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1. Behind Trump’s Deal to Deport Venezuelans to El Salvador’s Most Feared Prison

   Wed, 30 Apr 2025 15:39:43 -0000

   New details deepen questions about the deportations, showing that El Salvador’s president pressed for assurances that the migrants were really members of the Tren de Aragua gang.

2. 5 Takeaways: Behind Trump’s Deal to Deport Migrants to El Salvador

   Wed, 30 Apr 2025 14:07:17 -0000

   Internal documents and interviews with people familiar with the operation reveal how the White House seized on a wartime law to accelerate immigrant deportations.

3. Supreme Court Seems Open to a Religious Charter School in Oklahoma

   Wed, 30 Apr 2025 19:52:48 -0000

   The justices have allowed vouchers for religious schools and required equal treatment in tuition programs. But direct government payments to religious public schools pose a new test.

4. Justice Amy Coney Barrett Recuses Herself in a Charter School Case

   Wed, 30 Apr 2025 13:32:10 -0000

   The justice will not participate in oral argument, deliberations or vote. She gave no explanation.

5. The Tiny Oklahoma School Trying to Bring Religion Back to Classrooms

   Fri, 13 Dec 2024 15:00:58 -0000

   Officials in Oklahoma are laying the groundwork to push Christianity into public schools.

6. In 2nd Term, Trump Pushes Bounds of Presidential Power, Testing Rule of Law

   Wed, 30 Apr 2025 09:02:04 -0000

   The United States has never seen an effort to expand presidential authority at the scale of Donald J. Trump’s second term.

7. This State University Has a Plan to Take on Trump

   Wed, 30 Apr 2025 15:31:56 -0000

   Two professors from Rutgers University in New Jersey went out on a limb to write a “mutual defense compact” for Big Ten schools. Their effort is gaining steam.

8. Elise Stefanik, Cabinet Hopes Dashed, Considers Her Next Move

   Wed, 30 Apr 2025 19:10:03 -0000

   The New York Republican is contemplating a run for governor and nursing a feud with the Speaker Mike Johnson after her cabinet nomination was withdrawn.

9. Under Trump, Stocks Have the Worst Start to a Presidential Term Since 1974

   Wed, 30 Apr 2025 20:07:45 -0000

   During the first 100 days of the Trump administration, shock waves from the chaotic tariff rollout continue to send tremors through the global financial system.

10. Trump Blames Biden After U.S. Economy Shrinks Amid Tariff War

    Wed, 30 Apr 2025 18:09:59 -0000

    Underlying economic growth remained solid in early 2025, but tariffs and uncertainty are expected to cause a further slowdown.

11. Mercedes-Benz and Volkswagen Facing Uncertainty With Tariffs

    Wed, 30 Apr 2025 18:18:50 -0000

    Faced with tariffs introduced by President Trump on cars, steel and aluminum, Europe’s carmakers are pessimistic about the future.

12. Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs’s Path From Harlem to Stardom, and Now Federal Court

    Wed, 30 Apr 2025 17:10:31 -0000

    As Puffy, Diddy or Love, the mogul found success and trouble. After years of accusations with few consequences, he’ll stand trial next month.

13. Fifty Years After the Fall of Saigon, Vietnam Veterans See Mistakes Repeated

    Wed, 30 Apr 2025 17:38:04 -0000

    The conflict profoundly affected the American troops who served there, as well as the nation’s culture and politics. But 50 years later, veterans say they see its mistakes being repeated.

14. A Diver Visited a Fallen Whale. When He Returned, It Was Gone.

    Wed, 30 Apr 2025 18:52:04 -0000

    A sunken calf’s disappearance created a mystery in murky waters near San Diego.

15. Wildfires in Israel Force Towns Near Jerusalem to Evacuate

    Wed, 30 Apr 2025 20:39:28 -0000

    The fires interrupted memorial day ceremonies, and Israel’s top firefighter called the blazes “one of the toughest events” he has faced.

16. At Least 4 Die in Pennsylvania as Storm Leaves 400,000 Without Power

    Wed, 30 Apr 2025 20:12:13 -0000

    The storm system brought destructive winds to the state, knocking down trees and power lines.

17. The Happiest Country in the World Isn’t What You Think

    Wed, 30 Apr 2025 20:13:05 -0000

    Material prosperity isn’t everything.

18. Torture and Secret C.I.A. Prisons Haunt 9/11 Case in Judge’s Ruling

    Tue, 29 Apr 2025 14:16:23 -0000

    Prosecutors have said they will appeal the decision, although they lost a similar appeal this year.

19. The One Big Reason Canada’s Liberals Won

    Wed, 30 Apr 2025 13:15:06 -0000

    Canada’s Liberals came back from a huge disadvantage in the polls, securing a rare fourth term in power, for one big reason. Matina Stevis-Gridneff, the Canada bureau chief for The New York Times, explains why the Liberals and Mark Carney won, and the challenge they face right now.

20. As N.J. Transit Strike Looms, Riders Are Warned to Prepare for ‘Chaos’

    Wed, 30 Apr 2025 19:40:00 -0000

    Tens of thousands of New Jersey commuters are being told that they may need to work from home if train engineers go on strike.

21. Harvey Weinstein Pushed, Grabbed and Then Attacked, Witness Testifies in NYC Trial

    Wed, 30 Apr 2025 20:38:06 -0000

    Miriam Haley is the first to testify of the three women whose accusations are at the center of the disgraced producer’s retrial on sex abuse charges.

22. Will the Trump Tariffs Devastate the Whiskey Industry?

    Wed, 30 Apr 2025 10:00:00 -0000

    In the face of uncertainty, an award-winning distillery in Atlanta hits pause.

