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The S.E.C. Drops Efforts to Recoup Funds From Trump Clemency Recipients

19 September 2025 at 22:07
Devon Archer, Trevor Milton and Carlos Watson were convicted in fraud schemes totaling hundreds of millions of dollars. Now, they will not be required to pay back victims.

© Photographs by Brittainy Newman/Associated Press, J. Scott Applewhite/Associated Press and Brendan McDermid/Reuters

From left, Trevor Milton, Devon Archer and Carlos Watson all allied themselves with President Trump as they pursued pardons for white-collar fraud.

As Farm Aid Reaches 40 Years, It Deals With Familiar Farming Crises

19 September 2025 at 21:31
Saturday’s star-studded concert will air on TV for the first time in years as the hotline for farmers gets more calls about a mix of complicated problems.

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Neil Young, Willie Nelson and John Mellencamp at the first Farm Aid concert, in 1985. This year’s event comes as farmers face the bleakest economic conditions in years.

Trump and Xi Set to Finalize TikTok Deal

19 September 2025 at 21:26
The two leaders spoke on Friday to discuss a deal to keep the wildly popular app from going dark in the United States.

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President Trump and President Xi in Beijing in 2017.

Agnes Gund, Who Oversaw a Major Expansion of MoMA, Dies at 87

19 September 2025 at 21:09
A champion of contemporary art, she was the museum’s president for 11 years. She also founded the Art for Justice Fund, donating $100 million.

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Agnes Gund in 2014. Her long relationship with the Museum of Modern Art began in 1967, when she joined the museum’s international council. She steadily ascended the administrative ranks and eventually became president in 1991.

Europe Announces New Sanctions to Ramp Up Pressure on Russia

19 September 2025 at 20:34
The latest set of European Union restrictions are aimed at chipping away at Russia’s energy profits and ability to do business globally.

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Ursula von der Leyen, the president of the European Commission, last week. “It is time to turn off the tap,” she said on Friday, referring to Russian sanctions.

F.C.C. Head Says Kimmel Not ‘the Last Shoe to Drop,’ and Musk Goes All In on A.I.

Plus, your Friday news quiz.

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Jimmy Kimmel live was taken off the air indefinitely by ABC, following pressure from the Trump administration.

Battered but Undefeated, Hamas Remains a Fighting Force in Gaza

19 September 2025 at 18:17
Some Israeli officials believe the military assault on Gaza City will deliver a decisive blow to the group, which continues to stage ambushes and guerrilla attacks.

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Hamas fighters during a handover of Israeli hostages in February.

How Outrage at Kimmel Grew to a Shout From a Whisper

19 September 2025 at 17:05
Right-wing users on social media on Tuesday were frustrated but not yet apoplectic about Jimmy Kimmel’s monologue. Things changed.

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The New York Times reviewed hundreds of thousands of posts on X, along with commentary from radio, television and podcasts, and livestreams on YouTube and other websites, to reconstruct the origins of the outrage that exploded among conservatives over Jimmy Kimmel’s Monday night monologue.

What Is ‘Consequence Culture’?

19 September 2025 at 08:56
As some prominent conservatives target both ordinary people and public figures for their comments about Charlie Kirk, they are trying to rebrand a practice they once maligned.

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“When you see someone celebrating Charlie’s murder, call them out,” Vice President JD Vance said on Monday. “And hell, call their employer.”

What Charlie Kirk Could Mean for the Future of Marriage and Family

19 September 2025 at 17:04
Erika Kirk said her husband aspired to “revive the American family.” Conservative activists wonder if Charlie Kirk’s legacy will lend new urgency to White House policy discussions.

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Erika Kirk and her husband, Charlie, with one of their children in a photo that Mrs. Kirk posted on Instagram. Mr. Kirk embraced traditional gender roles with a directness that even some movement leaders described as a “shock to the system.”

‘Peak SF’ on a Friday Night Is a Robot Fight

19 September 2025 at 17:00
The artificial intelligence boom, which has brought techies flocking back to the city, has fueled a resurgence of live — and sometimes futuristic — events.

