New York Times Top Stories: Posts

New York Times Top Stories

Keir Starmer Reflects on ‘Political Challenges’ as Pressure to Resign Mounts

An ally of Keir Starmer’s told the BBC on Sunday that Mr. Starmer was “taking the time to think through what the political realities are today compared to last week.”

Continue Reading…

New York Times Top Stories

Sweet or Salty?

We catch up with The Times’s restaurant critics.

Continue Reading…

New York Times Top Stories

Israel directs its military to limit its actions in Lebanon, though tensions persist.

Continue Reading…

New York Times Top Stories

The Women Running Businesses Under Taliban Rules

With secondary education and most jobs out of reach, thousands of Afghan women have turned to entrepreneurship as the only path to make money and maintain a social life.

Continue Reading…

New York Times Top Stories

For Half a Century, Capturing New York’s Human Moments

Lovers’ quarrels on sidewalks, acts of kindness on public transportation, friendships forged under awnings in the rain, and so much more of the city’s daily poetry.

Continue Reading…

New York Times Top Stories

F.A.A. Investigates Near Miss Between Planes at Boston’s Logan Airport

A Delta Air Lines flight aborted its landing to avoid another plane that was taking off from an intersecting runway, the agency said.

Continue Reading…

New York Times Top Stories

F.A.A. Investigates Near Miss Between Planes at Boston’s Logan Airport

A Delta Air Lines flight aborted its landing to avoid another plane that was taking off from an intersecting runway, the agency said.

Continue Reading…

New York Times Top Stories

Minneapolis Donors Gave as ICE Surged, but Eviction Filings Are Rising

Residents organized to keep their neighbors housed during Operation Metro Surge, and convinced state legislators to pass a rent relief bill in May. Some fear it won’t be enough.

Continue Reading…

New York Times Top Stories

‘What Do I Do? Do I Tell Her? How Do I Fix This?’

Some notable friends of Metropolitan Diary share their New York stories in the first of a special, limited series of columns marking the feature’s 50th anniversary.

Continue Reading…

New York Times Top Stories

What I Learned About Parenting as a Trans Dad

Becoming a father taught Zach Ellams how to overcome shame.

Continue Reading…

New York Times Top Stories

A Malicious Chapter in the History of American Justice

The Trump administration is the nation’s chief threat to the rule of law.

Continue Reading…

New York Times Top Stories

You Can’t Be a Superpower Without Allies

Even the most powerful state in the world is not all that powerful when it decides to go it alone.

Continue Reading…

New York Times Top Stories

How Trump’s Fragile Agreement With Iran Is Shaping the Midterms

Democrats say the president started an economically painful war that resulted in nothing positive. Republicans are more divided, even as they show some signs of relief at falling gas prices.

Continue Reading…

New York Times Top Stories

Neither the War Nor Trump’s Deal Terminated the Main Threats in Iran, Analysts Say

Neither the war nor the agreement terminated the main threats emanating from Iran, many analysts said.

Continue Reading…

New York Times Top Stories

While the World Scrambles for Oil, China Sits on Full Tanks

The possible reopening of the Strait of Hormuz may not prompt China to return quickly to prewar levels of oil purchases from the Persian Gulf.

Continue Reading…

New York Times Top Stories

For Heirs of Custer and Sitting Bull, a 150-Year-Old Battle Is Personal

As the anniversary of the Battle of the Little Bighorn approaches, relatives of the two men still grapple with the legacy of a contentious moment in U.S. history.

Continue Reading…

New York Times Top Stories

Protect Every Animal From Cruelty? Not in 2026, Oregon Democrats Say

A possible referendum in Oregon on animal rights would end fishing, hunting, even pest control, just when Democrats are trying really hard not to be seen as “weirdos again.”

Continue Reading…

New York Times Top Stories

A Diocese Tries to Protect Its 29-Foot Jesus From Trump’s Border Wall

In a battle of symbols, the Catholics of Las Cruces, N.M., argue that religious freedom should stop the wall from scarring a mountain that has attracted pilgrims for nearly a century.

Continue Reading…

New York Times Top Stories

Cities and Schools Are Testing Wastewater for Illicit Drugs

The White House recently endorsed monitoring sewage for evidence of drug use. Critics fear such efforts could violate privacy and stigmatize neighborhoods.

Continue Reading…

New York Times Top Stories

Where Billionaires Summer, a Gardener Died in the Snow

A landscaper’s difficult life and lonely death reveal the human cost behind the Hamptons’ manicured landscape.

Continue Reading…

New York Times Top Stories

Trump Administration Shuttered a Criminal Probe Into Fraudster’s Clemency

Federal prosecutors had been examining the circumstances behind the commutation of David Gentile’s sentence. He was aided by a Catholic priest friendly with the president.

Continue Reading…

New York Times Top Stories

Mamdani Burns Allies in Making a Big Bet for Congress and the Left

The strength of the mayor’s political brand will be tested on Tuesday, when his slate of leftist congressional candidates takes aim at Democratic incumbents.

Continue Reading…

New York Times Top Stories

U.S. and Iranian Officials to Meet for Peace Talks in Switzerland

The next phase of talks to end the war in Iran is expected to begin on Sunday amid fighting in Lebanon and renewed confusion over the Strait of Hormuz.

Continue Reading…

New York Times Top Stories

Elon Musk Is Too Rich. We’ve Known That Since Plato.

The philosopher made a radical proposal about wealth.

Continue Reading…

New York Times Top Stories

New Round of U.S.-Iran Talks Is Set to Start in Switzerland

Vice President JD Vance was expected to meet with Iranian negotiators on Sunday. Pakistan, an intermediary in the talks, said it was sending a delegation.

Continue Reading…

New York Times Top Stories

Luxury Kushner Project Collides With Albanian Discontent

Protests in Albania against plans for a luxury tourist site have become a cause célèbre for opponents of President Trump and his family. But the politics are local.

Continue Reading…

New York Times Top Stories

Trump, Claiming Vandalism, Says Reflecting Pool Will Likely Need to Be Drained

The pool has taken on clouds of algae after a hasty renovation. A three-time Olympian was charged with destroying government property after he says he touched one of the strands of blue paint peeling off the pool’s bottom.

Continue Reading…

New York Times Top Stories

A 1973 Knicks Championship Banner and a Childhood Friendship Endure

Two retired New York City Sanitation Department workers, friends since grade school, dusted off a celebratory banner they carried in 1973, the last time the Knicks won a championship.

Continue Reading…

New York Times Top Stories

The Newsroom in D.C. Tries to Keep the Newsstand as a Shopping Destination

The Newsroom, overflowing with magazines and newspapers on mismatched shelves, has endured as a symbol of a different Washington.

Continue Reading…

New York Times Top Stories

New Strait of Hormuz Closure Announcement Threatens the Slow Uptick in Traffic

Fifty-five ships had passed through the strait on Saturday, the U.S. military said. But then Iran’s military said it was closing the waterway once again.

Continue Reading…