23. A Lawyer Freed Young Thug. Now He’s Defending Diddy

    Mon, 28 Apr 2025 10:00:00 -0000

    Since the Young Thug trial, Brian Steel has modelled for the rapper’s fashion brand and had a Drake song named after him. Sean Combs took note.

24. Is the U.S. Becoming an Autocracy?

    Mon, 28 Apr 2025 10:00:00 -0000

    Other countries have watched their democracies slip away gradually, without tanks in the streets. That may be where we’re headed—or where we already are.

25. Ryan Coogler’s Road to “Sinners”

    Mon, 28 Apr 2025 10:00:00 -0000

    The film represents a departure for the “Black Panther” director, and a creative risk; it grapples with ideas about music, race, family, religion—and vampires.

26. A Hundred Classics to Get Me Through a Hundred Days of Trump

    Mon, 28 Apr 2025 10:00:00 -0000

    Each morning, before the day’s decree, I turned to a slim book, hoping for sense, or solace.

27. The Bureaucratic Nightmares of Being Trans Under Trump

    Tue, 29 Apr 2025 10:00:00 -0000

    Grace Byron on President Donald Trump’s anti-trans policies and a recent executive order that declares government-issued I.D.s must reflect one’s sex assigned at conception.

28. A Life-Changing Scientific Study Ended by the Trump Administration

    Mon, 28 Apr 2025 10:00:00 -0000

    Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., declared chronic diseases an “existential threat.” Then his agency terminated one of the world’s longest-running diabetes trials.

29. Trump’s Hundred Days of Ineptitude

    Sun, 27 Apr 2025 10:00:00 -0000

    Now we know that Donald Trump’s first term, his initial attempt at authoritarian primacy, was amateur hour, a fitful rehearsal.

30. What’s Legally Allowed in War

    Fri, 25 Apr 2025 19:14:06 -0000

    How U.S. military lawyers see Israel’s invasion of Gaza—and the public’s reaction to it—as a dress rehearsal for a potential conflict with a foreign power like China.

31. The Biden Official Who Doesn’t Oppose Trump’s Student Deportations

    Tue, 22 Apr 2025 18:09:02 -0000

    Why the Holocaust historian Deborah Lipstadt blames universities for “opening the door” to the Trump Administration’s professed campaign to tackle antisemitism.

32. China’s Plan to Fight Trump’s Trade War

    Thu, 17 Apr 2025 10:00:00 -0000

    A professor at M.I.T. on how Xi Jinping is likely to respond to U.S. tariffs and why the standoff won’t weaken the Chinese Communist Party’s grip on power.

33. How the Supreme Court Misunderstands Donald Trump

    Tue, 15 Apr 2025 20:36:04 -0000

    A legal scholar argues that the judiciary’s “passive-aggressive approach” to the Trump Administration is doomed to fail.

34. How Trump’s Tariffs Fit the Autocrat’s Playbook

    Thu, 10 Apr 2025 10:00:00 -0000

    The President thrives on confrontation and demands supplication. Politicizing the economy creates opportunities for both.

35. From “America First” to “Sell America”

    Mon, 28 Apr 2025 10:00:00 -0000

    Donald Trump’s first hundred days have been an unprecedented economic fiasco.

36. Why Harvard Can Afford to Stand Up to Donald Trump

    Mon, 21 Apr 2025 10:00:00 -0000

    The university’s $53.2-billion endowment has positioned it to resist the bullying tactics of an increasingly authoritarian President.

37. The Face of the Devastated Sports Fan

    Sun, 13 Apr 2025 10:00:00 -0000

    There are classic moments in this subgenre of deflated fandom that you may have seen before, even if you do not love or pay much attention to sports.

38. Elizabeth Warren Is Trying to Stop “The Dumbest Financial Crisis Ever”

    Fri, 11 Apr 2025 10:00:00 -0000

    The Massachusetts Democrat argues that Trumponomics is wrecking the American economy.

39. Turbulence at the Airport

    Tue, 29 Apr 2025 10:00:00 -0000

    T.S.A. workers protect America’s transportation systems. Now their own protections are being stripped away.

40. “When Are More Americans Going to Speak Up?”

    Sun, 27 Apr 2025 10:00:00 -0000

    Senator Cory Booker on the grave harm that Donald Trump has inflicted on American life in his first hundred days in office.

41. The Conservative Lawyer Defending a Firm from Donald Trump

    Fri, 25 Apr 2025 10:00:00 -0000

    Paul Clement complained that Big Law was becoming “increasingly woke.” Now he’s defending one firm’s right to do just that.

42. Where Are Trump’s Big, Beautiful Deals?

    Thu, 24 Apr 2025 23:54:12 -0000

    Whether a trade pact with China or a peace accord with Russia, the President doesn’t seem to know what he’s actually asking for, never mind how to actually achieve it.

43. The Show Can’t Go On

    Thu, 24 Apr 2025 23:32:01 -0000

    Funding shifts at three of the largest philanthropic foundations have brought turbulence and uncertainty to the intricate New York support system for the performing arts.

44. The Guerrilla Marketing Campaign Against Elon Musk

    Thu, 24 Apr 2025 20:33:36 -0000

    As Tesla’s profits drop, a group called Everyone Hates Elon is going viral for plastering London with fake advertisements for the company, infiltrating a car showroom, and inviting the public to trash a Model S.

45. The Immigrant Families Jailed in Texas

    Wed, 23 Apr 2025 10:00:00 -0000

    Children have long been put in migrant detention if they were apprehended at the border. Today, lawyers have found, families are being removed from stable lives in the United States.

46. What “America First” Could Cost Us

    Tue, 22 Apr 2025 20:16:51 -0000

    As the Trump Administration forces the U.S. to retreat from labor-protection programs abroad, American workers might end up suffering, too.