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Rubio Meets (and Meets, and Meets … ) the Press
The secretary of state held a marathon news conference, offering little news but more respect for reporters than most others in the Trump administration.
New York Times Top StoriesNew York Times Top StoriesHochul Reaches Deal on A.I. Regulation in New York
The bill, which lawmakers passed in June, will be modified to more closely match a similar law in California, at Big Tech’s urging.
New York Times Top StoriesLawmakers Criticize Justice Dept. For Not Releasing All Epstein Files
Republicans and Democrats who had been pressing for the disclosure accused officials of failing to comply with a law that requires all material to be released.
New York Times Top StoriesSuspect in Brown and M.I.T. Killings Died 2 Days Before He Was Found, Autopsy Shows
The examination confirmed that the suspect had died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. His body was found late Thursday in a storage unit in New Hampshire.
New York Times Top StoriesGreg Biffle’s Plane Turned Back Minutes After Takeoff
The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating the crash at a North Carolina airport, which killed seven people, including the driver Greg Biffle and his wife and children.
New York Times Top StoriesElise Stefanik Tried Everything to Please Trump. He Still Jilted Her.
The G.O.P. congresswoman who ran as a moderate but became an “ultra MAGA” Trump acolyte ultimately found herself undermined by the president and politically adrift.
New York Times Top StoriesTrump Picks New Leader for Southern Command as Venezuela Pressure Grows
Lt. Gen. Francis L. Donovan, a Marine general with expansive experience in special operations and the Middle East, would take over after the abrupt departure of the previous commander.
New York Times Top StoriesU.S. Strikes Islamic State Targets in Syria
American forces struck dozens of suspected ISIS sites, making good on President Trump’s vow to avenge two American soldiers and a civilian U.S. interpreter killed by the group last week.
New York Times Top StoriesImmigration Officials Deport Queens 6-Year-Old and Father Who Fled China
Hundreds of people had rallied for the family in New York City after they were separated by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in November.
New York Times Top StoriesThe Justice Dept. Released a Trove of Epstein Files
Also, investigators seek a motive in killings at Brown and M.I.T. Here’s the latest at the end of Friday.
New York Times Top StoriesKennedy Center, Memorial to JFK, Is Trump’s Now, Too
The Kennedy Center installed President Trump’s name on the facade of the arts center, which had been designated as a living memorial to President John F. Kennedy.
New York Times Top StoriesEmily Korzenik, 96, Dies; Rabbi Took a Bar Mitzvah to Poland
Part of the first generation of women ordained in America, she presided over the first bar mitzvah in Krakow, still scarred by the Holocaust, in decades. It did not go smoothly.
New York Times Top StoriesMamdani Revamps Hiring After Old Antisemitic Remarks Prompt Aide to Quit
Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani said he did not know about the antisemitic posts and would not have hired the woman who made them if he had.
New York Times Top StoriesElon Musk’s 2018 Tesla Pay Deal Is Restored by Delaware Supreme Court
A lower-court judge had invalidated the package, saying shareholders had not been properly informed about the plan. Friday’s ruling means the pay deal, worth about $139 billion now, can proceed.
New York Times Top StoriesFor Trump, Epstein is the story that won’t go away.
New York Times Top StoriesBrooklyn Man Accused of Stealing $16 Million in Crypto From Victims
From a house in Sheepshead Bay, Ronald Spektor bilked about 100 people across the United States, prosecutors say. Then, he went online to brag.
New York Times Top StoriesWhat is the origin of the Epstein case?
New York Times Top StoriesN.B.A. Tweaks Its Rules to Thwart Sports Betting Cheats
The basketball league will require teams to submit injury reports closer to tipoff, an attempt to close one source of inside information.
New York Times Top StoriesHochul Expected to Veto Bill Requiring 2-Person Crews on Subway Trains
The bill, which would ensure that every train has a conductor and a driver, as most now do, was supported by the transit workers’ union and opposed by many transit advocates.
New York Times Top StoriesTrump’s Name Joins Kennedy’s on Performing Arts Center’s Facade
Workers hauled up large letters spelling out Mr. Trump’s full name to add to the white marble face of the building on Friday morning.
New York Times Top StoriesScott C. Beardsley Named University of Virginia’s New President
The selection of Scott Beardsley by the G.O.P.-appointed board comes after the previous president resigned under pressure from the Trump administration. A new Democratic-appointed board could try to overturn the choice.
New York Times Top StoriesElise Stefanik Drops Out of N.Y. Governor’s Race and Will Leave Congress
Ms. Stefanik, a Republican congresswoman and staunch ally of President Trump, abruptly ended her bid to unseat Gov. Kathy Hochul and said she would not seek another House term.
New York Times Top StoriesToss a Coin in the Trevi Fountain? That’ll Be 2 Euros, Wish Not Included
Starting on Feb. 1, Rome will charge tourists a fee to go down into the basin of the famed 18th-century fountain. Not every one is happy (except Romans, who won’t have to pay).
New York Times Top StoriesHow The Times is covering the latest release of Epstein files.
New York Times Top StoriesR.F.K. Jr. Likely to Swap U.S. Childhood Vaccine Schedule for Denmark’s
The shift would mean fewer shots recommended for children. But a Danish health official found the idea baffling, saying the United States was getting “crazier and crazier in public health.”
New York Times Top StoriesFederal Judge Overturns Conviction in Killing of D.J. Jam Master Jay
Karl Jordan Jr., godson of the musician, was convicted last year of murder in the service of a drug deal. The judge found that the government had not proved the motive.
New York Times Top StoriesSuspected Killer of M.I.T. Professor Studied With Victim, Graduating Top of Their Class
The parents of Claudio Neves Valente had not seen or heard from him since he left Portugal for the United States to enroll at a graduate program at Brown more than two decades ago.
New York Times Top StoriesHow the T.S.A. Is Helping ICE
In a previously undisclosed partnership, the Transportation Security Administration and Immigration and Customs Enforcement are sharing data to identify passengers on upcoming flights whom ICE can arrest. Our reporter Hamed Aleaziz, who learned of this partnership, describes what to know about it and the ICE arrests that have followed.
New York Times Top StoriesNY Gov. Kathy Hochul to Sign Prison Reform Bill After Beatings and Deaths
Prison guards have been accused of more than 120 acts of brutality that amounted to torture in the past decade in New York, a Times investigation found.
New York Times Top StoriesMetro-North and LIRR Commuters to Be Fined for ‘Repeatedly’ Activating Tickets on Train
Passengers on Metro-North and Long Island Rail Road trains could face $8 fines if they keep waiting until after the train leaves to activate their mobile tickets.