The president issued a raft of clemency grants this week, including pardoning a woman he had given relief to once before and a man whose daughter had donated millions to a Trump super PAC.
William Blake’s “The Clod & the Pebble” is a dialogue on tenderness and cruelty in three short stanzas. Read it with our critic A.O. Scott, and then play a game to memorize it.
Officials denounced the Trump crackdown at an unofficial congressional hearing in Minneapolis. Administration officials have accused local leaders of promoting violence against ICE agents.
The blowback set off by the Justice Department’s criminal investigation into Jerome H. Powell, the chair of the central bank, has shaken up the race to replace him.
“There is massive disappointment and disillusionment,” one Tehran resident said. A human rights group acknowledged that demonstrations had been subdued since Sunday, with thousands of people detained.
The bargaining unit, which includes curatorial, conservation and retail departments, could represent about half of the Met’s work force.
Seeking to calm tensions, Republicans and Democrats affirmed that they supported Denmark’s control of Greenland as President Trump vowed to buy it or take it over.
Michael Gordon and Richard Foreman’s “What to Wear” at BAM is a visually rich, textually odd work — and a hot commodity.
Prosecutors want jury selection to start in January 2027. That would be a quarter century after the attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people.
Jerome H. Powell, the chair of the Federal Reserve, this week tapped a groundswell of support that has been years in the making.
The oldest dance troupe in the United States decided not to perform at the Washington venue during its nationwide tour.
The singer called the accusations “completely false” in a statement released after Spanish prosecutors said they would investigate.
La visita de alto nivel reforzó el mensaje de Trump de que considera al gobierno encargado como el mejor camino hacia la estabilidad de Venezuela a corto plazo.
My visit with Scott Adams, who anticipated Donald Trump with his comic strip.
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In this month’s picks, hijacked bullet trains, comet creatures and time loops in the British countryside.
China is practicing vast maneuvers that could be used to disrupt U.S. naval movement, a New York Times analysis of ship data reveals.
The Trump Administration’s exhaustive examination of materials on the convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein is drawing resources from other cases.
Jade Franks mines the awkwardness of social mobility in her one-woman show “Eat the Rich.”
Look closely at this image, stripped of its caption, and join the moderated conversation about what you and other students see.
When the writer Lamorna Ash set out to explore young people’s relationship to faith and religion, she found herself questioning her own.
Spring performances of “Treemonisha” and “The Crucible” will be held at George Washington University.
From a Wim Wenders masterpiece to a Stanley Tucci gem, these films all revolve around the possibility of fresh starts and new beginnings.
The 24 former volunteers, including the refugee turned campaigner Sara Mardini, were prosecuted after helping migrants during the European refugee crisis nearly a decade ago.
Our reporter Jeffrey Gettleman is on the ground in Greenland, seeing how people have reacted to Trump’s desire to take it over. He and our senior writer Katrin Bennhold discuss what Greenland means to the United States, Denmark and Greenlanders.
From Iraq to ICE, Jonathan Ross’s career reflects a 20-year government effort to reshape immigration enforcement with a military mind-set.
La Unión Soviética fue el benefactor de Cuba durante décadas. Venezuela asumió el relevo y México ha brindado “ayuda humanitaria”. Pero el mundo está cambiando rápidamente, afirma nuestro columnista.
Millions of people are at risk of the government’s seizing their refunds to pay what is owed on student loans.
Michael Saylor’s financial alchemy thrust an ordinary software company, Strategy, into the center of the crypto frenzy. It all worked spectacularly, until now.
The Soviet Union was Cuba’s benefactor for decades. Venezuela took up the slack, and Mexico has supplied “humanitarian aid.” But the world is changing rapidly, our columnist says.
Larry Fink, BlackRock’s chief executive, led an effort to elevate the World Economic Forum next week, the first without the event’s founder, Klaus Schwab.
Students react to a guest essay about how the quest for flawlessness is harming society.
Research says that favoritism is common — with effects that can last a lifetime.
Tell us a story, real or made up, that is inspired by this image.
Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada announced that Canada would slash tariffs on some Chinese electric vehicles and that, in return, China would reduce tariffs on Canadian canola products.
Following the news? Tracy Mumford has some questions for you.
