New York Times Top Stories
Worried, Frazzled, Indifferent: Processing the Shutdown in a Divided America
As the government shutdown entered its first full week, emotions across the country ranged from uneasy to unconcerned.
New York Times Top StoriesNew York Times Top StoriesHow Elon Musk Is Bringing Sexy A.I. Chatbots to the Mainstream
In July, the billionaire’s A.I. company introduced two sexually explicit chatbots, pushing a new version of intimacy.
New York Times Top StoriesU.S. v. Google: What Each Side Argued for Fixing Google’s Ad Tech Monopoly
The Justice Department and Google wrapped up a two-week hearing that could have a major effect on online advertising.
New York Times Top StoriesHarvard Has Identified Another Problem: Its Own Students
Many students don’t do the reading and don’t speak up in class, according to a report. Now, professors are trying to change a campus culture they say hurts achievement and stifles speech.
New York Times Top StoriesGreta Thunberg Among Hundreds From Gaza Aid Flotilla Deported by Israel
Israel intercepted the boats at sea and detained the participants for days before expelling them. Some of the activists said they were mistreated, which Israel denied.
New York Times Top StoriesRussia Welcomes Trump’s Blessing of Proposal to Extend Caps on Nuclear Weapons
President Trump said a Russian proposal to extend by one year the limits on long-range nuclear weapons sounded “like a good idea to me.”
New York Times Top StoriesBessent Taps Social Security Chief to Serve as C.E.O. of I.R.S.
Frank Bisignano, who already leads the Social Security Administration, will also take on the day-to-day duties of the tax collector.
New York Times Top StoriesHow Bari Weiss of The Free Press Won the Top Job at CBS News
At The Free Press, she battled “wokeness” and buddied up with billionaires. Now she’s the editor in chief of CBS News.
New York Times Top StoriesGroups Sue E.P.A. Over $7 Billion in ‘Solar for All’ Grants
The lawsuit accused the Environmental Protection Agency of illegally revoking the money without congressional approval.
New York Times Top StoriesIf Your North Star Is Lost, New Techniques Can Point You South
The writer Tristan Gooley describes how a pair of familiar constellations can help a person navigate in darkness when other methods fail.
New York Times Top StoriesSupreme Court Rejects Appeal From Ghislaine Maxwell, Longtime Epstein Associate
The onetime employee and friend of Jeffrey Epstein argued that a secret agreement between prosecutors and the multimillionaire financier invalidated her conviction.
New York Times Top StoriesNobel Prizes 2025: What to Know
The awards are being announced this week.
New York Times Top StoriesGold Price Nears $4,000 an Ounce, a Sign of Turmoil and Unease
Approaching the milestone for the first time, the precious metal is on course for its best year since the 1970s, highlighting unease among investors.
New York Times Top StoriesParamount Buys Bari Weiss’s Free Press, Starting a New Era at CBS News
Bari Weiss, a co-founder of The Free Press, will become editor in chief of CBS News.
New York Times Top StoriesOpenAI Agrees to Use Computer Chips from AMD
Weeks after a $100 billion agreement to use computer chips from Nvidia, OpenAI has signed a similar deal with a rival chipmaker.
New York Times Top StoriesFears of Economic Turmoil Deepen in France as Another Prime Minister Quits
The surprise resignation of Sébastien Lecornu after less than a month in office intensified concerns that France would be unable to tackle its enormous debt pile.
New York Times Top StoriesPresident Trump and the Supreme Court
Today, we look ahead at the potential consequences of the Supreme Court term that begins today.
New York Times Top StoriesSupreme Court Starts Consequential Term, and Illinois Governor Warns of ‘Trump’s Invasion’
Plus, when Silicon Valley comes to the farm.
New York Times Top StoriesJilly Cooper, British Romance Novelist, Is Dead at 88
A prolific writer and keen observer, she sold millions of copies of her juicy, sometimes racy “Rutshire Chronicles” series.
New York Times Top StoriesNobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Is Awarded for Work on Immune Systems
Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi were awarded the prize for research showing how the body regulates its immune responses.
New York Times Top StoriesHow to Save a Book Festival
With humanities funding vanishing, stories and those who protect them remain our greatest hope.
New York Times Top StoriesWe May Know Why Ernest Shackleton’s Endurance Really Sank
The explorer’s journey to Antarctica was likely doomed before it began.
New York Times Top StoriesInternal Audits Shed Light on Ukraine’s Secret Weapons Spending
The government reviews show the country’s challenge as U.S. support wanes and Kyiv pivots to production from a domestic arms industry with a long history of corruption.
New York Times Top StoriesTrying to Survive Gaza’s War-Torn Present, and Hoping for a Future
Two years of intense warfare in Gaza have left its people with a dismembered and disordered society. The destruction is vast and many Gazans have mental and physical wounds that could scar a generation.
New York Times Top StoriesTrump’s Shutdown Glee Could Come Back to Bite Him
Republicans’ exploitation of government’s closure is the tell that they prefer it this way.
New York Times Top StoriesGaza Peace Talks Are Set to Take Place in Egypt
Though significant issues remain to be hashed out between Israel and Hamas, some are saying that after two years of death and destruction, a breakthrough may be near.
New York Times Top StoriesThe New Right After Trump
A conservative’s vision for MAGA beyond Trump.
New York Times Top StoriesTake Two: Why Big Companies Are Naming Co-C.E.O.s
Comcast, Oracle and Spotify recently doubled up on top executives, a rare setup that some say could become more common.
New York Times Top StoriesDallin H. Oaks Addresses Latter-day Saints General Conference
Dallin H. Oaks, 93, the next president of the global body, addressed the conference a week after an attack on a church in Michigan.
New York Times Top StoriesPolitical Violence. Threats to Free Speech. A Disinformation Crisis. We’ve Been Here Before.
To see a way out of our destructive spiral we should look to the innovation of the 1920s.