How one man gets by in the unbearable and inescapable heat of Pakistan’s biggest and most unlivable city.
Prices for coffee beans have risen, but in a country where coffee drinking is a ritual, customers demand cheap espresso. That has left coffee bars in a bind.
Corrections that appeared in print on Saturday, July 12, 2025.
Quotation of the Day for Saturday, July 12, 2025.
You’ll need to put on your thinking cap to get through Katie Hoody’s stumper-filled puzzle.
In return, the White House would restore some of the more than $400 million in federal research funding it canceled, according to people familiar with ongoing discussions.
In a $2.4 billion deal, Google recruited the chief executive and a co-founder of Windsurf, which OpenAI had been in talks to buy, as the battle to dominate artificial intelligence escalates.
A federal judge temporarily halted the administration from making indiscriminate arrests based on race and denying detainees access to lawyers, in a lawsuit that could have national repercussions.
Nassau County, which recently barred residents from wearing masks in many circumstances, will permit police officers to wear them during immigration enforcement and other actions.
President Trump and his allies have accused the Federal Reserve chair, Jerome Powell, of misleading Congress in what some legal scholars worry is a prelude to seeking his removal.
During a chaotic raid in Ventura County on Thursday, the worker fell from a greenhouse at a cannabis farm, suffered spinal and skull injuries, and died on Friday.
Earlier this year, President Trump suggested he wanted to shutter the agency. Now, he says his aides “fixed it up in no time.”
Warnings were issued for southern Ontario and southwest Quebec as hot and humid weather is expected to linger through Thursday.
Federal prosecutors in New Jersey are investigating remarks that Gov. Philip D. Murphy, a Democrat, made in February.
Los Angeles Police Department officers fired foam projectiles and flash-bang devices at reporters and photographers who were covering the immigration protests in June.
Carlos Abundez, 35, is facing federal smuggling charges after U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers made the discovery. The birds, a threatened species, were in stable condition.
Two days after deadly Texas floods, the agency struggled to answer calls from survivors because of call center contracts that weren’t extended.
Within six years of opening, Camp Mystic was inundated with floodwaters. It was the first of many times.
A New York Times investigative reporter explains how a problem he encountered while reporting reveals something important about the second Trump era.
A Staten Island man was being held on charges that included manslaughter after speeding through a red light and mowing down the victims, the police said.
It took a misplaced elbow, a quirk of Los Angeles geography and some whistling from his wife to produce one of television’s most memorable melodies.
In a marked reversal from a year ago, more Americans now have positive views about immigration, and a record high believes it is good for the nation.
A preliminary assessment by the Indian authorities said fuel was cut off to both engines shortly before Air India Flight 171 crashed last month, appearing to rule out mechanical failure or design flaws.
Believing that the art form had to move from religious to secular settings, he designed installations in airports, corporate buildings, a country club and a marketplace.
The man fell from a steep, off-trail climbing route on the west side of Mount Gould, the authorities said.
Justin Mohn, 33, of Levittown, Pa., was convicted on murder and terrorism charges in the 2024 killing of his father, Michael.
A year ago, misdirected Amazon returns began arriving at Karen Holton’s house in California. Eventually, she said, they were stacked so high that she could not easily use her door.
Stripping hundreds of millions of dollars from renewable energy and efficiency initiatives is part of a broader move to undo efforts to wean the United States off fossil fuels.
Senator Chuck Schumer urged the health secretary to declare an emergency to keep other regions from experiencing the “nightmare” seen in Texas.
Also, Earth is spinning a bit faster. Here’s the latest at the end of Friday.
Ben Jealous, who joined the environmental group in 2023, has clashed with some employees and the organization’s union.
Emergency personnel found the 43-year-old physical therapist dead inside the chamber at his Arizona health clinic, which offered oxygen therapy.
The focus on the fuel switches on Air India Flight 171 raised questions about the pilots’ actions.
The heat is so clean and alive.
During a rare news conference on Friday, the head of the French military, Thierry Burkhard, said Russia remains a “lasting, close” threat.