We take a look at some remarkable reporting from Myanmar.
“If we can’t win on social media, then we definitely can’t win on A.I.,” says Haidt.
Abnormally blustery temperatures this weekend could usher in snowy weather across the East. Exactly where remains uncertain, but even the Deep South is on alert.
The shop in suburban Philadelphia had been a gathering spot for the MAGA crowd to rally during the 2024 campaign.
Cuanto más caótico parece el mundo, más importante se vuelve cuidar de uno mismo.
The high-profile visit, which could be seen as snubbing the opposition, comes nearly two weeks after the U.S. military seized President Nicolás Maduro in a raid.
Two couples in California discovered they were raising each other’s genetic children. Should they switch their girls?
Plus, your Friday news quiz.
Scroll down for hints and conversation about the puzzle for Saturday, Jan. 17, 2026.
Scroll down for hints and conversation about the puzzle for Saturday, Jan. 17, 2026.
Scroll down for hints and conversation about the puzzle for Saturday, Jan. 17, 2026.
Rescuers in Cebu City have recovered 28 bodies from a garbage mound that collapsed last week. The search continues for eight missing people.
Los expertos afirman que la determinación del presidente de Colombia de desmantelar al ELN es un reflejo tanto de las exigencias de Trump como de la frustración interna por su anterior gestión de los grupos armados.
At a meeting in Tokyo, Prime Ministers Giorgia Meloni of Italy and Sanae Takaichi of Japan bonded over being conservative women at the pinnacle of power.
The company’s co-chief executive sat down for an extensive interview for the first time since announcing plans to buy Warner Bros. Discovery’s film and TV business.
A vote by the state senate on Friday could send an amendment to voters that, if approved, would allow the legislature to gerrymander the state.
A ruling on the merits of a thrifty life hack.
Understanding the factors that can topple regimes.
From oil drillers to credit card companies, President Trump has been a market mover this year.
This week’s properties are a designer’s four-bedroom house in Sète; an apartment in Montpellier’s historic center; and a country-styled villa also in Montpellier.
The artist reflects on how the chaotic eight years since his last release — including three kids and two trials — led to his latest album, “Don’t Be Dumb.”
Steamy love stories starring athletes and top-notch yearners will tide you over until your next trip to the cottage.
Our thoughts are an ever-changing swirl of fears, feelings, desires, impulses, memories and body sensations that interact to form a single mind.
Trump wants Greenland? Its previous colonizer has some thoughts.
A Parisian brand’s leather notebooks have for some become a status symbol to flaunt online and off.
The state embodies a civic ideal that the administration in Washington wants to discredit.
Born into exceptional privilege, Belle Burden had it all: love, money, family. Then her marriage fell apart.
A lawyer for Ms. Good’s family said she and her partner had encountered agents after school drop-off. Minutes later, she was dead.
Documenting ICE is dangerous. This man wants you to do it anyway.
Did you follow the news this week? Take our quiz to see how well you stack up with other Times readers.
In the MAGA imagination, white women are supposed to be helpmeets, not harpies.
Humor is good for your health.
The conservative political analyst Yuval Levin gives Ezra Klein his review of Trump’s first year back in office.
With less than a month until the Winter Games in northern Italy, builders have yet to complete a major arena.
Federal officials working on the new dietary guidelines had considered limiting men to one drink daily. The final advice was only that everyone should drink less.
From the over-the-top marriage proposals to the thoughtful surprises that made a huge impact.
Whether you’re a casual moviegoer or an avid buff, our reviewers think these films are worth knowing about.
President Gustavo Petro is taking a harder line against the National Liberation Army, or ELN, a leftist revolutionary group that experts call a powerful drug trafficker in Colombia and Venezuela.
Anthony Hopkins buys another house in Los Angeles and Martha Plimpton bids farewell to Brooklyn.
A pilot program in Housing Authority apartments will offer the trendy stoves, which improve air quality and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
A backlash over a rant against Ukrainian officials has raised questions about Eastern Europe’s welcome of Russian dissidents.
London Breed has said little in the year since she left office. She has thoughts on the praise that the current mayor, Daniel Lurie, has received.
The director Brittany Shyne’s film is slow-moving and lyrical in its focus on the seasonal rhythms of the work, even as it shifts to policy concerns.
