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Today — 9 October 2025Main stream

The Harvard ‘Die-in’ That Set Off a Debate Over Protest and Punishment

9 October 2025 at 00:46
An Israeli American student said he was assaulted during a protest. Two years later, Republicans continue to raise the episode in their campaign to force schools to punish the student protesters.

© Sophie Park for The New York Times

Elom Tettey-Tamaklo was accused of assaulting a counterprotester at a Harvard demonstration two years ago. The allegations have followed him since.
Yesterday — 8 October 2025Main stream

Health Care Politics Bolster Democrats in Shutdown Fight

Even President Trump has conceded that he and his party could face political pain from rising premiums, stiffening Democrats’ spines as they demand a subsidy extension.

© Tierney L. Cross/The New York Times

Senator Chuck Schumer of New York, the minority leader, with other Democratic senators at the Capitol on Tuesday.

An Ideological Revolution Needs 12 Years in Power

8 October 2025 at 05:00
The Trump administration has a long way to go.

© Illustration by Sam Whitney/The New York Times; source images by Chris Jackson and Happy_vector/Getty Images

Before yesterdayMain stream

In Tennessee Special Election, a Crowded Field for an Open Congressional Seat

7 October 2025 at 17:01
More than a dozen candidates are vying to represent the state’s Seventh Congressional District, which includes part of Nashville but was redrawn to favor Republicans.

© Eric Lee for The New York Times

The U.S. Capitol in Washington on Sunday. Nineteen people are competing in Tennessee’s first special congressional election in nearly four decades.

Trump to Unveil Farmer Aid as China Shuns U.S. Crops

As it did in 2018, the White House plans to dole out relief funds to struggling U.S. farmers who have lost their biggest customer.

© Rory Doyle for The New York Times

A soybean farm in Stuttgart, Ark. China has been boycotting U.S. crops this year, worsening a financial crisis for American growers.

In Tennessee Special Election, a Crowded Field for an Open Congressional Seat

7 October 2025 at 17:01
More than a dozen candidates are vying to represent the state’s Seventh Congressional District, which includes part of Nashville but was redrawn to favor Republicans.

© Eric Lee for The New York Times

The U.S. Capitol in Washington on Sunday. Nineteen people are competing in Tennessee’s first special congressional election in nearly four decades.

Shutdown Politics Has Republicans Singing Government’s Praises

7 October 2025 at 06:27
As Republicans try to pin blame for shutdown damage on Democrats, they are hailing a federal bureaucracy they normally bash as wasteful and overreaching.

© Jamie Kelter Davis for The New York Times

A Transportation Security Administration checkpoint at O’Hare International Airport in Chicago last week on the first day of the government shutdown.

Trump Aimed Shutdown Cuts at Democrats, but G.O.P. Districts Are Hit, Too

7 October 2025 at 05:33
As the president cancels projects in Democratic-run states, he is cutting money that benefits his own party’s lawmakers in some of the most competitive House districts.

© Al Drago for The New York Times

Representative Mike Lawler’s New York district could lose millions of dollars of federal funding if the Trump administration cuts certain energy projects.

Elected but Not Seated, Grijalva Waits to Sign Epstein Petition

7 October 2025 at 01:56
The Democratic representative-elect won her Arizona seat overwhelmingly. But so far, the Republican speaker will not swear her in.

© Tierney L. Cross/The New York Times

Representative-elect Adelita Grijalva, 54, was elected last month to fill the seat that was occupied by her father, who died in March.

Wesley Hunt Enters Texas G.O.P. Senate Race, Complicating Path for Cornyn

7 October 2025 at 02:08
Mr. Hunt, a U.S. House member, and Senator John Cornyn will be competing for voters who dislike the state’s attorney general, Ken Paxton, who has led in many polls.

© Kenny Holston/The New York Times

Representative Wesley Hunt is one of the first Black Republicans to represent Texas in Congress.

Both Parties Are Resigned to Deadlock as Government Shutdown Takes Hold

6 October 2025 at 03:29
Republicans, who hold a governing trifecta, have adopted a mostly passive stance while Democrats dig in for a fight, with both feeling they have the political upper hand.

© Tierney L. Cross/The New York Times

Speaker Mike Johnson has canceled votes for this week, and Senator John Thune, the majority leader, has given verbal shrugs to questions about negotiating with Democrats about how to end the shutdown.

Do the Trump Reprisals Set a Precedent?

3 October 2025 at 01:00
Responses to a news analysis about the possible effects of President Trump’s reprisals. Also: Cultural exchanges; roots of political violence; A.I.

Government Shutdown: Democrats Did the Smart Thing

The U.S. government is shut down. Democrats and Republicans failed to agree on a stopgap funding bill, leading to the shutdown. The journalist Molly Jong-Fast argues that the Democrats did the smart thing by refusing to acquiesce to President Trump.
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