The lids on the 64-ounce stainless steel bottles can eject and strike consumers, two of whom reported permanent vision loss as a result, safety regulators said.
The threat of heavy rain is “slight” for this weekend, but with the ground fully saturated in Kerr County even small amounts of rainfall could cause flooding.
La declaración se produjo en un momento vulnerable para el Cártel de Sinaloa, la organización que el padre de Ovidio Guzmán López ayudó a fundar.
For decades, Dick and Tweety Eastland presided over Camp Mystic with a kind of magisterial benevolence that alumni well past childhood still describe with awe.
After serving in the government, he became a prominent political commentator. “Centrism doesn’t mean splitting the difference,” he said in 2020.
Nearly 3,000 people have been arrested since the beginning of June, more than three times the number in previous months this year.
The plea came at a vulnerable moment for the Sinaloa drug cartel, the organization Ovidio Guzmán López’s father helped found.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio insists he is streamlining a bloated department, but critics warn the cost to America’s standing and influence could be high.
The International Criminal Court has “reasonable grounds to believe” war crimes and crimes against humanity were committed, the court’s deputy prosecutor said.
La gente de X dice que no te preocupes, que ya lo están arreglando.
An irate attorney general is said to have confronted the deputy director of the F.B.I. at a tense White House meeting earlier in the week.
La velocidad de rotación del planeta nunca ha sido constante. Pero los datos del pasado reciente son bastante claros: la velocidad de giro de nuestro planeta ha aumentado este verano.
In her new book, “A Marriage at Sea,” the British journalist revisits an amazing account of disaster and survival from the early 1970s.
The employees unwittingly helped Grant Hardin, a former police chief, walk out of a prison in May, dressed in a fake law enforcement uniform, officials said.
The director of the reboot, James Gunn, called the superhero from the planet Krypton “an immigrant,” thrusting the summer popcorn movie into an Earthbound culture war.
T-Mobile, seeking federal approval for two deals, is the latest company to drop its diversity programs amid scrutiny by the Federal Communications Commission.
The court found that Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III had the authority to invalidate a contract reached between the accused mastermind and a Pentagon official.
We never really gave him his due. Maybe the problem was us.
If the plan is finalized, it would allow critical aid to flow to Ukraine as it endures one of Russia’s heaviest assaults of the war.
Her pivotal role performing a Spanish-language cover of Roy Orbison’s “Crying” in the 2001 David Lynch movie raised her profile, but her career was marked by misfortune.
President Trump has put top administration officials in charge of multiple federal agencies and offices — an approach that has little precedent.
The 23-year-old star could be the first American woman to win the tournament since 2016. A self-imposed sabbatical may have helped her get there.
También exploramos las nuevas producciones de Tyla, Kassa Overall e Indigo de Souza.
Las cartas del presidente de EE. UU. que fueron divulgadas en redes sociales, y en las que se establecen los términos comerciales, han dejado a los socios del país preguntándose cuál será el siguiente paso.
Whether you want a romance or family drama, she's written a book for you.
The judge, Paula Xinis, said some legal safeguard was needed because the Trump administration had already shown in this and other deportation cases that it could not be trusted.
Can you sort 8 historical events?
David Ellison, the founder of Skydance, and Bari Weiss, the co-founder of The Free Press, are attending the annual Allen & Co. conference in Sun Valley this week.
Suffolk County’s $225,000 settlement provides a striking counterpoint to the anti-sanctuary policies that have recently taken shape across Long Island.
Luke and Robert Leroy Brake Jr. haven’t seen their parents since a deadly flood swept through their camp site on July 4. They spoke to The New York Times about what happened that day.
Jeremiah Brown asked his 2 million TikTok followers what to do after being voted off the hit series. The answer has him, and his fans, reading “The Song of Achilles.”
Three women write about careers, marriage and motherhood. Also: Laura Loomer’s clout with President Trump; learning from Zohran Mamdani.
Edwin Brant Frost IV, a well-known Republican, is accused of defrauding 300 investors of $140 million, and using some funds for political donations. He said he took “full responsibility.”
