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• Meet the Theremin, an Instrument You Don’t Have to Touch to Play. The theremin is an electronic instrument that emits a beguiling, oscillating sound. Thereminists use their hands to manipulate the electromagnetic fields around its two antennae to produce sound.
• How Fraud Swamped Minnesota’s Social Services System on Tim Walz’s Watch. Prosecutors say members of the Somali diaspora, a group with growing political power, were largely responsible. President Trump has drawn national attention to the scandal amid his crackdown on immigration.
• Two West Virginia Communities Bound Together by Grief. Red ribbons adorned one city, while blue ribbons hung in another town — all to honor the National Guard members who were attacked in Washington this week.
• Trump Promises to Pause Migration From ‘Third World Countries’ After D.C. Shooting. In social media posts, President Trump also seemed to target migrants who were already in the country.
• Trump’s Aid Cuts Are Replacing Fresh Food With Junk. The Trump administration has cut nearly a billion dollars in food aid, creating a scarcity crisis at food banks across the country. We traveled to Georgia to observe how a decades-old emergency food system supported by the U.S.D.A. is being eroded by government spending cuts.
• National Guard Soldier Dies After Being Shot in Washington. Another Guard member was in critical condition. The suspect is an Afghan man who once served in a paramilitary unit that worked with U.S. forces, officials said.
• National Guard Member Dies After Shooting Near White House. Army Specialist Sarah Beckstrom, a 20-year-old member of the West Virginia Army National Guard, died on Thursday from wounds suffered in an ambush. President Trump said she was “outstanding in every way.”
• For Shooting Suspect, a Long Path of Conflict From Afghanistan to America. Rahmanullah Lakanwal was among the Afghans who came to the United States after the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan. Earlier, he served in a paramilitary unit that worked with U.S. forces.
• Officials Identify National Guard Shooting Suspect. Officials said the gunman immigrated from Afghanistan in 2021 after working with C.I.A.-backed military units. The suspect drove across the country to carry out the attack. The two wounded members of the National Guard remain in critical condition.
• Here’s What We Know About the National Guard Shooting Victims. The father of one of the West Virginia National Guard members said his daughter had a “mortal wound.” A man at the other member’s home asked for prayers for his son.
• Maps: 6.0-Magnitude Earthquake Shakes Alaska Near Anchorage. View the location of the quake’s epicenter and shake area.
• Map: Small Quakes Shake Northern California on Thanksgiving Morning. View the location of the quake’s epicenter and shake area.
• Suspected Shooter Was in a ‘Zero Unit’ in Afghanistan. Here’s What We Know. The units were backed by the C.I.A. and trained to conduct missions in Afghanistan during the U.S. war in the country.
• Shooting Suspect Is Afghan Man Who Lived in Washington State, Official Says. The suspect accused of critically wounding two National Guard members was identified as a man living in Bellingham who had fled the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan.
• Colorado State Senator Is Killed in Car Crash. Faith Winter, a 45-year-old Democratic state senator and environmental activist, died on Wednesday night.
• D.C. Shooting Suspect Worked With C.I.A.-Backed Unit in Afghanistan. The C.I.A. and an Afghan intelligence official said that the shooter had been part of an Afghan “partner force” trained and supported by the agency in the southern province of Kandahar.
• Trump shuts the door to Afghans who face crises at home.
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• Trump Administration Pauses Immigration From Afghanistan After D.C. Shooting. The U.S. agency overseeing immigration made the announcement after an Afghan man shot two National Guard troops near the White House.
• What We Know About the Shooting of National Guard Troops. Two National Guard members are in critical condition after a man shot them near the White House on the eve of Thanksgiving.
• Before the Shooting, Some Troops and Officials Worried About the Guard’s Safety. In an internal memo, Guard commanders warned that troops were in a “heightened threat environment.”
• What Is Operation Allies Welcome, the Program That Gave Some Afghans Entry to the U.S.? The Biden administration set up the initiative after the Taliban retook power in Afghanistan in August 2021 for those who assisted U.S. troops.
• There have been numerous instances of violence near the White House over the years.
• Two National Guard Members Shot Near White House. Two members of the West Virginia National Guard were in critical condition after being shot near the White House on Wednesday. Officials said the gunman was in custody and appeared to have acted alone.
• North Carolina Can Use Republican-Friendly Congressional Map, Court Says. The district court ruling means that the party is one step closer to securing another seat in the U.S. House and retaining its majority, at the urging of President Trump.
• What is the National Guard?
• ‘I Wanted to Cry’: Gunshots Rattled Residents and Tourists. On the eve of Thanksgiving, bystanders said the sound of gunfire was followed by anxiety over who did the shooting.
• Differences Over Health Care and Ukraine Roil a Chaotic G.O.P. Congress. Republican lawmakers and the White House have unloaded on one another as post-shutdown tension over policy and performance spreads across Capitol Hill.
• ICE Detains Woman With Family Ties to White House Press Secretary. Bruna Caroline Ferreira, the mother of a nephew of the White House press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, was pulled over and arrested on her way to pick up her son from school, Ms. Ferreira’s lawyer said.
• Green Card Interviews End in Handcuffs for Spouses of U.S. Citizens. Agents are arresting foreign-born spouses when they report for the final step to obtain permanent residency, and charging them with visa violations that could result in deportation.
• State Court Rules School Vaccine Law Can’t Bar Religious Exemptions. The decision was handed down by a judge in West Virginia, which has one of the country’s strictest school vaccination laws and one of the highest vaccination rates.
• Judge Dismisses Georgia Election Interference Case Against Trump. The president has now seen three criminal cases against him dissolve since he was re-elected last year.
• Map: Small Quakes Shake Northern California. View the location of the quake’s epicenter and shake area.
• Detroit Has Its Own Thanksgiving Parade. The City Gets Bigheaded About It. The march down Woodward Avenue, which endured through the city’s hardest years, features papier-mâché caricatures that are uniquely Detroit.
• What the Pentagon’s Attack Videos Reveal About the Boat Strikes at Sea. The military has released 21 video clips of U.S. attacks on vessels it says are trafficking drugs. But they tell only part of the story.
• Robert L. Dear Jr., Who Killed 3 at Colorado Planned Parenthood, Dies in Prison. Four police officers were among those wounded by Mr. Dear in his 2015 rampage when he targeted the clinic in Colorado Springs.
• An Undefeated Football Team and a Missing Coach Who Became a Wanted Man. An Appalachian community in Virginia was electrified by its high school team’s winning streak. Until the team’s coach disappeared — and allegations against him surfaced.
• Transportation Chief Wants Healthier In-Flight Snack Options. Sean Duffy, who has been promoting greater decorum among air travelers, said he would like to see choices besides salty pretzels and buttery cookies.
• Senator Agrees to Pay Over $5 Million in Back Taxes to I.R.S. Senator Jim Justice, a Republican and former governor of West Virginia, agreed to pay just hours after the tax agency sued to collect unpaid taxes from 2009.
• Indiana Lawmakers Are Poised to Vote on Redistricting After All. Republican leaders in the legislature backtracked and said they would vote on a new congressional map that President Trump wants, though support remained uncertain.
• D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser Says She Won’t Run for a Fourth Term. She has led the heavily Democratic city through confrontations with President Trump, who earlier this year sought to impose federal control over the local Police Department.
• Times Analysis Finds Errors in Trump’s Supreme Court Filing That Calls for National Guard in Chicago. The Trump administration has claimed the police were slow to protect federal agents on Oct. 4, but videos and audio show that their rationale conflates hours of events involving a shooting, a protest, a car crash and a police radio call.
• Iranian Professor in Oklahoma Released 3 Days After His Detention by ICE. Vahid Abedini, who colleagues said was in the United States on an H-1B visa, was arrested on his way to a conference in Washington. It was unclear why.
• Prosecutor Used Flawed A.I. to Keep a Man in Jail, His Lawyers Say. The case is among the first in which a prosecutor is accused of filing court papers marred by A.I.-generated mistakes.
• U.S. Army Secretary Travels to U.A.E. for Meetings With Russian Envoys. The secretary, Daniel Driscoll, was in Geneva over the weekend for talks with a Ukrainian delegation.
• At a Congressional Hearing, Residents Detail the Trauma of the L.A. Raids. More than two dozen people described the upheaval the raids had caused in immigrant communities and aired accusations of mistreatment by agents.
• Serious Fire Risk Warning Is Issued for E-Bike Batteries. A federal watchdog said two models of batteries found in Rad Power Bikes should be immediately, and safely, disposed of. The bike company disputes the safety agency’s findings.
• How the Coast Guard Revised Its Policy on Swastikas, Nooses and Bullying. After days of backlash, the Homeland Security Department said hateful and violent behavior would not be tolerated.
• A San Diego Zoo Galápagos Tortoise, Thought to Be 141, Is Dead. Gramma, a Galápagos Tortoise described by her care specialists as “the queen of the zoo.” was euthanized last Thursday after suffering “ongoing bone conditions related to advanced age,” the San Diego Zoo said.
• Read the Ruling Dismissing the Charges Against James Comey. A federal judge threw out the criminal charges against the former F.B.I. director James Comey after finding that the prosecutor President Trump handpicked to bring the cases had been illegally appointed.
• Read the Ruling Dismissing the Charges Against Letitia James. A federal judge threw out the criminal charges against Letitia James, New York’s attorney general, after finding that the prosecutor President Trump handpicked to bring the cases had been illegally appointed.
• Send Troops to Venezuela? In Florida, the Question Splits a Community. Differences of opinion, complicated by unease over President Trump’s immigration policies, are creating tense divisions among Venezuelans in South Florida.
• Small Earthquake Shakes Northern California. View the location of the quake’s epicenter and shake area.
• A Stand Against Coal Could Push Oakland Toward Bankruptcy. After Oakland, Calif., reneged on a contract allowing coal shipments, a Kentucky company went under. Courts say the city must now pay hundreds of millions of dollars.
• The Best Baseball Team Behind Bars. The San Quentin Giants’ opponents are impressed. But what about the parole board that decides the players’ fate?
• Wealthy People Have Always Shaped Universities. This Time Is Different. A new set of billionaires with an interest in higher education has helped oust college presidents and even assisted the Trump administration in its effort to overhaul the industry.
• Woman Convicted in ‘Slender Man’ Stabbing Flees Group Home. The woman, Morgan Geyser, was last seen in a residential area of Madison, Wis., on Saturday evening. The police said she cut off a monitoring bracelet.
• Former News Anchor Sentenced to 10 Years in Prison Over Pandemic Fraud. The former anchor, Stephanie Hockridge, who once worked for a Phoenix station, participated in an elaborate scheme that illegally obtained more than $63 million, prosecutors said.
• U.S. Introduces New Female Crash-Test Dummy Standards. A female crash-test dummy to replace an outdated model largely based on male proportions would improve safety for women, who face higher fatality and injury risks on the road, officials said.
• Trump Moves to End Temporary Protected Status for Somalis. About 700 Somali immigrants are currently allowed to live and work in the United States under a program for people fleeing countries in turmoil.
• Mother Accused of Delaying Medical Care for Daughter Who Died on Road Trip. A diabetic 10-year-old girl slipped into a coma during a trip with her family and was brought to the hospital after she had died, the authorities said.
• F.B.I. Letters Send Shivers Through California’s Political Inner Circle. The indictment of Gov. Gavin Newsom’s former chief of staff shocked many power players in California. Now, some wonder how far the investigation will spread.
• Two Men. One Identity. They Both Paid the Price. Thousands of undocumented workers rely on fraudulent Social Security numbers. One of them belonged to Dan Kluver.
• Back Home, Voters Stand by Marjorie Taylor Greene After She Stood Up to Trump. Ms. Greene’s resignation blindsided her conservative Georgia district, which had stuck by her through ups and downs, including her split with the president.
• A Cancer Diagnosis Brings a New Season of Grief to the Kennedy Family. Tatiana Schlossberg, a daughter of Caroline Kennedy, revealed a terminal cancer diagnosis in an essay published on the anniversary of her grandfather’s assassination.
• 2 Texas Men Plotted Coup of Haitian Island to Enslave Women and Children, U.S. Says. The men, who planned to recruit homeless people for the invasion, took Haitian Creole classes and one enrolled in the U.S. Air Force to prepare for an attack by sailboat, prosecutors said.
• An A.I. Toy Bear Speaks of Sex, Knives and Pills, a Consumer Group Warns. The chatter left startled adults unsure whether they heard correctly. Testers warned that interactive toys like this one could allow children to stray into inappropriate exchanges.

