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• In Court Record, Official Describes Assault Before ICE Agent Shot Man in Minneapolis. The agent told an investigator that he was assaulted with a broom and a shovel before he fired a single shot that wounded a Venezuelan man.
• Miami Beach Nightclub Is Condemned for Playing Ye’s Song ‘Heil Hitler’ The club, Vendôme, was hosting several right-wing influencers, including Andrew and Tristan Tate, the brothers who are being investigated in Europe in connection with human trafficking.
• ICE Arrest of a Citizen, Barely Dressed, Sows Fear in Twin Cities. A Hmong immigrant, who is a U.S. citizen, was released after being questioned for an hour. Federal officials said they had been seeking sex offenders.
• Timothy Busfield Ordered Released From Jail Ahead of Sex Abuse Trial. The “Thirtysomething” star is accused of inappropriately touching a child actor on the set of a TV series. His lawyers have called the allegations “manufactured.”
• White Students Hurt by L.A. Desegregation Policy, Lawsuit Says. Schools with more white children miss out on smaller class sizes and other benefits, the lawsuit says. The policy dates back to desegregation efforts in the 1970s.
• Penn Calls Government’s Demand for Lists of Jewish Staff ‘Disconcerting’ The federal government has sued the University of Pennsylvania for information on its Jewish employees. The university said the request recalls a “frightening” history.
• Minnesota Police Leaders Criticize Federal Tactics in ICE Surge. Chief Axel Henry of the St. Paul police said that residents, including those with legal status, were “scared to death.”
• What to Know About California’s Proposed Tax on Billionaires. The wealth tax ballot proposal has set off a feverish debate in California, as well as plenty of confusion.
• Swan Seeks Mate: Must Like Cold Lake and Small Flock. An Illinois parks department sought help from the community to find mates for two swans after they lost their companions. Residents responded.
• Struck Again by Hatred, a Mississippi Temple Says There Is More to Its Story. An arson attack at a synagogue in Mississippi was a reminder of the threat Jews face, but also of the strength of a small community forged over generations.
• ‘Make America Go Away’ Caps Surge in Popularity as Trump Eyes Greenland. The hats have become a conspicuous presence at protests against President Trump in Greenland and Denmark.
• If You Were Inspired by the Northern Lights, You’re Not Alone. The aurora borealis has animated myths, art, poetry and music for thousands of years. Here are some examples.
• Volunteers in Minnesota Deliver Groceries So Immigrants Can Hide at Home. Thousands of Minneapolis residents have joined a church-run effort to deliver donated groceries to immigrant families who fear being caught in public by federal agents.
• Suicides Were Frequent at the Golden Gate Bridge. Not Anymore. For decades, there had been an average of 30 each year. With a new deterrent in place, there were none in the second half of 2025.
• Map: 4.9-Magnitude Earthquake Shakes Southern California. View the location of the quake’s epicenter and shake area.
• How Trump Is Remaking America, State by State. Change is everywhere, manifestations of the sharp right turn that the president has promised for the country.
• Snowstorm Causes 100-Vehicle Pileup in Michigan. More than 100 vehicles slipped and crashed into one another in a chain-reaction pileup on a Michigan interstate on Monday.
• A City on Edge: Protesters Clash in Minneapolis. Jake Lang, a prominent right-wing activist, held a small pro-ICE rally in Minneapolis on Saturday. Within minutes, counterprotesters closed in and the confrontation turned violent.
• Trump Administration Asks Judge to Reject Minnesota’s Call to Block ICE Surge. Lawyers for the state and the cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul have sued over the deployment of some 3,000 federal agents to Minnesota.
• Wintry Weather Leads to 100-Vehicle Pileup on Interstate in Michigan. Cars and trucks slid into one another and off a highway after a lake-effect snowstorm. Numerous injuries were reported, but no deaths.
• A Smaller Version of the Sphere in Las Vegas Is Planned for Maryland. Gov. Wes Moore and the company behind the Sphere said the project in National Harbor, in the Washington metro area, would create jobs and become a landmark attraction.
• Trump Administration to Appeal Limits on Interactions With Minnesota Protesters. Justice Department lawyers said they would ask an appellate court to review an injunction that imposes limits on the tactics used by immigration agents.
• Top Catholic Clerics Denounce U.S. Foreign Policy. Citing recent events in Venezuela, Ukraine and Greenland, three cardinals said their statement was inspired by Pope Leo.
• What to Know About M.L.K. Day. Since 1986, a federal holiday on the third Monday of January has celebrated the legacy of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
• Inside Minnesota Hospitals, ICE Agents Unnerve Staff. As federal agents swarm the Twin Cities, their presence has also grown in medical centers. Health care workers are pushing back.
• How Trump Is Testing the Limits of the Presidency. A breakdown of the presidential powers President Trump has sought for himself, including what he did to obtain power and what’s next.
• Before Urban Raids, Border Patrol Tested Tactics in California Farm Country. Just before President Trump took office, Border Patrol agents led by Gregory Bovino arrested immigrants in Kern County using the same playbook later seen in places like Chicago and Minneapolis. Then a federal judge ordered them to stop.
• See You Later, Claude: San Francisco Mourns Its Beloved Alligator. The 30-year-old albino resident of the California Academy of Sciences died last month. On Sunday, thousands paid tribute.
• In Minneapolis, a Pattern of Misconduct Toward Protesters. Legal and criminal justice experts said a ruling by a federal judge last week revealed conduct by immigration agents that evokes the civil rights era.
• Islamic Scholar’s Post-Sept. 11 Convictions Are Tossed on Free Speech Grounds. Federal judges ruled that an Islamic teacher’s statements goading men in Virginia to join an overseas militant group were protected by the First Amendment.
• Snow, Seldom Seen in the South, Comes to Parts of Georgia. Snow was observed as far South as Florida as temperatures plummeted. New York City could get up to four inches of snow and up to six inches is possible in Boston.
• How Many People Has Trump Deported So Far? In the first year of the Trump administration, it was the nature of the deportations, rather than their number, that changed the most, an analysis of government data reveals.
• Did Hunter S. Thompson Really Kill Himself? At the request of Thompson’s widow, the Colorado authorities are re-examining his death. “The whole Hunter world is buzzing,” a lawyer said.
• D.H.S.’s Role Questioned as Immigration Officers Flood U.S. Cities. The Department of Homeland Security was formed after 9/11 amid international terrorism threats. Now, its most visible targets are domestic.
• Shooting at Historic New Orleans Restaurant Leaves One Dead, Several Wounded. The restaurant, Dooky Chase’s, is a New Orleans fixture with deep ties to the civil rights movement. Authorities say it wasn’t deliberately targeted.
• Conservative Influencer Chased From Minneapolis Streets by Counterprotesters. A protest at City Hall was organized by a conservative influencer to draw attention to a fraud scandal in the state. He was chased by counterprotesters lobbing water balloons in frigid temperatures.
• The People of Minneapolis vs. ICE: A Street-Level View. An intense cat-and-mouse game is putting enraged locals face-to-face with heavily armed agents.
• Rick Caruso, a Los Angeles Billionaire, Will Not Run for Office This Year. Mr. Caruso had the potential to shake up the contests for Los Angeles mayor or California governor.
• Read the Ruling Restricting Federal Agents’ Actions in Minnesota. A federal judge ruled in favor of protesters in the state.
• Judge Restricts Immigration Agents’ Actions Toward Minnesota Protesters. A federal judge ordered agents not to retaliate against people “engaging in peaceful and unobstructive protest activity” in the state and not to stop drivers who are not “forcibly obstructing” officers.
• Man Who Attacked a Thai Grandfather in 2021 Is Found Not Guilty of Murder. Instead, the man was convicted of lesser charges, including involuntary manslaughter, in the death of Vicha Ratanapakdee. The killing became a symbol of rising attacks against Asians during the pandemic.
• U.S. Boardings of Oil Tankers Reflect Hard Lessons Learned at Sea. Videos show U.S. forces descending quickly from helicopters onto the tankers, two years after a tragic boarding attempt.
• Some U.Va. Board Members Asked to Resign as a Democratic Governor Takes Power. After months of upheaval at the state’s flagship university, a new Democratic governor appeared ready to shake up the school’s leadership.
• ICE vs. Ice: Protesters in Minneapolis Find an Ally in Winter. Temperatures are expected to plunge to around zero degrees this weekend. Minnesotans say they will be out in the street, using the weather to their advantage.
• Will the ICE Agent Who Shot Renee Good Be Prosecuted? With the Trump administration unlikely to bring a federal case against the ICE agent who killed Renee Good, our criminal justice reporter Jonah Bromwich explains some of the obstacles for any Minnesota prosecutors trying to charge the agent.
• Under Fire From Trump and Their Base, Minnesota Democrats Decry an ‘Invasion’ Officials denounced the Trump crackdown at an unofficial congressional hearing in Minneapolis. Administration officials have accused local leaders of promoting violence against ICE agents.
• Agent Who Shot Renee Good Was Trained to Track and Apprehend Fugitives. From Iraq to ICE, Jonathan Ross’s career reflects a 20-year government effort to reshape immigration enforcement with a military mind-set.
• Virginia Poised to Redraw House Maps That Could Set Democrats Up for a Win. A vote by the state senate on Friday could send an amendment to voters that, if approved, would allow the legislature to gerrymander the state.
• Renee Good Was Concerned About ICE, a Lawyer Says, but Wasn’t Following Agents. A lawyer for Ms. Good’s family said she and her partner had encountered agents after school drop-off. Minutes later, she was dead.
• San Francisco Is on the Rebound. What Happened to Its Ousted Mayor? London Breed has said little in the year since she left office. She has thoughts on the praise that the current mayor, Daniel Lurie, has received.
• Emergency Call Transcripts Record a Crisis Unfolding in Real Time. The killing of Renee Good by an ICE agent was instantly reported to the Minneapolis Police. The calls reflect shock, fury and confusion.
• Trump Administration Lawsuit Seeking California Voter Data Is Dismissed. The Justice Department has sued about two dozen states over access to voter rolls, as the federal government pushes to create a national database.
• California’s Pacific Coast Highway Fully Reopens After Three Years. The famed highway reopened this week after consecutive landslides shuttered two sections of the road in Big Sur and forced major repairs.
• Couple Says ICE Agents Gassed Them as They Drove With 6 Children. Shawn and Destiny Jackson said they were trying to escape a clash between ICE and protesters when agents used tear gas near their car. Their children gasped for air.
• Was Renee Good Obligated to Comply With an ICE Agent’s Orders? The agent told Ms. Good to get out of her car before fatally shooting her. Legal experts said immigration agents may sometimes, but not always, have the authority to make such commands.
• New York Sues Former C.E.O. of Covid Vaccine Maker Over Insider Trading. Robert G. Kramer sold nearly 90,000 shares of his stock in Emergent BioSolutions, knowing that large quantities of vaccine materials were contaminated, the lawsuit said.
• Minneapolis Schools Allow Students to Learn Online Amid ICE Fears. As immigration agents and protests lead some families to keep children home, schools around the Twin Cities are offering a remote option for the next several weeks.
• Nick Reiner Was in a Mental Health Conservatorship in 2020. Mr. Reiner, who is accused of killing his parents, was under a yearlong legal arrangement that allows for involuntary psychiatric treatment.
• Verizon Offers $20 Credit to Users Affected by Outage. A company spokeswoman said “a software issue” was to blame for the widespread outage that disrupted service across the United States on Wednesday.
• Runaway Emu Leads Florida Corporal in 45-Minute Police Chase. A corporal in St. Johns County had responded to what he thought would be a straightforward call about an animal on the loose. Nearly an hour later, he was putting handcuffs on an emu named Tina.
• Runaway Emu Leads Sheriff’s Corporal on 45-Minute Chase. An emu named Tina escaped from a farm in Florida last Friday. Body camera footage captured a sheriff’s office corporal chasing the large bird and eventually putting it in handcuffs.
• Maps: 3.1-Magnitude Earthquake Shakes the San Francisco Bay Area. View the location of the quake’s epicenter and shake area.
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• How We Photographed an ICE Confrontation in Minneapolis. Our visual journalists David Guttenfelder and Todd Heisler describe a dramatic incident in which federal agents dragged a woman out of her car in Minneapolis near where Renee Nicole Good had been killed days before.
• One State, Two Very Different Views of Minneapolis. Pull up a stool at Ye Olde Pickle Factory and listen to a story about America’s urban-rural divide.
• Chinese Universities Surge in Global Rankings as U.S. Schools Slip. Harvard still dominates, though it fell to No. 3 on a list measuring academic output. Other American universities are falling farther behind their global peers.
• Clashes in Minneapolis After Federal Agent Shoots Man. A federal agent shot and injured a Venezuelan man in Minneapolis on Wednesday night, a Homeland Security official said. The shooting came one week after an ICE agent shot and killed a woman in the city.
• Au Pair Testifies of Lurid Plot in Virginia Double-Murder Trial. Juliana Peres Magalhães wrapped up testimony on Wednesday in the case against Brendan Banfield, her former lover, who is accused of killing his wife and another man.
• Venezuelan Immigrants Urge Appeals Court to Restore Deportation Protections. The Trump administration has ended Temporary Protected Status for about 600,000 Venezuelan immigrants, part of a broader effort to curb avenues for immigrants to remain in the United States.
• Federal Agent Shoots Man in Minneapolis, Prompting Tense Protests. The agent shot a Venezuelan man who was resisting arrest, an official said. Protesters and law enforcement officers clashed for hours, as city officials urged people to go home.
• Boeing Knew About Flaws in UPS Plane That Crashed in Louisville, N.T.S.B. Says. In a report Wednesday, the National Transportation Safety Board said fractures that appeared to have led the left engine to separate from the plane’s wing had occurred at least four other times.
• Renaming Defense Department Could Cost Taxpayers $125 Million. A report released by the Congressional Budget Office estimated the amount of money that would be spent on new signs and letterhead, should Congress approve a change.
• Newsom Says California Will Not Extradite Abortion Provider to Louisiana. The case, escalating the interstate battle over abortion, is the second time Louisiana has criminally charged out-of-state doctors with sending abortion pills to Louisiana residents.
• Trump Signs Bill Allowing Schools to Serve Whole Milk Again. The law, which was approved unanimously by Congress late last year, also gives schools more flexibility in serving nondairy milks.
• Judge Puts Off Ruling on Minnesota’s Request to Block ICE Surge. Lawyers for the state sought an immediate ruling, but the judge said she would give the Justice Department time to respond in writing to the state’s lawsuit.
• Can the ICE Agent Who Shot Renee Good Be Prosecuted? The Trump administration is unlikely to bring a federal case, and any criminal case would face high hurdles. But charges are not out of the question.
• Playing Catch on an L.A. Sidewalk? You May (Technically) Risk Jail Time. A little-known and rarely enforced law prohibits ball games on some Los Angeles streets and sidewalks. The local council has begun the process of repealing it.
• How ICE Crackdowns Set Off a Resistance in American Cities. In Minneapolis and other cities where federal agents have led immigration crackdowns, residents have formed loose networks to track and protest them.

