| Federal Court Blocks Texas’ Republican-Friendly Congressional Map
- The move by a three-judge panel dealt a blow to efforts by Texas Republicans and President Trump to flip Democratic seats in the state.
Tue, 18 Nov 2025 19:09:00 +0000
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| Chinese Spies Are Using LinkedIn to Target U.K. Lawmakers, MI5 Warns
- Britain’s domestic intelligence agency said China was using headhunters to gather intelligence from lawmakers and parliamentary staff members.
Tue, 18 Nov 2025 18:59:32 +0000
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| Trump Administration to Announce Steps to Dismantle Education Department
- Responsibilities for K-12 and college programs, among others, will be moved to other federal agencies.
Tue, 18 Nov 2025 18:47:04 +0000
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| Texas Governor Declares Muslim Civil Rights Group a ‘Terrorist Organization’
- Gov. Greg Abbott said the state could now take steps to shut down the Council on American-Islamic Relations. The group said the declaration had no basis in fact or law.
Tue, 18 Nov 2025 18:45:52 +0000
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| Harrowing Video Shows Inmate’s Death and the Halting Effort to Save Him
- Nurses and guards in Oneida County, N.Y., cracked wise and complained about poor equipment as Antwan Cater lay unconscious in a drug-induced seizure. His father has filed a lawsuit in the case.
Tue, 18 Nov 2025 18:42:45 +0000
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| U.S. Military Threat Puts Spotlight on Venezuela’s Allies
- American adversaries are unlikely to help President Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela fend off a concerted attack. But they have made toppling him harder.
Tue, 18 Nov 2025 18:41:21 +0000
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| Meta Did Not Violate Antitrust Law, Judge Rules
- Meta’s acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp did not illegally stifle competition in social networking, a judge found, a major win for the tech giant.
Tue, 18 Nov 2025 18:36:13 +0000
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| Trump Team Calls Maduro a ‘Cartel’ Boss. That Word Doesn’t Mean What You Think.
- Venezuelans coined a figure of speech for the phenomenon of generals corrupted by drug money: “Cartel de los Soles.” Then the United States started talking about it as a literal organization.
Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:54:10 +0000
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| Cloudflare Outage Disrupts X, ChatGPT and Other Parts of the Internet
- Services from Cloudflare, a software company, underpin thousands of websites, including X, Spotify and OpenAI. The company said a crash in a software system was to blame.
Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:51:48 +0000
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| Trump Family’s Business Ties to Saudi Arabia Raise Ethics Worries
- President Trump will host Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, Saudi Arabia’s de facto ruler, who oversees a major construction project that is in talks with the Trump family business.
Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:45:46 +0000
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| UN Support Propels Trump Gaza Plan, but Road Ahead Is Still Rough
- The Security Council’s backing offered a scaffolding of international legitimacy that will be needed to persuade countries to help see the plans through.
Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:06:35 +0000
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| Ecuador Votes ‘No’ to Hosting U.S. Military Base
- A vote on Sunday rejected the expansion of a foreign military presence. It came as the U.S. military’s campaign in waters near Latin America has been roiling the region.
Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:03:40 +0000
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| Google Unveils Gemini 3, With Improved Coding and Search Abilities
- The new artificial intelligence model is the second the company has released this year. OpenAI and Anthropic made similar updates a few months ago.
Tue, 18 Nov 2025 16:29:36 +0000
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| Palestinian Voices Absent from U.S.-Run Center Planning Gaza’s Future
- U.S. and Israeli soldiers, foreign diplomats and aid workers are congregated in a warehouse in Israel to talk about the future of Gaza. One key group is missing: Palestinians.
Tue, 18 Nov 2025 16:18:49 +0000
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| A City Is Broke. Can Billionaires’ Urbanist Dream Offer It a Last Chance?
- Suisun City has tried to revive its fortunes for years. The latest idea: Annex land owned by California Forever, a tech-billionaire-funded plan for a new city north of San Francisco.
Tue, 18 Nov 2025 15:17:58 +0000
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| New York City’s Scaffolding Gets a Long Overdue Makeover
- Officials have unveiled six new designs, in the biggest reimagining of the city’s ubiquitous sidewalk sheds in decades.
Tue, 18 Nov 2025 15:06:23 +0000
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| Who’s Afraid of Tucker Carlson? The Line Is Long.
- The price of “no enemies on the right” is going up.
Tue, 18 Nov 2025 14:59:26 +0000
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| With Trump in Office, a Transgender Trailblazer and American Diplomat Seeks Refuge Abroad
- Robyn McCutcheon, the first American diplomat to come out as transgender, helped to shape personnel and foreign policy at the State Department. The country she served doesn’t feel like home anymore.
Tue, 18 Nov 2025 14:59:07 +0000
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| How We Linked the Auto Industry to Lead Poisoning in Nigeria
- Blood and soil testing confirmed the health consequences. Then we tracked individual shipments to the United States.
Tue, 18 Nov 2025 14:23:26 +0000
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| Self-Driving Taxis Are Catching On. Are You Ready?
- With the arrival of Amazon’s Zoox robot taxi in San Francisco to compete with Waymo, autonomous services are gaining momentum. But there are pros and cons.
Tue, 18 Nov 2025 14:00:15 +0000
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