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Today — 4 November 2025NYT | Top Stories

Mamdani’s Stance on Gaza Drew Pro-Palestinian Activists to His Campaign

4 November 2025 at 06:25
The campaign became “a funnel for all this dispersed energy and passion,” said one volunteer, who had been an active campus protester.

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Samuel Levitan (left) and Ujji Bathla tell voters about Zohran Mamdani’s campaign platform to make New York City more affordable. But they were initially drawn by his pro-Palestinian politics.

Diane Ladd, Oscar-Nominated Actress and Mother of Laura Dern, Dies at 89

4 November 2025 at 06:34
She was a three-time Oscar contender playing strikingly different characters, in one case starring alongside her daughter and fellow nominee, Laura Dern.

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Diane Ladd in the mid-1960s. In movies like “Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore” and “Wild at Heart,” her characters ranged from sympathetic to ruthless.

2 Men Plotted Attack in Michigan on Halloween, U.S. Says

4 November 2025 at 05:54
The two men face federal charges of planning a terrorist attack inspired by the Islamic State.

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An F.B.I. terrorism task force outside a house in Dearborn, Mich., on Friday.

With Acquisition, Kimberly-Clark Bets That Tylenol Can Weather the Storm

The consumer products giant reached a $40 billion deal to buy Kenvue, the maker of Tylenol, despite a barrage of unproven claims from President Trump and others that use of the pain reliever during pregnancy can cause autism.

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Kimberly-Clark is gambling that it can outlast the Trump administration’s Tylenol-autism warnings. Kenvue has a broader portfolio of brand-name products like Band-Aid and Neutrogena.

Donna Jean Godchaux-MacKay, Grateful Dead Singer, Dies at 78

By: Sopan Deb
4 November 2025 at 04:56
She helped shape the band’s sound in the 1970s, a decade that took the band to new heights.

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The Grateful Dead performing on “Saturday Night Live” in 1978. From left, Bob Weir, Phil Lesh, Ms. Godchaux-MacKay and Jerry Garcia.

With Acquisition, Kimberly-Clark Bets That Tylenol Can Weather the Storm

The consumer products giant reached a $40 billion deal to buy Kenvue, the maker of Tylenol, despite a barrage of unproven claims from President Trump and others that use of the pain reliever during pregnancy can cause autism.

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Kimberly-Clark is gambling that it can outlast the Trump administration’s Tylenol-autism warnings. Kenvue has a broader portfolio of brand-name products like Band-Aid and Neutrogena.

A Celebrated French Writer Loved Russia. War Forced a Reckoning.

3 November 2025 at 23:01
Emmanuel Carrère’s best sellers on Russia grew out of a deep affection. Since Moscow invaded Ukraine, he has traveled to the war-torn country to rethink his views.

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Emmanuel Carrère, one of the most celebrated nonfiction writers in France, once had a deep love for Russia.

Halloween Becomes Another Target of the Kremlin’s Culture Wars

4 November 2025 at 04:03
The Russian authorities canceled a festival in St. Petersburg, branding it “Satanist,” as part of a larger assault on anything viewed as a Western influence.

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Police officers speaking to a man in costume at the Nekro Comic Con festival dedicated to Halloween in St. Petersburg, Russia, on Saturday.

Book Review: ‘Book of Lives,’ by Margaret Atwood

4 November 2025 at 00:55
“Book of Lives” offers two distinct versions of the esteemed novelist: “Peggy Nature” and “the brooder.”

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Margaret Atwood in 1982.

Houses of Worship Struggle to Feed New Yorkers During SNAP Stalemate

4 November 2025 at 03:30
In New York City, there are about 600 food pantries scattered across the five boroughs and at least 90 percent are run by either a religious organization or a nonprofit connected to a place of worship.

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At St. Peter’s Chelsea in Manhattan, volunteers lined up cans of food for distribution to the public.

WIC Food Aid Program for Families Gets Funding Stopgap

By: Linda Qiu
4 November 2025 at 02:42
An injection of $450 million for WIC comes as the Trump administration announced it would only fund partial benefits for another food aid program, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, for November.

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The White House’s Office of Management and Budget on Friday transferred customs revenue to fund the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children.

