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• German Chancellor Urges Europe to Cut Red Tape and Spend Big on Defense. Speaking in Davos, Chancellor Friedrich Merz also implicitly criticized President Trump’s demeaning treatment of European allies.
• Jack Smith to Testify Before Congress on Trump Investigations. The appearance provides Mr. Smith with what is likely to be his best opportunity to challenge Mr. Trump’s assertion that he was persecuted for his politics, not for his misdeeds.
• The American Murder Rate Has Never Been Lower, a New Report Projects. A decline in homicides across the country was a stunning reversal after crime rose during the pandemic.
• Few Voters Say Trump’s Second Term Has Made the Country Better, Poll Finds. A majority of voters said that Mr. Trump had focused on the wrong priorities and that they disapproved of his handling of top issues, but the president still enjoys strong support from Republicans.
• Newsom Blames Trump for Cancellation of His Davos Appearance. Gov. Gavin Newsom of California said the Trump administration had denied him entry to an American venue at the World Economic Forum. It’s not clear if the administration was responsible.
• ‘High Alert, All the Time’: Minneapolis Sees ICE Around Every Corner. Federal agents have been carrying out an immigration crackdown in Minnesota for weeks. Some residents say they carry a sense of dread even on empty streets.
• Questions for Alex Honnold Before He Tries to Climb a Skyscraper …. … without ropes. He considers the impact on his family if something were to go wrong.
• Zelensky to Meet Trump at Davos Forum to Discuss Ukraine Peace Deal. President Trump and Ukraine’s leader, Volodymyr Zelensky, are expected to talk about sticking points in negotiations to end the war with Russia.
• Private Autopsy Shows Renee Good Was Shot at Least 3 Times, Lawyers Say. Lawyers for the family of Ms. Good, who was fatally shot by an immigration agent in Minneapolis, have said their firm was conducting an investigation into the shooting.
• ICE Said Agents Can Enter Homes Without Judicial Warrant, Group Claims. A whistle-blower group said a memo apparently signed by the leader of Immigration and Customs Enforcement violated constitutional protections against unreasonable search and seizure.
• Cuban Detainee in El Paso ICE Facility Died by Homicide, Autopsy Shows. The report from the county medical examiner said the detainee, Geraldo Lunas Campos, was asphyxiated and restrained by law enforcement. Federal officials described his death as a suicide.
• Ex-Uvalde Officer Found Not Guilty of Endangering Children in Mass Shooting. Adrian Gonzales had faced 29 charges for his actions in the 2022 shooting, in which 19 children were killed by a gunman at Robb Elementary School in Texas.
• Illinois Investigates Claim That Landlord Tipped Off High-Profile ICE Raid. The state said it has opened an investigation into whether the management of a troubled South Side building may have called federal agents to try to help clear out Black and Hispanic tenants.
• Trump’s ‘Board of Peace’ Would Have Global Scope but One Man in Charge. The initiative is the latest example of the president dismantling the post-World War II international system and building a new one, with himself at the center.
• At Davos, a Clash Between Trump’s World and the Old World. For decades, leaders have gathered in Davos to discuss a shared economic and political future. On Wednesday, President Trump turned the forum into a bracing clash between his worldview and theirs.
• T.S.A. Leader Defends Working With ICE to Congress. At an oversight hearing, Democratic lawmakers peppered the agency’s acting director over the Transportation Security Administration’s role in Trump’s immigration crackdown.
• Dozens Are Sickened by a Rare Fungal Infection in Tennessee. One person who contracted it died. The fungus is commonly found in soil in the Ohio River and Mississippi River valleys, and the illness is not contagious.
• Supreme Court Hearing Reveals Unease Over Threats to Fed Independence. As the justices weighed the consequences of allowing President Trump to fire a Federal Reserve official, the president reprised his pressure campaign on the central bank.
• This Group Wants to Protect Candidates From a ‘Cloud’ of Political Violence. Two leaders of a political security group talked about what they’re seeing and hearing.
• Kennedy, Kicking Off National Tour, Says He’s Not Running for President. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. rallied supporters at the Pennsylvania State Capitol, where he promoted his new dietary guidelines.
• 18-Year-Old Pleads Guilty in North Carolina Shooting That Left 5 Dead. It is highly uncommon for mass shooters to plead guilty in a country where such attacks seem all too frequent. The man’s lawyers said he wanted to spare the community from further trauma.
• Federal Agent Fires Gun During Immigration Operation in L.A. Area, Officials Say. The authorities said an agent fired his weapon at a man in Compton, Calif., who was being pursued over a human smuggling operation. The man was not struck.
• Military Police Troops Put on Alert for Possible Deployment to Minnesota. The move was described as precautionary in the event that President Trump invokes the Insurrection Act in response to protests.
• Trump Targets European Allies in Lengthy Speech at Davos. In a speech at the World Economic Forum in Switzerland on Wednesday, President Trump reasserted his ambitions to seize Greenland, but pledged to not use force.
• House Panel Votes to Hold Clintons in Contempt in Epstein Inquiry. The votes by the Oversight panel were bipartisan, though many Democrats said the charges were extreme given Bill and Hillary Clinton’s willingness to answer questions.
• Appeals Court Stays Restrictions on Federal Tactics in Minnesota. The Eighth Circuit granted the Trump administration’s request to block, at least for now, a lower court’s injunction limiting how federal agents interact with protesters in the state.
