| Chris Dreja, a Founding Member of the Yardbirds, Dies at 78
- A rhythm guitarist and bassist, he was a “rock” for a band whose fiery lead players, Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page, had no shortage of ego.
Mon, 06 Oct 2025 18:34:13 +0000
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| Retrial in 1993 Buffalo Murder Case Ends With a Deadlocked Jury
- Brian Scott Lorenz’s conviction in the strangling of Deborah Meindl in a Buffalo suburb was set aside in 2023. A jury failed to reach a verdict in his retrial.
Mon, 06 Oct 2025 18:33:39 +0000
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| OpenAI Agrees to Use Computer Chips From AMD
- Weeks after a $100 billion agreement to use computer chips from Nvidia, OpenAI has signed a similar deal with a rival chipmaker.
Mon, 06 Oct 2025 18:33:38 +0000
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| Fire Consumes Home Owned by a South Carolina State Judge
- Three people, who had to be rescued by kayak, were injured. The cause of the fire is under investigation.
Mon, 06 Oct 2025 18:33:29 +0000
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| What Is the National Guard, and Who Controls It?
- The state-based military force is made up mainly of part-time soldiers and organized by state. It can be activated by the state governor or by the president.
Mon, 06 Oct 2025 17:56:09 +0000
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| Paramount Buys Bari Weiss’s Free Press, Starting a New Era at CBS News
- Bari Weiss, a founder of The Free Press, will become editor in chief of CBS News.
Mon, 06 Oct 2025 17:52:46 +0000
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| Gaza Peace Talks Are Set to Take Place in Egypt
- Though significant issues remain to be hashed out between Israel and Hamas, some are saying that after two years of death and destruction, a breakthrough may be near.
Mon, 06 Oct 2025 17:47:53 +0000
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| Greta Thunberg Among Hundreds From Gaza Aid Flotilla Deported by Israel
- Israel intercepted the boats at sea and detained the participants for days before expelling them. Some of the activists say they were mistreated, which Israel denied.
Mon, 06 Oct 2025 17:35:22 +0000
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| Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Is Awarded for Work on Immune Systems
- Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi were awarded the prize for research showing how the body regulates its immune responses.
Mon, 06 Oct 2025 17:29:12 +0000
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| French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu Resigns
- Sébastien Lecornu’s departure ratcheted up pressure on President Emmanuel Macron to call snap parliamentary elections.
Mon, 06 Oct 2025 17:26:23 +0000
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| Processing the Government Shutdown in a Divided America
- As the government shutdown entered its first full week, emotions across the country ranged from uneasy to unconcerned.
Mon, 06 Oct 2025 17:23:27 +0000
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| How Elon Musk Is Bringing Sexy A.I. Chatbots to the Mainstream
- In July, the billionaire’s A.I. company introduced two sexually explicit chatbots, pushing a new version of intimacy.
Mon, 06 Oct 2025 17:06:59 +0000
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| Lee Lozano Didn’t Speak to Other Women for 28 Years. What Did It Cost Her?
- When it came to using her life in her work, the artist Lee Lozano went about as far as a person can go.
Mon, 06 Oct 2025 16:45:26 +0000
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| Harvard Has Identified Another Problem: Its Own Students
- Many students don’t do the reading and don’t speak up in class, according to a report. Now, professors are trying to change a campus culture they say hurts achievement and stifles speech.
Mon, 06 Oct 2025 16:01:59 +0000
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| Supreme Court Rejects Appeal From Ghislaine Maxwell, Longtime Epstein Associate
- The onetime employee and friend of Jeffrey Epstein argued that a secret agreement between prosecutors and the multimillionaire financier invalidated her conviction.
Mon, 06 Oct 2025 15:51:14 +0000
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| Russia Welcomes Trump’s Blessing of Proposal to Extend Caps on Nuclear Weapons
- President Trump said a Russian proposal to extend by one year the limits on long-range nuclear weapons sounded “like a good idea to me.”
Mon, 06 Oct 2025 15:33:10 +0000
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| Bessent Taps Social Security Chief to Serve as C.E.O. of I.R.S.
- Frank Bisignano, who already leads the Social Security Administration, will also take on the day-to-day duties of the tax collector.
Mon, 06 Oct 2025 15:18:07 +0000
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| Groups Sue E.P.A. Over $7 Billion in ‘Solar for All’ Grants
- The lawsuit accused the Environmental Protection Agency of illegally revoking the money without congressional approval.
Mon, 06 Oct 2025 14:50:32 +0000
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| Political Violence. Threats to Free Speech. A Disinformation Crisis. We’ve Been Here Before.
- To see a way out of our destructive spiral we should look to the innovation of the 1920s.
Mon, 06 Oct 2025 14:48:07 +0000
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| How Bari Weiss of The Free Press Won the Top Job at CBS News
- At The Free Press, she battled “wokeness” and buddied up with billionaires. Now she’s the editor in chief of CBS News.
Mon, 06 Oct 2025 14:30:43 +0000
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