The decision removes a chance for the defendants to resolve the long-running case with the death penalty taken off the table. Instead, pretrial hearings are likely to resume.
Some ask whether the shake-up risks disrupting the agencies’ operations and is political in nature.
The board said the blockbuster deal it reached with Netflix last month posed less risk.
We ask where America’s new foreign policy might take us — and the world.
Analysts say the Cold War agreement allows the president to increase the American military presence almost at will.
“The Daily Show” host quipped that after a surprise capture, Nicolás Maduro “will face justice in the best legal system in the world that we illegally kidnapped him to.”
Las repercusiones del ataque de EE. UU. a Venezuela se sentirán a lo largo del año, pero hay otras historias importantes. Nuestros reporteros nos cuentan sobre Ucrania, Medio Oriente y China.
Needing U.S. support to fend off Russia in Ukraine, European leaders have been cautious about criticizing President Trump on Greenland, Iran, Venezuela and much else.
Tens of thousands of Palestinians in Egypt face an uncertain future as they navigate obstacles to staying in the country and returning home to Gaza. The New York Times spoke to a family that remains separated despite a truce in the territory.
Plus, a journey to a melting continent.
As midterm elections approach, we take a look at the chances of each party.
Scroll down for hints and conversation about the puzzle for Thursday, Jan. 8, 2026.
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Scroll down for hints and conversation about the puzzle for Thursday, Jan. 8, 2026.
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Tokyo is concerned at signs that Beijing may be laying the groundwork to restrict access to the metals vital to manufacturing.
The former envoy Elliott Abrams says the administration should push harder.
Antes llenaba estadios con su música. Ahora explica las complejidades del universo a una nueva generación bombardeada por la desinformación.
The enormously popular Netflix series has ended. Were you a fan?
Los expertos dicen que las rencillas familiares tienen efectos dominó.
The specter of welfare fraud haunted Democrats under Reagan. It could do so again.
The best actor Oscar almost never goes to young men, though the 30-year-old has his best chance yet with “Marty Supreme.”
After wildfires destroyed much of Altadena and Pacific Palisades, residents are struggling with how to move forward and who is to blame.
Charles Edwards painted his interpretations of canvases by Anthony van Dyck for the Metropolitan Opera’s production of “I Puritani.” Then he visited the Met Museum to see the original.
The band from Trinidad and Tobago will headline the Unity Jazz Festival this week, bringing “a sense of joy” and its genre-blending sound.
A 1920 cottage in Nashville, a contemporary condo in Kansas City and a 1950s bungalow in Orlando.
Can’t make it to Italy for the Winter Olympics? No worries, these spots in North America offer a taste of the Games (and let you try everything from speedskating to ski jumping, if you dare).
The Albanian Greek director Mario Banushi talks about his dreamlike “Mami,” which leads the Under the Radar festival in New York this month.
Many people, one brain. It’s a classic storytelling device, and it’s showing up a lot more lately.
As the filmmakers, songwriters and actors tell it, their “wackadoo” concept evolved over nine years and eight versions of “Golden” into a global phenomenon.
They were developed during the civil rights movement to reduce harm, but their rampant use during anti-ICE protests has led to a new kind of violence.
The tall, debonair saxophonist known as the “Sophisticated Giant” had a seemingly effortless power in his playing. Hear 10 examples chosen by our experts.
The central bank faces two major hurdles early on in 2026 that will determine the extent to which it operates free of political meddling.
Shawn Hubler, our Los Angeles bureau chief, reported on the reasons Pacific Palisades and Altadena are still largely barren, a year after they burned in the Los Angeles fires.
From neighborhood diners, to Michelin-starred restaurants loyalty has its privileges.
After 15 years teaching a class about sex, the most popular course at the University of Washington, this professor shares her most important takeaways.
Backers claim the tests can predict a child’s risk of autism using a strand of hair or a mother’s blood, but critics say they are not ready for the market.
Leaders use a mix of new rules, visual aids and incentives to convince residents to protect their homes — and entire neighborhoods — from wildfires.
The ability to move with speed, precision and power is important for longevity. Here’s how to gauge it and how to improve.
Memoirs by Sylvester Stallone and the founder of Barstool Sports; essays from celebrated novelists Jesmyn Ward and Jayne Anne Phillips; and more.
Tayari Jones, Ann Patchett, George Saunders and Veronica Roth return with new novels; Jennette McCurdy makes her fiction debut; and more.
Facing death is a core part of making meaning of one’s life. To struggle through this universal contemplation without a community can be brutal.