Politics

• Trump Declares Venezuelan Airspace Closed. President Trump said days earlier that the United States could “very soon” expand its campaign of killing people at sea suspected of drug trafficking to attacking Venezuelan territory.
• Chaos Reins as Texas Awaits Supreme Court’s Ruling on Redistricting. A decision on the state’s new congressional map will affect five House seats and could help determine control of the chamber next year.
• Time Is Running Out in the Fight Over Congressional Maps. As partisan battles rage and courts wrangle proposals, the relentless pace of the calendar will force states to act — or land in murky legal ground.
• Republicans Flipped South Texas. Can a Moderate Tejano Singer Take It Back? The star power of Latin Grammy Award-winning Bobby Pulido has Democrats dreaming of taking a U.S. House district in South Texas, even though Republicans have redrawn it in their favor.
• Inside Trump’s Push to Make the White House Ballroom as Big as Possible. President Trump’s ever-growing vision has caused tension with contractors. His architect has taken a step back as the president personally manages the project.
• State Department Boosts Resources to Process Business Visas for South Koreans. The Trump administration has been trying to repair the damage from the detention of hundreds of South Koreans in an immigration raid in Georgia.
• Northwestern Agrees to Deal With Trump Administration. The university will pay $75 million to regain its research funding and end investigations, the second highest payment by a school facing pressure from the administration.
• Trump Pauses All Asylum Applications and Halts Visas for Afghans. They were the latest restrictive changes to the immigration system after this week’s shooting of two National Guard members.
• Trump Spoke by Phone Last Week With Maduro, Venezuela’s Leader. They discussed a possible meeting between the two of them, but nothing has been scheduled, and the administration continues to increase the military pressure on Venezuela.
• Trump’s Response to Shooting Shows Intensified Anti-Migrant Stance. The president is furiously demanding limits on migration and attacking ethnic groups as he steps up his efforts to equate immigration with crime and economic distress.
• ‘My Baby Girl Has Passed to Glory,’ Says Father of Guard Soldier Killed in D.C. Shooting. Specialist Sarah Beckstrom, who died on Thursday, was not initially excited to go to Washington, but had grown to enjoy the city. Staff Sgt. Andrew Wolfe remained in critical condition on Friday.
• After Teen’s Death, a Seattle Icon Confronts a New Label, Nuisance. For years, architects and design experts have resisted safety changes at Seattle’s Gas Works Park, but after a teenager died there this summer, his parents want it declared a public nuisance.
• ‘Hey, Lemonade!’: A Backstage Fixture at the Grand Ole Opry. Legions of backstage workers have helped the Grand Ole Opry thrive for a century in Nashville. Diana McBride is known for her lemonade — and much more.
• Trump Uses National Guard Shooting to Cast Suspicion on Refugees. President Trump claimed there were “a lot of problems with Afghans,” without providing evidence, as his administration announced that it was implementing new immigration guidelines.
• Recent Afghan Arrivals Fear Their Futures in the U.S. Are Now in Jeopardy. Many are anxious after the Trump administration vowed to undertake sweeping reviews of immigrants after the shooting of two National Guard troops.
• On Thanksgiving, an Unexpected Kind of Grace. SNAP benefits helped Leanna Nieves of Haverhill, Mass., buy Thanksgiving dinner for her family, but she used the day to set aside what have been chronic worries about the federal program.
• U.S. Reviews Biden Asylum Cases After Shooting. A Homeland Security Department spokeswoman accused the previous administration of failing to vet asylum applicants “on a massive scale.”
• Intelligence on U.S. Military’s Boat Strikes Is Limited. The U.S. military has killed more than 80 people since the campaign began in early September. But it does not know who specifically is being killed.
• Beekeepers, Farmers and the Fight to Save a Century-Old Research Hub. Industry groups and scientists have urged the Trump administration to reconsider its plan to close a renowned Agriculture Department center in Maryland and disperse its work around the country.
• Where the Waters Are Rough, a Fishing Town Confronts Trump’s Priorities. First, Newport, Ore., lost its Coast Guard rescue chopper. Then came the swirl of rumors and evidence that Immigration and Customs Enforcement was coming to town.
• Leaked Transcript of Witkoff Call Shows U.S. Deference to Russia. The White House envoy’s conversation suggests that President Trump is determined to make a deal to end the war in Ukraine, even if it is mostly on Russia’s terms.
• Trump Orders 500 More National Guard Members to D.C. After Shooting. The deployment also follows a monthslong debate about the role of the National Guard in American cities.
• U.S. to Press Europe and Other Allies on ‘Mass Migration,’ Document Says. American diplomats were told to raise U.S. concerns about “violent crimes associated with people of a migration background.”
• Dominican Republic Allows U.S. to Use Territory to Fight International Organized Crime. The Dominican leader, Luis Abinader, said the Pentagon could use restricted areas within the San Isidro Air Base and Las Américas International Airport for refueling and transporting equipment and technical personnel.
• U.S. Army Secretary’s Unusual Role in Ukraine Peace Negotiations. Daniel Driscoll has met with Ukrainian and Russian officials during a whirlwind of trips as the Trump administration pushes its latest proposal.
• What Are National Guard Troops Doing in Washington? The troops are deployed in the capital as part of the president’s crackdown on crime.
• ‘In Triage Every Day’: A Beleaguered Speaker Says He’s Overwhelmed. In a podcast interview, Speaker Mike Johnson opened up about the crushing demands of a job that he joked was his in name only.
• Colorado Judge Tells Immigration Agents to Stop Arrests Without Warrants. The ruling that immigration agents are acting illegally is the latest to rebuke the Trump administration’s tactics, but earlier orders have been blocked on appeal.
• Northwestern University Nears Deal to Resolve Its Conflict With the White House. The school, one of several to face pressure campaigns from the Trump administration, would pay a $75 million fine and have its research funding restored under terms of the agreement being discussed.
• Supreme Court Defers Ruling on Trump’s Effort to Oust Copyright Official. An appeals court panel had said that Shira Perlmutter, the head of the U.S. Copyright Office, could remain in her role as an adviser to Congress.
• Trump Defends Envoy’s Tactics Coaching Russia in Ukraine Negotiations. President Trump said the envoy, Steve Witkoff, was using standard negotiating methods, after he appeared to coach a Russian official in a leaked call.
• Fact Check: Is Trump Right About Affordability? President Trump has made misleading statements about the cost of a Thanksgiving meal, turkey and gasoline.
• SNAP Recipients Plan Thanksgiving, Down to Their Last Cent. Mary Schiely relies on SNAP benefits, as do many customers at the small grocery store where she works. The nation’s day of feasting is not the easiest for them.
• A Year Later, Donors to Trump’s Transition Come to Light. A 46-person list includes billionaires and people he went on to appoint to positions of power.
• Trump Administration Will Raise Prices for Foreign Tourists at National Parks. The price increases comes as more and more international travelers are choosing to stay away from the United States and amid turmoil at the National Park Service.
• Fears About A.I. Prompt Talks of Super PACs to Rein In the Industry. As artificial intelligence companies prepare to pour money into the midterm elections, some in the A.I. world are hatching plans of their own to curb the industry’s influence.
• School Groups Sue to Stop Dismantling of the Education Department. The new complaint is aimed at changes the Trump administration would make to shift significant functions from the department to other federal agencies.
• The ‘Wild Card’ in the Comey and James Cases: Will Judges Pick the Next Prosecutor? The dismissal of indictments that President Trump sought against his perceived foes opens the door for federal judges to pick a new U.S. attorney to replace a Trump loyalist.
• Trump’s Retribution Push Has Expanded Even as It Hits Legal Barriers. A judge dismissed indictments against two of the president’s foes, but a new Pentagon investigation of a prominent Democrat shows how he is using a whole-of-government approach to punish those who cross him.
• Shorter Days, Signs of Fatigue: Trump Faces Realities of Aging in Office. President Trump has always used his stamina and energy as a political strength. But that image is getting harder for him to sustain.
• Swalwell Files Suit Against Housing Official, Claiming Privacy Law Violations. The lawsuit claims that repeated disclosures by Bill Pulte, the director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, were intended to damage prominent Democrats over their criticism of the president.
• Once Foes of Obamacare, Some Republicans Push to Protect It. A small cadre of politically vulnerable Republicans in Congress is breaking with the party to push for the extension of health care tax credits for a program the G.O.P. reviles.
• Democrats Say F.B.I. Is Investigating Them Over Illegal Orders Video. The move came one day after the Pentagon said it was investigating Senator Mark Kelly for his participation in the video.
• Fired Employees Say Government Won’t Rehire Them After Shutdown. A group of former General Services Administration workers are accusing the administration of breaking the law in refusing to reinstate them.
• How the Ukraine Peace Plan Is Evolving. President Trump’s plan for a settlement of Russia’s war in Ukraine, which alarmed the Ukrainians and Europeans, has evolved since it was first proposed last week. David Sanger, White House and national security correspondent for The New York Times, explains what these changes could mean for its prospects.
• Threat of Fuel Shortages in Northwest Prompts Emergency Decrees. The governors of Washington and Oregon have waived some regulations to ease fuel deliveries while crews work to repair a major pipeline.
• Republicans Fight With Trump’s Team Over Ukraine Talks. Senator Mitch McConnell and several other lawmakers have accused President Trump’s team of appeasing the Kremlin, warning that doing so would not lead to lasting peace.
• Justice Dept. Whistleblower Joins Legal Group Battling the Trump Administration. Erez Reuveni, a lawyer who once defended the president’s immigration policies in court, will now work for an advocacy group that sues to stop them.
• Drug Arrests and Gun Seizures Fell as Homeland Security Pursued Immigration. Internal documents reveal the impact on crime fighting as the Trump administration diverts special agents to its mass deportation agenda.
• $10 Billion and Counting: Trump Administration Snaps Up Stakes in Private Firms. The Trump administration is trading billions of dollars of taxpayer money for ownership stakes in companies. The unusual practice shows no sign of slowing.
• Judge Dismisses Cases Against James Comey and Letitia James. A federal judge threw out criminal charges against the former F.B.I. director James Comey and New York’s attorney general, Letitia James, on Monday.
• How Rubio Tried to Bring a Pro-Russia Peace Plan to Middle Ground. While President Trump attacked the Ukrainians, Secretary of State Marco Rubio flew to Geneva to seize control of negotiations that were going off the rails.
• Trump Orders Construction of A.I. Platform to Use Troves of Government Data for Research. The executive order signed on Monday directs the Department of Energy’s national laboratories to create the A.I. platform in partnership with A.I. companies.
• What to Know About Trump’s Peace Plan for Russia and Ukraine. U.S. officials have responded to a storm of criticism about the plan by insisting that it is still a work in progress.
• Trump Moves Toward Labeling Parts of Muslim Brotherhood as Terrorists. The president’s order took no immediate action, but opened the door to financial and travel sanctions for members of the movement in Egypt, Jordan and Lebanon.
• Chuck Schumer Faces Pushback From a ‘Fight Club’ of Senate Democrats. A group of liberal senators is quietly challenging the minority leader over his approach to the midterms and President Trump, in a sign of the party’s deep frustration.
• Trump Is Considering Push to Extend Obamacare Subsidies. President Trump has not made a final decision. But he is under pressure to address the cost of health care, which for many Americans will jump if the subsidies expire.
• Former Senator Doug Jones Enters Alabama Governor’s Race. The move sets up a possible rematch between Mr. Jones, the last Democrat to win statewide office in Alabama, and Tommy Tuberville, the Republican who ousted him from the Senate in 2020.
• U.S. Again Asks New York Court to Release Epstein Grand Jury Materials. The Justice Department cited the newly passed Epstein Files Transparency Act to argue that the papers should be made public.
• Pentagon Opens Inquiry Into Senator Mark Kelly Over What Hegseth Calls ‘Seditious’ Video. The defense secretary called the senator’s remarks urging troops not to follow illegal orders “despicable, reckless, and false.”
• He Saw the Best of America and Then Fought for Russia in Ukraine. Col. Andrei Demurenko’s war story began at Fort Leavenworth, Kan., at a moment of hope and peace. It ended with a mortar blast in Ukraine.
• X Displays Users’ Locations, Fueling Scrutiny Over Political Accounts. Online sleuths quickly found that some accounts posting about U.S. politics, including those in support of the MAGA movement, appeared not to be based in the United States.
• Top U.S. Military Officer to Visit Caribbean as Trump Pressures Venezuela. Gen. Dan Caine is making the trip as President Trump is said to have approved plans for covert action in Venezuela.
• Trump Calls Ukraine Ungrateful, Again, for U.S. Support in War With Russia. President Trump renewed his criticism of Ukraine’s government as emissaries from Kyiv and Washington met to discuss a plan to end the war.
• As Trump’s Inquisitors Face Scrutiny, a Divisive Figure Could Play a New Role. The prosecutor running an inquiry into those who investigated President Trump has established a grand jury under Judge Aileen M. Cannon, whose scuttling of the documents case made her a White House favorite.
• Rubio Insists U.S. Authored the Ukraine Peace Plan. The comment from Secretary of State Marco Rubio came after a group of U.S. lawmakers claimed that he said the plan was a Russian initiative, not a U.S. proposal.
• Pabst, Pamphlets and a Petition: A Harvard-Yale Tailgate in the Trump Era. Students and alumni set aside rivalries at the 141st Harvard-Yale football game on Saturday to summon support against attacks on higher education under the Trump administration.
• Fact-Checking Trump’s Latest Claims on Affordability. The president has made misleading statements about the cost of a Thanksgiving meal, breakfast and gasoline and about prices in general.
• Why Republicans Are Fighting About the Nazis. Tensions over right-wing antisemitism have burst to the forefront of Republican politics, and show signs of becoming a fierce point of contention in the midterms and beyond.
• Patel Under Scrutiny for Use of SWAT Teams to Protect His Girlfriend. The F.B.I. director’s travel on government jets has contributed to growing questions inside the administration about whether he is using taxpayer-funded resources inappropriately.
• For Marjorie Taylor Greene, a Rough Education in MAGA Politics. The Georgia congresswoman strove to be both the ultimate Trump warrior and to be taken seriously. She wound up in political exile.
• Greene’s Exit Deals a Blow to G.O.P., Putting Rifts on Display. Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene’s sudden resignation underscored the fragility of the G.O.P. majority, and exposed deep discontent on the right going into the midterm elections.
• Abortion Is Once Again Illegal in North Dakota. On Friday, a state Supreme Court ruling reinstated a near-total abortion ban, reversing a judge’s earlier decision.
• In the House, Censures Proliferate, Reflecting a Poisonous Climate. Formal reprimands, once rare, dominated the chamber’s agenda this week, prompting lawmakers in both parties to call for changes to the way the House handles such actions.

World

• A.I. and the Trillion-Dollar Question. Even the companies building the technology don’t seem exactly sure where it’s headed.
• An Asia-Pacific Showdown. China and Japan are in a diplomatic feud over Taiwan, with President Trump in the middle.
• Crunchtime for Europe on Ukraine. President Trump’s peace plan is forcing the continent to confront some hard choices about military power.
• Tracking Freezing Temperatures Across the World. See detailed maps of the latest temperature forecasts across the world.
• Jimmy Cliff, Jamaican Reggae Icon, Is Dead. Jimmy Cliff, the Jamaican reggae singer who helped popularize the genre around the world with songs like “You Can Get It If You Really Want” and “The Harder They Come,” has died. He was 81.
• How the Peace Plan Looks to Ukraine and Russia. Our correspondents discuss the prospects for President Trump’s plan to end the war.
• Denmark’s Migration Model. The country is getting attention for its tough asylum policies. Can they serve as a bulwark against the far right?

Africa

• Lured by Jobs, They Ended Up ‘Going to War’ for Russia. The South African government is investigating how more than a dozen men unwittingly ended up on the front line in Russia’s war on Ukraine.
• Guinea-Bissau Installs Military Ruler After Claims of a ‘Fabricated’ Coup. The opposition has accused the president of putting a general in charge of the government so that he could stay in power.
• Trump Says South Africa Is Not Invited to G20 Summit in U.S. in 2026. The president did not attend this year’s annual gathering in South Africa, which has been a frequent target of his attacks.
• Army Takes Control in Guinea-Bissau Amid Apparent Coup. The West African nation had recently held a presidential election in which the main opposition party was barred from the ballot.
• What’s Really Going On With Crime in South Africa. Police statistics in South Africa dispute President Trump’s claim that Afrikaners are being targeted in a genocide, but the high murder rate includes victims of all backgrounds. John Eligon, our Johannesburg bureau chief, traveled with several patrol groups in communities of South Africa to explore how the country is dealing with crime.
• Abducted Girls Are Freed in Nigeria, Where Violence Worsens Hunger. Two dozen schoolgirls were freed on Tuesday after being kidnapped in Kebbi state. A wave of mass kidnappings has spread terror and deepened the nation’s hunger crisis.
• Violence Is Driving Catastrophic Hunger in Nigeria, U.N. Report Says. Africa’s most populous nation was already facing one of the world’s biggest hunger crises. It’s getting much worse.
• A Volcano in Ethiopia Spews Ash Into Asia, Disrupting Flights. The ash cloud drifted over northern India, causing some flight delays and cancellations, and continued toward China.
• The Auto Industry Was Warned: Battery Recycling Was Poisoning People. Despite decades of evidence on the toxic effects of lead battery recycling, companies opted not to act and blocked efforts to clean up the industry.
• Recycling Lead for U.S. Car Batteries Is Poisoning People. Recycling lead for U.S. car batteries is poisoning children — and we know because we tested them. Will Fitzgibbon, a reporter at The Examination, describes how children in Nigeria developed lead levels associated with lifelong brain damage, and how factory workers told us they were coughing up black dust.
• Can the World Move On Without the U.S.? G20 Leaders Gave It a Shot. With the United States boycotting the summit, other nations sought to strike new deals, and some took a tougher tone with President Trump.

Americas

• Latin American Leaders Face Both Trump and Voters Deported by the U.S. The upcoming election in Honduras shows how politicians must balance cooperation with the Trump administration with their obligation to undocumented citizens in the United States who may be deported.
• Trump Announces Pardon for Honduran Ex-President Convicted in Drug Case. President Trump said he would pardon Juan Orlando Hernández, who prosecutors said partnered with cocaine traffickers as Honduras’s president and is serving a 45-year sentence.
• Trump Endorsement Roils Already Tense Election in Honduras. On Sunday, voters will choose between a left-wing presidential candidate and two conservatives, one backed by President Trump. The results are likely to be bitterly contested.
• Why Is the U.S. Threatening Venezuela? Venezuela doesn’t play a large role in the drug trade to the United States, so what is motivating the massive military buildup? Julian E. Barnes, who reports on intelligence and international security, discusses the issues with our senior writer Katrin Bennhold.
• Venezuela’s Nobel Winner Pushes False Claims About Maduro, Critics Say. Opposition leader Maria Corina Machado faces criticism that she is exaggerating threats posed by Venezuela’s leader to justify U.S. force to overthrow him.
• Bolsonaro to Start Serving 27-Year Sentence Over Coup Plot. Brazil’s Supreme Court court ordered former President Jair Bolsonaro to begin serving a prison term for conspiring to remain in power after losing the last election.
• Jair Bolsonaro Is Arrested After Tampering With Ankle Monitor. Jair Bolsonaro, the former president of Brazil who is on house arrest, told the authorities that he took a soldering iron to his ankle monitor. He was arrested days before his 27-year prison sentence was set to begin.
• Brazil Defied Trump and Won. President Trump tried to keep the former Brazilian president, Jair Bolsonaro, out of prison. He failed, and now he is moving on.
• Russian Disinformation Comes to Mexico, Seeking to Rupture U.S. Ties. A U.S. government cable said that Kremlin-run outlets had scaled up their efforts across Latin America, seeking to turn people against the United States and garner support for Russia.
• How a Sabotaged Ankle Monitor Ended Bolsonaro’s House Arrest. Shortly before he was expected to start serving a 27-year sentence, Brazil’s former president took a soldering iron to his tracking device.
• Haitians Rejoice Over Their First World Cup Berth in 50 Years. The national team’s success in landing a World Cup slot gave Haitians around the world a momentary reprieve from their country’s deep crises.

Asia Pacific

• Did Pope Leo Pray in Istanbul’s Blue Mosque? Not Visibly, at Least. Leo XIV is being closely watched on an inaugural trip to Turkey and Lebanon to spread a message of peace and outreach.
• As Cyclone Deaths Pass 120, Sri Lanka Is Overwhelmed by Rescue Demand. Rescue efforts across the nation of 23 million have been hampered by disruptions in transport and telecommunications.
• Deadly Hong Kong Fire Is a Test of Beijing’s Rule in the City. After Beijing reshaped the political order in Hong Kong in its image, the fire has become a test of how well that new system can govern in a crisis.
• Where Hundreds of Undocumented Migrants Have Died in Custody. Malaysia launched a “year of enforcement” in response to a surge in undocumented migrants, many of them from Myanmar. Some faced nightmarish fates.
• Trapped for Two Hours in a Burning Tower: One Resident’s Account. In his own words, William Li, a resident of the Hong Kong apartment complex that became an inferno, recounted how he and two neighbors survived until help arrived.
• Hope for Survivors Fades as Hong Kong Fire Rescue Efforts Cease. The rescue operation in the Hong Kong fire disaster ceased on Friday, two days after the blaze started. At least 128 were killed and 200 others remained unaccounted for, local officials said.
• Officials Had Been Warned for Over a Year Before Hong Kong Fire. Residents of Wang Fuk Court apartments had raised concerns about flammable foam panels and scaffold netting, but the government did not take decisive action.
• Cyclone Ditwah Triggers Deadly Rains in Sri Lanka. Several dozen people in Sri Lanka have been killed in storms that intensified with the approach of Cyclone Ditwah, the country’s deadliest natural disaster since 2017.
• Worker Cleared of Stealing Snacks From Office Fridge After 2 Years in Court. A South Korean man accused of stealing a Choco Pie and a mini custard cake was acquitted after a prosecution that drew widespread criticism.
• Aftershocks of an Epic Art Crime Reverberate in Japan. At least four works by a famous convicted forger have been discovered in Japan. Transparency about the mistakes, however, has sparked as much curiosity as scandal.
• Sri Lanka on High Alert as Cyclone Death Toll Reaches 56. Heavy rainfall was forecast for nearly all of the island nation as Cyclone Ditwah churned northwest toward India.
• These Scam Centers Were Blown Up. Was It All for Show? Myanmar’s junta made a grand display of demolishing buildings that hosted the centers, even broadcasting the explosions. But the scammers have found new homes.
• Hong Kong Residents Reel From Deadliest Fire in Decades. Dozens were killed in a fire that engulfed several apartment buildings in Hong Kong. Firefighters were still battling the blaze on Thursday, and dozens of people were still missing.
• Images From the Deadly High-Rise Fire in Hong Kong. The blaze tore through an apartment complex, killing at least 55 people. Dozens more are believed to be missing in what remains of the buildings.
• Hong Kongers Volunteer Goods and Time to Help Fire Victims. Residents from across the city have quickly organized to donate food, water, clothing and other supplies in Tai Po for the many displaced people.
• Hong Kong’s Worst Fire in Generations Fuels Scrutiny of Safety Lapses. The authorities said flammable netting and foam boards may have fueled the city’s deadliest blaze in nearly 70 years, killing at least 65 and prompting arrests.
• ‘No Alarm Went Off’: Hong Kong Fire Survivor Recounts Harrowing Escape. Many windows were covered, preventing residents from seeing the fire and smoke, one survivor said.
• Footage Shows Early Stages of Hong Kong Fire. An eyewitness filmed the early moments of a fire that grew into a deadly blaze, consuming an apartment complex in Hong Kong.
• Hong Kong Arrests 3 Tied to Construction Company After Deadly Fire. The police said that building materials used by the company for the work at Wang Fuk Court may not have been up to fire safety standards. The police did not identify the company or who was arrested.
• Three people tied to a construction company were arrested on suspicion of manslaughter.
• Deadly, fast-moving fire is less likely in Midtown Manhattan, experts say. The area’s high-rises have robust safety features and are not as densely packed as those in Hong Kong, making them less susceptible to blazes.
• Smoke, a Knock on the Door and a Battle to Escape. Residents describe how a blaze in a high-rise building in Hong Kong quickly spread, taking many by surprise and trapping an unknown number of people in the burning buildings.
• The fire in Hong Kong shared similarities with a fire at the Grenfell Tower in London.
• Bamboo scaffolding, like cladding, can create an unforgiving challenge for firefighters, an expert says.
• The Hong Kong Fire Shared Similarities With One at the Grenfell Tower in London. In the Grenfell Tower blaze, a combustible element called cladding that ran up the outside of the 24-story building allowed the fire to jump from floor to floor.
• What to Know About the Fire at a Hong Kong Apartment Complex. Firefighters struggled to contain the blaze in the high-rise buildings. At least 36 people were killed, and many more were feared trapped inside the towers.
• Tai Po is a crucial link between Hong Kong and mainland China. The city
• The last time Hong Kong had a major fire was 2008. The last five-alarm fire in Hong Kong engulfed a 15-story building in the Mong Kong district, killing four people.
• Thailand Deploys Military to Rescue People Stranded by Deadly Floods. Troops, helicopters and boats from Thailand’s military on Wednesday carried out rescue and relief efforts in southern areas devastated by floods that have killed at least 33 people and displaced more than two million others over the past week.
• Jakarta Shoots to No. 1 in World Population Ranking From No. 33. How? The capital of Indonesia surpassed Tokyo as the world’s most populous city after the United Nations overhauled how it measures urban populations.
• Fire Engulfs High-Rise Buildings in Hong Kong. At least four people died after a blaze tore through high-rise apartment towers in Hong Kong on Wednesday, a government spokeswoman said.
• Deadly Flooding in Thailand Prompts Rescues and Evacuations. The military sent troops, helicopters and boats to rescue stranded people. At least 33 people have been killed and more than two million displaced over the past week.
• Huge Fire Engulfs Apartment Buildings in Hong Kong. Firefighters tried to douse the blaze at an apartment complex in the city’s northern Tai Po district, which killed at least four people.
• Spat With China Becomes an Asset for Japan’s New Leader. Japan’s prime minister, Sanae Takaichi, is not backing off from comments about Taiwan that enraged China. Many of Japan’s voters like her stance.
• Taiwan’s President to Seek an Extra $40 Billion for Military. President Lai Ching-te says the spending, which must be approved by the island’s legislature, would fund purchases of arms from the United States.
• China and Japan, With Trump in the Middle, Stoke an Existential Showdown. With Japan’s new leader refusing to back down from China’s show of force and claims on Taiwan, Xi Jinping picks up the phone to try to pry the U.S.-Japan alliance apart.
• U.S. Air Force Searches for Fallen Reaper Drone in Yellow Sea. The MQ-9 Reaper was conducting a routine mission when it fell into the ocean on Monday near a U.S. military base in South Korea.
• Warmed by Japan’s Support, Taiwan Takes Up Sushi Diplomacy. China closed off Japanese seafood imports after Japan’s new leader declared strong support for Taiwan. Suddenly, sushi is everywhere on Taiwanese social media.
• Vietnam Reels From Deadly Rainy Season. Cleanup efforts are underway in Vietnam, where government officials on Sunday said more than 90 people had been killed from flooding and landslides in the past week.
• Dharmendra, Bollywood Leading Man Who Played Heroes and Thieves, Dies at 89. In a career spanning nearly seven decades and more than 300 productions, the actor became one of India’s best known and most versatile screen stars.
• Vietnam’s Year of Floods, Mud and Death. Scientists suggested that climate change could make central Vietnam a global hot spot for destructive storms. This year has seemed to prove the point.
• Malaysia to Bar Children Under 16 From Social Media, Echoing Australian Ban. The announcement on Sunday, which was light on details, came weeks before a similar action takes effect in Australia.
• Titanic Passenger’s Pocket Watch Sells for $2.3 Million. The watch belonged to Isidor Straus, a co-owner of Macy’s who was traveling first class on the Titanic with his wife when it sank in April 1912.