Politics

• Trump Heads to Davos Amid Deep Worries About U.S.-European Alliance. The gathering of the global elite is set to serve as an all-hands effort to de-escalate tensions between President Trump and America’s allies over his insistence on acquiring Greenland.
• Cuban Immigrant Was Killed in ICE Custody, Family Says in Legal Filing. The family of Geraldo Lunas Campos said a witness saw him choked by guards in an El Paso detention facility this month. Federal officials said he died by suicide.
• Air Force One Turns Back With Trump After Electrical Issue. The plane was heading for Switzerland when it turned back for Joint Base Andrews. A White House official said there had been a minor electrical issue.
• House Foreign Affairs Members Call for Machado to Govern Venezuela. The Venezuelan opposition leader stressed the need for free elections in her latest bipartisan meeting with lawmakers.
• ‘God Is Very Proud’: Trump Marks Anniversary With a Victory Lap. For roughly one hour 45 minutes, President Trump meandered through his accomplishments and grievances, attacked perceived enemies and threatened allies.
• Trump Calls Renee Good’s Killing a ‘Tragedy’ and Says ICE Agents Will Make Mistakes. The change in tone was stark for the president, who said he had been told that Ms. Good’s father was a strong Trump supporter.
• DOGE Employees Shared Social Security Data, Court Filing Shows. Employees detailed to the Social Security Administration shared sensitive data through a nonsecure server, the Justice Department disclosed.
• Vances Say They’re Expecting Their Fourth Child. It is the first known time that a sitting second lady is expecting a baby while her husband is in office.
• Pentagon Hasn’t Yet Been Asked to Plan Greenland Invasion Amid Trump Threats. Pentagon officials plan for all sorts of military contingencies, but they have not yet been asked to draw up an invasion of Greenland or the aftermath of such an operation.
• Trump Ratchets Up Tensions With Europe as He Rejects Diplomatic Overtures. President Trump’s bellicose demands about Greenland and participation in his “board of peace” are deepening worries about the fate of the trans-Atlantic alliance.
• C.I.A.’s New Focus on Latin America Reflected in Raid to Seize Maduro. A senior U.S. official declined to confirm the specific operations in Venezuela, but said a covert team provided real-time support for the military.
• California Republicans Ask Supreme Court to Block New Congressional Map. Republicans asked the justices to step in after a federal court rejected their claims that the state’s new congressional map violated the Constitution.
• Some Republicans Begin to Echo Trump’s Case to Acquire Greenland. While the party remains split as President Trump presses to “take” Greenland, some in his party are publicly embracing his reasoning for wanting to control the territory.
• Replica of Trump’s Birthday Message to Epstein Appears on National Mall. An oversize card reproduces a suggestive birthday greeting from 2003, released as part of a congressional inquiry. President Trump has denied that he signed it.
• Macron Vows France Will Not Capitulate to Bullying From Trump. “We are reaching a time of instability and imbalances,” the French president said in remarks at the World Economic Forum, urging more cooperation among nations.
• Comer Rejects Clinton Interview on Epstein, Setting Up Contempt Vote. The Republican chairman of the Oversight Committee refused an offer to interview the former president under oath, rejecting terms he said were unreasonable.
• Prosecutors Subpoena Minnesota Democrats as Part of Federal Inquiry. The move is a significant expansion of the Justice Department’s investigation into the state’s leaders, including Gov. Tim Walz and Mayor Jacob Frey of Minneapolis.
• Trump Threatens New Trade War as Court Weighs Whether to Check Him. President Trump may be on the verge of having his authority on imposing tariffs curtailed, but that hasn’t slowed down his threats.
• One Year In, Searching for a Strategy Behind Trump’s Unpredictability. One great truth of Trump II so far is that nobody has any idea what tomorrow holds.
• In U.S. Attorney Standoff, Judges in Virginia Seek to Fill Top Prosecutor Job. Some judges have expressed frustration that Lindsey Halligan continues to claim she is the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, despite a ruling in November declaring her appointment invalid.
• Greenland’s Leader Says He Cannot Rule Out an American Attack. Jens-Frederik Nielsen, Greenland’s prime minister, said that an attack on the territory by the United States was “not likely” — but that he could not rule one out.
• Trump-Backed Challenger Enters Race to Unseat Senator Bill Cassidy. Days after President Trump urged her to run, Representative Julia Letlow said she would challenge Mr. Cassidy, a Louisiana Republican who voted to convict Mr. Trump in his second impeachment trial.
• Canada’s Prime Minister Says There Has Been a ‘Rupture’ in the World Order. As President Trump continued his quest for Greenland, Prime Minister Mark Carney said great powers were unrestrained and urged medium-size countries to band together.
• Bessent Attended a Supreme Court Argument. Now He’s Telling Powell Not to. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said it was a mistake for Jerome Powell to attend arguments in a case on Fed independence. But Mr. Bessent attended a tariff case.
• Trump Calls Britain’s Chagos Deal ‘Act of Great Stupidity,’ in Blow to Starmer. President Trump’s criticism reversed his administration’s previous support for the deal, in which Britain relinquished control of the Indian Ocean islands to Mauritius.
• With Threats to Greenland, Trump Sets America on the Road to Conquest. After a century of defending other countries against foreign aggression, the United States is now positioned as an imperial power trying to seize another nation’s land.
• Falsehoods Fueled Trump’s First Year Back in Office. The president has justified many significant moves of his second term with inaccurate claims and overstated boasts.
• Supreme Court to Hear Case Testing Limits of Hawaii Gun Law. The justices will hear arguments over whether a Hawaii law that imposes restrictions on carrying concealed weapons violates the Second Amendment.
• How Trump Uses the Oval Office to Flex Power on the World Stage. With cameras rolling, President Trump met with more than 40 international leaders in his first year back in office.
• Trump Threatens 200 Percent Tariffs on French Wine. France has said it will not join President Trump’s “Board for Peace.” France’s agriculture minister described the tariff threat as “blackmail.”
• Trump Texts Link Nobel Peace Prize Snub to Greenland. In a text message exchange with the Norwegian prime minister, President Trump linked his Nobel Peace Prize snub to his plans to acquire Greenland. As he doubled down on his threats, European leaders met at the World Economic Forum.
• Trump Issues M.L.K. Day Proclamation After Criticism. Civil rights groups had criticized President Trump for failing to issue a proclamation honoring Martin Luther King Jr. and not attending commemorative events.
• Judge Allows Policy Restricting Lawmakers’ Access to ICE Facilities. The decision permitted the Trump administration to continue restricting inspections of the conditions inside immigration detention compounds.
• In Colorado, the Options for Ari, a Transgender Teen, Begin to Disappear. The Trump administration has used an array of pressure tactics to try to end treatments for minors, even in states that want to keep them.
• A Vermont Town Was a Foodie Mecca for Canadians. Until Trump’s Threats. Greensboro’s economy depended on friendly relations with Canada. But after tariffs and threats to make the country the “51st state,” neighborly ties have frayed.
• To Their Shock, Cubans in Florida Are Being Deported in Record Numbers. Cubans had long benefited from legal privileges unavailable to immigrants from other countries. President Trump has changed that.
• How Trump Made Life Difficult for International Students and Wisconsin. Last fall, the number of new international undergraduates fell by 25 percent compared to the previous year. That drop poses financial and competitive challenges.
• At a Seattle Port Rocked by Tariffs, There Were 70 Jobs for 600 Workers. Dock workers are used to uncertainty, but nothing since the Great Recession of 2008 compares to what they have experienced this year.
• After Trump Shut the Border, a Texas Shelter for Migrants Emptied. Sister Pimentel’s shelter in McAllen, one of the poorest cities in America, pivoted to feed the hungry.
• A Tennessee Dean Had ‘Zero Sympathy’ for Charlie Kirk. She Was Fired. Laura Sosh-Lightsy’s punishment reflects the new power dynamics in the free-speech debate, especially in red states.
• Columbia University’s Strained Peace: Fewer Protests and Sealed Gates. The Trump administration has pushed universities all over the country to act against student protesters.
• An Idaho City Has New Refugees: White South Africans. Twin Falls and its dairy industry have benefited from an influx of refugees from places like Bosnia, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Myanmar. That era is over.
• When Trump Took a Whack at the C.D.C., Atlanta Lost Something, Too. The earnest government disease fighter had become a kind of city archetype, alongside aspiring rappers and C-suite strivers. Now scientists are leaving.
• At Yosemite, Rangers Are Scarce and Visitors Have Gone Wild. After the Trump administration’s cuts, workers at the national park are spread too thin to stop people from littering, flying drones and cliff-diving.
• An Alaska Town Is Now Key to Trump’s Global Ambitions. Nome, population 3,700, is accessible only by plane outside a few months when boats can pass through. But it will be the home of the nation’s only deepwater Arctic port.
• An Alabama Pastor Credits Trump for Putting ‘Christ’ Back in Christmas. The president has given a new class of evangelists direct access to the White House. In return, many support him without question.
• Indiana Judge and His Wife Are Shot at Their Suburban Home. The police in Lafayette, Ind., said they were investigating the nonfatal shootings of a Tippecanoe County Superior Court judge and his wife on Sunday.
• Community Patrols Mobilize Amid ICE Operations in Minnesota. In parts of Minnesota, volunteers have organized neighborhood patrols and rapid‑response networks to monitor the actions of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations in the area.
• Protest at Minnesota Church Service Adds to Tensions Over ICE Tactics. The Justice Department said it would investigate the protest over a pastor’s apparent role in immigration enforcement in the state.
• Powell Will Attend Supreme Court Arguments on Trump’s Effort to Fire Fed Official. A lawsuit by the Fed governor Lisa D. Cook has challenged President Trump’s push to fire her.
• Powell will attend the Supreme Court arguments on Trump’s effort to remove a Fed governor.
• Federal Reserve Inquiry Clouds Trump’s Supreme Court Bid to Oust Lisa Cook. The court is set to hear Ms. Cook’s case challenging her firing as the Justice Department investigates Jerome H. Powell, the central bank chair.
• Read the Texts Between Trump and Norway’s Prime Minister About Greenland. In the exchange on Sunday, Norway’s leader sought to “de-escalate” the growing conflict over Greenland and Mr. Trump’s latest tariff threat.
• Musk, With a $10 Million Donation, Signals He’s Back for the Midterms. Elon Musk, the world’s richest person, backed Nate Morris, a Republican businessman, in the primary race to succeed Senator Mitch McConnell in Kentucky.
• Trump’s Trade Negotiator Says Response to Court Loss Would Be Immediate. If the Supreme Court rules against its tariffs, the Trump administration would begin replacing them immediately, said Jamieson Greer, the United States Trade Representative.
• Starmer Pushes Back Against Greenland Tariff Threat as ‘Completely Wrong’ The British prime minister said his country “must stand up for its values” after President Trump threatened a new tariff war over acquiring the island.
• Trump Has an Offramp on Greenland. He Doesn’t Seem to Want It. The strategic importance of Greenland is growing, and NATO has underinvested in Arctic security. But President Trump, intent on ownership, is rebuffing deals with Europe to solve the problem.
• Search of Reporter’s Home Tests Law With Roots in a Campus Paper’s Suit. The Stanford Daily lost a 1978 Supreme Court case over the search of its newsroom. But a bipartisan backlash prompted a federal law protecting journalists.
• Texas Schools Wait as Law on Ten Commandments Reaches Appeals Court. A state law mandating the display of the Ten Commandments in every classroom has already divided Texas schools. Now a federal appeals court will decide its constitutionality.
• Who Will Win the House? Three Maps Tell a Tale of the 2026 Midterms. With control of the narrowly divided House set to be decided by a small fraction of the chamber's seats, a wave of strategic redistricting and a flood of retirements will play a role in the 2026 midterms.
• Josh Shapiro Writes That Harris Team Asked if He Had Ever Been an Israeli Agent. In his new memoir, the Pennsylvania governor suggests that when Kamala Harris’s team vetted him to be her running mate, aides focused on Israel to an extent he found offensive.
• Man Acquitted of Shining a Laser at Marine One With Trump Aboard. A jury found the man, Jacob Samuel Winkler, not guilty after just 35 minutes of deliberation. He was charged in September with pointing a laser at an aircraft.
• Noem Denies Use of Chemical Agents in Minnesota, Then Backtracks. Kristi Noem, the homeland security secretary, said officers had not used pepper spray and similar measures limited by a judge’s order, then was confronted with a video that showed chemical agents deployed.
• Pentagon Tells 1,500 Troops to Prepare for Possible Deployment to Minnesota. But President Trump has already backed away from a threat to invoke the Insurrection Act in response to protests against the killing of a woman by a federal immigration agent.
• Inside Trump’s Deportation Machine. Data obtained by The New York Times illustrates the differences between President Trump’s and President Biden’s approaches to deportations. Our data reporter Albert Sun describes what we found.
• Buttigieg and Booker Lead Push to Hammer Republicans on Health Care. The potential 2028 presidential candidates showcased a Democratic midterm strategy that would assail G.O.P. votes in favor of cutting Medicaid and allowing health care subsidies to expire.
• Under Patel, F.B.I. Scours Its Records to Discredit Trump Opponents. As the F.B.I. has added payback to its portfolio, Republican lawmakers like Senator Charles E. Grassley have emerged as a clearinghouse for leaks and whistle-blowers.
• Trump Backs a Potential Primary Challenger to Bill Cassidy, a G.O.P. Senator. The president urged Representative Julia Letlow of Louisiana to run against Mr. Cassidy, in a move that is likely to further complicate his relationship with Senate Republicans.
• Virginia’s New Governor Moves Swiftly to Overhaul State University Boards. Abigail Spanberger, a Democrat, appointed new board members at three state schools, hours after she was sworn in as Virginia’s first female governor.
• These Are the 12 States Vying to Kick Off Democrats’ 2028 Contest. There were a few surprises, and subtle regional digs, as Democratic state parties angled for early spots on the next presidential primary calendar. The New York Times reviewed their applications.
• Trump Threatens New Tariffs To Force Sale of Greenland. On Saturday morning, President Trump announced in a social media post his latest strategy to seize control of Greenland: He is slapping new tariffs on a group of European nations until they come to the negotiating table to sell Greenland.
• Trump Announces 10 Percent Tariff on European Countries in Standoff Over Greenland. The president escalated his drive to take charge of the Danish territory, targeting eight countries with tariffs.
• How the House Slumped to Historic Lows of Productivity in 2025. Despite holding a governing trifecta, Republicans labored to steer the tightly divided House, with fewer votes and fewer bills that became law than almost any session in the last two decades.
• A Trump Veto Leaves Republicans in Colorado Parched and Bewildered. The first veto of the president’s second term killed legislation that would have brought clean water to some of the most conservative parts of the state. Residents wonder why.
• After Renee Good Killing, Derisive Term for White Women Spreads on the Far Right. Vocal Trump supporters are demonizing Renee Good, her partner and their allies, with some even using an acronym: AWFUL, or Affluent White Female Urban Liberal.
• Court Blocks Trump Administration From Freezing Food Stamps in Minnesota. With tensions high between the White House and the state, the ruling temporarily halted plans to withhold over $129 million in funding.
• Trump Administration Begins Criminal Inquiry Into Minnesota Leaders. The Justice Department’s investigation is a major escalation in the state-federal battle over the conduct of immigration agents in Minneapolis.
• Trump Announces Largely American Council to Oversee Gaza. The president also tapped a U.S. general to lead an international peacekeeping force that will be deployed to disarm Hamas and occupy Gaza.
• An A.I. Attack Ad Shows Texas Rivals Dancing the ‘Washington Waltz’ A video from Ken Paxton, a Republican primary challenger to Senator John Cornyn of Texas, depicted A.I.-generated imagery of the senator twirling with Jasmine Crockett, a Democratic Senate candidate.
• ICE Tensions Are Raging. What’s the Political Fallout? Three reporters discuss the Minneapolis chaos and how it could play a role in the midterms.
• Trump Has Machado’s Nobel Prize, but Neither Got What They Really Wanted. President Trump has María Corina Machado’s medal, but he is not recognized as the prize laureate. Ms. Machado did not win Mr. Trump’s endorsement to become Venezuela’s president.
• F.A.A. Urges ‘Caution’ Over Oceans in Latin America, Warning of Military Activity. The Federal Aviation Administration released seven advisories warning pilots to stay away from parts of the Pacific Ocean near Mexico, Colombia, Ecuador and Panama.
• Supreme Court to Hear Challenge to Warrants for Phone Location Data. The case involves a challenge to so-called geofence warrants, which permit law enforcement officials to sweep up location data of people near crime scenes.
• Judge Recommends U.S. Issue Visa to Student Who Was Deported in Error. A federal prosecutor apologized this week, saying an ICE officer made a “mistake” in deporting Any Lucia López Belloza, a college freshman in Massachusetts, to Honduras.
• Trump Appoints Allies to Review His Ballroom Plans. A federal judge has allowed the ballroom project to proceed after the Trump administration pledged to undergo a review by the Commission of Fine Arts.
• Leadership Dispute Said to Spur Abrupt Exit at the National Constitution Center. The congressionally chartered museum and national town hall has not explained the sudden departure of Jeffrey Rosen as its president and chief executive.
• Mexico’s president defends her nation’s antidrug efforts following U.S. criticism.
• Trump Sets Fraudster Free From Prison for a Second Time. The president issued a raft of clemency grants this week, including pardoning a woman he had given relief to once before and a man whose daughter had donated millions to a Trump super PAC.
• U.S. Lawmakers Meet With Danish Prime Minister on Greenland. Seeking to calm tensions, Republicans and Democrats affirmed that they supported Denmark’s control of Greenland as President Trump vowed to buy it or take it over.
• Why Is It So Hard to Set a 9/11 Trial Date? Here’s What to Know. Prosecutors want jury selection to start in January 2027. That would be a quarter century after the attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people.
• Powell, an Unlikely Foil, Takes On Trump. Jerome H. Powell, the chair of the Federal Reserve, this week tapped a groundswell of support that has been years in the making.
• Trump Store to Close as Sales Falter, With No Election Battles Ahead. The shop in suburban Philadelphia had been a gathering spot for the MAGA crowd to rally during the 2024 campaign.
• C.I.A. Director Meets With Venezuela’s Interim President in Caracas. The high-profile visit, which could be seen as snubbing the opposition, comes nearly two weeks after the U.S. military seized President Nicolás Maduro in a raid.
• U.S. Says It Erred in Deporting Student Traveling for Thanksgiving. The Trump administration acknowledged it mistakenly deported a college student to Honduras despite a court order barring the removal. But the government has not moved to drop the case.
• Former Senator Kyrsten Sinema Accused of Affair With Member of Security Team. In a lawsuit, the ex-wife of Ms. Sinema’s onetime staff member accused her of showering him with gifts and breaking up their marriage.
• What Did the White House and Denmark Agree to on Greenland? Depends Whom You Ask. The White House and Denmark contradicted each other in public about what they had agreed to this week as President Trump continued to demand U.S. ownership of Greenland.
• Democratic Lawmakers Say They Face New Round of Federal Inquiries. By Wednesday, at least five Democratic lawmakers said they received new inquiries from federal prosecutors regarding a video they published in November. In the video, they urged military service members not to follow illegal orders.
• Judge Proposes Restricting Deportation of Scores of Noncitizen Academics. In a case over the First Amendment rights of noncitizen scholars, a federal judge proposed extending protections to members of two academic groups behind a lawsuit.
• N.S.A. Nominee Promises to Protect Elections From Foreign Interference. President Trump fired the National Security Agency’s chief back in April and has weakened cyberattack protections.
• Trump Threatens to Invoke the Insurrection Act and Send Troops to Minnesota. The law, which was last invoked in 1992, could allow President Trump to deploy the military inside the United States. Doing so would be a major escalation.
• U.S. Forces Seize Sixth Oil Tanker Linked to Venezuela. The Coast Guard boarded and seized the Russian-flagged tanker, originally named Veronica, in a pre-dawn operation in the Caribbean Sea.
• Pentagon Will ‘Refocus’ Military Publication Stars and Stripes. The agency’s chief spokesman outlined plans to intervene in the previously independent newspaper’s coverage.
• Arkansas Rescinds Choice of Law School Dean Over Transgender Stance. The University of Arkansas withdrew a job offer to a legal scholar after state officials learned that she had signed a legal brief concerning transgender athletes, lawmakers said.
• Did a Supreme Court Loss Embolden Trump on the Insurrection Act? In refusing to let the president deploy National Guard troops in Illinois under an obscure law, the justices may have made him more apt to invoke greater powers.
• ICE’s No. 2 Official Leaves to Run for the House in Ohio. Madison Sheahan, a top enforcer of President Trump’s immigration crackdown, said she would step down to challenge Representative Marcy Kaptur, a Democrat.
• Trump Releases Health Plan but It’s Short on Specifics. The long-awaited plan would leave much to Congress and calls for payments to health savings accounts rather than insurance subsidies, among other broad proposals.
• Israel and Arab Nations Ask Trump to Refrain From Attacking Iran. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel asked the president to postpone any planned attack. Israeli and Arab officials fear Iran could retaliate by striking their countries.
• Under Trump, a Shift Toward ‘Absolute Immunity’ for ICE. Since the fatal shooting of Renee Good in Minneapolis, administration officials have defended the use of deadly force, which agency guidelines say should be a last resort.
• Abolish ICE? It’s a Slogan Some Democratic Critics of ICE Would Abolish. As Democrats grow more alarmed about the Trump administration’s aggressive immigration raids in American cities, some worry that calls to eliminate the agency will distract from efforts to rein it in.
• Cyberattack in Venezuela Demonstrated Precision of U.S. Capabilities. Senators are expected to ask Lt. Gen. Joshua M. Rudd, President Trump’s nominee to lead the U.S. Cyber Command, about the mission in Caracas.
• Leading Prediction Firms Share a Commonality: Donald Trump Jr. Traders in companies with ties to the president’s eldest son can bet on the outcome of events the president affects.
• Judge to Weigh Next Steps in Student Activist Deportations Case. The hearing on Thursday followed up on the court’s sweeping finding in September that noncitizen students had the same free speech rights as citizens.
• 3 More Lawmakers in Video Say Federal Prosecutors Are Investigating Them. The lawmakers, all Democrats who urged military service members not to follow illegal orders, said prosecutors had contacted them. But it is unclear what crime they might have committed.
• After Danish and U.S. Officials Meet on Greenland, Trump Remains Unmoved. Denmark’s foreign minister left the White House complex saying that his country had a “fundamental disagreement” with President Trump, as several NATO countries sent troops to Greenland.
• What Voters Told Democrats About ICE, Costs and Which Party Is ‘Judgy’ In focus groups, swing voters gave Democratic politicians some tough feedback on the party.
• Congress Is Spurning Many of Trump’s Proposed Spending Cuts. Months after the partisan clash that led to the longest shutdown in history, lawmakers have agreed on spending bills that look far different from what the president wanted.
• Fine Arts Panel Postpones Review of Trump’s Ballroom. The Trump administration has been under pressure from preservationists to submit the ballroom project for a formal review.
• Trump Administration to Halt Immigrant Visa Processing for 75 Countries. Federal officials said the move was meant to discourage immigration by people who they deemed likely to rely on public benefits.
• Federal Judges Uphold California’s New Congressional Maps. A panel in Los Angeles sided with Gov. Gavin Newsom in a decision that will help Democrats counter Republican gerrymandering in Texas. Republicans are expected to appeal.
• Judge Rejects Effort to Return Man Accused in 9/11 Plot to Guantánamo Trial. The case of Ramzi bin al-Shibh was severed in 2023 after a military medical panel found him incompetent to help with his defense.
• Republicans Move to Block Effort to Check Trump’s Power in Venezuela. G.O.P. leaders are pressuring fellow senators who supported the measure to change their vote on the bill to block President Trump’s military action in Venezuela without Congress’s consent.
• Republicans Advance Stock-Trading Bill With Limited Restrictions. The bill would allow lawmakers to keep their existing stock and continue to sell it if they provide seven to 14 days of notice. Democrats called it a “gift to insider traders.”
• Supreme Court Sides With Conservative Congressman in Illinois Election Rules Challenge. The question in the case was not a mail-in ballot rule itself but whether political candidates have the right to challenge the rules governing the vote count in their election.
• Denmark Reinforces Its Military Presence in Greenland. The Danes say the deployment of aircraft, ships and soldiers is part of an ongoing effort to better protect the island and the Arctic.
• U.S. Weighs Expanding Private Companies’ Role in Cyberwarfare. The proposal raises a host of questions about the legality and practicality of bolstering the involvement of the private sector in offensive cyberoperations.
• U.S. Moves Some Personnel From Key Air Base as Tensions Mount With Iran. Nonessential personnel are being removed from Udeid Air Base in Qatar, the main U.S. air operations hub in the region, as President Trump weighs a military response to Iran’s crackdown on protests.
• Supreme Court Backs Police Entry Without Warrant in Emergencies. Montana officials defended the actions of law enforcement officers who did not have a warrant when they responded to a possibly suicidal Army veteran.
• F.B.I. Searches Home of Washington Post Journalist for Classified Material. It is exceedingly rare, even in investigations of classified disclosures, for federal agents to search a reporter’s home.
• A Top Fed Official Says the Trump Administration’s Threats Are ‘About Monetary Policy’ Neel T. Kashkari, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, defended Jerome H. Powell, the Fed chair, in an interview. He also said interest rates should be held steady this month.
• Chuck Schumer Calls His Shot. After securing strong recruits on a tough Senate map, the Democratic leader is not only predicting an upset 2026 victory, but also naming the states he thinks his party can flip.
• Trump Credits ‘Mister Tariff’ for the Country’s Strength. Economists Beg to Differ. Many indicators appear to suggest that the United States is growing despite tariffs, not because of them.
• An Emboldened Trump Places His Bets From Caracas to Tehran. President Trump has left himself plenty of room for maximal intervention. But there are a host of potential wild cards, each with risks for the president.
• Initial Review Finds No Widespread Illegal Voting by Migrants, Puncturing a Trump Claim. Republican election officials welcome the review, which relies on a federal verification tool, but they say they have not discovered a major problem when it comes to noncitizen voters.

World

• Trump, Venezuela and Oil. The president’s message since sending troops into Venezuela has been clear: This is about oil, not democracy.
• TRANSCRIPT: Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada Rebukes U.S. Primacy at Davos. The Canadian leader warned that middle powers need to stand together or they’ll find themselves “on the menu.”
• Taxing the Ultrarich. The number of billionaires has exploded, yet they often pay taxes at rates well below average.
• Trump’s Ultimatum to Europe. Trump threatened heavy tariffs on countries standing between him and Greenland. E.U. leaders are scrambling for a response.
• Greek Court Acquits Rescue Workers Accused of Smuggling Migrants. The 24 former volunteers, including the refugee turned campaigner Sara Mardini, were prosecuted after helping migrants during the European refugee crisis nearly a decade ago.
• A Healthy Brain. Even when so much is happening in the world, it’s important to take care of your brain health. Our Well desk shares tips.
• Minneapolis ‘Feels Like a Military Occupation’ President Trump has sent ICE agents into cities across America. We take a look at the fallout and what may come next.

Africa

• What Are the Chagos Islands and the Diego Garcia Base? The islands, which Britain has agreed to hand over to Mauritius, are home to a strategically important U.S.-British military base.
• Church Leaders Say Over 160 Were Kidnapped in Nigeria, but Officials Deny It. Christian groups said gunmen abducted congregants during Sunday services at three churches, but security and government officials dismissed the reports as fear-mongering.
• The Screwdriver Salesman Behind Trump’s Airstrikes in Nigeria. Spotty research from a Christian activist has been used by Republican lawmakers to justify U.S. intervention in the country.
• Uganda Opposition Leader Bobi Wine Is ‘Restricted’ to His Home, the Police Say. The country’s electoral commission is expected to soon announce that President Yoweri Museveni has won re-election after four decades in power
• $2 Rental Batteries Are Helping to Power South Africa. The batteries offer an affordable system for those who lack reliable power and the money to buy their own solar panels.
• Thousands Evicted From the 19th-Century ‘Venice of Nigeria’ Community leaders in Lagos say evictions in the name of development have left many residents of this fishing village homeless.
• Ugandan Opposition Leader Bobi Wine Was Abducted, His Party Says. Mr. Wine’s party said on X that “an army helicopter” had landed in his compound and “forcibly” taken him away ahead of election results in Uganda, during a nationwide internet blackout.
• ‘We Came Here to Vote’: Ugandans Go to Polls Despite Major Delays. Technical failures at polling places have caused disruptions, and the opposition has warned of government vote rigging amid an internet blackout.

Americas

• Pressured by Trump, Mexico Sends 37 Accused Criminals to U.S. Mexico has sought to do more to combat its cartels in an effort to stave off airstrikes threatened by President Trump.
• A Venezuelan Political Prisoner Finally Comes Home. Ángel Godoy was thrown into jail after writing columns that angered the government of President Nicolás Maduro. Now his family is trying to make up for lost time.
• Death Toll Rises in Guatemalan Gang Riots. Uprisings in three prisons have killed nine police officers, presenting another challenge for President Bernardo Arévalo in his fight against corruption and organized crime.
• Guatemala Declares State of Emergency as Gang Violence Surges. President Bernardo Arévalo of Guatemala declared a 30-day state of emergency to address gang violence. A surge of unrest in recent days has included uprisings at three prisons and the killing of eight police officers.
• Splits Emerge Among Venezuelans as Revolutionary Dream Fades. Supporters of former president Hugo Chávez, the anti-American socialist, are struggling to come to terms with their government’s pact with Washington.
• What to Know About Hezbollah’s Ties to Venezuela. U.S. authorities have accused Hezbollah of complicity in drug trafficking and money laundering schemes in Venezuela.
• Guatemala Declares State of Emergency to Address Gang Violence. The country has seen a surge of unrest in recent days, including uprisings at prisons and the killing of police officers, which the authorities have blamed on gangs.
• ‘Come Help Us’: Wildfires Grip Parts of Chile, Killing at Least 16. One mayor pleaded with the national government for help as flames destroyed entire neighborhoods in the southern region of Biobío.
• Why It’s Hard to Run Venezuela. Venezuela sprawls over terrain twice the size of California, with vast tracts of treacherous jungles, steep mountains and cities filled with guns.
• The Biggest Challenge in Venezuela? Forget the Oil, It’s Stocking the Fridge. Economic instability in Venezuela after the U.S. raid to capture its president is deepening inflation and rattling the currency, sending grocery bills soaring for millions of people.
• Can Cuba Survive Without Venezuela’s Oil? President Trump stopped Venezuelan oil shipments to Cuba, and experts say disaster looms. Oil fuels its electric grid and without alternative supplies the country will plunge into extended darkness.
• After Trump Call, Colombia Turns Up Heat on Rebels Accused of Drug Trafficking. President Gustavo Petro is taking a harder line against the National Liberation Army, or ELN, a leftist revolutionary group that experts call a powerful drug trafficker in Colombia and Venezuela.
• A Tale of Two Meetings: Trump Chooses Oil Over Democracy. Two conversations this week confirmed that President Trump backs the remnants of Nicolás Maduro’s regime over the Venezuelan opposition seeking to hold elections.
• Machado Offers Trump Her Nobel Peace Prize Medal. During a meeting in the White House on Thursday, Venezuela’s opposition leader, María Corina Machado, presented her medal to President Trump.
• Venezuela’s Interim Leader Balances Maduro’s Script With Trump’s Demands. In her State of the Union address, Delcy Rodríguez echoed her predecessors’ fiery rhetoric but tried to hew to President Trump’s agenda.
• The Nobel Medal Has Been Sold Before for Millions of Dollars. The Nobel Committee has said the prize cannot be transferred, but it has been sold in a few auctions over the award’s history.
• Remains of 32 Cubans Killed in U.S. Strikes in Venezuela Are Returned. State-run television aired a ceremony for the remains of 32 Cuban citizens killed in the U.S. strikes in Venezuela arriving in Havana. The deceased were part of the security detail of Nicolás Maduro, Venezuela’s ousted president.
• Cuba Receives Remains of 32 Citizens Killed in U.S. Strikes in Venezuela. The Cubans had served as part of the security detail of Nicolás Maduro, Venezuela’s ousted president.
• The U.S. Is Pressing Mexico to Allow U.S. Forces to Fight Cartels. The United States is escalating pressure on the Mexican government to permit the U.S. military to target fentanyl labs, according to American officials.
• Nobel Committee Takes Heat at Home as Machado Courts Trump. The Venezuelan opposition leader’s attempts to share her award with the U.S. president have shaken some Norwegians’ faith in their signature soft-power tool.
• Maduro’s Enforcer Faces an Uneasy Transition, and a Bounty on His Head. Diosdado Cabello, Venezuela’s interior minister, is accused by U.S. prosecutors of drug trafficking and is linked to repression at home, yet remains a powerful figure.
• Son of ‘Goodbye Horses’ Singer Among Americans Freed in Venezuela. James Luckey-Lange, 28, was released this week with several other U.S. citizens from the country’s notorious prison system after going missing in December, his family said.
• U.S. Races to Sell Venezuelan Oil, Transforming Ties With Former Foe. U.S. officials brokered the sale of hundreds of millions of dollars worth of Venezuelan oil to stabilize the country’s economy after capturing its president.
• Quebec’s Unpopular Leader to Resign Ahead of Elections. Premier François Legault became Canada’s most popular provincial leader during the pandemic thanks to his reassuring, avuncular persona. But missteps sank his hopes for a third term.
• Venezuelan Envoy to Make First Washington Trip in Years Amid Thaw. Félix Plasencia, an envoy of the interim government, will travel to the United States on the day the opposition leader María Corina Machado is to meet President Trump.
• ‘We’re Not Stupid’: What Greenlanders Would Say to Trump. A visit to Greenland reveals a swirl of feelings as people nervously await talks with the Trump administration about the island’s future.
• Venezuela Announced the Release of Political Prisoners. Families Are Still Waiting. Hundreds of families are hoping their loved ones will be freed by the Venezuelan government, which has said little about who would be released or when.

