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Today — 10 October 2025NYT | Top Stories

Bob Ross’s ‘Happy Little’ Paintings Will Be Auctioned

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By: Sopan Deb
9 October 2025 at 17:04
Thirty canvases, many created for viewers of Ross’s PBS series, “The Joy of Painting,” will be sold to benefit public television stations grappling with funding cuts.

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Ross became a beloved pop culture figure through “The Joy Of Painting,” which ran for more than a decade beginning in 1983.

Judge Rejects ‘Unprecedented’ Indictment Amid Trump’s D.C. Clampdown

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By: Zach Montague
10 October 2025 at 10:11
The federal magistrate judge, Zia M. Faruqui, accused prosecutors of relying on a “facially invalid” indictment to charge a man with felony gun possession.

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Judge Zia M. Faruqui has accused federal prosecutors of executing an “end run” around the normal course of justice.

What a National Guard Deployment Means

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By: John Ismay， Claire Hogan， June Kim and Nikolay Nikolov
10 October 2025 at 08:49
John Ismay, who reports on the Pentagon for The New York Times, describes what National Guard troops and civilian law enforcement are doing in cities where President Trump has mobilized them.

L.A. County Considers Emergency Declaration Over Immigration Raids

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By: Orlando Mayorquín
10 October 2025 at 09:03
The declaration would allow the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors to enact an eviction moratorium and other protections for immigrants.

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Demonstrators protested against federal immigration enforcement in Los Angeles last week.

Nobel Prizes This Year Offer Three Cheers for Slow Science

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By: Katrina Miller
10 October 2025 at 06:35
The scientific Nobels announced this week — in Physiology or Medicine, Physics and Chemistry — honored achievements rooted in fundamental research from decades ago.

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Richard Robson, left, one of the winners of this year’s Nobel Prize for Chemistry, with a student at the University of Melbourne. He and his co-laureates were recognized for work derived from experiments that began in the 1980s.

Trump Has His Eyes on a Nobel Peace Prize. Will He Get It?

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By: Erica L. Green
10 October 2025 at 06:20
President Trump has coveted the prize for years. The winner will be unveiled 48 hours after President Trump announced a breakthrough in the Israel-Hamas war.

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President Trump used his speech to world leaders at the United Nations General Assembly last month to list his diplomatic achievements, and downplay that he cared about the prize.

Judge Dismisses Drake’s Lawsuit Over Kendrick Lamar’s ‘Not Like Us’

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By: Joe Coscarelli
10 October 2025 at 05:47
The Canadian rapper sued for defamation and harassment, and accused the record company behind both artists of boosting his rival.

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A judge called Kendrick Lamar’s “Not Like Us” the “metaphorical killing blow” in “perhaps the most infamous rap battle in the genre’s history,” and ruled that its lyrics constituted “nonactionable opinion.”

Ruth Weiss, Who Chronicled Apartheid After Fleeing the Nazis, Dies at 101

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By: Adam Nossiter
10 October 2025 at 05:10
Her life and work were shaped by confronting injustice in South Africa and Germany. “Blacks under apartheid — Jews under the swastika. Was it all that different?” she asked.

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Ruth Weiss in 2004. Nadine Gordimer, the Nobel Prize-winning novelist, called her “the most humane woman I have ever met.”

Mamdani Maintains 13-Point Lead as Cuomo Gains Ground After Adams’s Exit

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By: Nicholas Fandos
10 October 2025 at 05:18
While former Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo benefited from Mayor Eric Adams’s departure, Zohran Mamdani still enjoyed a sizable lead in the Quinnipiac University poll.

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Zohran Mamdani, at a recent campaign event with Representative Adriano Espaillat, was the only mayoral candidate viewed favorably overall in the Quinnipiac University poll.

Crypto Investor Known as ‘Bitcoin Jesus’ Reaches Deal With Prosecutors

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By: Kenneth P. Vogel and David Yaffe-Bellany
10 October 2025 at 04:12
In the Trump administration’s latest example of dialing back cryptocurrency enforcement, Roger Ver agreed to pay about $48 million to end a tax fraud case.

