
Tuning In
Sometimes we assume the people and things around us are neutral or hostile to our existence. What if the opposite could be true?
By Melissa Kirsch

Sometimes we assume the people and things around us are neutral or hostile to our existence. What if the opposite could be true?
By Melissa Kirsch

A former Liberal immigration minister said that Canada should drop an agreement that allows it to return asylum seekers who enter from the U.S.
By Ian Austen

Nearly two years after “Sephora tweens” made headlines, some companies are eyeing an even younger demographic.
By Callie Holtermann

She won the award for her performance as Linda Loman in a 1999 Broadway revival of “Death of a Salesman” and played the matriarch Kate Jerome in two Neil Simon comedies.
By Richard Sandomir

He was sent to the Manzanar internment camp during World War II, an experience that inspired a long career in civil rights activism.
By Clay Risen

Mr. Lander, the New York City comptroller, campaigned with Mr. Mamdani and once hoped to join him in City Hall. Now he is eyeing a congressional seat.
By Nicholas Fandos and Benjamin Oreskes

This summit is unlike any of its predecessors in at least one significant way: The Indigenous presence is palpable and strong.
By Somini Sengupta, Brad Plumer and David Gelles

Receiving back-to-back awards, Ashlynn Park might be the buzziest rising star in American fashion. Plus, new winter coats, pajamas and stores.
By Yola Mzizi

The ESCAPADE mission, which launched to space on a Blue Origin rocket on Thursday, breaks the mold of how planetary science missions typically come together.
By Kenneth Chang

The Trump nominee Bill Pulte has called out a Fed governor and New York’s attorney general for issues with their mortgage documents. Some leaders of the family’s home-building business bristle at how he has enhanced his reputation.
By Matthew Goldstein, Jessica Silver-Greenberg and Kailyn Rhone

An advocate for women’s reproductive health, she started one of the world’s smallest pharmaceutical companies to bring an emergency birth-control method to market.
By Penelope Green

He spent almost two decades at the network, covering a wide range of court cases and the White House. He was also at the center of a defamation lawsuit over “pink slime.”
By Sopan Deb

The government shutdown caused a panic among recipients, but the monthly budgeting issues go back 50 years and may get worse.
By Meghan McCarron

Federal workers and poor Americans bore the brunt of the 43-day fiscal standoff, but it also took a toll on the broader economy.
By Eileen Sullivan
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The Trump administration is said to be investigating two top shareholder advisory firms. It’s part of a growing change in how corporate America is run.
By Andrew Ross Sorkin, Bernhard Warner, Sarah Kessler, Michael J. de la Merced, Niko Gallogly, Brian O’Keefe and Ian Mount

Forget MAGA. Forget MAHA. Let’s make America sane again.
By Frank Bruni and Bret Stephens

Rent increases have outpaced wage growth, but there are pockets of affordability among the largest U.S. metro areas.
By Vince Dixon

His new novel, “Palaver,” observes how an expat in Japan and his visiting mother find “a new language and way of being that’s amenable for them both.”

State Senator James Skoufis of New York has been a steady critic of Gov. Kathy Hochul, a fellow Democrat. Her vetoes of his bills seemed intended to send a message.
By Grace Ashford

They arrived at Rye Playland in the darkness, in a boat they had taken without the owner’s permission, then hopped a fence into the park, where the spree began, officials said.
By Ed Shanahan

She studied the impact of noise on health and classroom learning and helped impose stricter regulations in New York City.
By Sam Roberts

A constitutional amendment in the nuclear-armed country extends the chief’s power over all the military and brings Pakistan’s highest court under tighter political control.
By Elian Peltier

American women need the freedom to determine the course of their own lives.
By The Editorial Board

The shake-up in China’s armed forces comes as both Beijing and Washington are pushing through major changes in their country’s militaries, in different ways.
By David Pierson
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Mr. Schlossberg, the son of Caroline Kennedy, said the Democratic Party needed someone who could stand up to President Trump and his allies.
By Maya King

Brad and Nicole Wiegmann offer us a wonderful Wednesday.
By Isaac Aronow

Michelino Sunseri broke a speed record for running up and down the Wyoming peak, but was convicted of using a restricted path.
By Claire Moses

An attack on a courthouse in Islamabad was the first major assault to hit Islamabad in more than a decade.
By Elian Peltier and Zia ur-Rehman

Huang Ruo’s “The Monkey King” at San Francisco Opera transforms a classic Chinese tale into a reflection on identity, enlightenment and the creativity sparked when cultures entwine.
By Thomas May

Violence in the occupied territories continues even if hostilities in Gaza have cooled.
By Mairav Zonszein

As the vibrantly patterned kente travels out of Africa, a new designation aims to protect its ties to Ghana, where the cloth originated.
By Yola Mzizi

Diagnosed with A.L.S., they traded stories, drank tequila and made grim jokes at a unique annual gathering on Cape Cod.
By Roni Caryn Rabin and Lucy Lu

Dr. Masahide Kanayama has devoted his life in Manhattan to medicine and God. He could face five years of hard labor in Japan.
By Benjamin Weiser

As the number of gambling houses has grown across the United States, they are no longer the tourism magnets that they used to be, experts say.
By Matthew Haag
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After a U.S. occupation, years of sectarian violence and a jihadist insurgency, Iraq has become an improbable haven of calm in the Middle East.
By Erika Solomon

A restless Democratic base is seething at older leaders in Washington.
By Reid J. Epstein

A delay in SNAP benefits mixed with a decline in foot traffic has many stores, restaurants and food producers concerned about sales.
By Julie Creswell and Linda Qiu