Studying tree rings helped scientists pinpoint when Mount Rainier last sent a lahar down its steep slopes, which could help planners anticipate future mudflows.
Even as administration officials vowed this week to head off scheduled retirements, some aging plants are now breaking, and costs could run to the billions.
In Wajima, Japan, where hundreds of homes and studios were destroyed, master-class artisans are struggling to keep lacquer alive and nurture the next generation of creators.
With no dragons and no warring dynasties, HBO’s “A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms” is the first test of whether the “Thrones” formula works on a human scale.
The author of the “Diary of a Wimpy Kid” series shares a handful of titles that have helped shape his sense of humor.
About 200 miles from Johannesburg, the Drakensberg region offers a breathtaking landscape of stark ridges and green valleys.
The definition is tricky, but the effects of poor metabolic health are clear — and can wreak havoc on the body.
In a new book, Nicolas Niarchos traces the mineral supply chain for lithium-ion batteries, exposing their considerable human and environmental costs.
Desde la muerte de Renee Good en Mineápolis, la Casa Blanca ha respaldado la fuerza letal, pese a que las normas internas del ICE la reservan para situaciones extremas.
No te lo estás imaginando: las resacas sí son peores, la cabeza sí duele más. Cuando el cuerpo envejece, gestiona el alcohol de forma diferente.
China will in turn cut its own tariffs on Canadian canola products, Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada said in Beijing on Friday.
Two conversations this week confirmed that President Trump backs the remnants of Nicolás Maduro’s regime over the Venezuelan opposition seeking to hold elections.
El sitio no oficial MTV Rewind ha recreado la era clásica de la cadena, reuniendo miles de clips. El desarrollador describe la plataforma como una respuesta a las recomendaciones impulsadas por algoritmos.
The Council speaker, Julie Menin, will introduce bills that would establish a buffer zone at houses of worship to keep protesters at some distance from congregants.
Both sides in the labor dispute appear poised for a protracted battle, and only one of three hospitals was negotiating with the strikers.
Feeling stuck on today’s puzzle? We can help.
A court handed down five years in prison to former President Yoon Suk Yeol, who is facing multiple trials stemming from his short-lived imposition of martial law.
The “Late Night” host said there was no way President Trump drank milk, “unless someone tricked you into thinking your Diet Coke came from a cow.”
Todas las formas de ejercicio ayudan a vivir más tiempo, pero algunas actividades traen beneficios adicionales.
Esta palabra ha aparecido en 121 artículos en NYTimes.com en el último año. ¿Puedes usarla en una frase?
This word has appeared in 121 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year. Can you use it in a sentence?
The bulwark of Iranian oppression is fear. The latest round of demonstrations shows it has been breached.
The electricity may go off, but islanders see a glimmer of hope in Maduro’s departure.
The killing of Renee Good by an ICE agent was instantly reported to the Minneapolis Police. The calls reflect shock, fury and confusion.
Quotation for the Day for Friday, January 16, 2026.
The shutdown of online discourse within Iran has allowed both the government and its critics to flood social media outside the country with disinformation campaigns and fake images.
Corrections that appeared in print on Friday, Jan. 16, 2026.
When Talia Marcus and Charles Blaettler met while working on the campaign trail, they weren’t expecting love. Good thing it came anyway.
Why did I keep fantasizing about catching my faithful boyfriend in bed with another woman?
The ride-hailing giant’s chief executive has made a bet on how it can finally grab a bigger piece of one of the world’s largest taxi markets.
Before Paul Melnikow and Alan Pierson spoke to each other, they danced at the ‘queer prom,’ about 20 hours into Taylor Mac’s 24-hour performance.
Ashley Knott and Tobias Kammerer are opposites — she’s very social, while he needs “to be peeled like an onion.” But a big move created a deeper connection.
The Trump administration acknowledged it mistakenly deported a college student to Honduras despite a court order barring the removal. But the government has not moved to drop the case.
Newly available videos and existing footage synchronized and assessed by The Times provides a millisecond by millisecond look at how an ICE officer ended up shooting and killing a motorist in Minneapolis.
Viewers got extra intimate this week with the hard physical realities of life in the emergency ward.
Kyle Dolan opens our solving weekend.
