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Today — 10 December 2025NYT | Top Stories

Late Night Doesn’t Want to Sweat at the Airport

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By: Trish Bendix
10 December 2025 at 14:24
Ronny Chieng dissed new fitness plans from the Trump administration for travelers in American airports: “We can’t even walk to the gate. They had to invent floors that walk for us.”

Trump Picked This Fight With Maduro. He Can’t Back Down.

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By: Ricardo Hausmann and Jose Morales-Arilla
10 December 2025 at 14:00
If the Trump administration allows Nicolás Maduro to endure, it would signal that a criminal dictatorship masquerading as a state can stare down the United States and win.

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The Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado and the presidential candidate Edmundo González at a rally in Caracas, Venezuela, in July 2024.

Trump Says Americans Are Doing Great, Even as Views on the Economy Sour

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By: David E. Sanger
10 December 2025 at 11:45
President Trump’s speech in Pennsylvania was meant to alleviate concerns about affordability. But he kept wandering off script and dwelling on his favorite targets, like immigration.

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President Trump delivering remarks on the economy at the Mount Airy Casino Resort in Mount Pocono, Pa., on Tuesday.

Rod Paige, Education Secretary Who Defended ‘No Child Left Behind,’ Dies at 92

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By: Robert D. McFadden
10 December 2025 at 13:28
He was both the first Black person and the first educator to hold the cabinet position, but resigned amid discord over George W. Bush’s No Child Left Behind.

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Rod Paige, the education secretary, in Nashville in 2004.

Taiwan Invokes National Security Law to Protect TSMC Trade Secrets

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By: Meaghan Tobin and Xinyun Wu
10 December 2025 at 13:00
An executive left TSMC for Intel. Taiwan’s government says that could threaten its national security.

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The authorities in Taiwan are taking a stronger hand in protecting the prized technology of the chip maker TSMC.

Chip Company Plotted to Send Technology to China, Ex-C.E.O. Says

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By: Mara Hvistendahl and Joy Dong
10 December 2025 at 13:00
The former chief executive of Nexperia, a Dutch chipmaker, said Dutch officials had known for years that the company’s Chinese owner sought to move its technology to China.

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On a production line of the Dutch semiconductor company Nexperia in Hamburg, Germany, last year. Dutch officials seized the company in September.

Trump’s Speech on Economy Veers Into an Anti-Immigrant Tirade

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By: Chris Cameron
10 December 2025 at 11:49
President Trump vacillated between demonizing immigrants and assuring a crowd of his supporters that life was better than ever under his administration.

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President Trump spoke to his supporters at the Mount Airy Casino Resort in Mount Pocono, Pa., on Tuesday.

Trump Administration Withdraws Plan to Overhaul Homeless Aid

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By: Jason DeParle
10 December 2025 at 10:39
The abrupt decision to revise the plan added new uncertainty and possible delays into the government’s distribution of $3.9 billion in homelessness relief.

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A homeless camp outside Suisun City, Calif., last month.

Inside the Pentagon’s Scramble to Deal With Boat Strike Survivors

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By: Damien Cave， Edward Wong and Maria Abi-Habib
10 December 2025 at 10:28
Officials initially weighed sending survivors of U.S. attacks on boats suspected of drug smuggling to a notorious prison in El Salvador, to keep them away from American courts.

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Recent news reports on strike orders given by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth have raised questions of potential war crimes.

Democrats Say Hegseth Balked at Call for Full Video of Boat Strike

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By: Megan Mineiro and Julian E. Barnes
10 December 2025 at 11:14
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth briefed congressional leaders on Tuesday about the monthslong military campaign targeting people suspected of being drug traffickers at sea.

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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth at the Capitol on Tuesday.

Nobel Peace Prize for Venezuela’s María Corina Machado Draws Criticism

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By: Genevieve Glatsky and Henrik Pryser Libell
10 December 2025 at 08:43
María Corina Machado is being honored for her push for democracy even as she backs President Trump’s military buildup and aggressive campaign against Venezuela.

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The opposition leader María Corina Machado in her office in Caracas last year.

FDA Expands Covid Vaccine Inquiry to Adult Deaths

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By: Christina Jewett
10 December 2025 at 09:17
The agency claimed that 10 children’s deaths were linked to the shots, although it did not release evidence to support the assertions.

