New York Times Top Stories
Kenya’s Key Export Used to Be Coffee. Now It’s Cheap Labor.
There’s big money in sending poor workers abroad. Here’s how the economics work.
New York Times Top StoriesNew York Times Top StoriesRFK Jr. Walks a Tightrope on Trump Deal for Obesity Drugs
The weight loss medicines are proving to be a test case for Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the health secretary, in straddling divisions between his supporters and the president.
New York Times Top StoriesAlmost Everything About NASA’s ESCAPADE Mission to Mars Is Unusual
The ESCAPADE mission, which launched to space on a Blue Origin rocket on Thursday, breaks the mold of how planetary science missions typically come together.
New York Times Top StoriesWhy Hollywood’s Star-Studded Movies Are Failing at the Box Office
It has been a brutal three months for dramas and comedies.
New York Times Top Stories25 Movies, Many Stars, 0 Hits: Hollywood Falls to New Lows
It has been a brutal three months for dramas and comedies.
New York Times Top StoriesWhile Asian Immigrants Work, Burglars Target Their Homes
Some law enforcement officials say they think organized crime rings from South America, in particular from Colombia, are responsible for the crime sprees.
New York Times Top StoriesWhile Asian Immigrants Work, Burglars Target Their Homes
Some law enforcement officials say they think organized crime rings from South America, in particular from Colombia, are responsible for the crime sprees.
New York Times Top StoriesKen Burns’s ‘The American Revolution’ Speaks to Our Cultural Clashes
In Ken Burns’s newest documentary, the war for independence was also a civil war. Amid a bitter fight over history, its timing feels urgent.
New York Times Top StoriesNew York Lacked an Affordable Housing Portal. So These Teenagers Made One.
Two “children of the pandemic” did something the grown-ups who run the city have never managed to do.
New York Times Top StoriesKenyan Workers Get Abused Abroad. The President’s Family and Allies Profit.
President William Ruto’s government acts as an arm of an industry whose leaders compare women to dogs and blame them for their own abuse, a Times investigation found.
New York Times Top StoriesTrump Housing Official Invokes Family Legacy, to Some Relatives’ Dismay
Bill Pulte has called out prominent Democrats for issues with their mortgage documents. But he has a history of carefully choosing facts about his family and businesses to enhance his reputation.
New York Times Top StoriesSwalwell Denies Allegations of Fraud and Says Trump is Targeting Him
Representative Eric Swalwell, a Democrat, said he would not back down from his criticism of President Trump, and denied wrongdoing.
New York Times Top StoriesSharon Camp, Mother of the ‘Plan B’ Contraceptive Pill, Dies at 83
An advocate for women’s reproductive health, she started one of the world’s smallest pharmaceutical companies to bring an emergency birth-control method to market.
New York Times Top StoriesA.I. Cheating Rattles Top Universities in South Korea
As many elite colleges struggle to adapt to the technology, the nation’s most prestigious universities said dozens of students used artificial intelligence tools to cheat.
New York Times Top StoriesThe Shutdown Is Over. For Many SNAP Recipients, the Scars Remain.
Some recipients have seen their benefits return but are worried they could still be taken away. Others wonder whether the funding could be stopped again at some point.
New York Times Top StoriesThe Shutdown Is Over. For Many SNAP Recipients, the Scars Remain.
Some recipients have seen their benefits return but are worried they could still be taken away. Others wonder whether the funding could be stopped again at some point.
New York Times Top StoriesAn Escape From India’s Air Pollution for Those Who Can Afford It
Companies are offering much-needed, but expensive, air purification systems to shelter from the smog in one of the world’s most polluted cities.
New York Times Top Stories‘No Closure, No Transparency’: Harassment Victims Seek Resolution
Fewer women in South Korea are reporting workplace harassment, but those who do say their claims are often not taken seriously or handled sensitively.
New York Times Top StoriesTrump Administration Revokes Biden Ban on Drilling and Mining in Alaska Wilderness
The decision to allow oil and gas drilling in Alaska’s ecologically sensitive North Slope has the support of the state’s governor and senators.
New York Times Top StoriesRepublicans Tried to Squelch the Epstein Furor. Instead, They Fed It.
A House investigation that the G.O.P. has tried to use to deflect calls for more transparency has yielded striking revelations that have only fueled the Epstein saga.
New York Times Top StoriesJohn Beam, Football Coach Who Was Focus of Netflix’s ‘Last Chance U,’ Is Shot
The coaching fixture John Beam was gravely wounded in a shooting at Laney College in Oakland, Calif., a commuter school where he is athletic director, according to a city councilman.
New York Times Top StoriesFar Right’s Fixation on Jan. 6 Pipe Bomb Suspect Reaches F.B.I.’s Top Ranks
For all his bluster, the F.B.I.’s deputy director Dan Bongino played a central role in stoking expectations that the bureau would quickly find the suspects who planted pipe bombs.
New York Times Top StoriesJustice Dept. Memo Blessing Boat Strikes Is Said to Rely on Trump’s Claims About Cartels
Accounts of a secret Justice Department memo offer a window into how administration lawyers approved the president’s desired course of action.
New York Times Top StoriesWhat the U.S. Absence at COP30 Tells Us
World leaders are meeting at the COP30 this week to discuss climate. The U.S. was not part of this meeting. Somini Sengupta, our international climate reporter, discusses what this absence means.
New York Times Top StoriesCarney Accelerates Economic Plan for Canada to Rely Less on U.S. Amid Trade War
Prime Minister Mark Carney fast-tracked mines and other natural resource projects to the dismay of some Indigenous groups and many environmentalists.
New York Times Top StoriesThe Government Reopened
Also, Ukraine is facing a dilemma in Pokrovsk. Here’s the latest at the end of Thursday.
New York Times Top StoriesJustice Dept. Joins Lawsuit to Challenge California’s New Redistricting Maps
The agency intervened in a lawsuit brought by the California Republican Party seeking to throw out a map, approved last week by the state’s voters, that would redraw House districts to favor Democrats.
New York Times Top StoriesTrump Officials Prepare Tariff Exemptions, Seeking to Lower Food Prices
If the proposal goes into effect, it would be the latest rollback of one of President Trump’s key economic policies over concerns about affordability.
New York Times Top StoriesMamdani and Hochul Discuss Their Challenges: Trump and Child Care
Zohran Mamdani, the mayor-elect of New York City, and Gov. Kathy Hochul met to talk about how to prepare for threats from President Trump.
New York Times Top StoriesSouthern California Is Forecast to Get Heavy Rain
Parts of Los Angeles County will be under evacuation warnings starting Thursday evening as a complex storm system moves in.