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Today — 10 December 2025Main stream

FDA Expands Covid Vaccine Inquiry to Adult Deaths

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.

© Charity Rachelle for The New York Times

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

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.

© Johnny Milano for The New York Times

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

Why the A.I. Boom Is Unlike the Dot-Com Boom

10 December 2025 at 00:31
Silicon Valley is again betting everything on a new technology. But the mania is not a reboot of the late-1990s frenzy.

© Joe Buglewicz/Bloomberg

Ben Horowitz, a major A.I. venture capitalist, in 2019. “The clearest sign that we are not actually in a bubble is the fact that everyone is talking about a bubble,” he said.
Yesterday — 9 December 2025Main stream

Supreme Court Struggles With How to Insulate the Federal Reserve From Politics

9 December 2025 at 18:04
The president seemed poised for a big Supreme Court win letting him remove officials without cause. But the justices appeared to struggle with how to insulate the Federal Reserve from politics.

© Caroline Gutman for The New York Times

President Trump has mused about trying to fire Jerome H. Powell, the Fed chair, but he has not followed through. Indeed, no president has sought to remove a member of the Fed board without cause.

A Key Question for the Supreme Court: What About the Fed?

9 December 2025 at 18:04
The president seemed poised for a big Supreme Court win letting him remove officials without cause. But the justices appeared to struggle with how to insulate the Federal Reserve from politics.

© Caroline Gutman for The New York Times

President Trump has mused about trying to fire Jerome H. Powell, the Fed chair, but he has not followed through. Indeed, no president has sought to remove a member of the Fed board without cause.

Top N.Y. Cannabis Official Resigns as Major Investigation Is Dropped

9 December 2025 at 11:23
Gov. Kathy Hochul demanded the resignation of the head of New York’s Office of Cannabis Management following the withdrawal of a case against a Long Island-based company.

© Johnny Milano for The New York Times

Omnium headquarters in Hauppauge, N.Y., earlier this year. It is unclear why a case against the company was withdrawn.

Trump Clears Sale of More Powerful Nvidia A.I. Chips to China

9 December 2025 at 06:30
Approval for the H200 chip followed months of haggling between tech industry backers and defense hawks.

© Eric Lee for The New York Times

The Trump administration wants to encourage Chinese companies to use Nvidia’s H200 chip while limiting sales of the company’s newest chips, known as Blackwell.

Who Is Andrew Ferguson, the FTC Chairman Who Tilted the Agency to Trump?

9 December 2025 at 01:34
Andrew Ferguson has used the Federal Trade Commission’s consumer protection mandate to investigate issues important to President Trump and his base.

© Al Drago for The New York Times

Andrew Ferguson, the chairman of the Federal Trade Commission, during a House Appropriations Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government hearing in May.

Planes, Trade and Nuclear Energy: Supreme Court Weighs Fate of Independent Regulators

9 December 2025 at 03:11
The court heard arguments Monday in a case that could determine the independence of agencies like the National Transportation Safety Board and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

© Kenny Holston/The New York Times

The Supreme Court will consider whether President Trump has the power to fire a leader of the Federal Trade Commission, a decision that will have profound consequences for dozens of bipartisan commissions and boards created by Congress.
Before yesterdayMain stream

Paramount Makes Hostile Bid for Warner Bros. Discovery

The offer to shareholders comes days after Warner Bros. agreed to sell its streaming and studio business to Netflix.

© Aleksey Kondratyev for The New York Times

Warner Brothers Studios in Burbank, Calif.

Presidential Power Gets Tested Before Supreme Court After Long Conservative Project to Shrink Agencies

7 December 2025 at 22:25
President Trump has repeatedly ousted leaders of independent agencies despite federal laws meant to shield those regulators from politics.

© Eric Lee/The New York Times

Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. and other conservatives on the Supreme Court have embraced the so-called unitary executive theory, which holds that the Constitution vests all executive power in the president and that he must be able to control everything the executive branch does.

How Australia’s Social Media Ban for Children Will Work

7 December 2025 at 13:01
The country is barring children under 16 from social media, with a sweeping federal law that is one of the first attempts at a nationwide regulation.

© Matthew Abbott for The New York Times

James Tomlinson, 9, playing a game on a phone in Melbourne, Australia.
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