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Today — 24 October 2025NYT | Top Stories

Gambinos and Other NYC Mob Families Are Still in Business

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By: William K. Rashbaum
24 October 2025 at 03:29
The criminal organizations were mentioned prominently in a charging document that accused N.B.A. stars of recruiting players for illegal poker games.

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New York City’s organized crime families have become less visible, but they remain alive and well, investigators say.

Here’s How the Poker Scheme Worked, According to Prosecutors

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By: Nicole Hong
24 October 2025 at 02:21
The players cheated with sophisticated technology, and those who lost faced the threat of violence and extortion.

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Federal prosecutors said part of the cheating scheme relied on sophisticated technology.

The U.S. and Europe Are Trying New Ways to Pressure Russia

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By: Neil MacFarquhar
24 October 2025 at 05:44
For the first time in his second term, President Trump is imposing new sanctions, but they may not shift the course of Russia’s war in Ukraine.

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The headquarters of the Russian oil giant Lukoil in Moscow on Thursday.

Trump’s Ballroom Project Claims 123-Year-Old East Wing

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By: Elisabeth Bumiller
24 October 2025 at 05:34
Mourners are outraged over President Trump’s demolition of the East Wing to make way for his $300 million ballroom. Others say it was time for change.

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An undated photograph of the entrance to the East Wing of the White House.

The Rot Creeping Into Our Minds

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By: David Brooks
24 October 2025 at 06:10
Yes, Trump is assaulting democracy, but what worries me more is what has happened to the rest of us — the loss of the convictions and norms that undergird democracy.

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A protester near an ICE building in Portland, Ore.

Trump’s Sanctions on Russian Oil Sector Ratchet Up Economic War

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By: Alan Rappeport
24 October 2025 at 04:02
After months of restraint, President Trump’s move to blacklist Lukoil and Rosneft will hit Russia where it hurts.

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The moves to impose new sanctions demonstrate the extent of President Trump’s frustration with President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia.

Trump Opens ANWR to Oil Drilling

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By: Maxine Joselow
24 October 2025 at 03:54
The Interior Department also said it would allow a contentious road to be built through the Izembek National Wildlife Refuge in southwestern Alaska.

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The 1002 Area of the Arctic Wildlife Refuge on Alaska’s north slope in 2018.

Kim Kardashian Announces Brain Aneurysm Diagnosis. Here’s What to Know.

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By: Alexandra E. Petri and Dani Blum
24 October 2025 at 05:35
About one in every 50 people has an unruptured brain aneurysm. It was not clear whether Ms. Kardashian had experienced symptoms.

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Kim Kardashian during a meeting at the White House last year. Ms. Kardashian has previously promoted full-body M.R.I. scans, despite doctors warning that these scans may not be useful for every patient.

A Mystery in Trinidad as Bodies Wash Ashore After U.S. Strikes

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By: Simon Romero， Prior Beharry and Federico Rios
24 October 2025 at 02:42
The U.S. campaign targeting what it says is drug trafficking from Venezuela has exposed Trinidad to the fallout: unidentified bodies with burn marks and missing limbs showing up in its territory.

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Cumana in Trinidad and Tobago, where two bodies washed ashore.

‘Brother Wang,’ Accused of Being Drug Cartel Fixer, Is Arrested in Cuba

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By: Paulina Villegas
24 October 2025 at 02:06
Zhi Dong Zhang, who escaped house arrest in Mexico this summer, is accused of supplying cartels with fentanyl from China, smuggling and money laundering millions under the alias “Brother Wang.”

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Havana in 2023. Zhi Dong Zhang was detained in Cuba after having escaped Mexico, where he was accused of helping lead a vast criminal network.

Trump Says Israeli Annexation of West Bank Land ‘Won’t Happen’

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By: Isabel Kershner
24 October 2025 at 03:34
Vice President JD Vance also called symbolic votes in Israel’s Parliament to take territory a “very stupid political stunt.”

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An Israeli settler outpost in the northern West Bank, last year.

Staghorn and Elkhorn Coral Are Functionally Extinct Off Florida, Researchers Say

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By: Catrin Einhorn
24 October 2025 at 02:00
Elkhorn and staghorn coral are now functionally extinct around the state, researchers say, meaning they no longer play any significant role in their ecosystem.

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Bleached and dying elkhorn coral at Looe Key Reef, off Big Pine Key in Florida, during an ocean heat wave in 2023.

Trump Pardons Changpeng Zhao, Founder of the Crypto Exchange Binance

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By: David Yaffe-Bellany and Kenneth P. Vogel
24 October 2025 at 02:06
Changpeng Zhao, the richest man in crypto, had admitted to money-laundering violations that allowed terrorists and other criminals to move money on Binance.

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Changpeng Zhao, the co-founder and former chief executive of Binance at the Token 2049 event in Dubai in April.

Democrats Block Federal Worker Pay Bill as Shutdown Drags On

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By: Catie Edmondson
24 October 2025 at 01:25
A Republican measure that would pay essential government employees faltered in the Senate, and the G.O.P. blocked a pair of Democratic bills to pay a broader swath of workers.

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An aide places a sign on a lectern at the Capitol on Thursday, before a news conference with House Republican leadership. The House is in recess.

Trump Supporters Are Uneasy About Military Actions Against Venezuela

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By: Edward Wong
24 October 2025 at 01:17
Some conservative policy advisers and commentators, including Laura Loomer and Stephen K. Bannon, are raising questions about the administration’s policy in the region.

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“There’s supposed to be incentives for ending wars and conflicts around the world,” the far-right activist Laura Loomer said.

U.S. to Investigate China’s Compliance With 2020 Trade Deal

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By: Ana Swanson
24 October 2025 at 02:07
The Trump administration is preparing to file an investigation into China’s compliance with a trade deal signed during President Trump’s first term, raising tensions ahead of a meeting between the countries’ leaders.

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The investigation could be an effort by the United States to try to amass leverage ahead of a meeting next week between President Trump and the Chinese leader Xi Jinping.

U.S. Health Workers Recalled From Shutdown Furlough for Medicare, A.C.A. Enrollments

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By: Reed Abelson
24 October 2025 at 00:41
An estimated 3,000 employees seem to be affected. The federal agency said the return to work would occur Monday, with the costs paid by user fees collected from researchers.

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Open enrollment for Medicare runs from Oct. 15 through Dec. 7, and enrollment for next year’s Obamacare plans is supposed to open on Nov. 1.

Sea Otters and Museums Are Feeling Taylor Swift’s Midas Touch

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By: Sopan Deb
23 October 2025 at 17:03
After the release of her latest album, an aquarium in California and a museum in Germany suddenly were thrust into the center of Taylor Swift’s fandom. Just how big is Swift’s cultural reach?

© Monterey Bay Aquarium, via Associated Press

Yesterday — 23 October 2025NYT | Top Stories

Virginia Democrats Plan to Redraw House Maps in Redistricting Push

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By: Reid J. Epstein
23 October 2025 at 23:37
The surprise move could give Democrats two or three additional House seats and is likely to scramble the last couple weeks of campaigning ahead of the Nov. 4 election.

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Virginia is one of few options Democrats have to boost their chances of engineering more House seats for themselves next year.
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