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Venezuela’s Interim Leader Delivers State of the Union Address
In her State of the Union address, Delcy Rodríguez echoed her predecessors’ fiery rhetoric but tried to hew to President Trump’s agenda.
New York Times Top StoriesNew York Times Top StoriesFormer Senator Kyrsten Sinema Accused of Affair With Member of Security Team
In a lawsuit, the ex-wife of Ms. Sinema’s onetime staff member accused her of showering him with gifts and breaking up their marriage.
New York Times Top StoriesCalifornia’s Pacific Coast Highway Fully Reopens After Three Years
The famed highway reopened this week after consecutive landslides shuttered two sections of the road in Big Sur and forced major repairs.
New York Times Top StoriesTaiwan Strikes Trade Deal with Trump, Vows More U.S. Chip Factories
The United States agreed to lower tariffs on Taiwanese goods from 20 to 15 percent, while Taiwan says it will invest in more chip manufacturing in the U.S.
New York Times Top StoriesWhat Did the White House and Denmark Agree to on Greenland? Depends Whom You Ask.
The White House and Denmark contradicted each other in public about what they had agreed to this week as President Trump continued to demand U.S. ownership of Greenland.
New York Times Top StoriesLeonard D. Jacoby, 83, Dies; Brought Legal Services to the Masses
He and Steven Z. Meyers opened their first low-cost legal clinic in 1972. Within a decade, they had revolutionized the legal industry, and Jacoby & Meyers had become a widely known brand.
New York Times Top StoriesHumanities Endowment Awarding Millions to Western Civilization Programs
The National Endowment for the Humanities is giving more than $40 million to programs that have been embraced by conservatives as a counterweight to liberal-dominated academia.
New York Times Top StoriesWas Renee Good Obligated to Comply With an ICE Agent’s Orders?
The agent told Ms. Good to get out of her car before fatally shooting her. Legal experts said immigration agents may sometimes, but not always, have the authority to make such commands.
New York Times Top StoriesHow Activists in Iran Are Using Starlink to Stay Online
Activists spent years preparing for a communications blackout in Iran, smuggling in Starlink satellite internet systems and making digital shutdowns harder for the authorities to enforce.
New York Times Top StoriesNumber of Businesses in New York City Plunged Last Spring, Report Says
Roughly 8,400 businesses closed in the second quarter of 2025, according to the most recent city data, creating the largest net decline in business activity since before the pandemic.
New York Times Top StoriesTrump Threatened to Send the Military to Minneapolis
Also, Israel and Arab countries asked the U.S. not to attack Iran. Here’s the latest at the end of Thursday.
New York Times Top Stories‘Star Wars’ Boss Departs, Ending an Asteroid-Filled Reign
Kathleen Kennedy stepped down as Lucasfilm’s president and returned to producing. Two studio veterans took over.
New York Times Top StoriesPentagon Will ‘Refocus’ Military Publication Stars and Stripes
The agency’s chief spokesman outlined plans to intervene in the previously independent newspaper’s coverage.
New York Times Top StoriesUniversity of Arkansas Withdraws Job Offer for Emily Suski Over Transgender Stance
The University of Arkansas withdrew a job offer to a legal scholar after state officials learned that she had signed a legal brief concerning transgender athletes, lawmakers said.
New York Times Top StoriesN.S.A. Nominee Promises to Protect Elections From Foreign Interference
President Trump fired the National Security Agency’s chief back in April and has weakened cyberattack protections.
New York Times Top StoriesIsrael and Arab Nations Ask Trump to Refrain From Attacking Iran
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel asked the president to postpone any planned attack. Israeli and Arab officials fear Iran could retaliate by striking their countries.
New York Times Top StoriesU.S. Forces Seize Sixth Oil Tanker Linked to Venezuela
The Coast Guard boarded and seized the Russian-flagged tanker, originally named Veronica, in a pre-dawn operation in the Caribbean Sea.
New York Times Top StoriesItalian Court Closes Fraud Case Against Influencer Chiara Ferragni
A judge dropped the case against Ms. Ferragni, who had been embroiled in a scandal over sales of a limited edition Christmas cake marketed as supporting cancer treatment.
New York Times Top StoriesEmpire Wind Project Can Resume Construction, Judge Rules
A federal judge said the Empire Wind project off Long Island would suffer “irreparable harm” if the Trump administration continued to hold up work.
New York Times Top StoriesHesitant to Visit the U.S. for the World Cup? We Want to Hear From You.
International soccer fans face hurdles like travel bans, long visa delays and high ticket prices for U.S. matches. Will they be enough to keep you away?
New York Times Top StoriesNone of Mamdani’s Deputy Mayors Are Black. It Has Become a Problem.
Some Black and Latino leaders worry they are being denied access to power under Mayor Zohran Mamdani and that they may lose the ground they had gained under former Mayor Eric Adams.
New York Times Top StoriesBig Plan for Fannie and Freddie I.P.O. in Flux as Trump Pushes Affordability
Six months after President Trump told Wall Street banks to prepare a swift stock offering, there is no firm plan for how to take the giant mortgage firms public.
New York Times Top StoriesDid a Supreme Court Loss Embolden Trump on the Insurrection Act?
In refusing to let the president deploy National Guard troops in Illinois under an obscure law, the justices may have made him more apt to invoke greater powers.
New York Times Top StoriesNick Reiner Was in a Mental Health Conservatorship in 2020
Mr. Reiner, who is accused of killing his parents, was under a yearlong legal arrangement that allows for involuntary psychiatric treatment.
New York Times Top StoriesJim Hartung, Gymnast Who Helped Deliver U.S. Gold, Dies at 65
In an upset victory over China at the 1984 Olympics, he and five others became the only American men ever to win the gold medal in the gymnastics team competition.
New York Times Top StoriesNydia Velázquez Gives Mamdani a Warning as She Endorses a Successor
The veteran congresswoman said she would like Antonio Reynoso, the Brooklyn borough president, to replace her after she retires. She also said the mayor should lay off political races.
New York Times Top StoriesAlexander Brothers Accuser Was Found Dead Last Year, Authorities Say
The death of Kate Whiteman, whose accusation of sexual assault against Oren and Alon Alexander opened a floodgate of similar allegations, is under investigation.
New York Times Top StoriesMamdani’s Consumer Protection Commissioner Vows More Aggressive Action
“I want to be very public that there’s a new cop on the beat,” said Samuel Levine, the new commissioner of New York City’s Department of Consumer and Worker Protection.
New York Times Top StoriesFlorida Corporal Handcuffs a Runaway Emu After a 45-Minute Chase
A corporal in St. Johns County had responded to what he thought would be a straightforward call about an animal on the loose. Nearly an hour later, he was putting handcuffs on an emu named Tina.
New York Times Top StoriesTrump Outlines Health Care Proposals as Prices and Premiums Rise
The long-awaited plan would leave much to Congress and calls for payments to health savings accounts rather than insurance subsidies, among other broad proposals.