This short scene conceals the names of 13 books published in the middle decades of the 20th century. See if you can find them all and build a reading list along the way.
President Trump has given sweeping pardons to nearly all of the 1,600 rioters charged with storming the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, and commuted the sentences of several others.
The Senate unanimously approved Mr. Rubio in the first vote on President Trump’s cabinet selections.
In the first remarks of his second term, President Trump painted a grim portrait of the country while declaring that “the golden age of America begins right now.”
Former presidents, members of Congress, and tech C.E.O.s were among those present to witness Mr. Trump take the oath of office.
Frequently mentioned words in historic speeches from Donald J. Trump to George Washington.
After Trump won, Americans seem to have traded anger for hope.
President-elect Donald J. Trump, over the course of the 2024 campaign and after his election, made big promises to the American people on everything from the economy to foreign policy. Here’s what he said he would do with a second term.
A survey of more than 2,000 people offers an early look at his legacy.
Poor planning, delayed evacuations, strained resources and treacherous conditions allowed firestorms to overrun a region that thought it knew how to fight wildfires.
Trump wants to end several programs that offered new arrivals temporary relief. Millions of others without legal status may also be vulnerable to deportation.
As Inauguration Day draws near, millions are wondering, hoping, worrying about what the coming changes will mean for their daily lives.
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The Supreme Court rejected TikTok’s First Amendment challenge to the law that effectively bans the social media app in the United States.
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President-elect Donald J. Trump has a range of new business ventures that could expose him to even greater potential conflicts of interest than during his first term.
It’s been 150 years since Monet and the Impressionists shocked Paris with their rebellious Société Anonyme show. How well do you know those once-revolutionary smudges?
As climate threats worsen, they are skipping payments and losing protection.
After leaving prison and regaining custody of her children, a single mother looked for a house where she could chart a brighter future.
President-elect Donald J. Trump was the first Republican to win the popular vote in two decades, but by only a 1.5-point margin, the narrowest since 2000.
Snorkel from the beach, sample the rum, dance to reggae, and don’t miss the early morning procession of thoroughbreds heading for a swim.
As the cost of living dominates politics, dozens of residents offered plans to bring down the price of housing, child care, transportation, cultural life and more.
The group discusses the news and podcasts that shape their opinions about America and the world, what being a man’s man means and what they do and don’t want Trump to do in office.
Son sorprendentes, y sorprendentemente eficaces. Y te ayudarán a sentirte mejor cada día.
See how your neighborhood voted on our interactive, precinct-level results map of the presidential election.
Fierce winds and months of drought set the conditions for the catastrophic wildfires in Los Angeles, but the growth of housing in fire-prone areas also played a major role.
The “Succession” actor and his wife, Heather Rasche, have made their home in Maplewood, N.J., all about family.
Three findings from the first class to enter college without race-conscious admissions.
From 1972 to 1982, American exercise entered the modern era. Here are five workouts that changed the game.
A visual guide to the multiple government agencies that are investigating whether President Yoon Suk Yeol committed insurrection.
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Short, heavy rainfall is typical of the Mediterranean, but nothing is typical about what has been happening there recently.
Proportional representation could help restore American democracy.
The former special counsel Jack Smith stood behind his prosecution of President-elect Donald J. Trump in a report released early Tuesday.
Officials are probing whether electrical equipment sparked the Los Angeles fires. Such infrastructure has ignited vast destruction in recent years.
Try this short quiz on literature from the first half of the 20th century that drew censorship challenges — and still does.
View the location of the quake’s epicenter and shake area.
The declines began with the pandemic, well before routine vaccines became part of the national political conversation.
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The Trump Organization issued an ethics agreement that it said would govern how the family and President-elect Donald J. Trump would conduct themselves over the next four years.
The epicenter of one was near that of a devastating 1906 quake.
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Satellite analysis and on-the-ground images offer a comprehensive estimate of the damaged or destroyed buildings in the area.
Global temperatures last year crept past a key goal, raising questions about how much nations can stop the planet from heating up further.
See the likely path and wind arrival times for Dikeledi.
Across China’s west, the Communist Party is placing children in boarding schools to assimilate a generation of Tibetans into the national mainstream and mold them into loyal citizens.
A London couple searched the medina quarter of Marrakesh, Morocco, for a home they could rent out in the near term and retire to in the long term. Here’s what they found.
See the latest extent of the devastating fires in the Los Angeles area.
