This week, Wesley reflects on the impact Rob Reiner had on his life, specifically the 1990 film “Misery,” and how Reiner brought humanity to his characters in unexpected ways.
The Atlanta-area district attorney called President Trump and his allies “criminals” while being questioned by a Georgia Senate committee on Wednesday.
While hiking in the Italian Alps in September, a nature photographer came upon a surface speckled with more than 2,000 dinosaur footprints. The site is not that far from Bormio, where Alpine skiing will take place at the Winter Olympics in February.
During much of the 12.5-minute call, President Trump reiterated his claims that he had won Georgia, a state he lost by more than 11,000 votes that year.
The Pentagon has released plenty of video clips that show American missiles blowing boats suspected of carrying drugs out of the water. But the “double tap” strike on Sept. 2 is being kept under wraps.
The White House unveiled plaques near the Oval Office that describe U.S. presidents with varying levels of accuracy, depending on President Trump’s opinion of them.
President Trump will address the nation on Wednesday night at 9 p.m. Eastern time. The New York Times will provide live coverage and analysis.
Ms. Maxwell, who conspired with Jeffrey Epstein in a sex-trafficking scheme, argued that she had been denied a fair trial.
The legislation restores restrictions on military aircraft flying near busy airports, implemented after a fatal collision near D.C. in January, that had been removed in the defense bill.
Reflections of Turbulent Times
Judge Jia M. Cobb wrote that two policies announced in June appeared to unlawfully bar members of Congress from making unannounced visits at immigration detention facilities.
Venezuelans spoke out after President Trump ordered a “complete blockade” of sanctioned oil tankers going to and from Venezuela. Hours after he announced the blockade, the Venezuelan Navy began escorting tankers sailing around the country’s east coast.
Security camera footage from a gas station convenience store in Los Angeles shows Nick Reiner buying a sports drink. About an hour later, Mr. Reiner is arrested across the street. Mr. Reiner was charged with first-degree murder in the stabbing deaths of his parents, Rob and Michele Singer Reiner.
Officials said that they were working with physical evidence, including DNA, and that they were seeking a second man who appeared to have crossed paths with the possible suspect’.
Several prominent conservative figures have announced that they are engaged this week, news often celebrated by President Trump.
For more than three and a half years, officials said, the men used the Johnson Houses as “an open drug market” to sell crack cocaine and fentanyl.
Israel’s granting of an export permit is the final step to allow the deal, first announced by energy companies in August, to proceed.
The measure had little chance of consideration in the Senate, where it would need bipartisan support to move, but it reflected the priorities of the Republican majority.
La salida de Dan Bongino parecía inevitable desde agosto, cuando la Casa Blanca contrató al fiscal general de Misuri, Andrew Bailey, para que compartiera el cargo de subdirector con él.
After finding the slain couple, investigators focused on their younger son, Nick, as a suspect. He was formally charged with murder on Tuesday and appeared in court on Wednesday.
The American Academy of Pediatrics had called the department’s policies “irresponsible and purposefully misleading” and joined a lawsuit against its vaccine policy.
President Trump said the United States wanted to reclaim expropriated oil assets, setting off a nationalist reaction in a country where the resource holds a mythical status.
The Pentagon said it was initiating a “command investigation” into the senator, another extraordinary step as the Trump administration seeks retribution against the president’s perceived foes.
China’s experiments in clean energy can feel like living in the future. Even when things don’t quite work.
The Democratic measure was defeated mostly along party lines, along with another resolution that would have halted the military’s escalating campaign of boat attacks.
He rose from poverty to become one of the Netherlands’ most revered dance makers, creating more than 150 avant-garde works in a career spanning eight decades.
The musical was already one of theater’s biggest success stories. Then came Hollywood.
In some ways, Trump’s broader flexing of power has achieved what he set out to do. But his attempts to push prosecutions of rivals have been far less successful.
Also, New York will allow the terminally ill to end their lives. Here’s the latest at the end of Wednesday.
El gobierno de Venezuela habría ordenado la medida, según dos personas familiarizadas con el asunto. No estaba claro si los buques estaban sujetos a sanciones estadounidenses.
