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May 15, 2026
Nancy Pelosi and Jerrold Nadler are retiring, sparking fierce fights in San Francisco and Manhattan to succeed them. Whoever wins their seats could tap big donors and shape the Democratic Party.
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May 15, 2026
Hopes for an end to the war in Iran faded after President Trump failed to secure a commitment from China to help persuade Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz.
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May 15, 2026
Having fought the Trump administration to a draw, China's Xi Jinping is proposing "constructive strategic stability," aimed at drawing lines he thinks the U.S. should not cross.
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May 15, 2026
Representative Thomas Massie, the incumbent, has opposed President Trump's military strikes on Iran. He is now facing the biggest challenge of his career.
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May 15, 2026
It is not clear when another trial would take place. But both prosecutors and defense lawyers said they would be forced to revise their legal strategies.
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May 15, 2026
The establishment changed its name this week from the Barber Shop Blackstone to the Censored Shop Blackstone in protest while it is suing the state in federal court.
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May 15, 2026
Hopes for an end to the war in Iran faded after President Trump failed to secure a commitment from China to help persuade Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz.
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May 15, 2026
He directed nearly 1,000 comedic commercials, including a much-quoted spot for Wendy's and one for FedEx featuring a manic speed talker.
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May 15, 2026
Watch an exchange between the two men in which the Chinese leader sought to signal exclusivity and name-dropped Russia's president.
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May 15, 2026
The president left Beijing following a summit with China, during which the two countries sought to stabilize their economic and political relations.
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May 15, 2026
Some of this country's most prominent girl bosses sound like they don't even know how to read the room.
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May 15, 2026
Authoritarians go after data. The president has already started.
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May 15, 2026
We wrap up President Trump's visit to China.
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May 15, 2026
Plus, the Friday news quiz.
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May 15, 2026
Finland is the favorite for prediction markets and bookmakers, but singers from Australia, Denmark, Greece and Israel are coming for the title, too.
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May 15, 2026
His lawyers said he was stunned to learn that South Carolina's top court had reversed the murder convictions. Prosecutors plan to retry the case, but a second trial could look very different.
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May 15, 2026
Presidents are expected to tell the public basic health information, but members of the House and Senate often stay silent about medical conditions, even those that affect their ability to do their jobs.
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May 15, 2026
The five dozen endorsements mostly feature those seeking state or local office who have previously supported the Vermont senator.
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May 15, 2026
The Omaha establishment changed its name this week from the Barber Shop Blackstone to the Censored Shop Blackstone in protest while it is suing the state in federal court in a trademark fight.
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May 15, 2026
Jerome H. Powell is passing the chair's baton to Kevin M. Warsh at the Federal Reserve, an institution that President Trump's pick says needs an overhaul.
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May 15, 2026
And no, an exit strategy won't help you, either.
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May 15, 2026
He directed nearly 1,000 comedic commercials, including a much-quoted spot for Wendy's and one for FedEx featuring a manic speed talker.
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May 15, 2026
The internationally popular event will be available to U.S. viewers, too, although not on domestic TV in some countries that are boycotting this year.
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May 15, 2026
Intel, along with Taiwan and South Korea, are the latest winners, our columnist says. True diversification is hard to find.
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May 15, 2026
The Department of Health and critical psychiatry activists are hoping to upend 40 years of medical orthodoxy.
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May 15, 2026
For the deceased of Roman-era Egypt, Greek literature may have offered a cheat code to a more comfortable afterlife.
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May 15, 2026
Democrats are pinning their hopes of flipping the Senate on Graham Platner, who has made his working-class persona key to his campaign. His background defies easy categorization.
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May 15, 2026
Cartel insiders say that in exchange for bribes and political support they were allowed to operate in Sinaloa state with near total freedom.
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May 15, 2026
The administration has said DACA isn't a right to stay in the United States "indefinitely." One man with DACA was detained and deported to Mexico in a matter of days.
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May 15, 2026
Mr. Trump's trip, the first U.S. presidential visit to China in almost a decade, was closely watched for signs of whether a trade truce between the countries would hold.
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May 15, 2026
Jimmy Fallon joked that President Trump's idea of a Temple of Heaven is very different from the one he toured in Beijing with China's leader.
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May 15, 2026
The standoff comes as Chinese firms increasingly turn to domestic chipmakers like Huawei, in a drive to reduce China's dependence on Western technologies.
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May 15, 2026
The deal, if it materializes, would be a major win for Boeing, which has lost ground to Airbus in one of the world's largest aviation markets.
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May 15, 2026
The decade since Brexit has been one long, painful process of trying — and failing — to make sense of this new reality.