Australia

• Australian Senator Suspended for Burqa-Wearing Stunt in Parliament. Pauline Hanson, the head of the far-right One Nation party, wore the garment as a prop to push legislation to bar the garment in public places.

Canada

• Fresh Reporting on Asylum Seekers at the U.S.-Canadian Border. Canada has made its border with the United States tougher to cross. Here’s what we learned through monthlong reporting on a single case.
• Canada Lifts Climate Laws for Alberta Oil Sands, Planning Pipeline. Prime Minister Mark Carney reached a tentative deal with the province as part of his program to curb the country’s economic dependence on the United States.
• As Hopes for a Trade Deal With Trump Vanish, Canada Tackles Tariff Fallout. Prime Minister Mark Carney announced curbs on steel imports, a new tariff and help with steel and lumber freight costs in a bid to aid Canadian industries.
• Canadian Olympian Faces Two-Year Swimming Ban. Penny Oleksiak, 25, who has won seven Olympic medals, was sanctioned under antidoping rules. Her suspension ends before the 2028 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.
• Tracking Freezing Temperatures Across Canada. See detailed maps of the latest temperature forecasts across Canada.
• She Tried to Leave America. She Entered an Immigration Hall of Mirrors. After more than 20 years in the U.S., an Eritrean mother and nurse tried to self-deport to Canada. She found herself in a Texas detention center instead.
• Tariffs and Strike Drive ‘Once-in-a-Lifetime’ Boost for Canadian Wine. The trade war with the United States, bans on U.S. wine and liquor imports and a recent distributor strike in British Columbia have Canadians giving their homegrown wines another look.
• ‘Find a Job,’ Ontario Premier Tells Protester While Passing a New Housing Law. During a raucous hearing, the Ontario legislature passed a bill backed by Premier Doug Ford meant to expedite housing development and the eviction of tenants who are behind on their rent.

Europe

• In Firing His No. 2, Zelensky Loses Both a Negotiator and an Enforcer. Andriy Yermak had ensured internal discipline in Ukraine’s wartime politics. He also led the country’s peace negotiations, which now must go on without him.
• The Ukrainians Stuck in Russia’s New Gulag. Even if a peace can be reached, it won’t be easy to solve the problem of Ukrainian civilians languishing in Russian jails. This is one prisoner’s story.
• Russia Bombards Ukraine for Nearly 10 Hours in a Deadly Assault. The attack came as U.S. officials were expected to hold peace talks with Ukrainian and Russian officials in the coming days.
• What to Know About Andriy Yermak. The chief of staff to President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine was seen as the second-most powerful person in Ukraine. He was dismissed on Friday.
• 3 Rebel Nuns Can Stay in Abbey, if They Give Up Social Media. After the octogenarian nuns refused to return to their senior center, the abbot has finally folded. But he has some conditions.
• Zelensky’s Top Aide Resigns Amid Widening Corruption Scandal. Andriy Yermak, President Volodymyr Zelensky’s chief of staff and top peace negotiator, became the highest-ranking casualty of an investigation into a vast kickback scheme.
• Israeli Raid in Southern Syria Kills at Least 13, Syrian Officials Say. The raid appeared to be one of Israel’s deadliest cross-border incursions since Bashar al-Assad, Syria’s former dictator, was ousted last year.
• Property Tied to Ukraine’s Lead Negotiator Is Searched in Corruption Case. The scrutiny of Andriy Yermak, President Volodymyr Zelensky’s chief of staff, could disrupt U.S.-led peace talks and further rattle Ukrainian politics.
• Louvre to Raise Ticket Prices for Americans and Some Other Foreigners. From Jan. 14, visitors to the museum from outside the European Economic Area will pay 45 percent more for entry to help finance its ambitious renovation plan.
• Putin Defends Witkoff Against Accusations of Pro-Russia Bias. The Russian leader called the U.S. special envoy “an intelligent man” who is properly representing his country in peace negotiations.
• Russia Labels Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Group as Terrorist Organization. A legal assault against the opposition leader’s movement has deepened since his death in prison last year.
• eFrance Creates Voluntary Military Service as Europe Faces Russian Threat. The effort is aimed at young people and came after an army chief angered many by saying the country must accept the possible loss of children in a future war.
• The British Public Thinks Immigration Is Up. It’s Actually Down, Sharply. Net migration to Britain has fallen by almost 80 percent from its 2023 peak, according to data released on Thursday.
• Pope Leo Visits Turkey on His First Trip as Pontiff. The pope started his six-day trip, which will also include a visit to Lebanon.
• How Europe Lost Its Voice on Ukraine, Then Tried to Get It Back. European leaders were blindsided by President Trump’s 28-point-plan to end the Ukraine war, setting off a dash for influence.
• Top U.S. Negotiator Warned Europeans That Russia Is Stockpiling Missiles. Daniel P. Driscoll, the U.S. Army secretary, used the growing threat from Moscow as a way to sell a quick peace deal unfavorable to Ukraine.
• Dubrovnik, Known for Its Beauty, Faces a Mound of New Trash. Officials in Dubrovnik, Croatia, say the strong currents of the Adriatic Sea washed ashore a vast amount of garbage, mostly from Albania, during a recent storm.
• U.K. Budget Plan Calms Markets and Labour Faithful. Will It Appeal to Voters? The plan presented by the chancellor of the Exchequer, Rachel Reeves, called for spending increases and higher taxes on the wealthy and the middle class.
• Italy Passes a Femicide Law, Seeking to Prevent Violence Against Women. Murders of women killed for misogynistic reasons will now be classified as femicide. Campaigners say a broader cultural shift is still needed.
• Pope Leo Blesses Rave Crowd in Slovakia. Pope Leo XIV blessed hundreds of people at a rave in Slovakia via a video message in early November. The event was hosted by Guilherme Peixoto, a Portuguese priest who doubles as an electronic D.J.
• Pope Leo Blesses Rave-Goers in Slovakia. A papal video message appeared before a crowd of hundreds, as Guilherme Peixoto, a priest who doubles as an electronic D.J., put on a show.
• France’s Ex-President Loses Graft Appeal, Weeks After He Was Jailed in Separate Case. France’s highest court has upheld a conviction against Nicolas Sarkozy, who led France until 2012. It comes weeks after he was jailed in a different fraud trial.
• The Question Hanging Over Peace Talks: What Will Putin Accept? A U.S. proposal may cross a number of red lines for the Russian leader, who sees little to lose and much potentially to gain from continuing to fight.
• ‘You Start Getting Desperate’: How It Feels to Be Young and Jobless in Britain. Rising youth unemployment is one of the challenges that will affect the success of the British chancellor’s economic approach as she unveils a crucial budget on Wednesday.
• The New Putin Calendar Is Here: ‘A Man for Every Season’ January shows the Russian leader astride a snowmobile. For February, he flips a judo partner. In August, he offers advice: “My recipe for energy: Sleep little, work a lot and don’t whine.”
• Tracking Freezing Temperatures Across Europe. See detailed maps of the latest temperature forecasts across Europe.
• Dutch Historian Accuses BBC of Censoring Trump Criticism. Rutger Bregman said his comment that President Trump was the “most openly corrupt president in American history” was removed before his lecture was broadcast on Tuesday.
• Minority Alawites Protest in Syria After Sectarian Attacks. The demonstrations followed unrest over the weekend in Homs, Syria’s third-largest city, which set off reprisal attacks on Alawites, a community once favored by the ousted Assad regime.
• Joan Branson, Richard Branson’s Wife of 35 Years, Dies at 80. Mr. Branson, the Virgin Atlantic founder, announced her death in an Instagram post.
• Even the U.K. Prime Minister Can’t Resist ‘6-7’ Prime Minister Keir Starmer egged on first graders doing the viral gesture, then apologized when told the school prohibited it. “I didn’t start it, Miss,” he said.
• Four More Arrested in Connection With Louvre Heist. A Paris prosecutor said two men and two women were arrested as part of an investigation into the robbery at the museum.
• Kyiv Residents Doubt Peace Talks After Deadly Russian Barrage. A large-scale Russian aerial barrage on the Ukrainian capital killed several people on Tuesday. The attack came hours after a round of peace talks between U.S. and Ukrainian mediators that ended in Geneva.
• As Trump Pushes to End Ukraine War, Europe Toils to Have a Say. Initially cut out of development of the 28-point peace plan, European leaders are now trying to recast its pro-Russia slant. So far, it seems to be working.
• Russia Bombards Kyiv After Peace Talks End in Geneva. A missile-and-drone barrage killed at least six people in Ukraine’s capital, officials said, hours after officials said they had made some headway on a peace proposal.
• BBC Chair Tries to Calm Political ‘Firestorm’ Over Trump Edit. Samir Shah defended Britain’s public broadcaster at a parliamentary committee hearing on Monday, while apologizing (again) for the misleading edit of a Jan. 6 speech by President Trump.
• Army Chief Ignites Uproar After Saying France Must ‘Accept Losing Our Children’ The furor erupted as President Emmanuel Macron is expected to present a plan for paid, voluntary military service to bolster the armed forces against the threat from Russia.
• He Wants a New Start. So He Is Taking the Hardest Taxi Test in the World. In a world of GPS and car-hailing apps, some Londoners still want to drive a traditional black cab. First, they must memorize thousands of city streets.
• Grisly Killings of a Married Couple Spark New Sectarian Unrest in Syria. The government acted quickly to tamp down reprisals in the central city of Homs as it tries to manage repeated waves of bloodshed involving minority groups.
• Putin’s Win-Win: Take a Russia-Friendly Peace Deal, or Fight On. The Kremlin’s leader is standing back as Ukraine and Europe scramble to negotiate changes to a U.S. proposal to end the war.
• Before Berlin’s Cowboys Are Booted Off Their Land, One Final Hoedown. The town looks straight out of the Wild West, with saloons, sheriffs and cowboy hats galore, but in this endangered patch of the American frontier, everyone is speaking German.
• U.S. and Ukraine Expected to Press on With Peace Plan Talks. Washington and Kyiv said that “highly productive” discussions over a proposal to end the war with Russia would continue. But details remained unclear.
• Ukrainians React to Peace Plan to End Russia’s War. American and Ukrainian officials said they had made progress in Geneva on a plan to end the war with Russia. Some Ukrainians dismissed the early draft as a concession.
• Denmark Offers Lessons as Europe Toughens Up on Immigration. Like other European leaders, British Labour politicians are borrowing from Denmark’s restrictive asylum policy. One of its architects cautions that “balance” is necessary.
• The Danish Model for Immigration Crackdown. For European governments, Denmark’s hard-line immigration policy is a model for how to get a grip on contentious issue and stay in power. Our reporter Jeanna Smialek reports from Copenhagen on the the effects of the policy.
• Fire Threatens Iran’s Ancient Forest, a World Heritage Site. Iran has been battling its worst drought in more than six decades. A blaze in the north has now eaten through parts of the old treasure.
• Motorcyclist Dies in ‘Globe of Death’ Circus Accident in Italy. Christián Quezada Vasquez died after losing control during a stunt in which motorcyclists ride around a spherical cage, the circus company said.
• In His Tightest Corner Yet, Will Zelensky Rise to the Occasion? Over nearly four years of wartime leadership, analysts say the Ukrainian leader has repeatedly played weak hands wisely. A U.S. peace plan may be his biggest test.
• Democracy Is in Trouble. This Region Is Turning to Its People. A small corner of Belgium is recruiting ordinary citizens to help create policies. Participants say it’s renewed their faith in government.
• Ukraine and U.S. Set for Talks on Trump’s Plan to End War With Russia. Meetings in Geneva will include European officials, as the Trump administration’s pushes Kyiv to accept a 28-point peace plan to end the war with Russia.
• In Russian-Occupied Mariupol, Everything Ukrainian Must Go. Russia is remaking Mariupol, which was devastated by a brutal siege in 2022. Ukrainians seeking to move back are finding it hard to recognize the city, or to reclaim their property.

Middle East

• Beaten and Starved: Israeli Hostage Recounts 2 Years of Captivity. Segev Kalfon said he endured physical abuse and mind games during 738 days in the hands of Hamas. Now, he asks why it took so long for Israel to bring him home.
• Syria Tiptoes Toward Transitional Justice. Fourteen people are on trial, charged with crimes related to an outbreak of sectarian violence under the new government. The abuses of the old Assad regime still await a reckoning.
• Video Shows Israeli Forces Killing Militants Who Appeared to Surrender. Israeli security forces on Thursday killed two militants in the West Bank after they appeared to surrender, according to footage of the episode. The Israeli authorities said they were investigating.
• Israeli Forces Kill Two Palestinians After They Appear to Surrender, Video Shows. The Israeli authorities said they were investigating the shooting, which came amid days of extensive military operations in the West Bank.
• In Turkey, Pope Seeks to Soothe an Ancient Christian Divide. In Istanbul, Pope Leo XIV will meet the patriarch of the Eastern Orthodox Church to show amity between two of the world’s largest Christian groups.
• Pope Leo Visits Mideast on First Foreign Trip as Pontiff. Pope Leo XIV landed in Muslim-majority Turkey on Thursday, beginning the first international trip of his papacy. The voyage is aimed at promoting interfaith dialogue and cooperation between Christian groups.
• Rocket Attack on Iraqi Gas Field Cuts Power to Most of Kurdistan. The strike is the latest in a string of attacks on energy infrastructure in Iraq’s northern Kurdish region, which some regional authorities have privately blamed on Iran-affiliated militias.
• Pope Lands in Turkey, Planning to Meet Erdogan With a Message of Outreach. Leo XIV arrived in the country’s capital, Ankara, and will be received by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on the opening leg of a trip that will also include Lebanon.
• Heading to the Mideast, Pope Leo May Show ‘Who He Really Is’ The pontiff begins a trip to Turkey and Lebanon on Thursday — the first foreign voyage of his papacy, and his biggest test yet.
• Eli Zeira, 97, Dies; Israeli Official Dismissed Warnings of Yom Kippur War. As Israel’s head of military intelligence, he disregarded signs Egypt and Syria were about to attack in 1973. A commission blamed him for the lack of preparation.
• ‘Imperial Israel’ in the New Middle East. Despite a cease-fire with Hezbollah, almost daily strikes demonstrate an embolden Israel’s strategy to eliminate its enemies any time, anywhere.
• Pope Leo Set to Visit Mideast on First Trip as Pontiff. Leo XIV will meet political and religious leaders in Turkey and Lebanon, providing an early test of his geopolitical mettle. Here’s what to know.
• Hamas Says It Returned the Body of a Hostage, One of the Last in Gaza. The remains were not yet identified. Before the handover on Tuesday, Israel said the bodies of three other captives were still in the enclave.
• U.S. Plans Compounds to House Palestinians in Israeli-Held Half of Gaza. The project could offer relief for tens of thousands of Palestinians who have endured two years of war, but has raised questions about whether it could entrench the partition of Gaza into Israeli- and Hamas-controlled zones.
• Israeli-Backed Gaza Aid Outfit Shunned by Humanitarian Groups Shuts Down. The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation said it had succeeded in delivering million of meals in the war-torn enclave, but some Palestinian were killed trying to obtain them.
• Funeral Held for Hezbollah Members Killed in Israeli Strike. A funeral was held for Hezbollah’s military chief of staff and other members killed in an Israeli airstrike on an apartment in Beirut’s suburbs despite a year-long cease-fire between the two sides.
• Israeli Military Commanders Face Ouster Over Oct. 7 Failures. About a dozen people were told they face dismissal or discipline for mistakes tied to the deadly Hamas-led attack that set off the war in Gaza.
• Israel Says It Assassinated a Top Hezbollah Commander Near Beirut. Escalating its attacks on the armed group in Lebanon, Israel said it killed Hezbollah’s chief of staff in an airstrike on an apartment building.
• 20 Killed in Israeli Strikes as Israel and Hamas Trade Blame Over Truce. Violence has repeatedly flared up in the weeks since a cease-fire was reached, killing hundreds of Palestinians and at least three Israeli soldiers.

