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"Trump's Second-Term Promises: What he's done so far on immigration, trade, DEI, and more."
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President Trump has driven illegal crossings at the border to record lows, helped bring about an uneasy cease-fire in Gaza and upended the global trading system.
200+by Christopher Maag / 11h
Central Park saw more than four inches of snow for the first time since January 2022, with higher totals outside of New York City.
To avoid the ripple effects of real-time adjustments to what was predicted to be up to nine inches of snow, the major airlines said they pre-emptively canceled flights.
Today
Mario Rodriguez, who had a role in one of Mr. Perry’s films, sued him on Thursday, months after another actor filed a similar lawsuit.
36by Edward Wong, Tyler Pager, Charlie Savage, Julian E. Barnes and Maria Abi-Habib / 2h
New details of deliberations show how aides with overlapping agendas drove the United States toward a militarized confrontation with Venezuela.
21by Simon Romero / 2h
A crisis more than a century ago involved U.S. aims to assert military supremacy, a hard-partying dictator and frictions among the great powers.
by Ana Ley / 2h
Workers at facilities that stock shipped goods say customs officers who inspect merchandise are helping immigration agents arrest migrants.
55by Matthew Purdy / 3h
In attaching his name to buildings and programs while still president, Donald Trump is walking a path paved by conquerors and autocrats.
100+by Sal Khan / 4h
Companies benefiting from A.I. should donate a small percentage of their profits to retrain the workers the tech will displace.
50by Kristen V. Brown / 5h
Recent research highlights that for fertility and aging, the egg may be the leading lady, but she needs her supporting cast.
67by Tara Siegel Bernard / 5h
A new study suggests that distressed borrowers using a simpler bankruptcy process are succeeding — and that more people like them should try.
The Saudis ramped up their rhetoric against a faction that has seized parts of Yemen in recent weeks.
37by Marisa Meltzer / 7h
But when I see Demi Moore, 63, looking far younger than me at 48, I wonder if I should be figuring out a way to keep up.
90by Nicholas Kristof / 10h
OK, 2025 wasn’t the best year ever. But we’re arguably still in the best decade in the history of humanity.
by Robert Ito / 11h
When American studios wouldn’t back his film about a laid-off manager committing gruesome murders, the director returned to Korea. Now he has a hit on his hands.
41by Cassandra Vinograd and Oleksandr Chubko / 11h
Serhii Tyschenko, a Ukrainian combat medic, spent 472 days in a bunker. His case appears to be an extreme example of a problem that has long plagued Kyiv’s military.
98by Danielle Ivory, Grace Ashford and Robert Gebeloff / 11h
The National Kidney Registry has matched thousands of kidney donors with recipients. It has also paid millions of dollars to a company owned by its founder.
The White House press secretary announced on Instagram that she was pregnant with a daughter who is due in May. She and her husband have a 1-year-old son.
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California sued after the Trump administration cut grants for the long-planned project. The state says it will seek private investors instead.
A coup set off a brutal civil war and made a poor country poorer. Now its military rulers are seeking a veneer of legitimacy by holding elections.
Amid a ruinous civil war, the military government is holding elections that are widely seen as a sham, as the main opposition remains barred or jailed.
400+by Cassandra Vinograd / 14h
President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine said that the assault, which lasted nearly 10 hours, showed that Moscow was not serious about peace.
The musician Chuck Redd called off the annual Christmas Eve performances after the Kennedy Center board added President Trump’s name to the performing arts center.
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The White House press secretary announced on Instagram that she was pregnant with a daughter who is due in May. She and her husband have a 1-year-old son.
100+by Stefano Montali / 17h
Brian Cox once toured as a keyboardist in major rock and pop bands. Now he’s a particle physicist on a new world tour with a dazzling show he designed in an era of science disinformation and denial.
The 72-hour cease-fire could pave the way for an end to the fighting, which has killed dozens and displaced thousands over nearly three weeks.
The grand jury received testimony that the man had acted to defend his son, who had faced bullying before the shooting, a local prosecutor said.
200+by Selam Gebrekidan and Joy Dong / 22h
Records show how government departments played down residents’ warnings about corrupt practices and substandard materials that fueled the deadly blaze.
500+by Jane Gross / 22h
She was the first to crawl, the first to cut a tooth, the first to recognize her name, and the last to die. And, like her sisters, she resented being exploited as part of a global sensation.
A former roadie, Mr. Bamonte joined the band in 1990. He played on five albums and in hundreds of shows and was “a vital part of the Cure story,” the band said.
