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Republicans Are Building an Advantage in Redistricting. How Much?
Where things stands in the race for House control after recent court rulings.
New York Times Top StoriesNew York Times Top StoriesU.S. Conducts Third Boat Strike in 5 Days, Killing 2 and Leaving a Survivor
Of the 57 attacks in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific against boats accused of drug trafficking, there have rarely been survivors.
New York Times Top StoriesBlake Lively Settlement Had No Financial Payout, Filing Confirms
Justin Baldoni’s company did not agree to make a payout as part of the deal that ended Ms. Lively’s lawsuit, but she is able to seek compensation through a separate legal avenue.
New York Times Top StoriesLive: Ezra Klein Moderates California Housing Forum With Candidates for Governor
The Opinion columnist Ezra Klein moderates a forum with five of the top candidates for governor of California.
New York Times Top StoriesNorovirus Outbreak Sickens 115 on Cruise Ship
More than 100 passengers and 13 crew members on the Caribbean Princess reported being ill, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
New York Times Top StoriesAfter Frederiksen Falls Short in Denmark, Right-Leaning Politician Is Asked to Form Government
King Frederik X has appointed a right-leaning politician to try to form the next government.
New York Times Top StoriesU.S. Targets Iran’s Missile and Drone Program With Sanctions
The new measures are focused on Chinese companies that supply Iran’s military with materials to make drones.
New York Times Top StoriesTrump Plans to Fire F.D.A. Commissioner Marty Makary
Dr. Makary has been a supporter of the Make American Healthy Again Movement but made some enemies in the administration over vaping, the abortion pill and rejections of new drugs.
New York Times Top StoriesTrump Administration Wants to Strip 12 Immigrants of U.S. Citizenship
The targeted Americans are accused misdeeds that can qualify them to lose citizenship, but denaturalization has rarely been invoked in the past.
New York Times Top StoriesAlabama Asks Supreme Court to Allow it to Use New Voting Map
State officials urged the justices to allow them to jettison Alabama’s congressional district map, citing the Supreme Court’s recent decision that dealt a blow to the Voting Rights Act.
New York Times Top StoriesLawmakers May Continue to Inspect ICE Detention Centers, Appeals Court Rules
A federal appeals court declined, for now, to halt an order requiring D.H.S. to permit unannounced visits to immigration detention centers by Democrats in Congress.
New York Times Top StoriesFacing Pressure, Trump Officials Reject Claims They’re Softening on Immigration
Immigration hard-liners have grown frustrated with the level of deportations and the Department of Homeland Security’s attempts, under its new secretary, to stay under the radar.
New York Times Top StoriesProposed Rule by Postal Service Could Allow Handguns to Be Mailed
The proposal comes after the Justice Department said this year that a century-old law banning the practice was unconstitutional. Democratic leaders are calling it “unlawful.”
New York Times Top StoriesVirginia’s Top Court Delivers a Major Victory for Republicans
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New York Times Top StoriesU.F.O. Files Released by U.S. Shed Light on What the Government Knows
The Pentagon on Friday released online what it called “new, never-before-seen” files, dating back decades, related to unidentified flying objects.
New York Times Top StoriesIn Kristin Smart Case, Soil Suggests Human Remains Once Present in Yard
A California sheriff said investigators were searching the backyard of a woman whose son was convicted of murdering Ms. Smart, who went missing in 1996.
New York Times Top StoriesThe Next Frontier of Trump’s Assault on Free Speech
Hegseth has argued that military retirees are subject to freedom of speech restrictions. Let that sink in.
New York Times Top StoriesMahmoud Khalil Hurtles Toward Potential Deportation as U.S. Speeds Case
A key judicial decision in Mr. Khalil’s immigration case was expedited significantly and included the recusal of multiple judges.
New York Times Top StoriesThere Are Ants in This Canadian Hospital. Again.
A hospital in Manitoba had to postpone a “limited number of elective surgeries” after ants appeared there for the third time since 2024.
New York Times Top StoriesTakeaways From the 2026 U.K. Local Elections
Results from municipal and regional elections signaled major gains for the right-wing populist Reform U.K. and steep losses for Labour.
New York Times Top StoriesTrump Gave Out a No-Bid Contract to Turn D.C.’s Reflecting Pool Blue
President Trump handpicked a firm he said had worked on his swimming pool to repair the iconic site near the Lincoln Memorial.
New York Times Top StoriesCan They Build ‘America First’ Without Nick Fuentes?
A small group of candidates and influencers met to forge a shaky new political movement — without its de facto leader and his groypers.
New York Times Top StoriesWhat to know about the report.
Employers added 115,000 jobs and the unemployment rate remained at 4.3 percent despite higher energy prices and instability spurred by the war with Iran.
New York Times Top StoriesOil Slick Is Detected Off Kharg Island in the Persian Gulf
The slick, captured in satellite images near Kharg Island in the Persian Gulf, has raised concerns about the condition of Iran’s oil infrastructure.
New York Times Top Stories4 Takeaways From the Virginia Supreme Court Gerrymandering Decision
The ruling was a major lift to the G.O.P. efforts to build a structural advantage through redistricting.
New York Times Top StoriesBefore Hantavirus Outbreak, the MV Hondius Attracted ‘a Different Type of Traveler’
Former passengers on the MV Hondius say that the ship was made for wildlife expeditions and that the crew took safety very seriously.
New York Times Top StoriesFestus Mogae, Former Botswana President Who Tackled H.I.V., Dies at 86
He led the southern African nation for a decade and embraced a flagship American aid program credited with helping to eradicate the country’s AIDS epidemic.
New York Times Top StoriesExperts Stress Hantavirus Risk Remains Low As Officials Track Cruise Ship Passengers
Health officials are closely monitoring those who were exposed for symptoms of the virus, which does not spread easily between humans.
New York Times Top StoriesDavid Attenborough, a Voice of Nature, Turns 100
Pictures and striking scenes from the making of perhaps the world’s most celebrated naturalist.
New York Times Top StoriesHow Prepared Are We for A.I. Layoffs?
Our chief economics correspondent, Ben Casselman, describes how A.I.-related layoffs are testing the resilience of the government’s safety net programs.