| Supreme Court Allows Execution of Christa Pike, Tennessee’s Lone Woman on Death Row
- Christa Pike, 50, was convicted of murdering and torturing a classmate in Knoxville.
Thu, 01 Oct 2026 02:24:58 +0000
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| A Bloody Attack on a FlyDubai Plane Headed to Israel, and a Terrifying Plunge
- “I don’t deserve to die like this,” said one passenger on Flight 1073 from Dubai to Tel Aviv. The motive of the cockpit stabbing remains unknown, officials said.
Thu, 01 Oct 2026 01:56:20 +0000
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| Cornell Students Question Greek Life Culture After Sexual Assault Claim
- With their university under fire in the wake of a sexual assault lawsuit, students are having difficult conversations about Greek life, campus rituals and the possibility for lasting changes.
Thu, 01 Oct 2026 01:53:30 +0000
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| Trump’s Voluntary A.I. Policing Echoes What Biden Did. But Is It Enough Today?
- President Trump’s plan to let A.I. companies police themselves comes amid mounting examples that they are failing to put safeguards on the technology.
Thu, 01 Oct 2026 01:29:25 +0000
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| Cornell Will Hire Outside Lawyers to Investigate 2024 Rape Claim
- The university and law enforcement officials are under growing pressure to explain how they handled a woman’s initial claims of being assaulted by a group of students.
Thu, 01 Oct 2026 01:25:02 +0000
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| FlyDubai Passenger Who Helped Subdue Pilot Describes Stabbing Attack in Cockpit
- A passenger on a flight to Tel Aviv on Wednesday said he watched in horror as the plane’s pilots tumbled out of the cockpit, locked in a bloody brawl.
Thu, 01 Oct 2026 01:21:37 +0000
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| Newsom, Eager for a Higher Perch, Climbs the Golden Gate Bridge
- Gov. Gavin Newsom of California scrambled up a bridge cable before signing a bill at the top of the south tower.
Thu, 01 Oct 2026 01:20:13 +0000
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| Hegseth Talks Tough as Republican Doubts About His Leadership Grow
- Pete Hegseth has held onto his job by projecting a tough guy image, but his relationship with Republican lawmakers has never been worse.
Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:40:10 +0000
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| Is American Culture Simply Bad Now?
- The world order is changing. So is the United States’ place in it.
Wed, 30 Sep 2026 23:50:54 +0000
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| I Thought Things Had Gotten Better. The Cornell Case Shows How Bad They Really Are.
- How could so little have changed?
Wed, 30 Sep 2026 23:50:17 +0000
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| In Speech, Hegseth Targets Diversity, Transgender People, Reporters and Iran
- In his “State of the Force” address, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth focused on the culture war and accused reporters of “treason” over Iran war coverage.
Wed, 30 Sep 2026 23:25:52 +0000
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| Plane to Israel Narrowly Averts Disaster
- Also, a Kelvin wave is heading to California. Here’s the latest at the end of Wednesday.
Wed, 30 Sep 2026 23:25:46 +0000
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| What New York’s Rape Laws Mean for the Cornell Case
- State law makes it harder to prosecute when victims drank willingly. The prosecutor in the Cornell case said that kept him from charging students accused of sexual assault.
Wed, 30 Sep 2026 23:23:43 +0000
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| In Wooing Wavering Hispanic Voters, Trump Talks ICE, His Ballroom and Himself
- President Trump veered off the topic at hand during a White House reception for Hispanic Heritage Month.
Wed, 30 Sep 2026 23:07:36 +0000
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| OpenAI’s Greg Brockman Backs Out of Second $25 Million Donation to A.I. Super PAC
- Greg Brockman, OpenAI’s president and co-founder, said internally that the super PAC, Leading the Future, had become a “distraction” for the A.I. company.
Wed, 30 Sep 2026 22:27:26 +0000
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| Senator Marsha Blackburn Sues Over Jack Smith’s Subpoena During Trump Inquiry
- The lawsuit, brought by Senator Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee, tests the reach of the Constitution’s “speech or debate” clause.
Wed, 30 Sep 2026 21:27:04 +0000
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| Congress Set to Leave Washington for the Midterms With No A.I. Progress
- Senate Democrats blocked a measure that would encourage, but not require, states to protect consumers from power rate hikes tied to data center growth, and had no limits on A.I. use or deployment.
Wed, 30 Sep 2026 20:36:37 +0000
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| Andrea Shaw Says Vaccines Killed Her Twins. Authorities Say She Suffocated Them.
- In a small Idaho town, a young mother is accused of killing her young twins. She blames the childhood vaccines they received.
Wed, 30 Sep 2026 20:17:52 +0000
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| Fed’s Watchdog Finds No Misconduct or Illegal Activity in Costly Renovations
- A new report by the Federal Reserve’s independent inspector general concluded that a nearly $2.5 billion construction project was poorly managed but made no referrals to the U.S. attorney general.
Wed, 30 Sep 2026 20:16:46 +0000
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| Justice Dept. Tries to Rebuke Federal Judges for Speaking to The Times
- Judge Patrick J. Schiltz had warned that the administration’s actions “created a grave threat to the rule of law.” The attorney general accused him of “obvious bias.”
Wed, 30 Sep 2026 20:12:45 +0000
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