New York

• N.Y. Law Could Set Stage for A.I. Regulation’s Next ‘Big Battleground’ The new law seeks to prevent retailers from ripping off consumers by using artificial intelligence and their personal data to charge them higher prices.
• How the Fortunes of a Struggling Village Became Tied to a Weed Company. Sidney, N.Y., in the Catskill Mountains, hoped to attract job-creating businesses. But there was some unease when the recreational cannabis company Stiiizy moved in.
• How Taylor Rooks Spends a Day Staying Fit and Finding Herself. Ms. Rooks, a sports journalist, starts her day with matcha and ends with W.W.E. In between? A little glam and fitness.
• How N.Y.C. Is Trying to Fix This Iconic Highway. The Brooklyn-Queens Expressway is a vital New York City artery. But for years now it’s been crumbling, and there is no consensus about how to fix it. Our reporter Winnie Hu goes to the B.Q.E. to unpack things.
• N.Y. Lawmakers Put Pressure on Hochul to Sign Prison Reform Bills. The bills, which have already passed the State Legislature, would help prevent brutality in prisons, supporters say. But the governor has yet to enact them.
• Why Nadine Menendez Still Hasn’t Visited Her Husband in Prison. Robert Menendez, a former Democratic senator, has been in prison since June. He hasn’t seen his wife, who is set to begin serving her sentence next summer.
• Labubu and KPop Demon Hunters Join Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. Crowds in New York City bundled up to take in the latest version of a tradition that has run for nearly a century.
• ABBA’s Popular Hologram Show Could Come to New York City. ABBA Voyage, the popular London show, features holograph versions of the Swedish pop band when they were decades younger.
• Workers Inflate Balloons Ahead of Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. Teams of workers in New York City began inflating balloons on Wednesday for the 99th Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade.
• New York Sues Over Rule Barring Thousands of Immigrants From SNAP. The Trump administration says refugees and asylum seekers can never get food stamps, but attorneys general from New York and nearly two dozen other states say that is unlawful.
• A Moderate From Manhattan Claims Enough Support to Lead City Council. Julie Menin, a councilwoman from the Upper East Side, was seen by some supporters as a necessary check on Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani, a democratic socialist with an ambitious policy agenda.
• The First Thanksgiving Proclamation, 12 Years Before the Constitution. The revolutionary Samuel Adams is credited with writing the document in 1777. It referred to “a just and necessary war” against the British.
• New York City’s Next Super Storm. What’s a worst-case scenario for hurricane flooding in New York City? Our reporter Hilary Howard, who covers the environment in the region, explores how bad it could get as climate change powers increasingly extreme rainfall and devastating storm surges.
• How to Watch the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. The 99th edition of the New York parade will feature performances from Cynthia Erivo and Busta Rhymes, as well as dozens of floats and balloons.
• The Key to Their 50-Year Marriages and Close-Knit Families? Friendship. Six women in their 70s, all married and all mothers and grandmothers, have been meeting twice a month for 44 years. They talk about everything that life throws at them.
• The Race for Mikie Sherrill’s House Seat Is On, and It’s Crowded. The dozen candidates include an activist endorsed by Bernie Sanders, New Jersey’s lieutenant governor and an ousted congressman running in a new district.
• In City Hall Housecleaning, Mamdani Asks 179 Adams Staff Members to Quit. Zohran Mamdani will be sworn in as mayor on Jan. 1. His request for resignations targeted political appointees.
• Prosecutors Prepare to Try Suspect in Etan Patz Case for the Third Time. The defendant, Pedro Hernandez, was convicted in 2017 of kidnapping the 6-year-old, who disappeared in 1979 in SoHo.
• After Trump Meeting, One Progressive Mayor Questions Mamdani’s Approach. Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani won praise for his meeting with President Trump. But Michelle Wu, the like-minded mayor of Boston, said “flattery is not the way.”
• New York Leads Effort to Stop Plan That Could Cut Housing for 170,000. The Trump administration is pushing a new approach to America’s homeless crisis, favoring shelters and rehabilitation centers over long-term housing for people who use drugs and alcohol.
• The Disaster to Come: New York’s Next Superstorm. Heavy rain would make a hurricane catastrophic. See the neighborhoods that could face the worst flooding.
• ‘She’s Clearly Playing Us’: Influencer Dined and Dashed Through Williamsburg. Restaurant owners in Brooklyn have warned one another about a woman who frequents their establishments, photographs her food and then doesn’t pay for it.
• What’s Behind the Rise in Brutality in N.Y. Prisons? Abuse by guards has increased significantly in the past three years, a New York Times investigation found.
• The ‘New’ Solution for the N.Y.C. Housing Crisis: Tiny Apartments. There is a push to revive single-room occupancy housing, where kitchens and bathrooms are shared among apartments as small as 100 square feet each.
• Challengers Take on N.Y. House Democrats, Targeting Their Ties to Israel. Several Democratic incumbents are facing primary battles after Zohran Mamdani’s win suggested that being pro-Israel was no longer a universal selling point.
• Deported and Desperate to Be Reunited With Their Children. Across the United States, children have been left in the care of relatives and neighbors after deportations. In Venezuela, parents are clamoring for the return of their sons and daughters.
• Jewish Leaders Rebuke Mamdani Over Response to Synagogue Protest. The mayor-elect chastised a synagogue that hosted an event promoting migration to Israel and settlements in occupied territories. His stance further tested his strained relationship with pro-Israel Jews.
• Chauncey Billups, N.B.A. Coach in Gambling Case, Pleads Not Guilty. A hearing in Brooklyn was packed as Mr. Billups and 30 other defendants answered charges in a sweeping federal indictment involving rigged poker games.
• Judge Dismisses Cases Against Comey and James, Finding Trump Prosecutor Was Unlawfully Appointed. The decision is a setback for the president’s efforts to wield the criminal justice system against his perceived enemies.
• Man Is Killed in Early Morning Stabbing Near Times Square. It was the second murder in Midtown in roughly 24 hours. The attack came about a week after Kris Boyd, a player for the New York Jets, was shot in the area.
• Rick Cotton, Head of the Port Authority, Is Stepping Down. Mr. Cotton oversaw the rebuilding of LaGuardia Airport and several other major infrastructure projects in the New York City region.
• In Times Square, a New Ball for a New Year. The new ball will have more lights and round crystals and can be visited year-round, for a price.
• Restrained, Beaten, Asphyxiated: New York Prison Guards’ Brutality Grows. As frustrations among corrections officers mount, abusive treatment of inmates is rising and becoming more vicious, records and interviews show.
• Why Are Guards Using Force More Often in New York’s Prisons? State prison guards say they are doing so because their jobs have become more dangerous. A New York Times analysis points to a different reality.
• Mamdani and Trump Tamp Down Fears Over National Guard in New York City. In a Sunday interview on “Meet the Press,” Zohran Mamdani, the mayor-elect, said he had made a forceful case to the president that troops were not needed in the city.
• ‘We Saw a Man Illuminated by a Disco Ball’ A night out in Queens, changing a tire in the Bronx and more reader tales of New York City in this week’s Metropolitan Diary.
• Doulas Provide Crucial Care to Mothers. Medicaid Cuts Could Change That. Funding for doulas may be safe in New York, for now. But elsewhere, health experts are concerned that President Trump’s domestic policy law could jeopardize access to maternal care.

Business

• Meet the Millionaire Masters of Early Decision at Colleges. The enrollment chiefs at Tulane and the University of Chicago attracted many early applicants. Now both of them earn a lot of money.
• Call My Agent, the Basketball Version. There have never been more basketball stars from France. Two best friends saw it coming decades ago and are reaping the benefits.
• Airbus Orders Software Update for A320 Jets. The European airplane maker said a recent incident had shown that “intense solar radiation may corrupt data critical to the functioning of flight controls.”
• Late Rally Pushes Stocks Back Near Record High. A midmonth stumble, driven by worries about the frenzy around artificial intelligence, was reversed as investors inched back into stocks this week.
• What Do You Know About Black Friday? What used to be a single day of holiday havoc is now a weekslong stretch of sales and promotions. Let’s take a walk down memory lane… at the mall.
• Shoppers’ Holiday Spending Could Help Keep the Economy Humming. Prices are higher, and the job market is weakening, but many people plan to spend heartily this season.
• Irresistible Deals Put Them in Debt. Now They’re Trying to Manage Their Overspending. The convenience of one-click purchases and “buy now, pay later” loans is making it easier for people to shop — and shop and shop — during the holidays.
• Gen X-ers Have Money to Spend. Why Are Retailers Ignoring Them? Three in four Americans ages 45 to 60 say they expect to overspend for the holidays. They’re “sort of like the glue within the consumer spectrum.”
• Campbell’s Says Executive Accused of Offensive Remarks Has Left the Company. The comments came to light after an audiotape was released, tied to a lawsuit filed by a former employee.
• As Prices Pinch, Bessent Looks for Ways to Mollify Wary Consumers. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has offered a variety of creative justifications for President Trump’s import duties.
• Retail Earnings Show Shoppers’ Resilience, but Some Stores Struggle. Companies said they managed tariff pressures in the latest quarter as consumers focused on discounts and high quality.
• Can Disney Animation Reclaim Its Magic? Jared Bush is trying to make the heart of the media empire beat more consistently. “Zootopia 2” will be a test.
• A Major Moment for the British Economy: What to Watch in the U.K. Budget. Rachel Reeves, the top economic official in an increasingly unpopular government, will appear in Parliament to present tax and spending plans.
• How Much Will Thanksgiving Dinner Cost? It Depends on Whom You Ask. As Americans become increasingly concerned about affordability, there’s scrutiny on the annual meal.
• Hamas Victims’ Families Sue Binance, Accusing It of Aiding Terrorism. A lawsuit claims the cryptocurrency exchange turned a blind eye as $1 billion used to finance the Oct. 7 attacks in Israel and other acts moved through its network.
• Boeing Tackles Quality With a ‘War on Defects’ Two years after a panel flew off a 737 Max, Boeing is doing more inspections, completing work in its intended order and making other changes. Can the company keep it up?
• Britain’s Most Unpopular Chancellor in Decades Faces Another Big Test. Rachel Reeves, who has had a bruising tenure as the country’s top economic official, is set to announce tax and spending measures that risk stoking more discontent.
• Consumer Bureau’s Bank Examiners Criticize New ‘Humility Pledge’ The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau said it would require a vow to “work collaboratively” with companies before beginning a review.
• An Auto Holy Grail: Motors That Don’t Rely on Chinese Rare Earths. Weary of being captive to geopolitics, car companies are looking for ways to replace powerful rare-earth magnets in electric motors.
• Why Europe and the U.S. Are Still Haggling on Trade. While the two sides reached a broad agreement months ago, American officials will visit Brussels this week to discuss the details. Europe has a wish list, but so does the United States.
• Trade Chaos Causes Businesses to Rethink Their Relationship With the U.S. From Sweden to Brazil, six small companies talk about how they are communicating with their U.S. customers amid uncertainty over Trump’s changing tariffs.
• How One German Toymaker Made Money Despite U.S. Tariffs. A combination of strategic planning, good timing and a long-awaited product helped the maker of electronic story boxes weather the onset of tariffs.
• Their Kids Had Questions About Wealth Inequality. How Did They Respond? Some parents turn to books or family movie nights to facilitate discussions. But they admit they don’t have all the answers.
• Hedge Fund Titan Has a Turnaround Plan (for the Carolina Panthers). David Tepper, the founder of the $20 billion Appaloosa Management, may have finally cracked the winning code for his flagging N.F.L. team.
• A Swath of Bank Customer Data Was Hacked. The F.B.I. Is Investigating. SitusAMC, a technology vendor for real estate lenders, holds sensitive personal information on the clients of hundreds of its banking customers, including JPMorgan Chase.

DealBook

• Is Trump’s Plan to Remake the Fed Coming Into Focus? Kevin Hassett, a top White House economic adviser , is said to become the front-runner to lead the Federal Reserve, raising questions about its independence.
• The Fed and Big Tech Lift Investors’ Spirits. Markets appear to be hoping again that the central bank will cut rates next month, and that the artificial intelligence boom has room to run.
• Why Crypto’s Slide Is Rattling Wall Street. Bitcoin and other digital tokens have lost more than $1 trillion in value in recent weeks, raising concerns about a wider market fallout.

Economy

• Market Volatility Underscores Epic Buildup of Global Risk. Some experts see a dangerous combination of factors reminiscent of practices that led to previous financial crises.
• Trump Will Visit China in April for Meeting With Xi Jinping. President Trump said he would visit Beijing for the first time since returning to office after holding a call with Mr. Xi, China’s leader.
• A Draft or Volunteers? Russian Threat Prompts Urgent Debate in Europe. With Russia looming, governments race to rebuild armed forces that shrank after the Cold War, grappling with hard issues of economics, politics and military strategy.

Media

• Do You Know These Black Friday Facts? What’s the origin of Black Friday? What’s the most returned gift? Where did the mall Santa even come from? Molly Bedford of The New York Times shares what you might not know.
• Faux Jewels and Slimming Belts: Why Shopping on TikTok Is a Lot Like QVC. The popular app’s online marketplace is growing rapidly in the United States, driven by TikTok’s popularity and influencer advertisements that look a lot like TV infomercials.
• Trump Welcomes A.P.’s Photographers. Its Reporters? Not So Much. The White House now has conflicting approaches for Associated Press journalists as it fights the news service in court over access to presidential events.
• ‘Wicked: For Good’ Takes Flight. The movie is expected to take in about $151.5 million from Friday through Sunday, earning 35 percent more than the first installment last year.

Technology

• The Writer Who Dared Criticize Silicon Valley. Paulina Borsook’s “Cyberselfish,” which offered dire predictions about the tech world’s love for libertarianism, is finding fans. It only took 25 years.
• A.I. Can Do More of Your Shopping This Holiday Season. New tools and features from retailers and tech companies use artificial intelligence to help people find gifts and make decisions about their shopping lists.
• RealPage Agrees to Settle Federal Rent-Collusion Case. The Justice Department had accused the real estate software company of enabling landlords to charge tenants more than free-market rates.
• How OpenAI’s Changes Sent Some Users Spiraling. OpenAI adjusted ChatGPT’s settings, which left some users spiraling, according to our reporting. Kashmir Hill, who reports on technology and privacy, describes what the company has done about the users’ troubling reports.
• What OpenAI Did When ChatGPT Users Lost Touch With Reality. In tweaking its chatbot to appeal to more people, OpenAI made it riskier for some of them. Now the company has made its chatbot safer. Will that undermine its quest for growth?

Personal Tech

• Take Command of Your Powerful New Smartphone Camera. This year’s high-end models from Apple and Google raise the bar for mobile photography, but users should take the time to learn the settings and features.

Sports

Horse Racing

• Hollie Doyle’s Ride Continues in Hong Kong. Doyle, who lost the contract with her main owner, has won more horse races than any British woman.

Obituaries

• Walter Dowdle, Public Health Leader in Times of Crises, Dies at 94. Dr. Dowdle, a microbiologist who became the No. 2 official at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, helped lead the nation’s response to AIDS.
• Ellen Bryant Voigt, Poet With a Musical Ear, Dies at 82. Her nine volumes included “Kyrie,” a suite of sonnets about the 1918 influenza epidemic. She was also Pulitzer Prize finalist and a poet laureate of Vermont.
• Ruth Thorne-Thomsen, Photographer of Dreamlike Tableaux, Dies at 82. Using a pinhole camera, she captured miniature landscapes that she had fashioned to resemble surreal versions of 19th-century travel photos.
• Paul Ekman, Who Linked Facial Expressions to Universal Emotions, Dies at 91. Often called the world’s most famous face reader, he inspired the TV show ‘Lie to Me.’ But some questioned his assumption that human expressions were ‘pan-cultural.’
• Viola Fletcher, Oldest Survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre, Dies at 111. At 7, she bore witness to one of American history’s most violent spasms of racial violence. She was 106 when the nation reckoned with the crime.
• Skye Gyngell, Chef Who Championed ‘Slow Food,’ Dies at 62. The Australian pioneer of sustainable cooking practices that preserved local traditions died in London. She had been diagnosed with aggressive skin cancer last year.
• Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, Black Power Activist Known as H. Rap Brown, Dies at 82. A charismatic orator in the 1960s, he called for armed resistance to white oppression. As a Muslim cleric, he was convicted of murder in 2000 and died in detention.
• Lee Tamahori, Director of Film Voted New Zealand’s Best, Dies at 75. He reimagined “Once Were Warriors,” a novel about a Maori family, as a film that became a worldwide phenomenon. He went on to direct Hollywood movies.
• Dorothy Vogel, Librarian With a Vast Art Collection, Dies at 90. On modest civil servants’ salaries, she and her husband amassed a trove of some 4,000 works by art-world luminaries, storing them in their one-bedroom Manhattan apartment.
• Terry Martin Hekker, a Happy Housewife Scorned, Dies at 92. She wrote two popular memoirs: the first about the joys of married life, the second about her husband serving her divorce papers on their 40th anniversary.

Art & Design

• Robert A.M. Stern, Architect Who Reinvented Prewar Splendor, Dies at 86. He designed museums, schools and libraries before winning international acclaim late in life for 15 Central Park West in Manhattan, hailed as a rebirth of the luxury apartment building.

Europe

• Miroslaw Chojecki, Solidarity’s ‘Minister of Smuggling,’ Dies at 76. First in Warsaw and later from Paris, he supplied anti-Communist activists in Poland with steady stream of leaflets, newsletters and banned books.