The tech giant has quietly shed warehouse employees whose work authorizations were revoked after the Trump administration ended a Biden-era immigration program.
The planet’s rotation fluctuates as it travels around the sun, and measurements suggest we’re losing more than a millisecond during the long days of summer.
Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, met several times with President Trump, amid rising hopes of a cease-fire in Gaza, but there are still obstacles to a truce with Hamas.
Aparentemente los agentes utilizaron munición antidisturbios y gases lacrimógenos contra los manifestantes. El FBI dijo que estaba buscando a quien pareció disparar contra los agentes.
An analysis of National Weather Service job vacancies found that in more than a third of offices overseeing flash flood hotspots, one or more of three senior leadership roles are open.
An effigy of a boat containing mannequins of migrants was set alight in the village of Moygashel on Thursday, in an incident condemned by political and religious leaders as racist and threatening.
The half-mile stretch occupied by two campgrounds appears to have been one of the deadliest spots along the Guadalupe River in Central Texas during last week’s flash floods.
Hear tracks by Tyla, Kassa Overall, Syd, Jay Som and others.
It’s a key refuge for Moscow’s wealthy, including the record producer Iosif Prigozhin. He insists he still loves President Vladimir V. Putin, no matter what you’ve heard.
El condado de Kerr fracasó repetidamente al tratar de conseguir un sistema de alerta de inundaciones, incluso cuando los funcionarios locales sabían de los riesgos y había miles de millones de dólares para proyectos similares.
Individual investors were the ones who piled into stocks when they plunged in early April, while big Wall Street institutions missed out on the gains.
Because it’s hot outside, and you have a lot of zucchini to get through.
Swing and Lindy Hop, dance forms created by Black Americans in the 1920s and ’30s, are flowering in Korea. New York will get a taste in a mini festival.
Chris and Paul Weitz talked about Season 1 of the acclaimed Apple TV+ series and the challenges of being a responsible human being — or cyborg.
This month’s picks include desperate fathers, a remorseful MMA fighter and more.
Since the 1970s, the Rencontres d’Arles has been the place to debut the art form’s latest developments. This year’s edition had a more retro feel.
Según sus funcionarios, esta medida es parte de un plan de consolidación que reducirá el exceso burocrático.
They included glittery blood, metallic masks and a beating heart.
Secret meetings and private holidays of the royal family and prime minister were inadvertently made public on Strava, which has raised security concerns in other instances.
The behaviors are extreme and exciting, but the show itself isn’t bleak. It is bright and funny, colorful and surprising.
Our series reveals the math hidden in familiar places. How much do you know about taxicab geometry, triangular numbers, the golden ratio and more?
This year’s edition of the Aix-en-Provence Festival was planned by Audi but opened without him, following his death in May.
Six members of Congress from Wisconsin and Minnesota have asked Canada to say how it plans to tackle the blazes and reduce the haze billowing south.
Rising temperatures pose an existential threat to the theater extravaganza, where extreme heat is making it tough for the audience.
To participate, submit your response here by July 18 at 9 a.m. Eastern. This week’s winners will be announced by July 29.
The payments, part of the new domestic policy law, are for U.S. citizens born this year through 2028. The idea is that the money in the accounts will have many years to grow.
Traders have repeatedly shrugged off President Trump’s disruptive tariff wars and fiscal policy, pushing U.S. stock prices back into expensive territory, our columnist says.
A ruling on a moral dilemma at the supermarket.
Chancellor Friedrich Merz will pass an early plank of his domestic agenda into law on Friday, grounded in classical economic arguments.
Stocks have hit new highs despite President Trump’s escalating trade war. Some traders may be calling his bluff, but Jamie Dimon of JPMorgan Chase advises caution.
The country’s new prime minister, Mark Carney, has been called the “Trump whisperer,” and negotiations have been cordial and professional. But it’s been a wild ride.
The disarmament of the P.K.K., a group that has battled since the 1980s for Kurdish independence, could end a conflict that has killed more than 40,000 people.
We spoke to the Jerusalem bureau chief about his investigative profile about the Israeli prime minister.