Jon Stewart Signs Extension for ‘Daily Show’ Through 2026

4 November 2025 at 03:25
Mr. Stewart’s contract was set to expire in December, though he expressed publicly last month that he wanted to keep hosting the show.

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Jon Stewart at The 2025 New Yorker Festival in October.

Has Gracie Mansion Ever Had a Democratic Socialist?

4 November 2025 at 02:16
Zohran Mamdani’s opponents have portrayed his Democratic Socialists of America affiliation as unusual, but he is not the first New York politician — or would-be mayor — with ties to the group.

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David Dinkins shaking hands with members of the community alongside Jesse Jackson in Queens in 1989. Mr. Dinkins himself was, at some point, a card-carrying member of the Democratic Socialists of America.

Meet the Billionaire Trying to Save College Football From Itself

By: Joe Drape
4 November 2025 at 00:57
Cody Campbell, an oilman, has spent millions paying students to play football at Texas Tech. Now he worries that people like him are ruining college sports.

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U.K. Police Investigate Possible Link Between Train Attack and Stabbing of 14-Year-Old

4 November 2025 at 01:03
The police are examining whether the suspect in the stabbing spree on a London-bound train on Saturday was connected to three other incidents involving a knife.

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Photographers attempt to capture a picture of the suspected perpetrator of multiple stabbings on a train near Huntingdon, as a prison van leaves Peterborough Magistrates Court on Monday.

Jack Smith, Trump’s Target, Moves From Defense to Counterattack

4 November 2025 at 00:46
The former special counsel has told people in his orbit he welcomes the opportunity to present the public case against the president denied to him by adverse court rulings and the 2024 election.

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Jack Smith still has the capacity to inflict significant political damage by discrediting the MAGA narrative that President Trump did nothing wrong.

John Irving Talks About ‘Queen Esther,’ Trump and Why He Can’t Stop Writing

3 November 2025 at 23:51
The literary titan is still publishing books, and still pushing envelopes, at 83. But you will not see him in the United States anytime soon.

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How A.I. Is Transforming Dating Apps

By: Eli Tan
3 November 2025 at 23:20
Meet your artificial intelligence matchmakers. These A.I. tools are changing dating apps, so users don’t have to swipe through an endless scroll of profiles.

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Facebook Dating Has Become a Surprise Hit for the Social Network

By: Eli Tan
3 November 2025 at 23:32
Facebook’s free dating service has 21 million users, more than the popular dating app Hinge, as the social network reinvents itself.

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Facebook Dating is used by a slice of the app’s 3 billion users.

China Started Separating Its Economy From the West Years Ago

4 November 2025 at 00:21
Two decades of sustained effort to build national self-reliance and minimize imports have antagonized trade partners but fortified what a senior adviser called Beijing’s “bulwark” against conflicts.

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China is able to pressure the U.S. economy, while making it harder for Washington to block China.

Ford Foundation Leader Vows to Protect Elections and Law as Trump Threatens Crackdown

3 November 2025 at 22:00
Heather K. Gerken, a voting rights scholar and former dean of Yale Law School, plans to intensify its emphasis on democracy as it girds for attacks from the Trump administration.

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Heather Gerken, the incoming president of the Ford Foundation, was previously dean of Yale Law School.

After Fleeing a Massacre, Survivors Encountered Still More Gunfire and Abductions

3 November 2025 at 23:21
Thousands of people who witnessed atrocities have tried to escape El Fasher in Sudan’s Darfur region since paramilitary fighters seized that city in late October.

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Displaced Sudanese at the Tawila aid camp on Sunday after having fled El Fasher, a city in the Darfur region that fell the previous weekend.
Yesterday — 3 November 2025NYT | Top Stories

OpenAI Signs $38 Billion Cloud Computing Deal With Amazon

By: Cade Metz
3 November 2025 at 22:25
After signing agreements to use computing power from Nvidia, AMD and Oracle, OpenAI is teaming up with the world’s largest cloud computing company.

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Last week, Microsoft and OpenAI renegotiated their contract so that OpenAI is free to buy services from any cloud computing company without Microsoft’s approval.
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