| Best Albums of 2025
- The rising Korean pop outsider Effie and the Brooklyn indie-rock band Geese top our critics’ lists this year.
Fri, 05 Dec 2025 16:02:23 +0000
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| An End to Hepatitis B Shots for All Newborns
- A federal panel voted on Friday to recommend halting the at-birth shots for all infants, in a step toward Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s goal of upending the nation’s vaccine policy.
Fri, 05 Dec 2025 16:01:24 +0000
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| Netflix to Buy Warner Bros in $83 Billion Deal
- The deal to acquire the Hollywood behemoth’s television and film studios as well as HBO Max will bulk up the world’s biggest paid streaming service.
Fri, 05 Dec 2025 15:59:31 +0000
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| FIFA’s Leader Often Flatters Trump. Now, He’s Awarding a Peace Prize.
- Gianni Infantino, head of soccer’s governing body, has been ingratiating himself with the president to help ensure a successful 2026 World Cup.
Fri, 05 Dec 2025 15:49:00 +0000
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| Trump Administration Says Europe Faces ‘Civilizational Erasure’
- America’s goal should be “to help Europe correct its current trajectory,” the administration said in its new National Security Strategy.
Fri, 05 Dec 2025 15:46:42 +0000
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| On Pope Leo’s Visit to Lebanon and Turkey, A.I. Was a Frequent Concern
- On his first trip as pontiff, Leo XIV predictably called for peace and unity. But he also addressed technology’s promise and pitfalls.
Fri, 05 Dec 2025 15:44:30 +0000
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| Consumer Prices Rose Slightly in September
- The most recent Personal Consumption Expenditures index was delayed because of the government shutdown.
Fri, 05 Dec 2025 15:37:18 +0000
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| Putin Basks in Praise From Modi on India Visit
- Prime Minister Narendra Modi lauded President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia, underlining the close personal relationship between the leaders and their countries’ longtime friendship.
Fri, 05 Dec 2025 15:22:08 +0000
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| Trump’s Boat Strikes Corrode America’s Soul
- We need to question the strikes’ legality. But we also need to see how they fit into the Trump administration’s larger effort to change America.
Fri, 05 Dec 2025 15:11:46 +0000
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| New York Times Sues A.I. Start-Up Perplexity Over Use of Copyrighted Work
- Filed in federal court on Friday, the suit joins more than 40 other court disputes between copyright holders and A.I. companies.
Fri, 05 Dec 2025 15:11:34 +0000
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| EU Hits Elon Musk’s X With $140 Million Fine
- The case over online transparency has become a flashpoint between the European Union and the Trump administration.
Fri, 05 Dec 2025 15:03:56 +0000
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| The ‘Cocaine Superhighway’ Fueled by the U.S. Focus on Fentanyl
- As Washington made combating fentanyl a priority, cocaine trafficking has surged. Nowhere have the ripples been felt like in Ecuador, where criminal groups have run rampant.
Fri, 05 Dec 2025 15:01:36 +0000
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| But Who Is the Snake in ‘Zootopia 2’?
- Gary Goldman, who has battled Disney in court over the franchise, thinks the viper Gary De’Snake is based on him.
Fri, 05 Dec 2025 14:50:21 +0000
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| Wary of Russia, German Defense Minister Pistorius Is Growing His Army
- Boris Pistorius, Germany’s defense minister, is pushing to expand its military in case tensions with Russia escalate. That’s tricky in a country where the Nazi era casts a long shadow.
Fri, 05 Dec 2025 13:51:57 +0000
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| Why the Battle for Warner Bros. Discovery May Not Be Over Yet
- Netflix struck a deal to buy one of Hollywood’s most storied studios. But a scorned rival, and the Trump administration, may put up a fight.
Fri, 05 Dec 2025 13:48:56 +0000
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| Second Strike Scrutiny Obscures Larger Question About Trump’s Boat Attacks
- Congress is focusing on two deaths in one strike. But nine other people died in that same attack, and the United States has killed 87 in all. Were any of those killings legal?
Fri, 05 Dec 2025 13:10:46 +0000
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| The Year in Lists
- The end of year recaps can be dizzying. But they’re also full of gold.
Fri, 05 Dec 2025 12:24:36 +0000
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| How the U.S. Focus on Fentanyl Helped Fuel the Cocaine Trade’s Resurgence
- Across Latin America, there has been a surge in cocaine trafficking as Washington prioritized combating fentanyl. Times reporters traveled to Ecuador to see how criminal groups are wreaking havoc.
Fri, 05 Dec 2025 11:52:31 +0000
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| Fears Spread Over New ICE Crackdowns, and F.B.I. Makes Arrest in Jan. 6 Bomb Plot
- Plus your Friday news quiz.
Fri, 05 Dec 2025 11:01:27 +0000
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| Trump’s Relationship With the President of FIFA
- Gianni Infantino, head of soccer’s governing body, FIFA, has lauded President Trump at almost every opportunity, even starting a FIFA Peace Prize after Mr. Trump didn’t win the Nobel. Luke Broadwater, a White House reporter, describes the bromance.
Fri, 05 Dec 2025 10:55:39 +0000
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