| ‘Harrowing Beyond Description’: Dozens Killed While at Prayer in Sudan
- A doctor who spoke with The Times last week was among those killed when a missile hit a mosque on Friday as paramilitaries stepped up their brutal siege of the city of El Fasher.
Fri, 19 Sep 2025 11:59:44 +0000
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| The Plot to Free the Nuns
- The last of their order, they are now known for a dispute with the church they gave their lives to over where to live in retirement. And they wanted to stay home.
Fri, 19 Sep 2025 11:55:11 +0000
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| The Race Is on to Make Rare Earth Magnets Outside China
- After Beijing exerted its power over the valuable magnets as leverage, other countries started to add production, but only incrementally. And China is far ahead.
Fri, 19 Sep 2025 10:30:52 +0000
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| Battered but Undefeated, Hamas Remains a Fighting Force in Gaza
- Some Israeli officials believe the military assault on Gaza City will deliver a decisive blow to the group, which continues to stage ambushes and guerrilla attacks.
Fri, 19 Sep 2025 10:17:09 +0000
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| F.C.C. Head Says Kimmel Not ‘the Last Shoe to Drop,’ and Musk Goes All In on A.I.
- Plus, your Friday news quiz.
Fri, 19 Sep 2025 10:00:10 +0000
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| Democrats Seek to Limit Trump’s War Powers After Venezuela Boat Strikes
- Lawmakers have said that President Trump has not provided sufficient evidence about the threat posed by the vessels or the legal basis to use force against them.
Fri, 19 Sep 2025 09:30:27 +0000
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| How China Stands to Gain as the U.S. Steps Away From the U.N.
- U.S. funding cuts are straining the United Nations and giving Beijing an opening to strengthen its influence, at a fraction of the cost Washington once paid.
Fri, 19 Sep 2025 09:09:57 +0000
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| Spencer Cox Wants to Pull Our Politics Back From the Brink
- The Utah governor is trying to model a different kind of leadership in a very dangerous political moment.
Fri, 19 Sep 2025 09:06:05 +0000
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| How Outrage at Kimmel Grew to a Shout From a Whisper
- Right-wing users on social media on Tuesday were frustrated but not yet apoplectic about Jimmy Kimmel’s monologue. Things changed.
Fri, 19 Sep 2025 09:05:01 +0000
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| The Trump Administration’s Chilling Efforts to Punish Free Speech
- If the American ideal of freedom means anything, it is that we can engage in an extremely wide range of political speech, including the tasteless and the offensive.
Fri, 19 Sep 2025 09:04:17 +0000
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| What Charlie Kirk Could Mean for the Future of Marriage and Family
- Erika Kirk said her husband aspired to “revive the American family.” Conservative activists wonder if Charlie Kirk’s legacy will lend new urgency to White House policy discussions.
Fri, 19 Sep 2025 09:04:11 +0000
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| Political Violence Isn’t New. But Something About This Moment Is.
- Charlie Kirk’s assassination fits into American history. How does it fit into our politics?
Fri, 19 Sep 2025 09:03:38 +0000
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| Draft Bill Would Authorize Trump to Wage Drug Trafficking War
- The potential legislation would grant President Trump sweeping power to use military force if he saw a link to “narco-terrorists.”
Fri, 19 Sep 2025 09:03:16 +0000
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| ‘Peak SF’ on a Friday Night Is a Robot Fight
- The artificial intelligence boom, which has brought techies flocking back to the city, has fueled a resurgence of live — and sometimes futuristic — events.
Fri, 19 Sep 2025 09:00:47 +0000
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| Autocrats Move Quickly to Fill Void as Trump Retreats From U.N.
- As President Trump pulls back U.S. funding of the United Nations, countries like China, Russia and Qatar are seeking to influence the body’s work on human rights and labor.
Fri, 19 Sep 2025 09:00:21 +0000
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| How Xi Is Using a TikTok Tradeoff to Court Trump
- Agreeing to a deal suggests that the fate of TikTok matters less to Beijing than gaining leverage on issues it cares most about, like tariffs, technology and Taiwan.
Fri, 19 Sep 2025 08:54:11 +0000
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| RFK Jr.’s Vaccine Committee to Vote on Hepatitis B and Covid Shots
- The members voted against the combination shot for measles, mumps, rubella and chickenpox. Guidelines on vaccines given separately to prevent those infections remain unchanged.
Fri, 19 Sep 2025 08:52:13 +0000
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| Taliban Rebuffs Trump’s Effort to Regain Air Base in Afghanistan
- An Afghan official rejected the idea of a renewed presence for the U.S. military in the country, but left the door open for “political and economic relations.”
Fri, 19 Sep 2025 08:17:46 +0000
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| 32 Years After a Brutal Murder, a Man Is on Trial. Again.
- A judge vacated the convictions of two men accused of killing Deborah Meindl in her Tonawanda, N.Y., home. The district attorney is trying to convict them once more.
Fri, 19 Sep 2025 07:00:05 +0000
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| Flattery and Flourish for Trump. For His U.K. Hosts, Relief at Avoiding Strife.
- The president was feted by King Charles III with the sort of pageantry he covets, signed a technology deal and steered clear of big disagreements with Prime Minister Keir Starmer.
Fri, 19 Sep 2025 04:46:43 +0000
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