Asia Pacific

• Taiwan’s $40 Billion Military Spending Plan Stalled by Political Impasse. Taiwan’s domestic gridlock is revealing a deep-seated fracture over how the island should defend itself and how much it can depend on the United States.
• Man Gets Life in Prison for Killing Shinzo Abe, Former Leader of Japan. Tetsuya Yamagami, 45, had admitted to shooting Mr. Abe, Japan’s longest-serving prime minister, with a homemade gun at a political rally in 2022.
• Islamic State Claims Deadly Attack on Chinese Restaurant in Afghanistan. A bombing that killed seven people and injured a dozen more at a noodle restaurant in a busy area of Kabul is likely to heighten China’s growing security concerns in Afghanistan.
• The Chinese Island Where Dreams of Real Estate Glory Never Die. Intended as China’s version of Dubai’s palm-shaped artificial island, Ocean Flower Island is a $12 billion monument to debt-fueled economic excess.
• Fire at Pakistani Mall Leaves Over 20 Dead. A fire tore through one of the busiest wholesale markets in downtown Karachi, Pakistan, over the weekend, leaving over 20 dead and dozens still missing on Monday.
• Slow Emergency Response Blamed in Deadly Fire That Tore Through Pakistani Mall. The blaze, which killed at least 23 and left dozens more missing during “wedding season,” burned all night and day through a Karachi plaza with hundreds of shops.
• Japan’s Leader Calls for Snap Election in Bid to Expand Power. Sanae Takaichi, the first woman to be Japan’s prime minister, is hoping to seize on her popularity by calling a parliamentary election next month.
• Why Are New Zealanders Moving to Australia? More Money, Better Vibes. More than 1 percent of New Zealand’s population left over the year ending in October. Many of the migrants were chasing salaries and opportunities in neighboring Australia.
• Can Vietnam’s Communist Party Supercharge Its Economy With Private Enterprise? One of Asia’s most dynamic nations is weighing how to balance government control with raising per capita G.D.P. by about 70 percent in five years.
• A Refuge for Afghan Music Is at Risk of Falling Silent. Peshawar is a haven for Afghan artists who fled from the Taliban, which had banned music. A new policy of deportations by Pakistan threatens this community of exiles.
• Thousands of Chinese Fishing Boats Quietly Form Vast Sea Barriers. China is practicing vast maneuvers that could be used to disrupt U.S. naval movement, a New York Times analysis of ship data reveals.
• Canada and China Will Lower Some Tariffs in ‘New Strategic Partnership’ Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada announced that Canada would slash tariffs on some Chinese electric vehicles and that, in return, China would reduce tariffs on Canadian canola products.
• Death Toll Rises to 28 After Landfill Collapse in the Philippines. Rescuers in Cebu City have recovered 28 bodies from a garbage mound that collapsed last week. The search continues for eight missing people.
• Meloni and Takaichi, Right-Wing Trailblazers, Become Fast Friends. At a meeting in Tokyo, Prime Ministers Giorgia Meloni of Italy and Sanae Takaichi of Japan bonded over being conservative women at the pinnacle of power.
• Ex-South Korean Leader Gets Prison Term in First Ruling Over Martial Law. A court handed down five years in prison to former President Yoon Suk Yeol, who is facing multiple trials stemming from his short-lived imposition of martial law.
• A Crane Collapse in Thailand Killed 2, One Day After a Similar Tragedy. A crane collapsed on an expressway on the outskirts of Bangkok on Thursday, killing at least two people, an official said. It was the second fatal accident involving cranes in the country in two days.
• Crane Collapses on Expressway Outside Bangkok, Killing at Least 2. The deadly episode came a day after a crane fell on a moving train in northeastern Thailand, killing at least 32 people.
• Drum Diplomacy: Leaders of Japan and South Korea in Sync to K-pop. Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi of Japan and President Lee Jae Myung of South Korea played along to BTS and “KPop Demon Hunters,” in a display meant to show warming ties.
• Japan and South Korea Reinforce Ties With a K-Pop Jam Session. President Lee Jae Myung of South Korea and Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi of Japan jammed to K-pop during a summit to reaffirm their relationship amid growing political and economic uncertainty.
• A New Video Game Traps Players in an Online Scam Center. “Blood Money: Lethal Eden” taps into a rising anxiety in China by simulating the experiences of people trafficked for the scam industry.
• Construction Crane Falls on Train in Thailand. A crane fell on an express train carrying about 200 passengers in northeastern Thailand. Officials said at least 22 people were killed and dozens were injured.

Australia

• Australia Passes Tighter Gun Control Laws, Weeks After Bondi Massacre. Critics said the government had rushed the legislation, along with a bill targeting hate speech, in the wake of the mass shooting in Sydney.
• After Four Shark Attacks in 48 Hours, Australia Shuts Dozens of Beaches. Many of the closed beaches were in Sydney, the site of three of the attacks.
• Nearly 5 Million Accounts Removed Under Australia’s New Social Media Ban. Governments around the world are watching the rollout of the landmark law, which made it illegal for those under 16 to have accounts.

Canada

• Canada Flexes on Global Stage With an Eye to Its Own Survival. Prime Minister Mark Carney got a standing ovation in Davos for starkly describing the end of Pax Americana. He is looking for new allies to help his country survive it.
• Mr. Carney Goes to Beijing. The trip, a whirlwind of meetings with Chinese industry and top government officials, conveyed how the prime minister is viewing the wider world.
• Canada Breaks With U.S. to Slash Tariffs on Some Chinese Electric Vehicles. China will in turn cut its own tariffs on Canadian canola products, Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada said in Beijing on Friday.
• British Columbia Ends Program That Aimed to Curb Arrests of Drug Users. The three-year pilot program did not deliver the results hoped for, the health minister said. It had allowed drug users to avoid criminal charges for possessing small amounts of illegal substances.

Europe

• Another Train Crash in Spain Kills 1 and Injures Dozens. A train crash in the Catalonia region of Spain killed one person and injured dozens more, officials said. It was the country’s second deadly rail accident this week.
• Another Train Crash in Spain Kills 1 and Hurts 37, Officials Say. Train service in the Catalonia region will be suspended until it is safe to resume rail traffic, the local operator said.
• Canada’s Leader Warns of ‘Rupture’ in World Order. At the World Economic Forum, Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada took a stand against President Trump’s desire for the United States to own Greenland, and called on medium-size countries to stand up to larger powers.
• Hidden In a Stream, New Clues About Cause of Spain Rail Crash. Officials said they had located a previously unreported train undercarriage near the site of a deadly train crash in Spain. Experts said the finding could help investigators.
• A Few Dozen European Troops in Greenland Triggered Trump. President Trump threatened tariffs on European nations that sent military personnel to Greenland last week. Some have already gone home, but Denmark is now sending about 100 more.
• Northern Lights Shine Over U.K. and Europe. One of the largest solar radiation storms in decades produced an aurora borealis that illuminated rare hues like red and purple over Britain and parts of continental Europe.
• Spanish Authorities Struggle to Identify Victims of Train Crash. The Spanish authorities have struggled to recognize the victims of a train crash on Sunday that killed dozens of people. One local official said the impact was so severe that bodies had been found hundreds of meters from the accident.
• Trump Heckles Europe Before Heading to Davos. As European leaders try to engage with the American president over Greenland and the future of Ukraine, he is mocking them as weak.
• Britain Approves Contentious Chinese Mega-Embassy in London. The government of Prime Minister Keir Starmer approved plans for a massive new Chinese Embassy near Tower Bridge, disappointing critics who fear it will enable spying.
• As Spain Mourns Train Crash Victims, Investigators Focus on Track. Officials on Tuesday were struggling to identify bodies from the crash near the southern city of Córdoba, which killed at least 41 people.
• ‘No Going Back’: Trump Doubles Down on Greenland Threats. President Trump posted private messages from France’s president and repeated his desire to take over Greenland in an overnight social media storm.
• Fresh Russian Strikes Cut Heat to Thousands in Ukraine’s Freezing Capital. Ukrainian authorities say that the repeated attacks on energy infrastructure are an attempt to force the country into submission.
• How the Train Crash in Spain Unfolded. Two trains collided on Sunday in southern Spain, killing at least 40 people. Here is what happened.
• ‘Like an Earthquake’: How 40 People Died in a Spanish Train Crash. The victims of Spain’s deadliest rail crash in more than a decade included a police officer, journalists and a family returning from a musical.
• France Moves Once Again to Pass a Budget With No Vote. Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu’s effort to force the measure through Parliament opened up his government to a vote of no confidence.
• Trump Is Pushing the U.S.-Europe Alliance Onto a Precipice. As President Trump tries to coerce European leaders over Greenland, they are pondering the unthinkable: Is an 80-year-old alliance doomed?
• A labor union raised concerns last year about Spain’s railway lines.
• Train Crash in Southern Spain Kills Dozens. A train crash in southern Spain involving two trains killed dozens on Sunday. The cause of the crash, the deadliest in Spain since 2013, was still being investigated on Monday.
• The crash occurred on a new stretch of high-speed rail track, officials say.
• Greenlanders Weigh Options as Trump Threatens Takeover. Some residents of Greenland are hatching plans to flee by boat, while others are committed to remaining as President Trump demands a deal to buy the autonomous territory of Denmark.
• Trump Links His Push for Greenland to Not Winning Nobel Peace Prize. In a text, President Trump told Norway’s prime minister that he no longer felt obliged to “think purely of Peace” and that the U.S. needed the island for global security.
• ‘Like an Earthquake’: Survivors Describe High-Speed Train Crash in Spain. Photographs show a tangled mess of metal, wires and broken glass at the scene of the crash, which killed at least 39 people.
• Syria, in Ruins. A year after the dictator fell, Syrians are returning to a country with no clear plan for rebuilding.
• At the Center of Trump’s Vision for Rebuilding Ukraine: BlackRock. The world’s largest asset manager has been enlisted to help build Ukraine’s recovery plan. Some fear it is part of a Trump administration effort to steer the effort toward American business interests.
• Much of Spain’s High-Speed Rail Network Will Be Closed on Monday. The closures were announced after a high-speed train derailed and smashed into another high-speed train, killing at least 39 people and injuring dozens.
• What to Know About Prince Harry’s Case Against Daily Mail Publisher. A trial is set to begin on Monday in Harry’s case accusing Associated Newspapers of phone hacking and other unlawful activities. Other claimants include Elton John and Liz Hurley.
• What We Know About the Deadly High-Speed Train Crash in Spain. The collision, caused by the derailment of one of the trains, was the deadliest in Spain since at least 2013.
• Deadly Train Crash in Spain. Emergency responders worked to evacuate survivors from the wreckage of a deadly crash between two high-speed trains that derailed in Adamuz, Spain, on Sunday.
• European Union Officials Lean Toward Negotiating, Not Retaliating, Over Trump Tariff Threat. European Union ambassadors held an emergency meeting on Sunday, and leaders from across the 27-nation bloc will meet in Brussels later this week.
• Trains Collide After Derailment in Spain, Killing at Least 21. A high-speed train smashed into another train after derailing in the southern province of Córdoba, officials said. The cause of the accident was not immediately clear.
• Bleak Times in Copenhagen: Danes Feel Betrayed and Bewildered by Trump. The American president’s vow to get Greenland, the semiautonomous Danish territory, has thrown the tiny, pro-American Nordic nation into crisis.
• After Trump Reignites a Trade War Over Greenland, Europe Weighs Going All-Out. Europe’s dependence on the United States for NATO security limits its options. Its strongest response could be retaliating with its own trade “bazooka.”
• Avalanches Across Austrian Alps Kill 8 Skiers in One Day. Skiers have also died from avalanche-related accidents in the Swiss and French Alps over the past week.
• Why London’s Chimney Sweeps Are Enjoying a Resurgence. The centuries-old trade is enjoying something of a revival, partly driven by rising energy costs. Today’s sweeps use new tools and technology.
• ‘Yankee, Go Home’: Greenlanders Protest Trump’s Takeover Plans. Protests erupted in several Greenlandic cites and in Denmark as President Trump intensified his efforts to take control of the Arctic island.
• Syria Advances on Kurdish-Held Areas as Washington Urges Restraint. Government troops drew closer to Raqqa, the largest city overseen by the Kurds, raising U.S. concerns about the renewal of a wider conflict in the region.
• In Spain’s ‘Little Caracas,’ Venezuelan Exiles Are Still Waiting. Spain is home to the biggest collection of Venezuelan emigrants outside the Americas. Many cheered the capture of Nicolás Maduro, but are now adapting to the fact that his allies remain in charge.
• Is the Russian Military Adapting Effectively to the Drone Age? Current and former commanders, analysts and military bloggers are having a surprisingly open debate about whether drones have made Russia’s longstanding approach to battle obsolete.
• Russian Strikes Force Kyiv Schools to Close Amid Rolling Blackouts. Russia has targeted Ukraine’s energy infrastructure in past winters, but this year intensified its attacks as temperatures in Ukraine plunged well below freezing.
• How Greenland Is Reacting to Trump’s Threats. Our reporter Jeffrey Gettleman is on the ground in Greenland, seeing how people have reacted to Trump’s desire to take it over. He and our senior writer Katrin Bennhold discuss what Greenland means to the United States, Denmark and Greenlanders.
• How Italy Is Racing to Finish an Ice Rink Before the Olympics. With less than a month until the Winter Games in northern Italy, builders have yet to complete a major arena.
• Antiwar Russians in Europe Learn That They Must Watch Their Words. A backlash over a rant against Ukrainian officials has raised questions about Eastern Europe’s welcome of Russian dissidents.
• Milan Court Closes Fraud Case Against Italian Influencer Chiara Ferragni. A judge dropped the case against Ms. Ferragni, who had been embroiled in a scandal over sales of a limited edition Christmas cake marketed as supporting cancer treatment.
• Citing Secret Plot, U.K. Conservative Party Fires a Senior Lawmaker. The leader of Britain’s Conservatives, Kemi Badenoch, said she had ousted Robert Jenrick for “plotting in secret” to defect from and damage the party.
• After an Inconclusive Meeting, Greenlanders Ask: Now What? A high-powered meeting in Washington on Wednesday ended in an impasse, leaving Greenlanders fearful of what comes next.
• Kyiv’s Cruelest Winter: Russia Knocks Out the Heat in the Bitter Cold. The Kremlin has tried for years to freeze Ukraine into submission. This winter, its attacks have been the most devastating ever.
• Denmark Has ‘Fundamental Disagreement’ With U.S. Over Greenland. On Wednesday, Denmark and Greenland’s foreign ministers met with the Trump administration. President Trump urged the United States needs Greenland for national security purposes but both foreign officials argued Greenland is not up for sale.
• U.K. Home Secretary Presses Police Chief to Resign Over Israeli Soccer Fan Ban. An independent report said Wednesday that the West Midlands Police overstated the threat posed by Maccabi Tel Aviv supporters before a match last year in Birmingham.
• U.K. Retreats on Plan to Require ‘BritCard’ ID for Workers. Workers will be able to use a variety of digital IDs to prove their right to work in Britain, the government said Wednesday, diluting a plan it announced last year.
• Why Greenland Matters for a Warming World. The fate of the world’s largest island has outsize importance for billions of people on the planet, because as the climate warms, Greenland is losing ice. That has consequences.
• Greenland’s Leader Says His Nation Wants to Remain Part of Denmark. Before a meeting on Wednesday with Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Greenland’s prime minister said that his nation intended to remain part of Denmark.
• Trump’s Threats to Greenland Raise Serious Questions for NATO. The treaty that created NATO did not contemplate an attack by one ally on another. A seizure of Greenland by President Trump would test the endurance of the mutual-defense pact.
• Tensions Are High as Vance and Rubio Prepare to Meet Danish and Greenlandic Officials. Top officials from the United States, Denmark and Greenland will meet at the White House for the first time since President Trump said he wanted to own Greenland.

Middle East

• Israel Seizes U.N. Agency’s Jerusalem Headquarters. Bulldozers leveled some structures in a compound that belonged to UNRWA, the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees, escalating Israel’s crackdown on the organization.
• U.S. Shifts Away From Kurdish-Led Forces in Fight Against ISIS. The U.S. envoy to Syria said Washington was confident the Syrian government could take over the country’s fight against the Islamic State terrorist group.
• For Syria’s Government, Kurdish Deal Is a Big Win. As the government moves to assert control over areas under Kurdish rule, it will be the latest test of President Ahmed al-Sharaa’s pledge to form an inclusive administration that empowers minorities.
• What to Know About Trump’s ‘Board of Peace’ for Gaza. Numerous countries say they have been invited to join President Trump’s newly minted organization, which critics say could undermine the United Nations.
• Clashes Erupt Around Syrian Prisons Holding Islamic State Fighters. New tensions flared a day after a Kurdish-led militia agreed to hand over control of prisons holding some 8,000 Islamic State fighters to the Syrian government.
• Syrian Government and Kurdish-Led Force Agree to Merge After Clashes. The new deal also calls for a cease-fire. Government forces have taken strategic assets from the militia in recent days, weakening the force.
• $1 Billion in Cash Buys a Permanent Seat on Trump’s ‘Board of Peace’ The board was originally conceived to oversee the rebuilding of Gaza, but its charter does not mention the Palestinian enclave, suggesting a possibly broader mandate.
• The Dark History of France’s Embassy in Iraq Goes on Trial in Paris. A Jewish family that fled Iraq generations ago rented its home to France for use as an embassy, but Paris long ago stopped paying it rent, after Iraq stripped Jews of property.
• World Leaders Consider Joining Trump’s ‘Board of Peace’ for Gaza. Argentina, Canada, Egypt and Turkey say they are among the countries that have been invited to join.
• Iran’s Supreme Leader, Unbending Over Time. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has built his 37-year rule on uncompromising repression. His answer to the current protests is no different.
• Inside the Doctors Without Borders Clinics That Israel Is Closing in Gaza. The aid group has refused to comply with new Israeli rules restricting speech and demanding information on staff. Patients are stunned. “I need this place,” says one.
• Gabriel Barkay, 81, Dies; His Discoveries Revised Biblical History. One of Israel’s leading archaeologists, he found evidence that the writing of the Old Testament likely began much earlier than historians had thought.
• Syria’s President Affirms Kurds’ Rights, in Overture to the Minority. President Ahmed al-Sharaa’s announcement comes after days of deadly clashes between government and Kurdish forces that have underscored the difficulty he faces in uniting the country.
• Iran Protests Quelled Since Deadly Crackdown, Residents Say. “There is massive disappointment and disillusionment,” one Tehran resident said. A human rights group acknowledged that demonstrations had been subdued since Sunday, with thousands of people detained.
• Iran Has Had Protests Before. Will This Time Be Different? Understanding the factors that can topple regimes.
• Many Fiery Remarks, Little Clarity on What’s Next at Security Council Meeting on Iran. Iran’s representative denied the country had killed protesters, as the U.S. ambassador said President Trump had made clear “all options are on the table” to stop the killing.
• Israel Watches Iran Protests Closely, but Is Wary of Intervening. Israel is unlikely to do much to try to precipitate a regime change in Iran, seeing the government as far from the brink of collapse and the current protests as insufficient to push it to that point.
• Iran Denies Sentencing Protester to Death. Iran denied sentencing a protester, Erfan Soltani, 26, to death. Soltani’s case had drawn intense international attention after his relatives and rights groups had said he would be executed imminently.
• Iran Says It Will Not Execute Protester Amid International Outcry. The judiciary said that Erfan Soltani was not sentenced to death, Iranian state media reported. His case has drawn attention to the fate of the arrested demonstrators.
• Iran Prepares to Execute Protester. Iran had been prepared to execute Erfan Soltani, 26, on Wednesday. He would have been the first protester to be executed in the latest wave of antigovernment unrest.
• Trump’s Gulf Allies Do Not Want Him to Bomb Iran. While several of the Gulf Arab countries harbor little love for Iran, they worry that the consequences of rising tensions could blow back on them.
• What are Trump’s Options in Iran? President Trump has said that “help is on the way” for Iranian protesters. Amid reports that thousands of the protesters have been killed, our national security correspondent David E. Sanger describes what some of Mr. Trump’s options might be.
• Iran Prepares to Execute a Protester as Trump Threatens ‘Strong Action’ Rights groups and relatives said Iran planned to put an antigovernment protester to death for the first time during the latest wave of unrest in the country.

