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Mitch McConnell was hospitalized on June 14. Over the next three months, the Kentucky senator was barely seen or heard, aside from two awkward...
The season premiere of 60 Minutes, the first new episode since the show’s tumultuous gut renovation by Bari Weiss, kicked off on Sunday night —...
The Supreme Court quite sensibly decreed twenty years ago that we shouldn’t mess with voting processes too close to an election. The Justices have...
A decade into the Trump era, gender has become one of the most prominent and confounding stories in American politics. The conventional wisdom...
This July, a video appeared on the influencer Nick Shirley’s YouTube channel with Dr. Mehmet Oz outlining a supposed “Billion Dollar Fraud...
Donald Trump Jr. and his new wife, Bettina Trump, have weathered a lot in the two-ish years that they’ve been together. First there were the rumors...
When Donald Trump reclaimed the White House in 2024 and Republicans won a trifecta by flipping control of the Senate, one story seemed to capture the...
Last week, Anthropic employee and former OpenAI researcher Jacob Coxon resigned from his job. “Neither company is acting responsibly. They are...
Donald Trump was done on January 6. Republican lawmakers failed to overturn the 2024 election after the violence was quelled. Mike Pence did his job,...
It’s the little moments in tennis that kill you. Ben Shelton needed 34 minutes of his maiden U.S. Open final to win a single point against Alexander...
On a dreary June afternoon in 2022, the German tennis player Alexander “Sascha” Zverev was three hours and two sets deep into the French Open...
If you want a good idea of the Republican Party’s closing pitch to voters heading toward a 2026 election that doesn’t look good for them, Donald...
From our first issue in the overwhelming immediate aftermath to last week’s examination of the still-growing number of victims, New York has spent...
The death of Pierre Damas Bel last week bore the hallmarks of an American tragedy. He was a “joyful” 20-year-old, according to the pastor at his...
To understand Donald Trump’s epic (in length, not content) speech on the first night of the Midterm Republican Convention nobody but him wanted to...
If you happen to be a college-football fan and you watch the sport on any of the ubiquitous Disney-owned ABC-ESPN outlets, you are probably aware of a...
Apple’s Wednesday iPhone event was unusual in a number of ways. It was the first one emceed by new Apple CEO John Ternus, who officially succeeded...
As a mayoral candidate, Zohran Mamdani employed social-media influencers with great skill and success, and he brought the strategy to City Hall. His...
Don’t be fooled by the pyrotechnic highlights making their way across your feed this morning: The U.S. Open quarterfinal between Ben Shelton and...
Anyone who’s watched half a season of The West Wing could tell you that with less than two months to go until the midterm elections, the president...
Donald Trump has never lacked for litigation opponents. Democratic state attorneys general routinely gather by the dozen to sign on to lawsuits...
The process for applying for a push alert at the New York Times takes place in a Slack channel called “Notifications,” where desk editors lobby...
President Trump took part in the Tunnel to Towers Foundation’s Steel Across America tour Tuesday, delivering remarks from the Ellipse in Washington,...
For the first time since Democrats tried it twice (with poor results) in the 1970s, a major U.S. political party is holding a “midterm national...
Democrats have reason to hope that a “blue wave” in the midterm elections, fed by Donald Trump’s unpopularity, will help them flip the House and...
With the release of the Epstein files seven months behind us, many of the leads into the convicted sex offenders’s connections to the rich and...
Three years ago, dozens of states jointly sued Meta, alleging it had designed its technology “to entice, engage, and ultimately ensnare” young...
We’re now two months out from the 2026 midterm elections, and in some ways, the outcome is even more uncertain than usual. The basic rules of how...
On May 24, the day of Marta Kostyuk’s first-round match at the French Open, a Russian missile destroyed a building about 300 feet from her...
For a few months, it looked like this would be the most normal college-football season in recent memory. Sure, there were some minor cosmetic changes,...
It’s around 7p.m.Tuesday night, and Louis Armstrong Stadium is filling up for its slate of night-session matches. Frenchman Gael Monfils, a fan...
Maria Bartiromo, who has been a prominent fixture on Fox News for more than a decade, is leaving the conservative-media giant, which abruptly...
Polls can tell you, with varying degrees of certitude, the state of play of individual midterm-election contests for the Senate and the House. But...
These are Corinthian columns,” President Donald Trump tells me as he sits behind the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office in late August, a stack of...
While President Donald Trump is projecting confidence about a nearing end to the protracted war in Iran that has progressed into its sixth month —...
If you believe the ranking Donald Trump keeps posting on Truth Social, he is considered the greatest president of all time. The president has also...
There is no playbook for how a mother grieving the death of her child, under unknown circumstances, should seek justice. For a Black mother whose...
It took 18 years for me to realize I was a victim of September 11. In 2019, I received an email from Chaka Ferguson, a former colleague from the New...
One of the big narratives of the 2026 midterm elections is that in Democratic primaries, young progressive insurgents are knocking off old centrist or...
Both Apple and Google quickly changed the name of Lake Ontario for U.S. users of their respective map apps after President Trump signed an executive...
In August, Donald Trump threatened the Center for American Progress with a $5 billion defamation suit, over a report that concluded his deployments of...
Democrats should stop obsessing over the foolish, petty fights that dominate cable news, says former state senator Daniel Squadron. With just over 60...
Nailing down what exactly Donald Trump is doing to the White House and who’s paying for it has been surprisingly difficult. Most notably, Americans...
With nine weeks before Election Day, a federal whistleblower is raising alarm that the U.S. Postal Service’s rushed implementation of a new and...
When Melania Trump reemerged from her month-long hibernation on August 20, Natalie Harp found herself out of the picture — literally. Harp is...
For the past 20-plus years, men’s tennis has served up lots of awe and very few shocks. A handful of players, starting with the Big Three and...
Donald Trump’s Justice Department just had a big, stupid, embarrassing summer. It conjured a slush fund designed to pay $1.776 billion of taxpayer...
Over the weekend, Google announced that it would comply with Donald Trump’s executive order directing the official renaming of Lake Ontario to...
Right now, U.S. senator Jon Ossoff is enjoying a bit of a rock-star moment. He’s raised an enormous haul of cash for his reelection campaign. He’s...
On June 5, 1989, the day after the Chinese government sent troops to slaughter demonstrators gathered at Tiananmen Square, a 17-year-old American...