NY Times Home Page

Syndicate content NYT > Top Stories
Updated: 52 min 14 sec ago

Lufthansa Fined $4 Million for Stopping Jewish Passengers From Boarding Plane

Wed, 10/16/2024 - 8:29am
The Transportation Department handed out a record fine after the airline prevented 128 travelers from making a connecting flight in 2022.
Categories: News

Push for High-Rise Next to Brooklyn Botanic Garden Becomes Battle Over Shadows

Wed, 10/16/2024 - 8:24am
The Brooklyn Botanic Garden and its supporters are fighting a proposal to build a 14-story apartment building that would cast shadows on the garden.
Categories: News

What You Need to Know in Case of an Election Crisis

Wed, 10/16/2024 - 7:42am
We have just a short time to understand the challenges across state legislatures, Congress, executive branches and elected judges.
Categories: News

Post-Affirmative Action, Is Sustained Campus Diversity Suspicious?

Wed, 10/16/2024 - 7:42am
There are perfectly legal explanations for why schools’ demographics might not change after the fall of affirmative action.
Categories: News

Harris Slams Trump in Interview With Charlamagne Tha God: 5 Takeaways

Wed, 10/16/2024 - 6:44am
During a free-flowing interview that was by turns friendly and pointed, the vice president went beyond her previous remarks in casting Donald Trump as an authoritarian.
Categories: News

A Top University Bet on D.E.I. What Went Wrong?

Wed, 10/16/2024 - 5:38am
We cover the impact of college diversity programs.
Categories: News

Early Votes Pour In, and a U.S. Warning to Israel Over Gaza

Wed, 10/16/2024 - 5:06am
Plus, the new hot item on wedding registries.
Categories: News

With Jets and Ships, China is Honing Its Ability to Choke Taiwan

Wed, 10/16/2024 - 4:33am
China’s large-scale military exercises are encircling Taiwan and testing the island’s defenses. They also raise the risk of conflict, accidental or otherwise.
Categories: News

Maps: Where Israel Has Invaded Lebanon

Wed, 10/16/2024 - 4:21am
Israel and Hezbollah were fighting at close range in southern Lebanon on Wednesday across steep, unforgiving terrain.
Categories: News

Trump Draws, and Repels, Nevada Latinos With His Anti-Immigrant Message

Wed, 10/16/2024 - 4:06am
For some, Donald J. Trump’s incessant attacks on immigrants are too much. Still, many appear prepared to look past his escalations and back a candidate they believe will help their livelihoods.
Categories: News

Luís Roberto Barroso, Brazil’s Chief Justice, Defends Supreme Court’s Expanded Power

Wed, 10/16/2024 - 4:05am
The chief justice of Brazil’s Supreme Court, Luís Roberto Barroso, defended the court in the face of growing debate over its aggressive role in politics.
Categories: News

A Beloved Maple Tree Had to Come Down, But It Lives On

Wed, 10/16/2024 - 4:05am
A beloved sugar maple slowly succumbed to disease. Today, it lives on in a new form.
Categories: News

Paul Rudolph Was an Architectural Star. Now He’s a Cautionary Tale.

Wed, 10/16/2024 - 4:05am
His Brutalist buildings, praised during the Kennedy era, are now being demolished. A new exhibition in Manhattan looks at the limits of genius.
Categories: News

Big Money Flowed to Pro-Trump Groups in the Past Three Months

Wed, 10/16/2024 - 4:04am
Three people — Elon Musk, Miriam Adelson and Dick Uihlein — put a combined $220 million into groups supporting Donald J. Trump in July, August and September.
Categories: News

TikTok’s Owner Already Publishes Digital Books. Now It Is Moving Into Print.

Wed, 10/16/2024 - 4:04am
ByteDance, the Chinese tech giant that owns TikTok, will focus its publisher, 8th Note Press, on popular genres such as romance, romantasy and young adult fiction.
Categories: News

TikTok’s Owner Already Publishes Digital Books. Now It Is Moving Into Print.

Wed, 10/16/2024 - 4:04am
ByteDance, the Chinese tech giant that owns TikTok, will focus its publisher, 8th Note Press, on popular genres such as romance, romantasy and young adult fiction.
Categories: News

Paying Workers $10,000 to Move Helped Reverse Tulsa’s Brain Drain

Wed, 10/16/2024 - 4:03am
Researchers found that when remote workers were paid to move to Tulsa, Okla., everyone came out ahead.
Categories: News

Donald Pell Landscapes Mix Native and Cosmopolitan Plants in Gardens

Wed, 10/16/2024 - 4:00am
The landscape designer Donald Pell believes using a wider palette with nonnatives from around the world can add joy to gardens.
Categories: News

Jimmy Kimmel Bashes Trump’s Bizarre Town Hall

Wed, 10/16/2024 - 1:16am
Kimmel joked on Tuesday that Trump “just said ‘To hell with it’ and started asking his tech guys to play songs off his iPad.”
Categories: News

Global Electricity Demand Is Rising Faster Than Expected, I.E.A. Says

Tue, 10/15/2024 - 11:01pm
A surge in power use worldwide could make it harder for nations to slash emissions and keep global warming in check.
Categories: News