Personal Tech

• David Lerner, a Mr. Fix-it of Apple Computers, Dies at 72. He and a partner founded Tekserve, a Manhattan emergency room for frozen hard drives, keyboards, screens and their confounded owners.

Briefing

• Highlight Reel. As the year comes to a close, we want to know your highly specific, idiosyncratic bests of 2025.
• What’s on Your Best-Of List for 2025? We Want to Know. Best change to your evening routine? Best popcorn seasoning? Best overheard conversation? Tell us your super-subjective, idiosyncratic favorites from the past year.
• How Gen Z Is Shopping. We look at their habits on Black Friday.
• This Thanksgiving, Everything Is Going to Be All Right. A pep talk for the day.
• The New York Times News Quiz, Nov. 27, 2025. This week, instead of our usual news quiz, The Morning team has put together a food quiz to celebrate the holiday. Happy Thanksgiving!
• What You’re Thankful For. Six-word stories of gratitude.
• Thanksgiving Costs Draw Scrutiny. Also, the 100 most notable books of the year. Here’s the latest at the end of Tuesday.
• Are Schools a Problem? We look into the mental health crisis affecting American youth.
• Judge dismisses Comey and James cases. Also, why kids in American classrooms are struggling. Here’s the latest at the end of Monday.
• Negotiating Peace in Ukraine. We explain the Trump administration’s latest push to end the war.
• How to Be Grateful When You’re Struggling. Gratitude is good for you. Like, really good for you. But it’s also hard to practice.
• Meet the Beatles, Again. A music reporter revisits the documentary that made him fall in love with the Beatles, ahead of the film’s 30th-anniversary rerelease.

Podcasts

• Hard Fork’s 50 Most Iconic Technologies of 2025. “You can’t tell the story of 2025 without these icons.”
• The Nigerian Musician Championed by Zohran Mamdani. Our critic’s latest Song of the Week is by ODUMODUBLVCK, an artist who embodies the full spectrum of Nigerian Afrobeats.
• How Will Starcloud Build Data Centers in Space? Starcloud is a new Nvidia-backed company that is joining Google and a few other companies in developing plans to eventually put data centers in space. The “Hard Fork” co-hosts Kevin Roose and Casey Newton discuss what those data centers will look like and how they will transmit information to Earth.
• A Therapist’s Emotional Tool Kit for a Better Holiday Season. Family holidays can be stressful. They don’t have to be.
• John Green on Hope Versus Despair. John Green is the author of the mega-best-selling “The Fault in Our Stars.” He’s also a YouTuber, reaching an audience of millions alongside his brother Hank Green on their Vlogbrothers channel. John spoke with “The Interview” host David Marchese about his life and work. In this clip from the conversation, he talks frankly about his mental health struggles and overcoming despair.
• The Interview: How Wikipedia Is Responding to the Culture Wars. Attacks against the site are piling up. Its co-founder says, Trust the process.
• John Green on Anxiety, Hope and His Next Book. The writer and YouTube star talks with David Marchese about trying to get back to the experiences that make us feel alive.
• John Green on the Cost of Internet Fame. The author John Green found an audience of millions making YouTube videos with his brother, Hank. As more people aspire to become influencers, he warns that internet fame may make it feel like everyone knows and loves you, “but in fact, no one knows you.”

The Daily

• Inside the ‘Morgue’ at The New York Times. Take a tour of the newspaper’s vast archive.
• Eating What You Kill This Thanksgiving. Michael Barbaro goes on a duck hunt with one of America’s most famous hunters: Steven Rinella.
• The Ukrainian Peace Plan Written by … Russia? President Trump’s proposal to end the war in Ukraine heavily favored Moscow in its initial form and included demands that Kyiv has consistently rejected.
• A Disastrous Day in Court for Trump. A federal judge threw out the criminal charges that the Trump administration brought against two of the president’s biggest enemies.
• The Autism Diagnosis Problem. Autism rates have increased in recent decades, but the reasons are more complicated than what Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has presented.
• Sunday Special: Wicked, Good? “Wicked: For Good” is one of the biggest films of the year. Let’s talk about it.

The Headlines

• Democrats Say F.B.I. Is Investigating Them, and U.S. Plans Gaza Compounds. Plus, some piping hot Thanksgiving takes.
• Trump’s Retribution Campaign Hits a Major Roadblock, and Health Care Costs Set to Surge. Plus, what a social media break can do for your brain.
• Trump’s Deadline for Ukraine, and Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Abrupt Resignation. Plus, a new crash-test dummy.

Science

• At Last, a Name for the Murderous Face in a Holocaust Photo. With the help of A.I., a historian has identified the killer in a 1941 image that defined the savagery of the Nazi regime.
• To Get a Man’s Attention, Meow Harder. In a small study, pet cats greeted male owners with more vocalizations than they did female caregivers.
• NASA Rover Makes a Shocking Discovery: Lightning on Mars. The Perseverance rover picked up audio evidence of electric discharges in the red planet’s atmosphere.
• Did the Giant Heads of Easter Island Once Walk? Scholars have long debated how the massive stone figures of Rapa Nui got to where they stand today. A new study offers one possible explanation.
• U.S. Nuclear Arms Chief Warns Against Leaks of Secret Information. The email sent to atom bomb officials by Brandon Williams highlights the managerial challenge faced by the former one-term congressman.
• He’s Beautiful, but He Has a Huge Blind Spot. Males of two species of pheasants seem to trade attractiveness for the ability to get a good look at predators.
• Seal Milk Is the Cream of the Molecular Crop. You won’t be drinking it any time soon, but the aquatic mammal’s milk is much more chemically complex than that of other mammals, including humans.
• Mapping the Sense of What’s Going On Inside. Scientists are learning how the brain knows what’s happening throughout the body, and how that process might go awry in some psychiatric disorders.
• The Forgotten Nuclear Weapon Tests That Trump May Seek to Revive. Hydronuclear experiments, barred globally since the 1990s, may lie behind President Trump’s call last month for the United States to resume its testing of nuclear bombs.
• Is There a Little Wolf in Your Chihuahua? New studies of canine genetics shed light on the diversity of dogs and our longstanding, still-evolving relationship to them.
• Gramma, a Galápagos Tortoise at the San Diego Zoo, Dies at About 141. She traveled through her long life at her own pace.
• In Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, Locals Fight for ‘The Right to Night’ Industrialization in the mostly rural northern part of the state has some residents pushing for protection of the region’s dark skies.
• Lemurs in Madagascar Face an Unexpected Killer. Thousands of the endangered primates end up on the dinner plates of people in the upper rung of the country’s society who have money to spare.

Climate

• E.P.A. Delays Requirements to Cut Methane, a Potent Greenhouse Gas. Oil and gas firms were supposed to start reducing methane, a powerful driver of climate change. The agency is giving them more time and may cancel the requirement.
• Trump Vowed Fewer Regulations and Lots More Oil. He’s Delivered on One. The president’s energy strategy is projected to generate more pollution, but so far production has not risen significantly and price drops have been modest, analysts say.
• Tentative Signs of Hope as the Amazon Burns. This year’s U.N. climate negotiations were seen by activists as a letdown. But a Times reporter found some encouraging signs on the ground in the Brazilian Amazon.
• Some Park Rangers Are Still Owed Pay After the Shutdown. Federal workers were guaranteed back pay once the government reopened. Some at the National Park Service are still waiting.
• Oil Producers, but Maybe Not the Planet, Get a Win as Climate Talks End. The final agreement, with no direct mention of the fossil fuels dangerously heating Earth, was a victory for countries like Saudi Arabia and Russia.

The Upshot

• Flashback: Your Weekly History Quiz, Nov. 29, 2025. Can you sort 8 historical events?

Opinion

• A ‘Floor’ on Abortion Is Still a Limit. Readers respond to an editorial about access to abortion. Also: A citizenship test for our leaders.
• Goodbye, Price Tags. Hello, Dynamic Pricing. Shopping has always been a game. And now it’s being rigged against you.
• The Uniquely American Heartbreak of Yet Another Tragedy. The National Guard members shot in Washington are the latest victims of a political violence permeating our society.
• Extreme Measures for the Fentanyl Crisis. Readers respond to a guest essay about America’s fentanyl problem. Also: A dark echo at Penn.
• America, the Hungry. One in seven people in America lives with hunger. These are their stories.
• The High Stakes in the Ukraine Talks. Readers discuss the proposed deal to end the war between Ukraine and Russia. Also: Immigrant family separations; unplugging A.I.
• 9,192,631,770 Hz. How do we measure time? Technically, by the oscillations of a cesium atom. This film tells a human story behind an element from the periodic table: cesium.
• The Broken Circle. Farmers in Northwest China confront their drying landscape by planting trees as coal burns relentlessly nearby. This film tells a human story behind an element from the periodic table: carbon.
• BAEA. A bald eagle is treated for lead poisoning, becoming a symbol of a toxic system that threatens us all. This film tells a human story behind an element from the periodic table: lead.
• These Are the Elements That Define Us. A series of short films about how the elements of the periodic table shape our lives.
• Tatiana Schlossberg’s Profile in Courage. Readers express sorrow about her cancer and dismay at her cousin’s actions as health secretary. Also: Revenge prosecutions; Mark Kelly; donors to universities.
• Trump’s Broken Promise to Confront Corporate Power. The Trump administration is using its antitrust powers mostly to protect Mr. Trump.
• Yes, We Must Talk About Epstein. Readers strongly object to David Brooks’s argument that we should focus on more important issues. Also: Firings at the National Endowment for the Humanities.
• In an Italian Masterpiece, Art and Faith Meet. Readers respond to a guest essay about the religious feelings inspired by Fra Angelico’s painting. Also: Down times at the movies.

Op-Ed

• I’m a Concert Pianist. This Is Why I Seek Imperfection. It is not only classical musicians who are being stunted by the search for perfection. It is harming many aspects of our lives and sectors of our society.
• Project NICU Helps Parents Manage a Rough Start to Parenthood. The organization provides critical support to families of sick newborns, making a lonely and devastating experience a little less so.
• Nature Will Bounce Back if We Just Give It a Chance. Although nature is sometimes very fragile, decades of conservation rhetoric have perhaps overstated that fragility.
• I Was Once a Broken Reader. I Found My Way Back to Books. I needed to stop thinking that I knew more than the author and give in to whatever ride they had spent years planning.
• Why I Love Reading Other People’s Old Diaries. In a world taken over by the digital, hard-copy, handwritten diaries are a way to fight back.
• The Education Department’s Forgotten Antiracist Origins. The U.S. first had a federal education department in 1867 — not 1979. Its history is critical in understanding the federal role in schools.
• Every Generation Gets the Shakespeare It Deserves. Our love of his plays have led to a centuries-long fascination with the writer. So why does each new fictional iteration get his life so wrong?
• What I Love When I Love America. My love of country this Thanksgiving season is not based on what this or that politician does, but on what America has always been.
• Your Phone Isn’t a Drug. It’s a Portal to the Otherworld. The internet is a dangerous place. Folklore can teach us how to move through it.
• Give to Groups Defending Immigrants From ICE. These organizations are squeezed between an expanding need for their services and an administration trying to starve them of resources.
• It Is Time to Bury Franco’s Ghost. Fifty years after the death of the Spanish dictator, his legacy lives on.
• Mamdani, His Mother and a Movie of Prescient Grace. The mayor-elect ran a hopeful campaign amid ugly insinuations about 9/11. When I recall where I was on that day, I have a very different association.
• My Antidote to Early Evening Despair. As long as I get myself to pay attention, there is too much going on in the kitchen world for me to spin off into anxious abstraction.
• ‘We Are Going to Have to Fight Three Wars’ How much will Trump ask Zelensky to pay for peace in Ukraine?
• All of the Turkeys Ain’t in the Zoo. Many affluent Americans no longer believe in civic institutions or community groups.
• The World’s Poorest People Need Your Help, and So Do You. With suffering everywhere, give directly to those most in need and help those around you.
• Time to Let My Brother Kevin Do the Carving. My brother takes a slice out of Trump and Mamdani.
• This Town Is Staving Off Loneliness One Casserole at a Time. The number of Americans eating alone has increased by 53 percent since 2003.
• I’m 62. Stop Telling Me I’m Old. Ken Stern on why Americans should stop classifying 65 as “old.”
• When the Next Pandemic Comes, MAHA Says, You’re on Your Own. The N.I.H. director has learned all the wrong lessons from Covid.
• Jesus Bot Is Always on Demand (for a Small Monthly Fee). Faith is not meant to be transactional or tailored to you.
• Mark Kelly Is Being Investigated for Telling the Truth. Who wants to silence a senator? I’ll give you one guess.
• Has Marjorie Taylor Greene Really Seen the Light? This is a classic breakup drama.
• I Prosecuted R. Kelly. This Is Why the Epstein Files Should Be Redacted. Releasing the documents wholesale could hinder prosecutions and inflict new trauma on victims.
• Nobody Should Go to Jail for a Harmless Meme. The best way to honor Charlie Kirk is not to criminalize speech.
• Life Is Too Short to Fight With Your Family. There’s good evidence that learning to live with your loved ones just as they are leads to more happiness for you.
• A.I.’s Anti-A.I. Marketing Strategy. Artificial intelligence is unpopular and uncool — so A.I. companies are making ads that don’t even bother to show their own products. Will it pay off?
• Give Nuclear Power Another Chance. California and eight other states have outdated restrictions on building nuclear power plants.
• Thanksgiving and the New Births of Freedom. An opportunity for families and friends and, by extension, communities, states, and the country itself to have a national reset.
• Why Trump Won’t Face Prosecution This Time Around. The president has a very big immunity umbrella.
• What Your Signature Dish Says About You. Like your astrological sign, what you bring says a lot about who you are.
• Donate to Help Build Community in the Mideast. This holiday season, I am donating to nonprofits that help make community ecosystems and nature’s ecosystems more resilient.
• I Went to an Anti-Vaccine Conference. Medicine Is in Trouble. A journey to the fringe of MAHA.
• A.I. Dominates Our World. Why Don’t Democrats Have a Plan? To stay relevant for 2028, the party needs to figure one out.
• The Incomprehensible March Toward Regime Change in Venezuela. The administration’s drug war rhetoric seems like a pretext. But a pretext for what?
• The Absurd Asymmetries That Prop Up President Trump. Aren’t his apologists exhausted by their moral calisthenics?
• Why the Epstein Story Is So Awkward for QAnon. It has a little something to do with Donald Trump.
• Cory Booker on What It Takes to Believe in America Again. “If America hasn’t broken your heart, you don’t love her enough,” the New Jersey senator argues.
• Carville: How About a Sweeping, Aggressive, Unvarnished Platform of Pure Economic Rage. Democrats also have to shed the last vestiges of woke.
• The Boomers Are Protesting Trump. Where Is Gen Z? The absence of young people from conventional protests is both a problem and a warning.
• ‘We Had No Idea What Was Coming’: Caring for My Aging Father. Caregivers are at the brink of despair.
• Trump Has Put the Military in an Impossible Situation. Who should take responsibility for the president’s undeclared war in the Caribbean?
• America’s Housing Crisis, in One Chart. If we want more places for people to live, we’re going to have to get more creative.
• How Can Anyone Seriously Doubt Meta Is a Monopoly? All you need is common sense.
• How the Elite Behave When No One Is Watching: Inside the Epstein Emails. This power elite was already used to ignoring the powerless. Redeeming a disgraced sex offender was a logical next step.
• We’re Seeing What a No-Immigration Economy Looks Like. Making America less hospitable to newcomers will eventually make our country poorer.
• How to Talk to Whales. This is not your average chatbot.
• Yes, Listening to a Book Counts as Reading. We need to let go of our legacy print snobbery.
• Trump’s Neville Chamberlain Prize. If Ukraine is forced to surrender to these terms by Thursday, Thanksgiving will no longer be an American holiday. It will become a Russian holiday.
• Trump Is Mired in a War of Attrition. It’s not a winning strategy.

Opinion | Culture

• This Year, the Billionaires Give Thanks for Trump. This year, it’s not about giving back; it’s about getting yours.

Arts

• 5 Podcasts to Help You Savor Coffee. These shows will deepen your appreciation of that next cup of joe, offering detours into coffee house history and tips on how to buy, brew and drink coffee.
• These Rivals Wanted Art Fans to Pick a Side. This Show Lets You Choose Both. J.M.W. Turner and John Constable were fueled by competition, but united by a common wonder at nature’s beauty.
• How a Rediscovered Klimt Got Swept Up in an International Dispute. The Viennese painter’s portrait of a West African prince was owned by a Jewish family who fled the Nazi occupation. It was then taken to Hungary, which has now moved to block a sale by an Austrian gallery.
• A Guide to N.Y.C. Holiday Events: Music, Lights and More. Matinees, ice skating and train shows: Here are some of our favorite things to do this season.
• Fatherhood on Film: Dad Is Having a Rough Time Onscreen This Season. In films like “One Battle After Another,” “Springsteen” and “Ella McCay,” patriarchs are depicted as emotionally stunted or worse.
• Tender Moments in Japan Transcend a Game’s Violence. Ghost of Yotei is a revenge story at its core, but most stunning are the quiet family connections and treks across beautiful terrain.

Art & Design

• A Speedy Art-Career Rise Fueled by a Descent Into Our Modern Abyss. Contemporary life, speculative fiction, Asian futurism and social documentary all meet in Ayoung Kim’s videos at MoMA PS1. And are they fun to watch!
• June Leaf Made Art Like a Mad Scientist, a Dancer, an Aviator and an Archer. Endlessly energetic, the sculptor, who died last year, was often overshadowed by her famous husband, Robert Frank — but the Grey Art Museum brings her to the foreground.
• Her Face Is on a Nigerian Bank Note. But Her Work Is Rarely Seen. A show focused on Ladi Kwali and other Black female potters is a revelation.
• Are You Smarter Than a Billionaire? In a single week, collectors spent $2.2 billion on art at New York’s auction houses, including the $236 million Klimt portrait.
• Alma Allen, American Sculptor, Is Selected for Venice Biennale. The choice of a relatively unknown artist based in Mexico City ends a chaotic, much-delayed selection process led by the State Department.
• In a $2.2 Billion Week, the Art Market Finds Its Footing. After years of declining sales, records set from major collections (Klimt, Kahlo) primed the auction houses for a rebound at the top.
• His Right Foot: One Tiny Drawing for Sale, Maybe by Michelangelo. The Renaissance artist painted more than 100 figures in the Sistine Chapel ceiling, yet studies for only a handful remain. Could this five-inch drawing at Christie’s be one?