• 4 Takeaways From Supreme Court Hearing on Trump’s Firing of Fed Official. The justices were alert to the central bank’s crucial role and wary of issuing a broad ruling based on rushed briefing and incomplete information.
• Greenland Advises Residents to Have 5 Days of Supplies. The semiautonomous Danish territory issued its guidance as President Trump told European leaders that he wouldn’t send troops to seize it. Greenland said it was responding to power cuts, not geopolitics.
• Rahm Emanuel Calls for Age Limit of 75 for President, Congress and Judges. The former Chicago mayor, who is trying to shape the Democratic Party’s future and might run for president, said that “across all three branches of government, 75 years — you’re out.”
• Trump Administration Drops Appeal in School D.E.I. Lawsuit. The administration withdrew its challenge to a ruling halting its effort to strip funding from schools and colleges with D.E.I. programs. It did not say why.
• Fact-Checking President Trump’s Davos Speech. The president gave misleading accounts of the U.S. role in Greenland’s history and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, among other claims.
• Newsom Says He Is Blocked From Entering U.S. Pavilion at Davos. Gov. Gavin Newsom of California accused the Trump administration of cutting off his access to the American pavilion, where he was scheduled to speak on Wednesday.
• ‘She Just Rubbed Me the Wrong Way’: Trump Suggests Swiss Tariffs Were Personal. Speaking at the World Economic Forum on Wednesday, Mr. Trump said he raised tariffs on Switzerland last year to among the highest in the world after a phone call with the country’s president.
• Here’s a Look at Everything (and Everyone) Trump Targeted at Davos. President Trump’s verbal broadsides drew gasps and nervous laughter at the annual gathering of political and business leaders.
• Trump Administration Starts Immigration Operation in Maine. A similar operation that unfolded in Minnesota became a flashpoint between protesters and immigration authorities.
• After promising to reveal new U.S. housing policies in his Davos speech, Trump offers few details. President Trump and his aides have mentioned various ideas for improving housing affordability, but the specifics are still unclear.
• Trump Calls Out Mark Carney’s Davos Speech in Rebuke to Canada. “I watched your prime minister yesterday,” the president said in a speech on Wednesday. “He wasn’t so grateful — they should be grateful to us, Canada. Canada lives because of the United States.”
• Tariffs Case Pending as Supreme Court Takes Up 2nd Case With Economic Consequences. The timing of the court’s decision has been the subject of much speculation and anticipation. But now it may not land for at least several more weeks.
• Trump Appears to Confuse Iceland and Greenland. “Our stock market took the first dip yesterday because of Iceland,” the president said, referring to market shifts related to his repeated threats to seize Greenland. “So Iceland’s already cost us a lot of money.”
• Is America Ready for a Female President? Michelle Obama and Whitmer Disagree. As Mrs. Obama defended her remarks from November that the country wasn’t ready for a woman as president, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan offered a different view.
• Former Flight Attendant Posed as Pilot to Get Free Flights, Prosecutors Say. Federal prosecutors accused Dallas Pokornik of using a false I.D. to get hundreds of free flights from three unnamed airlines, which he denied.
• Trump Tried to Fire Lisa Cook on Social Media. Is That Due Process? In addition to disputing whether the president had sufficient cause to remove her, the Fed governor said the way he went about it was a separate problem.
• Trump Threatens Europe Over Greenland but Rules Out Sending Troops. President Trump’s address to European leaders encapsulated his approach to global power and policymaking in his second term, alternating between coercion and humiliation.
• Fed’s Independence in Flux as Supreme Court Weighs Lisa Cook’s Ouster. How the justices rule in the case between President Trump and the Federal Reserve governor will affect the central bank’s ability to set policy without political interference.
• The fate of the Fed may turn on two words: ‘for cause.’ The Supreme Court has said the Federal Reserve Board’s independence warrants protection. President Trump’s effort to fire a member will test that commitment.
• Who are the lawyers arguing over Trump’s effort to fire Lisa Cook?
• For Trump, the Supreme Court Case Reflects Goal to Remake the Fed. The president has spoken repeatedly of his desire to install a majority of political loyalists on the board of the rate-setting central bank.
• As Europe Tries to Diversify Trade, a Major Deal With South America Stumbles. The move by the European Parliament delays a push by the bloc to find new trading partners, as President Trump has threatened escalating U.S. tariffs.
• What Is Lisa Cook, the Fed Governor, Accused of Doing? The Trump administration has accused Lisa D. Cook, a Fed governor, of engaging in mortgage fraud, but financial documents cast doubt on the claims.
• Trump’s retribution efforts have struggled with mortgage cases. The sputtering push to bring charges against Letitia James, the New York attorney general, underscores the challenges the administration has faced in accusing her of mortgage fraud.
• A Brief From Every Living Former Fed Chair Could Sway the Justices. The filing, also signed by six former Treasury secretaries, said that letting President Trump fire Lisa Cook would deal a blow to the credibility of the nation’s monetary policy.
• Here’s the latest.
• Michele Tafoya Announces Senate Run in Minnesota. Ms. Tafoya, once a sideline reporter for N.F.L. games, has more recently turned her focus to Republican politics. She is seeking an open seat now held by a Democrat.
• Greenland Shouldn’t Overshadow Ukraine, NATO Chief Says. Helping Ukraine defend against Russian aggression should be Europe’s “No. 1 priority,” Mark Rutte, the secretary general of NATO, said in Davos.

