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Today — 25 October 2025NYT | Top Stories

After Teen Suicide, Character.AI Lawsuit Raises Questions Over Free Speech Protections

24 October 2025 at 17:01
A mother in Florida filed a lawsuit against an A.I. start-up, alleging its product led to her son’s death. The company’s defense raises a thorny legal question.

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Megan has become an advocate for children’s safety online and in September gave testimony at a congressional hearing on “Examining the Harm of A.I. Chatbots.”
Yesterday — 24 October 2025NYT | Top Stories

A Restaurant Run by Teens in a Town Overrun by Guns

24 October 2025 at 23:15
Shootings have long plagued the city of Montgomery, Ala., where poverty levels are high and good jobs are scarce. That’s My Dog Jr. offers teenagers a moneymaking opportunity — and $3.99 hot dogs.

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Since opening in 2019, That’s My Dog Jr. has been entirely staffed by teenagers through a mentorship nonprofit.

AWS Cloud-Computing Outage Left Smart Bed Customers Without Sleep

By: Sopan Deb
24 October 2025 at 23:57
The widespread outage involving the cloud-computing provider Amazon Web Services ensnared unexpected consumers earlier this week: people who just wanted a good night’s sleep.

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Some Eight Sleep customers drawn to the company’s smart-bed systems were surprised to find a cloud service’s outage left them without the usual comforts this week.

Estonia, a Tiny NATO Nation, Is Cashing In on the Threat Next Door

24 October 2025 at 17:00
As fears about Russia grow, Estonia’s tech-savvy work force is developing new weapons and defense systems.

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Estonian reservists conducting a defense readiness exercise at the Nursipalu training area in Voru, Estonia, this month.

Trump Decries Anti-Tariff Ad From Ontario, Canada, That Faithfully Quotes Reagan Speech

The anti-tariff ad, which President Trump pointed to in cutting off trade talks with Canada, uses several sound bites from an April 1987 speech, though not in the order President Ronald Reagan said them.

Social Security Announces a 2.8% Cost-of-Living Increase for Beneficiaries

24 October 2025 at 21:02
Recipients, including retirees and their spouses, as well as those who receive disability benefits and Supplemental Security Income, will see the additional benefit starting in January.

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The cost of living adjustment was announced later this year because of the government shutdown.

U.S. Diplomats Will Work With Troops to Maintain Gaza Cease-Fire, Rubio Says

24 October 2025 at 19:32
Secretary of State Marco Rubio said during a visit to Israel that the State Department would increase its presence at a center set up to monitor the peace deal.

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Secretary of State Marco Rubio spoke to the news media on Friday after visiting the Civil-Military Coordination Center in southern Israel.

The Wider Costs of the N.B.A. Insider-Trading Scandal

Criminal charges over a wide-ranging betting ring have called into question the sports world’s embrace of legalized gambling.

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The arrests of Terry Rozier of the Miami Heat and other N.B.A. figures raises questions about the league’s ties to sports gambling.

Ukraine’s ‘Coalition of the Willing’ Has the Wind at Its Back

24 October 2025 at 20:27
Britain is hosting a meeting of European leaders to discuss bolstering support for Kyiv as winter approaches.

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After a Russian strike on Sloviansk in the Donetsk region of Ukraine this month. “What happens on the front line of Donetsk today is shaping our collective future for years to come,” Prime Minister Keir Starmer of Britain said on Friday.

Trump Official Warns California Against Arresting Federal Agents

By: John Yoon
24 October 2025 at 18:25
Deputy U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche told top California leaders that they would be prosecuted if they arrested federal agents performing immigration raids.

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Mr. Blanche said in the letter that arresting federal agents in the performance of their official duties would violate federal laws that prohibit interfering with and impeding immigration and other law enforcement operations.

A Major Crypto Pardon, and the N.B.A. Gambling Scandal With Mob Ties

Plus, your Friday news quiz.

