New York Times Top Stories
Bernie Sanders Endorses Peggy Flanagan for Senate in Minnesota
Senator Bernie Sanders is backing Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan in her state’s Democratic primary race for Senate, his latest attempt to pull the party to the left.
New York Times Top StoriesNew York Times Top StoriesNicolas Sarkozy, Former French President, Will Be Released From Prison Pending Appeal
Nicolas Sarkozy served about three weeks of a five-year prison sentence for his conviction in a campaign finance scandal.
New York Times Top StoriesWhich Senators Broke Ranks With Democrats to Advance the GOP Plan to End the Government Shutdown?
Two of them are retiring, and none of the others face re-election in 2026.
New York Times Top StoriesDemocrats Defect on the Shutdown
Congress moved closer to ending the government shutdown. We explain what’s happening.
New York Times Top StoriesTrump Pardons Giuliani and Others Involved in Effort to Overturn 2020 Election
The pardons of former Trump aides, which would only apply in federal court, are largely symbolic and cannot shield them from ongoing state-level prosecutions.
New York Times Top StoriesSyria’s President to Meet Trump at White House for First Time
The visit by President Ahmed al-Shara is another step in the transformation of the former rebel leader once wanted by the United States as a terrorist.
New York Times Top StoriesA Breakthrough Government Shutdown Vote, and New Tax Cuts for the Ultrarich
Plus, a house-size spider web.
New York Times Top StoriesF.B.I. Director Is Said to Have Made a Pledge to Head of MI5, Then Broken It
The episode has contributed to concerns among intelligence allies that Kash Patel, brash and partisan, is also unpredictable and even unreliable.
New York Times Top StoriesDemocrats Were on a Roll. Why Stop Now?
This is how the shutdown ends?
New York Times Top StoriesTrump Tries to Seize ‘Affordability’ as Americans’ Economic Worries Grow
The issue has buoyed Democrats and is resonating with an American electorate that is souring on the president’s economic agenda.
New York Times Top StoriesR.F.K. Allies Embrace ‘Anti-Vax’ Label They Once Rejected
A weekend gathering in Texas drew activists, homeopaths, doctors, lawyers, parents and a Republican senator who asked, “Why isn’t Tony Fauci in prison?”
New York Times Top StoriesJuan Gabriel Tribute Draws Tens of Thousands to Mexico City
The transgressive icon of Mexican music, who died in 2016, still has millions of fans. On Saturday, more than 170,000 filled Mexico City’s central plaza to watch footage of a landmark concert.
New York Times Top StoriesPrison Guards Shaved His Dreadlocks. The Supreme Court Will Decide if He Can Sue.
Lower courts condemned the treatment of Damon Landor, a Rastafarian, but found that a federal law protecting religious rights barred him from suing prison officials for money.
New York Times Top StoriesSyria al-Shara al-Baghdadi Trump
In 2019, President Trump sent U.S. commandos to to a small village in Syria to kill the leader of the terror group Islamic State. On Monday, Syria’s president, a former associate of that leader, will meet Mr. Trump in the White House.
New York Times Top StoriesAs the Russia War Continues, Ukraine Faces a Major Draft Evasion Problem
Ukraine faces a major draft evasion problem, but no place is quite like Vylkove, a Danube River town where men of draft age have all but vanished, many of them trying to avoid military service.
New York Times Top StoriesDemocrat’s Win May Upend a Conservative Push in Virginia Universities
Supporters of Abigail Spanberger, Virginia’s governor-elect, say they expect her to reverse efforts to impose conservative priorities on the state’s prestigious public university system.
New York Times Top StoriesWhy Children of Unmarried Mothers Are Stranded in Saudi Arabia
We pieced together the details, from Riyadh to Nairobi.
New York Times Top StoriesFederal Cuts, Immigration Raids and a Slowing Economy Hit Rural Libraries
Like many rural small towns, Tieton, Wash., is facing a confluence of circumstances that has made keeping its one-room library, a “civic symbol” for the town, untenable.
New York Times Top StoriesWe’re In a New Everything-Is-Connected Epoch. But What to Call It?
We have arrived at a “Polycene” moment where binary systems are giving way to multiple interconnected ones.
New York Times Top StoriesWhy Everyone Wants to Meet the ‘World’s Most Boring Man’
Politicians, oil giants and climate activists hang on his every word. The Trump administration has blasted him. How did Fatih Birol get so big?
New York Times Top StoriesUnwed Mothers and Their Children Are Trapped in Saudi Arabia
A Times investigation found that children are routinely deprived of birth certificates, medical care and education. Diplomats and police officers turned the mothers away.
New York Times Top StoriesWhy Debt Funding Is Ratcheting Up the Risks of the A.I. Boom
While the tech giants have plenty of money to build data centers, smaller outfits are taking on debt and taking big chances to work with them.
New York Times Top StoriesHe Was Known for Kleptocratic Rule and Bloodshed. Now Suharto Is a National Hero.
Indonesia’s president bestowed the honor on the dictator Suharto, who died in 2008, in what many said was a stunning move of revisionist history.
New York Times Top StoriesWho Will Be Mamdani’s City Council Partner? Get Ready for a Battle.
The heated contest to become City Council speaker took shape in Puerto Rico, where the leading contenders jockeyed for votes at a beachside political gathering.
New York Times Top StoriesProsecutor Who Quit Over Adams Case Joins a Firm Known for Independence
Danielle Sassoon resigned as an interim U.S. attorney rather than halt the prosecution of Mayor Eric Adams. Her new firm’s conservative principles have at times put it at odds with President Trump.
New York Times Top StoriesA Force Behind Timothée Chalamet, Charli XCX & Other Megastars of the Moment
Timothée Chalamet, Charli XCX and Billie Eilish are among those who trust Aidan Zamiri, a director and photographer, with their images.
New York Times Top StoriesJonathan Braun, Felon Freed by Trump, to Be Sentenced Again in Brooklyn
A judge found that Jonathan Braun had violated the rules of his release by sexually assaulting a nanny, swinging an IV pole at a nurse and dodging tolls in his Lamborghini and Ferrari.
New York Times Top StoriesA Million Evacuated as Typhoon Fung-Wong Hit the Philippines
Grabbing children and leaving their homes behind, residents evacuated before Typhoon Fung-wong hit.
New York Times Top StoriesSix Takeaways From the Senate Deal to End the Shutdown
For 40 days, Senator Chuck Schumer kept his caucus unified. But an end approached without Democrats achieving an extension of expiring health insurance subsidies.
New York Times Top StoriesMedical Marijuana Grower in New Zealand Faces Criminal Charges
A police raid and criminal case against a longtime cultivator of cannabis in New Zealand’s Northland region has stirred up debates about medicinal marijuana.