World

• Brazil’s Newest Film Icon Is Not Your Typical Star. Clad in florals and puffing on a cigarette, Tânia Maria has captivated audiences with a striking, if brief, performance in “The Secret Agent,” Brazil’s latest Oscar contender.
• Witkoff and Kushner Will Meet With Putin for Ukraine Talks. Steve Witkoff, President Trump’s special envoy, and Jared Kushner, the president’s son-in-law, were expected in Moscow as Mr. Witkoff expressed optimism over a plan to end Russia’s war in Ukraine.
• Trump Reaches Framework Greenland Deal. President Trump said he reached a framework for a deal on the future of Greenland. Some Greenlanders were relieved, but stayed cautious after Trump backed down from his threat to use force.
• Three Dead After Shooting in Rural Australian Town. The gunman was holed up in the town, local news media reported. The shooting happened on the day Australians were honoring the victims of the Bondi Beach massacre.
• Filipino Journalist Gets Prison in Case Seen as Attack on Free Press. Frenchie Mae Cumpio and her former roommate were convicted of financing terrorism and sentenced to up to 18 years in prison.
• Trump’s Rift With Europe Is Clear. Europe Must Decide What to Do About It. After President Trump aired his disdain for Europe, its leaders will gather in Brussels Thursday to take stock of what comes next.
• Greenlanders and Danes Hopeful but Some Are Upset by Talk of a ‘Deal’ A lot of confusion was swirling in Denmark and Greenland after President Trump’s bombshell of a post on social media.
• Trump’s Moves on Greenland. After assailing Europe in a long speech at Davos, the president said he had won an agreement on the future of the Arctic territory.
• Iran’s Protests Have Been Completely Squashed, Government Says. After a crackdown that killed thousands, Iran’s prosecutor general said on Wednesday that “the sedition is over now,” vowing to punish those responsible for the protests.
• U.S. Starts Moving ISIS Detainees From Syria to Iraq. The U.S. military said it has transferred 150 and could eventually move as many as 7,000 Islamic State fighters out of prisons in Syria’s northeast to Iraq, as the Syrian government wrestles for control of the region from Kurdish-led forces.
• Israeli Strikes in Gaza Kill 11, Including Three Journalists. The three journalists were operating a drone near the town of Al-Zahra.
• U.S. Pivot in Syria Leaves an Old Ally in the Lurch. A Kurdish force that helped defeat the Islamic State is collapsing as the Trump administration turns to back the new Syrian government.
• Eye Condition Causes Macron to Take Stage in Shades at Davos. A medical issue, not the dictates of fashion, led President Emanuel Macron of France to address the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, wearing sunglasses. The condition typically goes away without treatment within two weeks.
• Prince Harry Gives Emotional Testimony About Effects of U.K. News Coverage. Harry said in court that reading articles about him published by Associated Newspapers, which he has accused of acting unlawfully, had been “traumatic.”
• Newsom Calls World Leaders ‘Pathetic’ for ‘Rolling Over’ to Trump. Gov. Gavin Newsom of California told world leaders to “stop being complicit” and to “have a backbone” in dealing with President Trump and his threats to Greenland.