During a meeting in the White House on Thursday, Venezuela’s opposition leader, María Corina Machado, presented her medal to President Trump.
El juego “Blood Money: Lethal Eden” aprovecha una creciente ansiedad en China al recrear las experiencias de personas traficadas para dedicarse a la estafa.
Iran’s representative denied the country had killed protesters, as the U.S. ambassador said President Trump had made clear “all options are on the table” to stop the killing.
These utility-inflected styles are practical yet polished.
The Justice Department has sued about two dozen states over access to voter rolls, as the federal government pushes to create a national database.
In her State of the Union address, Delcy Rodríguez echoed her predecessors’ fiery rhetoric but tried to hew to President Trump’s agenda.
In a lawsuit, the ex-wife of Ms. Sinema’s onetime staff member accused her of showering him with gifts and breaking up their marriage.
El Comité del Nobel ha dicho que el premio no puede transferirse, pero la medalla se ha vendido en algunas subastas a lo largo de la historia del premio.
The famed highway reopened this week after consecutive landslides shuttered two sections of the road in Big Sur and forced major repairs.
The United States agreed to lower tariffs on Taiwanese goods from 20 to 15 percent, while Taiwan says it will invest in more chip manufacturing in the U.S.
Shawn and Destiny Jackson said they were trying to escape a clash between ICE and protesters when agents used tear gas near their car. Their children gasped for air.
Rosalind Hernandez, who worked in a co-op building in Manhattan, befriended and then bilked a vulnerable resident, prosecutors said.
The White House and Denmark contradicted each other in public about what they had agreed to this week as President Trump continued to demand U.S. ownership of Greenland.
The Nobel Committee has said the prize cannot be transferred, but it has been sold in a few auctions over the award’s history.
Matt Damon and Ben Affleck play grizzled cops looking at each other sideways in this Netflix crime thriller that has all the concepts but not much else.
The musician and actor A$AP Rocky sat down with Jon Caramanica and Joe Coscarelli, the hosts of “Popcast” at The New York Times, to discuss the release of his first album in eight years.
The agent told Ms. Good to get out of her car before fatally shooting her. Legal experts said immigration agents may sometimes, but not always, have the authority to make such commands.
The National Endowment for the Humanities is giving more than $40 million to programs that have been embraced by conservatives as a counterweight to liberal-dominated academia.
By Wednesday, at least five Democratic lawmakers said they received new inquiries from federal prosecutors regarding a video they published in November. In the video, they urged military service members not to follow illegal orders.
Roughly 8,400 businesses closed in the second quarter of 2025, according to the most recent city data, creating the largest net decline in business activity since before the pandemic.
La Guardia Costera de EE. UU. abordó e incautó el petrolero de bandera rusa, previamente llamado Veronica, en una operación realizada antes del amanecer en el Caribe.
In a case over the First Amendment rights of noncitizen scholars, a federal judge proposed extending protections to members of two academic groups behind a lawsuit.
Harvard sigue dominando, aunque ha caído al puesto 3 en una lista que mide el rendimiento académico. Otras universidades estadounidenses se rezagan con respecto a sus homólogas mundiales.
Also, Israel and Arab countries asked the U.S. not to attack Iran. Here’s the latest at the end of Thursday.
Romeo Santos sat down on the “Popcast” couch and recalled when Drake referenced Aventura on “The Motto” and the collaboration that followed.
Robert G. Kramer sold nearly 90,000 shares of his stock in Emergent BioSolutions, knowing that large quantities of vaccine materials were contaminated, the lawsuit said.
President Trump fired the National Security Agency’s chief back in April and has weakened cyberattack protections.
In this take on the classic Thai dish laab (also spelled larb) moo, ground pork is pan-cooked, then stirred together with a combination of funky fish sauce, fresh and dried chiles, shallots, lime juice and an abundance of fresh herbs for brightness.
Activists spent years preparing for a communications blackout in Iran, smuggling in Starlink satellite internet systems and making digital shutdowns harder for the authorities to enforce.
Kathleen Kennedy stepped down as Lucasfilm’s president and returned to producing. Two studio veterans took over.
The law, which was last invoked in 1992, could allow President Trump to deploy the military inside the United States. Doing so would be a major escalation.
