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Today — 18 May 2025NYT | Top Stories

Trump Administration Abandons Fight to Ban Powerful Gun Accessory

By: Tim Balk
18 May 2025 at 06:06
The device, called a forced-reset trigger, allows semiautomatic weapons to fire hundreds of rounds. The Biden administration had sought to block them from being sold.

© George Frey/Reuters

Forced-reset triggers, which allow gun owners to fire semiautomatic weapons at great speed, are similar to a bump stock. President Trump banned bump stocks during his first term.

F.D.A. Approves Novavax Covid Vaccine With Stricter New Conditions

The agency narrowed who can get the shot and added new study requirements that could cost the company tens of millions.

© Karen Ducey/Getty Images

A doctor received a Novavax Covid shot during a clinical trial in 2021 in Seattle.

Trump Tells Walmart to ‘Eat the Tariffs’ After Retailer Says Prices Could Rise

By: Tim Balk
18 May 2025 at 02:27
Walmart, the nation’s largest retailer, is just one of several companies that have said they will be forced to pass on the costs of President Trump’s global tariffs to consumers.

© Karsten Moran for The New York Times

Walmart said on Thursday that President Trump’s tariffs would push the company to start raising prices soon.

F.D.A. Approves Novavax Covid Vaccine With Stricter New Conditions

The agency narrowed who can get the shot and added new study requirements that could cost the company tens of millions.

© Karen Ducey/Getty Images

A doctor received a Novavax Covid shot during a clinical trial in 2021 in Seattle.

Rare Chicago Dust Storm Turns Day Into Night

By: Amy Graff
18 May 2025 at 09:53
Day turned to night in northwest Indiana and north-central Illinois on Friday as a rare dust storm shrouded the skies.

© Stephanie Alderson Heppe/UGC, via Reuters

A dust storm approaching Normal, Ill., on Friday. Visibility dropped to a quarter-mile at Chicago Midway International Airport.

A Haven for High School Girls’ Wrestling, Filled With Grit and Pride

17 May 2025 at 15:00
The Lucha Wrestling Club in the Bronx provides a safe place for an aggressive sport. The Bronx has more public high school girls’ teams than any other New York City borough.

© Victor J. Blue for The New York Times

The level of wrestling in New York City can be as good it is anywhere in the United States. But in the Bronx, practices and matches have a decidedly different feel.

What Has Changed Since Silicon Valley Bank Collapsed? Not Much.

By: Peter Coy
17 May 2025 at 20:00
Two years later, no major legislation or regulation has passed, and the basic problem that caused the crisis persists.

© Jason Henry for The New York Times

Silicon Valley Bank collapsed in March 2023, followed quickly by two other lenders, Signature Bank and First Republic.

Biden’s Interview With Hur Confirms What Many Suspected

18 May 2025 at 04:34
The former president’s halting responses to questions by a special counsel show him exactly as a majority of Americans believed him to be — and as Democrats repeatedly insisted he was not.

© Tierney L. Cross for The New York Times

In the days after the special counsel’s report was released, Democrats fanned out to vouch for President Biden. Administration officials asserted executive privilege in declining to release the audio recording.

Federal Courts Buck Trump Deportation Schemes, Focusing on Due Process Rights

The Trump administration’s aggressive push to deport migrants has run up against resistance from the judiciary.

© Paul Ratje/Reuters

Detainees sit outside at the Bluebonnet Detention Facility, the facility where Venezuelans at the center of a Supreme Court ruling are being held, in Anson, Texas, last month.

What if a Grocery Store Was More Like a Farmers’ Market?

17 May 2025 at 17:00
A farm stop in Ann Arbor, Mich., has found success with its local-first approach. But is the model replicable?

© Nic Antaya for The New York Times

Argus Farm Stop in Ann Arbor, Mich., follows a farmers’ market meets grocery store model that makes it easier to shop locally and support small farms.

Steve Kiner, Linebacker Who Was Open About Drug Use, Is Dead at 77

18 May 2025 at 01:40
He was a star at the University of Tennessee when he began using LSD, mescaline and other drugs. He said he got clean while playing in the N.F.L.

© A.E. Maloof/Associated Press

Steve Kiner in 1971. An All-American linebacker at the University of Tennessee, he went on to play for three N.F.L. teams, despite a serious drug problem. “I was doing acid every day,” he told The New York Times in 1974, “or coke or mescaline, anything I could get my hands on.”

New Jersey Transit Strike: Negotiations Resume a Day Earlier Than Expected

18 May 2025 at 05:23
Agency executives and union representatives met Saturday afternoon, a day earlier than expected. A meeting with the National Mediation Board is scheduled for Sunday.

© Dakota Santiago for The New York Times

The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen went on strike on Friday after contract negotiations with New Jersey Transit broke down.

At Mexico’s 2 Legal Gun Shops, a Conflicted View of Firearms Is on Display

While Mexicans have a right to own guns, they can only be legally bought at two military-run and tightly regulated stores, an effort to better control possession in a country awash with black market weapons.

© Alejandro Cegarra for The New York Times

“Acquiring a gun legally is very satisfying because I know I’m doing things right,” said Eduardo Ignacio García Zavala, 32, who waited three months for his paperwork to be approved and then drove overnight from Zapopan in western Mexico to Mexico City to add a new precision rifle to his collection.

At Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs Trial, Will Cassie’s Testimony Help Prove a Criminal Conspiracy?

17 May 2025 at 15:00
Casandra Ventura’s description of Sean Comb’s sex marathons and abusive behavior is expected to provide the foundation for the prosecution’s racketeering case.

© Damon Winter/The New York Times

Casandra Ventura and Sean Combs had an existence that was at once rarefied and debasing.
Yesterday — 17 May 2025NYT | Top Stories

The Global Happiness Curve Is Collapsing. What Does That Mean?

For decades, research showed that the way people experienced happiness across their lifetimes looked like a U-shaped curve: Happiness tended to be high when they were young, then dipped in midlife, only to rise again as they grew old. But recent surveys suggest that curve is starting to flatten. Christina Caron, a Well reporter, explains.

At Least 27 Dead After Tornadoes and Storms Tear Across Central U.S.

In Missouri and Kentucky alone, tornadoes killed at least 25 people, officials said. The spring storm season has been a brutal one for the region.

© Austin Anthony for The New York Times

How Father Bob Became Pope Leo

A résumé of deep religious education, frontline pastoral experience, parish management and Vatican governance — along with a nudge from Pope Francis — put Robert Prevost on the fast track.

© Augustinian Province Of Our Mother Of Good Counsel, via Reuters

An undated photograph of Robert Prevost, now Pope Leo XIV.

Inside the I.V.F. Deliberations at the White House as Key Report Nears

17 May 2025 at 17:01
Trump aides have discussed requiring insurers to cover the procedure, though one leading medical group says it has been shut out of the process.

© Ilana Panich-Linsman for The New York Times

Eggs under a microscope at Texas Fertility Center in Austin.
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