New York

• What Lies Ahead for Mamdani and Tisch? The mayor and the police commissioner appear to be on the same page, for now. Tensions could erupt over their political differences.
• In a Harlem Church, a Free Three-Course Dinner, No Questions Asked. Two nights a week at Refettorio Harlem, chefs turn donated food that would otherwise go to waste into a multicourse dinner that is served to anyone who is hungry.
• Scammers Keep Stealing Food Stamps. New Cards Might Stop Them. New York is joining the small group of states switching to chip-and-pin cards to evade skimming devices that siphon money for food from low-income people.
• He Wants New Yorkers to Have a Stake in the Knicks and the Rangers. Adem Bunkeddeko, a state comptroller candidate, wants to use some of New York’s $290 billion pension fund to buy a percentage of Madison Square Garden Sports.
• Parents Sue Residential Home Over Abuse of Their Autistic Son. Anil and Shalini Babbar said they would not have known about the abuse their teenager was enduring at the home in upstate New York if a whistle-blower had not sent footage of an assault.
• Judge Rules for Democrats in Push to Redraw N.Y.C. House District. The ruling, which is expected to be appealed, allows the state to change the boundary lines of a district held by a Staten Island Republican since 2021.
• N.Y.C. Sues to Block Adams-Approved Police Reality Show With Dr. Phil. Dr. Phil, the celebrity psychologist, and Eric Adams agreed to collaborate on “Behind the Badge.” Now the city is suing to prevent the airing of “extremely problematic” footage.
• Sexual Abuse Case Involving Basketball Legend Is Settled, Decades Later. Numerous lawsuits have now been filed against Riverside Church over sexual abuse allegations involving Ernest Lorch, who led its prestigious basketball team in Harlem.
• Court Denies Lawmakers Seeking Independent Monitor of Epstein Files. A federal judge said he did not have the authority to supervise the Justice Department’s release of the documents.

Business

• 2026 Oscar Nominations to Be Unveiled. The nominations are being announced by Danielle Brooks and Lewis Pullman from the headquarters of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
• Who Gets to Borrow (and Charge) Over $100,000 for Graduate School. Two different nursing school programs in Ohio offer a glimpse into what may happen when federal student borrowing has limits.
• Malfunction Forces Japan to Take Restarted Nuclear Plant Offline. The setback occurred hours after one of the world’s largest nuclear complexes restarted, ending more than a decade of dormancy following the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi meltdown.
• China Wins as Trump Cedes Leadership of the Global Economy. The president used a keynote speech at the World Economic Forum in Switzerland to renounce the last vestiges of the liberal democratic order.
• Federal Regulators Take New Aim at Late-Night TV. The F.C.C. said it planned to enforce long-dormant rules on appearances by political candidates on network talk shows.
• Judge Blocks Government From Reviewing Seized Washington Post Devices. The Post, in its first legal filing since the government searched the home of a reporter last week, had demanded the return of the seized materials.
• Job Applicants Sue to Open ‘Black Box’ of A.I. Hiring Decisions. A recently filed lawsuit claims the ratings assigned by A.I. screening software are similar to those of a credit agency and should be subject to the same laws.
• Sports-Betting Scandals Are Ubiquitous. Whether Fans Will Care Is an Open Question. Breaches of ethics in sports are almost as old as professional competitions. Here’s when they have affected the business — and when they haven’t.
• Too Many Media Newsletters? Now There’s a Media Newsletter for That. A new daily email from Mediaite intends to cut through the cacophony of online media news.
• ‘Adaptive Normalcy’ as the Trump Show Arrives at Davos. The president’s address at the World Economic Forum in Switzerland has trading partners and business executives on edge.