Dance

• Time for ‘The Nutcracker’ and Brat Winter. At New York City Ballet, two boys from the School of American Ballet get to play a coveted role: Fritz, a terror of a little brother.
• At Ailey, a Dance of the Gods With an Old-School Theatrical Bent. Maija García’s “Jazz Island” is a full-company narrative of a kind that Ailey hasn’t done in a while. And it features an Afro-Caribbean score by Etienne Charles.

Music

• The Beguiling, Misunderstood Theremin. Invented by accident in the 1920s, the unusual electronic instrument is hard to master but offers an enticing reward: freedom.
• John Tesh Keeps Bouncing Ba-Ba-Ba-Ba-Ba Back. The resurgence of “Roundball Rock,” the N.B.A. theme song he composed, has made the musician more visible than he’s been in over 20 years. He hasn’t been idle.
• 5 Years After His Death, John Prine Gets a Cinematic Send-Off. The singer and songwriter died in April 2020 of Covid-19, delaying proper tributes. Now he is the subject of a new documentary, “You Got Gold.”
• 8 New Songs You Should Hear Now. Catch up on recent releases from Robyn, Oneohtrix Point Never, Mavis Staples and more.
• Review: A Revolution Without Poetry in the Met Opera’s ‘Chénier’ Umberto Giordano’s tragedy of love undone by the French Revolution has returned, but as an evening of coarse music making.
• Equal Parts Baroque and R&B, John Holiday Is His Own Singer. Holiday, a countertenor, has forged a career that blends classical repertoire and his upbringing in church and pop music.
• With One Movie and Soundtrack, Jimmy Cliff Changed Reggae Forever. The 1972 film “The Harder They Come” and its accompanying soundtrack brought the genre out of Jamaica and helped pave the way for future stars.
• Considering the American Character in Two Violin Concertos. At the New York Philharmonic, concertos by Samuel Barber and Wynton Marsalis offered contrasting musical ideas: lyrical cohesion and vibrant pluralism.
• Jimmy Cliff: 8 Essential Songs. A giant of Jamaican music, he gained international renown through the 1972 film “The Harder They Come,” and helped establish reggae’s themes of struggle, resistance and uplift.
• At 95, David Amram Still Makes Music. And Nobody Can Put Him in a Box. Jazz, classical, folk, world music — for this composer, categories were never confining.
• Jimmy Cliff, Reggae Icon, Dies at 81. The Grammy Award-winning singer died of pneumonia, his wife said. His 1972 starring role in “The Harder They Come” helped bring reggae to a wider audience.
• Donald Glover Reveals He Had a Stroke Last Year. The rapper and actor, who performed in Los Angeles on Saturday, said doctors had also discovered a hole in his heart, prompting him to cancel his world tour.
• Security Lapse Allowed Protesters to Disrupt Performance, Met Opera Says. Peter Gelb, the Met’s general manager, said a security guard was absent from his post when two people climbed onstage at a performance of “Carmen.”

Television

• For Detectives on TV, the Messiest Case Is Often at Home. Why do we rarely see them leave work to take the kids to baseball practice? Some of it has to do with the nature of police work, but a tortured back story adds intrigue.
• ‘Blossoms Shanghai’ Review: In the Mood for Commerce. Wong Kar-wai’s first TV series, streaming on the Criterion Channel, is a lush melodrama about an economic miracle.
• Saying Goodbye to ‘Stranger Things’ The first episodes of the final season just premiered on Netflix. In interviews, the young stars looked back on the show and how it shaped them.
• Jimmy Fallon Gets Into the Spirit of ‘Drinksgiving’ “’Twas the night before Thanksgiving, and in your parents’ house, they put the Peloton in your old bedroom, so you’re sleeping on the couch,” Fallon mused.
• Apple TV Series ‘The Hunt’ Is Pulled Amid Accusations of Plagiarism. Apple TV postponed the launch of the French-language series following accusations that its creator copied key elements from a 1973 novel.
• How ‘Stranger Things’ Defined the Era of the Algorithm. A nostalgic hit built out of vintage pop-culture references captured the “If you liked that, you’ll like this” spirit of Netflix.
• Seth Meyers Bastes Trump for His Rambling Turkey Pardon. The president spent so much time talking that Meyers thinks the turkeys would have preferred to be put out of their misery.
• What to Remember From ‘Stranger Things’ Before the Final Season Premieres. Over three years have passed since Season 4 of the hit Netflix series, and the ultimate showdown is finally here. Here’s where the young heroes left off.
• Jimmy Kimmel Is Touched by the Trump-Mamdani Bromance. “What a turn of events!” Kimmel said of the president’s warm words for New York’s mayor-elect. “It was like he was giving a wedding toast to his new son-in-law.”
• Ted Danson and Mary Steenburgen Star in a Love Story, Onscreen and Off. Married for three decades, the actors get together as characters in the second season of “A Man on the Inside.”
• How ‘Everybody Loves Raymond’ Brought My Mother and Me Closer. The show wasn’t an obvious draw for a Bengali immigrant and her teenage son. But the characters’ needs were things we needed, too.
• ‘The Beatles Anthology,’ Plus 9 Things to Watch on TV This Week. The remastered documentary series will be released, and we watch some reader recommendations, including “The Gone” and “Dark.”
• ‘It: Welcome to Derry’ Season 1, Episode 5 Recap: Search and Destroy. Gen. Shaw sends troops into the sewage tunnels under Derry. The children send themselves there, too. Bad idea in both cases.
• Clean Comedy Is Back, This Time Without the Judgment. Nate Bargatze, Leanne Morgan and Dusty Slay are leading a family-friendly scene. Unlike earlier stand-ups, they don’t look down at their cursing peers.

Theater

• ‘Hamilton’ Has Had Quite a Run. Our cartoonist had no idea the Broadway musical he scored tickets to in 2015 would become a cultural phenomenon — and an enduring reminder of battles to be fought.
• For the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, Broadway Hits the Streets. We tagged along to a late-night rehearsal for performers from “Just in Time,” “Buena Vista Social Club” and “Ragtime.”
• 45 Years of Rock ’n’ Roll Theater at St. Ann’s Warehouse. In shows like “Black Watch,” “The Jungle” and “Oklahoma!,” the institution has affirmed the theater’s singular power to shock and illuminate our world.
• With Tom Felton as Draco Malfoy, ‘Harry Potter’ Breaks Its Own Broadway Record. The actor is now playing an adult version of the sinister child he portrayed in the film series.
• ‘Queen of Versailles’ to Close as New Broadway Musicals Struggle. The show, starring Kristin Chenoweth, will remain open through the holidays. The announcement comes just two weeks after the musical opened.
• This ‘All My Sons’ Is Tragedy Done Right. Arthur Miller and Ivo van Hove are a perfect match again, in a new production starring Bryan Cranston and Paapa Essiedu.
• 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Musicals. Andrew Lloyd Webber, Sara Bareilles, Joshua Henry, Jeanine Tesori, Jason Robert Brown and New York Times writers and editors pick 13 songs to seal the deal.
• Living, Breathing, Seeing and Teaching Theater. James Bundy leads the theater program at Yale while directing his own revival of “Hedda Gabler.” He told us about a week in his cultural life.
• ‘Gruesome Playground Injuries’ Review: Does It Hurt? Kara Young and Nicholas Braun star in the Off Broadway revival of Rajiv Joseph’s two-hander about best friends on parallel paths to self-destruction.

Books

• 3 Cozy Books We Love. Pick up a mug of tea, grab a blanket and settle down to read. Jennifer Harlan, an editor at The New York Times Book Review, recommends three books that are perfect for cozy fall reading.
• Everyone Is Invited to Jane Austen’s Birthday Party. For Janeites around the globe, the 250th anniversary of the English author’s birth is cause for elaborate celebrations.
• 15 Books Coming in December. New novels by Olga Tokarczuk and Kamilah Cole, nonfiction by John Darnielle and Olivia Nuzzi, a Booker Prize finalist and more.
• 100 Notable Books Are a Lot! Help Me Find One I’ll Love. We’ve broken down our annual list by theme.
• These Holiday Romance Novels Are Pure Magic, With a Dash of Spice. The best-selling author B.K. Borison recommends sweet and sexy reads that capture the cozy magic of the season.

Book Review

• A Nobel Winner Blurs Genres and Genders in This Bewitching Novel. Olga Tokarczuk’s “House of Day, House of Night” brings together a constellation of characters and legends in a Polish border region.
• Book Club: Let’s Discuss ‘Hamnet’ Maggie O’Farrell’s historical novel, one of the Book Review’s 10 Best Books of 2020, has just been adapted for film, making now a perfect time to revisit this story of family, grief and Shakespeare.
• Book Club: Read ‘What We Can Know,’ by Ian McEwan, With the Book Review. In December, the Book Review Book Club will read and discuss Ian McEwan’s latest novel, about a long-lost poem, the 2014 dinner party where it was read and the future dystopia that embraced it.
• In These Novels, Dystopia Is a World of Hovering Parents. Jennifer L. Holm’s “Outside” and Rebecca Stead’s “The Experiment” both feature well-meaning grown-ups who do everything to protect their kids — and fail.
• 6 New Books We Love This Week. Reading recommendations from critics and editors at The New York Times.
• Marie Kondo Likes Book Covers That Feel ‘Smooth and Silky’ “It’s all about the texture,” says the author of “The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up” and the new “Letter From Japan.” Both fit the bill.
• How Capitalism Took Over the World. In a bold new history, Sven Beckert traces the origins of our modern economy, from global port cities to the halls of power.
• 100 Notable Books of 2025. Here is the standout fiction and nonfiction of the year, selected by the staff of The New York Times Book Review.
• Do You Recognize These Quotes From Classic Books? Try this short quiz to see how many popular lines from 20th-century science fiction novels have remained in your memory bank.
• A Secret Defined Her Life. She Had No Idea. In the thrilling “Family of Spies,” Christine Kuehn tells the story of learning the darkest of secrets.
• She’ll Do Anything to Land Her Dream House. No, Really: Anything. For the obsessed protagonist of Marisa Kashino’s darkly comic debut novel, “Best Offer Wins,” real estate is blood sport.
• Reintroducing Jessica Mitford, the Activist With a ‘Concrete Upper Lip’ Carla Kaplan’s biography “Troublemaker” focuses on the fierce political commitments of the journalist best known for “The American Way of Death.”

Movies

• Jason Schwartzman Finds Peace at the Library. “It’s almost like a movie set,” said the actor, now in the Christmas film “Oh. What. Fun.,” “and I have to pretend I’m working, too.”
• Five Action Movies to Stream Now. This month’s picks include elaborate ambulance chasing, a killer shark and crime south of the border.
• 7 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.
• Three Great Documentaries to Stream. In this month’s picks, a portrait of a vanguard filmmaker, a look back at a televised clash between writers, and a reflection on a Hollywood star and pinup.
• The Great Beatles Documentary That’s Nearly Impossible to See (Legally). With “The Beatles Anthology” now on Disney+, we dig into “The Compleat Beatles,” another documentary on the band that is difficult to see legally but had an impact on a generation.
• In ‘The Tale of Silyan,’ the Storks Are Watching. The birds’ presence lends an otherworldly air to this nonfiction look at a family farm in a dying North Macedonian village.
• ‘The Holiday’: A Festive Cocktail, Equal Parts Charm and Cringe. Cameron Diaz, Kate Winslet, Jude Law and Jack Black delivered a lesson on chemistry, good and bad, in the 2006 Nancy Meyers rom-com.
• ‘You Got Gold: A Celebration of John Prine’ Review: Paying Tribute in Nashville. Lyle Lovett, Bonnie Raitt, Kacey Musgraves and other luminaries perform Prine’s songs in this engaging concert film.
• ‘The Thing With Feathers’ Review: Parenting Without Your Better Half. A grieving father struggles to care for his two children after the death of his wife. Even with its star, Benedict Cumberbatch, the movie never takes flight.
• ‘The Stringer: The Man Who Took the Photo’ Review: Freelancing Woes. Was a freelance photographer intentionally left out of the famous Vietnam War photo of “Napalm Girl”?
• ‘Left-Handed Girl’ Review: An Electric Portrait of Taipei. The filmmaker Shih-Ching Tsou tells a sensitive story of a mother and her two daughters struggling to get by in Taiwan.
• ‘BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions’ Review: An Artist’s Mind-Expanding Collage. In this dazzling essay movie, the director Kahlil Joseph draws on an array of sources — news clips, old movies, family albums, an encyclopedia of ”Africana” — to create a thrilling whole.
• ‘The Secret Agent’ Review: Carnival in the Face of Carnage. Wagner Moura takes cover in this knockout from the filmmaker Kleber Mendonça Filho that is largely set in 1977 during Brazil’s miliary dictatorship.
• ‘Zootopia 2’ Review: Natural Habitats, Expanded. A sequel to the 2016 hit, this movie about an animal metropolis takes on an even messier social allegory than the first one, while building out a wider (if bloated) universe.
• ‘Teenage Wasteland’ Review: Young in Age, Mature in Reporting. This documentary looks back at a group of teenagers who, in the early 1990s, created a high school video project that ended up breaking real news.
• ‘Hamnet’ Review: The Rest Is Silence. Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal star in a heartbreaking adaptation of the best-selling novel.
• ‘Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery’ Review: Forgive Them, Father. Josh O’Connor leads a star-studded cast in the latest Benoit Blanc mystery — this one, about religious cults of personality.
• ‘Eternity’ Review: Dead Reckoning. Elizabeth Olsen plays a dead woman who must choose her forever partner in this silly afterlife rom-com.
• Udo Kier, German Actor Who Played Eccentric Villains, Dies at 81. Over a six-decade career, he appeared in films by the directors Gus Van Sant and Lars von Trier, and in music videos by Madonna.

Food

• ‘I’ve Never Eaten, Let Alone Made, a Better Sugar Cookie’ Readers love Samantha Seneviratne’s soft and chewy sugar cookies, and so do I.
• ’Twas Two Nights Before Cookie Week. And all through the house, not a baker was stirring — yet.
• The Leftovers (2025). You have a turkey carcass, cranberry sauce and some cheese scraps. We have spicy, reviving birria de pavo and cranberry grilled cheese.
• A Bunch of People Are Out of Town, Let’s Feast! Four restaurants to check out before the holiday crowds descend in full force.
• Your Turkey Is Done at 165 Degrees. And more Thanksgiving Day affirmations, tips, snacks and drinks (margs, anyone?).
• If You’re Reading This on Thanksgiving, It’s Not Too Late. Last-minute holiday recipes for side dishes and desserts, and a few ideas for tomorrow.
• How Should I Store Sweet Potatoes? Keep the Thanksgiving favorite fresh long after the holiday with these tips.
• Spinach Corn Dip Is the Ideal Party Snack. Or, as one reader puts it, “what I want to eat for dinner for the rest of my days.”
• Mbatata (Sweet Potato Cookies). Mbatata is the word in Chichewa for the dense, creamy variety of this starchy root vegetable. In Malawi, mbatata is typically prepared by roasting whole or simmering cubes in liquid until soft enough to crush. This recipe, a modern take on mbatata, is a soft baked cookie using sweet potato purée, lightly folded with flour, melted butter, brown sugar, dried fruit and spices.
• Hojicha Cheesecake Pie. A Japanese toasted green tea with warm, nutty flavor, hojicha is perfect for a sweet pie. This recipe calls for hojicha powder, which is readily available at Japanese grocery stores or online.
• At This Vegas Pop-Up, Caviar, Celebrity Chefs and a 200 M.P.H. View. For race weekend, a restaurant staffed by big names in the food world is suspended above the man-made lake at the Bellagio hotel.
• The Pizza Interview: Ariana Grande and Jonathan Bailey. The ‘Wicked: For Good’ co-stars stopped by the New York Times studio kitchen to make pizzas while chatting about cooking, food and their new film.
• Cranberry Curd Tart, Our Most Popular Thanksgiving Dessert. And some classic, no-fail sides for that dinner that you have on Thursday.
• Ramen by Ra Graduates From Bowery Market to Bricks and Mortar. Gertie moves from Williamsburg to Prospect Heights, Michelin shakes things up and more restaurant news.
• Goan Curry Shrimp, Sweet and Sour Eggplant and One-Pot Chicken and Rice. Saucy, punchy flavors before the potatoes hit on Thursday.
• How New York Could Protect Its Street Vendors. The city’s history can be understood through the people who sell food on sidewalks. Here’s how New York could set them up for success.
• Anxiety. It’s What’s for Thanksgiving Dinner. In a year of high prices, economic uncertainty and other jitters, America is united in uncertainty — and poultry.
• This California Restaurant Is Making Magic With Cheese and Masa. At Popoca in Oakland, Anthony Salguero puts Salvadoran ingredients and flavors in the spotlight.
• Brussels Sprouts With Pickled Shallots and Labneh. Pickled onions and labneh lend brightness to this brussels sprouts dish that’s full of flavors and textures, making it a show-stopping addition to the Thanksgiving table.
• Michelin Honored the Cheesesteak. Not All Philadelphians Cheered. The gastronomic guide has singled out three restaurants that serve the sandwich, setting off a loud local debate about tradition and innovation.
• Does New York Need Another Luxury Grocery Store? Meadow Lane opened to immense hype and long lines. Despite early hiccups, some New Yorkers are still eager to shop designer provisions.
• 24 Easy Thanksgiving Appetizers for Hangry Guests. Give them something to nibble while they wait.
• The Coconut Curry Chickpeas Our Readers ‘Love, Love, Love’ My five-star recipe (with over 15,000 reviews) makes good use of your canned pumpkin and chickpeas.
• It’s Not Just Any Turkey. It’s a Melissa Clark Turkey. In our Thanksgiving episode of Cooking 101, Melissa shares the one recipe you need for a burnished, juicy turkey.

Wine, Beer & Cocktails

• Wines, Spirits and More to Bring to Any Holiday Gathering. Selecting the right bottle is never easy. Here are some recommendations for all types of people and parties.

