| Offbeat Obituaries Celebrate Loss With Levity (and Brutal Honesty)
- Irreverent tributes filled with unvarnished truths and funny anecdotes, which run counter to more somber traditional obituaries, have gained attention for “how alive they feel,” a researcher said.
Tue, 28 Apr 2026 19:45:17 +0000
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| Trump Administration Secures New Indictment Against James Comey
- The new case stems from a photograph of seashells on a North Carolina beach.
Tue, 28 Apr 2026 19:35:03 +0000
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| Former N.B.A. Player Pleads Guilty in Gambling Scheme
- Damon Jones is among more than 30 people who were charged last fall in two sweeping indictments that targeted illegal gambling involving current and former N.B.A. players.
Tue, 28 Apr 2026 19:08:17 +0000
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| Supreme Court Appears Skeptical of Falun Gong Lawsuit Against Cisco
- The court’s decision could have broader implications for lawsuits seeking to hold companies liable for international human rights abuses.
Tue, 28 Apr 2026 19:05:15 +0000
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| What to Know About the Kimmel vs. Trump Feud
- The president and first lady took exception to a joke. Jimmy Kimmel defended it.
Tue, 28 Apr 2026 19:05:10 +0000
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| Florida Republicans Refuse to Take Up DeSantis Bill Loosening Vaccine Mandates
- The House speaker cited concerns about “children being in school without measles and mumps and polio and chickenpox vaccines that have been working for decades.”
Tue, 28 Apr 2026 19:00:41 +0000
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| Google Signs A.I. Deal With the Pentagon
- The Pentagon has also signed deals for using A.I. on classified networks with OpenAI and Elon Musk’s xAI, amid a dispute with Anthropic.
Tue, 28 Apr 2026 18:39:55 +0000
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| Texas Lawmakers Question Camp Mystic’s Owners Over Deadly Flood
- A state senator told the owners of the camp, where 28 people died, that they would no longer be allowed to operate the camp “if I can have anything to say with that.”
Tue, 28 Apr 2026 18:39:33 +0000
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| After Another Attempt on Trump’s Life, Is Political Violence on the Rise in the U.S.?
- A conversation with Sean Westwood, a professor at Dartmouth who tracks political violence and Americans’ perceptions of it.
Tue, 28 Apr 2026 18:29:45 +0000
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| Judge Says Maurene Comey Can Sue the Trump Administration for Firing Her
- Ms. Comey, a former federal prosecutor who handled cases against Jeffery Epstein and Sean Combs, claimed in her suit that she was fired for political reasons.
Tue, 28 Apr 2026 18:29:16 +0000
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| FCC Orders a Review of ABC’s Licenses Amid Feud Between Trump and Kimmel
- The agency said the review was related to the network’s diversity and inclusion policies. But it came amid a fight between the president and the network’s late night host, Jimmy Kimmel.
Tue, 28 Apr 2026 18:26:03 +0000
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| Republicans Brace for Brutal Midterms as Trump’s Popularity Slips
- The elections are still six months off, and some within the G.O.P. say there is still time to right the ship.
Tue, 28 Apr 2026 18:16:24 +0000
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| After an Assassination Attempt, a Grim Political Math Sets In
- Assassination attempts against sitting presidents have tended to compound their political problems and isolate them from the public.
Tue, 28 Apr 2026 17:56:56 +0000
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| Trump Tests the Limits of His Most Faithful Supporters
- The president’s rhetoric on religion, along with hard-line immigration policies and the U.S. war in Iran, has splintered a coalition of Christian voters who returned him to the White House.
Tue, 28 Apr 2026 17:09:34 +0000
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| UAE Says It Will Leave OPEC as Iran War Strains Oil Markets
- The Gulf government has long complained about the group’s quotas, which officials believe unfairly limited its exports. Its departure is expected to weaken OPEC’s influence.
Tue, 28 Apr 2026 16:51:51 +0000
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| Elon Musk Assails Sam Altman on Social Media Before OpenAI Trial
- Mr. Musk’s posts on X have pushed his narrative that OpenAI has lost its way.
Tue, 28 Apr 2026 16:12:24 +0000
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| Military Quietly Accelerates Boat Strikes, Deploying More Aircraft
- The military has increased the number of secret fixed-wing attack aircraft and armed MQ-9 Reaper drones, according to two people familiar with the matter.
Tue, 28 Apr 2026 16:11:17 +0000
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| Here Are the Key Players in the OpenAI Trial
- Elon Musk, Sam Altman and several other key artificial intelligence industry figures are slated to testify in the trial, which is expected to last several weeks.
Tue, 28 Apr 2026 16:09:16 +0000
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| U.S. Gas Prices Hit Highest Level Since Beginning of War in Iran
- The jump on Tuesday of 1.6 percent was the highest percentage increase in more than a month.
Tue, 28 Apr 2026 15:55:58 +0000
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| Adopting Trump’s Voice, Justice Dept. Asks Judge to Let Ballroom Proceed
- The court filing links the security breach at the White House correspondents’ dinner to the lawsuit over President Trump’s ballroom project.
Tue, 28 Apr 2026 15:51:25 +0000
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