| The 2025 Politics Yearbook: Most Likely to Be Extreme and Chaotic
- How much more chaotic could a second Trump term be? 2025 did not disappoint.
Wed, 31 Dec 2025 20:39:23 +0000
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| ‘Swipe, Swipe’: New Yorkers Give the MetroCard a Public Funeral
- There were few tears at a funeral for the MetroCard, which included chants of “swipe, swipe” and an urn.
Wed, 31 Dec 2025 20:38:20 +0000
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| Venezuela Detains U.S. Citizens Amid Trump Administration’s Growing Pressure
- The number of American citizens held in Venezuela has grown since the start of the U.S. military and economic campaign against President Nicolás Maduro.
Wed, 31 Dec 2025 20:37:22 +0000
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| Mamdani Will Be First N.Y.C. Mayor to Use the Quran at His Swearing-In
- Zohran Mamdani, New York City’s first Muslim mayor, will use two family Qurans and one that belonged to the writer Arturo Schomburg at his two swearing-in ceremonies.
Wed, 31 Dec 2025 20:21:22 +0000
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| Most of Iran Shuts Down as Government Grapples With Protests and Economy
- Amid mounting street protests, businesses, universities and government offices stayed closed Wednesday under government orders, in 21 of 31 provinces, including the Tehran.
Wed, 31 Dec 2025 20:16:51 +0000
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| Even as Trump Targets Boats in Strikes, Coast Guard Continues Anti-Drug Operations
- Cutters are still stopping smugglers and seizing drugs, but the prosecutions of go-fast boat crews are dwindling in a realignment of federal resources.
Wed, 31 Dec 2025 20:07:17 +0000
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| For Zohran Mamdani, a Crowning Moment, With Challenges Looming
- Mr. Mamdani will become mayor of New York City on Thursday, carrying the hopes of the left, Muslims and younger voters as he looks to improve affordability.
Wed, 31 Dec 2025 19:59:20 +0000
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| Georgia Judge Dismisses Racketeering Charges Against ‘Cop City’ Activists
- Dozens of protesters had been indicted after the state attorney general said that their movement amounted to a violent criminal enterprise.
Wed, 31 Dec 2025 19:58:42 +0000
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| Mohammad Bakri, 72, Outspoken Palestinian Actor and Director, Dies
- His work, including the 2002 documentary “Jenin, Jenin,” exposed the often harsh realities of life experienced by his fellow Arabs in Israel.
Wed, 31 Dec 2025 19:44:18 +0000
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| Thieves Make Off With Millions in German Bank Heist
- The robbers stole valuables with an insured value of at least $36 million from a bank in Gelsenkirchen, western Germany.
Wed, 31 Dec 2025 19:00:59 +0000
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| These Inmates Died After Beatings by New York Prison Guards. No One Raised an Alarm.
- Two brutal killings, less than three months apart, in New York State’s prison system raised troubling questions: Had other inmates met similar fates?
Wed, 31 Dec 2025 18:56:50 +0000
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| There Is a Way Out of This Mess
- A second Gilded Age, a single solution.
Wed, 31 Dec 2025 18:33:25 +0000
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| Research Library at NASA’s Goddard Space and Flight Center to Close Friday
- Holdings from the library at the Goddard Space Flight Center, which includes unique documents from the early 20th century to the Soviet space race, will be warehoused or thrown out.
Wed, 31 Dec 2025 18:28:00 +0000
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| In New Year’s Speech to Russia, Putin Says Little About Ukraine War or Peace Talks With US
- The Kremlin leader kept his speech short, spoke only briefly about the fighting in Ukraine, and did not mention U.S.-mediated talks on ending the war.
Wed, 31 Dec 2025 18:19:37 +0000
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| Tatiana Schlossberg Submitted a Heartbreaking Essay to The New Yorker on Her Cancer Diagnosis, Fully Formed
- When Tatiana Schlossberg submitted an essay to The New Yorker, it had not been assigned or even expected. It was accepted immediately and barely edited.
Wed, 31 Dec 2025 18:06:19 +0000
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| Manhattan Man, 80, Faces Homicide Charge After Sidewalk Shoving
- Dana Escoffier was indicted on a charge of criminally negligent homicide in the death of Dean Whetzel, 82, a neighbor whom he had known for decades.
Wed, 31 Dec 2025 17:38:44 +0000
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| A Farewell Ride With the MetroCard, on Every Transit Line That Uses It
- Two Times journalists joined Miles Taylor, a YouTuber and transport enthusiast, on a daylong journey across New York City area buses and trains before sale of the card ends on Dec. 31.
Wed, 31 Dec 2025 17:15:40 +0000
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| A Timeline of Key Events in the Trump Administration’s Pursuit of Abrego Garcia
- In its parallel efforts to prosecute Mr. Abrego Garcia and to re-expel him from the country, the Justice Department has spent countless hours and untold sums of money pursuing a single immigrant.
Wed, 31 Dec 2025 17:05:40 +0000
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| The Keys to the City of New York Are Made in New Jersey
- Mayor Eric Adams has handed out dozens of ceremonial golden keys during his single term. Since 2023, they have come from across the Hudson River.
Wed, 31 Dec 2025 16:17:15 +0000
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| Brigitte Bardot’s Legacy of Racist Rhetoric
- The actress, who died this week at 91, was an icon of 1960s cinema. She was also a hero to the French far right.
Wed, 31 Dec 2025 15:26:01 +0000
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