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OpenAI Amends A.I. Deal With the Pentagon
The new pact includes additional protections to prevent the use of the company’s technology for mass surveillance of Americans.
New York Times Top StoriesNew York Times Top StoriesSeven Takeaways From the Clintons’ Epstein Depositions
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was defiant. Former President Bill Clinton spoke of President Trump’s ties to Epstein. A Republican raised a conspiracy theory.
New York Times Top StoriesUnder Pressure from Trump, Cuban Leader Calls for ‘Urgent’ Economic Change
President Miguel Díaz-Canel said the private sector needed more autonomy, as the island confronts a U.S. oil blockade that has deepened a humanitarian crisis.
New York Times Top StoriesU.S. Sends More Troops to the Mideast as Iran War Expands
Gen. Dan Caine, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, acknowledged the possibility of an extended campaign, as the military announced that six U.S. service members had been killed so far.
New York Times Top StoriesTexas Senate Candidates Make Final Arguments Before Primary Elections
The Republicans John Cornyn and Ken Paxton — and the Democrats Jasmine Crockett and James Talarico — are battling in bitter and expensive races.
New York Times Top StoriesCan These Democrats Make Combative Centrism Happen for 2028 Election?
Third Way, the moderate Democratic advocacy group and think tank, has an expansive and expensive plan to shape the 2028 presidential campaign.
New York Times Top StoriesTrump Says He Will End Boycott of White House Correspondents’ Dinner
The mentalist Oz Pearlman is this year’s speaker. “Hopefully, it will be something very Special,” the president wrote on Truth Social.
New York Times Top StoriesTrump Embraces U.S. Military Power After Years of Caution
The wars in Afghanistan and Iraq offered a stark lesson in the limits of military force. The Iran attacks suggest an era of postwar wariness is over.
New York Times Top StoriesTrump Administration Abandons Efforts to Impose Executive Orders on Law Firms
The move amounts to a surrender in a clash that has led many law firms to submit to the president rather than face the threat of his executive orders.
New York Times Top StoriesSupreme Court Sides With Religious Parents, Blocking California’s Trans Student Policy
Christian teachers and parents challenged the state’s policies, which they say require schools to hide students’ transgender status from their parents.
New York Times Top StoriesTrump Was Never Antiwar
Trump’s foreign policy has often been less a repudiation of neoconservatism than a mutation of it.
New York Times Top StoriesIn Republican Win, Supreme Court Retains G.O.P. District in New York
A Republican congresswoman had asked the justices to preserve her New York City district, despite a lower-court ruling that it illegally diluted the power of minority voters.
New York Times Top StoriesU.S. Slaps Sanctions on Rwanda, Saying It Sabotaged Trump Peace Deal
Rwanda’s government responded by claiming the sanctions unjustly targeted only one party to the conflict and misrepresented the facts.
New York Times Top StoriesTrump Foresees an Extended War
Also, how the U.S. decided to strike Iran. Here’s the latest at the end of Monday.
New York Times Top StoriesN.Y. Attorney General Orders Hospital to Resume Youth Transgender Care
NYU Langone Health had stopped providing puberty-blocking medication and hormone treatments after the federal government threatened to pull its funding.
New York Times Top StoriesWhat Is Trump’s Neck Rash? His Doctor Declines to Explain.
President Trump’s physician did not explain what the skin condition was or what medication he was using to treat it.
New York Times Top StoriesThey’re Hiring at U.S.A.I.D. Just Not Anyone Who Worked There.
The Trump administration said in a memo it wanted to “avoid the risk of impaired objectivity” by hiring former staff members to wind down operations at the U.S. Agency for International Development.
New York Times Top StoriesAs Maduro and Khamenei Learned, It’s Harder Than Ever for Leaders to Hide
A surge in sensors and cameras, combined with artificial intelligence, has transformed U.S. intelligence’s ability to locate foreign heads of state. Add to that an American president willing to capture or kill them.
New York Times Top StoriesHow Religion Is Playing in the Senate Democratic Primary in Texas
James Talarico is talking up his beliefs and his status as a seminary student. Jasmine Crockett, his opponent, is the daughter of a pastor and is steeped in the Black church.
New York Times Top StoriesYour Closest Forest Gets Lit Up by a Hidden Purple Glow
Research shows that a phenomenon called St. Elmo’s Fire, which occurs during thunderstorms, may be much more common than previously understood.
New York Times Top StoriesU.S. Military Death Toll in Iran War Rises to 6
The number of U.S. service members killed in the first three days of the war grew as officials said the remains of two more troops had been recovered.
New York Times Top StoriesMeeting on U.S. Measles Status Is Delayed Until November
The decision to revoke the country’s elimination status would now likely come after the U.S. midterm elections, experts noted.
New York Times Top StoriesPakistan Strikes Bagram Air Base, Satellite Images Show
Satellite imagery showed flattened warehouses at the base that served as the nerve center of America’s 20-year war in Afghanistan, a prized asset for the Taliban.
New York Times Top StoriesInvestigators Examine Iran War as Possible Motive in Austin Shooting
The shooting happened about 26 hours after the United States and Israel attacked Iran. Officials identified the two who died in the shooting and said a third victim would be taken off life support.
New York Times Top StoriesGeorgia Jurors to Decide If Father’s Inaction Before a Shooting Was a Crime
Colin Gray testified that he never considered his son capable of carrying out a mass shooting at his school. Prosecutors argued that he ignored warning signs.
New York Times Top StoriesAmericans Need to Know More About The Iran Attacks
The American public has received too little information to effectively judge the goals and objectives of the largest U.S. military operation in the Middle East in a generation.
New York Times Top StoriesMan Is Charged With Damaging Religious Property in Chabad Crash
The charges in federal court are the latest against Dan Sohail, who is accused of ramming his car into the Brooklyn headquarters of the Jewish movement.
New York Times Top StoriesHow Trump Decided to Go to War With Iran
President Trump’s embrace of military action in Iran was spurred by an Israeli leader determined to end diplomatic negotiations. Few of the president’s advisers voiced opposition.
New York Times Top StoriesWhat the Pentagon’s Attack Videos Reveal About the Boat Strikes at Sea
The military has released more than 40 video clips of U.S. attacks on vessels it says are trafficking drugs. But they tell only part of the story.
New York Times Top StoriesMacron Expands French Nuclear Arsenal and Vows Protection for Neighbors
The announcement was a significant step in forging a European deterrent as Russia grows more aggressive and the U.S. steps back.