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C.T.E. Looms Over Friday Night Lights
Parents revealed conflicting emotions after the finding that a gunman who killed four people in July had the brain disease that has been linked with football and other contact sports.
New York Times Top StoriesNew York Times Top StoriesNeil Kraft, Visionary Adman Who Sold ‘a Mood and a Lifestyle,’ Dies at 67
His ads for Calvin Klein and others captured a fizzy moment in the 1980s and ’90s, featuring celebrities like the young rapper Marky Mark wearing nothing but underwear and a grin.
New York Times Top StoriesIranians Brace for Economic Impact of New U.N. Sanctions
Already suffering a 40 percent inflation rate and critical shortages of power and water, many in Iran expect conditions to get worse.
New York Times Top StoriesStampede at Actor’s Political Rally Kills at Least 36 People in India
The stampede took place at an event for Joseph Vijay Chandrasekhar, the popular actor known professionally as Vijay. A health official said the toll was likely to rise.
New York Times Top StoriesU.S. Ambassador to Israel Is Expected to Make Rare Visit to Egypt
Ambassador Mike Huckabee is to travel to Cairo for talks that officials said would focus on the Gaza war and tensions between Israel and Egypt.
New York Times Top StoriesThe World’s 50 Best Restaurants in North America
No. 1 on the new ranking is Atomix, a refined Korean tasting-menu spot in New York. But other picks reflect a surprising turn to the casual.
New York Times Top StoriesTrump Says He Has Ordered Troops to Portland, Oregon, to Protect ICE Facilities
The president characterized Immigration and Customs Enforcement facilities as being under siege from domestic terrorists.
New York Times Top StoriesHow 106 People Got Together to Stop a School Shooting — Before It Happened
A threat on a school bus from an alienated young man united dozens of agencies to answer a single question: Is it possible to stop potential mass shooters before they commit a crime?
New York Times Top StoriesF.B.I. Fires More Agents, Including Those Who Knelt During Racial Justice Protests
Agents group says the latest dismissals are part of a “dangerous pattern” of weakening the nation’s top law enforcement agency.
New York Times Top StoriesOura Heath’s C.E.O. Knows the Secret to Better Sleep
Oura Health makes a pricey smart ring that busy executives, celebrities and others use to track health measures like their sleep patterns. It expects $1 billion in sales this year.
New York Times Top StoriesDoctors Without Borders Closes in Gaza City as Israel Intensifies Offensive
Doctors Without Borders pulled its staff from Gaza City as the medical system buckled. The U.N. has warned that more hospitals may have to close.
New York Times Top StoriesTrump’s Repeated Attacks May Undercut Case Against Comey
The president’s voluble vitriol could provide defense lawyers with an avenue to protect the very people he most wants to punish.
New York Times Top StoriesWhy Comey Should Not Have Been Indicted, According to Trump
The best case against indicting James Comey is the one the president made for firing him.
New York Times Top StoriesWe’re All Going to Die — Soonish!
Even with big blue eyes or amazing pecs, A.I.’s allure can be deadly.
New York Times Top StoriesWhat a Book of Excuses Reveals About the Democrats’ Future
Three Opinion writers weigh in on Kamala Harris’s campaign memoir.
New York Times Top StoriesBanner Year
Milestone birthdays occasion consideration of what we’ve done with our lives, and what we want to do with the time to come.
New York Times Top StoriesNetanyahu’s Defiant U.N. Speech Aimed at Home as Well as the World
The Israeli prime minister faced walkouts and protests at the United Nations but sent a message to his political base that he won’t bend to international pressure.
New York Times Top StoriesTrump Displays Little Interest in Fostering Unity Amid Political Violence
After an assassination attempt, Gov. George Wallace, the segregationist, got a surprise visitor: Shirley Chisholm, the first Black woman elected to Congress. Could this happen today?
New York Times Top StoriesUnexpected Critics of Trump’s Attacks on Wind Energy: Oil Executives
Business leaders and trade organizations have been especially worried by attempts to stop work on wind farms that had already secured federal approval.
New York Times Top StoriesIowa Matters Less Than Ever for Democrats, but They Can’t Quit It
The state no longer goes first for the party’s presidential nomination process, but ambitious politicians with an eye toward 2028 keep showing up. It’s “the gravitational pull,” as one Iowa Democrat put it.
New York Times Top StoriesJeanne Shaheen Wants to Make Foreign Policy Bipartisan Again
The Democrat from New Hampshire has worked to find common ground with the Trump administration on foreign affairs.
New York Times Top StoriesFrida Kahlo’s Prequel: A New Museum Shows Her Family Roots
In a former residence in Mexico City, passed down through the Kahlo family, it presents an intimate side of the Mexican painter’s life.
New York Times Top StoriesNew Retail Leaders Confront Trump’s Tariffs, Policy Shifts and Weak Spending
New retail C.E.O.s are facing unexpected challenges, like tariffs and worried shoppers, as they try to address existing ones.
New York Times Top StoriesOnstage, Chappell Roan Is a Powerhouse. And Exactly Where She Wants to Be.
The singer’s Visions of Damsels & Other Dangerous Things Tour highlights how she continues to deviate from the rising pop star’s expected playbook.
New York Times Top StoriesRestoring the Sound, if Not the Fury, of William Faulkner’s Piano
Hoping to draw more visitors to Rowan Oak, Faulkner’s home in Oxford, Miss., a group helped refurbish its piano.
New York Times Top StoriesFor Want of a Ferryman, a Two-Century U.S.-Canada Link Is Severed
With the closing of a crossing between a sleepy Ontario island and a village in New York State, islanders face modest inconvenience — and the end of an era.
New York Times Top StoriesHawaiian Village Rebuilds With Modular Tiny Homes After Maui Wildfire Destruction
After Lahaina burned in August 2023, Hawaii invested in a modular home development, hoping to build community and leave behind permanent infrastructure.
New York Times Top StoriesMaking Florida More Flood Resistant Is Forcing Hard Choices for Homeowners
A rule requiring many storm-damaged homes to be demolished or rebuilt to the latest flood-resistant standards has exacted personal and cultural costs.
New York Times Top StoriesU.S. Says It Will Revoke Colombian President’s Visa
The State Department called President Gustavo Petro of Colombia reckless after he called for U.S. soldiers to disobey President Trump at a pro-Palestinian rally.
New York Times Top StoriesHis Parents Disappeared. In a TV Studio, He Confessed to Killing Them.
After investigators came looking, Lorenz Kraus told a reporter he had strangled Franz and Theresia Kraus eight years ago. Two bodies were buried in their backyard.