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Trump Opens ANWR to Oil Drilling
The Interior Department also said it would allow a contentious road to be built through the Izembek National Wildlife Refuge in southwestern Alaska.
New York Times Top StoriesNew York Times Top StoriesGambinos and Other NYC Mob Families Are Still in Business
The criminal organizations were mentioned prominently in a charging document that accused N.B.A. stars of recruiting players for illegal poker games.
New York Times Top StoriesTrump Officials Shoot Down Israeli Aspirations of Annexing West Bank Land
Vice President JD Vance calls symbolic votes in Israel’s Parliament to annex West Bank territory a “very stupid political stunt.”
New York Times Top StoriesConstruction Worker Dies in Fall at NYC Site for Hudson Tunnel Project
The man, who was working at a site at Hudson Yards in Manhattan, fell 60 feet into a pit below, according to the New York Fire Department.
New York Times Top StoriesA Mystery in Trinidad as Bodies Wash Ashore After U.S. Strikes
The U.S. campaign targeting what it says is drug trafficking from Venezuela has exposed Trinidad to the fallout: unidentified bodies with burn marks and missing limbs showing up in its territory.
New York Times Top StoriesReviving California’s Kelp Forests, One Dive at a Time
Cove by cove, scientists, divers and volunteers are hauling up urchins to protect kelp.
New York Times Top StoriesHere’s How the Poker Scheme Worked, According to Prosecutors
The players cheated with sophisticated technology, and those who lost faced the threat of violence and extortion.
New York Times Top StoriesTrump Pardons Founder of the Crypto Exchange Binance
Changpeng Zhao, the richest man in crypto, had admitted to money-laundering violations that allowed terrorists and other criminals to move money on Binance.
New York Times Top Stories‘Brother Wang,’ Accused of Being Drug Cartel Fixer, Is Arrested in Cuba
Zhi Dong Zhang, who escaped house arrest in Mexico this summer, is accused of supplying cartels with fentanyl from China, smuggling and money laundering millions under the alias “Brother Wang.”
New York Times Top StoriesStaghorn and Elkhorn Coral Are Functionally Extinct Off Florida, Researchers Say
Elkhorn and staghorn coral are now functionally extinct around the state, researchers say, meaning they no longer play any significant role in their ecosystem.
New York Times Top StoriesDemocrats Block Federal Worker Pay Bill as Shutdown Drags On
A Republican measure that would pay essential government employees faltered in the Senate, and the G.O.P. blocked a pair of Democratic bills to pay a broader swath of workers.
New York Times Top StoriesTrump Supporters Are Uneasy About Military Actions Against Venezuela
Some conservative policy advisers and commentators, including Laura Loomer and Stephen K. Bannon, are raising questions about the administration’s policy in the region.
New York Times Top StoriesU.S. to Investigate China’s Compliance With 2020 Trade Deal
The Trump administration is preparing to file a trade investigation into China’s compliance with a 2020 trade deal, which could raise tensions ahead of a summit between the country’s leaders.
New York Times Top StoriesBay Area Protesters Try to Block Base Entrance Before Immigration Operation
About 200 people stood in an intersection outside the Coast Guard base in Alameda, Calif., where federal agents were said to be arriving to prepare for an immigration enforcement operation.
New York Times Top StoriesCan Ken Burns Win the American Revolution?
Burns’s 12-hour documentary about our national origin story is landing in the middle of a culture war. Yes, it’s complicated. No, he does not want to talk about President Trump.
New York Times Top StoriesVirginia Democrats Plan to Redraw House Maps in Redistricting Push
The surprise move could give Democrats two or three additional House seats and is likely to scramble the last couple weeks of campaigning ahead of the Nov. 4 election.
New York Times Top StoriesShelly Fireman, a Showman Restaurateur for Showgoers, Dies at 93
With considerable pizazz, he ran a string of popular restaurants in Manhattan, many aimed at hooking the crowds from Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center and Broadway.
New York Times Top StoriesU.S. Health Workers Recalled From Shutdown Furlough for Medicare, A.C.A. Enrollments
A federal agency said its employees would return on Monday, with the costs paid by user fees collected from researchers.
New York Times Top StoriesDave Ball, Soft Cell Musician Known for ‘Tainted Love,’ Dies at 66
He was a producer and one half of the pioneering English synth-pop duo.
New York Times Top StoriesEric Adams Will Endorse Andrew Cuomo for NYC Mayor
Mayor Eric Adams will endorse former Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo for mayor and plans to campaign with him, in hopes of slowing the momentum of Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic nominee.
New York Times Top StoriesU.S. Sanctions on Russian Oil Could Push India to Stop Buying It
The sanctions could break a diplomatic deadlock by making it more difficult for India to continue buying from Russia, a point of contention between President Trump and Narendra Modi.
New York Times Top StoriesMusk’s Trillion-Dollar Pitch
Despite a drop in Tesla profit, the billionaire exhorted investors to back his proposed compensation package, or face consequences.
New York Times Top StoriesKing Charles and Pope Leo Pray Together in Groundbreaking Moment
It was the first time in hundreds of years that the leaders of the Catholic and Anglican churches prayed together, offering a public display of unity between Christian faiths.
New York Times Top StoriesThe Abdication of Congress
We explain what elected officials aren’t doing during the government shutdown.
New York Times Top StoriesOil Price Jumps on Trump’s Russia Sanctions
Traders are pondering whether the United States and its allies are finally getting serious about restricting Russian energy.
New York Times Top StoriesBroadway Averts Strike as Musicians Reach Deal With Producers, Union Says
The tentative agreement, which still requires ratification by union members, comes five days after a similar agreement with actors and stage managers.
New York Times Top StoriesHarvard Records an Increase in Asian Students and a Drop in Black Students
The shift mirrors trends at other elite schools after a ban on affirmative action. The Trump administration has said it wants to scrutinize demographics to ensure schools aren’t using racial preferences.
New York Times Top StoriesThe Democratic Party Is Getting Too Rich to Win
Democrats used to be known as the party of the poor and the working class. Two decades of federal income data show how that changed.
New York Times Top StoriesRussians Awake to Trump’s New Oil Sanctions and Largely Shrug
While oil markets reacted strongly to the sanctions, analysts said the measures were unlikely to significantly change President Vladimir V. Putin’s war calculations.
New York Times Top StoriesU.S. Expands Boat Strikes to Pacific, and Trump Tears Down East Wing
Plus, the island that just got its first mosquitoes.