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President Trump pardoned Changpeng Zhao, the billionaire founder of Binance, who had pleaded guilty to money-laundering violations in 2023.

Inflation Report Could Show Price Pressures Are Growing

24 October 2025 at 17:02
The Consumer Price Index for September, released late because of the government shutdown, may reflect the effects of President Trump’s tariffs on a wide variety of imported products.

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Consumer price data for September is being released later than planned because of the government shutdown.

Companies Have Shielded Buyers From Tariffs. But Not for Long.

Cars, toys and tea are among products set to get more expensive as tariffs weigh on corporate profits.

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For now, it appears that consumers are absorbing less of the cost of tariffs than economists expected.

Letitia James Case Shows Ruthlessness of Justice Dept. in Trump’s Grip

For the Trump administration, creating an aura of criminality around the indicted New York attorney general — through public scrutiny of her and her relatives — may be as important as a conviction.

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Letitia James pursued President Trump in court. Now, his administration is pursuing her.

Letitia James Pleads Not Guilty as Battle Over Trump-Urged Prosecution Begins

The New York attorney general, indicted by President Trump’s handpicked prosecutor in the Eastern District of Virginia, appeared in federal court on Friday.

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New York’s attorney general, Letitia James, has said the charges of bank fraud and making a false statement to a financial institution are “baseless” and “a continuation of the president’s desperate weaponization of our justice system.”

N.B.A. Gambling Scandal Reflects America’s Obsession With Sports Betting

24 October 2025 at 17:03
As legalized betting has become ubiquitous in American sport, the opportunities for cheating, like those outlined in a recent federal indictment, have multiplied.

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Since a 2018 Supreme Court decision cleared the way for legalized sports betting, the major U.S. sports leagues have shed any hesitations they had about gambling.

Can Ken Burns Win the American Revolution?

24 October 2025 at 00:53
Burns’s 12-hour documentary about our national origin story is landing in the middle of a culture war. Yes, it’s complicated. No, he does not want to talk about President Trump.

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Ken Burns on a battlefield outside Saratoga Springs, N.Y., scene of the first major patriot victory of the American Revolution.

How San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie Avoided Trump’s Enforcement Surge

Daniel Lurie, the San Francisco mayor, relied on powerful tech executives and his own low-key approach to help his liberal city escape a rush of federal agents.

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Mayor Daniel Lurie of San Francisco worked behind the scenes to try to deter President Trump from sending a rush of federal agents to his city.

Can ICE Stop People Solely Based on Their Race?

24 October 2025 at 17:00
For decades, federal officers have had to rely on more than race or ethnicity to stop and question someone over citizenship. That is now being tested.

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U.S. Border Patrol agents took a man into custody outside a train station earlier this month in Chicago.

Renovations at the White House Aren’t Unusual. But Trump’s Makeover Is.

24 October 2025 at 17:00
Presidents have always tailored the White House to their needs, but with the demolition of the East Wing, a $300 million ballroom and other changes, President Trump isn’t wasting any time making it into his own project.

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President Trump holding photos of the ballroom he’s building at the White House.

From Truman to Trump: A Tale of Two White House Renovations

President Harry S. Truman consulted Congress, architects and a fine arts commission on everything from construction plans to fabric samples. President Trump is taking a different approach.

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The East Wing disappeared into a pile of rubble on Thursday.

A Quick Route to Rebuild Half of Gaza, or Another U.S. Pipe Dream?

24 October 2025 at 20:43
There are many questions about whether a plan to rebuild Israeli-held parts of the enclave is feasible or doomed from the outset.

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Destroyed buildings seen from west of Nuseirat Camp, central Gaza, this month.

Who Were the 2,000 Palestinians Freed by Israel?

Under the cease-fire deal, Israel released 250 Palestinians serving long sentences for violent attacks. More than 1,700 others had been detained in Gaza and held without charge.

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Palestinian prisoners arriving at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, Gaza, this month after being released from Israeli detention.
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