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May 20, 2026
On a dark day of layoffs at Meta, one employee responded by creating an internal radio station that plays songs about job cuts — generated by artificial intelligence, of course.
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May 20, 2026
The fund that could offer payouts to Trump allies who accuse the government of mistreatment is not only highly unusual but also appears to violate the administration's own policies.
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May 20, 2026
In primary races across the country, debates over Israel are taking center stage, dividing Democrats and Republicans alike.
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May 20, 2026
Mr. Musk's rocket and satellite maker disclosed its financial performance as it prepares to go public in what is set to be one of the largest offerings to date.
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May 20, 2026
Also, Jan. 6 police officers sue to block Trump's new fund. Here's the latest at the end of Wednesday.
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May 20, 2026
The country had loosened entry requirements after the pandemic to attract visitors, but will now limit many travelers to 30 days without a visa.
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May 20, 2026
While diplomatic relations between the two Koreas are near a historic low, a rare trip by athletes from the North triggered intense emotions in some older South Koreans.
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May 20, 2026
Erin Merdy, 34, pleaded guilty to murder in the 2022 killings of her children, ages 7, 4 and 3 months.
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May 20, 2026
Driven in part by the chaos of the last shutdown, the government is expanding efforts to use private security staff instead of federal employees at more airports.
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May 20, 2026
The chip maker said its profit in its most recent quarter jumped 211 percent from a year ago thanks to extreme demand from other big technology companies.
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May 20, 2026
Aid cuts by the Trump administration have shut down crucial disease surveillance networks and medical supply chains in East Africa.
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May 20, 2026
The announcement came a day after Transportation Secretary Sean P. Duffy said the federal government intended to spend $8 billion on the project.
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May 20, 2026
Cuba's ambassador to the United Nations said in an interview that Havana wanted to talk but the Trump administration was creating pretexts for military action.
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May 20, 2026
Republican senators are angry the president is working to unseat their colleagues. But he is also creating more free agents in his own party in Congress willing to defy him.
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May 20, 2026
Politics isn't supposed to influence the international song contest, but some people wanted relationships between countries to hold more sway in this year's voting.
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May 20, 2026
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the World Health Organization's director general, said the outbreak in central Africa was "not a pandemic emergency."
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May 20, 2026
The Justice Department accused Carmen Lineberger of emailing records related to the special counsel's investigation to a personal account.
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May 20, 2026
The national security minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir, posted a video in which he is seen with handcuffed activists forced to kneel on the deck of a ship. It drew a rebuke from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
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May 20, 2026
OpenAI would be one of the most highly anticipated potential initial public offerings, in what is set to be a major year of I.P.O.s for Silicon Valley.
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May 20, 2026
A record of the April meeting, Jerome H. Powell's last as chair, underscored the extent to which the war with Iran has upended the economic outlook.
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May 20, 2026
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the World Health Organization's director general, said the outbreak in central Africa was "not a pandemic emergency."
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May 20, 2026
The legislation, which had been stalled amid Republican divisions, passed overwhelmingly, signaling an eagerness in both parties to address affordability in an election year.
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May 20, 2026
The Amazon founder and owner of The Washington Post also rejected the idea that he has made changes at his companies to gain favor with the president.
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May 20, 2026
The New York Times profiled young job seekers in 1991. Today, their own children are entering a work force in flux.
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May 20, 2026
The deal the president reached with his own subordinates relies on a mechanism created by Congress that legal experts had warned was subject to manipulation.
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May 20, 2026
The president has spent a great deal of political capital this spring trying to unseat fellow Republicans he sees as disloyal, and he has succeeded.
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May 20, 2026
It's not easy to make an anti-Trump documentary right now.
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May 20, 2026
Larry Bushart sued a Tennessee sheriff who claimed he wanted to incite hysteria with a post after Mr. Kirk's killing and jailed him for 37 days.
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May 20, 2026
Muslims pointed to a rise in overt hatred online, political attacks and harassment in the months before the killing of three people outside an Islamic center.
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May 20, 2026
In his campaign for Georgia governor, Mr. Raffensperger found that G.O.P. voters still blamed him for Mr. Trump's 2020 loss.
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May 20, 2026
To some Africans, the claim that the continent's largest health agency had already bungled its response scratched a familiar wound.
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May 20, 2026
The president's corruption and subversion of democratic tradition risk becoming the norm.
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May 20, 2026
The health secretary has undermined the work of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force over the past year.
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May 20, 2026
Return to the Land, a 160-acre development requiring members be white and heterosexual, is breaking fair housing and civil rights laws, according to a lawsuit.