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May 15, 2026
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent did not say when these talks would happen. There are fears in the United States and China about the threats from A.I., but neither side is willing to slow down its development.
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May 15, 2026
Candidates have become increasingly combative as they enter the final stretch before the June 2 primary. Once again, Xavier Becerra, a Democratic front-runner, drew most of the attacks.
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May 15, 2026
Mahmoud Abbas's years in power have been dogged by accusations of corruption. Many Palestinians yearn for fresh leadership.
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May 15, 2026
They were shackled and sent to Kinshasa by the Trump administration. Now they face a dangerous choice: Go back to Latin America or stay in Africa.
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May 15, 2026
Mykhailo Fedorov, Ukraine's 35-year-old defense minister, sees futuristic military technology as crucial to his country's survival.
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May 14, 2026
As President Trump and China's leader, Xi Jinping, meet, the United States said China has promised to expand its purchases of farm goods and airplanes.
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May 14, 2026
A lawyer for Richard Glossip said the ruling provided a step forward in his client's efforts to escape a "decades-long nightmare" in a case that has faced substantial criticism.
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May 14, 2026
At a court hearing over a presidential order seeking to exert more control over elections, a government lawyer said no "responsible state" should rely on the lists to update their voter rolls.
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May 14, 2026
John Ratcliffe, the C.I.A. director, is the highest-ranking official in the Trump administration to visit the country.
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May 14, 2026
As part of a public inquiry into the massacre at Bondi Beach, dozens have described being targeted for their Jewish identity in their daily lives.
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May 14, 2026
The A.I. company, which is in the middle of a court fight with Elon Musk, has been unhappy with how Apple has integrated ChatGPT into its devices.
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May 14, 2026
Faced with a billion-dollar repair bill and a desire to find a new arena for the Mavericks, the city is considering options that include demolishing the building. Residents submitted their own ideas.
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May 14, 2026
But he stopped short of ordering lawmakers to redo the map so that Republicans could sweep the state's congressional delegation, which President Trump has pressured them to do.
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May 14, 2026
He was also the chief counsel to the House Select Committee on Assassinations in the late 1970s and spent years as a Notre Dame law professor.
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May 14, 2026
Lawyers for Elon Musk and OpenAI made their closing arguments in the blockbuster federal trial on Thursday. Nine jurors are set to begin deliberations next week.
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May 14, 2026
Michael Banks is the latest high-profile official to leave the Department of Homeland Security amid President Trump's immigration crackdown.
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May 14, 2026
But two vulnerable Republicans joined Democrats in the effort to force President Trump to win authorization from Congress, in the latest sign of G.O.P. jitters over the war.
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May 14, 2026
A federal appeals court ruling against the Food and Drug Administration would have restricted access by mail to mifepristone.
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May 14, 2026
Adm. Brad Cooper said a strike on an Iranian school may have been the only civilian casualty incident of the war.
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May 14, 2026
Vice President JD Vance traveled to Maine for a speech, making a midterm election pitch that only Republicans could root out fraud in public benefits.
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May 14, 2026
Pills shipped to states with bans are a reason abortion has increased since Roe v. Wade was overturned.
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May 14, 2026
No one on the ground was hurt when a small plane crashed into a house on a residential street south of downtown Akron, the authorities said.
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May 14, 2026
Federal records show that the no-bid contract to repair the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool and paint it blue now costs $13.1 million. That's about seven times the amount President Trump initially said it would cost.
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May 14, 2026
The Supreme Court ruled that mifepristone could continue to be prescribed by telemedicine while a lower court reviews the case.
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May 14, 2026
In a court filing, the administration signaled support for Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company in a lawsuit challenging xAI's generators at a huge Mississippi data center.
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May 14, 2026
M. Gessen and Rachel Louise Snyder on the parallels between authoritarianism and domestic violence.
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May 14, 2026
Also, this is a big week for the art market. Here's the latest at the end of Thursday.
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May 14, 2026
John Ratcliffe, the C.I.A. director, is the highest-ranking official in the Trump administration to visit the country.
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May 14, 2026
New research claims that bipartisan primaries have broad societal benefit, but opposition is growing, and Louisiana voters this weekend will participate in the state's first closed primary since 1978.
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May 14, 2026
They were passengers on a plane to Johannesburg with an infected Dutch woman who later died.
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May 14, 2026
We have no F.D.A. director, no permanent C.D.C. director and no surgeon general.
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May 14, 2026
A long-running energy crisis in the island nation reached a breaking point this week, when government officials said they had run out of reserves.
