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Rabbits With Hornlike Growths Are Hopping Around Colorado. Are They OK?
The unsightly bunnies are infected with cottontail rabbit papillomavirus, which can cause growths that resemble warts or tentacles.
New York Times Top StoriesNew York Times Top StoriesTrump’s D.C. Police Takeover and National Guard Deployment: What to Know
President Trump is the first president to use a declared emergency to wrest control of Washington, D.C.’s police force.
New York Times Top StoriesGeorge C. White, Founder of Eugene O’Neill Theater Center, Dies at 89
His summer conferences gave budding playwrights a chance to try out new works, many of which went on to success in New York.
New York Times Top StoriesTaylor Swift Announces ‘The Life of a Showgirl’ Details on ‘New Heights’ Podcast
Swift spoke about her upcoming album on “New Heights,” a sports and pop culture podcast co-hosted by her boyfriend.
New York Times Top StoriesBakers on Texas-Mexican Border Are Found Guilty of Harboring Illegal Workers
Leonardo Baez and his wife were among the first employers prosecuted for taking on undocumented immigrants at their bakery in Los Fresnos, Texas. They face up to 10 years in prison.
New York Times Top StoriesTaxi Drivers Near $140 Million Settlement Over N.Y.C. Suspension Practices
New York City could grant payouts to some 20,000 taxi drivers whose professional licenses were summarily suspended without sufficient due process.
New York Times Top StoriesAt the Kennedy Center, Trump Puts His Pop Culture Obsession on Display
President Trump held forth about the nature of show business and his own tortured relationship with celebrity.
New York Times Top StoriesSolomon Peña, Republican Ex-Candidate, Sentenced in Politically Motivated Shooting Plot
Solomon Peña, who lost a bid for a seat in the New Mexico Legislature in 2022, was found guilty in March of orchestrating the attacks against state Democrats.
New York Times Top StoriesCanada Has Its Second-Worst Wildfire Season on Record
Thousands have been evacuated as quick moving wildfires burn in Eastern Canada.
New York Times Top StoriesBehind Wall Street’s Abrupt Flip on Crypto
The reversal risks declawing a century of consumer financial protections and replacing the backbone of bank accounts.
New York Times Top StoriesAhead of Putin Meeting, Trump Shrugs Off Russian Threats in U.S. and Abroad
President Trump struck a remarkably unconcerned tone when asked to address the horrors of war, raising questions about whether he has the leverage to convince Vladimir V. Putin to agree to end the invasion in Ukraine.
New York Times Top StoriesU.S. Pilot Stranded in Antarctica Says It’s ‘Isolating and Lonely’
Ethan Guo, a content creator, said that he has been effectively trapped at a Chilean base since June. The authorities had said he landed there without permission.
New York Times Top StoriesTrump and Europe Settled on a Strategy for Talks With Putin
Also, Kabul could soon run out of water. Here’s the latest at the end of Wednesday.
New York Times Top StoriesBilly Howton, Top Green Bay Packers Receiver in the ’50s, Dies at 95
He retired as the N.F.L.’s leading career receiver but was soon surpassed. In retirement, he went to prison for bilking investors in an $8 million fraud.
New York Times Top StoriesMan Charged With Assaulting Federal Agent With Sandwich in D.C.
A video showed a man repeatedly calling a group of officers “fascists” before throwing a sub sandwich at one.
New York Times Top StoriesHistorians Alarmed by White House Plan to Oversee Smithsonian Exhibits
The Trump administration’s plan to, in effect, audit the content of Smithsonian museums drew criticism from groups that represent scholars and promote free speech.
New York Times Top StoriesMr. President, Stop Coddling Putin
Ukrainians are heroes. It’s time that Trump started acting like it.
New York Times Top StoriesU.S. Alcohol Consumption Hits New Low, Poll Finds
The results signal a shift after a recent uptick in drinking among middle-aged adults in particular.
New York Times Top StoriesTop Iranian Official Visits Lebanon as Hezbollah Bucks Calls to Disarm
The visit by Ali Larijani, the head of Iran’s top security body, came as the Lebanese government moves to disarm Hezbollah, the militant group that has long been Tehran’s most powerful regional ally.
New York Times Top StoriesWhat Putin Hopes to Gain From a Summit With Trump
The American leader has agreed to a meeting with the Russian president in Alaska on Friday to discuss ending the war in Ukraine.
New York Times Top StoriesWhy Economists Are Worried About Trump’s B.L.S. Changes
Most of us just accept that government economic data is the best possible estimate of the economy. That could change, and that would be bad for all of us.
New York Times Top StoriesTrump Administration Can Withhold Billions in Foreign Aid, Appeals Court Rules
In a 2-to-1 vote, a federal appeals court panel ruled that foreign aid groups that sued to recover funds that President Trump froze cannot challenge the decision.
New York Times Top StoriesU.S. Ethics Agency Warns Bessent Over Conflicts of Interest
The Treasury secretary has been slow to divest assets, including farmland, that he pledged to shed.
New York Times Top StoriesMario Paglino, 52, and Gianni Grossi, 54, Die; Designers Made Barbies Into Art
They transformed dolls into one-of-a-kind pieces that sold for thousands of dollars. A married couple, they died in a car crash in Italy.
New York Times Top StoriesHow Scientists Use Drones to Tag Sperm Whales
A new tagging method called tap-and-go allows researchers to gather more data on the health and behavior of whales, with less disruption.
New York Times Top StoriesSome Democrats Panicked Over Mamdani. Obama Called Him.
Obamaworld seems interested in understanding Zohran Mamdani’s sudden rise to prominence.
New York Times Top StoriesTrump Will Visit Kennedy Center to Announce New Honorees
The president has taken a strong interest in the Kennedy Center’s affairs ever since naming himself chairman in February, when he restocked its traditionally bipartisan board with loyalists.
New York Times Top StoriesHispanic Democratic Officials in Texas Plead Not Guilty to Voter Fraud
Texas’ attorney general, Ken Paxton, has now used his “election integrity unit” to indict 15 Latino Democrats under a 2021 statute that outlawed delivering ballots for other voters.
New York Times Top StoriesDozens of Migrants Drown Off Lampedusa, Italy
Sixty people survived after two boats with nearly 100 migrants capsized. The causes of the shipwrecks were not clear, Italian officials and U.N. agencies said. The death toll is likely to grow.
New York Times Top StoriesU.K. Secretly Spent $3.2 Million to Stop Journalists From Reporting on Data Breach
After British authorities accidentally exposed information about 19,000 Afghans, the government sought a legal order preventing disclosure of the breach.