Technology

• How to Deal With That Drawer Full of Old Gadgets. This month, resolve to revive or relinquish those old music players and point-and-shoot cameras — and retrieve any files trapped on the devices.
• Musk’s Chatbot Flooded X With Millions of Sexualized Images in Days, New Estimates Show. Over nine days, Elon Musk’s Grok chatbot generated and posted 4.4 million images, of which at least 41 percent were sexualized images of women.

Obituaries

• Rifaat al-Assad, Paramilitary Leader and ‘Butcher of Hama,’ Dies at 88. The brother and uncle of Syrian tyrants, he commanded a unit that killed up to 40,000 civilians in a 1982 uprising against his family’s rule.
• Barbara Aronstein Black, a First as a Law School Dean, Dies at 92. A legal historian, she broke a gender barrier as the first woman to lead an Ivy League law school, serving as dean of Columbia Law from 1986 to 1991.
• Stephen Hess, 92, an Eminent, and Quotable, Political Scientist, Dies. A Brookings Institution scholar, he advised presidents and wrote books on the media (assessing reporters in one) and government (including a study of beleaguered press officers).
• Manolo Villaverde, Tender Father on Bilingual TV Show, Dies at 89. He played Pepe Peña on “¿Qué Pasa, U.S.A.?,” a series about a Cuban American family that is believed to be the United States’ first bilingual sitcom.

Briefing

• Ask The Morning: Trump and Greenland. What do you want to know about the U.S. effort to take control of the territory?
• Trump Said He Reached a Deal Over the Future of Greenland. Also, the Supreme Court seems skeptical of Trump’s attempt to fire a Fed governor. Here’s the latest at the end of Wednesday.
• Trump 2.0. We look at the first year of the president’s second term.

Podcasts

• Who Needs A.I. Music When We Have Bruno Mars? Our critic Jon Caramanica on the smooth pop sound of Bruno Mars’s new single.

Climate

• Park Service Erases Climate Facts at Fort Sumter, Where the Civil War Began. The historic site, on an island in South Carolina, could be inundated by rising seas in decades to come. A display on the threat has been removed.
• As Winter Warms, Olympic Athletes, Organizers Hunt for Elusive Snow. Future games will need to be held at higher altitudes, and spread over multiple venues in order to adapt to a changing climate, new research suggests.

The Upshot

• The Voters Who Have Taken a U-Turn on Trump. One year later, the second Trump coalition has come apart, a Times/Siena poll finds.
• Introducing Cross Bot. Cross Bot will analyze your games in Crossplay, a new two-player word game from The Times.

Opinion

• How Do You Preserve the Free World When America Goes Rogue? Asking for a friend.
• Donald Trump, Live From Davos. It’s striking how clearheadedly and defiantly Europeans are reacting to the president’s provocations.
• America’s Very Weird Religious Future. Megachurches, Pagans, TradCaths and the Amish.
• Hello, Greenland. Goodbye, Checks and Balances. Jamelle Bouie, Ross Douthat and Kathleen Kingsbury on how Trump is changing the U.S. and the world.
• America’s Very Weird Religious Future. Megachurches, Pagans, TradCaths and the Amish.
• Five Americans on Going Broke Paying for Their Health Care. We heard from 300 people about what they are paying in health insurance premiums after Affordable Care Act subsidies expired.
• ‘The Justices Might Actually Have to Say No, Even to the President’ Sometimes the justices might actually have to say “no,” even to the president.
• My Rohingya People Are Running Out of Time. Genocide hearings in The Hague offer a ray of hope for the Rohingya, but aid cuts are worsening a humanitarian crisis in refugee camps.
• An Unhinged President on the Magic Mountain. Trump’s Davos speech could have been ghostwritten by Mario Puzo.
• The American Threat: Three Words I Never Imagined Typing. We don’t want our children patrolling hostile streets in Greenland or Canada any more than in Iraq and Afghanistan.
• America Is Waving the White Flag in the New Cold War. Is a Chinese century now dawning?
• Trump’s Threats to the World Order. Readers fear that the president is alienating NATO allies and that America is becoming a “global pariah.” Also: Activism by the elderly.
• The Heritage Foundation Wants to Send American Women Back Half a Century. This is how the Heritage Foundation wants to turn back the clock.

