New York Times Top Stories
The Robots Fueling Amazon’s Automation
Meet Sparrow, Cardinal and Proteus. They’re the robots that, step by step, are replacing human workers in the company’s warehouses.
New York Times Top StoriesNew York Times Top StoriesInside Amazon’s Plans to Replace Workers With Robots
Internal documents show the company that changed how people shop has a far-reaching plan to automate 75 percent of its operations.
New York Times Top StoriesFrance Sends Former President Nicolas Sarkozy to Prison to Start 5-Year Sentence
Nicolas Sarkozy, the president of France from 2007 to 2012, reported to a prison in Paris weeks after his conviction in a corruption trial.
New York Times Top StoriesLate Night Revisits Ye Olde ‘No Kings’ Protests
Jon Stewart consulted the Declaration of Independence’s king-inspired stipulations on “The Daily Show.”
New York Times Top StoriesCurtis Sliwa Has the Spotlight. He’s Not About to Give It Up.
Mr. Sliwa, the Republican nominee for mayor of New York City, finds himself a major player in the race. He’s under heavy pressure to drop out.
New York Times Top StoriesGuard Enraged by Chaos at Jail Chased and Shot at Smugglers, U.S. Says
Leon Wilson worked at the troubled Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn for decades. Prosecutors say he pursued suspects for five miles in a violent fury.
New York Times Top StoriesWho Is Sanae Takaichi, Japan’s First Female Prime Minister?
The hard-line conservative is making history in a country where women are drastically underrepresented at the highest levels of power.
New York Times Top StoriesVance Heads to Israel as U.S. Tries to Shore Up Gaza Cease-Fire Deal
With the cease-fire deal under strain, Vice President JD Vance is set to meet with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other leaders.
New York Times Top StoriesSanae Takaichi is Japan’s New Prime Minister, and She’s a Heavy Metal Drummer
Sanae Takaichi, a fan of Iron Maiden, had an improbable rise to power. Like her mentor, Shinzo Abe, she is expected to lead Japan to the right.
New York Times Top StoriesWith Diwali Comes the Start of Air Pollution Season in New Delhi
The air quality in India’s capital ranks among the worst in the world, but experts say politics stand in the way of improving it.
New York Times Top StoriesG.O.P. Senators Oppose Trump Watchdog Nominee After Report of Racist Texts
At least four Republican senators, including the Senate majority leader, signaled their opposition to Paul Ingrassia, the president’s pick to lead the Office of Special Counsel.
New York Times Top StoriesChina Has Another Lever to Pull in Showdown With Trump: Factory Lines
In Washington, China hawks say its economy is too weak to withstand a tariff shock. In the city of Yiwu, factories are showing why, for now, that may be a miscalculation.
New York Times Top StoriesTariffs Are Reshaping China’s Trade. This Tanzanian Sees an Opportunity.
An interview with a 26-year-old entrepreneur, who has taken seven trips to China to buy handbags, clothes and jewelry. “China is the center of everything,” she said.
New York Times Top StoriesA Flat $40 Train Ticket From NYC to Albany? It’s Happening Next Year.
For the first time, Metro-North will run trains past Poughkeepsie through the Hudson Valley to Albany. Some Amtrak service will also be restored.
New York Times Top StoriesWhite House’s East Wing Partially Demolished to Build Trump’s Ballroom
The president had pledged that construction wouldn’t “interfere with the current building,” a promise that always seemed unrealistic given the grand scale of the plans.
New York Times Top StoriesAll but 2 Universities Decline a Trump Offer of Preferential Funding
One of the two, Vanderbilt University, signaled it had reservations.
New York Times Top StoriesIranian Wedding Video Plunges Top Official Into Scandal
Rear Adm. Ali Shamkhani oversaw a brutal crackdown on women, but traditional notions of Islamic morality were little on display at his daughter’s wedding.
New York Times Top StoriesJustice Department Scrutinizes a Trip Fani Willis Took to the Bahamas
President Trump has said that Ms. Willis, the prosecutor who brought election interference charges against him two years ago in Georgia, “should be prosecuted.”
New York Times Top StoriesTo Counter China’s Hold on Rare Minerals, Trump Turns to Australia
The United States hopes to become less dependent on China by increasing access to mineral-rich countries. Rare earth metals are vital to an array of modern industries.
New York Times Top StoriesYour November Election Guide (Yes, This November)
It’s not a presidential election year, or even the midterms, but races this fall will offer a sense of voters’ moods in the first year of the new Trump administration.
New York Times Top StoriesWhite House Scrambles to Preserve Gaza Deal Amid Concerns About Netanyahu
The Trump administration strategy is to try to keep Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel from resuming an all-out assault against Hamas, U.S. officials said.
New York Times Top StoriesWith SpaceX Behind Schedule, NASA Will Seek More Moon Lander Ideas
Blue Origin, owned by Jeff Bezos, and Lockheed Martin are among the contractors that may compete with Elon Musk’s company in the race back to the lunar surface.
New York Times Top StoriesTrump’s Lust for Desecration
A perverse delight in degradation has always coursed through MAGA circles.
New York Times Top StoriesAppeals Court Lifted a Block on Trump’s Deployment to Oregon
Also, the search is on for the Louvre jewel thieves. Here’s the latest at the end of Monday.
New York Times Top StoriesDaniel Naroditsky, Chess Grandmaster, Dies at 29
He earned the highest title in the chess world as he built a career as an accomplished chess teacher, commentator and author.
New York Times Top StoriesMan Is Arrested After Threatening to Open Fire at Atlanta Airport, Police Say
The man, Billy Cagle, 49, was arrested after family members told the police that he was headed to the airport, “in their words, ‘to shoot it up,’” Atlanta’s police chief said.
New York Times Top StoriesSean ‘Diddy’ Combs Will Appeal His Conviction and Prison Sentence
The mogul’s defense team notified the appellate court that it will challenge the jury’s verdict on prostitution-related charges and the four-year prison term he received.
New York Times Top StoriesGeorge Santos and President Trump’s Theory of Mercy
More than any other presidential actions, clemencies tell us who presidents are.
New York Times Top StoriesAppeals Court Ruling Allows Trump to Deploy National Guard Troops to Portland
Deployment can move forward, for now, under a preliminary ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. But legal wrangling will likely continue.
New York Times Top StoriesThe Origins of Zohran Mamdani’s Long Game
For Mr. Mamdani, his time at the elite Bronx High School of Science expanded and helped shape his views of New York, from the cricket pitch to politics.