❌

Normal view

There are new articles available, click to refresh the page.
Today — 13 December 2025NYT | Top Stories

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

✇NYT | Top Stories
By: Abdi Latif Dahir
13 December 2025 at 22:17
Injuries were reported in an attack that the Syrian government’s news agency said happened near the ancient city of Palmyra.

© 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

✇NYT | Top Stories
By: Kim Barker
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.

Colorado Officials Reject Trump’s ‘Pardon’ of a Convicted Election Denier

✇NYT | Top Stories
By: Jack Healy
13 December 2025 at 18:02
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.

© Larry Robinson/The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel, via Associated Press

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

✇NYT | Top Stories
By: David A. Fahrenthold， Shane Goldmacher， Tyler Pager and Theodore Schleifer
13 December 2025 at 18:00
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

✇NYT | Top Stories
By: Debra Kamin
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.

© Vincent Alban/The New York Times

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?

✇NYT | Top Stories
By: Adam Rasgon， Natan Odenheimer and Aaron Boxerman
13 December 2025 at 18:14
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

✇NYT | Top Stories
By: Eduardo Medina and Nick Madigan
13 December 2025 at 18:02
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

✇NYT | Top Stories
By: Choe Sang-Hun
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.

© Korean Central News Agency, via Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

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

✇NYT | Top Stories
By: Verena Hölzl
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.

© Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

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

✇NYT | Top Stories
By: Alan Feuer
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

✇NYT | Top Stories
By: Anatoly Kurmanaev， Nicholas Nehamas and Farnaz Fassihi
13 December 2025 at 16:08
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.

© Vantor, via Associated Press

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

✇NYT | Top Stories
By: Michael Crowley and Edward Wong
13 December 2025 at 07:30
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.

© Allison Robbert for The New York Times

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

✇NYT | Top Stories
By: Michael Gold and Margot Sanger-Katz
13 December 2025 at 09:09
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.

© Eric Lee for The New York Times

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

✇NYT | Top Stories
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.

© Meridith Kohut for The New York Times

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.

Behind the Venezuelan Opposition Leader’s Daring Escape to Oslo

✇NYT | Top Stories
By: Karoun Demirjian and Simon Romero
13 December 2025 at 08:55
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

✇NYT | Top Stories
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

✇NYT | Top Stories
By: Pooja Salhotra
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.

© Eric Lee for The New York Times

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

✇NYT | Top Stories
By: Glenn Thrush and Alan Feuer
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

✇NYT | Top Stories
By: Roni Caryn Rabin
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.

© Marcelo Del Pozo/Reuters

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

For Republicans, Trump’s Hands-Off Approach to Health Care Is a Problem

✇NYT | Top Stories
By: Luke Broadwater
13 December 2025 at 07:23
The prospect of soaring health care costs could exacerbate Americans’ feelings about affordability, an issue that President Trump has tried to downplay. But Democrats plan to keep the issue front and center.

© Kenny Holston/The New York Times

President Trump said Thursday night that he may soon start negotiating with Democrats to lower health care costs.

In Florida’s Panhandle, a Hearing on School Vaccine Mandates Gets Heated

✇NYT | Top Stories
By: Patricia Mazzei and Brendan Farrington
13 December 2025 at 07:45
The hearing was the first concrete step toward repealing some of the state’s vaccine requirements. Rolling back others would require legislative action.

© Kate Payne/Associated Press

Larry Downs Jr., of Pensacola, Fla., speaks against childhood vaccine mandates at a public hearing held by Florida’s Department of Health on Friday in Panama City Beach, Fla.

Amid Fractures on the Right, Tucker Carlson Continues His Attacks

✇NYT | Top Stories
By: Jesse McKinley
13 December 2025 at 07:00
On Theo Von’s show this week, Mr. Carlson lashed out at a major supporter of the president, the F.B.I. and “unimpressive, dumb, totally noncreative people” leading the nation.

© Patrick T. Fallon/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

Tucker Carlson did not mention President Trump by name in his attacks on Theo Von’s podcast, but his broadsides were the latest evidence of a deepening divide in Republican politics.

Canadians Rush to Buy Stockpiles of Boycotted U.S. Liquor

✇NYT | Top Stories
By: Michael Levenson
13 December 2025 at 05:58
Four Canadian provinces are selling off the American liquor they pulled from shelves in protest over President Trump’s tariffs. Some bourbon drinkers are thrilled.

© Arlyn McAdorey/Reuters

American alcohol products were removed from store shelves in much of Canada when U.S. tariffs against the country went into effect in March.

Amid Fractures on the Right, Tucker Carlson Continues His Attacks

✇NYT | Top Stories
By: Jesse McKinley
13 December 2025 at 06:22
On Theo Von’s show this week, Mr. Carlson lashed out at a major supporter of the president, the F.B.I. and “unimpressive, dumb, totally noncreative people” leading the nation.

© Patrick T. Fallon/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

Tucker Carlson did not mention President Trump by name in his attacks on Theo Von’s podcast, but his broadsides were the latest evidence of a deepening divide in Republican politics.

F.D.A. Approves Two New Drugs to Treat Gonorrhea

✇NYT | Top Stories
By: Andrew Jacobs
13 December 2025 at 06:34
The sexually transmitted disease has become increasingly resistant to existing antibiotics.

© Science Photo Library/Science Source

Neisseria gonorrhoeae, the bacterium that causes gonorrhea.
❌
❌