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Today — 20 November 2025NYT | Top Stories

Climate Change Is Stressing Italy’s Cows, and Coming for Your Burrata

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By: Motoko Rich and Gianni Cipriano
20 November 2025 at 09:25
Extreme heat causes cows to produce less milk. This poses problems in cheese-obsessed Italy, especially as it tries to meet growing demand for favorites like burrata.

Franco Died 50 Years Ago, but He’s Still Winning New Fans in Spain

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By: Jason Horowitz and Maria Contreras Coll
20 November 2025 at 13:01
Young Spaniards are increasingly drawn to the dictator Francisco Franco. So the government is designing apps, games and T-shirts to promote democracy.

Francisco Franco’s grave outside Madrid still draws mourners, highlighting lingering disputes within Spanish society over the dictator’s legacy. José Luis Ortiz, a Franco supporter, tends to the tomb.

Top National Book Awards Go to Writing About the Middle East

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By: Elizabeth A. Harris
20 November 2025 at 12:52
Rabih Alameddine’s “The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother)” won in fiction, while Omar El Akkad’s reckoning with Gaza took the nonfiction prize.

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Omar El Akkad accepting the 2025 National Book Award for nonfiction on Wednesday night.

Alice and Ellen Kessler, ’60s Singing Sensations, Die at 89

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By: Clay Risen
20 November 2025 at 04:00
The twin sisters from Germany, who were nightclub stars and regular guests on international variety shows, chose to end their lives together.

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The Kesslers at a news conference in 1997, presenting excerpts from a show based on their autobiography, “Eins Und Eins Ist Eins” (“One Plus One Is One”).

Trump and Mamdani Will Meet at White House on Friday

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By: Emma G. Fitzsimmons
20 November 2025 at 10:48
The meeting between Zohran Mamdani, the mayor-elect of New York City, and President Trump will come after the two men have fiercely attacked one another.

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Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani said he wanted to speak plainly to the president. President Trump, in a social media post, called Mr. Mamdani a communist.

Nvidia Earnings Fuel Rally in Global Technology Stocks

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By: River Akira Davis and Joe Rennison
20 November 2025 at 09:49
The chipmaker’s profit surge and strong revenue forecast helped to ease fears that spending on A.I. infrastructure might be outpacing demand.

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A trader on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on Wednesday. In the United States, Nvidia shares climbed more than 5 percent in after-hours trading.

Florida Lawmaker Stole FEMA Funds for House Campaign, Prosecutors Say

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By: Hannah Ziegler
20 November 2025 at 09:57
Representative Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick misused $5 million in Covid-related funds during the pandemic in part to finance her campaign, according to the Justice Department.

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Representative Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick has since 2022 represented a district that includes parts of Broward and Palm Beach Counties.

Saudi Arabia, Once Shunned, Has Corporate Titans Swooning for Deals

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By: Lauren Hirsch
20 November 2025 at 10:19
Some of the most prominent U.S. executives gathered at the Kennedy Center for an event promoting deal-making with the oil-rich kingdom.

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President Trump posing next to Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia for a group photo at the U.S.-Saudi Investment Forum at the Kennedy Center in Washington.

Larry Summers to Stop Teaching at Harvard While It Investigates His Epstein Ties

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By: Mark Arsenault and Mike Isaac
20 November 2025 at 09:18
The former Harvard president had previously stepped down from other positions following revelations about his longtime connections to Jeffrey Epstein.

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Lawrence Summers at a commencement ceremony at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass., in 2006.

Robert L. Stirm, Returning P.O.W. in Pulitzer-Winning Photo, Dies at 92

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By: Jeré Longman
20 November 2025 at 12:27
The image immortalized a Vietnam veteran’s joyous homecoming to his beaming family, but it hid the truth about an unraveling marriage.

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Lt. Col. Robert L. Stirm on March 17, 1973, as he was greeted by his family at Travis Air Force Base in Fairfield, Calif., after five and a half years as a prisoner of war in North Vietnam. His daughter Lorrie, foreground, is followed by the other children, Robert, Cynthia and Roger, and his wife, Loretta.

NASA Releases Images of Comet 3I/ATLAS Passing by Mars

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By: Kenneth Chang
20 November 2025 at 07:44
With the government reopened, the space agency at last released pictures captured by a fleet of government spacecraft of an object that came from beyond our solar system.

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F.B.I. Hunt Intensifies for Ryan Wedding, Snowboarder Accused of Being a Drug Kingpin

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By: Vjosa Isai
20 November 2025 at 06:59
Ryan Wedding, a former Olympic athlete said to be a major cocaine trafficker, is accused of ordering the murder of a witness who was set to testify against him.