The Shakespearean monologue that is featured twice in “Hamnet” has long informed the movies, often in surprising ways that can make us rethink the words.
Estados Unidos se desenamora aceleradamente: menos citas y casamientos, menos amistades y patriotismo. Pero es el amor más allá de uno mismo lo que da sentido a la vida.
A court dispute over the lines of the 11th Congressional District represents one of New York Democrats’ few hopes of drawing maps in their favor for the 2026 midterms.
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Esta palabra ha aparecido en 64 artículos en NYTimes.com en el último año. ¿Puedes usarla en una frase?
This word has appeared in 64 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year. Can you use it in a sentence?
The world must not stop supporting dissidents in Belarus despite the release of some from prison.
The development deepens the confrontation over the tanker formerly known as the Bella 1, which the United States wants to seize but which Russia has sought to protect.
Quotation of the Day for Wednesday, January 7, 2026
Policies meant to lure importers to Hainan, a resort island off China’s coast, signal an opening up, Beijing says. One expert calls it a “bait and switch.”
Corrections that appeared in print on Wednesday, Jan. 7, 2026.
View the location of the quake’s epicenter and shake area.
The job cuts expected this month are part of a plan by the Homeland Security secretary, Kristi Noem, to remake the agency.
Adrianne Baik gets into character.
Marco Rubio empujó la ofensiva de Trump que terminó con la captura de Maduro. La nueva meta es forzar concesiones sobre el petróleo para compañías de Estados Unidos.
“Performing there has become charged and political,” the 18-time Grammy winner said.
The Trump administration said it was placing a hold on $10 billion in subsidies across five states, including New York.
Federal health officials upended the immunization schedule for American children this week. These are the diseases affected.
Mr. Reagan, who was the son of Ronald Reagan and his first wife, Jane Wyman, built on his father’s conservative legacy with a radio talk show and columns on right-wing sites like Newsmax.
To strengthen your brain, exercise is essential. Today, we’ll help you find a new routine.
With widespread power outages, medicine shortages and rising food prices, experts say Cuba’s economy has never been worse, with the crisis coming just as the supply of Venezuelan oil is threatened.
The “J6ers,” as they refer to themselves, praised President Trump but called for more action from his administration, including financial restitution and prison reform.
A federal judge questioned whether the Trump administration appropriately reviewed safety conditions in Haiti before ending protections for people from the Caribbean nation.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio was said to have listed the Trump administration’s demands to Venezuela’s new leader, Delcy Rodríguez, in a classified meeting Monday with senior congressional leaders.
As the icebreaker heads into the sea ice zone around Antarctica, penguins and seals start to appear. The lead scientist on the vessel teaches our climate reporter, Raymond Zhong, to identify different kinds of sea ice.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani directed city agencies to make plans to comply with rules governing health and safety at the facilities, and said they must work to end solitary confinement.
As chief of the counterintelligence branch of the C.I.A.’s Soviet division, he had access to some of the nation’s deepest secrets. He had been serving a life sentence since 1994.
Desde su primer mandato, el presidente estadounidense ha dicho que desea adquirir Groenlandia y el lunes pidió a sus ayudantes un plan actulizado para lograrlo. Los líderes europeos expresaron su rechazo.
President Trump’s trusted adviser is casting his hard-right gaze abroad, saying the world must be governed by “force.”
Ms. Weaver, a tenant advocate named to a high-profile role in Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s administration, is facing criticism for past comments calling homeownership “a weapon of white supremacy.”
One of Europe’s major travel hubs canceled hundreds of flights this week after days of accumulated ice and snow. More winter weather is expected across Northern Europe through Wednesday.
The specifics of the memo are unclear. But Attorney General Pam Bondi told lawmakers in briefings this week that the administration would share the document with them.
“The United States has a problem with elite impunity,” says the Opinion columnist Jamelle Bouie, as he looks back on the five years since the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.
His first feature-length movie, in 1971, was called his country’s “Stonewall moment,” for jump-starting a gay-rights movement. He became a leading voice of it.
Timesha Beauchamp, 20, was found alive at a funeral home after she had been pronounced dead during a medical episode in Southfield, Mich. She died weeks later.
The hotel giant said it took “immediate action” against a Hampton Inn near Minneapolis after a video showed a worker declining Department of Homeland Security reservations.
Also, Europe discusses postwar plans for Ukraine. Here’s the latest at the end of Tuesday.
The small but symbolic gesture, at the foot of the Williamsburg Bridge, signals more ambitious street redesign plans from the new mayor.
“I don’t think any governor in history has had to fight a war against the federal government every single day,” Gov. Walz said after ending his re-election bid.