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Stephen Miller’s Stock Sale Raises Questions, Ethics Experts Say

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By: Ana Swanson
10 December 2025 at 07:32
Mr. Miller, one of President Trump’s top advisers, sold shares in the mining company MP Materials following a lucrative deal between the company and the government.

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Stephen Miller, one of the president’s top advisers, sold shares of a mining company after it had begun negotiations with the government, raising concerns among ethics experts.

Trump’s Nvidia Chip Deal Reverses Decades of Technology Restrictions

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By: David E. Sanger
10 December 2025 at 08:14
President Trump’s decision to allow Nvidia to sell its chips to China has raised questions about whether he is prioritizing short-term economic gain over long-term American security interests.

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President Trump with Jensen Huang, the chief executive of Nvidia, at the White House in April.

Ukraine Could Be ‘Ready for Elections,’ Zelensky Says

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By: Claire Moses
10 December 2025 at 08:44
The Ukrainian president told reporters that a vote could be held in 60 to 90 days if the country received security protections from the United States.

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President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine speaking at the White House in Washington, D.C., in October.

At State Dept., a Typeface Falls Victim in the War Against Woke

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By: Michael Crowley and Hamed Aleaziz
10 December 2025 at 09:53
Secretary of State Marco Rubio called the Biden-era move to the sans serif typeface “wasteful,” casting the return to Times New Roman as part of a push to stamp out diversity efforts.

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Secretary of State Marco Rubio at the White House last month.

Democrat Eileen Higgins Wins Miami Runoff Election to Become City’s First Female Mayor

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By: Patricia Mazzei
10 December 2025 at 09:13
Eileen Higgins, a former Miami-Dade County commissioner, will also be the city’s first female mayor and the first non-Hispanic mayor since the 1990s.

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Eileen Higgins in Miami in November.

Seattle’s Plans for a Pride Match at World Cup Infuriates Iran and Egypt

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By: Farnaz Fassihi
10 December 2025 at 08:31
The two countries, which criminalize homosexuality and impose severe punishments for it, were picked to play on a day celebrating L.G.B.T.Q. communities.

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Iran learned its group at the FIFA World Cup draw last week in Washington, D.C.

Mackenzie Scott Announces $7 Billion of Giving This Year

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By: Nicholas Kulish and Theodore Schleifer
10 December 2025 at 06:07
The philanthropist known for donating to historically Black colleges and nonprofits working on climate change offered the news by updating an October blog post.

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The philanthropist MacKenzie Scott.

Trump Calls Europe ‘Decaying’ and Suggests ‘Size Will Win’ in Ukraine War

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By: Amelia Nierenberg
10 December 2025 at 00:17
President Trump’s comments deepened his rift with mainstream European leaders over defense and Ukraine policy.

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President Trump with President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine and other European leaders during a meeting at the White House earlier this year.

Trump Pressures Ukraine

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By: Matthew Cullen
10 December 2025 at 06:35
Also, the Supreme Court considers campaign finance limits. Here’s the latest at the end of Tuesday.

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President Trump with President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine and other European leaders at the White House in August.

End of Major Corruption Case Embarrasses N.Y. Cannabis Regulators

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By: Ashley Southall
10 December 2025 at 07:10
A case against the Long Island-based cannabis company Omnium Health was halted on the eve of trial. A judge on Tuesday held off on dropping the matter.

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Omnium Health, in Hauppauge, N.Y., has been the focus of a major state corruption investigation.

Legal Groups Sue Justice Dept. for Secret Memo Justifying Boat Strikes

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By: Jonah E. Bromwich
10 December 2025 at 05:53
“The public deserves to know how the Trump administration has justified the outright murder of civilians as lawful,” the organizations said in their lawsuit.

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The lawsuit, filed by the American Civil Liberties Union and other legal groups, seeks the release of a secret memo that provides a legal rationale for the Trump administration’s strikes.

Why Trump Accounts, as Currently Planned, Risk Leaving Out Many Children

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By: Claire Cain Miller and Jonah Smith
10 December 2025 at 08:27
Michael and Susan Dell are donating $6.25 billion to American children via the accounts, but the details matter.

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Researchers suggest enrolling children automatically, but that’s not the current plan.

Europe, Too, Is Worth Fighting For

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By: Bret Stephens
10 December 2025 at 06:00
Provided Europeans want to fight for it.

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European Union leaders with Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine and President Trump at the White House in August.
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