The president is planning to meet with the leader of Ukraine in Florida just as the lawmakers are applying some pressure.
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It’s uncertain whether the proposal will reach the statewide ballot in November, but some billionaires like Peter Thiel and Larry Page may be unwilling to take the risk.
The development carries potential benefits for both sides but still faces stiff international opposition, 34 years after the region broke away from Somalia.
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Anyone who wants to live in a safe, fair and free country should be alarmed.
An Afrikaner flew to the United States expecting protection. Instead, he has spent months locked up in Georgia alongside hundreds of other immigrants.
100+by Norimitsu Onishi and Vjosa Isai / 1d
Ryan Wedding rose to fame as a Canadian Olympic athlete, but the authorities say he became one of the world’s biggest drug lords, who ordered an informant executed.
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Flights were canceled and streets grew slippery as the metropolitan region braced for heavy snow.
100+by Catrin Einhorn and Diana Cervantes / 1d
The Sacramento Mountains checkerspot butterfly is critically endangered, with the last known larva living in a lab in New Mexico.
200+by Alex Williams / 1d
One of the first jazz musicians from Poland to gain an international following, he recorded more than 60 albums and played with stars like Miles Davis.
500+by Lauren Coleman-Lochner / 1d
Only five Sears stores remain in the country, with the end likely near for what was once the mightiest American retailer.
1Kby Ruth Maclean, Saikou Jammeh and Ismail Auwal / 1d
President Trump said the targets of airstrikes in Nigeria were Islamic State terrorists responsible for killing Christians, but experts question his framing.
200+by Susan Dominus / 1d
She went on testosterone to help with her menopausal symptoms. The effects had unexpected consequences for their marriage.
200+by Jenny Gross, Michael Levenson and Francesca Regalado / 1d
A resident of Lindenhurst was charged with the murder of a 23-year-old employee inside a CVS on Christmas Day, the authorities said.
Najib Razak, the former prime minister already serving a sentence linked to the looting of the 1MDB fund, was found guilty of corruption in a related case.
The attack comes amid heightened tensions between Israelis and Palestinians in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.
Another wave of rain was hitting the Los Angeles area on Friday, adding to the record-setting precipitation over Christmas.
300+by Eduardo Medina / 1d
Daniel DiDonato, 19, has loved elections since he was in fourth grade. He also loves maps.
Ansar al-Sunna, which appears to be an ISIS splinter group, claimed responsibility for the explosion, which happened when worshipers were attending the mosque for Friday Prayer.
No group has claimed responsibility for the blast, which happened on a day when many worshipers typically attend mosques for Friday prayers.
100+by Joe Rennison / 1d
Artificial intelligence companies looking to raise funds are being made to pay lofty interest rates, as debt investors become cautious.
100+by Alex Travelli and Pragati K.B. / 1d
Megacities in southern India are attracting enormous investments to help build artificial intelligence infrastructure to serve the world’s most data-hungry country.
100+by Ben Hubbard and Bilal Shbair / 1d
After Israel sealed Gaza’s borders, Hoda Abu al-Naja, 12, who suffered from celiac disease, spent months seeking the food and care she needed to combat malnutrition.
21by Tim Balk / 1d
Zohran Mamdani’s campaign encouraged canvassers to ditch their scripts in pursuit of genuine, off-the-cuff-conversation. It’s a strategy that some Democratic strategists want to see more of.
2Kby Kellen Browning / 1d
The passage of Proposition 50, which redrew California’s congressional map, means that all of the state’s conservative north is likely to be represented by Democrats.
33by Kyle Obermann and Emily Anthes / 1d
As many as 25,000 free-ranging dogs roam the cold, high-altitude desert of Ladakh, India. That’s a problem for wildlife and people alike.
44by Emilie Gia Mẫn Rolland and John Leland / 1d
Shoes. A phone. Receipts. A comb. Traces of wild nights and hurried days are all around us.
The number of patients going to hospital emergency rooms with flulike symptoms has soared.
1Kby Jonah E. Bromwich, David McCabe and Nicholas Fandos / 1d
Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani’s signature plans for New York City will take time. Lina Khan, the former chair of the Federal Trade Commission, has ideas for making a swift impact.
200+by Cassandra Vinograd / 1d
President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine has sought the meeting since the latest U.S.-led push for peace got underway.
100+by David Brooks / 1d
Here are the best nonfiction essays of the year, according to me.
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It’s become easier to imagine the moment when Trump’s mystique finally evaporates.
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