The departure of Mr. Bongino had seemed inevitable since August, when the White House hired Missouri’s attorney general, Andrew Bailey, to share his job as deputy director.
The 96-year-old on postcolonial history, his first camera and the importance of talking to younger artists.
Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words.
Even adversaries of Jack Smith, the former special counsel, conceded that his tight-lipped, painstaking approach made tripping him up particularly difficult.
Dairy fat has been making the headlines. Here’s what to know.
Morgan Geyser, who was convicted after she stabbed a friend in 2014 to please a fictional character, was arrested last month after she cut off a monitoring bracelet and fled from a group home.
We must do far more to address the national crisis of addiction that leaves so many households in despair as well as danger.
The government has greatly restricted the number of work and study permits issued to foreigners following an unpopular immigration boom during the pandemic.
An official with U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services said it would prioritize “those who’ve unlawfully obtained U.S. citizenship.”
The district attorney in Atlanta addressed a Republican-led committee created to investigate her conduct during her prosecution of President Trump last year.
Scientists have expressed alarm about the dominant version of the virus that’s circulating now.
Mr. Reiner was filmed entering a gas station’s store in South Los Angeles to buy a sports drink roughly an hour before he was arrested by the police across the street.
Ahmed Al-Sharaa, a former Al Qaeda ally, is now president of Syria. We look at his transformation, and whether he can transform his country, too.
An unrelenting gloom has blanketed much of the state’s Central Valley since late November.
A Finnish beauty queen was stripped of her crown for a gesture mocking Asians. After Finnish lawmakers have copied her, Finland’s prime minister is trying to defuse the controversy.
“The Interview” invited three politicians who decided to leave the Senate to discuss the problems facing Congress. In this clip, Tina Smith, a Democrat from Minnesota who is not running for re-election, critiqued the filibuster.
Jeff Flake, Joe Manchin and Tina Smith all decided to leave the Senate during the Trump era. On “The Interview,” the current and former lawmakers open up about why they think the Senate is broken and what it would take to fix it.
Is the Senate is abandoning its constitutionally prescribed role? On the “The Interview,” three senators who decided to leave Congress during the Trump era discussed the state of the Senate and how we got here.
A dispute on a Brooklyn street appeared to explode after the perpetrator made antisemitic statements, the police said.
At Ecco restaurant in Atlanta, one dessert stands above the rest: a salted olive oil gelato. Inspired by that dish in flavor but not in method, this frozen treat doesn’t require an ice-cream maker.
The region has faced significant flooding in the last week. Powerful winds from another storm have compounded the misery.
Her film “Who Killed Vincent Chin?” earned an Oscar nomination in 1988 and was inducted into the National Film Registry for its cultural significance.
Jared Isaacman, the billionaire nominated twice to lead the agency, may draw some lessons from the tenure of another NASA leader in the 1990s.
Her work had a clean, minimal aesthetic at odds with the ambiguities it suggested. It was also unusually accessible.
The main dark-money group backing Kamala Harris and Joe Biden raised a staggering $613 million last year, while its pro-Trump counterpart brought in $275 million, new filings show.
National security shouldn’t ever have a price.
The comment from Brendan Carr, a Republican, raised concerns from lawmakers about how President Trump might use the agency.
After viewing video of a follow-up strike, Republicans largely had confidence in the Pentagon’s legal rationale while Democrats questioned its legality.
Una investigación del Times revela cómo el depredador sexual buscaba la compañía y protección de los poderosos para escalar socialmente y hacerse de dinero ajeno.
Noche Buena brings together Filipino communities over rich dishes and great music. This year, the celebration started early.
Las personas procedentes de Siria, Sudán del Sur y las que tienen documentos expedidos por la Autoridad Palestina se unen a las restricciones de ingreso a Estados Unidos, que ahora abarcan más de 35 países.
The Venezuelan government was said to have ordered the escort, according to two people familiar with the matter. It was not immediately clear whether the vessels were subject to U.S. sanctions.
The police in London and Manchester said they would take a “more assertive” approach after the Bondi Beach massacre and a terrorist attack at a British synagogue.
The first lady is behind a movie that she has said will give a better idea of what it was like for her to move into the White House for a second time.