New York

• On Day 1, Mikie Sherrill Focuses on Utility Costs and Children’s Safety. The new governor of New Jersey signed six executive orders after taking office on Tuesday. They matched the priorities she campaigned on last year.
• Ex-N.Y.P.D. Officer Cleared of Spying for China Sues Over Firing. Federal prosecutors quietly dropped their case against the officer, but a Police Department investigation based on the charges led to his firing, the suit says.
• Cursive Makes a Comeback in New Jersey Schools. In one of his final acts in office, Gov. Philip D. Murphy signed a bill on Monday requiring third, fourth and fifth graders to learn cursive.
• Hochul Unveils $260 Billion N.Y. Budget That Avoids Raising Taxes. Gov. Kathy Hochul of New York, who faces re-election this year, said that the state budget faced “real volatility” because of threats from President Trump.
• In Final Hours as Governor, Murphy Vetoes 2 Immigrant Rights Bills. Philip D. Murphy, New Jersey’s former governor, did enact legislation to protect the rights of undocumented residents at schools, courthouses and health care facilities.
• The Neighbors Fighting Over Having the Same Name. Lawyers for Carnegie Hall said there could be “consumer confusion” if a diner were allowed to keep sharing its name.
• Mikie Sherrill to Be Sworn In as Governor in New Jersey. Ms. Sherrill beat a Republican endorsed by President Trump and did what no politician in New Jersey has done since 1961: win her party a third consecutive term in the governor’s office.
• As Mamdani Focuses on Child Care, Plan to Tax the Rich Is Put Aside. Mayor Zohran Mamdani campaigned on a proposal to increase taxes on those earning more than $1 million. For now, at least, he isn’t pushing.
• In a State Notorious for Scandal, Corruption Fighters Are Targeted. An anonymous negative ad campaign has been aimed at New Jersey’s departing attorney general. “It’s a warning to others,” one political scientist said.
• Could Mamdani’s Child Care Plan Encourage a Baby Boomlet in New York? Some New Yorkers hope that raising a child in the city could become more affordable thanks to Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s plans for free child care and preschool.
• Psst, Mayor Mamdani: The Upper East Side Is More Fun Than People Think. Beyond stuffy old money and noisy sports bars, hidden gems abound.
• Mamdani Said He’d Make Buses Faster and Free. Now It’s This Guy’s Job to Do It. Mike Flynn, a former intern who rose to the top of the agency, will be under a microscope, but far from the spotlight.
• ‘She Stared Back, Apparently Unfazed by My Rat Ears ’ A tour guide goes one step beyond, a macaw on the Q and more reader tales of New York City in this week’s Metropolitan Diary.
• Armed Robbers Steal At Least $110,000 Worth of Pokémon Cards. Three men stole at least $110,00 worth of Pokémon cards from a shop in Lower Manhattan on Wednesday. The thieves held customers at gun point, smashed display cases and took money from the cash register. One of the items stolen was a first-edition Charizard card worth about $15,000, according to the store’s owner.
• Mamdani Appoints Top Parks Official to Oversee New York’s Green Spaces. The mayor announced Tricia Shimamura as the city’s new parks commissioner amid broad calls for more park funding.
• At Least $110,000 in Pokémon Cards Stolen From Lower Manhattan Store. The robbery at the Poké Court on Wednesday was the latest in a string of thefts of high-value Pokémon trading cards.
• Before Criticizing Pro-Hamas Chants, Mamdani Sought Jewish Leaders’ Input. The outreach by Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s team has demonstrated how the mayor is taking care to not inflame tensions on either side of the Israel-Gaza war.
• A.I. Is Coming to Class. These Professors Want to Ease Your Worries. Even as some instructors remain fervently opposed to chatbots, other writing and English professors are trying to improve them.
• Mamdani’s Push to Halt Sale of 5,000 Apartments to Big Landlord Fails. The sale of the apartments, whose residents had complained of neglect by management, to a troubled firm is an early test of the new mayor’s ability to deliver for tenants.
• A $12.6 Billion Budget Gap May Complicate Mamdani’s Affordability Plans. The New York City comptroller, Mark Levine, said that poor budgeting practices by the previous mayor, Eric Adams, had left the city with looming deficits.
• Drunken Driver Who Killed 4 at Cookout Is Sentenced to Decades in Prison. The driver, Daniel Hyden, was a substance abuse counselor who had past citations for driving under the influence.
• Even Nicolás Maduro’s Prosecutors Are Tied Up Reviewing Epstein Files. The Trump Administration’s exhaustive examination of materials on the convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein is drawing resources from other cases.
• Why Some NYCHA Residents Are Getting Induction Stoves. A pilot program in Housing Authority apartments will offer the trendy stoves, which improve air quality and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
• N.Y.C. Council Leader Takes on Antisemitism, and Possibly Mamdani. The Council speaker, Julie Menin, will introduce bills that would establish a buffer zone at houses of worship to keep protesters at some distance from congregants.
• Nurses Describe Fear on the Job as Bitter Strike Enters Fifth Day. Both sides in the labor dispute appear poised for a protracted battle, and only one of three hospitals was negotiating with the strikers.
• Former Building Super Is Convicted of Stealing $350,000 From 98-Year-Old. Rosalind Hernandez, who worked in a co-op building in Manhattan, befriended and then bilked a vulnerable resident, prosecutors said.
• Number of Businesses in New York City Plunged Last Spring, Report Says. Roughly 8,400 businesses closed in the second quarter of 2025, according to the most recent city data, creating the largest net decline in business activity since before the pandemic.
• None of Mamdani’s Deputy Mayors Are Black. It Has Become a Problem. Some Black and Latino leaders worry they are being denied access to power under Mayor Zohran Mamdani and that they may lose the ground they had gained under former Mayor Eric Adams.
• Nydia Velázquez Gives Mamdani a Warning as She Endorses a Successor. The veteran congresswoman said she would like Antonio Reynoso, the Brooklyn borough president, to replace her after she retires. She also said the mayor should stay out of political races.
• Alexander Brothers Accuser Was Found Dead Last Year, Authorities Say. The death of Kate Whiteman, whose accusation of sexual assault against Oren and Alon Alexander opened a floodgate of similar allegations, is under investigation.
• Appeals Court Opens the Door to Mahmoud Khalil’s Rearrest. Any new detention would not come immediately, and Mr. Khalil’s lawyers plan to appeal. But the ruling is a major blow to Mr. Khalil, a Columbia graduate and prominent figure in the pro-Palestinian movement.
• Mamdani’s Consumer Protection Commissioner Vows More Aggressive Action. “I want to be very public that there’s a new cop on the beat,” said Samuel Levine, the new commissioner of New York City’s Department of Consumer and Worker Protection.
• A Horse Bolts, Renewing Debate Over Central Park Carriages. The city’s 68 horse carriages continue to operate despite pressure from activists — and the Central Park Conservancy — to ban them.
• Many Mayors Have Tried to Help Small Businesses. It’s Mamdani’s Turn. Small business advocates in New York are excited that Mayor Zohran Mamdani is tackling the issue of excessive fees and fines, but they’ve heard similar promises before.
• The Judge in the Maduro Case Is 92. All Eyes Will Be on His Stamina. Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein was seen drifting in and out of sleep in court last year. The case of Nicolás Maduro, the Venezuelan leader, will test his endurance.
• Woman Killed by ICE Agent Seemed at Fault, N.Y. Republican Says. Bruce Blakeman, the likely Republican candidate for governor, said the killing of Renee Good was just one point of disagreement between him and Gov. Kathy Hochul, a Democrat.
• Prosecutors Say Officer Who Hurled Cooler Was Not Trying to Save Lives. Lawyers for Sgt. Erik Duran said he had to make a “life-or-death” decision when he struck Eric Duprey as he rode a motorbike recklessly down a sidewalk. Mr. Duprey died almost immediately.
• As N.Y.C. Nurses’ Strike Continues, Both Sides Prepare for a Long Fight. Hospital administrators and union officials appear to be digging in for an extended battle over staffing levels and pay.
• How Will the New Chancellor Change New York Schools? Kamar Samuels, Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s choice to run the school system, has favored integration and academic rigor.
• A Week Without Heat in New York City. Some renters are constantly left without heat or hot water during the winter, leading them to bundle up in layers of clothing or risk fires by using space heaters.
• Trial to Begin for N.Y.P.D. Sergeant Who Threw Cooler at Fleeing Man. Erik Duran, who fatally struck the man, Eric Duprey, as he fled on a motorbike in 2023, faces charges of manslaughter, assault and criminally negligent homicide.

Business

• A.I., Big Tech and Trump Shine Most Brightly at the Davos Spectacle. The World Economic Forum is now dominated by global technology companies whose interests shunt aside most others.
• Stocks and Bonds Fall on Trump’s Greenland Threats. The S&P 500 dropped over 1 percent Tuesday morning, its lowest decline at the start of the trading day since April, when President Trump first announced his sweeping tariffs.
• Netflix Revamps Its Warner Bros. Bid, Seeking to Thwart Paramount. Netflix will pay all cash for the $83 billion deal to acquire major parts of Warner Bros. Discovery, instead of a mix of cash and stock.
• Trump’s First Year Could Have Lasting Economic Consequences. President Trump’s policies have so far done little to change the overall state of the American economy, but economists warn they will ultimately weaken the United States.
• Prominent Architecture Firm Is Accused of Illegally Ousting Employees. A federal labor regulator says the firm, Snohetta, laid off eight employees in retaliation for trying to unionize.
• I.M.F. Raises Forecast for Global Growth as Tariff Drag Fades. The 3.3 percent rate for 2026 would match last year’s pace. Booming investment in artificial intelligence is buttressing global output.
• As Davos Convenes, Deference to Trump Has Replaced Everything. The traditional rhetoric of the World Economic Forum centered on global integration, climate change and international cooperation. Not anymore.
• China’s Population Shrinks Again as Policies Fail to Reverse Decline. With fewer babies and more deaths, China’s population fell for a fourth straight year as policymakers face a demographic crisis in the making.
• Real Estate Crash Weighs on China’s Economic Growth. Falling apartment prices have erased the savings of millions of Chinese households, but exports lifted the economy to 5 percent growth last year.
• How to Prevent Aging Parents and Relatives From Making Financial Mistakes. Getting family members to listen to you when you think they are headed down a dangerous financial path can be difficult. But there are preventive steps you can take.
• We’re in an Era of ‘Re-Globalization,’ FedEx C.E.O. Says. Raj Subramaniam took over three years ago from FedEx’s founder, who ran the company for nearly 50 years. Since then, technology, tariffs and other disruptions have “fundamentally shifted” patterns of global trade.
• No One’s Buying? Maybe Consumers Are Just ‘Choiceful,’ Executives Say. A new way to characterize unenthusiastic consumers has overtaken earnings calls.
• National Anger Spills Into Target Stores, Again. Videos of immigration officers dragging an employee out of a store near Minneapolis, the retailer’s hometown, set off renewed political debate after years of boycotts.
• Tech Firms Are Persuading Retailers to Put A.I. Everywhere. Stores of all kinds are using artificial intelligence to sell everything from luxury handbags to hay for horses.
• ‘Punched in the Face’ by a Rail Disaster, an Ohio Town Fights Its Way Back. Residents and officials are still trying to revitalize East Palestine nearly three years after a derailment and chemical burn.
• ‘Like a Timeshare’: Doctors Get Creative as Rents Climb. Physicians with independent practices are having to cobble together unconventional office arrangements at a time of rising costs and consolidation in the medical field.
• Black Women Turn to One Another as Their Career Paths Suddenly Recede. Black female professionals have seen a steep drop in employment over the last year. They are turning to each other for pep talks and résumé advice.
• Trump and States Aim to Stop A.I. From Inflating Energy Bills. Demand from centers that power artificial intelligence has driven up electricity bills, frustrating consumers.
• Trump Praises Hassett, but Casts Doubt on Making Him Fed Chair. The blowback set off by the Justice Department’s criminal investigation into Jerome H. Powell, the chair of the central bank, has shaken up the race to replace him.
• Is This Billionaire a Financial Genius or a Fraudster? Michael Saylor’s financial alchemy thrust an ordinary software company, Strategy, into the center of the crypto frenzy. It all worked spectacularly, until now.
• What’s Next for Cuba, Now That Its Main Oil Supplier Is Gone? The Soviet Union was Cuba’s benefactor for decades. Venezuela took up the slack, and Mexico has supplied “humanitarian aid.” But the world is changing rapidly, our columnist says.
• Stock Investors’ Strategy for 2026:‘Don’t Fight the White House’ From oil drillers to credit card companies, President Trump has been a market mover this year.
• Battles Over Truth Rage Online Amid Iran’s Internet Blackout. The shutdown of online discourse within Iran has allowed both the government and its critics to flood social media outside the country with disinformation campaigns and fake images.
• Uber’s Quest to Crack Japan Leads Through a Rural Hot-Springs Town. The ride-hailing giant’s chief executive has made a bet on how it can finally grab a bigger piece of one of the world’s largest taxi markets.
• Taiwan Reaches Trade Deal with Trump, Pledges More U.S. Chip Factories. The United States agreed to lower tariffs on Taiwanese goods from 20 to 15 percent, while Taiwan says it will invest in more chip manufacturing in the U.S.
• ‘Star Wars’ Boss Departs, Ending an Asteroid-Filled Reign. Kathleen Kennedy stepped down as Lucasfilm’s president and returned to producing. Two studio veterans took over.
• Big Plan for Fannie and Freddie I.P.O. in Flux as Trump Pushes Affordability. Six months after President Trump told Wall Street banks to prepare a swift stock offering, there is no firm plan for how to take the giant mortgage firms public.
• Cracks Begin to Appear at the Nation’s Biggest Banks. This week, Bank of America, Citi, JPMorgan and Wells Fargo released fraught earnings reports as President Trump’s threatened cap on credit card rates loomed large.
• Elon Musk’s X Restricts Ability to Create Explicit Images With Grok. Bowing to pressure, the company said it would restrict X users from generating explicit images of real people in jurisdictions where such content is illegal.
• Trump Vows to Make Venezuela Rich. It Will Take More Than U.S. Cash. History suggests that the price of oil and a wider distribution of wealth are as important as foreign investment.
• Why Banks Are So Worried About a 10% Credit Card Rate Cap. President Trump revived a campaign promise to cap interest rates, but it is unclear how he would make that a reality.
• Despite Trump’s Claims, Grocery Prices Are Rising. Weather, supply, tariffs, labor and changing consumer habits continue to drive up the cost of groceries. President Trump falsely claims prices are falling.
• These Gyms’ Most Intimidating Machine: The Front Door. A new kind of tap-in, tap-out system at gyms has some New Yorkers flustered.
• Verizon Outage Affects Tens of Thousands of Users, Tracking Site Shows. A spokeswoman for Verizon said the carrier was working to resolve the issue.
• What to Know About Bilt’s New Rewards Program for Mortgage and Rent Payments. Bilt, a rewards and payments start-up, has three new credit cards that can help users earn points when they pay their mortgage. You will need to do math.
• Britain Awards Wind Farm Contracts That Will Power 12 Million Homes. The British government provided guaranteed electricity prices to a group of wind farm developers in what it says is an effort to bring down power costs for consumers.
• The Swedish Start-Up Aiming to Conquer America’s Full-Body-Scan Craze. Neko Health, backed by the Spotify founder Daniel Ek, plans to open in New York this spring.

DealBook

• The Trump Drama Hits Davos. Greenland, tariffs and wobbling markets are the talk of the town at the World Economic Forum ahead of the president’s arrival on Wednesday.
• Big Oil’s Complicated Calculus for Investing in Venezuela. The industry has long prioritized projects with quick and reliable payback. Trump is pushing for a return to risk.
• The New Mayor of Davos. Larry Fink, BlackRock’s chief executive, led an effort to elevate the World Economic Forum next week, the first without the event’s founder, Klaus Schwab.
• A Crypto Revolt Against a Crypto Bill. Legislation to establish a regulatory framework for digital tokens has been thrown into turmoil — by one of its biggest champions.
• Banks Ready Battle Plans to Save Their Credit Card Businesses. “Everything’s on the table,” an executive at JPMorgan Chase said, as the industry seeks to head off President Trump’s effort to cap interest rates.

Economy

• Trump Said He’d Unleash the Economy in Year 1. Here’s How He Did. As a candidate, President Trump pledged to boost the stock market, bring back manufacturing jobs and improve other elements of the economy. A year after his return to office, his record is mixed.
• Has Trump Delivered on His Economic Promises? President Trump made a number of economic promises on the campaign trail. Now that we’re one year into the Trump administration, our chief economics correspondent, Ben Casselman, looks at key economic data to see what Trump was able to accomplish, and where he has so far failed to deliver what he promised.
• Trump Imposes Limited Tariffs on Foreign Semiconductors. The tariffs will allow President Trump to take a cut of Nvidia’s chip sales to China while putting off a decision about imposing higher taxes on the chip industry.
• As Trump Pushes Housing Affordability, His Mortgage Chief Undermines It. Under Bill Pulte, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have pulled away from efforts to help low-income people buy homes.

Energy & Environment

• Edison Files Claims Against Los Angeles County and Others on Eaton Fire. Southern California Edison said its equipment most likely started the Eaton fire but asserted that government agencies and other businesses shared liability for the devastation.
• State and Federal Lawmakers Want Data Centers to Pay More for Energy. Many proposals have been introduced, but there is little consensus among governors, Congress members and tech executives about exactly how much the companies behind data centers should pay for electricity.
• U.S. Refiners to Profit as Trump Asserts Control Over Venezuelan Oil. The companies that turn oil into gasoline and diesel are likely to benefit more, right away, than the businesses that pump oil out of the ground.

Media

• One Month Later, CBS Airs Postponed ‘60 Minutes’ Report With Few Changes. A 13-minute segment about Venezuelan men deported by the Trump administration had been pulled at the last minute by CBS News’s editor in chief, Bari Weiss.
• Top Editor at Axel Springer Is Ousted After Workplace Investigation. Jan Philipp Burgard was one of Axel Springer’s most prominent editors, overseeing its influential German broadsheet Welt.
• Trump’s Campaign Manager Resolves Daily Beast Defamation Suit. As part of the settlement, The Daily Beast was not required to apologize or issue any payment to Chris LaCivita, who sued the outlet last year.
• ‘We’ll Sue’: White House’s Warning to CBS Is Sign of a New Media Status Quo. In previously unreported remarks, the White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told CBS News that Mr. Trump would “sue” the news outlet if it did not air an interview unedited.
• Ted Sarandos Says Critics Just Misunderstand Netflix. The company’s co-chief executive sat down for an extensive interview for the first time since announcing plans to buy Warner Bros. Discovery’s film and TV business.

Your Money

• Trump Administration Delays Forced Collections on Student Loan Defaults. The Education Department has temporarily paused a plan to seize tax refunds and begin garnishing the wages of borrowers who have defaulted on their student loans.
• How to Protect Your Tax Refund if You’ve Defaulted on Your Student Loans. Millions of people are at risk of the government’s seizing their refunds to pay what is owed on student loans.

Technology

• Snap Settles Social Media Addiction Lawsuit Ahead of a Landmark Trial. The settlement means Snap will avoid a trial where plaintiffs had planned to argue that social media platforms are inherently defective and subject to personal injury liability.
• F.T.C. Appeals Loss in Meta Antitrust Case. The agency is aiming to reverse a setback in the government’s campaign to rein in the power of the biggest tech companies.
• An A.I. Start-Up Says It Wants to Empower Workers, Not Replace Them. Founded by researchers from Anthropic, Google and xAI, the new company, Humans&, is already valued at $4.48 billion.
• All Bets Are On: The Rise of Prediction Markets. Billions of dollars are trading hands on sites like Polymarket and Kalshi, where people bet on everything from Taylor Swift’s wedding date to election outcomes.
• OpenAI Starts Testing Ads in ChatGPT. The company said on Friday that it would start serving ads in the free version of its chatbot over the next several weeks.
• Inside the Fight to Keep Iran Online. Activists spent years preparing for a communications blackout in Iran, smuggling in Starlink satellite internet systems and making digital shutdowns harder for the authorities to enforce.
• The Biggest U.S. Crypto Company Asserts Its Power in Washington. The top executive of the crypto exchange Coinbase scuttled a planned Senate committee vote on a major cryptocurrency bill after voicing his concerns, a sign of the company’s clout.
• OpenAI Signs Another Deal With a Computer Chip Maker. The agreement with the start-up Cerebras is the latest in a series intended to expand the A.I. company’s computing power.
• California Investigates Elon Musk’s xAI Over Sexualized Images. The state will examine whether xAI, which owns the social media platform X and created the A.I. chatbot Grok, violated state law.
• Can A.I. Generate New Ideas? Systems like OpenAI’s GPT-5 are accelerating research in math, biology and chemistry. But there is a debate over whether it can do that work on its own.
• 2026 May Be the Year of the Mega I.P.O. If SpaceX, OpenAI and Anthropic go public, they will unleash gushers of cash for Silicon Valley and Wall Street.

Personal Tech

• A.I. Has Arrived in Gmail. Here’s What to Know. Google’s A.I. assistant, Gemini, can create a to-do list based on recent emails, among other new tricks. There are implications for your privacy.

Sports

• Jim Hartung, Gymnast Who Helped Deliver U.S. Gold, Dies at 65. In an upset victory over China at the 1984 Olympics, he and five others became the only American men ever to win the gold medal in the gymnastics team competition.

Baseball

• Wilbur Wood, Ironman Knuckleballer for the White Sox, Is Dead at 84. He threw more innings in a season than any player since 1917. A three-time All-Star, he also had four 20-win seasons.

Obituaries

• Georges Borchardt, 97, Dies; Literary Agent Championed Wiesel’s ‘Night’ Renowned in his field, he counted among his clients five Nobel laureates, including Elie Wiesel, and eight Pulitzer winners as well as the estates of Tennessee Williams and Aldous Huxley.
• David Rosen, 95, Dies; Video Game Visionary and Co-Founder of Sega. He transformed his Japanese photo booth business into a gaming industry game giant that created Mortal Kombat, Sonic the Hedgehog and more.
• Valentino Garavani, Regal Designer and Fashion’s ‘Last Emperor,’ Dies at 93. Valentino, as he was called, created one of the most durable and fashionable labels and became an equal of his high society customers.
• Ralph Towner, Eclectic Guitarist With the Ensemble Oregon, Dies at 85. A composer and pianist as well, he was a prolific recording artist who integrated jazz, classical and world music traditions in a career that spanned seven decades.
• Joe Montgomery, Who Made Bicycles Lighter, Dies at 86. A founder of Cannondale, he was among the first in the U.S. to mass-produce bikes frames out of large-diameter aluminum tubes, replacing heavier steel.
• Joel Primack, Physicist Who Helped Explain the Cosmos, Dies at 80. A professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz, he was a key contributor to a landmark paper that laid out how the universe came to look like it does today.
• Walter Steding, Otherworldly One-Man Band and Portraitist, Is Dead at 75. A self-taught musician, he wore flashing goggles while playing the violin. But his real skill was as a painter, and his portraits offered an eerie commentary on the times.
• Leonard D. Jacoby, 83, Dies; Brought Legal Services to the Masses. He and Steven Z. Meyers opened their first low-cost legal clinic in 1972. Within a decade, they had revolutionized the legal industry.
• John Cunningham, Character Actor and Broadway Stalwart, Dies at 93. He was a familiar face from Broadway productions of “Company,” “Titanic” and “Six Degrees of Separation” and numerous film and TV appearances.
• Frank Dunlop, 98, Dies; Gave British Theater a Free-Spirited Spin. In 1970, he founded London’s Young Vic, an adventurous “people’s theater” — the Who took the stage at one point — before shaking up the Brooklyn Academy of Music.

Africa

• Renfrew Christie Dies at 76; Sabotaged Racist Regime’s Nuclear Program. He played a key role in ending apartheid South Africa’s secret weapons program in the 1980s by helping the African National Congress bomb critical facilities.

Art & Design

• Harvey Pratt, Who Designed the Native American Veterans Memorial, Dies at 84. A self-taught artist, he also spent more than half a century creating forensic sketches and reconstructions for law-enforcement agencies.

Cultura

• Valentino Garavani, diseñador de moda italiano, muere a los 93 años. Valentino, como era conocido, creó una de las marcas más duraderas de la industria de la moda, y se convirtió en un miembro, como sus clientes, de la alta sociedad.

Music

• Rebecca Kilgore, 76, Dies; Acclaimed Interpreter of American Songbook. An elegant jazz singer with adventurous taste, she counted among her fans the performer Michael Feinstein and the songwriter Dave Frishberg, who called her technique “flawless.”
• Jim McBride Dies at 78; Brought Honky-Tonk Back to Country Music. He was best known for his long-running collaboration with Alan Jackson and their signature hit, “Chattahoochee.”