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Ryan Wedding during the Salt Lake City Winter Olympics in 2002.

Newly Discovered Bach Pieces Are the Fruits of Decades of Detective Work

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By: Adam Nagourney
20 November 2025 at 07:00
A pair of organ works that scholars believe were written by a teenage Johann Sebastian Bach were premiered in Leipzig this week and added to the composer’s official catalog.

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The two pieces were premiered by Ton Koopman and given their own numbers in the catalog of Bach’s works: BWV 1178 and BWV 1179.

Saudi Arabia’s Prince Has Big Plans, but His Giant Fund Is Low on Cash

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By: Rob Copeland and Vivian Nereim
20 November 2025 at 07:00
After nearly a decade of expensive, hit-and-miss investments, Mohammed bin Salman is overseeing a behind-the-scenes restructuring of the kingdom’s all-important wealth fund.

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President Trump welcomed Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia to the White House on Tuesday.

U.S.-Russian Peace Plan Would Force Ukraine to Cede Land and Cut Army

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By: Andrew E. Kramer and Maria Varenikova
20 November 2025 at 06:52
The 28-point proposal, which comes as the Trump administration tries to restart settlement talks, includes demands long rejected by Kyiv as nonstarters.

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A Ukrainian artillery unit firing a howitzer at Russian targets in the Dnipropetrovsk region, last month.

Believe It or Not, That $12 Million Gold Toilet Was Bought by … Ripley’s

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By: Zachary Small
20 November 2025 at 07:07
The entertainment company plans on displaying the toilet, saying its team is exploring “whether visitors may someday be allowed to use it.”

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Ripley’s Believe It or Not, which paid $12.1 million for the toilet on Tuesday, said that “finding the unbelievable is our business.”

Stalled Contempt Inquiry Into Deportation Flights Springs Back to Life

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By: Alan Feuer
20 November 2025 at 06:22
The resurrected inquiry could finally get to the bottom of lingering questions such as: Did top Trump administration officials purposely ignore a court order?

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Judge James E. Boasberg’s initial order laying out the contempt investigation outlined an aggressive process for figuring out what happened inside the administration.

Mexico Is Now the United States’ Top Buyer

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By: James Wagner
20 November 2025 at 06:00
For first time in at least 30 years, the United States has exported more to Mexico than Canada, U.S. government data show, in a sign of how much North American trade has consolidated.

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Trucks moving goods from the United States to Mexico in February. “Mexico is the United States’ main trading partner,” said Marcelo Ebrard, Mexico’s economy minister.

Nvidia Earnings Show Profit Jumped 65% to $31.9 Billion

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By: Tripp Mickle
20 November 2025 at 05:41
The company, which makes the computer chips essential to the artificial intelligence boom, also said revenue in its recent quarter rose to $57 billion.

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Jensen Huang, the chief executive of Nvidia, made a bet on chips for artificial intelligence that has turned his company into a Silicon Valley giant.

Alberta Invokes Last-Resort Constitutional Clause to Shield Trans Laws From Challenges

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By: Matina Stevis-Gridneff and Ian Austen
20 November 2025 at 05:12
The western province’s conservative government has invoked a rarely used clause in Canada’s Constitution to shield its bills limiting transgender rights from legal challenges.

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Danielle Smith, Alberta’s conservative premier, has framed the enactment of the bills as a matter of children’s safety.

Driver Who Killed Mother and Daughters Sentenced to 3 to 9 Years

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By: Maia Coleman and Olivia Bensimon
20 November 2025 at 04:50
Miriam Yarimi, a wig maker with a big social media presence, ran a red light in Brooklyn before slamming into the family members. The deaths spurred calls for increased traffic safety.

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Miriam Yarimi drove a blue Audi A3 sedan with the license plate WIGM8KER and had a long history of driving infractions.

Trump Wanted to Abolish FEMA. His Own Advisers Disagree.

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By: Maxine Joselow and Scott Dance
20 November 2025 at 03:57
A panel convened by President Trump is said to have rejected the president’s idea that the agency should “go away.”

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The homeland security secretary, Kristi Noem, during a news conference with Texas officials following the catastrophic flooding of the Guadalupe River in Kerrville, Texas, in July.

George Conway, a Vocal Foe of Trump, Eyes Congressional Run

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By: Annie Karni
20 November 2025 at 04:13
The former conservative lawyer built a social media following with his harsh criticism of President Trump, who was the boss of his wife at the time.

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George Conway is moving closer to announcing a run for Congress in one of Manhattan’s wealthiest and bluest districts.
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