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Lawyers for President-elect Donald J. Trump urged the attorney general in a letter to stop the special counsel from publicly releasing a final report on the case, while lawyers for his co-defendants, in a court filing, asked the same of the judge ...
Where will the new year take you? Kick-start your travel plans by selecting favorites from our annual list.
Try this short quiz on investigators and inspectors cracking their cases around the globe.
Take a virtual shopping trip to learn more about what’s on grocery store shelves.
Academy voters will do what they want, but if our chief critics had their way, these are the films and performers that would be up for Oscars this year.
The full text of Justice Juan M. Merchan’s decision.
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These are pages from a 2019 security assessment of the French Quarter in New Orleans. The report makes a number of recommendations regarding policing and physical security.
Follow the House speaker vote as Representative Mike Johnson seeks re-election.
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Aiming to live ‘as neighbors, not roommates,’ two New Yorkers devised a plan to combine their budgets and become the co-owners of a two-family or three-family house.
Discover medieval and Gothic masterpieces, Michelin-starred restaurants, design ateliers, wine bars and too many shopping streets to count.
The list made its debut in 2005, when world travel was about half of today’s 1.3 billion arrivals and phones were for making calls. Here’s how The Times’s annual travel list — and travel itself — has changed in the last two decades.
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With a week to go in the N.F.L. season, these detailed trees and scenarios explain every contender’s paths to the playoffs — and to better seeding.
A family’s set of dishes has passed through five generations of women, but will the teacups, plates and bowls make it to a sixth?
Video from the scene and aircraft positioning data offer clues about the deadliest aviation disaster in years.
Upshot staff members share a selection of their favorite charts, documents, queries and calculations from the past year.
As the year winds down, the last of the big buzzy films have hit the screen — and these five were based largely on memoirs and biographies. Try this quiz to see how many you know.
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Before former Vice President Walter Mondale died in 2021, he left behind the eulogy he had planned to deliver. His son Ted Mondale will read it at Jimmy Carter’s memorial service at Washington National Cathedral on Jan. 9.
In a culture where death as a subject is often taboo, Mr. Carter left behind a compilation of observations about the end. Here is a selection of those writings.
Read the statement from President Biden and Jill Biden.
Mr. Carter died on Sunday at 100.
Steven Rattner recaps a historic year in charts.
President-elect Donald J. Trump filed a brief asking the Supreme Court to block a law that requires TikTok to be sold or shut down by Jan. 19, the day before his inauguration.
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As the year winds to a close, we’re recalling those we’ve lost who forged consequential lives.
This quiz shows genuine images that were edited with A.I. tools. Your job: Find what’s fake.
Catch up on the year’s most notable music: Listen to the 450-plus tracks we reviewed this year, save them to a playlist and share it with your friends.
A New York Times investigation found that Israel severely undermined its system of safeguards when striking Gaza, and used flawed methods to find targets and assess the risk to civilians.
With its kitsch, color and joyous queer scene, this oasis in the Coachella Valley is all in on earthly pleasures.
With two weeks to go in the N.F.L. season, these detailed tables and scenarios explain every team’s paths to the playoffs — and to better seeding.
The books, movies, habits and hobbies we’ll take with us into the new year.
After the fall of President Bashar al-Assad, old alliances have crumbled, and global powers are figuring out their relationships with Syria’s new de facto leaders.
A look at the people who influence the world’s richest man, and those who stand to gain from their association with him now.
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A report by the House Ethics Committee accused former Representative Matt Gaetz, Republican of Florida, of regularly paying for sex and using illegal drugs, and of having sexual relations with a 17-year-old girl in 2017.
This year saw a variety of novels on the New York Times best-sellers list, including the 10 titles lurking in this very short story.
The U.S. economy has added roughly 19 million jobs in four years. But as of the end of 2023, 43 percent of counties still hadn’t regained all the jobs they lost in the early months of the pandemic.
The retreat by the police coincided with a surge in reckless driving and a rise in road fatalities.
Teachers this year saw the effects of the pandemic’s stress and isolation on young students: Some can barely speak, sit still or even hold a pencil.
As the presidential election approaches, politicians are focused on who is to blame for price increases. How did we get here?
The world must not continue to bear the intolerable risks of research with the potential to cause pandemics.
Insurers are raising prices for insurance premiums steeply. Here's why, and why it matters for the economy.
The footprint of gun violence in the U.S. has expanded, as shootings worsened in already suffering neighborhoods and killings spread to new places during the pandemic years.
We asked voters for the one thing they remembered most about the Trump era. Few of them cited major events like the pandemic and Jan. 6.