Briefing

• Trump Mocks European Leaders Before Meeting With Them. Also, fewer people are jumping off the Golden Gate Bridge. Here’s the latest at the end of Tuesday.
• Our Man in Caracas. We have a conversation with a Times correspondent who is reporting from Venezuela.
• U.S. Money Makers. We take a look at President Trump’s impact on government spending.
• Can ICE Do That? Times reporters answer readers’ questions about immigration and deportation.
• On James Talarico. The Democratic Senate candidate is campaigning on his faith.
• Prize Fight. In the run-up to the Oscar nominations, a chat with a reporter who has followed every twist and turn of the race.
• Trump Sets Convicted Fraudster Free for a Second Time. Also, the C.I.A. director met Venezuela’s new leader in Caracas. Here’s the latest at the end of Friday.
• Where Scams Come From. We take a look at some remarkable reporting from Myanmar.
• New York Times News Quiz, Jan. 16. 2026. Did you follow the news this week? Take our quiz to see how well you stack up with other Times readers.
• Trump Threatened to Send the Military to Minneapolis. Also, Israel and Arab countries asked the U.S. not to attack Iran. Here’s the latest at the end of Thursday.
• Greenland’s Future. We examine the debate over the Arctic island and what residents are saying.
• The U.S. Moves Personnel Out of Qatar as Tensions Rise With Iran. Also, the U.S. and Denmark clash over Greenland. Here’s the latest at the end of Wednesday.
• Minneapolis’s Limit. We look at how the actions of federal agents in Minneapolis are impacting life in the city.

Podcasts

• Who’s to Blame for Teens’ Social Media Addiction? Jonathan Haidt, author of “The Anxious Generation,” returns to the “Hard Fork” podcast to discuss new research about how social media is harming teens and what it’s been like to become the face of a global movement against the platforms.
• A$AP Rocky on How Rihanna Changed His Life. In an exclusive sit-down, A$AP Rocky discussed the release of “Don’t Be Dumb,” his first new album in eight years, plus settling down with his “boo” Rihanna, life as a family man, his forays into Hollywood, influence on rapper fashion and much more.
• A$AP Rocky Clears the Air on His New Drake Diss. The musician and actor A$AP Rocky sat down with Jon Caramanica and Joe Coscarelli, the hosts of “Popcast” at The New York Times, to discuss a new song that fans speculate is aimed at the rapper and pop star Drake.
• ‘Heated Rivalry’ Is More Than Just Sex. “Heated Rivalry,” the Canadian drama about a hot-and-heavy romance between two closeted pro hockey players, has become a surprise hit, particularly with women. Wesley Morris explores why the show has been getting so much buzz.
• Jonathan Haidt Brings New Evidence to the Battle Against Social Media. The author of “The Anxious Generation” shares his latest research about the harms social media is doing to children.
• 2hollis Is Too Famous to Go Online Now. On a new episode of “Popcast,” the rising alt-pop star 2Hollis spoke to Jon Caramanica and Joe Coscarelli about his experience with the internet and limiting his social media use.
• 2hollis on Losing His Childhood Home in the L.A. Fires. One year after the Los Angeles fires, 2hollis talks about losing his childhood home in Altadena last year.
• 2hollis’s Dad Always Knew He’d Be a Star. Alt-pop star 2hollis’s dad, John Herndon, the drummer for Tortoise, always knew his son was going to be a star. They joined Jon Caramanica and Joe Coscarelli, hosts of “Popcast,” to discuss 2hollis’s career.
• 2hollis Addresses the ‘Nepo Baby’ Label. On a new episode of “Popcast,” the rising alt-pop star 2Hollis spoke to Jon Caramanica and Joe Coscarelli and ... his dad, the drummer for the veteran Chicago rock band Tortoise, to address accusations that his parents’ careers in music are responsible for his own success.
• Romeo Santos Brought English Speaking Artists Toward Bachata. Romeo Santos and Prince Royce linked up with “Popcast” to discuss the ways that earlier bachata collaborations with artists like Usher and Drake predicted how “Despacito” and Bad Bunny would bring English-language artists toward Latin music.
• Jonathan Haidt Strikes Again + What You Vibecoded + An Update on the Forkiverse. “If we can’t win on social media, then we definitely can’t win on A.I.,” says Haidt.
• Why ASAP Rocky’s New Album Took So Long. The musician and actor A$AP Rocky sat down with Jon Caramanica and Joe Coscarelli, the hosts of “Popcast” at The New York Times, to discuss the release of his first album in eight years.
• Romeo Santos Reminisces About His Drake Shoutout. Romeo Santos sat down on the “Popcast” couch and recalled when Drake referenced Aventura on “The Motto” and the collaboration that followed.
• George Saunders on People, Kindness and Evil. In 2013, the author George Saunders gave a speech extolling the importance of kindness that went viral and became a best-selling book. He returned to questions about kindness and human behavior on “The Interview.”
• Why George Saunders Is Not Worried About Death. “Vigil,” the latest novel by George Saunders, follows an oil tycoon on his deathbed. On “The Interview,” Mr. Saunders discussed how death can bring clarity to life.
• Inside an Exploding Marriage: Belle Burden in Her Own Words. After 20 years, Belle Burden’s picture-perfect marriage came crashing down when her husband suddenly walked away.

The Daily

• Trump 2.0: A Year of Unconstrained Power. A round-table discussion of President Trump’s first year back in office.
• The Sunday Daily: Hollywood’s A.I. Moment. Artificial intelligence meets the entertainment industry: What could possibly go wrong?
• An I.V.F. Mix-Up and an Impossible Choice. Two couples in California discovered they were raising each other’s genetic children. Should they switch their girls?
• Trump’s D.O.J. Went After the Fed. It Backfired. The Justice Department’s probe into whether Jerome H. Powell, the Fed chair, lied about renovations to the central bank’s headquarters has raised alarm.
• Iran on the Brink. The government appears to be waging one of its deadliest crackdowns in years against protests that have broadened into a mass movement.

The Headlines

• One Year in Trump’s America, and the Fed’s Big Moment at the Supreme Court. Plus, the struggle to finish a major Olympic arena.
• Trump’s New Greenland Threat Outrages Allies, and China’s Birthrate Plunges. Plus, chimney sweeps are making a comeback.
• ‘The Headlines’ News Quiz: Jan. 16, 2026. Following the news? Tracy Mumford has some questions for you.
• Trump Threatens to Invoke Insurrection Act, and Grocery Prices Keep Going Up. Plus, your Friday news quiz.
• Federal Agent Shoots and Injures Man in Minneapolis, and F.B.I. Searches Reporter’s Home. Plus, a space station evacuation.
• Prosecutors Resign Over ICE Investigation, and Israel Is Still Demolishing Gaza. Plus, the battle over taxing billionaires.

Science

• Life Resembles ‘The Addams Family’ With Thing-Like Robotic Hand. The very capable robotic picker-upper can grasp things on both sides and roam around freely.
• Infinite Pancakes, Anyone? A team of mathematicians seeks to cut an infinitely large pancake into as many pieces as possible, in a new take on an old puzzle.
• Nature’s Super Feather. Filoplumes may be tiny, but these hairlike feathers enable nonstop flights that span thousands of miles.
• Do Cows Use Tools? This One Does. A pet cow named Veronika can scratch her own back with a broom — the first scientifically documented case of tool use in cows, researchers say.
• NASA’s Giant Rocket Begins Slow Roll Toward Artemis II Moon Voyage. The Space Launch System and Orion capsule are being transported to the launchpad before an astronaut mission that could launch as soon as Feb. 6.
• If the Volcanic Eruption Doesn’t Scare You, the Mudflow Should. Studying tree rings helped scientists pinpoint when Mount Rainier last sent a lahar down its steep slopes, which could help planners anticipate future mudflows.
• For the World’s Food Supply, Federal Funding Cuts Have Long-Term Impacts. The U.S. Agency for International Development has been a major supporter of global agriculture research. Now many studies are being scuttled or scaled back.
• Who is left on the International Space Station?
• How NASA deals with astronauts’ medical needs on the I.S.S.
• What happens during the astronauts’ return to Earth?
• Is it risky to fly a sick astronaut home to Earth?
• Here’s what to know.
• NASA Begins Space Station Medical Evacuation: How to Watch. Four astronauts have closed their spacecraft hatch and are leaving the outpost about a month earlier than scheduled because a crew member, who was not identified, has an undisclosed medical issue.
• What a Wolf Pup’s Stomach Revealed About the Woolly Rhino’s Extinction. Scientists prepared a high-quality sequence of the giant mammal’s genome based on a specimen preserved in Siberian permafrost.
• Toby Kiers, World Champion of Fungus. This year’s recipient of the Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement talks about “punk science,” microbial economics and thinking like a mycorrhizal fungus.

Space & Cosmos

• Four Astronauts Splash Down on Earth After Early Return. Two American astronauts and others from Japan and Russia landed in the Pacific Ocean after an early journey home from the International Space Station because one of them was ill.

Climate

• All Sides Agreed on Shutting a Coal Plant. Then Trump Stepped In. The administration has thrown into chaos a deal that Washington State worked out with local leaders, environmentalists and industry.
• At last, the team pitches tents on the Thwaites Glacier.
• Skies Clear, and a New Outpost Springs Up at the Bottom of the World. Low clouds have lifted long enough for helicopters to ferry scientists and their gear to a fast-melting glacier on the edge of Antarctica.
• Democrats Seek Investigation of $3.5 Million Deal by Interior Official’s Husband. Records show that Karen Budd-Falen, a top Interior Department official, didn’t disclose a contract between her husband and the developers of a mine approved by the agency.
• Explore a century of Times’s reporting from Antarctica.
• From Seal Meat to Ice Sheets: A Century of Reporting From Antarctica. Generations of Times journalists have journeyed there with scientists. Their coverage traces humankind’s changing relationship with the most mysterious continent.
• A Century of The New York Times in Antarctica. Our climate reporter Raymond Zhong takes a trip into the New York Times archives to see how our understanding of Antarctica has changed over the past century.
• Kristina Gjerde, Advocate for Ocean Biodiversity, Dies at 68. She played a key role in negotiating a landmark United Nations treaty to protect the high seas, an agreement that went into effect this weekend.
• World’s First Treaty to Protect the High Seas Becomes Law. Over two decades after negotiations began, the High Seas Treaty is designed to protect biodiversity in international waters enabling countries to create special conservation zones.
• How Wall Street Turned Its Back on Climate Change. Six years after the financial industry pledged to use trillions to fight climate change and reshape finance, its efforts have largely collapsed.
• Sailing Through a ‘Death Trap’ Once Covered by Antarctic Ice. Part of Pine Island Glacier collapsed several years ago, forming an unstable inlet where no ship had sailed. Until now.
• Supreme Court to Decide if the Pesticide Roundup Is Shielded From Lawsuits. The case could affect thousands of claims that the widely used weedkiller causes cancer.
• Judge in Virginia Hands Trump 3rd Setback This Week on Wind Farms. Construction can continue on an $11.2 billion project off the coast of Virginia, said to be 70 percent complete.
• Preparing to drill into a glacier.
• Trump Wants to Halt Almost All Coal Plant Shutdowns. It Could Get Messy. Even as administration officials vowed this week to head off scheduled retirements, some aging plants are now breaking, and costs could run to the billions.
• The Cities That Broke Heat Records Last Year. Thousands of cities around the world saw their hottest year on record in 2025 as the planet has inched closer to a key temperature threshold.
• The Sounds of Antarctica? Flying in the Cold? Your Questions, Answered. Is it hard to fly a helicopter in the Antarctic cold? What do penguins sound like? How about the instruments designed to test the waters below the Thwaites Glacier? Our climate reporter Raymond Zhong finds some answers to viewer questions.
• In a Setback for Trump, Judge Says N.Y. Wind Farm Can Resume Construction. A federal judge said the Empire Wind project off Long Island would suffer “irreparable harm” if the Trump administration continued to hold up work.
• How One Company Is Pushing a Private Takeover of Flood Insurance. For half a century, a federal program has covered most at-risk properties. Now, a private company is pitching a plan to shrink the government’s role.
• A Look At Antarctica From Above. After nearly two weeks at sea without being able to launch his drone, New York Times photographer Chang W. Lee finally captures Antarctica from the air.
• Walking Off Into a Universe of White. Bad weather has postponed attempts to set up camp on the Thwaites Glacier. So researchers got onto the sea ice and met a local.

The Upshot

• How Trump Is Talking Differently in His Second Term. He’s speaking far more words in public than in 2017, but much less about Obamacare and much more about foreign countries.
• Flashback: Your Weekly History Quiz, Jan. 17, 2026. Can you sort 8 historical events?
• Where Did All the American-Born Roofers Go? The real story of how immigrant labor came to define the construction industry.

Opinion

• Trump Wanted a Nobel. Now It’s Greenland. Readers respond to news articles about President Trump’s threat to take over Greenland. Also: Minnesota prosecutors’ resignations; Holocaust generations.
• The Troubling and Paradoxical Nature of Christian Nationalism. Readers respond to an Opinion guest essay by Molly Worthen and reflect on church, state and American politics. Also: After a therapist dies.
• No, Trump Can’t Cancel the Midterms. Despite how much the president talks about canceling the 2026 midterms, the columnist Jamelle Bouie explains why he can’t on this episode of “The Opinions.”
• MAGA After Trump. The president’s approval rating is a misleading signal, argues the columnist David French on “The Opinions.” Without Trump on the ballot, midterm elections will expose the true strength — or weakness — of MAGA politics.
• In Search of Love and Meaning in a Changing World. Readers respond to a column by David Brooks.
• The Underachiever in Chief? How much has Trump actually accomplished one year into his second term? According to the conservative analyst Yuval Levin, not much.
• Conservative Politics Can’t Just Be About Hate. Politics in America has taken an ugly turn, the conservative analyst Yuval Levin says on “The Ezra Klein Show,” arguing it has become too influenced by fear.
• The High Cost of ICE’s Low Standards. By doubling its force while slashing training time, ICE has scaled up its culture of violence into an unrestrained and unaccountable machine.
• How to Train Citizens to Observe ICE. What does training to document ICE actions look like? On “Interesting Times,” one activist explains how his Minneapolis-based nonprofit teaches citizens to be constitutional observers.
• What Kind of Immigration Enforcement Is Legitimate? As ICE’s approach to immigration enforcement faces mounting criticism, Ross Douthat, the host of “Interesting Times,” asks the Minneapolis activist Francisco Segovia what legitimate immigration enforcement might look like.
• Dear America, Greenland Is Not on Zillow. Trump wants Greenland? Its previous colonizer has some thoughts.
• Trump’s New Military Threat to Minnesota. Readers react to the unrest in Minnesota. Also: Parallels to the past; the Nobel Peace Prize medal; nuclear power; Bob Weir and the Grateful Dead.
• ICE Is Losing the Political Battle. “When I look at the ICE operation in Minnesota,” says the Opinion columnist Jamelle Bouie, “I see a White House that is panicking and that is losing.”
• The Geopolitics of Greenland and NATO. Readers respond to articles about the U.S. threats against Greenland. Also: A woman’s aging face.
• The People of Iran Deserve the World’s Support. The protest movement represents the best hope for a government that does less damage in the world and better serves its own citizens.
• American Citizens Are Living in Fear. Readers share their anxieties over the aggressive tactics of ICE agents. Also: Undermining the Fed’s stability; one reader’s Trump quiz.
• These 11 Republican Trump Voters Love the Venezuela Action, but Greenland …. The group discusses the economy, immigration, President Trump’s recent actions in Venezuela and more.

Editorials

• How Much Can One Man Make From Being President? The president took an oath to serve the American people. Instead, he’s focused his second term on enriching himself and his family.
• For Trump, Justice Means Vengeance. One year into the president’s second term, America risks losing a central feature of our democracy: that we are a country ruled by laws, not by the whims of one man.

Letters

• When Indian Americans Feel Unwelcome. Readers discuss a column by Lydia Polgreen about how Indians are rethinking migration to America.

Op-Ed

• Europe Has a Bazooka. Time to Use It. For now, Europe’s anti-coercion instrument is less a bazooka than a waterlogged firecracker.
• Trump’s Politics Are Not America First. They’re Me First. Donald Trump is the most un-American president in our history. And in his second term, there is no one to constrain his un-American impulses.
• Trumpism Is Doomed Without Restraint. The president needs counterforces to save him from himself.
• Valentino Was the Last of Fashion’s Old Guard. For Mr. Garavani, beauty was not so much an antidote to the trials and stresses of life but something akin to a value system.
• There’s Much More at Stake in the Fed Case Than Interest Rates. Will the president will be able to escape one of the central constraints on executive power in our constitutional system?
• ‘This Is Trump’s Goon Squad, for Christ’s Sake’ Who will watch the watchmen?
• Bach Doesn’t Need a Glow-Up. Concert halls and symphony orchestras try to lure younger listeners by mutilating the music. There’s a better way.
• Trump Is the Ultimate Davos Man. The annual conference for the elite, like everything else, is changing.
• To Beat White Identity Politics, End Democratic Racial Politics. The way Democrats invoke race in politics is making it difficult to face off with an increasingly white nationalist G.O.P.
• This Is Why Our Rivers Are Turning Into Sewers. The solution to pollution from industrial livestock farms is not to ban them or even to restrict their size. It’s to regulate them.
• Why Independent Voters Are Not Necessarily Moderate. These days, the label “independent” does not necessarily signify moderation or centrism.
• Donald Trump’s Middle Finger. The president doesn’t have ideals. Just enemies.
• Trump’s Spectacle of Cruelty in Minneapolis. Minneapolis stands in defiance to Trump’s dark vision of America.
• Americans Are Turning Against Gay People. We seem to be in a new era of anti-gay prejudice.
• Don’t Harm the Country We Call Home. Greenland is an ally of the United States.
• How the American Legal Profession Can Regain Its Dignity. We are stronger when we act together.
• Stop Worrying, and Let A.I. Help Save Your Life. A.I. isn’t perfect, but it doesn’t have to be to improve medicine.
• I’m the Secretary General of the Council of Europe. This Is Something I Thought I’d Never Have to Write. International law is either universal or meaningless. Greenland will show which one we choose.
• Trump is Obsessed With Oil. But Chinese Batteries Will Soon Run the World. China isn’t just building gigantic amounts of power. Its businesses are reshaping technological foundations to electrify the world.
• An Old Theory Helps Explain What Happened to Renee Good. She had no way of knowing she had crossed a line.
• Lula: This Hemisphere Belongs to All of Us. Only together can we overcome the challenges that afflict a hemisphere that belongs to all of us.
• The Message in Renee Good’s Last Words. The ICE agent who shot Renee Good did not seem to hear what she was really saying.
• Trump’s Greenland Threats Will Boomerang on America. A territorial grab by the United States would mean the end of NATO.
• Local Newspapers Are Closing. Local News Is Surviving. Local print media is in a death spiral. Nonprofit journalism start-ups show how journalists can still do essential work.
• Martin Luther King’s Son: ‘Justice Demands Endurance’ Martin Luther King’s son and Norm Ornstein, a leading scholar of voting rights, discuss a case that could hollow out the Voting Rights Act.
• ‘Landman’ Isn’t Just Oil Industry Propaganda. The show does far more to criticize the oil and gas industry than it does to bolster it.
• One Year of Trump. The Time to Act Is Now, While We Still Can. The United States is broken, but not in every way.
• This Is the Only Card Trump Can Play. Minneapolis in 2026 is starting to look like Boston in the 1770s.
• Behold Donald of Deliria! Trump, sinking into the quicksand of imperialism.
• How War With China Begins. Even more likely than an all-out invasion of Taiwan may be “gray zone” pressures, such as cutting internet cables.
• Will 2026 Be the Year Voters Pull the Emergency Brake? The midterms will be a battle for control of Trump’s legacy.
• Trump’s Second Term Has Ended the Conservative Era. The right’s future is all about American nationalism.
• You’re Never Too Young to Love the Grateful Dead. I was interested in the lost world this music conjured, a world of teenagers like my aunts who had left home young and hit the road.
• By Raiding a Reporter’s Home, Is the F.B.I. Weaponizing National Security? Knowing what the government is up to is essential for democracy to work.
• ‘Dilbert’ Was Always MAGA. My visit with Scott Adams, who anticipated Donald Trump with his comic strip.
• This Is How Your Mind Works. Our thoughts are an ever-changing swirl of fears, feelings, desires, impulses, memories and body sensations that interact to form a single mind.
• Minneapolis Feels ‘Like Being in a Civil War’ Documenting ICE is dangerous. This man wants you to do it anyway.
• The Right Wants ICE to Crush the Wine Mom Insurgency. In the MAGA imagination, white women are supposed to be helpmeets, not harpies.
• Has Trump Achieved a Lot Less Than It Seems? The conservative political analyst Yuval Levin gives Ezra Klein his review of Trump’s first year back in office.
• Iran’s Regime Is Losing Its Greatest Weapon: Fear. The bulwark of Iranian oppression is fear. The latest round of demonstrations shows it has been breached.
• Hope and Fear Mingle in Cuba With the Loss of Maduro, and Oil. The electricity may go off, but islanders see a glimmer of hope in Maduro’s departure.
• Something Is Rotten in the State of America. This is the thanks Demark gets?
• The Gaudy, Nasty Fictions of Donald J. Trump. This is neither law nor order, and the consequences can be deadly.
• We Are the Bystanders This Time. I used to think Americans were different from Germans.
• ‘Bad, Bad News for the G.O.P. Over the Long Haul’: 2 Opinion Writers on the Trump G.O.P. The general sense of the world being chaotic does not necessarily help Trump.
• The One Place Presidents Turn in Moments of Chaos and Uncertainty. For presidents of both parties, Latin America has served as a wellspring of perpetual reinvention and the source of much of their ideological creativity.
• Democrats Will Lose in 2028 Unless They Change Course Now. Despite the successes of 2025, the party still needs a radical shake up.
• Renee Good’s Family Should Be Able to Sue the Officer Who Killed Her. An ICE killing in Minneapolis can be the impetus for finally closing a gaping hole in our constitutional protections.
• Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Unhappiness. One reason for the toxicity of American politics may be that our quality of life is slipping behind our peers’.
• Forget Trump’s Tariffs. The Real Danger Lies in China’s Trade Surplus. China has announced a more than trillion-dollar trade surplus that poses a greater danger to world commerce than Trump’s tariffs.
• ICE Is Waging War on Blue Cities. Will the agency’s brutality and capriciousness create blowback?
• Public Shame Is the Most Effective Tool for Battling Big Tech. Our federal government won’t regulate fast enough (or at all), but that doesn’t mean regular Americans are helpless.
• This Is Not How a Normal President Speaks. The president’s assertion of unlimited authority is a total rejection of popular sovereignty and the logic of the Constitution.
• What Comes Next for Venezuela — and Who Decides? A Venezuelan economist weighs in on the role of Trump, oil and the sidelining of the Nobel Prize-winning opposition leader María Corina Machado.
• $25 Billion. That’s What Trump Cost Detroit. The president’s hostility to E.V.s is hurting U.S. automakers.

Opinion | Culture

• The Buffalo Bills Will Break Your Heart. My hometown needs a win.

Opinion | Politics

• Suddenly, Alaska Is in Play. Mary Peltola’s entry into the Alaska Senate race is a building block in an electoral strategy Democrats have been working on for months.

Arts

• The Secretive V.I.P. Programs That Keep Gamers Spending. Lucrative players of games like FarmVille and Words With Friends get personal account managers and entries to exclusive sweepstakes.
• As Kennedy Center Rebrands, It’s Mired in Black Tape. After the institution’s board declared it the Trump Kennedy Center, a lot of signage around the building is in the midst of a makeover.
• After an Earthquake, Preserving a Slow Craft in a Fast World. In Wajima, Japan, where hundreds of homes and studios were destroyed, master-class artisans are struggling to keep lacquer alive and nurture the next generation of creators.
• Humanities Endowment Awarding Millions to Western Civilization Programs. The National Endowment for the Humanities is giving more than $40 million to programs that have been embraced by conservatives as a counterweight to liberal-dominated academia.
• He Survived Dachau. He Captured Its Horrors on Paper the Next Day. When Brian Stonehouse, a British spy posing as an artist, was freed from the concentration camp, he made drawings to document what he had witnessed.
• In Letters to a Friend, Harper Lee Expanded on Her View of the South. In decades of correspondence, the author gave her friend, JoBeth McDaniel, a mix of opinions, advice on writing and insight into the impact of the Civil Rights movement.
• Can the American Oboe Be Revived? As demand for classical instruments has waned over the years, one man is determined to keep producing the oboe. Jim Phelan, the owner of the A. Laubin oboe company, has developed a new material to build his oboes from and hopes that will help people to keep playing the instrument for years to come.