Autocrats Move Quickly to Fill Void as Trump Retreats From U.N.

19 September 2025 at 17:00
As President Trump pulls back U.S. funding of the United Nations, countries like China, Russia and Qatar are seeking to influence the body’s work on human rights and labor.

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President Trump in February called for a general review of U.S. funding and involvement in the United Nations.

How China Stands to Gain as the U.S. Steps Away From the U.N.

19 September 2025 at 17:09
U.S. funding cuts are straining the United Nations and giving Beijing an opening to strengthen its influence, at a fraction of the cost Washington once paid.

© Pool photo by Andres Martinez Casares

China’s top leader, Xi Jinping, along with his wife, Peng Liyuan, welcomed António Guterres, the secretary-general of the United Nations, in Beijing in 2024.

Draft Bill Would Authorize Trump to Wage Drug Trafficking War

The potential legislation would grant President Trump sweeping power to use military force if he saw a link to “narco-terrorists.”

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President Trump has claimed that the Constitution gave him the power he needed to authorize two deadly strikes against boats in the Caribbean this month.

Democrats Seek to Limit Trump’s War Powers After Venezuela Boat Strikes

19 September 2025 at 17:30
Lawmakers have said that President Trump has not provided sufficient evidence about the threat posed by the vessels or the legal basis to use force against them.

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The Trump administration has described its strikes against Venezuelan boats as part of a campaign against drug cartels.

The Race Is on to Make Rare Earth Magnets Outside China

19 September 2025 at 17:30
After Beijing exerted its power over the valuable magnets as leverage, other countries started to add production, but only incrementally. And China is far ahead.

The Plot to Free the Nuns

The last of their order, they are now known for a dispute with the church they gave their lives to over where to live in retirement. And they wanted to stay home.

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From left, Sister Bernadette, Sister Rita and Sister Regina.

32 Years After a Brutal Murder, a Man Is on Trial. Again.

19 September 2025 at 15:00
A judge vacated the convictions of two men accused of killing Deborah Meindl in her Tonawanda, N.Y., home. The district attorney is trying to convict them once more.

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Brian Scott Lorenz, left, was convicted of Deborah Meindl’s murder along with James Pugh. Later testing of crime-scene evidence found that neither of their DNA was present.

The Trump Administration’s Chilling Efforts to Punish Free Speech

19 September 2025 at 17:04
If the American ideal of freedom means anything, it is that we can engage in an extremely wide range of political speech, including the tasteless and the offensive.

© Illustration by Rebecca Chew/The New York Times

Taliban Rebuffs Trump’s Effort to Regain Air Base in Afghanistan

19 September 2025 at 16:17
An Afghan official rejected the idea of a renewed presence for the U.S. military in the country, but left the door open for “political and economic relations.”

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A U.S. Army CH-47 Chinook helicopter after takeoff from Bagram Air Base, in Afghanistan, in May 2021.

The F.J. King, a Ship Lost in 1886, Is Found in Lake Michigan

19 September 2025 at 07:03
Long rumored to be on the floor of the lake but never seen, the schooner had eluded divers and taunted storytellers for generations. It was miles off the Door Peninsula in Wisconsin.

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After more than a century, searchers have found the wreckage of a ship lost during a ferocious storm off the Wisconsin coastline.

How Xi Is Using a TikTok Tradeoff to Court Trump

By: Lily Kuo
19 September 2025 at 14:15
Agreeing to a deal suggests that the fate of TikTok matters less to Beijing than gaining leverage on issues it cares most about, like tariffs, technology and Taiwan.

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President Donald Trump reaching out to shake hands with China’s top leader, Xi Jinping, during the G20 Summit in Osaka, Japan in 2019.

Trump Pressures Broadcasters Over Critical Coverage, Escalating Attack on Speech

19 September 2025 at 12:45
The president’s suggestion that broadcasters should lose their licenses because of criticism of him indicated that his assault on critics’ language is driven in part by personal animus.

© Doug Mills/The New York Times

President Trump and Melania Trump boarding Air Force One and departing London on Thursday. “I would think maybe their license should be taken away,” the president said of broadcast networks.
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