Plus two other mocktail ideas for those who love a paloma or a michelada.
“When I look at the ICE operation in Minnesota,” says the Opinion columnist Jamelle Bouie, “I see a White House that is panicking and that is losing.”
¿Cuándo fue la última vez que te mediste la presión arterial? Hoy te proponemos una lista para mantenerte sano en cuerpo y mente.
The Coast Guard boarded and seized the Russian-flagged tanker, originally named Veronica, in a pre-dawn operation in the Caribbean Sea.
The agency’s chief spokesman outlined plans to intervene in the previously independent newspaper’s coverage.
Even when so much is happening in the world, it’s important to take care of your brain health. Our Well desk shares tips.
A judge dropped the case against Ms. Ferragni, who had been embroiled in a scandal over sales of a limited edition Christmas cake marketed as supporting cancer treatment.
The University of Arkansas withdrew a job offer to a legal scholar after state officials learned that she had signed a legal brief concerning transgender athletes, lawmakers said.
Chains from the East Asian nation are popping up across New York City, bringing with them excellent hot pot, dumplings and mapo tofu.
He and Steven Z. Meyers opened their first low-cost legal clinic in 1972. Within a decade, they had revolutionized the legal industry.
International soccer fans face hurdles like travel bans, long visa delays and high ticket prices for U.S. matches. Will they be enough to keep you away?
As immigration agents and protests lead some families to keep children home, schools around the Twin Cities are offering a remote option for the next several weeks.
Thousands of cities around the world saw their hottest year on record in 2025 as the planet has inched closer to a key temperature threshold.
Some Black and Latino leaders worry they are being denied access to power under Mayor Zohran Mamdani and that they may lose the ground they had gained under former Mayor Eric Adams.
Many proposals have been introduced, but there is little consensus among governors, Congress members and tech executives about exactly how much the companies behind data centers should pay for electricity.
In refusing to let the president deploy National Guard troops in Illinois under an obscure law, the justices may have made him more apt to invoke greater powers.
Mr. Reiner, who is accused of killing his parents, was under a yearlong legal arrangement that allows for involuntary psychiatric treatment.
Reading recommendations from critics and editors at The New York Times.
How does life expectancy vary by state and country?
Six months after President Trump told Wall Street banks to prepare a swift stock offering, there is no firm plan for how to take the giant mortgage firms public.
Las personas fallecidas formaban parte del equipo de seguridad del dirigente venezolano depuesto, Nicolás Maduro.
El agente disparó a un hombre venezolano que se resistía a ser detenido, dijo un funcionario. Manifestantes y fuerzas del orden se enfrentaron durante horas.
The veteran congresswoman said she would like Antonio Reynoso, the Brooklyn borough president, to replace her after she retires. She also said the mayor should stay out of political races.
Is it hard to fly a helicopter in the Antarctic cold? What do penguins sound like? How about the instruments designed to test the waters below the Thwaites Glacier? Our climate reporter Raymond Zhong finds some answers to viewer questions.
A company spokeswoman said “a software issue” was to blame for the widespread outage that disrupted service across the United States on Wednesday.
In an upset victory over China at the 1984 Olympics, he and five others became the only American men ever to win the gold medal in the gymnastics team competition.
The death of Kate Whiteman, whose accusation of sexual assault against Oren and Alon Alexander opened a floodgate of similar allegations, is under investigation.
A corporal in St. Johns County had responded to what he thought would be a straightforward call about an animal on the loose. Nearly an hour later, he was putting handcuffs on an emu named Tina.
An emu named Tina escaped from a farm in Florida last Friday. Body camera footage captured a sheriff’s office corporal chasing the large bird and eventually putting it in handcuffs.
Cabbage, sour cream and melty Gruyère star in Melissa Clark’s latest one-pot weeknight dinner.
El gobierno de Trump ha puesto fin a las protecciones del TPS para unos 600.000 migrantes venezolanos, parte de su esfuerzo por frenar las vías de acceso para que permanezcan en EE. UU.
State-run television aired a ceremony for the remains of 32 Cuban citizens killed in the U.S. strikes in Venezuela arriving in Havana. The deceased were part of the security detail of Nicolás Maduro, Venezuela’s ousted president.