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Today — 15 December 2025Main stream

Zelensky Offers Compromise Before Latest Round of Peace Plan Talks

15 December 2025 at 00:31
Ukraine’s president is meeting with U.S. negotiators on the latest plans to try end the war with Russia. He said he would give up hopes of joining NATO, at least for now, if he got strong security guarantees.

© Odd Andersen/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at the Chancellery in Berlin in May.
Yesterday — 14 December 2025Main stream

How The Times Analyzed the S.E.C.’s Cryptocurrency Enforcement

The New York Times set out to understand — and quantify — just how much things had changed within the agency after President Trump resumed office.

© Alyssa Schukar for The New York Times

A portrait array in the lobby of the Securities and Exchange Commission showing President Trump and Vice President JD Vance; its chairman, Paul S. Atkins; and Commissioners Hester M. Peirce, Caroline A. Crenshaw and Mark T. Uyeda.

The War on ‘Wokeness’ Comes to the U.S. Mint

The Treasury Department unveiled new coins celebrating America’s 250th anniversary. They failed to include planned designs featuring abolition, women’s suffrage and the civil rights movement.

Actors surrounded Brandon Beach, the U.S. treasurer, and Kristie McNally, the Mint’s acting secretary, at a coin unveiling this month at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia.

The Army Made a Blind Black Soldier a Surrogate for Robert E. Lee

14 December 2025 at 18:00
For more than a century, this Black soldier from Virginia was remembered by nearly no one. Then this year, someone at the Pentagon found a use for him.

© National Museum of African American History and Culture

Pvt. Fitz Lee in 1899, with his Medal of Honor on his jacket.

U.S.-U.K. Trade Deal Hits Stumbling Block

14 December 2025 at 01:48
The U.S. government has paused a tech-focused trade pledge with Britain over broader disagreements about Britain’s digital regulations and food safety rules.

© Doug Mills/The New York Times

President Trump and Prime Minister Keir Starmer of Britain in September, after signing an agreement that pledged to extend research collaborations and deepen partnerships in the tech industry.

Belarus Frees Prominent Political Prisoners as U.S. Lifts Some Trade Sanctions

The release of the prisoners, including a Nobel laureate and two opposition leaders, was part of a monthslong rapprochement between Washington and Minsk.

© Ints Kalnins/Reuters

Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, a Belarusian opposition leader, welcoming Ales Bialiatski, a political activist released by Belarus, as he arrived Saturday at the U.S. Embassy in Vilnius, Lithuania.
Before yesterdayMain stream

Trump’s ‘Pardon’ of Tina Peters Rejected by Colorado Officials

14 December 2025 at 00:20
The president’s stated intention to pardon Tina Peters, jailed for tampering with election machines in 2020, has set off a legal fight over the extent of Mr. Trump’s pardon powers.

© Larry Robinson/The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel, via Associated Press

Former Mesa County Clerk and Recorder Tina Peters, middle, during her sentencing for her election interference case at the Mesa County District Court in Grand Junction, Colo., last year.

Can Trump’s Grand Plans for Gaza Get Off the Drawing Board?

The next steps for the president’s 20-point Gaza peace plan have been mired in uncertainty and a lack of detail, but that may be set to change. Here’s what to know.

© Saher Alghorra for The New York Times

Displaced Palestinians shelter in tents surrounded by destroyed buildings near Gaza City, last month.

Judge’s Order Complicates Justice Dept. Plans to Again Charge Comey

13 December 2025 at 11:59
Justice Department officials have been considering whether to bring new charges against James B. Comey, the former F.B.I. director, after a different judge dismissed the original case against him.

© Monica Jorge for The New York Times

A judge’s order suggested that sloppiness by the Justice Department had helped to sabotage President Trump’s demands to use the criminal justice system to go after James B. Comey, the former F.B.I. director.

Venezuela Oil Tanker Seized by U.S. Was Part of Effort to Finance Cuba

Firms with ties to Cuba are getting a larger share of Venezuelan oil exports, as the island’s security agents boost President Nicolás Maduro’s defenses.

© Vantor, via Associated Press

An oil tanker called the Skipper in the southern Caribbean Sea. It was seized by the United States.

For Rubio the Cuba Hawk, the Road to Havana Runs Through Venezuela

President Trump’s secretary of state and national security adviser has long sought to cripple or topple Cuba’s government, which has close security and economic ties to Venezuela.

© Allison Robbert for The New York Times

Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s parents immigrated to Florida from Havana three years before Cuba’s communist revolution prevailed in 1959.

In Trump’s Justice Dept., Failing in Court Might Be Better Than Bucking the Boss

13 December 2025 at 22:46
This week demonstrated an emerging reality for President Trump: Commanding the Justice Department is not the same as controlling the justice system.

© Vincent Alban/The New York Times

The White House was served a legal rebuke this week when federal grand jurors in Alexandria, Va., rejected the Justice Department’s push to indict Letitia James, the New York attorney general, on mortgage-related charges for the second time in a week.

For Republicans, Trump’s Hands-Off Approach to Health Care Is a Problem

13 December 2025 at 07:23
The prospect of soaring health care costs could exacerbate Americans’ feelings about affordability, an issue that President Trump has tried to downplay. But Democrats plan to keep the issue front and center.

© Kenny Holston/The New York Times

President Trump said Thursday night that he may soon start negotiating with Democrats to lower health care costs.

T.S.A. Is Providing Air Passenger Data to Immigration Agents for Deportation Effort

13 December 2025 at 05:45
The Transportation Security Administration is providing passenger lists to Immigrations and Customs Enforcement to identify and detain travelers subject to deportation orders.

© Graham Dickie/The New York Times

Travelers at Austin-Bergstrom International Airport.
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