Art & Design

• Now Boarding the Freedom Plane: Precious Founding-Era Documents. The plane, organized by the National Archives, will take rare 18th-century documents around the country in a tour loosely inspired by the Bicentennial’s Freedom Train.
• President Trump’s Chosen Artist? A Christian Speed Painter. Vanessa Horabuena has painted presidential portraits and Jesus for Mr. Trump, and this month, he sold one of her paintings for $2.75 million in a charity auction.
• A ‘Weird, Wonderful’ Night at the ‘Rocky Horror Picture Show’ City Winery’s 50th anniversary screening of the film encouraged some inventive dress up, including tributes to fan favorites like Rocky and Dr. Frank-N-Furter.
• Met Museum Employees Vote to Unionize. The bargaining unit, which includes curatorial, conservation and retail departments, could represent about half of the Met’s work force.
• White Lies, Inner Truth: The Contradictions of Henri Rousseau. His naïve style landed him outside the firmament, but his painterly innocence was more seductive — and intentional — than many critics appreciated.
• Trisha Donnelly’s Mysteries. The artist isn’t known for her drawings, but in a new show these cryptic, sometimes unsettling works speak volumes.

Dance

• How a Shoe Invented by a Dancer Might Be a Game Changer. Ballet evolves slowly, and that includes footwear. But a new shoe with sneaker technology is giving dancers support from the heel up.
• Martha Graham Dance Company Won’t Celebrate Centennial at Kennedy Center. The oldest dance troupe in the United States decided not to perform at the Washington venue during its nationwide tour.
• Review: These Kings of Dance Get Their Marching Orders From Women. “Sons of Echo,” in which standout male dancers perform work by women, proves that male choreographers don’t have a monopoly on bad taste.

Music

• Despite Drastic Financial Steps, Met Opera Turns to Layoffs and Cuts. The largest performing arts organization in the country will lay off workers, cut salaries and reduce its offerings. It may also sell its Chagall murals that are valued at $55 million.
• 10 Gloriously Nonsensical Songs of Pop Gibberish. “Sussudio,” “Di Doo Dah,” “Da Doo Ron Ron” and more.
• The World’s Reigning Carmen Breaks Down Her Signature Aria. Aigul Akhmetshina, performing now at the Met, shares her thoughts on what it takes to bring the famous Habanera to life.
• This Charming Raconteur Is Paris Opera’s Next Music Director. Semyon Bychkov will soon take up the most prestigious post of his long, varied career. Collaborating with Ralph Fiennes on “Eugene Onegin,” he gives a taste of things to come.
• How the Cleveland Orchestra Stays at the Top of Classical Music. Our critic tracked one concert, from its first rehearsals to its first performance. Practice is only part of what makes this ensemble excellent.
• ‘An Unbelievable Mess’: Artists Are Stymied by Trump Travel Bans. Musicians, theater groups and others from overseas are facing visa challenges and rising costs, posing a looming crisis for the performing arts sector.
• Springsteen Denounces ICE Deployments and Renee Good’s Killing. In a surprise appearance in New Jersey, the musician dedicated his song “The Promised Land” to Ms. Good, who was killed by an ICE agent in Minneapolis this month.
• Rhoda Levine, Pathbreaking Opera Director, Dies at 93. Starting out in the 1970s as a rare woman in a field dominated by men, she directed the premieres of a pair of politically charged modern classics.
• 8 Songs We’re Talking About This Week. Mitski and Flea have new albums on the way, and a classic Prince track is surging on the singles chart thanks to “Stranger Things.”
• Viva the Absurd: ‘What to Wear’ and a Wave of Opera Surrealism. Michael Gordon and Richard Foreman’s “What to Wear” at BAM is a visually rich, textually odd work — and a hot commodity.
• Julio Iglesias Denies Sexual Abuse Claims by Former Employees. The singer called the accusations “completely false” in a statement released after Spanish prosecutors said they would investigate.
• Washington National Opera Finds a Stage Outside the Kennedy Center. Spring performances of “Treemonisha” and “The Crucible” will be held at George Washington University.
• ASAP Rocky Grew Up, Settled Down (with Rihanna) and Returned to Rap. The artist reflects on how the chaotic eight years since his last release — including three kids and two trials — led to his latest album, “Don’t Be Dumb.”
• Bob Weir Is Gone, but the Dead’s Music Plays On. A concert honoring the Grateful Dead guitarist showed the durability of the band’s music and culture, even as its members dwindle.
• As Megadeth Counts Down to Extinction, Dave Mustaine Opens Up. The heavy metal pioneer known for his lightning-fast shredding and snarling vocal style is going out his way, with a final album and tour.
• Applying Richard Foreman’s Off-Kilter Aesthetic (and Ducks) to Opera. The composer Michael Gordon collaborated with Foreman on “What to Wear” in 2006. The opera makes its belated New York premiere at BAM on Thursday.
• Want Your MTV? A Rogue Site Is Bringing Back the Videos. The unofficial website MTV Rewind has recreated the channel’s classic era, pulling in thousands of clips. Its developer says it’s an antidote to the algorithms.
• Can the American Oboe Sing Again? Building the instrument is hard enough. Turning a profit is a killer. But Jim Phelan is bent on reviving one of the great names in classical music.

Television

• Late Night Cringes Over Trump’s Texting Spree. Jimmy Kimmel quipped that the president “can do so much damage in one three-day weekend — I don’t know if anybody has ever done more.”
• ‘Mel Brooks: The 99 Year Old Man!’ Is a Funny, Bittersweet Tribute. Co-directed by Judd Apatow, the two-part HBO series is an exhaustive look at Brooks’s life and comedy. It is also about longevity and loneliness.
• On ‘Late Night,’ in the Club and at the Gym: ‘Heated Rivalry’ Is Everywhere. The breakout show about two hockey players in love has gone from a TV hit to IRL social sensation.
• Rewatching ‘Mad Men’ From the Outskirts. The series was known for its sharp scripting, artful acting and attentive wardrobe and set design. But it brought little of that meticulousness to its Black characters.
• Jimmy Fallon Teases Trump Over Secondhand Prize. The “Tonight Show” host joked that President Trump hung his new Nobel Prize on the wall “right next to his McDonald’s customer of the month plaque.”
• ‘Finding Her Edge,’ Plus 8 Things to Watch on TV This Week. Another ice-skating romance premieres, and a reboot of “Star Search” comes to Netflix.
• ‘A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms’ Season 1 Premiere Recap: A Tall Tale. The latest and most humorous offering in the “Game of Thrones” universe follows the hulking, lovable Ser Duncan, who may or may not be a real knight.
• On ‘S.N.L.,’ Trump Recaps His Recent ‘Legal-ish’ Activities. The first episode of 2026, hosted by Finn Wolfhard of “Stranger Things,” satirized that hit Netflix series and conjured a Harry Potter reboot à la “Heated Rivalry.”
• ‘S.N.L.’ Hasn’t Produced a Superstar in a While. Could It Be Marcello Hernández? The comic’s new special, “American Boy,” shows that he has the leading-man charisma and hunger. His career will be interesting to watch.
• ‘A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms’ Review: Go Westeros, Young Man. A lighter story about an itinerant sword-swinger cuts “Game of Thrones” down to small pleasures.
• Rebecca Hall Is OK With Her Cats Waking Her at All Hours. “I find it weird when I go away and there are no noises of someone knocking over something or munching at the cat food or playing with a toy at 3 a.m. annoyingly keeping you up.”
• It’s ‘Game of Thrones.’ Just Not as You Know It. With no dragons and no warring dynasties, HBO’s “A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms” is the first test of whether the “Thrones” formula works on a human scale.
• Seth Meyers Never Guessed Trump Was Such a Milk Fan. The “Late Night” host said there was no way President Trump drank milk, “unless someone tricked you into thinking your Diet Coke came from a cow.”
• ‘The Pitt’ Season 2, Episode 2 Recap: Dirty Work. Viewers got extra intimate this week with the hard physical realities of life in the emergency ward.
• ‘Riot Women’ Review: Women of a Certain Rage. There’s much more to Sally Wainwright’s series about middle-aged punk rockers than the music.
• Holly Hunter Reaches for the Stars. In “Star Trek: Starfleet Academy,” she got to play a few things she never had in her varied career: a space captain and a woman over 400 years old.
• Colbert Jokes That Trump Has Found ‘a New National Bird’ “You got to hand it to that auto worker for getting under Trump’s skin,” Stephen Colbert said after the president appeared to flip off a heckling worker at a Ford plant.
• Tony Dokoupil’s Road Trip on CBS News Hits a Rough Patch. A stretch of big news revealed growing pains for CBS’s new evening anchor and problems with its Bari Weiss-era philosophy.

Theater

• ‘Masquerade’ Reimagined ‘Phantom,’ and the Fans Are Flocking. The immersive adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical is a hit, with some people coming back a dozen times since it began performances last summer.
• Tina Packer, Powerhouse of Shakespeare Performance, Dies at 87. She was a founder and the longtime artistic director of Shakespeare & Company, a repertory theater in western Massachusetts, and directed all his plays.
• How a Play Skewering Modern Russia Evaded a Crackdown to Become a Hit. Everyone expected “The Kholops,” a drama exploring oppression, to be shut down soon after it opened in St. Petersburg. Instead, it is two years into a sold-out run.
• ‘The Disappear’ Review: A Couple on the Rocks and Out of Sync. Erica Schmidt’s discordant comedy, starring Hamish Linklater and Miriam Silverman, is a farce clumsily straddling two genres.
• Cambridge Was a Culture Shock. She’s Getting the Last Laugh. Jade Franks mines the awkwardness of social mobility in her one-woman show “Eat the Rich.”
• Tessa Thompson in ‘Hedda,’ and More Theater to Stream. Other picks include “Bat Out of Hell: The Musical,” a new season of Playing on Air podcasts and “Lazarus,” featuring the music of David Bowie.
• Alicia Keys Says ‘Hell’s Kitchen’ Will End Broadway Run and Open Overseas. Though the show will close in New York next month, a North American tour will continue, and productions in Australia, Germany and South Korea are planned.

Books

• What Kind of Lover Are You? This Poem Might Have the Answer. William Blake’s “The Clod & the Pebble” is a dialogue on tenderness and cruelty in three short stanzas. Read it with our critic A.O. Scott, and then play a game to memorize it.
• Love ‘Heated Rivalry’? Read These Romance Novels Next. Steamy love stories starring athletes and top-notch yearners will tide you over until your next trip to the cottage.

Book Review

• Do You Know These Book Titles Inspired by Shakespeare? See how many novels you can connect with phrases from the plays of William Shakespeare.
• 2 Women, 4 Cats and 1 Home in a Best-Selling Korean Memoir. In “Two Women Living Together,” the authors reflect on the joys of platonic cohabitation.
• The Subway Vigilante Who Never Left Is Back. Two new books return to the ’80s-era saga of Bernie Goetz to consider the 21st-century intersections of race, crime and sensationalism.
• There’s More to Her Story Than Salman Rushdie. In “The Flower Bearers,” Rachel Eliza Griffiths addresses her starry, tragedy-marred marriage but also a life steeped in art, poetry and deep friendships.
• Leaving Home Can Be Both Thrilling and Lonely. That’s the Point. In Emanuela Anechoum’s novel, “Tangerinn,” an Italian Moroccan woman examines her family’s legacy of immigration, and tries to find a place in the world.
• This Novel About a Sister’s Grief Skips the Five Stages. “Eating Ashes,” by Brenda Navarro, dispenses with familiar portrayals of mourning in a tale of migration, loss and memory.
• This Dark Little Novel Should Be Wes Anderson’s Next Movie. In her debut, Angela Tomaski puts a quirky spin on Gothic storytelling.
• A Briny Englishman (and Booker Prize Winner) Says Farewell. Julian Barnes writes about illness and love in “Departure(s),” which he claims is his last novel.
• He Put Dr. Seuss, Ayn Rand and ‘Ulysses’ on Your Bookshelves. In “Nothing Random,” her rousing biography of Bennett Cerf, Gayle Feldman conjures an era when a glamorous publishing figure could be a household name.
• She Knows It’s Wrong, but She’s Still Hot for Teacher. Jennette McCurdy follows “I’m Glad My Mom Died” with “Half His Age,” a debut novel that confirms her gift as a chronicler of disaffected girlhood.
• Jennette McCurdy Wants to See You Squirm. The author of the memoir “I’m Glad My Mom Died” hopes her debut novel, about a teen’s sexual relationship with her teacher, will make readers uncomfortable.
• For These Struggling Teenagers, Rock Climbing Is More Than a Sport. Gabriel Tallent’s new book, “Crux,” is a rowdy and poignant novel about two high school seniors trying to transcend the hard circumstances of their lives.
• One Thousand and One Nights, and One Tumultuous Year. In her new book, Jeanette Winterson attempts to frame modern-day issues within a classic storytelling text.
• The Books We’re Looking Forward to This Winter. Three Book Review editors on what titles they’re most excited about this winter.
• Jeff Kinney’s Favorite Funny Books for Young Readers. The author of the “Diary of a Wimpy Kid” series shares a handful of titles that have helped shape his sense of humor.
• The Dirty Truth About Your Clean-Energy Car. In a new book, Nicolas Niarchos traces the mineral supply chain for lithium-ion batteries, exposing their considerable human and environmental costs.
• 6 Books We Love This Week. Reading recommendations from critics and editors at The New York Times.
• Why Trump Always Thanks You ‘For Your Attention to This Matter’ How a simple catchphrase sums up the president’s theory of executive power.
• A Blockbuster Memoirist Returns to China, and the Mother Who Shaped Her. Jung Chang’s 1991 memoir, “Wild Swans,” sold millions. Its follow-up delves further into a complex personal and political history.
• Laura Dave Rereads Nora Ephron’s ‘Heartburn’ Every Year. “It’s my comfort book,” she says of the comic novel about a busted marriage. Her own new thriller is a sequel to “The Last Thing He Told Me.”
• A Retelling of ‘Moby-Dick,’ With a Young Woman at Its Center. “Call Me Ishmaelle,” by Xiaolu Guo, audaciously revises Herman Melville’s American classic.
• Why Does This Teenager Hate His Mother So Much? A complicated mother-son relationship reaches a turning point in this coming-of-age novel.

Movies

• Predicting the 2026 Oscar Nominations: Who’s In? Who’s Out? “Sinners” and “One Battle After Another” could set a record. Expect them to be up for best picture with “Hamnet,” “Frankenstein” and “Marty Supreme.”
• ‘Roofman,’ ‘While We’re Young’ and More Streaming Gems. This month’s guide to the under-the-radar movies of your subscription services includes unconventional romantic comedies and vibrant indie dramas.
• ‘Sentimental Value’ Dominates the European Film Awards. The Norwegian drama collected six awards at the event, which was moved to January this year in hopes of increasing its visibility for Oscar voters.
• One Actor, Two Bloodthirsty Villains. In Jack O’Connell’s hands, the vampire of “Sinners” and the cult leader of “28 Years Later: The Bone Temple” are vicious in very different ways.
• Photographing the Golden Globes Winners. Chantal Anderson breaks down how she captured this year’s Golden Globe winners backstage on an assignment from The New York Times.
• Five Science Fiction Movies to Stream Now. In this month’s picks, hijacked bullet trains, comet creatures and time loops in the British countryside.
• Five Free Movies to Stream Now. From a Wim Wenders masterpiece to a Stanley Tucci gem, these films all revolve around the possibility of fresh starts and new beginnings.
• 8 New Movies Our Critics Are Talking About This Week. Whether you’re a casual moviegoer or an avid buff, our reviewers think these films are worth knowing about.
• In ‘Seeds,’ Farms and a Way of Life Hang in the Balance. The director Brittany Shyne’s film is slow-moving and lyrical in its focus on the seasonal rhythms of the work, even as it shifts to policy concerns.
• ‘The Rip’ Review: Clean Cop, Dirty Cop. Matt Damon and Ben Affleck play grizzled cops looking at each other sideways in this Netflix crime thriller that has all the concepts but not much else.
• ‘Queen Kelly’ Review: His Majesty, Von Stroheim. The 1929 silent film returns in a shimmering, sensitively scored restoration that brings out the lurid and the romantic in Erich von Stroheim’s story of orphan-meets-prince.
• ‘A Useful Ghost’ Review: Machine Yearning. A grieving widower finds his problems are just beginning when his wife returns in the form of a household appliance in this gloriously funny, shape-shifting debut feature.
• ‘Sound of Falling’ Review: A Fortress of Feminine Mysteries. This detour-heavy film moves across time periods to follow girlhood mischief, desire and abuse on a German farm.
• ‘Shuffle’ Review: The Real Price of Rehab. Benjamin Flaherty discovered some disturbing tendencies in the addiction recovery industry. His documentary is upsetting and revelatory.
• ‘A Private Life’ Review: Jodie Foster Uncovers a Twisty Plot in Paris. Speaking in French (but cursing in English), the actress plays an American psychiatrist abroad who stumbles into unexpected intrigue.
• ‘Night Patrol’ Review: Things That Go Bump in the Night. Rival gangs in Los Angeles join forces when a bloodsucking unit of the police department invades their community.
• ‘Deepfaking Sam Altman’ Review: Altmanesque. A filmmaker who can’t secure an interview with the A.I. executive turns to technology for a solution.
• ‘All You Need Is Kill’ Review: It Doesn’t Bear Repeating. By condensing the logic of the action, this anime adaptation of Hiroshi Sakurazaka’s light novel undermines the story’s excitement.
• ‘28 Years Later: The Bone Temple’ Review: Sympathy for the Devil. The latest installment in the zombie saga is all about evil and good, and whether any of it exists.
• The Art of a Good Awards-Show Speech. Demi Moore nailed it at last year’s Globes, and so did Teyana Taylor this year. The best acceptances keep in mind four key guidelines.
• Jodie Foster: An American Oscar-Winner in Paris. In “A Private Life,” the actress takes on her first solo lead role in which she speaks fluent French, but her French connection goes all the way back to childhood.
• Telling the Stories of a House Full of Secrets. Mascha Schilinski’s movie “Sound of Falling,” which takes place over a century in a rural farmhouse, shows how trauma is transmitted through generations.

Food

• At Long Count, Ravi Derossi Goes All In on Aged Wines. The restaurant will serve wines that are at least 10 years old by the full pour, half-pour and bottle, alongside vegan dishes.
• We Have a New Way to Double or Halve Recipes. It Might Just Make You a Better Cook. NYT Cooking’s new automatic feature can instantly scale a recipe up or down — follow these tips (and your instincts) to make the most of it.
• Sticky Miso Salmon, Lemony Chicken and a Brothy Thai Curry. Quick and cozy weeknight meals to help you stick to (or revive) your healthy eating goals.
• Is America Breaking Up With the Calorie? Long held up as the big benchmark of nutrition, the calorie is losing its clout in the age of GLP-1s and a sharper focus on nutrients.
• In Honolulu, a Menu Spiked With Plush Provocations and Wit. In the first starred Times review from Hawaii, our critic visits a rule-bending restaurant where the eating and drinking are inseparable.
• Exceedingly Easy With Plenty of Protein. That’s Hetty Lui McKinnon’s new tofu and sweet potato peanut butter curry, which gets real zip from ginger, curry powder and chile flakes.
• To Tune Out Food Noise, Our Critic Listened to His Hunger. In the third part of a monthlong series, Pete Wells and experts say a healthier diet begins with understanding what drives your eating, and slowing down.
• ‘These Are the Best Biscuits I Have Ever Made, Hands Down’ Edna Lewis’s biscuits, served warm with butter and your favorite jam, are a lovely Sunday breakfast.
• Turkey Meatloaf, Green Beans and Potatoes. There’s something satisfying about building a hearty, substantial meal out of a lean, inexpensive protein.
• Salted Butter or Bust. Samantha Seneviratne takes the Bake Time Questionnaire, and she has strong feelings about salt.
• Tzatziki Chickpea Salad. Vibrant with the sharp creaminess of tzatziki, the Greek yogurt dip, this dish embodies the cool, easy eating of the warmer months. Crisp cucumbers and hearty chickpeas are dressed with a lemony and garlicky Greek yogurt mixture.
• Whole Roasted Squash With Tomato-Ginger Chickpeas. With creamy squash, sticky chickpeas and tangy yogurt, this vegetarian sheet-pan feast easily serves a crowd. The method here doesn’t bother with cutting rock-hard raw winter squash. Instead, roast them whole until you can rip them apart into wedges.
• I Can’t Believe It’s Not Chicken (Super-Savory Grated Tofu). Grating super-firm tofu is one of the best party tricks in the kitchen. It makes tofu not only quicker to prepare (no pressing required!) but also deceptively meaty. The grated tofu is then pan-fried until golden and coated in a flavor-rich sauce.
• Sheet-Pan Shrimp Tikka. Zainab Shah’s quick, flavor-packed meal brings the smoky, tangy essence of tandoori-style cooking into the kitchen with minimal effort. The shrimp are marinated in spiced yogurt to infuse them with bold flavor before being roasted over a bed of vegetables in just minutes.
• Spanakorizo With Jammy Eggs. Bright and soulful, spanakorizo is a beloved Greek dish, with a name that reflects its combination of two key ingredients: spinach and rice. This version is fairly traditional in its essence, relying upon rice, spinach, lemon and herbs, but includes some flourishes.
• Restaurant Review: Lei in Manhattan. Ligaya Mishan, a New York Times chief restaurant critic visits Lei, a warmly and welcoming wine bar in Manhattan, that manages to both honor tradition and bend it.
• Malaay Qumbe (Coconut Fish Curry). Variations of coconut fish curry abound up and down the Swahili Coast, so much so that the dish is often broadly referred to as East African fish curry. This version of coconut fish curry leans heavily on xawaash, a spice blend that is at the heart of Somali cuisine.
• Petite but Powerful Spinach Egg Bites. And more reader favorites from this week.
• Herby Pork Laab With Chile. In this take on the classic Thai dish laab (also spelled larb) moo, ground pork is pan-cooked, then stirred together with a combination of funky fish sauce, fresh and dried chiles, shallots, lime juice and an abundance of fresh herbs for brightness.
• There’s Never Been a Better Time to Eat Chinese Food. Chains from the East Asian nation are popping up across New York City, bringing with them excellent hot pot, dumplings and mapo tofu.
• An Easy Pasta That’s Hearty, Tangy and So Creamy. Cabbage, sour cream and melty Gruyère star in Melissa Clark’s latest one-pot weeknight dinner.
• 18 Healthy Chicken Recipes That Will Get You Excited About Chicken Again. Cooking the same poultry dishes week after week can be a drag. These vibrant and nourishing new recipes are anything but.
• It’s ’Tato Time. Baked. Boiled. Souped. Regardless of form, potatoes will always be there for you.
• This Slow Cooker Chicken Dish Is Efficient and Exciting. Tajín adds its characteristic chile-lime kick to this saucy mix of chicken, peppers and beans.
• Italian Broccoli Salad. This adaptable make-ahead salad is a great instant lunch or side dish. It starts with raw broccoli florets and stems, thinly sliced into irregular shapes to create many textures.
• Improv Night. Zaynab Issa’s curried red bean soup with kale riffs on minestrone with heady spices like cumin, coriander and turmeric alongside ground chiles for heat.
• The Dinner Yotam Ottolenghi Can’t Wait to Eat in Front of the TV. These spiced potatoes are like deconstructed loaded fries, the perfect easy meal for a cozy night on the couch.