Arts

• Jason Mantzoukas Makes It Weird. As TV’s go-to maniac, the actor has a flair for chaos that also functions as a kind of emotional armor. “I’m still very protective of the actual me,” he said.
• When Jasper Johns Drew the Line. A new exhibition revisits a turning point in the career of the 95-year-old artist: the paintings that faced down death to find meaning in life.
• A Public-Art Veteran Will Lead Creative Time. Jean Cooney, a former deputy director of the New York City public-art institution, is the organization’s next leader.
• Kimmel Says Comedy Is Political Lately Because Politics Are Comedic. “We didn’t come to them, they came to us,” the late night host said about news infiltrating comedy while discussing President Trump’s latest stab for Greenland.
• Prue Leith Says She Is Leaving ‘The Great British Baking Show’ Ms. Leith, 86, presided over more than 400 challenges in nine seasons of the TV baking competition, and says it “feels like the right time.”
• Months After a Tragedy, the Chess World Remains Divided. The death of Daniel Naroditsky exposed the conflicts between the game’s traditional wing and its many online stars.
• Old Is New Again: Salonen Returns to the Los Angeles Philharmonic. Esa-Pekka Salonen, the orchestra’s longtime music director, came back to lead his first concerts since being named its creative director.
• How a Pro-Greenland Song Became a Protest Anthem. Locals are speaking out against President Trump’s gestures toward annexing the territory, and the song “Greenland Belongs to Greenlanders” has become “a soundtrack of the movement.”

Books

• The Writer Who Defined 1920s Paris? It Wasn’t Hemingway. In “The Typewriter and the Guillotine,” Mark Braude takes on the intersection of Janet Flanner’s career and a lurid murder case.
• John Sayles Has Come Around on ‘The Sun Also Rises’ “I’ve thought more about men who saw combat in World War I,’’ he says, “and have eased up on a few of the characters.” His new novel is about 20th-century labor strife.

Movies

• ‘Mercy’ Review: Watching the Detective Watching. Chris Pratt plays a man accused of killing his wife in this witless action-thriller where harsh justice is dispensed by artificial intelligence.
• ‘Return to Silent Hill’ Review: A Macabre Spectacle. This latest installment in the video game movie franchise looks like it’s meant to be played.
• ‘In Cold Light’ Review: On Parole and on the Run. In this dreary thriller, an ex-con faces escalating dangers and familial strife when she attempts to regain control of her drug operation.
• ‘A New Love in Tokyo’ Review: Sex in the Air. The erotic film, first shown in 1994, finds room for sweetness with its kink.
• ‘H Is for Hawk’ Review: All Shall Be Well. Claire Foy stars along with a goshawk in an adaptation of Helen MacDonald’s award-winning memoir.
• ‘Disneyland Handcrafted’ Review: Making the Happiest Place on Earth. Leslie Iwerks’s documentary is a captivating look at the creative and logistical challenges of building a beloved theme park on California farmland.
• ‘Mr. Nobody Against Putin’ Review: Indoctrination in the Classroom. A primary schoolteacher in Russia documents the government’s efforts to teach students pro-war messages.
• Saving a Paris Movie Theater, With Help From Scorsese and Tarantino. After a saga that kept its supporters on the edge of their seats for years, a beloved art-house cinema is now open for business once more, run by volunteers this time.

Food

• Fewer Dishes and Better Flavor. My new one-pot pasta demonstrates how, when cooked with aromatics and in broth instead of water, pasta gains an impressive depth of flavor.

Style

• America Turns 250: A Guide to the Coming Festivities. Girl Scouts singing folk songs, a flag-waving party and a Times Square ball drop are among the planned Semiquincentennial celebrations.
• Quick! What Are Your Dating Rules? Advice abounds on how, when and whom to date. What are your best rules for navigating early romance?
• Tiny Love Stories: ‘Anger Drains Into Shame’ Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words.
• A Night With ‘The Funniest Person Who Ever Lived’ Mel Brooks joined Judd Apatow and Patton Oswalt at the Los Angeles premiere of “Mel Brooks: The 99 Year Old Man!”
• The House That Pharrell Built. At Louis Vuitton, the interesting clothes are once again subsumed by spectacle.
• Karamo Brown Says He Felt ‘Emotionally Abused’ During ‘Queer Eye’ Run. Mr. Brown, the makeover show’s mental health expert, skipped planned appearances on “CBS Mornings” and the “Today” show, citing a need to “protect himself and his peace.”
• Our Friend Won’t Stop Talking About Her Daughter’s Boyfriend. Help! An extended friend group has had it with the boyfriend updates, but apart from oblique jokes, no one is willing to address their friend’s fixation directly.

