| Ceratosaur Fossil Auctioned for $30.5 Million by Sotheby’s
- The price paid for the juvenile specimen of the 150-million-year old predatory dinosaur is the third-highest on record.
Wed, 16 Jul 2025 23:17:07 +0000
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| Vance Tries to Sell the Benefits of Trump’s Megabill but Ignores the Costs
- In a visit to Pennsylvania, Vice President JD Vance stressed tax cuts and savings accounts for newborns, with no mention of trims to Medicaid and nutritional assistance programs many Trump voters rely on.
Wed, 16 Jul 2025 23:13:22 +0000
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| The Chaotic Early Days Inside Florida’s ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ Detention Center
- Several immigrant detainees described high tension and anxiety at the remote, hastily constructed facility over a lack of information, recreation and access to medication.
Wed, 16 Jul 2025 23:13:10 +0000
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| Paulette Jiles, 82, Dies; Novelist Evoked the West in ‘News of the World’
- A poet and memoirist as well, she drew a wide readership with her historical fiction, notably with a Civil War-era tale that was adapted for a movie starring Tom Hanks.
Wed, 16 Jul 2025 23:12:34 +0000
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| Can Trump Fire Powell? He Likely Lacks Case to Remove Fed Chair, Experts Say.
- The Trump administration is toying with removing Jerome H. Powell as chair of the Federal Reserve, accusing him of mismanaging a multibillion-dollar update to its Washington headquarters.
Wed, 16 Jul 2025 23:03:24 +0000
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| Israel Strikes Syria’s Capital, Sending Warning to Government
- Israel threatened to escalate attacks on Syrian government forces unless they withdrew from Sweida, a southern province dominated by the country’s Druse minority.
Wed, 16 Jul 2025 22:56:52 +0000
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| Manhattan Prosecutor Who Handled Epstein Cases Is Fired
- Maurene Comey, who is the daughter of the former F.B.I. director James Comey, worked on the criminal cases against Jeffrey Epstein and his associate Ghislaine Maxwell.
Wed, 16 Jul 2025 22:48:16 +0000
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| The Epstein Story Is Both Conspiracy Theory and Genuine Scandal
- More than a client list, MAGA is looking for meaning.
Wed, 16 Jul 2025 22:47:49 +0000
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| Adams Eclipses Mamdani in Recent Fund-Raising, as Cuomo Lags Behind
- Mayor Eric Adams reported raising $1.5 million over the last month, but his inability to qualify for matching funds may hamper his re-election bid.
Wed, 16 Jul 2025 22:42:54 +0000
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| Trump’s National Guard Troops Are Questioning Their Mission in L.A.
- Thousands of National Guard members have served in the L.A. region since last month. Six soldiers spoke in interviews about low morale over the deployment.
Wed, 16 Jul 2025 22:33:51 +0000
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| Scandal-Ridden Fyre Festival Is Sold for $245,000 on eBay
- Billy McFarland, who served nearly four years in prison for fraud, said in April that he would put the beleaguered brand that he founded up for sale.
Wed, 16 Jul 2025 22:18:46 +0000
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| Senate Democrats Rail at ‘Sloppy, Rushed’ State Dept. Firings
- Republicans on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee said the changes were needed and called the outrage overblown.
Wed, 16 Jul 2025 21:42:11 +0000
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| Documenting L.A.’s Surge in Immigration Arrests
- Jennifer Medina, a political reporter at The New York Times who is based in Los Angeles, speaks with a witness who recorded an immigration raid near a Home Depot.
Wed, 16 Jul 2025 21:42:01 +0000
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| Eswatini Says It Will Repatriate Migrants Deported by the Trump Administration
- The Trump administration sent five deportees to Eswatini, an African kingdom, saying that their own countries would not take them. But Eswatini says it will send them home.
Wed, 16 Jul 2025 21:38:43 +0000
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| Ex-Commissioner Sues, Saying Adams Ran N.Y.P.D. as a Criminal Enterprise
- Thomas G. Donlon, who served only weeks as police commissioner, said in a lawsuit that New York City’s mayor and top department officials had manipulated the system for personal and political gain.
Wed, 16 Jul 2025 20:19:51 +0000
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| Trump Has Penned Letter To Fire Fed Chair Jerome Powell
- The president waved a copy of a draft letter firing Jerome H. Powell at a meeting in the Oval Office with House Republicans. It remains to be seen whether he follows through with his threat.
Wed, 16 Jul 2025 19:51:54 +0000
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| Public Views of the Fed Chair Are Polarized as Trump Mulls His Firing
- Few Americans have confidence in the chairman, Jerome Powell, to do the right thing on the economy, though attitudes are deeply partisan.
Wed, 16 Jul 2025 19:21:41 +0000
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| For Trump, Domestic Adversaries Are Not Just Wrong, They Are ‘Evil’
- The president’s vilification of political opponents and journalists seeds the ground for threats of prosecution, imprisonment and deportation unlike any modern president has made.
Wed, 16 Jul 2025 18:39:57 +0000
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| Rum, Fisheries and a Sculpture Garden: The Quiet Winners in Trump’s Big Bill
- The president’s marquee policy legislation is best known for slashing taxes and cutting social safety net programs. But the sweeping measure also included many little-noticed goodies and add-ons.
Wed, 16 Jul 2025 15:32:20 +0000
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| Is This Restaurant the Only Thing Democrats and Republicans Agree On?
- In polarized Washington, Ama is drawing leaders from both camps with an anti-additive menu and a vow to bar all manner of toxicity.
Wed, 16 Jul 2025 15:30:28 +0000
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