A blaze on Thursday at one of Egypt’s main telecommunications hubs was extinguished, days after a larger fire there killed four people and disrupted internet, transport and banking services.
The original tech right power player on A.I., Mars and immortality.
Blunt letters dictating terms posted to social media and changes late in negotiations have left trading partners wondering what President Trump will do next.
Cuts to public media could have the deepest impact in red, rural and Republican America.
Plus, your Friday news quiz.
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He also won TVs, musical instruments, a parachuting session, makeup, household appliances and much, much more. “It’s a lot,” he acknowledged.
The psychiatrist Mark Epstein shares his insights about the mind after decades of working with patients and practicing Buddhism.
The president and the first lady were set to tour areas devastated by flooding in Central Texas. The administration has faced scrutiny over its level of preparedness and its disaster response.
We asked, and over 800 of you answered.
For the furry sidekick, Krypto, in “Superman,” the director James Gunn found inspiration — and a physical model — in his own unruly pet.
Right-wing Brazilians wanted sanctions against the judge prosecuting Brazil’s former president. President Trump opted for something far bigger — tariffs.
Did you follow the news this week? Take our quiz to see how well you stack up with other Times readers.
A test of the app Dia illustrates that the humble web browser may be the path to making artificial intelligence more natural to use.
The folks at X say don’t worry; they’re on it.
Inspired by homes open to their natural settings, an architect designed a house on the Greek island of Corfu with minimal barriers from the “wild landscape.”
At his Chicago restaurant Ever, which played a supporting role in “The Bear,” the chef Curtis Duffy refines his story.
Whether you’re a casual moviegoer or an avid buff, our reviewers think these films are worth knowing about.
The irreconcilable difference between Trumpian politics and Christianity.
Prolonging the Gaza war helped the Israeli prime minister forestall a political reckoning.
Unregulated heavy rare earth mining in war-torn Myanmar is poisoning the Kok River in Thailand. Hannah Beech, a New York Times reporter based in Bangkok, spoke to locals about the negative effects.
In 2005, the economist Pietra Rivoli followed the production of a T-shirt from a cotton farm to a Walgreens to understand global trade. Today, she sees a new system arising.
The town was supposed to be a “safe area,” protected by U.N. peacekeepers, but Serb forces massacred 8,000 Muslim men and boys there.
This month’s picks include a live-action version of Disney classic and an animated K-pop fantasy musical.
Artists from different cultural traditions adapted an ancient tale to explore how to respond to betrayal and exploitation.
The tap-and-go payment method is replacing the MetroCard. Straphangers cite some glitches, and a watchdog says the design could be improved.
In and around the coastal town of San Juan del Sur, planned communities offer buyers a range of homes with waterfront views and in ecological reserves.
Writing for The Daily Planet about his heroic alter ego raises thorny issues for Clark Kent. Lois Lane has her conflicts, too.
As extreme heat becomes more common, urban dwellers must relinquish their bias against daytime darkness and embrace the shadows.
The director Petra Costa examines a rightward shift in her country by zeroing in on the rise of a televangelist.
The medication finasteride has become popular among young men. But for those struggling to conceive, it could be the reason.
President Trump is abusing his clemency power, but most American governors are underutilizing their powers of commutation and pardon.
Teachers, police officers, firefighters and other workers live in overcrowded and substandard housing, or even in their cars on the beach.
We asked travel and credit card experts how to maximize value and save money when it comes to pesky luggage add-ons. Here’s what you need to know.
Secret meetings, altered records, ignored intelligence: the inside story of the prime minister’s political calculations since Oct. 7.
“Mexican Gothic” was a breakout book for Silvia Moreno-Garcia, who describes herself as “not a people person.” Her new novel is “The Bewitching.”
Mental health professionals are meeting clients in the kitchen to harness the therapeutic powers of cooking.
The amount of land burned this year is on pace to be the most since 1994, as 100 blazes burned on Friday across the central Canadian province.
Más de una década después de que la plataforma tomara medidas enérgicas contra la infracción de los derechos de autor, miles de películas, programas de televisión y deportes en directo sin licencia están disponibles.