A city commission had just voted to consider the site of the old Hollywood Center Motel, which has long been vacant, for landmark status.
Austin Smith resigned from the group founded by Charlie Kirk and suspended his bid for re-election to the Arizona House in 2024.
President Trump has said since his first term that he wants to acquire Greenland, and he asked aides for an updated plan on Monday. European leaders reject the president’s assertions.
The ruling was the most robust effort to date to press the prosecutor, Lindsey Halligan, on why she has continued to serve as the U.S. attorney, despite an order throwing out her appointment.
Claudio Neves Valente, who is accused of killing two students at Brown and an M.I.T. professor, left rambling descriptions of the shootings.
European leaders and Greenland residents respond to President Trump’s renewed threats to seize Greenland.
Since President Trump deposed Nicolás Maduro, his entrenched web of loyalists has appeared to remain intact. Here’s a look at some of the most influential.
But taking Venezuela’s oil while leaving the regime in place weren’t among them.
The island nations of Dominica, and Antigua and Barbuda, recently targeted by Washington, said they had reached deals to receive asylum seekers turned away by the U.S.
Elevated takes on cold-weather essentials to get you through the season.
The Trump administration’s key motivations for deposing Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro don’t track, argues the Opinion columnist Ezra Klein. In the U.S., cocaine isn’t the big drug problem, foreign oil isn’t the big energy need and socialism isn’t the big ideological threat.
The funding is part of an A.I. frenzy, as investors aggressively plow enormous sums into fast-growing start-ups at sky-high valuations.
The move against the medical aid group enforces policies limiting criticism of Israel’s conduct in the war and requiring personal details about Gazan employees.
A new web page on the official White House site blames the Capitol Police and Democrats for the pro-Trump mob riot, absolving the president of responsibility and calling participants “innocent.”
From Angola to Turkmenistan, sumptuously outfitted railroad cars are taking passengers on over-the-top journeys back in time.
Rourke’s landlord said in court documents that the actor owed nearly $60,000 in rent. Rourke said he had declined to pay rent after the home became uninhabitable.
Our reporters on the ground tell us what they’re watching in Ukraine, the Middle East and China.
The California Republican’s sudden passing, on the same day that Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene’s resignation took effect, made the party’s House math even trickier.
Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch and Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced the numbers on Tuesday. Officials attributed the rise in rapes in part to a change in the state definition of sexual assault.
The election on March 10, or a runoff in April, will determine who serves out the remainder of Ms. Greene’s term after her unexpected resignation from Congress.
The show of solidarity comes as President Trump, emboldened by his capture of Nicolás Maduro from Venezuela, has suggested he could take action against other countries.
On Capitol Hill, Democrats spent the fifth anniversary of the riot forcefully rebutting the president’s attempts to rewrite the history of the attack, as he stepped up his false claims.
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Ice and cold disrupted airports and caused car accidents on Tuesday. More snow is expected in Amsterdam and Brussels on Wednesday.
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There is no simple procedural mechanism for lawyers, or the public, to challenge the fitness of judges.
The secretary of state helped steer President Trump to attacking Venezuela and seizing Nicolás Maduro, and now aims to force the country to give U.S. companies access to its oil.
The argument worked for Manuel Antonio Noriega, who wore a uniform at trial and received special P.O.W. privileges after his conviction.
Es una de las formas más sencillas de moverse. He aquí cómo impacta tu condición física.
President Trump is still sowing doubt about the integrity of America’s elections. The claims could affect this year’s midterms.
The Trump administration has made no secret that it covets Venezuela’s oil reserves. What happens next could have serious implications for the planet.
Entre las películas del maestro húngaro están ‘Sátántangó’ y ‘Las armonías de Werckmeister’.
The country could, eventually, attract investment and re-emerge as a force in the oil markets, but many analysts are concerned about an oversupply.
The announcement that Peter Zaffino would step down as chief executive in June and become executive chairman sent the insurer’s stock tumbling.
Ray Jayawardhana, the incoming president, is an astrophysicist, but leaders at the California Institute of Technology also praised his credentials as a communicator at a time when science is under attack.
Stories behind tracks by Fontaines D.C., Beyoncé, Nina Simone and more.
El Departamento de Justicia abandonó la narrativa impulsada durante el gobierno de Trump y reformuló el caso como una red de corrupción estatal, no como un cártel formal de la droga.
Forecasters warned that Storm Goretti could bring significant travel disruptions.
Rights groups accuse security forces of killing protesters and storming a hospital in the province of Ilam. State media claimed that some protesters were armed.
