compliance with tougher emissions standards is at risk after the Trump administration intervened.
New York Times Top StoriesWhat if You Can’t Believe the Official Numbers?
By besmirching the integrity of government statistics, President Trump is endangering an underappreciated treasure, our columnist says.