Style

• Ramona Young Clutches Her Pearls. A grandmother’s pearl necklace isn’t often worn, but still provides a sense of comfort to the actress, who stars in the new series “The Paper.”
• Their Obsession With Travel Points Led to an Unexpected Spark. Heather Peggs and George Igoe connected over frequent flier miles, but their chemistry sealed the deal. After their first date, she deleted her dating apps, and a month in, he knew she was “the one.”
• The Three Times I Married My Wife. Saying wedding vows is one thing. Living up to them is quite another.
• The Federal Shutdown Almost Delayed Their Marriage. Jared Brown and Daniel Roberts, who bonded over their work with the Obamas, had a meticulous engagement “rollout plan,” but securing a marriage license was the real test.
• At 90 and 83, They Leaped Into Love Again. Marvin Hersel, a Navy veteran, and Maria Chavez, a retired medical translator from Mexico, fell in love at their senior living residence after swapping vivid childhood stories.
• A New Orleans Processional at a Grand Old Irish Estate. Morgan Evans and Colm Browne arrived at their wedding welcome party in Ireland in a second line led by a Dublin band.
• Here Comes Labubu. A global sensation gets her moment at the Thanksgiving Day parade.
• The Potato Shoe Theory. When it comes to footwear, there’s one perfect shape (and we’re living in the golden era for it).
• A Vintage Fashion Specialist Is Selling Off His Collection. Doug Bihlmaier, a hero to style influencers, is parting with rare jackets, boots, belts and workwear items.
• Tiny Love Stories: ‘No Hugging … and Definitely Nothing Lewd’ Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words.
• I Think My Good Friend Is Betraying Me, but I’m Not Sure. What Should I Do? A reader suspects that a friend is divulging her secrets. If not, why do people around town seem to know her personal business?
• To Carve or Not to Carve. A brief history of an American ritual and the neuroses it inspires in modern men.
• At Miss Universe, a Salmon Costume Steals the Show. The designer behind Miss Norway’s wild outfit was not surprised at the attention it received. “The original plan was to make noise.”
• Red Corduroys and Sentimental Jewelry. Meaningful accessories finished an outfit combining solid colors and prints.
• She Wants to Build a Culinary Empire From Scratch. Nara Smith, the model, mother of four and influencer best known for making recipes “from scratch” for her family, is pursuing a new role: business mogul.
• His Comedy Drew an Official Rebuke. He Came Back Fighting. The comedian Vir Das, who has gained international fame despite intense criticism in his native India, has taken up boxing. He says it’s “good prep for adversity.”
• Will Dressing Up Fix Flying? Will It Fix Anything? Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy has introduced a campaign meant to encourage civility.
• What Does My Puffer Jacket Say About Me? Though the humble puffer can look casual, our critic explains how they’ve evolved from bulky outdoor necessity to symbol of quiet luxury.
• When Luxury Brands Make Woven Leather Bags, He Gets a Call. As Craig Wright has built his brand, Dragon Diffusion, he has quietly built a reputation as a leather whisperer for Hermès, Chanel and others. Now he’s ready to talk about it.
• Mamdani’s Meeting With Trump Scrambled the MAGA-Sphere. Prominent conservative influencers had different interpretations as they processed the meeting on podcasts and in social media posts.
• Marilyn Minter Is Camera Ready. The 77-year-old artist has spent her career observing others. Now, with the documentary “Pretty Dirty: The Life and Times of Marilyn Minter,” she becomes the star.
• Why That Whitney Houston Drumbeat Is So Addictive, Yet Hard to Match. People online have been trying to nail the drumbeat before the final chorus of “I Will Always Love You.” It’s harder than it looks.
• Robert Irwin Is Actually That Nice. His story began with loss, but the lessons of his “Crocodile Hunter” father have Irwin spreading a message of love on “Dancing With the Stars” and beyond.
• French Fashion’s Most Influential Muse Is Having a Closet Sale. Farida Khelfa modeled for Gaultier, Alaïa and more. In turn, they gave her clothes. Now she’s letting go of 200 items from her fabled wardrobe.
• A Multitude of Fashion in Hong Kong. Residents and visitors from all over give the city a diverse visual flavor.
• Solange Knowles Wants to Lend You a Book. The Grammy winner, now a scholar in residence at U.S.C., is expanding a one-of-a-kind library featuring rare books by writers of color. (Just mind the due date.)

Love

• They’ve Got the Whole World on Their Wedding Plates. Many wedding caterers and planners are helping couples reimagine their wedding meal as an expression of their blended identities.

Magazine

• Simon Cowell Is Sorry, Softer and Grieving Liam Payne. Summary TK; should be hidden on the body of the article itself.
• Can You Compel Your Children to Sing for Their Snacks? A ruling on an unusual postconcert tradition.
• Can I Use My Parents’ Address to Get Our Kids Into a Better School? I feel guilty about the lie we’d have to keep up, but we would be much happier.
• The Athlete Trolling His Way Through Jiu-Jitsu’s Culture Wars. Brazilian jiu-jitsu has been increasingly embraced by right-wing influencers. Craig Jones is an unlikely counterforce.
• A Dish of One’s Own. At big family-style holiday meals, a single-serving entree is a welcome interlude.
• The Social-Media Platform That Makes You Tell the Truth. Strava logs all your fitness achievements — and then some.
• I’m a Professor. A.I. Has Changed My Classroom, but Not for the Worse. My students’ easy access to chatbots forced me to make humanities instruction even more human.
• America’s Children Are Unwell. Are Schools Part of the Problem? From A.D.H.D. to anxiety, disorders have risen as the expectations of childhood have changed.

T Magazine

• Our Favorite Dining Rooms. From a wood-paneled seaside cottage in Massachusetts to a grand Venetian chamber, these spaces are a host’s dream.
• A Shoe Made From a Single Spiral of Leather. How a John Lobb loafer comes together.
• Rose Byrne and Sheila Heti on Parenting, A.I. and the Nature of Personality. The “If I Had Legs I’d Kick You” actor and the author of “Alphabetical Diaries” met for a wide-ranging conversation.
• How to Style a Holiday Table Your Guests Will Never Forget. A textile designer, a chef and an artist share their tablescapes and their tips.
• The New Wave of Sculpture Parks Redefining How Art Is Seen. Five destinations, whether in the English countryside or a forest in Thailand, where the work and nature go hand in hand.
• A Hunting Chateau That’s Luxurious, Restrained and a Little Bit Goth. In a region of France known for both sports and more social pursuits, an Austrian designer brought her signature austere elegance to a classic chateau.
• This Season, Even Sportswear Can Be Festive. Pops of vibrant color enliven and unite athletic pieces and classic men’s tailoring.
• Jodie Foster Takes the Mel Brooks Questionnaire. The comedy legend devised a personality test for us. Our latest respondent: the star of the French-language mystery film “A Private Life,” which premieres in France this week and in the US in January.
• How to Get Revenge. From Washington to Hollywood, American culture is now defined by score settling. But what do centuries of feuding have to teach us about getting even?

Travel

• The Secret Life of a Ski Resort. Before skiers and riders and hit the slopes, a team works from dusk to dawn to prepare the mountain. We went behind the scenes to see how they do it.
• Sean Duffy Longs for the ‘Golden Age’ of Air Travel. What Was That Like? Back in the ’50s and ’60s, passengers (well-dressed, of course, and with perfect manners) could count on hot meals on china, plenty of legroom, the occasional piano bar, even wool blankets. Those days are gone.
• 36 Hours in San Antonio. Stroll a 15-mile riverside promenade, eat street-style tacos and dance to Tejano and cumbia music in this big Texan city with a small-town feel.
• Soaring Red Rocks, Perfect Blue Skies and Half-Empty Tours. Things were looking up last year at pandemic-battered Navajo Nation parks like Monument Valley. Then their lifeblood, foreign visitors, slowed to a trickle.
• Volcanic Eruption in Ethiopia Creates Flight Delays in India. The volcanic eruption sent into the atmosphere an ash cloud, which gusts of wind blew eastward toward the Indian subcontinent. Multiple flights in India were delayed or rerouted as a precaution, according to India’s Ministry of Civil Aviation.
• What Is Agentic A.I., and Would You Trust It to Book a Flight? Companies are racing to develop artificial intelligence tools that can make reservations for flights, hotels and more on your behalf. Here’s what to know.
• On a Volcanic Caribbean Isle, 37 Beaches and Endless Views. The dual-nation island of Dutch St. Maarten and French St. Martin offers lots of frugal diversions, including vivid street murals, hilly hikes and local barbecue.
• Is a New $3,500-a-Night Safari Camp Blocking a Wildlife Corridor? Ritz-Carlton’s luxury camp in Kenya’s Masai Mara offers “front row seats” to the Great Migration. But some Masai tribe members and wildlife experts say it’s in a sensitive area and should not have been approved.
• Want to Save Money on Skiing? Here Are 6 Ways to Pay Less. A multimountain pass is great if you use it enough. New programs are aimed at more casual skiers, offering discounts without the high initial price tag.

Real Estate

• My Condo Board Is So Secretive. How Do I Get More Information? You have the right to seek documents and records from your building. Here’s how to do it.
• $2 Million Homes in São Paulo, Brazil. A modernist house in Alto de Pinheiros, an eight-acre estate in Campos do Jordão, and a 15th-floor apartment with city views.
• An Understated Approach to Holiday Décor in the Country. The designer Shawn Henderson leans into simple greens and vintage lights for his home in Hillsdale, N.Y.
• Trump’s Childhood Home Is on the Market for $2.3 Million. Also among November’s high-end real estate listings were Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne’s West Hollywood condo and Chris Chelios’s beachfront compound in Malibu.
• They Upsized to a Single-Family House in Brooklyn for Less Than $900,000. But Where? When their Ditmas Park apartment became too cramped, a young family looked for a house in central Brooklyn where they could spread out. Here’s what they found.
• Homes for Sale in Manhattan and Brooklyn. This week’s properties are in Carnegie Hill, Harlem and Clinton Hill.
• Homes for Sale in New Jersey and New York. This week’s properties are a six-bedroom in Morristown and a four-bedroom in Mattituck.
• How New York Is Making Its Neighborhoods Cooler. The city’s new climate budgeting program is investing billions in keeping the city cool as the climate gets hotter.
• Hendersonville, N.C., Surrounded by Natural Treasures. “The City of Four Seasons” sits on the western edge of the Blue Ridge Mountains.
• $425,000 Homes in Pennsylvania, Ohio and Kentucky. An American Foursquare in Pittsburgh, a Victorian-era home in Cincinnati and a renovated farmhouse in Winchester.
• This Home Tells the Story of Sag Harbor. Once known as the “Unhampton,” Sag Harbor now has more in common with its neighboring beach destinations. A house on Henry Street is emblematic of this transformation.
• Antique Collectors of a Younger Vintage. Fine Objects Society, a members’ club, doesn’t want to be dusty.
• On a Maine Island, She Wanted Her Home to Feel Like a ‘Sculpture’ Natasha Durham, founder of a handbag company, wanted her architect to focus more on light and shapes than on practical matters, like the number of bathrooms.
• If the Neighborhood Was Good Enough for Jane Jacobs, It Was Good Enough for Them. Not even Brooklyn could tempt Christopher Stone and David Fox to leave their shoebox in the West Village.
• $800,000 Homes in California. A midcentury modern compound in Yucca Valley, a cabin in Cazadero and a townhouse in Oakland.
• How a Location Scout Secures the Picture-Perfect House. The former television producer Wendy Prior Fentress finds the most important background characters for films and shows.

Health

• Female Cardiothoracic Surgeons, Unlocking the Male Fortress. Less than 10 percent of heart and lung surgeons in the United States are women. At a recent conference, they vowed to change that.
• F.D.A. Attributes 10 Children’s Deaths to Covid Vaccines. The agency’s top vaccine regulator said that a review had found that the children were likely to have died “because of” the shots. But public health experts want to examine the data.
• A Different Type of Dementia is Changing What’s Known About Cognitive Decline. On its own, LATE dementia is less severe than Alzheimer’s, but in combination, it makes Alzheimer’s symptoms worse, scientists say.
• F.D.A. Withdraws Rule to Require Testing Cosmetics Made With Talc for Asbestos. The agency said it planned to craft a more comprehensive rule, but the move alarmed public health advocates, who have long worked to eliminate asbestos in consumer products.
• Trump Administration Will No Longer Commemorate World AIDS Day. The State Department warned employees not to use government funds for the occasion and to “refrain from publicly promoting World AIDS Day through any communication channels.”
• U.S. Announces Negotiated Prices for 15 Drugs Under Medicare. The Trump administration said that had the new prices been in effect last year, Medicare would have saved $12 billion, which would have reduced its spending on those drugs by 44 percent.
• Postpartum Prescription of GLP-1 Drugs Has Increased Sharply, Study Finds. By mid-2024, the weight-loss drugs were prescribed for almost 2 percent of new mothers.
• Doctor Critical of Vaccines Quietly Appointed as C.D.C.’s Second in Command. During the Covid-19 pandemic, Dr. Ralph Lee Abraham promoted discredited treatments like ivermectin and, as Louisiana’s surgeon general, halted the state’s mass vaccination campaign.
• Ozempic Drug Fails to Quell Alzheimer’s in Novo Nordisk Trials. The studies were a significant setback for the optimistic view that semaglutide and other GLP-1 drugs could help prevent a number of brain diseases.
• Study Finds Mental Health Benefit to One-Week Social Media Break. Young adults who engaged in a social media “detox” reported reductions in depression, anxiety and insomnia, though it was unclear how long the effects would last.
• These Hospitals Figured Out How to Slash C-Section Rates. Financial and social incentives can nudge doctors away from the operating room.

Well

• How to Live to 100, According to Dick Van Dyke. The star of “Mary Poppins” and “Chitty Chitty Bang Bang” still hits the gym and touches his toes.
• She Was Born Without an Immune System. Gene Therapy Saved Her Life. “Bubble boy disease” was once a death sentence. A scientific breakthrough changed that.
• Need a Break from Your Phone? These Books Can Help. These five titles, recommended by therapists and researchers, can help you curb the urge to scroll.
• Is it Cold, Flu or Covid? What to Know About Symptoms and Testing. With similar symptoms, it can be difficult to tell which illness is which. Here’s what to know.
• Health Issues in Middle Age Can Be Linked to Pregnancy Years Earlier. Women with common pregnancy complications are at increased risk for cardiovascular and metabolic health problems later in life. But many patients remain unaware of the connection.
• 5 Questions to Ask Your Elders Over the Holidays. Interviewing loved ones brings you closer and offers a window into the past.

Eat

• Is It OK to Binge Drink Occasionally? We asked experts if a night or two of indulgence is really that bad.
• How Do Ultraprocessed Foods Affect the Gut? Studies have linked them to colorectal cancer and other digestive conditions.

Mind

• Sleep Apnea Linked to Parkinson’s Disease, New Study Finds. Those with the sleep condition were more likely to develop Parkinson’s disease. But one treatment was found to help.

Times Insider

• A Fascinating Tale, Unearthed at a Sidewalk Sale. After a crowded stoop sale on a Brooklyn block caught one reporter’s eye, he traced the items to Georgia — and an elusive figure known as Miss Paula.
• On the Labor and Delivery Floor, a Reporter Sees a Solution. C-sections can be lifesaving, but sometimes the procedure can be overused. Data helped show how a hospital decreased its rates of the operation in healthy first-time mothers.
• In ‘The Preventionist,’ the Right Way to Protect Children Isn’t So Clear. After a series of allegations about misdiagnosed child abuse in Pennsylvania, a three-part podcast by Serial Productions brings families’ stories to light.
• A Typewriter That Has Traveled the World. A machine that once belonged to a Times journalist has been present during wars, natural disasters and more.

Corrections

• Corrections: Nov. 29, 2025. Corrections that appeared in print on Saturday, Nov. 29, 2025.
• Quote of the Day: Middle-Age Ills Can Be Linked To Pregnancies. Quotation of the Day for Saturday, November 29, 2025.
• No Corrections: Nov. 28, 2025. No corrections appeared in print on Friday, Nov. 28, 2025.
• Quote of the Day: Climate ‘Shock’ is Eating Away at Home Values. Quotation of the Day for Friday, November 28, 2025.
• Corrections: Nov. 27, 2025. Corrections that appeared in print on Thursday, Nov. 27, 2025.
• Quote of the Day: In GPS Age, Aspiring Cabbies Study London, Lane by Lane. Quotation of the Day for Thursday, November 27, 2025.
• Corrections: Nov. 26, 2025. Corrections that appeared in print on Wednesday, Nov. 26, 2025.
• Quote of the Day: U.S. Envisions Gazans Living In Compounds. Quotation of the Day for Wednesday, November 26, 2025.
• Quote of the Day: Haitians Cheer Soccer Success in Era of Crisis. Quotation of the Day for Tuesday, November 25, 2025.
• Corrections: Nov. 25, 2025. Corrections that appeared in print on Tuesday, Nov. 25, 2025.
• Corrections: Nov. 22, 2025. Corrections that appeared in print on Saturday, Nov. 22, 2025.
• No Corrections: Nov. 24, 2025. No corrections appeared in print on Monday, Nov. 24, 2025.
• Quote of the Day: A Belgian Region’s Experiment With Democracy, and Trust. Quotation of the Day for Monday, November 24, 2025.
• Quote of the Day: How Learning a Dying Craft Helped One Man Fix His Life. Quotation of the Day for Sunday, November 23, 2025.
• Corrections: Nov. 23, 2025. Corrections that appeared in print on Sunday, Nov. 23, 2025.

The Learning Network

• Gratitude List. What are you grateful for this year?
• Word of the Day: coterie. This word has appeared in 86 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year. Can you use it in a sentence?
• What Have You Always Wanted to Know About an Older Family Member? A health reporter suggests interviewing your elders this holiday season. What questions would you ask an older person in your life?
• Word of the Day: esoteric. This word has appeared in 157 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year. Can you use it in a sentence?
• Thanksgiving Hot Takes. What are your most provocative opinions about the holiday?
• Weekly Student News Quiz: First Kiss, Art Auction, Oval Office. Have you been paying attention to current events recently? See how many of these 10 questions you can get right.
• Should Buses Be Free? Iowa City eliminated bus fares two years ago. Now New York City’s mayor-elect wants to do the same for the largest city in the country.
• Word of the Day: bestow. This word has appeared in 73 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year. Can you use it in a sentence?

Lesson Plans

• Ask a Journalist: Photographing What’s Interesting About Your Hometown. The Times photographer James Estrin joins us in December to chat with teenagers about using a camera to explore the place where you live. Post your comments and questions for him by Dec. 12.