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May 14, 2026
Representative Thomas Kean Jr. last voted in Washington on March 5, citing a medical issue. An appearance planned for late May has been canceled.
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May 14, 2026
Although at odds over issues like trade and Taiwan, the U.S. and Chinese leaders met in Beijing with a show of friendly gestures.
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May 14, 2026
Erratic behavior and staff turnover have colored Mr. Schlossberg's bid for a House seat in New York, raising questions about his readiness for office.
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May 14, 2026
New research claims that bipartisan primaries have broad societal benefit, but opposition is growing, and Louisiana voters this weekend will participate in the state's first closed primary since 1978.
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May 14, 2026
The tax will initially apply to units with a "market value" of at least $1 million. That metric often underestimates a home's actual worth.
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May 14, 2026
The Department of Homeland Security recently formed a unit tasked with revetting thousands of immigrants with permanent residency.
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May 14, 2026
The finding was the second time in eight days that the Trump administration had targeted a major medical school over admissions policies.
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May 14, 2026
M. Gessen and Rachel Louise Snyder on the parallels between authoritarianism and domestic violence.
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May 14, 2026
An individual with principles and quirks and an aversion to being told what to do.
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May 14, 2026
Cerebras, a Silicon Valley maker of artificial intelligence chips, began trading on the stock market on Thursday, as SpaceX, OpenAI and Anthropic also take steps to go public.
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May 14, 2026
What started as a taco stop with former President Barack Obama quickly turned into a very Texas debate over the proper breakfast taco order.
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May 14, 2026
Dalton Eatherly, who goes by Chud the Builder, was arrested after an altercation that ended in gunfire outside a courthouse near Nashville.
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May 14, 2026
Dana Williamson, a former political strategist for Xavier Becerra and a former aide to Gov. Gavin Newsom, appeared in federal court on Thursday.
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May 14, 2026
In contrast to his rhetoric about China at home, President Trump spoke in conciliatory terms with Xi Jinping, the Chinese leader.
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May 14, 2026
When MAHA turns into HAHA.
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May 14, 2026
Four longtime Latino civil rights and political organizations are joining efforts to register voters and mobilize Hispanic Democrats in the wake of rising voting restrictions.
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May 14, 2026
In recent decades, the federal authorities have generally revoked U.S. citizenship from people accused of wrongdoing on their citizenship applications. A new case focuses on a crime committed later.
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May 14, 2026
After months of avoiding confrontation, the Trump administration has taken recent steps to call out China on Iran, artificial intelligence and spying.
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May 14, 2026
In songs like "Slip Away" and "Back Door Santa," he performed with the fervor of a backwoods preacher and the bawdy humor of a juke joint.
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May 14, 2026
Three years after the debut of ChatGPT, fooling A.I. systems into bad behavior is almost trivial.
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May 14, 2026
Bumble is losing the feature that reshaped how we look for love. Daters may be ready for something more intentional.
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May 14, 2026
Humanities students made their displeasure known at the University of Central Florida.
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May 14, 2026
The virus is clearly far less contagious than the coronavirus, scientists agree, but they have found cases where it spread among people without direct contact.
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May 14, 2026
The flag appeared on a university building in the heart of Greenwich Village during a graduation week event, and resembled the purple N.Y.U. banners flying on campus.
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May 14, 2026
A trailer heralds the latest spinoff from the Trump administration.
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May 14, 2026
Dana Williamson, a former political strategist for Xavier Becerra and a former aide to Gov. Gavin Newsom, is scheduled to appear in federal court on Thursday.
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May 14, 2026
It's a nightmare faced by families all around Los Angeles: After wildfire smoke blanketed homes, schools and offices with toxic chemicals, when is it OK to go back?
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May 14, 2026
The decision came after a meeting in which a lawyer for the billionaire, Gautam Adani, made an unusual offer, according to people familiar with the matter.
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May 14, 2026
The secrets of one of the architects of the religious right are being revealed. One of the secrets is that they weren't really secrets.
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May 14, 2026
Higher fuel prices are a burden on low-income families.
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May 14, 2026
The State Supreme Court cited a local court clerk in reversing the result of one of the most-watched murder trials of the last decade. It has raised painful memories in the state's Lowcountry region.
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May 14, 2026
The 2026 edition of the world's oldest art exhibition is a celebration of vitality — for better and indeed for worse.
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May 14, 2026
A scene inspired by the winter at Valley Forge has become more prominent in the Trump era, along with claims that the United States was founded as a Christian nation.
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May 14, 2026
The British health secretary stepped down on Thursday, issuing an excoriating statement on the leadership of Prime Minister Keir Starmer.
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