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May 20, 2026
Employees have signed petitions against being tracked by A.I. and were trying to figure out who had been let go on Wednesday, as the Silicon Valley giant tries to transform into an A.I.-first company.
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May 20, 2026
In a rare direct address, Secretary of State Marco Rubio blamed the former leader Raúl Castro for the country's longstanding electricity and resource shortages.
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May 20, 2026
The two officers accused the administration of creating a "slush fund" to reward rioters and groups that committed violence on behalf of President Trump.
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May 20, 2026
A mystical encounter 12 years ago led Scott Vincent Borba, a founder of E.L.F. Beauty, on a journey that will culminate this week, when he is ordained as a Roman Catholic priest.
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May 20, 2026
Often voted the "brainiest," "funniest" and "most eloquent" member of the House, he was also the first to come out voluntarily and helped normalize being openly gay in public office.
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May 20, 2026
A humpback that became stuck in the Baltic seemed to unite a nation in hope. Rescue efforts followed, and then finger-pointing.
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May 20, 2026
Faculty members overwhelmingly approved a limit on the number of top grades they can give to about a fifth of their undergraduate classes.
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May 20, 2026
The media scion is buying Vox Media's podcast network, New York magazine and Vox.com for more than $300 million.
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May 20, 2026
State police officials say they need time to carry out recommendations made by an outside team after a trainee died in a police academy boxing match.
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May 20, 2026
The New York Times profiled young job seekers in 1991. Today, their own children are entering a work force in flux.
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May 20, 2026
An Israeli strike designed to free Mahmoud Ahmadinejad from house arrest in Tehran, U.S. officials said, was part of an effort to bring about regime change and put him in power.
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May 20, 2026
The possibility that people who ransacked the Capitol could get money from the government they attacked is the latest head-spinning twist in President Trump's effort to rewrite the history of Jan. 6.
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May 20, 2026
The tax service argued that the Trump Organization tried to claim the same losses twice. The president said the audit was a "disgrace."
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May 20, 2026
The warning was issued as President Trump and Vice President JD Vance say progress is being made toward a deal, while keeping open the threat of renewed strikes.
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May 20, 2026
Layoffs linked to artificial intelligence are rattling workers and college graduates, stoking concerns worldwide that are showing up in polls.
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May 20, 2026
Zayd Ayers Dohrn and Harriet Clark on activism, violence, guilt and trying to make sense of their "incomprehensible" early days.
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May 20, 2026
Four teenage boys were arrested in the killing of a woman at her home. The police say they might have been directed by a new type of transient criminal network known as tokuryu.
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May 20, 2026
We look at the expanding role of A.I. in our lives.
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May 20, 2026
Plus, Tesla's big bet on big rigs.
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May 20, 2026
More than 7,000 people east of the city had been forced to evacuate as of Wednesday morning, and more than 39,000 others faced evacuation orders or warnings.
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May 20, 2026
The president's preferred candidate ousted an incumbent in Kentucky, while a Democratic primary in Pennsylvania was a win for the democratic socialists.
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May 20, 2026
The possibility that people who ransacked the Capitol could get money from the government they attacked is the latest head-spinning twist in President Trump's effort to rewrite the history of Jan. 6.
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May 20, 2026
Investigators suggested that infrequent maintenance requirements, among other issues, appeared to contribute to the faulty part that caused the crash, which killed 15 people last year.
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May 20, 2026
Feeding narratives to the credulous isn't speaking truth to power.
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May 20, 2026
He has used his sway with his base to oust wayward Republicans more than he has made inroads with the independents his party needs to defeat Democrats in November.
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May 20, 2026
He has used his sway with his base to oust wayward Republicans more than he has made inroads with the independents his party needs to defeat Democrats in November.
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May 20, 2026
Interest rates for long-term Treasury bonds have surged to levels last seen in 2007, before the great financial crisis.
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May 20, 2026
The organizations that feed millions were already dealing with cuts, inflation and more people seeking help. Now the war in Iran is forcing groups to make hard choices.
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May 20, 2026
While older people are still underrepresented on TV, the characters that are there have become richer and more multidimensional.
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May 20, 2026
Fast-talking lawyers and lobbyists promise to get white-collar criminals out of jail — for a fee.
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May 20, 2026
"City of the Big Shoulders" reflects the city's strength and complexity. It took the artist five years to complete, mapping migration patterns and structural racism.
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May 20, 2026
College education does almost nothing to develop the sense that what we do in our day-to-day lives resonates with people beyond ourselves.
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May 20, 2026
To a younger generation, the word describes a playful response to a difficult world — even if it might strike some as a precious form of capitalism.