Magazine

• 'Vendetta Is the Best Word for What They’re Doing': Inside Kash Patel's F.B.I. Forty-five current and former employees on the changes they say are undermining the agency and making America less safe.
• Takeaways From The Times’s Inside Look at the F.B.I. Many current and former employees say Kash Patel’s first year as F.B.I. director was marred by vendettas, mismanagement and meltdowns.
• How Has Being Perpetually Single Affected You as a Man? We want to hear from men over the age of 30 who feel as if they have not yet had a meaningful romantic relationship for a New York Times Magazine feature.
• Was It Wrong to Exclude One Person From Our Family Reunion? She got wind of it and is furious.

T Magazine

• A Trattoria That’s ‘a Passing of the Torch’ Plus: a new hotel at Utah’s Sundance Resort, an exhibition of Sarah Sze’s artwork in Los Angeles and more recommendations from T Magazine.

Travel

• Help! A Semi Clipped Our Rental Car, and We’re Out $4,195. Thrifty held on to a couple’s full deposit for over a year after an accident in Australia, refusing to provide the invoice they needed for an insurance claim.
• Travel’s Latest Buzzword: ‘Microvacations’ Travelers short on vacation time are embarking on one- to three-day trips that take advantage of time zones and credit card points.
• What Do Young Travelers Want? Exclusive Experiences. More millennials and Gen Z-ers are planning trips around experiences, and the industry is responding with concerts, dinners and V.I.P. events.
• At Check-In, Your Face Is Increasingly Your ID. Facial recognition at security and immigration checkpoints and gates could ease airport hassles, even as the technology raises privacy concerns.
• Getting Travel Rewards Is Getting Easier. Program updates and new navigation tools help travelers negotiate the increasingly complicated universe of points.
• The New Wave in Wellness Travel: Sound. Wellness destinations are catering to guests with live music, vibration treatments and special domes built to calm nerves and soothe frazzled spirits.
• In Europe, the Allure of Summer Travel Keeps Dimming. A big shift to spring, fall or even winter vacations in touristy, hot-weather cities like Barcelona, Florence and Athens shows no signs of slowing down.
• For Travelers in 2026, Prices Are All Over the Map. Luxury travelers can expect to pay more than they did last year, while budget travelers might get a break.
• The New Wild Card on Travelers’ Itineraries: Uncertainty. Politics, military action and climate change have increased risk for destinations that once seemed like sure bets, forcing travelers to change how they plan.

Real Estate

• They Tested Their $800,000 Budget on the Edges of Los Angeles County. After meeting in Phoenix and discovering they were both from Southern California, a couple plotted their return. Here’s what they found at the border of Los Angeles and San Bernardino counties.
• Homes for Sale in New York and Connecticut. This week’s properties are a four-bedroom house in Southold, N.Y., and a three-bedroom in Stamford, Conn.
• Homes for Sale in Manhattan and the Bronx. This week’s properties are in Midtown, Lincoln Square and Fieldston.
• Tracking Air Pollution by Neighborhood in New York City. Air pollution and health outcomes vary by geography, but patterns in the city can be surprising.
• A House Built as a Bridge, Suspended Over a 23-Foot-Deep Gorge. Two business owners in India searched several cities for land suitable for a farmstead. When they finally found it, they encountered another obstacle.

Well

• Are You Aging Well? Try These Simple Tests to Find Out. They can’t guarantee future health, but they can tell you the trajectory you’re on.
• Heart Disease and Stroke Behind Quarter of All Deaths in U.S. Deaths from both causes are down, but they still eclipse all other causes, according to new statistics.
• Is Your Medicine Cabinet a Mess? Here’s what to toss, what to keep and how to store your drugs safely.

Corrections

• Quote of the Day: Latin America Mostly Praises Maduro Ouster. Quotation of the Day for Thursday, January 22, 2025.

The Learning Network

• Is Ending a Text Message With a Period Too Harsh? What’s up with punctuation these days? Are there some kinds you avoid, or others you overuse?
• Rainbow. Tell us a story, real or made up, that is inspired by this image.
• Word of the Day: strident. This word has appeared in 109 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year. Can you use it in a sentence?