The daughter and a son of Rob and Michele Singer Reiner spoke publicly for the first time since their parents were found dead on Sunday and their brother was arrested. They asked for respect and privacy.
Nick Reiner, facing murder charges in the deaths of his parents, Rob and Michele Reiner, appeared at an arraignment that lasted just minutes before it was rescheduled for January. He has not entered a plea.
Cedric Lodge, and his wife, Denise Lodge, stole and sold donated human remains intended for medical research and teaching, prosecutors said.
Mientras esperan el metro, los pasajeros podrán ver reliquias de la ciudad, casi todos descubiertas al excavar las estaciones.
Two hundred million years ago, prosauropods walked the earth. They left something behind.
Federal prosecutors filed criminal fraud charges against two top executives at Tricolor Auto, and two other executives have already pleaded guilty to related charges.
Readers react to Daniela Lamas’s essay on the moral dilemma posed by a patient who refused her advice, then died. Also: Managing methane on farms.
Gov. Kathy Hochul cast the measure in unusually personal terms, saying she had felt “the pain of seeing someone you love suffer and feeling powerless to stop it.”
With orange beanies, a roast pig and a mayor-elect, the New York premiere of A24’s buzzy Ping-Pong film was its own kind of flick.
President Trump’s immigration crackdown has at times resulted in arrests near schools, setting off concerns among parents, educators and students.
The New York Times is looking to talk to New Yorkers about how they budget, splurge and save in one of the most expensive cities in the world.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences said that it had reached a deal with YouTube for exclusive rights to the show starting in 2029.
Kaouther Ben Hania’s dramatized feature about a Palestinian girl who is killed in Gaza City is both powerfully direct and purposefully removed.
Jon Caramanica, a pop music critic at the New York Times, discusses the emotional emptiness of hits generated by artificial intelligence.
The scope of President Trump’s blockade against ships carrying oil from Venezuela was not clear on Wednesday.
The legislation authorizes $900 billion for the Pentagon, provides a pay raise for troops, and has some measures to reassert congressional oversight.
I started feeling I wasn’t getting the full story. My instincts were correct.
Across the newsroom, journalists picked their most notable movies from 2025.
Una persona allegada a la familia brindó un relato detallado de lo ocurrido en la casa de los Reiner después de que no abrieran la puerta para una cita de masaje.
A three-judge panel voted unanimously to allow troops to stay in the capital for the duration of the appeal, citing the city’s unique legal status.
These moments from his movies brought the laughs, in many different ways.
A boozy, celebratory centerpiece, baba au rhum savarin is the best kind of dessert experience.
Russell Vought, the White House budget director, called the laboratory a source of “climate alarmism.”
After the speaker denied them a vote on extending the subsidies, four Republicans from competitive districts joined Democrats’ bid to go around G.O.P. leaders and force action.
Make this hot honey whipped ricotta for that party you’re going to, or make it for dinner with your favorite crackers and cut up vegetables.
El traslado de más de una veintena de hombres esta semana reanudó una operación de deportación del gobierno de Trump en la base después de una pausa de dos meses.
He was best known for playing the title character in “Buck Rogers in the 25th Century,” which ran on NBC from 1979 to 1981.
El hijo de Rob Reiner y Michele Singer Reiner, quien fue imputado con dos cargos de asesinato en primer grado, ha luchado durante años con su adicción a las drogas.
A court filing by a group with deep ties to the pipeline company Energy Transfer raises questions about the growing use of amicus briefs in litigation.
I was wrong about how to push back.
Our columnist offers guidance on holiday travel, gift exchanges and seasonal hospitality. (Must it extend to electric vehicle charging?)
The surviving suspect in the mass shooting at Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia, on Sunday, in which at least 15 people were killed, has been charged with murder and terrorism, the police said on Wednesday.
ISIS is too weakened to seize territory, experts said, but its ability to churn out propaganda aimed at provoking violence against the West persists.
Esta palabra ha aparecido en 117 artículos en NYTimes.com en el último año. ¿Puedes usarla en una frase?
Strong winds knocked over a replica of the Statue of Liberty outside of a department store in southern Brazil. There were no injuries, according to Brazilian local media.
