New York Times Top Stories
Social Security Workers Struggle to Meet Demand After DOGE Cuts
After this year’s staffing cuts, some people wait for hours, others sail through. But overburdened field office workers carry the weight.
New York Times Top StoriesNew York Times Top StoriesKashmir’s Apple Harvest Rots After Landslide Blocks Road
The Himalayan region supplies most of India’s apples. But when heavy rains left a major highway blocked for weeks, farmers couldn’t get them to markets.
New York Times Top StoriesWere You Assigned Full Books to Read in High School English? Tell Us.
We’re asking because the reading scores of American 12th graders are at record lows.
New York Times Top StoriesTrump Administration Eyes More Mass Layoffs if Government Shuts Down
The president’s top aides told agencies to prepare for potential firings if Congress cannot extend funding before the end of Sept. 30.
New York Times Top StoriesWith His Pivot on Ukraine, Trump May Be Washing His Hands of the War
President Trump has shown dwindling interest in mediating a peace accord, joining European “security guarantees” for Ukraine or providing aid and intelligence to the Ukrainians.
New York Times Top StoriesImmigrant Rights Groups Condemn Violent Rhetoric Against ICE and Immigrants
In a tense national debate, inflammatory language is being singled out.
New York Times Top StoriesU.S. Attorney Races to Present Case Against James Comey
It remains to be seen whether a career prosecutor would be willing to present a case to a grand jury or whether jurors would bring an indictment.
New York Times Top StoriesJD Vance Spars With Jon Favreau Over Dallas Shooting Information
In the aftermath of a violent episode, political figures quickly engaged with one another on social media.
New York Times Top StoriesWoman, 50, Killed by Midtown Manhattan Driver in Hit-and-Run Crash
A driver hit the woman and her husband, tourists from Germany, near Bryant Park on Wednesday afternoon. Her husband, 55, was injured, the police said.
New York Times Top StoriesInquiry Into Ex-C.I.A. Chief Stalls After Purge by Gabbard
The lack of an indictment so far against Mr. Brennan, in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, is the most recent setback for such prosecutions.
New York Times Top StoriesDallas ICE Facility Shooting Leaves One Detainee Dead and Two Injured
The shooter, who killed himself, also wounded two detainees in an attack that raised new fears about political violence in the United States.
New York Times Top StoriesDallas Shooting Comes Amid Growing Tensions Over Immigrant Detentions
The Trump administration has blamed the “demonization” of immigration enforcement officers for recent episodes.
New York Times Top StoriesKamala Harris Reinforces Support for Zohran Mamdani in Phone Call
The conversation came two days after Ms. Harris, the former vice president, gave a muted endorsement to Mr. Mamdani’s bid for mayor of New York City.
New York Times Top StoriesNow Arriving, a New Theory of In-Flight Turbulence
Physicists have devised a new model to account for the discomfort that airline passengers know all too well.
New York Times Top StoriesAt a Times Event, Opposing Views on Climate Change Collide
In a day of live journalism, California’s governor assailed President Trump, and the U.S. energy secretary called for countries to quit the Paris Agreement on global warming.
New York Times Top StoriesRichard Moe, 88, Dies; Led the National Trust for Historic Preservation
After serving as an aide to Vice President Walter Mondale, he spent 17 years at the forefront of the fight to save numerous endangered landmarks.
New York Times Top StoriesJimmy Kimmel’s Return Draws 6.2 Million Viewers, Ratings Show
The first episode of “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” since it was suspended last week by Disney attracted nearly four times its average viewership.
New York Times Top StoriesDallas Shooting Suspect Had Extensive Online Footprint but Little on Politics
On social media accounts, the suspect, Joshua Jahn, talked about video games, cars, “South Park” and marijuana — but not so much about politics.
New York Times Top StoriesA Shooter Opened Fire on a Dallas ICE Facility
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New York Times Top StoriesHow Trump Strikes Radically Different Tones in Public and Private
At the United Nations, world leaders got to see both sides of President Trump: bellicose in public and far more conciliatory in private.
New York Times Top StoriesMel Taub, Creator of a Pun-Loving Puzzle, Is Dead at 97
He was the main whiz behind a crossword variation for The Times, whose readers delighted in his anagrams and sometimes groan-inducing wordplay. (Try one yourself.)
New York Times Top StoriesNJ PBS May Shut Down Next Year Amid Funding Cuts
The announcement of the possible closure comes as federal funding cuts have hurt public broadcasting stations across the United States.
New York Times Top StoriesAkiko Tsuruga, Inventive Jazz Organist, Dies at 58
Known for her vast sonic palette, she made her mark playing with the saxophone master Lou Donaldson and also had a prolific solo career.
New York Times Top StoriesA Flash of Anger on India’s Delicate Border With China
Protesters demanding statehood for Ladakh, a strategically important Himalayan region, clashed with the police.
New York Times Top StoriesPresident Trump, Your Aid Cuts Are Costing Lives and Money
The dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. is leading to the squandering of taxpayer dollars, as well as of large numbers of lives.
New York Times Top StoriesAt U.N. Climate Summit, U.S. Stands Alone
On Wednesday in New York, countries lined up to say they would accelerate their efforts to cut greenhouse-gas emissions. In staying away, the U.S. was all but alone.
New York Times Top StoriesAt U.N. Summit, China Promises to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions
President Xi Jinping told a U.N. climate summit that China will reduce emissions across its economy, expand renewables sixfold and make electric cars “mainstream.”
New York Times Top StoriesWith Sobs and Doubts, Greenlandic Women Receive Apology for Forced Contraception
Some Greenlanders asked why an apology had not come decades earlier, and chalked up the timing to tensions over President Trump’s aim of annexing the island.
New York Times Top StoriesWoman Lured Men With Sex and Drugs and Left Them for Dead, Charges Say
Tabitha Bundrick was arraigned on murder charges in a Manhattan court. Hers is one of several recent cases in which victims were drugged and then robbed, with fatal consequences.
New York Times Top StoriesAn ‘Incredibly Complex’ Hurricane Forecast Is Unfolding Right Now
Two storms may form soon in the Atlantic, but their potential effects remain very uncertain.