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Today — 6 September 2025NYT | Top Stories

With ‘Ghost Bat’ Drone, Australia Gears Up for New Arms Race

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By: Victoria Kim
6 September 2025 at 12:09
A new class of aircraft developed with Boeing, it will be the first military plane designed and manufactured in the country in half a century.

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A photo provided by the Australian Defense Force of an MQ-28A Ghost Bat in Woomera, South Australia, on Friday.

Trump Will Host G20 Summit in 2026 at His Doral Resort

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By: Erica L. Green and Chris Cameron
6 September 2025 at 08:00
President Trump faced withering bipartisan criticism in his first term for a similar idea that would have mixed foreign diplomacy with his personal business interests.

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Trump National Doral in Doral, Fla.

Food Delivery Drivers Feel Strain of Italy’s Ban on Outdoor Work on Hottest Days

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By: Emma Bubola， Monika Cvorak and Enrico Parenti
6 September 2025 at 12:01
Delivery riders are already some of the most vulnerable workers of booming gig economies. During successive heat waves this summer in Italy, it got complicated.

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A delivery driver drives in front of the Colloseum in Rome

A Japanese Island Preserves an Ancient and Ghostly Theater Form

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By: Martin Fackler and Ko Sasaki
6 September 2025 at 12:01
Noh was once the entertainment of medieval warriors. Today, remote Sado Islanders embrace one of the world’s oldest surviving types of drama.

Shinobu Kamiyama, center, playing the tormented ghost of a famously beautiful woman in the play “Tamakazura” at Ushio Shrine on Sado Island, Japan. Noh dramas often center on supernatural visitations.

What the Unemployment Rate Isn’t Telling Us

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By: Lydia DePillis， Christina Thornell， Laura Salaberry， Jon Hazell， Gabriel Blanco and Laura Bult
6 September 2025 at 05:05
The latest job report shows that unemployment remains steady, but it’s not telling the full story. Lydia DePillis, economy reporter for The New York Times, explains how low job growth is being offset by the Trump administration’s deportation campaign.

Will Trump Have to Run From the Economy?

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By: Jess Bidgood
6 September 2025 at 07:10
It’s the issue voters cared most about in 2024, and there are signs of trouble.

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A Gallup poll found that President Trump’s approval rating on the economy fell to 37 percent in August, compared with 42 percent in February.

Trump Says U.S. Military Has ‘Never Fought to Win’ Since World War II

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By: Erica L. Green
6 September 2025 at 08:36
As he signed an order recognizing the Defense Department as the “Department of War,” President Trump said that the country “could have won every war, but we really chose to be very politically correct.”

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“The Department of War sends a signal,” President Trump said on Friday. The change, he added, was a “much more appropriate name, especially in light of where the world is right now.”

How Trump’s Blunt-Force Diplomacy Is Pushing His Rivals Together

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By: Luke Broadwater and David E. Sanger
6 September 2025 at 06:38
Some of President Trump’s pressure tactics appear to have backfired, sending would-be allies into the embrace of China.

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“Looks like we’ve lost India and Russia to deepest, darkest, China,” Mr. Trump wrote on Truth Social on Friday morning, as he posted a photo of the three nations’ leaders meeting in China.

With Jair Bolsonaro on Trial, Brazil Braces for U.S. Sanctions

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By: Ana Ionova and Dado Galdieri
6 September 2025 at 07:39
While the Supreme Court weighs the fate of the former president on charges of plotting a coup, Brazil’s government is preparing for more penalties.

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Police officer stand outside Brazil’s Supreme Court in Brasília on Wednesday.

New Summer Camp Safety Laws Follow Texas’ Tragic Floods

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By: Ruth Graham
6 September 2025 at 06:26
The families of “Heaven’s 27,” the children and counselors lost at Camp Mystic, pressed the Legislature to toughen flood rules over the objections of some Hill Country camp operators.

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Gov. Greg Abbott discussing the new law, which includes a requirement for youth camps to move existing cabins away from dangerous floodplains.

Off-Duty Pilot Who Tried to Shut Off Engines Expresses Regret in Court

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By: Michael Levenson
6 September 2025 at 06:44
The former Alaska Airlines pilot had consumed psychedelic mushrooms two days before the flight. Judges approved plea agreements in his case on Friday.