Style

• Pushing the Boundaries of Tennis Clothes. Arriving to her first match at the Australian Open, Naomi Osaka wore couture designs with athletic wear. Was it a sign of outfits to come?
• The Beckhams Are Fighting. Here’s What’s Going On. On Monday, the eldest Beckham son posted one-sided explosive accusations against his parents on Instagram. His parents have not responded directly.
• The Way ‘Rich’ Once Looked. The death of the designer Valentino marks the end of an era, not just in fashion but in dressing the part.
• Armani Without Armani. The brand’s first men’s show after the death of its founder checked all the boxes but left something to be desired.
• A Trench Coat Worth Waiting For. Finishing a handbag designer’s outfit was outerwear that he said he had long desired.
• Are They Hot, or Is It the ‘Australia Effect’? Travelers and temporary workers in the country, who may have arrived looking pallid, are showing off their glow-ups on social media.
• Valentino: A Life in Photos. Valentino Garavani, fashion’s ‘Last Emperor,’ believed in the power of beauty.
• Prada Alienates in the Right Way. The coats at the brand’s latest show felt refreshingly awkward.
• To Cuff or Not to Cuff? That Is the Ultimate Pants Question. A turnup at the hem of your trouser legs used to be the norm. Our critic explains how it became a matter of choice, and how to decide.
• The Chicken Runner of Tyler County, West Virginia. A high school track star enhances his social media presence with his mile-long stunts.
• Do You Have an Object You’ve Kept as a Reminder of Love? It could be something easily overlooked: a folded note in a wallet, a concert ticket or an old key. We’re interested in the quiet keepsakes that people hold on to as proof of love.
• It’s a Farm, a Gym, and a Club Where Deals Get Made in the Sauna. An extreme athlete built a wellness lair in New Jersey and turned it into the members-only club of his dreams.
• What’s the Thing Only Ralph Lauren Can Bring? The brand’s first men’s only runway show in over 20 years left our critic pleasantly surprised.
• Why Do We Want It to Be 2016 Again? A new trend has some social media users feeling nostalgic for a decade ago, but the posts reveal something deeper about the state of the internet.
• New Nike Shoe Evokes Motel Where Martin Luther King Jr. Was Killed. LeBron James’s new sneaker seeks to honor the civil rights leader with a color palette inspired by the Memphis motel where King was assassinated in 1968.
• Unsure What to Wear to a Wedding? You’re Not Alone. Wedding dress codes like “black tie optional” are meant to signal a desire for formality without the pressure. But they often cause more confusion than clarity for guests.
• From a D.J. Set to Church, and Back Again. When the writer Lamorna Ash set out to explore young people’s relationship to faith and religion, she found herself questioning her own.
• A New Coveted French Accessory. A Parisian brand’s leather notebooks have for some become a status symbol to flaunt online and off.
• They Ran a Campaign Together, Then Love Came After. When Talia Marcus and Charles Blaettler met while working on the campaign trail, they weren’t expecting love. Good thing it came anyway.
• Please Cheat on Me. Why did I keep fantasizing about catching my faithful boyfriend in bed with another woman?
• A Slow, Awkward Dance Started It All. Before Paul Melnikow and Alan Pierson spoke to each other, they danced at the ‘queer prom,’ about 20 hours into Taylor Mac’s 24-hour performance.
• For Two Floridians, a Michigan Winter Solidified Their Bond. Ashley Knott and Tobias Kammerer are opposites — she’s very social, while he needs “to be peeled like an onion.” But a big move created a deeper connection.
• The Hip Priest, the Ex-Hedge Funder and the $10 Million Townhouse. When a pastor learned his childhood home might undergo a glow-up, he saw his beloved Brooklyn further receding — and took to a different kind of pulpit.
• Would You Wear Balenciaga at the Gym? In Pierpaolo Piccioli’s second collection, he stretches the label into some new shapes.
• The Kids Have All Moved Out and It’s Just Us. What Now? More time to focus on each other might seem like a good thing, but not every relationship survives the transition to an empty nest.
• Men’s Coats That Make a Strong Impression. Come wintertime, it could be said that the coat, not the clothes, makes a man.
• Tiny Love Stories: ‘I’m 23. He’s 40.’ Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words.
• Leonardo DiCaprio, Benicio Del Toro and Rose Byrne Pick Up Awards in New York. The stars were honored at the annual National Board of Review gala, where winners called attention to protests in Minneapolis and the violent crackdown in Iran.
• A New Era of Taylor Swift Fandom. The mega star has always embraced cringe. Are fans still buying it?
• Can I Tell My Sister That Our Friends Don’t Want to Travel With Her? A reader feels conflicted about taking a trip with friends who specifically asked that a travel-challenged sister not come along for the ride.

Love

• Before the Wedding, a Pre-Anniversary Celebration. Some couples with long engagements are making an occasion out of the one year before their wedding day, complete with cakes, gifts and gatherings.

Magazine

• Anyone Can Be an Auntie. It’s a State of Mind. My Desi family introduced me to the role. Now that I’m an auntie, I understand its full potential.
• No Country Has Ever Been Held Responsible for Genocide. Can This Lawyer Change That? Philippe Sands, one of the world’s pre-eminent human rights attorneys, is arguing the case against Myanmar at The Hague.
• Should I Try to Persuade My Son to Break Off His Engagement? My experience tells me that he is making a poor decision and will pay for it.
• Kílian Jornet on What We Can Learn From Pushing Our Bodies to Extremes. The ultrarunner and mountaineer finds peace through doing unimaginably hard things.
• Should You Use Dryer Lint as Kindling? A ruling on the merits of a thrifty life hack.
• Trump’s Fight With Minnesota Is About More Than Immigration. The state embodies a civic ideal that the administration in Washington wants to discredit.
• Why Are We Still So Afraid of Using the Grumpy Old Period? Exclamation marks, ellipses and ‘haha’ can’t fix our growing inability to communicate.
• My Old Friend Might Be Dying. Should I Tell Her I’m Dating Her Ex? She’s reached out asking to reconnect. I’ve postponed a meeting, feeling paralyzed.
• ‘The Devil’s Excrement’: Is Venezuela Cursed by Its Oil? The country’s biggest problem may not be President Trump.
• Dramas Keep Showing Us Hapless Men — and Hypercompetent Women. Several of the past year’s films center on confused, bumbling protagonists — surrounded by women who are anything but.

T Magazine

• Why a 1930s Bag Has Never Gone Out of Style. New iterations of a classic accessory, designed to be on the move.
• How to Take a Phone-Free Vacation. Five getaways, and other tips for disengaging on holiday.
• This Winter, the Best Puffer Jackets Come With Big Pockets. These utility-inflected styles are practical yet polished.
• How to Make a Nonalcoholic Martini. Plus two other mocktail ideas for those who love a paloma or a michelada.
• On Bali, a Hotel Filled With Antiques. Plus: Rina Sawayama’s beauty essentials, a whimsical Dutch oven and more recommendations from T Magazine.

Travel

• ‘Remarkable Rocks’ and a Koala Named Larry: Adventures on an Australian Island. Kangaroo Island, with its rugged coastline, pristine beaches and many animals, draws a repeat visitor wary about increased development and the island’s recovery from the 2020 wildfires.
• Weight-Loss Drugs Could Save U.S. Airlines $580 Million Per Year. A study by the financial firm Jefferies highlights a surprising perk for carriers: lower fuel costs as slimmer passengers lighten their aircrafts’ loads.
• Economy Seats With Less Legroom? This Time, the Budget Move Won’t Fly. WestJet, Canada’s second-largest carrier, backpedaled on a new seating plan after videos of crammed travelers went viral on social media.
• California Will Waive State Park Entry Fees on M.L.K. Day. Gov. Gavin Newsom framed the move as a rebuke to President Trump, who recently cut the holiday from the list of free-entry days at U.S. national parks.
• Waterfalls and Wildflowers: Hiking South Africa’s Highest Mountains. About 200 miles from Johannesburg, the Drakensberg region offers a breathtaking landscape of stark ridges and green valleys.
• Hesitant to Visit the U.S. for the World Cup? We Want to Hear From You. International soccer fans face hurdles like travel bans, long visa delays and high ticket prices for U.S. matches. Will they be enough to keep you away?
• 36 Hours in Sapporo, Japan. The snowy capital of the island of Hokkaido offers a quieter alternative to Japan’s congested “Golden Route” of Tokyo, Osaka and Kyoto.
• In Jackson Hole, a Different Kind of Skiing. A Wyoming valley known for its adventurous downhill skiing also has plenty of opportunities for exploring the area on cross-country skis.

Real Estate

• $1.5 Million Homes in California. A ranch house in South Lake Tahoe, a Queen Anne Revival in San Jose and a bungalow in Los Angeles
• An Art Collector’s Vision Set in Rock in Millbrook, N.Y. After years of planning, Artur Walther and the architecture firm SO-IL built a house for communing with nature.
• Rent Controlled vs. Rent Stabilized: Here’s How the Rates Work. There are about one million rent-stabilized units in New York City, and fewer than 25,000 rent-controlled units.
• The Man Who Saw School Buses as Vehicles for Possibility. Lucas Sweeten converted his first school bus into a mobile home in 2007. Now he works with students to transform school buses to help their communities.
• $1.8 Million Homes in France. This week’s properties are a designer’s four-bedroom house in Sète; an apartment in Montpellier’s historic center; and a country-styled villa also in Montpellier.
• Larry Ellison Sells Longtime San Francisco Home for $45 Million. Anthony Hopkins buys another house in Los Angeles and Martha Plimpton bids farewell to Brooklyn.
• They Left Their Empty Nest for a Fresh Start in Helena, Montana. After their daughters left for college, a couple looked to trade their suburban lifestyle for a new house near Helena’s central core. Here’s what they found.
• Homes for Sale in Brooklyn and Manhattan. This week’s properties are in Dumbo, the Upper East Side and Chelsea.
• Why Staten Island Has the Highest Home Turnover Rate in N.Y.C. Homeowners in the Bronx and Queens owned their homes the longest before selling in 2025.
• Homes for Sale in New York and Connecticut. This week’s properties are a three-bedroom in Yonkers and a five-bedroom in Fairfield.
• $1 Million Homes in Oregon, Texas and New York. A midcentury-modern in Eugene, Ore., an 1884 farmhouse in McKinney, Texas, and an 1890 townhouse in Hudson, N.Y.
• Everything Is Romantic in Louise Roe’s Living Room. The English fashion journalist and designer created a cottagecore fantasy with Georgian-style treasures, layered lighting and antique artwork.
• Whitefish, Mont., Natural Beauty, Not Taken for Granted. When the snowfall’s good, signs reading “closed for a powder day” appear on the doors of local businesses.

Health

• Will ‘Psychiatry’s Bible’ Add a Postpartum Psychosis Diagnosis? Leaders of the D.S.M., the world’s most influential psychiatric manual, have been split for more than five years over whether to recognize postpartum psychosis as a distinct disorder.
• 3 Policy Moves Likely to Change Health Care for Older People. Two regulatory rollbacks, along with a new A.I. experiment in Medicare, raise some worrisome questions.
• No Link Between Acetaminophen in Pregnancy and Autism, a New Study Finds. The review looked at more than three dozen studies and found no evidence that acetaminophen increased the risk of neurodevelopmental disorders in children.
• For Men, How Much Alcohol Is Too Much? Federal officials working on the new dietary guidelines had considered limiting men to one drink daily. The final advice was only that everyone should drink less.
• U.S. Cuts Health Aid and Ties It to Funding Pledges by African Governments. The Trump administration has signed $11 billion in agreements with African nations, in deals tied to foreign policy goals.
• Kaiser Permanente Settles Medicare Fraud Claims for $556 Million. The Justice Department and whistle-blowers accused the major health insurer of overbilling the government for about $1 billion under the private plans.
• Trump Cuts $2 Billion in Federal Funding for Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services. Notices went out late Tuesday to more than 2,000 programs nationwide that will be affected by budget slashing at the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.
• C.D.C. Brings Back Hundreds of Suspended Workplace Safety Employees. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. placed about 90 percent of the roughly 1,000 employees of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health on administrative leave last April.

Well

• Fluoridation Is Not Tied to Birth Weight, New Study Shows. Researchers looked at birth weight, an important predictor of long-term health, in 11 million babies born in the United States.
• Is It Bad to Snooze Your Alarm? The answer may depend on why you’re doing it in the first place.
• One Year After Texas Measles Outbreak Began, Experts Consider Another Grim Milestone. It’s unclear whether the United States can keep its designation as a country that officially eliminated the disease.
• 7 Things All Women Should Know About Their Heart Health. Women’s cardiovascular health has long been overlooked and understudied. Here are some things to keep in mind.
• The Europeans Have Some Notes About American Sauna Culture. Don’t get them started on the bathing suits. Or the dancing.
• Do You Need More Laughter in Your Life? Humor is good for your health.
• What Is ‘Metabolic Health,’ and Why Does It Matter? The definition is tricky, but the effects of poor metabolic health are clear — and can wreak havoc on the body.
• The Hard Truth of Weight-Loss Drugs: You Probably Need Them Forever. Many people who use these medications don’t want to stay on them long term. But research has repeatedly shown that quitting the drugs means gaining back weight.
• For Lung Cancer Patients, Shame Is a Deadly Side Effect. The disease is the rare cancer met with accusations, not sympathy.

Eat

• Is Whole Milk Healthier for Kids? A new law will allow full-fat and 2 percent milk to be served in schools. Here’s what to know.

Family

• Tell Us About Your Grand Romantic Gestures. From the over-the-top marriage proposals to the thoughtful surprises that made a huge impact.

Mind

• My Friend Is Depressed. Does That Excuse Her Flakiness? Our Ask the Therapist columnist, Lori Gottlieb, advises a reader who wants to help a struggling pal but is growing frustrated.

Move

• Hate Weights? Try a Medicine Ball. This exercise tool is a simple shortcut to building explosive power.
• 5 Workouts to Level Up Your Fitness. No longer a beginner? Try these routines to challenge yourself.
• How I Learned to Love Lifting Heavy. Barbell training gave me a new perspective on aging.
• Ready to Find Your Next Favorite Workout? Our reporters have teamed up with fitness experts to design dozens of routines. Try something new — and build an exercise habit that sticks.
• The Best Sports for Longevity. All forms of exercise help you live longer, but some activities come with extra benefits.
• This Might Be the Best Sport for a Longer Life. Research consistently shows that physical activity is linked to healthy aging. But do some sports confer more longevity benefits than others? Simar Bajaj, a reporting fellow for Well, explains.

Times Insider

• A Bite-Size Column About Delight and Wonder in Science. In Trilobites, reporters aim to share new findings in the science world, be it interspecies friendships or discoveries of ancient fossils.
• In a Typewriter Repair Shop, a Reporter Finds a Familiar Hum. For one writer, the story of a Washington man keeping an old craft alive struck something personal.
• In the Operating Room, a Reporter Watches a Heart Come Back to Life. Infant heart transplants are extraordinarily rare. A Times health journalist donned scrubs and witnessed how the surgery unfolded.
• Interviewing Colombia’s President, Before and After His Call With Trump. New York Times reporters waited more than eight hours to speak with President Gustavo Petro, who, as it turned out, had another important conversation in the works.

Corrections

• Corrections: Jan. 21, 2026. Corrections that appeared in print on Wednesday, Jan. 21, 2026.
• Quote of the Day: Trump Mocks Allies in E.U. Before Davos. Quotation of the Day for Wednesday, January 21, 2025.
• Corrections: Jan. 20, 2026. Corrections that appeared in print on Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2026.
• Quote of the Day: Starmer Decries U.S. Threat Of Tariff War Over Greenland. Quotation of the Day for Tuesday, January 20, 2025.
• No Corrections: Jan. 19, 2026. No corrections appeared in print on Monday, Jan. 19, 2026.
• Quote of the Day: Chim Chim Cher-ee! Sweeps Stage a Comeback in London. Quotation of the Day for Monday, January 19, 2026.
• Quote of the Day: Breathing New Life Into the Oboe. Quotation of the Day for Sunday, January 18, 2026.
• No Corrections: Jan. 18, 2026. No corrections appeared in print on Sunday, Jan. 18, 2026.
• Quote of the Day: She Wants to Die. Will Canada Let Her? Quotation of the Day for Saturday, January 17, 2026.
• Corrections: Jan. 17, 2026. Corrections that appeared in print on Saturday, Jan. 17, 2026.
• Quote of the Day: In Bitter Winter Freeze, Russia Focuses on Wiping Out the Heat. Quotation for the Day for Friday, January 16, 2026.
• Corrections: Jan. 16, 2026. Corrections that appeared in print on Friday, Jan. 16, 2026.
• Quote of the Day: Greenlanders Shocked, Angry, Confused and, Most of All, Scared. Quotation of the Day for Thursday, January 15, 2026.
• Corrections: Jan. 15, 2026. Corrections that appeared in print on Thursday, Jan. 15, 2026.

The Learning Network

• Word of the Day: dearth. This word has appeared in 229 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year. Can you use it in a sentence?
• What Is Your Reaction to President Trump’s Campaign to Seize Greenland? The president says he wants the United States to own the semiautonomous Danish territory. European leaders are outraged. What do you think about what is happening?
• Do You Collect Fan Memorabilia? Can people tell who or what you’re a fan of by the way you decorate your room, the collections you have or how you dress?
• Your Favorite Current Songs. What are you listening to right now?
• Word of the Day: transcend. This word has appeared in 299 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year. Can you use it in a sentence?
• What’s Going On in This Picture? | Jan. 26, 2026. Look closely at this image, stripped of its caption, and join the moderated conversation about what you and other students see.
• What Teenagers Are Saying About the Pressure to Be Perfect. Students react to a guest essay about how the quest for flawlessness is harming society.
• Do Your Parents Ever Play Favorites? Research says that favoritism is common — with effects that can last a lifetime.
• Failed Experiment? Tell us a story, real or made up, that is inspired by this image.
• Word of the Day: panacea. This word has appeared in 121 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year. Can you use it in a sentence?
• What’s Going On in This Graph? | Jan. 21, 2026. How does life expectancy vary by state and country?
• Is It OK to Alter Photos of Yourself to Look Better Online? What are your thoughts on using photo editing tools, filters and artificial intelligence image generators to improve your appearance?
• New Dietary Guidelines. Why was this image in the news recently? What is it communicating?
• Word of the Day: autonomous. This word has appeared in 378 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year. Can you use it in a sentence?
• Dance Moves. Do you like to dance? What are your favorite moves?

En español

• Palabra del día: ‘dearth’ Esta palabra ha aparecido en 229 artículos en NYTimes.com en el último año. ¿Puedes usarla en una frase?
• Tras la colisión de trenes en España surge una pista en un arroyo. Las autoridades dijeron que encontraron una parte de un tren de la que no se había informado antes. Los expertos indicaron que el hallazgo podría ayudar a esclarecer la causa de la catástrofe, que ha cobrado 42 vidas.
• Que paguen los ultrarricos. El número de multimillonarios se ha disparado en el mundo, pero a menudo pagan impuestos a tasas muy inferiores a la media. Además: tragedia ferroviaria en España y adiós a Valentino.
• 9 mitos sobre la salud de las mujeres. Cuando se trata de la salud del corazón, la inmunidad, la reproducción y otros aspectos, abundan las ideas falsas.
• Hay que escuchar el hambre para silenciar el ‘ruido alimentario’ Nuestro crítico culinario Pete Wells y especialistas coinciden en que una alimentación más saludable pasa por comprender qué guía las decisiones al comer.
• Palabra del día: ‘transcend’ Esta palabra ha aparecido en 299 artículos en NYTimes.com en el último año. ¿Puedes usarla en una frase?
• ¿La leche entera es más sana para los niños? No hay un estudio contundente que pruebe que la leche entera contribuye a la obesidad en los niños. Pero aquellos con sobrepeso podrían optar por opciones bajas en grasa.
• Cómo dejar de comprar cosas que no necesitas. Reducir las compras impulsivas hará que sea más fácil ordenar tu casa.
• La cruda realidad de los medicamentos para perder peso: tal vez los necesites de por vida. Muchas personas que recurren a estos medicamentos no quieren hacerlo a largo plazo. Pero las investigaciones han demostrado repetidamente que dejar los fármacos significa volver a subir de peso.
• 5 ejercicios para aliviar el dolor y evitar lesiones. Este mes de enero, encuentra una nueva rutina de ejercicios para moverte con más facilidad.
• Así es la estrategia del movimiento MAGA para apoderarse de la televisión en EE. UU. Bajo el mandato de Trump, la Comisión Federal de Comunicaciones ha usado poderes reguladores oscuros para tomar medidas contra cadenas de televisión. Algunos conservadores están contraatacando.
• ¿Por qué mi tolerancia al alcohol disminuye con la edad? No te lo estás imaginando: las resacas sí son peores, la cabeza sí duele más. Cuando el cuerpo envejece, gestiona el alcohol de forma diferente.
• Los mejores deportes para la longevidad. Todas las formas de ejercicio ayudan a vivir más tiempo, pero algunas actividades traen beneficios adicionales.
• Palabra del día: ‘panacea’ Esta palabra ha aparecido en 121 artículos en NYTimes.com en el último año. ¿Puedes usarla en una frase?
• Día 5: agenda estas 5 citas médicas para proteger tu cerebro. ¿Cuándo fue la última vez que te mediste la presión arterial? Hoy te proponemos una lista para mantenerte sano en cuerpo y mente.
• Palabra del día: ‘autonomous’ Esta palabra ha aparecido en 378 artículos en NYTimes.com en el último año. ¿Puedes usarla en una frase?
• ¿Qué tan saludable es el aceite de oliva? Los estudios sugieren que consumir aceite de oliva puede ayudar a prevenir múltiples enfermedades, sobre todo cuando se consume como parte de una dieta mediterránea+
• Día 4: prueba una actividad para agudizar tu mente. Probar cosas nuevas puede ayudar a aumentar tu reserva cognitiva. Hoy te proponemos salir a un museo o entrar a un círculo de lectura.
• 6 formas de despertar el deseo sexual. Los expertos dicen que programar el sexo está bien, pero hay formas aún más eficaces de cultivar la intimidad.

