| Fed Officials Split Over How to Read Economic Signals
- Minutes from the Federal Reserve’s July meeting showed policymakers grappling with a slowing labor market and inflation that remains above the central bank’s target.
Wed, 20 Aug 2025 19:38:02 +0000
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| More Adams Associates and Supporters Are Said to Face Corruption Charges
- Among those expected to surrender in the coming days is a close friend of Mayor Eric Adams whom the mayor installed in a powerful city position.
Wed, 20 Aug 2025 19:15:13 +0000
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| Oklahoma Proposes ‘America First Test’ for Teachers From New York and California
- The test is meant to filter out teachers who hold views “antithetical” to Oklahoma values.
Wed, 20 Aug 2025 19:06:44 +0000
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| A.I. Might Change the World Without Remaking It
- Artificial intelligence may change the world, but it probably won’t remake it.
Wed, 20 Aug 2025 19:01:07 +0000
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| Senate Adds Guardrails in an Effort to Force Trump to Obey Spending Bills
- Leaders of the Appropriations Committee are trying to tighten up funding legislation to give the Trump administration less leeway to refuse to spend federal money.
Wed, 20 Aug 2025 18:52:17 +0000
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| Social Media Figure Is Killed by Stray Bullet in Road Rage Episode, Police Say
- Yarely Hermosillo, 27, was in a car struck by a bullet fired by a man who was arguing with another driver in Glendale, Ariz., the police said.
Wed, 20 Aug 2025 18:51:45 +0000
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| Judge Halts Texas Law Mandating the Ten Commandments in School
- The state law had said public schools would have to display the Ten Commandments in a “conspicuous” location in every classroom in Texas by Sept. 1.
Wed, 20 Aug 2025 18:49:45 +0000
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| Trump Calls Netanyahu a ‘War Hero’ and Adds: ‘I Guess I Am, Too’
- President Trump praised Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel for bombing Iranian nuclear sites, and credited himself as well.
Wed, 20 Aug 2025 18:44:48 +0000
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| How Ian Fleming and His Spy Scheme Inspired a Broadway Show
- The musical “Operation Mincemeat” tells the story of an absurd feat of deception dreamed up by this spy-turned-novelist. His real acts of espionage were even wilder.
Wed, 20 Aug 2025 18:44:37 +0000
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| NYC Judge Denies Trump Administration Request to Unseal Jeffrey Epstein Grand Jury Transcripts
- The judge said that the papers contained testimony from a single F.B.I. agent and that far more information about the case was held in Justice Department files.
Wed, 20 Aug 2025 18:31:02 +0000
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| No Food, No Water, a Broken Leg: How a Hiker Survived a Harrowing Week in the Wild
- Alec Luhn, 38, an American journalist, hopes the lessons he learned from his ordeal in a national park in Norway can help others.
Wed, 20 Aug 2025 18:28:59 +0000
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| Texas Republicans Poised to Pass New Redistricting Maps, Just as Trump Wanted
- The effort is intended to help the G.O.P. win five more U.S. House seats in the midterm elections. California will counter on Thursday.
Wed, 20 Aug 2025 18:11:57 +0000
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| A 1990 Measles Outbreak Shows How the Disease Can Roar Back
- To understand the virus’s re-emergence in America in 2025, some experts are looking to a past epidemic that had a high death rate in Philadelphia.
Wed, 20 Aug 2025 17:50:57 +0000
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| N.S.A.’s Acting Director Tried to Save Top Scientist From Purge
- Vinh Nguyen, an expert in artificial intelligence and advanced mathematics, was among the current and former officials whose security clearances were revoked by the president.
Wed, 20 Aug 2025 16:50:13 +0000
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| Fewer People Are Reading for Fun, Study Finds
- From 2003 to 2023, the share of Americans who read for pleasure fell 40 percent, a sharp decline that is part of a continuing downward trend.
Wed, 20 Aug 2025 16:21:56 +0000
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| Preparations for a Move on Gaza City Have Started, Israel’s Military Says
- Troops have reached the city’s outskirts, an Israeli official said, adding that more reservists are being asked to report for duty to cover for other soldiers who will be involved in going into Gaza City.
Wed, 20 Aug 2025 15:57:11 +0000
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| How Harry Potter Fans Are Driving the Romantasy Trend
- Romantasy is propping up the fiction market. Thanks to a generation that grew up reading about a boy wizard.
Wed, 20 Aug 2025 15:49:26 +0000
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| Why Covid Cases Are Up This Summer
- Researchers are seeing an uptick in cases, as they have every summer since the pandemic began. Here’s why.
Wed, 20 Aug 2025 15:01:02 +0000
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| Onionlike Space Explosion May Be a New Type of Supernova
- The rare blast peeled back the inner layers of a dying star, offering clues to how the elements that make up life on Earth were forged.
Wed, 20 Aug 2025 15:00:04 +0000
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| Trump’s Tariffs Push U.S. Businesses Into ‘Survival Mode’
- A 90-day pause on additional tariffs on China offers no relief to American companies already facing extraordinarily high import taxes imposed by President Trump.
Wed, 20 Aug 2025 14:52:26 +0000
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