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Joseph D. Emerson, an off-duty Alaska Airlines pilot, was sitting in an extra seat in the cockpit during a flight on Oct. 22, 2023, when he tried to cut fuel to the engines, the authorities said.

As Powerball Nears Record, Ticket Buyers Dream of New Houses and Winning in Secret

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By: Hannah Ziegler， Davaughnia Wilson and Sopan Deb
6 September 2025 at 05:58
The Powerball jackpot hit $1.8 billion ahead of Saturday’s drawing, making it the second-largest and inspiring many to play.

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If no one matches all six numbers of the Powerball drawing on Saturday, the jackpot could become the largest in history.

American Eagle Sales Fall Slightly After Sydney Sweeney Ad

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By: Hannah Ziegler
6 September 2025 at 03:32
The second quarter ended nine days after the ad was released, leaving little time to see the full impact of the campaign.

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An American Eagle ad featuring the actress Sydney Sweeney in New York in August. Critics accused the campaign for appearing to champion white beauty standards.

Abrego Garcia Now Facing Shifting Threats of Deportation

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By: Hamed Aleaziz and Alan Feuer
6 September 2025 at 06:15
A court had ruled that Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia could not be sent back to his homeland, but now the administration sees a loophole. On Friday, Mr. Abrego Garcia’s lawyers were told that he would be sent to the small African nation of Eswatini.

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Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia at a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement field office in Baltimore last month.

What to Know About a Rapid U.S. Military Buildup in the Caribbean

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By: Eric Schmitt
6 September 2025 at 06:21
The United States has deployed eight warships, several surveillance planes and one attack submarine to the region as tensions with Venezuela grow.

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The Navy warship U.S.S. Sampson docked at the Amador International Cruise Terminal in Panama City last month.

Federal Report on Drinking Is Withdrawn

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By: Roni Caryn Rabin
6 September 2025 at 04:51
The upcoming U.S. Dietary Guidelines will instead be influenced by a competing study, favored by industry, which found that moderate alcohol consumption was healthy.

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The report that has been sidelined is one of several that have upended a long-dominant narrative about alcohol that suggested that moderate drinking was not harmful and might even have health benefits.

How Giorgio Armani Conquered Hollywood

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By: Jacob Bernstein
6 September 2025 at 04:26
Armani amassed a cavalcade of celebrity spokespeople. Many came through a former journalist named Wanda McDaniel.

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Giorgio Armani and Samuel L. Jackson met through Wanda McDaniel, who helped Mr. Armani pioneer a new way of collaborating with celebrities.

Newsmax Lawsuit Against Fox News Is Dismissed

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By: Katie Robertson
6 September 2025 at 04:12
A federal judge left the door open for Newsmax to refile its complaint that Fox had created a monopoly in right-leaning television news.

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Fox News was accused of deploying anticompetitive tactics to bar rivals in conservative cable news.

A Second Weak Jobs Report Challenges Trump’s Claim the Economy Is Booming

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By: Tony Romm and Ben Casselman
6 September 2025 at 06:01
After a bad employment report in August, President Trump fired the official in charge of the numbers. This month’s data was just as disappointing.

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The economy added only 22,000 jobs in August. President Trump’s high tariffs and mass deportations appear to have created noticeable pressure on employers.

U.S. Is Increasingly Exposed to Chinese Election Threats, Lawmakers Say

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By: Julian E. Barnes
6 September 2025 at 03:44
Two Democrats on the House China committee noted the use of A.I. by Chinese companies as a weapon in information warfare.

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Democrats on the House China committee said the office of Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence, was “stripping away the guardrails that protect our nation from foreign influence.”

Chicago Braces for Trump’s Immigration Crackdown

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By: Julie Bosman， Jazmine Ulloa and Hamed Aleaziz
6 September 2025 at 03:07
Protesters held demonstrations and city leaders spoke against the prospect of a surge of federal agents.

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Police encountered demonstrators trying to block government vehicles from leaving an I.C.E. facility in Broadview, Ill., outside Chicago, on Friday.
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