New York Times Top Stories
Trump Escalates Attacks on Democrats in a Government Shutdown Like No Other
Shutdowns are always unpleasant affairs. But President Trump has used his power in aggressive and strikingly personal ways.
New York Times Top StoriesNew York Times Top StoriesTexas Megachurch Pastor Pleads Guilty to Child Sex Abuse
Robert Morris, the founder of Gateway Church, which has one of the nation’s largest congregations, admitted to sexually abusing a child in the 1980s.
New York Times Top StoriesParamount Nears a Deal to Buy Bari Weiss’s Free Press
Ms. Weiss, a co-founder of the site, would become editor in chief of CBS News, people briefed on the talks said.
New York Times Top StoriesWhat Women Heard in Hegseth’s Remarks About Physical Standards
The defense secretary raised the issue suggesting women were getting into combat not because they met high standards, but because they were given a pass.
New York Times Top StoriesDeadly Car Ramming and Stabbing at U.K. Synagogue Is Declared Terrorist Attack
The police identified the attacker as Jihad al-Shamie, 35, a British citizen of Syrian descent. He was shot dead, the police said, after killing two people in Manchester, England.
New York Times Top StoriesThis City Was Forced to Overhaul Its Police Department. Crime Plummeted.
A federal judge said she was prepared to release Newark from a 2016 consent decree imposed after investigators found the city’s police routinely used excessive force and conducted unconstitutional stops and searches.
New York Times Top StoriesPartisan Language Inserted Into Education Dept. Workers’ Automated Emails
The out-of-office responses from the accounts of employees on furlough cast blame for the shutdown on Democrats.
New York Times Top StoriesTrump Asked Universities to Sign a Compact. Some See a Trap.
Trump officials want universities to sign on to conservative priorities to get special treatment. Some in higher education say agreeing would end academic freedom.
New York Times Top StoriesTrump’s ‘Compact’ With Universities Is Just Extortion
There seems to be no limit to the president’s odious attempts to control higher education.
New York Times Top StoriesKennedy Fires N.I.H. Scientist Who Filed Whistle-Blower Complaint
Dr. Jeanne Marrazzo, who was on administrative leave, alleged that the Trump administration had defied court orders and undermined vaccine research.
New York Times Top StoriesManchester Synagogue Attack Fuels Fears of Antisemitism in Britain
In the hours after an attack, a blanket of fear and grief fell over synagogues and Jewish community centers across the country.
New York Times Top StoriesSean ‘Diddy’ Combs Asks Judge for Mercy: ‘I Lost My Way’
The music mogul submitted a letter to the court ahead of his sentencing on Friday for his conviction on two prostitution-related counts.
New York Times Top StoriesA Government Shutdown Silver Lining: Federal Workers Eat and Drink at a Discount
Washington watering holes and restaurants are showing solidarity and seizing an opportunity to draw in out-of-work government employees.
New York Times Top StoriesAmerican Soldiers in American Cities
Our Pentagon reporter explains how President Trump has tapped into a fear that resonates in many places around the world.
New York Times Top StoriesTrump Decided the U.S. Is in a War With Drug Cartels
Also, the president promised cuts to “Democrat agencies.” Here’s the latest at the end of Thursday.
New York Times Top StoriesTesla Is Sued by Family Who Says Faulty Cybertruck Doors Led to Woman’s Death
A college student was trapped in a burning Cybertruck because electronic doors made it difficult for her to get out or be rescued, a lawsuit claims.
New York Times Top Stories‘A Crazy Moment’: Shock and Terror Spreads in Manchester Synagogue’s Community
Many Orthodox Jews who live in the area reacted with horror to an attack that killed two people and seriously injured three on Yom Kippur, Judaism’s holiest day.
New York Times Top StoriesVeterans See Costs and Risks in Hegseth’s Military Rewind to 1990
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has identified real problems, veteran officers say, but by looking back 35 years for policy cues, he risks hurting, not helping, military readiness.
New York Times Top StoriesAfter Trump Pulls Funding, Work Continues on N.Y. Area Transit Projects
Two of the largest infrastructure initiatives in the United States were still moving forward this week despite the battles over a government shutdown surrounding them.
New York Times Top StoriesF.D.A. Approves a New Generic Abortion Pill
The decision enraged opponents of abortion, who have been pressuring the administration to restrict access to abortion medication.
New York Times Top StoriesAs Russian Drones Menace Europe, Putin Says Moscow Has No Plans to Invade
President Vladimir V. Putin lashed out at “European elites” for “whipping up the hysteria” about the “Russian threat.”
New York Times Top StoriesAfter Declining to Give Trump a Sword for King Charles, a Museum Leader Is Out
The departure of Todd Arrington, who led the Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library and Museum, came after the administration sought a sword from its collection as a gift for King Charles.
New York Times Top StoriesOphelia Disappeared: A Wall Street Analyst and a Deadly Shootout
The group was passionately vegan, mostly transgender and highly educated. Seven of them are now in jail. This is the story of one who did not survive.
New York Times Top StoriesDes Moines Schools Superintendent Arrested by ICE Faces New Gun Charge
Ian Roberts, who resigned from the post after his arrest last week, was charged with possessing firearms while in the country without legal authorization.
New York Times Top StoriesDemocrats Pull Away From AIPAC, Reflecting a Broader Shift
A quiet retreat by Democrats from the pre-eminent pro-Israel lobbying group is the latest evidence of a realignment underway in Congress on Israel.
New York Times Top StoriesWhy Can’t Another Working-Class Kid Make Their Way Out of Ohio?
Silas’s future seemed bright except for at least one detail. He didn’t have a car.
New York Times Top StoriesIs ‘One Battle After Another’ the Best Movie of the Year?
“Vivá la Revolución!”
New York Times Top StoriesImmigration Judge Rejects Abrego Garcia’s Efforts to Seek Asylum in U.S.
The decision foreclosed one of the options that lawyers for Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia had tried in an effort to keep him in the country.
New York Times Top StoriesOpenAI Completes Deal That Values It at $500 Billion
With the agreement, OpenAI becomes the world’s most valuable privately held company, surpassing the rocket maker SpaceX.
New York Times Top StoriesOpenAI’s Sora Video App Is Jaw-Dropping (for Better and Worse)
Sora, OpenAI’s new video-generating app, is really a social network in disguise that can bring creative A.I. to the masses — and its problems, too.