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Today — 14 December 2025NYT | Top Stories

Israel Says It Killed Senior Hamas Commander, Despite Cease-Fire

14 December 2025 at 01:13
Hamas said the attack on Saturday was a breach of the truce. The militant group did not comment on Israel’s claim to have killed one of its members.

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A destroyed car following an Israeli strike in Gaza City on Saturday.

Jo Ann Allen Boyce Dies at 84; Braved Mobs in Integrating a School

13 December 2025 at 22:13
She was one of the Clinton 12, Black students who broke a race barrier by entering a Tennessee high school in 1956 in the face of harassment by white segregationists.

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Jo Ann Allen, left, and Minnie Ann Dickey at Clinton High School in Tennessee in September 1956, two years after the U.S. Supreme Court outlawed segregation in public schools.

Israel Says It Killed Senior Hamas Commander, Despite Cease-Fire

14 December 2025 at 00:41
Hamas said the attack on Saturday was a breach of the truce. The militant group did not comment on Israel’s claim to have killed one of its members.

© Saher Alghorra for The New York Times

A destroyed car following an Israeli strike in Gaza City on Saturday.

Woody Allen Is Not Sorry About His Friendship With Jeffrey Epstein

14 December 2025 at 00:30
The nonagenarian director is taking a slightly different tack than many of the other powerful people associated with the disgraced former financier.

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An image released by the House Oversight Democrats showing Jeffrey Epstein with Woody Allen

U.S. Forces Attacked in Syria, State Media Says

The Pentagon said two American soldiers and a civilian interpreter were killed in Palmyra while supporting counterterrorism operations.

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American Bradley fighting vehicles during a joint exercise in 2021 with Syrian Democratic Forces in northeastern Syria.

A Measles Outbreak Brings With It Echoes of the Pandemic

In South Carolina, parents struggle to deal with infections that have brought quarantines and remote learning. Health care workers are bracing for an increase in cases.

© Annie Rice/Associated Press

Health officials in South Carolina are working to inform families that the vaccine for measles is safe and effective.
Yesterday — 13 December 2025NYT | Top Stories

U.S. Forces Attacked in Syria, State Media Says

Injuries were reported in an assault near the ancient city of Palmyra, the Syrian government’s news agency said.

© Baderkhan Ahmad/Associated Press

American Bradley fighting vehicles during a joint exercise in 2021 with Syrian Democratic Forces in northeastern Syria.

Russia Bombs Ukraine Port of Odesa Amid Peace Talks

13 December 2025 at 21:34
Much of Ukraine’s largest Black Sea port was without power, heat and water on Saturday after strikes from Russia, which has shown little appetite for a deal to end the war.

© Nina Liashonok/Reuters

Firefighters at the site of a Russian strike in Odesa, Ukraine, on Saturday.

Trump’s ‘Pardon’ of Tina Peters Rejected by Colorado Officials

14 December 2025 at 00:20
The president’s stated intention to pardon Tina Peters, jailed for tampering with election machines in 2020, has set off a legal fight over the extent of Mr. Trump’s pardon powers.

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Former Mesa County Clerk and Recorder Tina Peters, middle, during her sentencing for her election interference case at the Mesa County District Court in Grand Junction, Colo., last year.

Biden Has Raised Little of What He Needs to Build a Presidential Library

His library foundation has told the I.R.S. that by the end of 2027 it expects to bring in just $11.3 million — not nearly enough for a traditional presidential library.

© Alyssa Schukar for The New York Times

Former President Joseph R. Biden Jr. has only just begun to raise money for a presidential library, starting with an event for potential donors on Monday in Washington.

Eric Adams Swaggered Into City Hall, and Now He’s Swaggering Out

13 December 2025 at 19:52
Interviewed as he prepares to leave office, Mayor Eric Adams said that he hadn’t gotten the credit he deserved and that certain forces had always been arrayed against him.

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Mayor Eric Adams said that his ability to lead New York City was compromised well before his federal indictment.

Can Trump’s Grand Plans for Gaza Get Off the Drawing Board?

The next steps for the president’s 20-point Gaza peace plan have been mired in uncertainty and a lack of detail, but that may be set to change. Here’s what to know.

© Saher Alghorra for The New York Times

Displaced Palestinians shelter in tents surrounded by destroyed buildings near Gaza City, last month.

A Measles Outbreak Brings With It Echoes of the Pandemic

In South Carolina, parents struggle to deal with infections that have brought quarantines and remote learning. Health care workers are bracing for an increase in cases.

