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Why Medicare Recipients Should Check Their 2026 Drug Plans Now
Fall enrollment is on. Some plans are raising premiums for Part D, which covers prescriptions, by $50 or more per month, while others are lowering them.
New York Times Top StoriesNew York Times Top StoriesCalifornia Promised Insurance Relief, But Delivered Loopholes
New regulations were supposed to ensure that homeowners in fire zones would have coverage available. But companies can still avoid serving many high-risk areas, a Times investigation found.
New York Times Top StoriesCarney Says He Apologized to Trump Over Ad Reviving Reagan’s Tariff Criticism
The Canadian prime minister also said that he had asked the province of Ontario not to air the ad that later prompted the president to end trade talks.
New York Times Top StoriesAfter Days of Protests, Tanzania’s President Is Declared Election Winner
Election monitors and members of the European Parliament have questioned the election’s integrity, and violent protests have rocked the country.
New York Times Top StoriesNew York, Long a City of Contradictions, Is Still Turning Up New Ones
New York City has often set the political, cultural and financial course of the country. Tuesday’s mayoral election — and a New Yorker watching from Washington — could scramble it all.
New York Times Top StoriesWhat Is Happening With SNAP Benefits During the Shutdown?
President Trump said that he would heed court rulings ordering his administration to fund food stamps during the government shutdown, but there are complications.
New York Times Top StoriesHow Britain Got Investors to Line Up for Nuclear Power
Developers have finally broken ground on the project, known as Sizewell C, but getting there meant navigating wary investors and local opposition.
New York Times Top StoriesUncertainty Persists for Americans Waiting for Food Benefits After SNAP Ruling
Judges on Friday ordered the federal government to continue providing food assistance during the shutdown. But benefits will still most likely be interrupted.
New York Times Top StoriesScenes From Halloween in New York City
You know it’s late October when your subway seatmate is Elphaba or Beetlejuice.
New York Times Top StoriesImmigration Agents Clash With Chicago-Area Residents on Halloween
The state’s governor had called for a pause in the federal immigration crackdown over the Halloween weekend, citing concerns for children’s safety.
New York Times Top StoriesFact-Checking Trump’s Claim About SNAP and Partisanship
The president said a lapse in SNAP funding would “largely” hurt Democrats. But interruptions to the program will also affect Republicans.
New York Times Top StoriesTrump Renovates the Lincoln Bathroom in Marble and Gold
President Trump said the new look was “totally in keeping” with the era of Abraham Lincoln.
New York Times Top StoriesAs the Shutdown Pain Grows, Trump Attends to Other Matters
The president attended a Halloween party Friday and called attention to the marble renovation of a White House bathroom.
New York Times Top StoriesNASA Gets Moon Lander Plan B’s From SpaceX and Blue Origin
As NASA worries that China will win the next moon race, Elon Musk and his company tangled with critics.
New York Times Top StoriesSNAP Map: Here’s Who Will Be Affected by Disruptions to Food Aid
More SNAP recipients live in Democratic districts. But the program touches every corner of the country.
New York Times Top StoriesTwenty Years Later, Atrocities Haunt Darfur Again
The world seems unable, or unwilling, to do much to stop a new struggle on an old battlefield, as atrocities sweep villages and towns.
New York Times Top StoriesWhat Tuesday’s Elections Might Tell Us About Trump
He’s not on the ballot, but the results could carry hints about the future of his movement.
New York Times Top StoriesAlison Knowles, Artist Who Took Lunch to New Levels, Dies at 92
An early participant in the eccentric collection of artists known as Fluxus, she was perhaps best known for pieces centered on a humble tuna sandwich and a giant salad.
New York Times Top StoriesMexico Winds Down Search for Survivor of U.S. Boat Strike
The Pentagon said one person survived a U.S. military strike on a boat in the Pacific, but after searching for days, Mexican officials are about to give up.
New York Times Top StoriesThe U.S. Was Ordered to Pay Food Stamp Benefits
Also, California Democrats are feeling unusually confident. Here’s the latest at the end of Friday.
New York Times Top StoriesJD Vance Says He Hopes Usha Vance Embraces Christianity, Setting Off Backlash
Critics included some Indian Americans, who said the remarks did not respect the religious decisions of Usha Vance, who grew up in a Hindu household.
New York Times Top StoriesNew York Judge Dismisses Texas Challenge to the State’s Abortion Shield Law
The lawsuit was filed against an Ulster County clerk who rebuffed an attempt to enforce a Texas judgment against a New York doctor for sending abortion pills to that state.
New York Times Top StoriesWhat Happened to the Art of the Deal?
We urge the administration to allow millions of Americans to receive food aid.
New York Times Top Stories‘Ridiculousness’ Is Ending, and With It an Era for MTV
The cable channel has run endless reruns of the comedy clip show for several years, a move that other cable companies copied.
New York Times Top StoriesDo You Rely on Food Stamps? Tell Us About How You’re Preparing for the Possible Loss of Assistance.
As food assistance funding runs out, Times reporters want to hear from people who rely on it, or who work to help feed people in their community.
New York Times Top StoriesDemocrats Confident in Final Days of California Proposition 50 Redistricting Election
Proponents say voters are motivated by stopping President Trump. Republicans have already begun pointing fingers over lackluster fund-raising and coordination.
New York Times Top StoriesIn One Jamaican Town, Hurricane Melissa Left Behind Floodwaters and Dead Livestock
The Category 5 storm ravaged western Jamaica and drenched the small community of New River, where residents were coping with a massive clean up. At least 19 people have died nationwide, officials said.
New York Times Top StoriesSelma van de Perre, Dutch Jew Who Resisted Nazis, Dies at 103
“It is impossible not to marvel at her steadiness and courage,” one reviewer wrote after reading her memoir.
New York Times Top StoriesAre Wealth Taxes the Best Way to Tax the Ultra Rich?
Plans for a wealth tax, which is dividing France, have gotten popular around the world as inequality has widened and government debt has risen.
New York Times Top StoriesA.I. Is Making Death Threats Way More Realistic
Online harassers are generating images and sounds that simulate their victims in violent situations.