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Roger Ver, shown in 2013, was charged with fraud and tax evasion for failing to pay $48 million in taxes that he owed on his cryptocurrency holdings.

Why Many Students in Thailand Can’t Let Their Hair Down

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By: Kittiphum Sringammuang， Verena Hölzl and Lauren DeCicca
9 October 2025 at 12:01
For decades, Thai students have been subjected to unwanted haircuts in class. Many of them carry the humiliating memory into adulthood.

Students at Wat That Thong High School in Bangkok shopping for snacks before morning assembly.

How Jared Kushner, a Self-Described ‘Deal Guy,’ Helped Broker a Gaza Breakthrough

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By: Katie Rogers and Tyler Pager
10 October 2025 at 04:32
Trained in New York City real estate, the president’s son-in-law had a single goal: Get to a yes first, and hash out the details later. “It’s just different being deal guys — just a different sport,” he said.

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Jared Kushner at the White House last month during a news conference with President Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel.

Oscar S. Wyatt Jr., Wily Texas Oilman, Is Dead at 101

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By: Robert D. McFadden
10 October 2025 at 02:23
He made billions selling energy with his Coastal Corporation, courted presidents and dictators, and eventually went to prison for paying kickbacks to the Iraqi government.

Trump Baselessly Claims He ‘Took the Freedom of Speech Away’ From Flag Burners

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By: Charlie Savage
10 October 2025 at 02:50
The president said he had made flag burning a crime punishable by a year in prison. But such a claim contradicts both Supreme Court precedent and the text of an executive order he signed.

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Protesters at an ICE facility in Portland, Ore., burned a flag on Monday. Commenting on an earlier flag burning in the area, President Trump said on Wednesday that such acts could ‘incite tremendous violence.”

Why Arguments About Free Speech Don’t Apply to the Riyadh Comedy Festival

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By: Jason Zinoman
10 October 2025 at 01:30
Bill Burr, Dave Chappelle and others have framed their participation as a matter of open expression. Yet they’re maddeningly vague about how much dissent is possible in Saudi Arabia.

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The festival has led to a cottage industry of stand-ups defending their involvement.

Democratic Alarm Over an Unbound Trump Fuels Shutdown Standoff

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By: Carl Hulse
10 October 2025 at 02:07
The threat of rising Obamacare premiums has been Democrats’ main focus in the public debate, but the president’s defiance of laws, norms and congressional constraints has helped hold them together in opposition.

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Underlying the shutdown fight is a deep concern among Democrats about the actions of what they see as a lawless and unchecked president.

Man Charged With Fatally Beating 64-Year-Old at Subway Station

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By: Camille Baker and Chelsia Rose Marcius
10 October 2025 at 02:14
A 25-year-old man attacked the victim on Tuesday at the Jay Street-MetroTech subway station in Brooklyn, according to the police. The two men did not appear to know each other.

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The fatal beating took place in the middle of the afternoon at a busy transit hub in Brooklyn.

A Mystery C.E.O. and Billions in Sales: Is China Buying Banned Nvidia Chips?

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By: Ana Swanson， Tripp Mickle， Paul Mozur and Mara Hvistendahl
10 October 2025 at 02:27
An executive of a Singaporean firm called Megaspeed socialized with Nvidia’s Jensen Huang. Now the company is being scrutinized by U.S. officials for its ties to China.

© Amrita Chandradas for The New York Times

Construction workers at Sedenak Tech Park, where U.S. workers found Megaspeed’s orders of Nvidia products still in boxes.

Who Are the Hostages Believed Alive in Gaza?

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By: Liam Stack and Isabel Kershner
10 October 2025 at 00:44
Israel says 20 living hostages are held by Hamas, set for release in a prisoner exchange together with the remains of those who died. Here’s what we know about them.

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Yellow chairs, some with images of hostages, along a road in southern Israel on Thursday.

Oklahoma’s Republican Governor Criticizes National Guard Deployment in Chicago

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By: J. David Goodman
10 October 2025 at 01:36
Gov. Kevin Stitt, the current chairman of the National Governors Association, broke with Texas, saying, “Oklahomans would lose their mind” if Illinois sent troops to their red state.

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Gov. Kevin Stitt of Oklahoma.
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