Seven Kenyans were detained for working in the country illegally, officials said. The arrests came amid rising tensions after the United States prioritized white Afrikaners seeking asylum.
En Argentina, el regreso de los pumas trajo de vuelta al paisaje a los principales depredadores, para gran consternación de los pingüinos.
The media company formally rejected a hostile takeover bid by Paramount and questioned the purported political advantages held by its unwanted suitor.
Audiences are falling in love with the title character in “Paddington: The Musical.” Bringing such a beloved bear to the stage was “a huge responsibility,” the show’s director said.
A group of prominent figures issued a statement memorializing Mr. Reiner and his wife, Michele Singer Reiner. “We were their friends, and we will miss them forever.”
Heavy rain and strong winds through early Wednesday could bring additional flooding to Washington State, forecasters warned.
The claim was made as part of Warner Bros. Discovery’s dismissal of Paramount’s hostile takeover offer.
The government said it would pay about $760 million to allow young Britons to take part in 2027.
We look at the promise and peril of robots that look like humans.
Las autoridades australianas afirman que los sospechosos estaban motivados por el grupo militante, lo que sugiere que aún tendría la capacidad de inspirar actos de terrorismo.
The items were taken in the late 19th century from what was then called the Dutch East Indies. Indonesia had been trying to get them back for decades.
The director made classic films, including “When Harry Met Sally …” and “The Princess Bride.”
Plus, the subway stop that’s also a museum.
Scroll down for hints and conversation about the puzzle for Thursday, Dec. 18, 2025.
Scroll down for hints and conversation about the puzzle for Thursday, Dec. 18, 2025.
Scroll down for hints and conversation about the puzzle for Thursday, Dec. 18, 2025.
It is rare for a gunman in a high-profile shooting to get away, and many are apprehended within days. The authorities shared grainy video and begged for tips as the search stretched into its fourth day.
For the students in the Brown University review session, concerns about grades and questions about economic concepts would be forgotten in an instant.
Why are the Supreme Court and Congress conspiring to give him more power?
In life and art, he was the successor to Norman Lear.
Just ahead of the Season 2 premiere, the co-creator Geneva Robertson-Dworet talked about the challenge of finding fun in a nuclear apocalypse.
Colder weather and rising electricity and fuel costs will lead to a big jump in costs for individuals, according to estimates from a group representing state energy officials.
It all comes down to coordination.
Rose Byrne, Jennifer Lawrence and Amanda Seyfried give great performances as women who buck convention. But some voters prize ‘likability’ above all else.
The Bird’s Nest is experimenting with a different way to age.
The person picked to replace Jerome H. Powell will be thrust into a credibility problem that will be difficult to escape.
Share some of your most cherished rituals for any holiday you celebrate.
With tariffs unpopular and prices still high, the White House has teased the promise of tariff rebates and large tax refunds next year.
There is plenty of stimulation for young theatergoers in the Royal Shakespeare Company’s adaptation of Roald Dahl’s beloved book.
The Midwestern city went fare-free two years ago, mainly to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
A firm controlled by a businessman sanctioned by the U.S. Treasury for ties to President Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela has sold millions of barrels from a Chevron-operated oil field.
A surge of ICE agents has led to 670 arrests and chaotic standoffs in subzero weather.
A man clung to a partially built roof for hours in frigid temperatures during a standoff with immigration agents in Chanhassen, Minn., a suburb of Minneapolis. The confrontation was part of the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown in the state to remove what it calls “vicious criminals.”
A Queen Anne Revival in Detroit, a Craftsman in Durham and a Cape Cod in Pearl River.
The students face discipline for recording Mr. Summers, the former Harvard president, discussing his ties to Jeffrey Epstein in a Harvard class.
Ravel’s depiction of an enchanted garden is so simple and wistful, I never want it to end.
Survivors of the St. Mary’s Catholic School abduction in Nigeria recall their harrowing ordeal and release.
For people like Ms. Otts, an online community can be lifesaving.
From the recent ‘Eternity’ to classics like ‘Defending Your Life’ and ‘Beetlejuice,’ the gag remains the same: What if the next world worked just like this one?