The journalist Jonathan Blitzer explains the various interests and factions at play in the Trump administration’s strike against Venezuela.
Hundreds of skiers gathered in Crans-Montana, Switzerland, to honor the 40 people killed and more than 100 injured in a New Years’s Day fire at a bar. The town’s mayor said the bar had not been inspected in several years.
The sea ice changed completely over the course of a few hours, from disconnected floes to a vast, snow-covered plain.
Readers respond to an essay by Representative Jamie Raskin and to an editorial. Also: Risky changes in vaccine policy; a new Kennedy Center.
U.S. forces carried out an audacious raid on Venezuela’s capital, seizing President Nicolás Maduro and his wife. President Trump said the United States would “run” the country.
Machado, quien dirigió una exitosa campaña electoral contra Maduro en 2024, pasó gran parte de una entrevista con FOX News apelando a Trump, quien ha declinado darle su apoyo a la oposición venezolana.
Conforme transcurren los meses sin una solución a la vista para su país, las palabras del presidente se han vuelto algo más sombrías.
U.S. forces carried out an audacious raid in Venezuela, seizing its president, Nicolás Maduro. We invite students to explore what happened and share their reactions.
Our criminal justice reporter Jonah E. Bromwich describes the scene as Nicolás Maduro, the captive president of Venezuela, pleaded not guilty in federal court in Manhattan, and what is set to happen next.
Pamela Hemphill, who said she rejected President Trump’s pardon for her role in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack, apologized to a Capitol Police officer who was assaulted during the mayhem.
La incursión de EE. UU. para capturar a Maduro favorece la perspectiva del presidente de China: cuando los países poderosos imponen su voluntad cerca de casa, los demás tienden a retroceder.
When President Trump shared an unverified photo of Nicolás Maduro in U.S. custody, a corner of the internet followed a familiar playbook for newsmaking images: Talk about the clothes.
Lo que parece a muchos un símbolo de paz universal es en realidad una provocación usada por el expresidente venezolano tras su arresto por fuerzas estadounidenses.
Feast on tamales and dosas in the first week of 2026.
Experts are predicting a return to craft and focus on individuality.
The lawsuit challenges a conservative effort to punish those who criticized Mr. Kirk in the aftermath of his killing.
“The Freedom Manifesto,” by María Corina Machado, will lay out the Nobel laureate’s vision for a “new era,” its publisher said.
Kristi Noem, the homeland security secretary, posted a video showing an immigration arrest being made as part of the administration’s announced crackdown.
The luminary musician Roberta Flack was not in the 2004 edition of “The Rolling Stone Album Guide.” But on this episode of “Cannonball,” Wesley Morris, the host, makes the case for why she would be in an edition released today.
In Roberta Flack’s song “The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face,” Black love is “rendered as a thing of the cosmos,” Daphne A. Brooks, a critic and scholar, says on “Cannonball.” What made the song famous is a different story.
Wesley Morris, a critic for The New York Times, says there’s a secret power within Roberta Flack’s “Killing Me Softly With His Song”: a rest. He dissects that bit of musical silence on his show, “Cannonball.”
When it comes to heart health, immunity, reproductive health and more, misconceptions abound.
Spicy chicken thighs and mushrooms, seared tofu with kimchi and turkey chili start the year with flavor and ease.
Miller ha desempeñado un poderoso papel para justificar el imperialismo estadounidense y una visión de un nuevo orden mundial en el que EE. UU. podría apoderarse de territorios y recursos extranjeros.
A group of tech executives, app developers and Silicon Valley philosophers is seeking to streamline the messy matters of the heart.
Mr. LaMalfa had represented a district in northeastern California since 2013.
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The master Hungarian filmmaker’s movies included “Satantango” and “Werckmeister Harmonies.”
Mr. Welch worked to move the men’s magazine away from what he called “manly-man tropes.” His next role will be with Pharrell, the men’s designer of Louis Vuitton.
María Corina Machado, Venezuela’s opposition leader, said she was planning to return to the country after the United States’ capture of Nicolás Maduro. President Trump has refused to back her as Venezuela’s next leader.
Las noticias y la IA volvieron a encontrarse tras la captura del líder depuesto de Venezuela, a pesar de que las empresas tecnológicas dicen tener restricciones para la creación de “deepfakes”.
The discussions, also attended by top U.S. negotiators and other allies of Ukraine, are intended to make progress on European commitments to postwar security if a cease-fire is reached.
The talks, in Paris, are the latest bid to reduce tensions between two longtime enemies. A deal would help both curry favor with the Trump administration.
Eye-catching shoes and jewelry brought personality to wintry attire.