The composer’s ambient masterwork, created from disintegrating magnetic tape, became synonymous with 9/11. When he made it, his own life was falling apart.
By Grayson Haver Currin and Sela Shiloni

The mayor-elect named Dean Fuleihan, a government veteran, to be his first deputy mayor. Elle Bisgaard-Church will serve as his chief of staff.
By Nicholas Fandos

Conflict has shattered Sudan. Yet the gold trade is booming.
By Rachel Abrams, Declan Walsh, Mooj Zadie, Nina Feldman, Sydney Harper, Jessica Cheung, Rikki Novetsky, Michael Benoist, Chris Haxel, Marion Lozano and Alyssa Moxley

The vote, on Day 41 of the shutdown, signaled an end in sight to weeks of gridlock. Eight members of the Democratic Caucus supplied the critical backing.
By Catie Edmondson

A weekend gathering in Texas drew activists, homeopaths, doctors, lawyers, parents and a Republican senator who asked, “Why isn’t Tony Fauci in prison?”
By Sheryl Gay Stolberg

In 2019, President Trump sent U.S. commandos to a small village in Syria to kill the leader of Islamic State. On Monday, Syria’s president, a former associate of that leader, will take another step to strengthen his alliance with the White House.
By Roger Cohen

The host and author discusses “Padma’s All American,” which sees immigrants at the heart of the nation’s cuisine.
By Julia Moskin
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Politicians, oil giants and climate activists hang on his every word. The Trump administration has blasted him. How did Fatih Birol get so big?
By Max Bearak

Judge Mark L. Wolf, writing in The Atlantic, said he was stepping down to speak out against the “assault on the rule of law” by President Trump, whom he accused of “targeting his adversaries.”
By Mattathias Schwartz

Zohran Mamdani made the city glow, bringing a beauty to the everyday fixtures we ceased to register.
By Zaina Arafat

In his work, the photographer Abelardo Morell captures how flashes of transcendence feel.
By Lauren Jackson

An obsessed table-tennis player (“Marty Supreme”) and musicians in a Neil Diamond tribute band (“Song Sung Blue”) are among the season’s screen gifts.
By Ben Kenigsberg

Amie Walker makes a Sunday debut puzzle for the left coast (the best coast?).
By Caitlin Lovinger

A correspondent for Reuters, he became a global symbol of China’s isolation and of the anti-foreigner hysteria spawned by its Cultural Revolution.
By Adam Nossiter

She often played a particularly British character: a bubbly yet resilient woman facing down the corrosive effects of everyday modern life.
By Clay Risen

President Trump’s “demolish first, ask questions later” approach highlights a tension involved in a bipartisan desire to streamline the building process.
By Michael Kimmelman

Boeing, the plane’s manufacturer, said it had recommended the grounding as a precaution while it conducts further analysis.
By Francesca Regalado and Qasim Nauman
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Longevity labs, “immortality islands” and grapeseed pills are part of China’s national project to conquer aging, despite sometimes shaky science and extravagant claims.
By Andrew Higgins and Qilai Shen

As Ms. Pelosi announced her retirement, she was celebrated for her long tenure in Washington. But back home, she was remembered for showing up at a terrifying moment when others turned away.
By Adam Nagourney, Heather Knight, Kellen Browning and Laurel Rosenhall

The country was once a force, with Bjorn Borg and Mats Wilander leading the way. Now, none of its players are highly ranked.
By Cindy Shmerler

“All we have to do is look outside,” one delegate said. “The sea rises, the coral dies.”
By David Gelles and Brad Plumer

The first female speaker of the House may be the last to truly rule the increasingly unruly chamber.
By Carl Hulse

He was shot in 1970 by the National Guard during a student protest over the Vietnam War that left four dead in Ohio. A photo of him lying on the ground and bleeding made the cover of Life magazine.
By Michael S. Rosenwald

Zohran Mamdani’s victory brings new life to the Democratic Socialists of America, an organization that has had its ups and downs.
By Ginia Bellafante

Has anything really changed in the decade since the Paris Agreement was reached? Actually, quite a lot.
By Somini Sengupta, Max Bearak, Harry Stevens, Mira Rojanasakul and Catrin Einhorn

For the 42 million people who rely on the country’s largest anti-hunger program, it has been a chaotic, nerve-racking week. Here are some of their stories.
By Eric Adelson, Mary Beth Gahan, Sean Keenan, Lourdes Medrano, Christina Morales, Sonia A. Rao, Dan Simmons and Kevin Williams

Nostalgic for a time before social media made fitness about aesthetics as much as activity, some young people are seeking out old exercise clothes.
By Yola Mzizi
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Two city councilors won re-election on Tuesday, though their support for a pride flag at City Hall had sparked challenges from the right. Still, Idaho’s deep embrace of President Trump has the city worried.
By Anna Griffin and Loren Elliott

The film captures the friendship between an Iranian filmmaker and a Gaza City resident. They never actually meet but speak movingly via video calls.
By Alissa Wilkinson

“The Silver Book” follows one pivotal year in the life of the famed Italian costume designer Danilo Donati.
By Christopher Bollen

Five bedrooms. A ballroom. A full-time chef. The official mayoral residence in New York City could not be more different from Zohran Mamdani’s current home.
By Eliza Shapiro

Jurors found Sean Dunn not guilty of a misdemeanor after seven hours of deliberation, and after prosecutors had previously failed to secure a felony indictment.
By Zach Montague

The climate-friendly fleet assembled to shuttle delegations to the gathering in Brazil sent a clear signal: China is making inroads in Latin America.
By Ana Ionova
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