Weather

• This Is Not an Average Winter Storm, Weather Experts Warn. Half the U.S. population will likely see some effect from the sprawling storm that will move across the country this weekend, meteorologists said.
• Everything You Could Possibly Want to Know About This Winter Storm. Here’s a look at the latest forecasts, and how to prepare.
• A Widespread Winter Storm Is Looming, but Where It Hits Is Still Fuzzy. People across a large section of the central and eastern United States are facing predictions of heavy snow and ice starting Friday.

En español

• Hoy se anuncian los nominados a los Oscar 2026. Mucha gente en Hollywood está a punto de tener un buen día.
• ¿Las vacas utilizan herramientas? Esta sí. Una vaca llamada Veronika puede rascarse la espalda con una escoba: es el primer caso científicamente documentado de uso de herramientas en estos animales, según los investigadores.
• En China hay una isla donde los sueños de gloria inmobiliaria no mueren. Pensada como la versión china de la isla artificial con forma de palma de Dubái, la isla Haihua es un monumento de 12.000 millones de dólares al exceso económico financiado con deuda.
• ¿Es malo posponer la alarma? La respuesta puede depender de por qué lo haces en primer lugar.
• Joyas discretas en streaming: de ‘Un buen ladrón’ a ‘Mientras somos jóvenes’ Una selección para salir del piloto automático del algoritmo y encontrar romances extraños y cine indie con energía.
• ¿Odias las pesas? Prueba con un balón medicinal. Esta herramienta de ejercicio es un atajo sencillo para desarrollar potencia explosiva.
• Palabra del día: ‘strident’ Esta palabra ha aparecido en 109 artículos en NYTimes.com en el último año. ¿Puedes usarla en una frase?
• ‘Más que rivales’ eleva la temperatura en el hockey y en el sexo. Un drama sobre el apasionado romance entre dos hombres jugadores de hockey profesionales, ha sido un éxito sorpresa para HBO Max.
• Canadá ostenta fuerza en el escenario mundial en busca de su propia supervivencia. El primer ministro Mark Carney fue ovacionado en Davos por describir con aspereza el final de la Pax Americana. Está buscando nuevos aliados para ayudar a su país a sobrevivir.
• Europa tiene una bazuca. Es hora de usarla. Si quiere disuadir los ataques de Trump, Europa necesita usar el instrumento anticoerción del que tanto se habla.
• Los blancos de ataque de Trump en Davos, uno por uno. En el foro de líderes globales, sus embestidas verbales sacudieron la sala con gestos de incredulidad y risas nerviosas.
• Así es como ocurrió el choque de trenes en España. Dos trenes colisionaron el domingo en el sur de España, causando la muerte de al menos 42 personas. Esto es lo que ocurrió.
• Trump exige a Europa el control de Groenlandia, pero descarta enviar tropas. El discurso de Trump a los líderes europeos encapsuló su enfoque del poder global y la formulación de políticas en su segundo mandato: alternar entre la coacción y la humillación.
• En América Latina, el rechazo a Maduro apaga las protestas por la incursión de EE. UU. Varios sondeos muestran que la mayoría de los latinoamericanos encuestados respaldaron la intervención.
• Los Beckham se pelean. Esto es lo que sabemos. El lunes, el hijo mayor de los Beckham publicó en Instagram acusaciones explosivas contra sus padres. Estos no han respondido directamente.
• Mientras Europa intenta diversificar su comercio, un importante acuerdo con Sudamérica se retrasa. La medida del Parlamento Europeo posterga un tratado comercial con el bloque Mercosur en un momento en el que Trump amenaza con una escalada de los aranceles estadounidenses.
• ¿Por qué Macron llevaba gafas de sol en Davos? Una afección ocular hizo que el presidente de Francia, Emmanuel Macron, se pusiera unas gafas de aviador para dirigirse al Foro Económico Mundial.
• El primer año de Trump podría tener efectos económicos a largo plazo. Las políticas del presidente Trump, advierten los economistas, acabarán debilitando a Estados Unidos.
• Trump, Venezuela y el petróleo. El mensaje del presidente desde que envió tropas a suelo venezolano ha sido claro: se trata de petróleo, no de democracia.

Polls

• Cross-Tabs: January 2026 Times/Siena National Poll of Registered Voters. Results of a nationwide New York Times/Siena poll of 1,625 registered voters conducted from Jan. 12 to 17, 2026.
• Toplines: January 2026 Times/Siena National Poll of Registered Voters. Results of a nationwide New York Times/Siena poll of 1,625 registered voters conducted from Jan. 12 to 17, 2026.

Gameplay

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