“Track Star” is the YouTube series that brings out the music lover in celebrities and civilians alike.
This 1941 comic murder mystery is back for a week in a sparkling restoration at Film Forum.
We polled film fans in the newsroom. These are the titles that stuck with us this year.
Metal crosses, a recliner, a blue wedding suit: the most cherished belongings of Ozzy Osbourne, Brian Wilson, Kitty Dukakis and others.
In 1989, Gen. Xu Qinxian defied orders to crush the pro-democracy protests in Beijing. Now, leaked video from his court-martial is on YouTube.
“Furious Minds,” by Laura K. Field, traces the ascendancy of hard-right thinkers whose contempt for liberal democracy is shaping American politics.
Rural stays booked on the Hipcamp platform allow budget visitors to save money while reveling in the outdoors.
Rhinelander v. Rhinelander was one of the most scandalous trials of the Jazz Age. 100 years later, it reads as a tragedy about the country’s original sin.
If the post-Trump G.O.P. makes the same mistake the Democrats did with their identitarian fringe, Republicans will meet a similar fate.
Catch Kristin Chenoweth basking in the excess, and Bill and Ted having a Beckettian adventure, before the curtain comes down on their productions and others.
A boundary-pushing array of new crypto ventures have reached the stock market, enticing investors and leading to more risk taking.
This routine can help you avoid injury and move more easily.
More young, child-free women are pursuing the permanent form of contraception.
Thomas Paine published “Common Sense” in 1776 as an argument for independence. Americans across the political spectrum have been citing it ever since.
En entrevistas a Vanity Fair, la jefa de gabinete de Trump dijo que el presidente “tiene la personalidad de un alcohólico”, calificó a Vance de “teórico de la conspiración” y concluyó que Bondi “se equivocó” en la gestión del caso Epstein.
What are your favorite films that are so bad, they’re good?
Mayor Adams took notable steps toward improving reading instruction in New York. But families and advocates say many students with dyslexia are still struggling.
Los científicos no están del todo seguros de qué causa el enrojecimiento facial ni de por qué se intensifica con la edad, pero tienen algunas teorías.
This word has appeared in 117 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year. Can you use it in a sentence?
Jimmy Kimmel was grateful that Susie Wiles, the president’s “future former chief of staff,” spilled the beans on her boss in a Vanity Fair article.
The funeral for Rabbi Eli Schlanger on Wednesday was the first held for one of the 15 people killed in a mass shooting at a Jewish celebration in Sydney, Australia.
People mourned the death of Rabbi Eli Schlanger during the first funeral for those killed in the Bondi Beach shooting. He was a key organizer of the Jewish event that was tarnished by a mass shooting.
Chile’s new leader wants to rewrite its past and recast its future.
Aunque el país ha vivido manifestaciones populares desde la caída del comunismo, esta vez los búlgaros dijeron que la indignación, ocasionada por la corrupción y el aumento de impuestos, se había desbordado.
The Australian authorities said the 24-year-old man, who had been shot by the police, woke from a coma on Tuesday afternoon.
Sixty years ago, half a million Indonesians were killed in anti-Communist purges. On Bali, resorts and clubs were built atop mass graves.
The Chinese government is betting that robots will drive economic growth. But the bots can’t really do much yet.
Aunque los funcionarios europeos dijeron que estaban trabajando bien con los negociadores estadounidenses, a algunos les preocupa que el trabajo diplomático sea irrelevante si no se resuelven las disputas fundamentales entre Rusia y Ucrania.
BYD, Chery and other Chinese automakers are winning over drivers in Britain, where tariffs are low and buyers are open to new brands.
Corrections that appeared in print on Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2025.
Quotation of the Day for Wednesday, December 17, 2025.
A New York intellectual and onetime liberal stalwart, his Commentary magazine became his platform as his political and social view turned sharply rightward.
Gary Larson and Doug Peterson have outmaneuvered us.
The two first-degree murder counts include a special circumstance, which increases the maximum punishment if he is convicted.
Los Angeles prosecutors charged Nick Reiner with two counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of his parents, the director Rob Reiner and Michele Singer Reiner.