© Annie Rice/Associated Press

Health officials in South Carolina are working to inform families that the vaccine for measles is safe and effective.

North Korean Soldiers Return From Russia’s War With Ukraine

13 December 2025 at 14:53
Kim Jong-un hugged the returning troops and awarded the country’s highest medal to nine soldiers killed in action.

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Kim Jong-un, North Korea’s leader, hugs a soldier in Pyongyang during a ceremony welcoming troops home from a deployment in Russia’s Kursk region, in a photograph released by state media.

Dozens Killed as a Hospital Is Bombed in Myanmar’s Brutal Civil War

13 December 2025 at 10:29
Jets from the Myanmar military dropped two bombs on the facility in Mrauk-U, in what rebels and witnesses called a deliberate attack on civilians.

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Mourners at a cemetery in Mrauk-U, Myanmar, on Thursday, grieving over the bodies of victims of a hospital bombing.

Judge’s Order Complicates Justice Dept. Plans to Again Charge Comey

13 December 2025 at 11:59
Justice Department officials have been considering whether to bring new charges against James B. Comey, the former F.B.I. director, after a different judge dismissed the original case against him.

© Monica Jorge for The New York Times

A judge’s order suggested that sloppiness by the Justice Department had helped to sabotage President Trump’s demands to use the criminal justice system to go after James B. Comey, the former F.B.I. director.

Venezuela Oil Tanker Seized by U.S. Was Part of Effort to Finance Cuba

Firms with ties to Cuba are getting a larger share of Venezuelan oil exports, as the island’s security agents boost President Nicolás Maduro’s defenses.

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An oil tanker called the Skipper in the southern Caribbean Sea. It was seized by the United States.

For Rubio the Cuba Hawk, the Road to Havana Runs Through Venezuela

President Trump’s secretary of state and national security adviser has long sought to cripple or topple Cuba’s government, which has close security and economic ties to Venezuela.

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Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s parents immigrated to Florida from Havana three years before Cuba’s communist revolution prevailed in 1959.

House G.O.P. Releases Health Plan That Would Allow Subsidies to End

The legislation, expected to come to a vote next week, would make changes that could eventually affect health care costs but are unlikely to immediately curb rising premiums.

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Speaker Mike Johnson speaking to reporters at the Capitol on Thursday.

Elon Musk’s SpaceX Valued at $800 Billion, as It Prepares to Go Public

By: Ryan Mac
13 December 2025 at 08:55
A sale of insider shares at $421 a share would make Mr. Musk’s rocket company the most valuable private company in the world, as it readies for a possible initial public offering next year.

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The SpaceX launchpad in South Texas in June 2024. The company said in a letter to employees on Friday that it could go public in 2026.

To Get to Oslo, Machado Skirted Military Checkpoints and Survived Rough Seas

An American firm with experience in special operations spirited María Corina Machado, the recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, out of the country in a secretive land, sea and air operation.

© Leonhard Foeger/Reuters

María Corina Machado spent the last year hiding from President Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela’s regime.

After False Earthquake Alert in Nevada, Lawmakers Demand Answers on How it Was Sent

By: Amy Graff
13 December 2025 at 09:00
The federal government and earthquake experts blamed a technical glitch for the alert that sent warnings hundreds of miles away last week.

© Emily Najera for The New York Times

The outskirts of Reno, Nev. Last week an early warning system set off a false alarm for an earthquake nearby.

National Guardsman Who Was Shot in D.C. Making ‘Extraordinary Progress,’ Doctor Says

13 December 2025 at 08:41
Staff Sgt. Andrew Wolfe, who suffered a head wound in the shooting near the White House last month, has moved from acute care to rehabilitation.

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A memorial in honor of Specialist Sarah Beckstrom and Staff Sgt. Andrew Wolfe in Washington.

In Trump’s Justice Dept., Failing in Court Might Be Better Than Bucking the Boss

13 December 2025 at 22:46
This week demonstrated an emerging reality for President Trump: Commanding the Justice Department is not the same as controlling the justice system.

© Vincent Alban/The New York Times

The White House was served a legal rebuke this week when federal grand jurors in Alexandria, Va., rejected the Justice Department’s push to indict Letitia James, the New York attorney general, on mortgage-related charges for the second time in a week.

Risk-Based Screening Works as Well as Yearly Checks After 40 in Finding Breast Cancers

13 December 2025 at 10:06
A study of more than 45,000 women found that screening women according to their level of risk was as effective in detecting tumors as the one-size-fits-most screening currently recommended.

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A breast cancer awareness event in Seville, Spain, in October.
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