New York Times Top Stories
Trump Is Dragging Us Down to His Level
The Young Republicans’ Telegram chat was revealing in so many ways.
New York Times Top StoriesNew York Times Top StoriesMamdani, Jeffries and How to Beat Trump at His Own Game
Democrats’ vision for the country won’t matter unless they can get people to pay attention to it.
New York Times Top StoriesLouvre Closed After Robbery
It was not immediately clear what, if any, of the Paris museum’s priceless artifacts had been stolen.
New York Times Top StoriesWealthy Americans Are Spending. People With Less Are Struggling.
Data show a resilient economy. But that largely reflects spending by the rich, while others pull back amid high prices and a weakening labor market.
New York Times Top StoriesShutdown Fight Reopens Debate in G.O.P. Over Health Care
The spending showdown has highlighted Republicans’ failure to produce an alternative to Obamacare, which many of them assail but concede is too politically risky to undo.
New York Times Top StoriesA Squalid Building, a Tip to the Feds, and Then ‘Straight-Up Chaos’
An immigration raid on an apartment building in Chicago followed years of problems with crime, and neglect by landlords. It swept up dozens of U.S. citizens who were detained in the middle of the night.
New York Times Top Stories‘Everything Is Gone’: Gazans Return Home to Find Devastation and Little Hope
Residents who have gone back to the battered north of the territory after the cease-fire say it is a wasteland that will take years to rebuild.
New York Times Top StoriesThe Tech Right Gets Its Own Phyllis Schlafly
Katherine Boyle, an influential venture capitalist who is a friend of the vice president, thinks the country’s path forward involves cultural conservatism and more weapons production.
New York Times Top StoriesIt’s 2025, and Democrats Are Still Running Against Trump
In New Jersey, Virginia and beyond, voters have been inundated with ads linking Republican candidates to the president. Some Democratic strategists see a missed opportunity to forge a more positive message.
New York Times Top StoriesThe Democratic Mayor Who Thinks Cities Are Handling Trump Wrong
Mayor John Whitmire of Houston believes the best way to govern a diverse, immigrant-heavy city in the current political climate is by keeping your head down and your ambitions modest.
New York Times Top StoriesSome N.F.L. Players Are Finding Second Careers as Nurses
A handful of pro players are choosing scrubs after leaving the football field.
New York Times Top StoriesCan a University From Tennessee Help Accelerate Growth in West Palm Beach?
At a time of financial and enrollment uncertainty in higher education, Vanderbilt University, along with other schools, has forged ahead with expansion.
New York Times Top StoriesBari Weiss’s First Days at CBS: Booking Big Guests and Irked by Leaks
Ms. Weiss, an unusual leader for a broadcast news division, has floated ideas for live events and asked journalists why they are seen as biased.
New York Times Top StoriesFar From Gaza, a Palestinian Enclave Thrives, Even as War Feels Near
Fifteen miles west of Manhattan, in Paterson, N.J., a community is directly, and often painfully, connected to a conflict half a world away.
New York Times Top StoriesA Tower on Billionaires’ Row Is Full of Cracks. Who’s to Blame?
A superstar team of architects and developers insisted on an all-white concrete facade. It could explain some of the building’s problems.
New York Times Top StoriesVance Flexes the Marines’ Might as Thousands Protest Trump’s Agenda
Vice President JD Vance’s trip to a military base in California illustrated rising tensions between the federal government and Democratic leaders.
New York Times Top StoriesThe Burden Placed on Sexual Abuse Survivors
Virginia Roberts Giuffre spent so much of her life telling the story of her abuse.
New York Times Top Stories‘Don’t Touch My Retirement!’ Wins the Day in France
The country’s attachment to an early pension, seen as a fundamental right, forced a major concession by the government, allowing it to survive, for now.
New York Times Top StoriesCuomo Tries to Tie Mamdani to Muslim Leader’s Anti-Gay Stance
Andrew Cuomo, trailing in the New York City mayor’s race, sought to contrast his role in legalizing same-sex marriage with the views of some of Mr. Mamdani’s supporters.
New York Times Top StoriesSocial Media, Pleas From Allies and Prison Essays: How Santos Won His Freedom
On Friday evening, President Trump commuted the sentence of former Representative George Santos. “Good luck George, have a great life!” the president said.
New York Times Top StoriesSea Otters Are Stealing Surfboards in Santa Cruz. Again.
Two years after Otter 841 menaced wave riders near Santa Cruz, there have been new encounters between the furry marine mammals and surfers.
New York Times Top StoriesSantos’s Release Frustrates His Former Colleagues and Constituents
George Santos, the disgraced former Republican congressman, was freed from prison on Friday after President Trump commuted his sentence. On Long Island, in his former district, some people called the decision an outrage.
New York Times Top StoriesJury Awards $19.7 Million to 6 Bystanders in Denver Police Shooting
The bystanders were injured when a Denver police officer fired, while facing a crowd of people, at an armed man outside a bar in 2022.
New York Times Top StoriesDavid Attenborough Becomes Oldest Daytime Emmy Winner at 99
The British documentarian and naturalist beat the record set by Dick Van Dyke, who won a Daytime Emmy last year at 98.
New York Times Top StoriesVenezuela Announces Sweeping Military Exercises as U.S. Escalates Pressure
President Nicolás Maduro this week called on civilians to help the country defend itself, while his defense minister warned citizens to “prepare for the worst.”
New York Times Top StoriesFor Prince Andrew, a Steady Fall From Grace Ends in a Hard Landing
A parade of scandals tarnished the prince’s reputation, long before he gave up using his title as Duke of York on Friday.
New York Times Top StoriesU.S. to Repatriate Survivors of Its Strike on Suspected Drug Vessel
The U.S. military rescued the two men in the Caribbean Sea after Special Operations forces fired on a semi-submersible that was assessed to be smuggling drugs.
New York Times Top StoriesAlison Rose, The New Yorker’s Femme Fatale, Dies at 81
She started as the magazine’s glamorous receptionist and became one of its more singular writers. In one of her last articles, she memorialized her time (and lovers) there.
New York Times Top StoriesSantos in His Own Words: Pleading for Mercy and Promising a Comeback
George Santos, the disgraced former congressman who was released from federal prison on Friday, has been a columnist for a Long Island paper, including from behind bars.
New York Times Top StoriesChen Ning Yang, Nobel-Winning Physicist, Is Dead at 103
He and a colleague, Tsung-Dao Lee, created a sensation in 1956 by proposing that one of the four forces of nature might violate a law of physics.