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May 20, 2026
In northern Norway, Sami people fear a copper mine will disrupt their traditional lifestyles.
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May 20, 2026
For years, prosecutors have accused Christian Nègre, once a senior official, of slipping diuretics into women's drinks. Despite admitting some accusations in an interview with a French daily, he is yet to stand trial.
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May 20, 2026
Meeting President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia in Beijing, China's leader called for a halt to fighting in the Middle East and took a veiled swipe at the United States.
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May 20, 2026
We can't afford to underestimate Russia's strength and its ability to harm Ukraine and NATO allies, but we must not overestimate it either.
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May 20, 2026
Citizens Union, a government watchdog group, suggested that although Mr. Adams's federal indictment was dropped, his alleged offenses would still be state crimes.
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May 20, 2026
A lawsuit challenges the police practice of shackling mentally ill arrestees in New York, sometimes for long periods, while they await arraignment in locked psychiatric wards.
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May 20, 2026
The deal, which President Trump announced after last week's summit, represents the largest single sale of the American company's aircraft to Beijing in nearly a decade.
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May 20, 2026
Jimmy Kimmel noted that the president backs down on his own deadlines to bomb Iran "every Tuesday. It's like a new episode of ‘NCIS.'"
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May 20, 2026
We can't afford to underestimate Russia's strength and its ability to harm Ukraine and NATO allies, but we must not overestimate it either.
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May 20, 2026
President Trump unseated Representative Thomas Massie, a top Republican critic in Congress, and also got his way in other primary contests.
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May 20, 2026
Outmatched militarily, Iran used "triangular coercion" by attacking Gulf states and closing the Strait of Hormuz. It points to a long-term U.S. vulnerability.
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May 19, 2026
Mr. Brooks will face Representative Ryan Mackenzie, a Republican, in the fall. He earned endorsements from across his party, including Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont and Gov. Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania.
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May 19, 2026
Keisha Lance Bottoms will be the Democratic standard-bearer, despite worries about her single term as mayor of the state's biggest city.
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May 19, 2026
A Honduran man was taken into custody on Tuesday in New York City, which his lawyers said violated a prohibition imposed a day earlier. Hours later, the man was released.
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May 19, 2026
The president wants a loyal Republican Party — even if the country might not.
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May 19, 2026
Mr. Gallrein ran with President Trump's support.
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May 19, 2026
Mr. Barr, who serves in the House, consolidated support among Republicans in part by securing the endorsement of President Trump.
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May 19, 2026
The president wants a loyal Republican Party — even if the country might not.
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May 19, 2026
Authorities said the teenagers who killed three men met online, posted their writings there and livestreamed the killings.
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May 19, 2026
An Israeli strike designed to free Mahmoud Ahmadinejad from house arrest in Tehran, U.S. officials said, was part of an effort to bring about regime change and put him in power.
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May 19, 2026
Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, Democrat of New York, criticized the transportation secretary, Sean Duffy, for posting a video that bragged about withholding money from the state.
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May 19, 2026
The tax service argued that the Trump Organization tried to claim the same losses twice. The president said the audit was a "disgrace."
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May 19, 2026
Like at least other 14 states, Minnesota has wrestled with how to regulate the popular prediction market sites. Federal officials sued the state over its new law.
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May 19, 2026
"Taiwan Travelogue" is the first novel originally written in Mandarin to win the major award for fiction translated into English.
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May 19, 2026
As part of the Justice Department's compensation fund deal, officials vowed not to pursue any matters, including those involving President Trump's tax returns, that are pending.
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May 19, 2026
Democrats called the transportation secretary's reality-show-like series unethical.
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May 19, 2026
With four Republican backers, Democrats won a vote to advance a resolution that would force the president to end hostilities or win authorization from Congress.
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May 19, 2026
The acting attorney general told lawmakers the fund would review claims from an array of people, not just Republicans.
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May 19, 2026
The president embraced Ken Paxton, a MAGA loyalist, over Senator John Cornyn, despite warnings from Republican leaders about Mr. Paxton's history of scandal.
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May 19, 2026
Also, voters cast ballots in key primaries. Here's the latest at the end of Tuesday.
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May 19, 2026
The "Trump First" wing of the G.O.P. is in ascendance. The rest of the party needs to fight back.
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May 19, 2026
Muslim groups identified the three men killed in the shooting at the Islamic Center of San Diego.
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May 19, 2026
In 1996, the giggling stuffed doll turned holiday shopping into chaos, a preview of every sneaker drop, PlayStation launch and Taylor Swift ticket rush to come.
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