América Latina

• La captura de Maduro muestra la nueva estrategia de la CIA en América Latina. La participación de la CIA en operaciones militares suele permanecer envuelta en el misterio durante años. Pero Trump se ha mostrado inusualmente abierto sobre el trabajo de la agencia en las operaciones de Venezuela.
• México responde a la presión de Trump y envía a 37 delincuentes a EE. UU. El gobierno de la presidenta Claudia Sheinbaum ha intentado mostrar avances en el combate al narcotráfico en un esfuerzo por evitar las medidas con las que amenaza el presidente Trump.
• El número de muertos aumenta en los disturbios entre pandillas en Guatemala. Los levantamientos en tres prisiones han causado la muerte de 10 policías, lo que supone otro reto para el presidente Bernardo Arévalo en su lucha contra la corrupción y el crimen organizado.
• Un preso político venezolano al fin vuelve a casa. Ángel Godoy fue encarcelado luego de escribir columnas que irritaron al gobierno del presidente Nicolás Maduro. Ahora su familia intenta recuperar el tiempo perdido.
• Guatemala declara el estado de sitio para enfrentar la violencia de las pandillas. En los últimos días han aumentado los disturbios en el país, como revueltas en prisiones y el asesinato de agentes de policía, que las autoridades han atribuido a las pandillas.
• Venezuela está dividida ante el desvanecimiento del sueño revolucionario. Los partidarios del expresidente Hugo Chávez, el líder socialista antiestadounidense, se esfuerzan por aceptar el pacto del gobierno venezolano con Washington.
• El mayor reto de Venezuela no es el petróleo, es llevar comida a la mesa. Las turbulencias económicas tras la incursión de EE. UU. amenazan ahora con agravar una crisis humanitaria que ha durado años en Venezuela, donde según una encuesta más del 70 por ciento de la población ya vive en la pobreza.
• ‘Vengan a ayudarnos’: los incendios de Chile causan al menos 16 muertes. Un alcalde suplicó ayuda al gobierno nacional mientras las llamas destruían barrios enteros en la sureña región del Biobío.
• ¿Cuba puede sobrevivir sin el petróleo de Venezuela? El presidente Trump detuvo los envíos de petróleo venezolano a Cuba, y los expertos afirman que se avecina un desastre. El petróleo alimenta su red eléctrica y, sin suministros alternativos, el país se sumirá en una prolongada oscuridad.
• Historia de dos reuniones: Trump prefiere el petróleo a la democracia. El respaldo de Trump a una partidaria de Maduro frente a una defensora de la democracia sugiere que su objetivo en el país es crear una fuente de petróleo y luego, quizá, una transición democrática.
• Tras la llamada con Trump, Petro aumenta la presión sobre los rebeldes acusados de narcotráfico. Los expertos afirman que la determinación del presidente de Colombia de desmantelar al ELN es un reflejo tanto de las exigencias de Trump como de la frustración interna por su anterior gestión de los grupos armados.
• La medalla del Nobel se ha vendido antes por millones de dólares. El Comité del Nobel ha dicho que el premio no puede transferirse, pero la medalla se ha vendido en algunas subastas a lo largo de la historia del premio.
• Cuba recibe los restos de 32 ciudadanos que murieron en los ataques de EE. UU. en Venezuela. Las personas fallecidas formaban parte del equipo de seguridad del dirigente venezolano depuesto, Nicolás Maduro.
• El comité del Nobel recibe críticas en Noruega mientras Machado corteja a Trump. Los intentos de la líder de la oposición venezolana de compartir su premio con el presidente de EE. UU. han hecho tambalear la fe de algunos noruegos en su emblemática herramienta de poder blando.
• EE. UU. presiona a México para que fuerzas estadounidenses combatan a los cárteles. El gobierno de Donald Trump está intensificando la presión sobre el gobierno mexicano para que permita a fuerzas militares atacar laboratorios de fentanilo, según funcionarios estadounidenses.
• Diosdado Cabello, la pieza incómoda en la transición política en Venezuela. Cabello, ministro del Interior de Venezuela, está acusado por fiscales estadounidenses de narcotráfico y vinculado a la represión en su país, pero sigue siendo una figura poderosa.
• EE. UU. se esfuerza por vender el petróleo de Venezuela, su antiguo adversario. Los funcionarios estadounidenses mediaron en la venta de petróleo venezolano por valor de cientos de millones de dólares para estabilizar la economía del país tras capturar a su presidente.
• Así se gestaron las entrevistas del Times con Gustavo Petro. Los reporteros de The New York Times esperaron más de ocho horas para hablar con el presidente Gustavo Petro, quien, como se vio después, tenía otra conversación importante entre manos.
• Venezuela manda un enviado a Washington en un momento de distensión. Se espera que el enviado del gobierno interino llegue a Estados Unidos el mismo día en que Trump tiene previsto reunirse con la líder de la oposición, María Corina Machado.
• Venezuela anunció la liberación de presos políticos. Los familiares siguen esperando. Cientos de familias esperan que sus seres queridos sean liberados por el gobierno venezolano, que ha dicho muy poco sobre quiénes serían excarcelados y cuándo.

Ciencia y Tecnología

• Los leones marinos de las Galápagos no están listos para dejar la leche materna. Estos animales regresan a alimentarse de sus madres incluso cuando ya pueden cazar, aparearse y valerse por sí mismos.

Cultura

• Nominaciones a los Oscar 2026: estas son nuestras predicciones. ‘Pecadores’ y ‘Una batalla tras otra’ podrían romper un récord. Cabe esperar que compitan por mejor película con ‘Hamnet’, ‘Frankenstein’ y ‘Marty Supremo’.
• Valentino: una vida en fotos. Valentino Garavani, el “último emperador” de la moda, creía en el poder de la belleza.
• Jodie Foster: una ganadora del Óscar estadounidense en París. En “Vida privada”, la actriz asume su primer papel protagonista en solitario en el que habla francés con fluidez, pero su conexión francesa se remonta a la infancia.
• Es ‘Juego de tronos’, pero no como lo conoces. Mientras que ‘Juego de tronos’ y ‘La Casa del dragón’ se caracterizan por su inmensidad, ‘El caballero de los Siete Reinos’ es la primera prueba de si la fórmula funcionará a una escala más humana.
• Su vida era un sueño de abolengo. Se derrumbó en un momento. Born into exceptional privilege, Belle Burden had it all: love, money, family. Then her marriage fell apart.
• Un proyecto independiente rescata la historia de MTV y sus clips. El sitio no oficial MTV Rewind ha recreado la era clásica de la cadena, reuniendo miles de clips. El desarrollador describe la plataforma como una respuesta a las recomendaciones impulsadas por algoritmos.
• Un nuevo videojuego simula un centro de ciberestafas. El juego “Blood Money: Lethal Eden” aprovecha una creciente ansiedad en China al recrear las experiencias de personas traficadas para dedicarse a la estafa.
• Cero presión: su trabajo es resucitar ‘Star Wars’ Lucasfilm apuesta por la visión y pulcritud de Shawn Levy, director de “Deadpool & Wolverine” y productor de “Stranger Things”, para la nueva entrega de la famosa saga.
• BTS está de vuelta. ¿Dónde estaban? Las superestrellas del k-pop harán una gira colosal de regreso: 79 conciertos en cinco continentes en 11 meses. Pero ¿por qué han estado ausentes tanto tiempo?

Estados Unidos

• Los cubanos de Florida están siendo deportados en cifras récord. Los cubanos se han beneficiado durante mucho tiempo de privilegios legales no disponibles para los migrantes de otros países. El presidente Trump ha cambiado eso.
• Con las amenazas a Groenlandia, Trump aspira a un EE. UU. conquistador. Después de un siglo de defender a otros países de la agresión extranjera, Estados Unidos se posiciona ahora como una potencia imperial que intenta apoderarse del territorio de otra nación.
• Trump tiene una salida simple en Groenlandia, pero no parece quererla. El presidente de EE. UU. ha dejado claro que no está interesado en alcanzar acuerdos diplomáticos que seguramente lograrían sus objetivos declarados de defensa en el Ártico.
• La lucha de Trump con Minnesota va más allá de la migración. El estado encarna un ideal cívico que el gobierno de Washington quiere desacreditar.
• Ni Trump ni Machado obtuvieron lo que querían con el intercambio de la medalla del Nobel. El presidente de EE. UU. tiene la medalla de María Corina Machado, pero no se le reconoce como laureado del premio. Machado no obtuvo el respaldo de Trump para convertirse en presidenta de Venezuela.
• La agencia de aviación de EE. UU. alerta actividad militar sobre océanos de América Latina. Los siete avisos a los aviadores abarcaban zonas del océano Pacífico colindantes con México, Colombia, Ecuador y Panamá. Permanecerán vigentes hasta el 17 de marzo.
• Una exsenadora es demandada por tener una relación con un miembro de su escolta. Kyrsten Sinema fue acusada ante un tribunal federal de mantener un romance con un miembro casado de su equipo de seguridad.
• ¿Renee Good tenía la obligación de cumplir las órdenes del agente del ICE? El agente pidió a Good que saliera de su coche antes de dispararle. Expertos jurídicos dijeron que los agentes migratorios pueden tener autoridad para dar esas órdenes, pero no siempre.
• El director de la CIA se reúne con Delcy Rodríguez en Caracas. La visita de alto nivel reforzó el mensaje de Trump de que considera al gobierno encargado como el mejor camino hacia la estabilidad de Venezuela a corto plazo.
• Trump impulsa el mensaje de ‘inmunidad absoluta’ para agentes del ICE. Desde la muerte de Renee Good en Mineápolis, la Casa Blanca ha respaldado la fuerza letal, pese a que las normas internas del ICE la reservan para situaciones extremas.
• Las fuerzas estadounidenses incautan un sexto buque petrolero vinculado a Venezuela. La Guardia Costera de EE. UU. abordó e incautó el petrolero de bandera rusa, previamente llamado Veronica, en una operación realizada antes del amanecer en el Caribe.
• Las universidades chinas suben en las clasificaciones mundiales; las de EE. UU. retroceden. Harvard sigue dominando, aunque ha caído al puesto 3 en una lista que mide el rendimiento académico. Otras universidades estadounidenses se rezagan con respecto a sus homólogas mundiales.
• Un agente federal dispara a un hombre en Mineápolis y las protestas aumentan. El agente disparó a un hombre venezolano que se resistía a ser detenido, dijo un funcionario. Manifestantes y fuerzas del orden se enfrentaron durante horas.
• Migrantes venezolanos piden a un tribunal restablecer su Estatus de Protección Temporal. El gobierno de Trump ha puesto fin a las protecciones del TPS para unos 600.000 migrantes venezolanos, parte de su esfuerzo por frenar las vías de acceso para que permanezcan en EE. UU.
• El ciberataque en Venezuela demostró las capacidades de EE. UU. Los senadores del Comité de Servicios Armados tienen previsto formular preguntas sobre la operación de Caracas en una audiencia de confirmación del Comando Cibernético de EE. UU.
• Lo que está pasando en Washington.
• La ofensiva migratoria impulsa una resistencia local, de Los Ángeles a Mineápolis. Entre chats, silbatos y patrullajes, vecinos y organizaciones se coordinan para vigilar la presencia del ICE y expresar su rechazo a las redadas en sus comunidades.
• Trump no necesitaba autorización para enviar tropas a Venezuela, según un memorando del Departamento de Justicia. El documento ofrece un panorama detallado de la justificación legal del gobierno de Estados Unidos para la incursión militar en territorio venezolano a principios de enero.
• Ante la presión para investigar a la viuda de la víctima del ICE, 6 fiscales renunciaron. El fiscal federal Joseph Thompson fue uno de los que renunciaron mientras el departamento de Justicia trataba de examinar los supuestos vínculos de la mujer con grupos activistas.
• El FBI catea el domicilio de una periodista del Washington Post. La medida, parte de una investigación sobre revelaciones de información clasificada, es extremadamente inusual.
• Trump es abucheado en una visita a una fábrica de Ford y responde con un gesto obsceno. Un vocero de la Casa Blanca dijo que el presidente “dio una respuesta apropiada e inequívoca”.

Estilos de Vida

• El regreso a 2016: un anhelo que expone lo que pasa en internet. Una tendencia en redes despertó nostalgia en los usuarios, pero los recuerdos compartidos apuntan a algo más.
• ¿Qué es la ‘salud metabólica’ y por qué es importante? La definición es complicada, pero los efectos de una mala salud metabólica son claros y pueden causar estragos en el organismo.
• No escuches las críticas. Cómprale un cochecito a tu perro. Tal vez la gente se burle de cómo elijo transportar a mi mascota, pero cambió su vida y me hizo mejor persona.
• Por favor, engáñame. ¿Por qué seguía fantaseando que atrapaba a mi novio en la cama con otra mujer?
• Cómo evitar problemas estomacales cuando viajas. Con un poco de planificación —qué comer, qué beber y qué llevar— puedes disminuir las probabilidades de sufrir diarrea del viajero, intoxicación leve y náuseas en el trayecto.

Mundo

• España vive el duelo por las víctimas del choque de tren mientras investiga lo que pasó. El martes, las autoridades se esforzaban por identificar a los fallecidos en la colisión ocurrida cerca de la ciudad de Córdoba, en la que murieron al menos 41 personas.
• Las acciones de Trump amenazan la alianza entre EE. UU. y Europa. Frente a las presiones de EE. UU. sobre Groenlandia, la Unión Europea se plantea lo que antes era impensable: ¿su alianza de 80 años está condenada?
• Escenas de una Siria en ruinas. Un año después de la caída del dictador, los sirios regresan a un país sin un plan claro de reconstrucción.
• En Sudáfrica, la falta de electricidad se resuelve con baterías de alquiler. En un país donde la red eléctrica no es confiable, la renta de baterías ofrece una solución asequible para quienes no tienen dinero para comprar sus propios paneles solares.
• Estos fueron los mensajes entre Trump y el primer ministro de Noruega sobre Groenlandia. En el intercambio del domingo, el líder noruego trató de “frenar la escalada” del creciente conflicto sobre Groenlandia y la última amenaza arancelaria de Trump.
• Los sobrevivientes describen el choque de trenes de alta velocidad en España. Las fotografías muestran una maraña de metal, cables y cristales rotos en el lugar del accidente.
• Trump vincula su presión por Groenlandia a no recibir el Premio Nobel de la Paz. En un mensaje de texto, el presidente Trump dijo al primer ministro de Noruega que ya no se sentía obligado a “pensar puramente en la paz” y que el mundo no estaría seguro hasta que EE. UU. controlara la isla.
• Choque ferroviario en España: esto es lo que sabemos. Un tren de alta velocidad se salió de la vía y chocó contra otro la noche del domingo en el sur de España, lo que ocasionó la muerte de al menos 39 personas.
• Lo que hay que saber sobre los vínculos de Hizbulá con Venezuela. El secretario de Estado Marco Rubio dijo que el país sudamericano era una plataforma regional para la influencia iraní y acusó a las autoridades de albergar al grupo militante libanés.
• Hay al menos 21 muertos en un choque de trenes en España. La colisión sucedió tras descarrilar los vagones traseros de un tren en el sur del país.
• Europa se plantea respuestas drásticas a las amenazas de Trump hacia Groenlandia. Los países europeos dependen de Estados Unidos para la seguridad de la OTAN, lo que limita sus opciones. Su respuesta más contundente podrían ser represalias con su propia “bazuca” comercial.
• Maduro está en Brooklyn, pero en la ‘Little Caracas’ de Madrid los exiliados siguen esperando. La mayor diáspora de venezolanos del mundo fuera de América vive en España. Muchos celebraron la captura de Nicolás Maduro y ahora se adaptan a la idea de que los aliados del régimen siguen a cargo.
• Julio Iglesias niega las acusaciones de abuso sexual de dos exempleadas. El cantante dijo que las acusaciones eran “absolutamente falsas” en un comunicado emitido luego de que la fiscalía española abriera una investigación.
• Un reto para la salud de tu cerebro. Cuanto más caótico parece el mundo, más importante se vuelve cuidar de uno mismo.
• Mineápolis ‘parece una ocupación militar’ El presidente Trump ha enviado agentes del ICE a ciudades de todo Estados Unidos.
• Irán alista su primera ejecución ligada a las protestas, mientras Trump advierte represalias. Organizaciones de derechos humanos y familiares dicen que el país planea la primera ejecución de un manifestante opositor durante la más reciente ola de protestas.
• Dinamarca, Groenlandia y EE. UU. conversan en medio de las amenazas de Trump. El objetivo de la discusión era enfocarse en el deseo del presidente Trump de adquirir la isla. Fue la primera reunión entre los tres gobiernos para discutir el tema.
• Todos quieren el Ártico. El presidente Trump quiere anexionarse Groenlandia. Analizamos la lucha por otro territorio del Ártico para comprenderlo mejor.
• La carrera por dominar la última frontera en el Ártico. Durante décadas, un archipiélago ártico llamado Svalbard ha sido un inusual refugio de cooperación internacional. Esos días se terminaron.

Negocios

• La tasa de natalidad de China cae al nivel más bajo desde 1949. La población de China descendió por cuarto año consecutivo y su tasa de natalidad se desplomó, pues los legisladores no consiguen frenar una crisis demográfica.
• ¿Cuba podrá sobrevivir sin su principal proveedor de petróleo? La Unión Soviética fue el benefactor de Cuba durante décadas. Venezuela asumió el relevo y México ha brindado “ayuda humanitaria”. Pero el mundo está cambiando rápidamente, afirma nuestro columnista.
• Trump promete riquezas a Venezuela. Hará falta más que capital de EE. UU. Es poco probable que la mera reconstrucción de la industria petrolera, sin un cambio político y económico más profundo, transforme al país.
• Consejos para cumplir tus propósitos financieros de Año Nuevo. Los expertos ofrecieron sugerencias como reducir tu lista de objetivos, automatizar el ahorro y evitar tentaciones como los correos electrónicos con ofertas.
• Las refinerías de EE. UU. se beneficiarán del control de Trump sobre el petróleo venezolano. Es probable que las empresas que convierten el petróleo en gasolina y diesel tomen la ventaja, comparadas con aquellas que extraen del subsuelo.
• China le da la vuelta a los aranceles de EE. UU. y registra un superávit récord en 2025. Una moneda débil y mayor producción doméstica impulsaron las exportaciones de China a 1,19 billones de dólares el año pasado, 20 por ciento más de lo que vendió en 2024.

Opinión

• Soy el secretario general del Consejo de Europa. Esto es algo que pensé que nunca tendría que escribir. El derecho internacional es universal o carece de sentido. Groenlandia demostrará cuál de estas dos alternativas elegimos.
• Cuba está entre la esperanza y el miedo tras captura de Maduro. Los cubanos se preguntan qué pasará con ellos después de perder a su principal proveedor de petróleo.
• Esto es lo que realmente quieren los venezolanos. Llevamos mucho tiempo enfrentándonos a una paradoja brutal: un Estado ausente pero omnipotente.
• Algo malo se gesta en la frontera de Venezuela. El ELN, un grupo guerrillero armado, se atreve a desafiar la autoridad del Estado colombiano y las ambiciones de EE. UU. en Venezuela.
• Los liberales de la resistencia tenían razón. El mensaje de Trump, el núcleo emocional de su movimiento, siempre ha sido fascismo clásico.

Gameplay

• They Might Be Foiled. Ginny Too and Avery Gee Katz make their collaboration debut in the New York Times Crossword.
• Strands Sidekick No. 689. Scroll down for hints and conversation about the puzzle for Wednesday, Jan. 21, 2026.
• Wordle Review No. 1,677. Scroll down for hints and conversation about the puzzle for Wednesday, Jan. 21, 2026.
• Connections Companion No. 955. Scroll down for hints and conversation about the puzzle for Wednesday, Jan. 21, 2026.
• Spelling Bee Forum. Feeling stuck on today’s puzzle? We can help.
• Visibly Disdainful. A debut by Jonathan Raksin? Sounds great!
• Wordle Review No. 1,676. Scroll down for hints and conversation about the puzzle for Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2026.
• Strands Sidekick No. 688. Scroll down for hints and conversation about the puzzle for Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2026.
• Connections Companion No. 954. Scroll down for hints and conversation about the puzzle for Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2026.
• Comes to Light. Find your “aha!” moment in Peter Gorman’s puzzle.
• Wordle Review No. 1,675. Scroll down for hints and conversation about the puzzle for Monday, Jan. 19, 2026.
• Strands Sidekick No. 687. Scroll down for hints and conversation about the puzzle for Monday, Jan. 19, 2026.
• Connections Companion No. 953. Scroll down for hints and conversation about the puzzle for Monday, Jan. 19, 2026.
• Use Your Words. Rena Cohen’s first Sunday puzzle gives something to everyone.
• Strands Sidekick No. 686. Scroll down for hints and conversation about the puzzle for Sunday, Jan. 18, 2026.
• Wordle Review No. 1,674. Scroll down for hints and conversation about the puzzle for Sunday, Jan. 18, 2026.
• Connections Companion No. 952. Scroll down for hints and conversation about the puzzle for Sunday, Jan. 18, 2026.
• Quaint Contraction. Adam Aaronson’s tough themeless puzzle will get your head spinning.
• Connections Companion No. 951. Scroll down for hints and conversation about the puzzle for Saturday, Jan. 17, 2026.
• Strands Sidekick No. 685. Scroll down for hints and conversation about the puzzle for Saturday, Jan. 17, 2026.
• Wordle Review No. 1,673. Scroll down for hints and conversation about the puzzle for Saturday, Jan. 17, 2026.
• Do Some Cleaning. Kyle Dolan opens our solving weekend.
• Connections Companion No. 950. Scroll down for hints and conversation about the puzzle for Friday, Jan. 16, 2026
• Wordle Review No. 1,672. Scroll down for hints and conversation about the puzzle for Friday, Jan. 16, 2026.
• Strands Sidekick No. 684. Scroll down for hints and conversation about the puzzle for Friday, Jan. 16, 2026.
• Visible Sign of Hard Work. Wendy L. Brandes and Barbara Lin make their collaboration debut in the New York Times Crossword.
• Connections Companion No. 949. Scroll down for hints and conversation about the puzzle for Thursday, Jan. 15, 2026.
• Strands Sidekick No. 683. Scroll down for hints and conversation about the puzzle for Thursday, Jan. 15, 2026.
• Wordle Review No. 1,671. Scroll down for hints and conversation about the puzzle for Thursday, Jan. 15, 2026.

Weather

• As Brutal Cold Settles In, Forecasters Warn a Major Storm Is Brewing for the South. One meteorologist warns that “the main ingredients” are fitting into place for a disruptive winter storm later this week.
• Northern Lights Could Be Visible Across Much of the U.S. Tonight. A severe solar storm could produce a visible show from Alabama to Northern California.
• As Arctic Air Barrels South, Here’s Where It May Snow. Abnormally blustery temperatures this weekend could usher in snowy weather across the East. Exactly where remains uncertain, but even the Deep South is on alert.
• Tracking Tropical Depression Nokaen. See the likely path and wind arrival times for Nokaen

International Home

• Has France’s President Finally Lost His Personal Touch With Trump? For years, Emmanuel Macron has used friendship to temper President Trump’s most impulsive moves. It’s unclear whether that can still work.

Polls

• Arizona Governor Election 2026: Latest Polls. Track the latest polls in the Arizona governor election.
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• Louisiana U.S. Senate Election 2026: Latest Polls. Track the latest polls in the Louisiana U.S. Senate election.
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• Virginia U.S. Senate Election 2026: Latest Polls. Track the latest polls in the Virginia U.S. Senate election.
• Texas U.S. Senate Election 2026: Latest Polls. Track the latest polls in the Texas U.S. Senate election.
• South Dakota U.S. Senate Election 2026: Latest Polls. Track the latest polls in the South Dakota U.S. Senate election.
• South Carolina U.S. Senate Election 2026: Latest Polls. Track the latest polls in the South Carolina U.S. Senate election.
• Ohio U.S. Senate Election 2026: Latest Polls. Track the latest polls in the Ohio U.S. Senate election.
• North Carolina U.S. Senate Election 2026: Latest Polls. Track the latest polls in the North Carolina U.S. Senate election.
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• Kentucky U.S. Senate Election 2026: Latest Polls. Track the latest polls in the Kentucky U.S. Senate election.
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• Florida U.S. Senate Election 2026: Latest Polls. Track the latest polls in the Florida U.S. Senate election.
• Alaska U.S. Senate Election 2026: Latest Polls. Track the latest polls in the Alaska U.S. Senate election.
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• Alaska Governor Election 2026: Latest Polls. Track the latest polls in the Alaska governor election.
• Independents Reach New High as Young Voters Avoid Labels. New data from Gallup shows overall gains for Democrats even though 45 percent of Americans do not identify with either political party.

Video

• Video Analysis of ICE Shooting Sheds Light on Contested Moments. Newly available videos and existing footage synchronized and assessed by The Times provides a millisecond by millisecond look at how an ICE officer ended up shooting and killing a motorist in Minneapolis.