| Employers Pulled Back on Hiring, Adding 73,000 Jobs
- The labor market showed signs of weakening, as job gains for the previous two months were also revised lower.
Fri, 01 Aug 2025 12:39:10 +0000
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| A Former Rolling Stone Says the Met Has His Lost Guitar. The Museum Says No Way.
- Representatives for Mick Taylor, the Rolling Stones’ former guitarist, said the Les Paul was stolen from him decades ago. The museum says he never owned it and has not made a claim.
Fri, 01 Aug 2025 12:31:44 +0000
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| ‘South Park’ Skewers a New Kind of Sanctimony
- There’s no more pretending that it’s rebellious to be reactionary.
Fri, 01 Aug 2025 12:31:17 +0000
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| Trump Gives Mexico a Reprieve but Slams Canada With Higher Tariffs
- The imbalance in President Trump’s treatment of America’s closest trading partners may come from his desire to make Canada the 51st state, some Canadians believe.
Fri, 01 Aug 2025 12:28:07 +0000
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| Trump Envoy Witkoff Is Set to Visit Gaza as Aid Crisis Deepens
- Steve Witkoff visited the enclave on Friday amid growing pressure on Israel to ease the hunger crisis. Hamas said the trip would be a “propaganda show.”
Fri, 01 Aug 2025 12:14:55 +0000
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| Virginia Education Board Could Oust George Mason’s President
- Republicans have attacked the president, Gregory Washington, over his support for diversity efforts at the university, Virginia’s largest public institution.
Fri, 01 Aug 2025 12:03:01 +0000
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| The New Tariff Twist, and a $250 Million A.I. Job Offer
- Plus, your Friday news quiz.
Fri, 01 Aug 2025 11:28:20 +0000
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| Trump Administration Cuts UCLA Funding Over Claims of Antisemitism, Chancellor Says
- The university is the latest to be targeted by the federal government over accusations that it has not done enough to fight antisemitism on campus.
Fri, 01 Aug 2025 11:28:20 +0000
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| The Politics of Masks
- How masking is a source of both power and protection.
Fri, 01 Aug 2025 11:11:35 +0000
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| Mary Gaillard, Who Broke a Ceiling in Subatomic Research, Dies at 86
- Overcoming discrimination in a mostly male preserve, she did groundbreaking work that showed experimentalist physicists where and how to look for new particles.
Fri, 01 Aug 2025 10:21:40 +0000
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| The Book That Explains JD Vance’s Worldview
- Yoram Hazony, the author of “The Virtue of Nationalism,” discusses the principles of national conservatism.
Fri, 01 Aug 2025 09:04:22 +0000
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| Manhattan Has More Secure Buildings Than Most Cities. That Wasn’t Enough.
- Decades of threats have heightened security in New York City. But Monday’s attack in a Park Avenue office building shows the limits of preparedness.
Fri, 01 Aug 2025 09:02:30 +0000
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| Corruption Scandal Puts Mexico’s President on Defense Against Trump
- Mexico’s president, battling U.S. accusations that the cartels have gripped her government, is facing a scandal in which two former officials are on the run and their old boss is now a top senator.
Fri, 01 Aug 2025 09:01:54 +0000
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| In Delhi and New York, Hindu Right Wing Lines Up Against Mamdani
- As Zohran Mamdani gets within striking distance of becoming New York’s first Muslim mayor, he is drawing fire from supporters of India’s populist prime minister, who accuse him of being anti-Hindu.
Fri, 01 Aug 2025 09:00:28 +0000
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| Fleeing Domestic Violence, and the Russian Advance
- “I wanted something decent,” said a woman at a shelter near Ukraine’s border with Russia. “But this is how it turned out.”
Fri, 01 Aug 2025 09:00:19 +0000
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| Kamala Harris Tells Colbert She Wants a Break From Public Office
- The former Democratic nominee for president explained why she did not run for California governor in her first interview since leaving office as vice president.
Fri, 01 Aug 2025 08:14:07 +0000
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| Kamala Harris’s Post-Election TV Diet: ‘Lots of Cooking Shows’
- The former vice president told Stephen Colbert that she didn’t watch the news for months after losing to Donald Trump. “I’m just not into self-mutilation,” she said.
Fri, 01 Aug 2025 07:48:14 +0000
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| A Funeral Shines a Light on the Bangladeshis Thriving in the N.Y.P.D.
- At least 1,000 of the department’s 34,000 officers belong to the Bangladeshi American Police Association. They are members of the latest immigrant group to join the force.
Fri, 01 Aug 2025 07:00:13 +0000
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| El Salvador Changes Constitution, Ending Term Limits for Nayib Bukele
- The president, a Trump ally, will now be able to seek re-election indefinitely. The National Assembly also extended the presidential term to six years.
Fri, 01 Aug 2025 05:56:08 +0000
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| Cécile Dionne, Who Found Fame and Despair as a Quintuplet, Dies at 91
- The Dionnes, the first quints known to have survived infancy, became a global sensation and prey for the greedy. And Cécile came to resent it all. Only one of the five now survives.
Fri, 01 Aug 2025 04:27:56 +0000
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