| Roblox Rolls Out Face Scans for Age Verification: What to Know
- The popular gaming platform said the tool was designed to stop children from chatting with older users they didn’t know.
Fri, 21 Nov 2025 15:19:20 +0000
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| Top Fed Official Boosts Odds of a December Rate Cut
- John C. Williams, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, said the central bank had scope to lower borrowing costs ‘in the near term.’
Fri, 21 Nov 2025 15:10:41 +0000
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| European Leaders Back Zelensky After Trump’s Russia-Ukraine Peace Plan Excludes Them
- The 28-point proposal would require Kyiv to surrender territory and reduce the size of its army. If Moscow complies with the terms, it could receive benefits including reintegration into the global economy.
Fri, 21 Nov 2025 15:03:24 +0000
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| We Asked Roblox’s C.E.O. About Child Safety. It Got Tense.
- This week the company announced that it would require users to undergo an A.I.-powered age estimation process in order to chat with others on the platform. Will this change reassure parents?
Fri, 21 Nov 2025 15:01:48 +0000
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| Anxiety Over A.I. Spending Looms Over Markets
- After a brief rally fueled by Nvidia’s strong earnings, investors’ fears of an A.I. bubble returned, driving broad market swings.
Fri, 21 Nov 2025 14:55:14 +0000
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| Republicans’ Redistricting Push Is at Risk of Backfiring
- A series of setbacks for the G.O.P. leaves an unlikely opening for Democrats to narrowly win this year’s redistricting wars.
Fri, 21 Nov 2025 14:45:25 +0000
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| Eurovision Tightens Voting Rules to Tamp Down on Government Influence
- In this year’s contest, a campaign by Israel to encourage voting for its entrant drew criticism.
Fri, 21 Nov 2025 14:39:17 +0000
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| Japan’s New Leader Mentions Taiwan, and Tanks Her Relationship With China
- Facing reprisals from Beijing for a remark over Taiwan, Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi must walk a fine line to prevent escalating the dispute without looking weak at home.
Fri, 21 Nov 2025 14:36:55 +0000
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| After Syria’s 14-Year Civil War, a Search for Victims Leads to Mass Graves
- More than 100,000 people disappeared during the civil war. To bring closure to some of their families, the new government faces the challenging task of exhuming remains from scores of burial sites.
Fri, 21 Nov 2025 14:34:41 +0000
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| L.A. Charges Companies to Keep Names on Arenas for Olympics
- Olympic organizers usually strip naming rights from host venues. Los Angeles is pioneering a new business model for the 2028 Games by charging sponsors extra fees instead.
Fri, 21 Nov 2025 14:00:07 +0000
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| The Fed, Crypto and A.I. Weigh on the Markets
- Growing jitters over the Federal Reserve, crypto and the future of the artificial intelligence boom have helped drive a global sell-off.
Fri, 21 Nov 2025 13:01:41 +0000
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| Trump Promised Lower Prices. His Policies Are Raising Them.
- From the day he took the oath of office, the president has pursued policies that are making life in America less affordable.
Fri, 21 Nov 2025 12:44:00 +0000
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| Is President Trump’s Power Over the Republican Party Waning?
- Some members of the party are defying him.
Fri, 21 Nov 2025 11:44:00 +0000
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| Fátima Bosch of Mexico Wins 2025 Miss Universe Pageant Marred by Scandal
- Fátima Bosch was crowned in Thailand on Friday. The competition got off to a rocky start this month when she briefly walked out after being scolded by an organizer.
Fri, 21 Nov 2025 11:13:06 +0000
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| Mamdani at the White House, and the Coast Guard’s New Policy on Swastikas and Nooses
- Plus, your Friday news quiz.
Fri, 21 Nov 2025 11:00:09 +0000
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| Trump’s All-but-Forgotten Border Wall Reaches an Angry Laredo, Texas
- Once the symbol of the president’s immigration policies, the wall has been eclipsed by his deportation efforts, but with $46.5 billion from Congress, construction is ramping up on the Rio Grande.
Fri, 21 Nov 2025 10:01:08 +0000
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| Fine Chocolate in Brazil, Home of the Cacao Bean
- A new generation of craft chocolatiers in Brazil is making bars with “identity.” They’re helping to sustain the forest, too.
Fri, 21 Nov 2025 10:00:58 +0000
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| What Trump’s Immigration Policies Are Doing to People Here Legally
- Something new is happening in the breadth and ferocity of efforts to change the makeup of this country.
Fri, 21 Nov 2025 10:00:43 +0000
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| Adrien Nunez, the Brooklyn Basketball Star Who Became a Country Music Heartthrob
- As a boy in Brooklyn, Adrien Nunez dreamed of playing in the N.B.A. He got close, but it turns out he had a gift for singing at the top of his lungs in his car.
Fri, 21 Nov 2025 08:00:09 +0000
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| ‘I’ll Go When You Go,’ Jimmy Kimmel Tells Trump
- “Let’s ride off into the sunset together like Butch Cassidy and the Suntan Kid,” Kimmel said after the president demanded (again) that ABC take him off the air.
Fri, 21 Nov 2025 07:10:14 +0000
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