En español

• ¿Qué tan malo es pasarse de copas un solo día? Los expertos explican si uno o dos deslices alcohólicos pueden afectar tu salud.
• 5 preguntas para hacer a tus mayores durante las fiestas. Entrevistar a las personas queridas es una forma de conservar los recuerdos para el futuro y pasar tiempo de calidad juntos.
• Cuidado con el elfo de la Navidad, advierten los expertos en privacidad. Los simpáticos duendes que aparecen en algunas casas durante la época navideña pueden ser una manera peligrosa de acostumbrar a los niños a ser vigilados.
• La NASA descubre relámpagos en Marte. El rover Perseverance recogió pruebas sonoras de descargas eléctricas en la atmósfera del planeta rojo.
• Europa en la hora de la verdad. El plan de paz para Ucrania del presidente Trump está obligando al continente a afrontar algunas decisiones difíciles sobre el poder militar.
• Alma Allen, escultor estadounidense, es seleccionado para la Bienal de Venecia. La elección de un artista relativamente desconocido afincado en Ciudad de México pone fin a un caótico y muy retrasado proceso de selección dirigido por el Departamento de Estado.
• Si una persona afligida dice no tener intenciones suicidas, ¿hay que creerle? Un conjunto de especialistas defiende que es mejor identificar y tratar los síntomas que conducen a un estado mental suicida: una afección que denominan “síndrome de crisis suicida”.
• ¿Cómo afectan al intestino los alimentos ultraprocesados? Los estudios los han relacionado con el cáncer colorrectal y otras afecciones digestivas.
• Palabra del día: ‘coterie’ Esta palabra ha aparecido en 86 artículos en NYTimes.com en el último año. ¿Puedes usarla en una frase?
• Él quiere empezar de nuevo. Para eso, hará el examen de conducir más difícil del mundo. En un mundo con GPS y aplicaciones, algunos londinenses aún quieren conducir un tradicional taxi negro. Pero, primero, deben memorizar miles de calles.
• ¿Qué tan saludable es el Día de Acción de Gracias? Hay más nutrientes —y menos culpa— de lo que imaginas.
• Palabra del día: ‘esoteric’ Esta palabra ha aparecido en 157 artículos en NYTimes.com en el último año. ¿Puedes usarla en una frase?
• El caos comercial hace que las empresas replanteen su relación con EE. UU. De Suecia a México, seis pequeñas empresas hablan de cómo se comunican con sus clientes estadounidenses en medio de la incertidumbre causada por los aranceles de Trump.
• ¿Es posible que los estadios de fútbol revitalicen las ciudades de EE. UU.? Una serie de ciudades pequeñas y medianas apuesta por los estadios como motores de crecimiento para impulsar el desarrollo de proyectos de uso mixto. Sin embargo, esas ambiciones se suelen estancar cuando comienzan los juegos.
• Palabra del día: ‘bestow’ Esta palabra ha aparecido en 73 artículos en NYTimes.com en el último año. ¿Puedes usarla en una frase?
• Cada vez más adolescentes toman antidepresivos. Podrían alterar su vida sexual por años. Los estudios sobre adultos que toman ISRS muestran que estos medicamentos reducen la libido. ¿Por qué no se analiza lo que esto podría significar para los chicos?

América Latina

• Los líderes de América Latina enfrentan un dilema: complacer a Trump y a los votantes deportados de EE. UU. Los comicios del domingo en Honduras muestran cómo los políticos deben equilibrar la cooperación con el gobierno de Trump y su obligación hacia los ciudadanos indocumentados en Estados Unidos que pueden ser deportados.
• El respaldo de Trump agita unas elecciones en Honduras ya de por sí tensas. El domingo, los votantes elegirán entre un partido de izquierda y dos candidatos de derecha, uno de ellos respaldado por el presidente Trump. Es probable que los resultados sean muy reñidos.
• EE. UU. podrá usar el territorio de República Dominicana para combatir el crimen organizado. El mandatario dominicano, Luis Abinader, dijo que el Pentágono podría usar zonas restringidas de la Base Aérea de San Isidro y del Aeropuerto Internacional de Las Américas para reabastecerse de combustible y transportar equipos y personal técnico.
• María Corina Machado, Nobel de la Paz, difunde afirmaciones falsas sobre Maduro, dicen los críticos. La líder de la oposición es criticada de exagerar las amenazas que representa el mandatario venezolano para justificar el uso de la fuerza por parte de Estados Unidos para derrocarlo.
• Bolsonaro comenzará a cumplir una condena de 27 años por complot golpista. El Supremo Tribunal Federal ordenó que el expresidente ingrese en prisión tras ser hallado culpable de conspirar para mantenerse en el poder después de perder las últimas elecciones.
• La campaña de desinformación rusa en México que busca alienar a EE. UU. Un cable del gobierno estadounidense reveló que los esfuerzos de desinformación de Rusia en Latinoamérica se han intensificado, en parte para sembrar discordia entre EE. UU. y sus aliados en la región.
• Jair Bolsonaro es arrestado en Brasil por temor a su fuga. La detención se produjo días antes de que se ordenara al expresidente el inicio de una condena de 27 años de prisión por planear un golpe de Estado fallido.

Ciencia y Tecnología

• La IA ayuda a identificar al asesino de una ejecución durante el régimen nazi. Según Jürgen Matthäus, investigador del Holocausto, el asesino era Jakobus Onnen, de 34 años, un antiguo profesor de la ciudad de Tichelwarf, cerca de la frontera alemana con los Países Bajos.
• Maúlla más para que ese hombre te haga caso. En un nuevo estudio, unos investigadores reportaron que los gatos maúllan con mayor frecuencia al saludar a cuidadores masculinos que al recibir a cuidadoras femeninas.
• ¿Cómo llegaron a sus sitios los gigantes de la isla de Pascua? Caminando, según un estudio. Durante siglos, los eruditos se han sentido desconcertados por el movimiento de las figuras monolíticas de Rapa Nui. Un estudio reciente demostró una técnica plausible para su traslado.
• Un descanso de las redes sociales podría ayudar a la salud mental. En un nuevo estudio, disminuir el uso de las redes sociales durante una semana redujo los síntomas de ansiedad, depresión e insomnio en adultos jóvenes. No estaba claro cuánto durarían los efectos.

Cultura

• Todo lo que hay que recordar de ‘Stranger Things’ antes de la última temporada. Han pasado más de tres años desde la cuarta temporada de la exitosa serie de Netflix, y por fin ha llegado la batalla final. Aquí tienes un repaso rápido.
• ¿Cuánto sexo, drogas y violencia puede tener una película PG-13? Una nueva guía revela cómo la junta de clasificaciones sopesa el desnudo, el consumo de marihuana y las imágenes violentas en la gran pantalla.
• Un dibujo diminuto, tal vez de Miguel Ángel, saldrá a la venta. Este estudio, desconocido hasta ahora, fue descubierto en febrero por la especialista en dibujos de maestros antiguos de Christie’s en Nueva York.
• Jimmy Cliff, ícono del reggae, muere a los 81 años. El cantante ganador de dos Grammy murió de neumonía, dijo su esposa. Su protagónico en la película ‘The Harder They Come’, en 1972, ayudó a llevar el reggae a un público más amplio.
• Cómo los Beatles lograron enganchar a la generación X. Los jóvenes que alcanzaron la mayoría de edad a la sombra de los Fab Four se mofaban de las credenciales boomer de la banda. Los discos “Anthology”, que vuelven ahora después de 30 años, cambiaron todo eso.
• México existe de milagro. En un nuevo libro, Paul Gillingham cuenta la historia de una nación que ha prosperado gracias a su diversidad demográfica, no a pesar de ella.
• La cena de Acción de Gracias, por Joan Didion: comida para 75 y muchos apuntes. Los archivos de la autora, recién compartidos con el público, revelan la meticulosa planificación y la devoción por la cocina de sus grandes comidas festivas.
• George Clooney, Adam Sandler y Noah Baumbach hablan de la fama y de ‘Jay Kelly’ Las estrellas y el director recuerdan sus días intentando abrirse camino en la industria y cómo el fracaso formaba parte de la ecuación.

Estados Unidos

• Trump intensifica sus posturas antiinmigración tras el tiroteo en Washington. El presidente de EE. UU. ha sumado el ataque a los integrantes de la Guardia Nacional a su visión respecto a los migrantes.
• Trump anuncia un indulto para el expresidente hondureño Juan Orlando Hernández. El expresidente fue declarado culpable el año pasado por un jurado estadounidense de conspirar para importar cocaína a EE. UU. Cumple una condena de 45 años.
• Trump y Maduro hablaron por teléfono la semana pasada. Los mandatarios conversaron sobre una posible reunión, incluso mientras EE. UU. sigue con la amenaza de una acción militar contra Venezuela.
• Trump promete detener la migración de los ‘países del Tercer Mundo’ tras el tiroteo en Washington. Trump también dijo que ‘desnaturalizará’ a los inmigrantes ‘que socavan la tranquilidad nacional’ y expulsaría del país a quienes fueran ‘incompatibles con la Civilización Occidental’, sin detallar a quiénes se refiere ni cómo aplicará esas medidas.
• ¿Quién es el sospechoso del tiroteo en Washington? Rahmanullah Lakanwal fue uno de los afganos que llegaron a Estados Unidos tras la toma de Afganistán por los talibanes. Antes sirvió en una unidad paramilitar que colaboraba con las fuerzas estadounidenses.
• El sospechoso del tiroteo en Washington estaba atormentado por la violencia de su unidad en Afganistán. El presunto autor del tiroteo fue miembro de fuerzas especiales en la provincia de Kandahar calificadas por grupos de derechos humanos como “escuadrones de la muerte”.
• La información de EE. UU. sobre los ataques a embarcaciones es limitada. El ejército sabe que en los barcos va alguien que tiene una conexión con un cártel de la droga, pero en la mayoría de los ataques el Pentágono no sabe con precisión a quién está matando.
• Una llamada filtrada del enviado especial de la Casa Blanca muestra deferencia a Rusia. La transcripción desató la indignación en Washington porque Steve Witkoff parecía estar mostrando al Kremlin cómo negociar con Trump y socavar una visita del presidente de Ucrania.
• Esto es lo que sabemos sobre el tiroteo contra soldados de la Guardia Nacional. Dos miembros de la Guardia Nacional resultaron gravemente heridos después de que un hombre les disparara cerca de la Casa Blanca. El presidente Trump calificó el tiroteo de acto terrorista.
• Para los cónyuges de ciudadanos de EE. UU., las entrevistas de la ‘green card’ terminan en arresto. Los agentes están deteniendo a cónyuges nacidos en el extranjero durante el último paso para obtener la residencia permanente. Los acusan de infracciones en sus visas que podrían terminar en una deportación.
• Un año después, salen a la luz los donantes de la transición de Trump. La lista de 46 personas incluye a multimillonarios y a personas que Trump nombró para ocupar puestos de poder.
• Lo que revelan los videos de los ataques a embarcaciones en el Caribe y el Pacífico. El ejército ha hecho públicos 21 videos de ataques estadounidenses a embarcaciones que, afirma, trafican con drogas. Pero estos solo cuentan una parte de la historia.
• Trump se enfrenta a la realidad de envejecer en el cargo. El presidente ha reducido los horarios de sus apariciones públicas y los estadounidenses lo ven menos que antes.
• Lo que hay que saber sobre el plan de paz de Trump para Rusia y Ucrania. Funcionarios estadounidenses han respondido a una tormenta de críticas sobre el plan insistiendo en que aún es un trabajo en curso.
• Deportadas y desesperadas por reunirse con sus hijos. En todo Estados Unidos, los niños han quedado al cuidado de familiares y vecinos tras las deportaciones. En Venezuela, las madres claman por el regreso de sus hijos e hijas.
• Patel en la mira por usar agentes especiales para proteger a su novia. El uso de aviones oficiales para hacer viajes personales, y de agentes SWAT para cuidar a su pareja, han contribuido a que se cuestione si el director del FBI está utilizando indebidamente recursos financiados por los contribuyentes.
• ¿EE. UU. debe enviar tropas a Venezuela? El debate divide a los venezolanos de Florida. Las diferencias de opinión, complicadas por la inquietud generada por las políticas migratorias de Trump, están creando tensión entre los estadounidenses de origen venezolano.
• El movimiento MAGA reacciona a la reunión de Mamdani y Trump. Destacados influentes conservadores interpretaron de formas diferentes la reunión en sus pódcasts y en sus publicaciones en las redes sociales.
• La nieta de JFK comparte su batalla contra la leucemia. Tatiana Schlossberg relata su diagnóstico, dos transplantes y su indignación ante políticas de salud que, asegura, ponen vidas en riesgo.
• Waymo triunfaba en San Francisco, hasta que uno de sus vehículos autónomos mató a un gato. Los taxis sin conductor se han hecho omnipresentes en la ciudad, pero se armó un revuelo cuando uno atropelló a un gato muy querido por un vecindario.

Estilos de Vida

• Cómo vivir hasta los 100 años, según Dick Van Dyke. La estrella de “Mary Poppins” y “Chitty Chitty Bang Bang” sigue yendo al gimnasio y tocándose los dedos de los pies.
• Nació sin sistema inmunitario. Una terapia génica le salvó la vida. La “enfermedad del niño burbuja” era antes una sentencia de muerte. Un avance científico lo cambió todo.
• La teoría del zapato en forma de papa. Cuando se trata de calzado, hay una forma perfecta para los pies.
• ¿Confiarías en la IA para que te reserve un vuelo? La IA agéntica es un modelo de inteligencia artificial que requiere poca o ninguna supervisión humana. Dentro de poco, un bot podría reservar vuelos, hoteles y más en tu nombre.
• 5 nuevos parques de esculturas que hay que conocer. Ya sea en la campiña inglesa o en un bosque de Tailandia, el arte y la naturaleza van de la mano.
• Un disfraz de salmón se robó el show de Miss Universo. A la diseñadora del extravagante atuendo de Miss Noruega no le sorprendió la atención. “El plan original era hacer ruido”, dijo.
• ¿Qué tan saludable es la calabaza? Tenemos buenas noticias sobre este ingrediente clásico del otoño.
• Multitud de modas en Hong Kong. Residentes y visitantes de todas partes dan a la ciudad un sabor visual diverso.

Mundo

• Trump dejó fuera a Europa de las negociaciones sobre Ucrania. Así respondió el continente. El plan de 28 puntos del presidente Trump para poner fin a la guerra en Ucrania sorprendió a los líderes europeos. Lo que siguió fue una carrera por la influencia.
• La IA y la pregunta del billón de dólares. Ni las mismas compañías creadoras de la tecnología parecen saber bien hacia dónde se dirige.
• Dirigió Finlandia durante la covid y las amenazas rusas. Pero es famosa por un baile. Sanna Marin was celebrated as a pathbreaking feminist when she became Finland’s prime minister at age 34. Two years after leaving office, she’s trying to turn a scandal over a leaked dancing video into a battle cry.
• El papa León visita Turquía en su primer viaje como pontífice. El papa inició un viaje de seis días, que también incluirá una visita a Líbano.
• El peor incendio de Hong Kong en décadas suscita la revisión de las fallas de seguridad. Las autoridades dijeron que unas redes y unas planchas de espuma inflamables podrían haber provocado el incendio más mortífero de la ciudad en casi 70 años.
• Confrontación en el Pacífico asiático. China y Japón, en una disputa diplomática en torno a Taiwán; incendio en Hong Kong y más para estar al día.
• El calendario Putin 2026 ya está a la venta. Este año no hay fotos del líder ruso con el torso desnudo, pero hay citas y consejos: “Mi receta para la energía: duerme poco, trabaja mucho y no te quejes”.
• Un complejo de apartamentos se incendió en Hong Kong. Esto es lo que sabemos. Los bomberos lucharon por contener las llamas en los edificios de gran altura. Al menos 36 personas murieron, y se teme que muchas más quedaran atrapadas en el interior de las torres.
• China y Japón están enfrentados. Y en medio está Donald Trump. Tras meses de disputas con Estados Unidos por sus aranceles, China y Japón ahora quieren el apoyo de este país para sus respectivas posturas sobre Taiwán.
• Trump busca el fin de la guerra en Ucrania y Europa se esfuerza para hacerse escuchar. En lugar de criticar el plan de paz de 28 puntos, los líderes europeos lo apoyaron públicamente para mantener satisfecho al presidente de EE. UU., aunque insistieron en que solo era un punto de partida para las conversaciones.
• Francia debe estar dispuesta a ‘perder a nuestros hijos’, dice el jefe del ejército. Se espera que el presidente Emmanuel Macron presente un plan de servicio militar voluntario remunerado para potenciar las fuerzas armadas contra la amenaza de Rusia.
• Rusia ataca Ucrania y muestra resistencia a los cambios al plan de paz. El ataque mató al menos a siete personas en Kiev, dijeron las autoridades, mientras Moscú sugería que se resistiría a los cambios negociados por Ucrania.
• Así sería el plan de paz para Ucrania y Rusia. Nuestros corresponsales discuten las perspectivas del plan del presidente Trump para poner fin a la guerra.
• Alemania consume menos cerveza. Unas empresas quiebran, otras se adaptan. Cada vez más jóvenes evitan el alcohol. Este cambio cultural ha provocado una epidemia de cierres de cervecerías.
• Un año de inundaciones, barro y muerte en Vietnam. Los científicos indicaron que el cambio climático podría convertir el centro de Vietnam en un punto crítico mundial de tormentas destructivas. Este año parece haberlo demostrado.
• Como sea, Putin gana: acepta un acuerdo de paz que favorece a Rusia o sigue la lucha. Para el dirigente ruso, un plan de paz que favorezca al Kremlin sería una victoria. También lo sería un proceso fallido que llevara a Trump a retirar el apoyo a Ucrania.
• Cómo un monitor de tobillo saboteado acabó con el arresto domiciliario de Bolsonaro. Poco antes de que empezara a cumplir una condena de 27 años, el expresidente de Brasil utilizó un soldador en su dispositivo de seguimiento.
• Brasil desafió a Trump y ganó. La actitud del presidente Trump ante la detención de Bolsonaro es un ejemplo de los límites de su capacidad para doblegar a gobiernos extranjeros y de su disposición a abandonar a sus aliados.
• Israel sancionará a mandos militares por fallos del 7 de octubre. Alrededor de una decena de personas se enfrentan a la expulsión o a medidas disciplinarias por errores relacionados con el mortífero ataque dirigido por Hamás que desencadenó la guerra en Gaza.
• El modelo migratorio de Dinamarca. El país atrae la atención por sus duras políticas de asilo: ¿pueden servir de contención frente a la ultraderecha?
• El Reino Unido busca endurecer sus políticas para refugiados. El primer ministro Keir Starmer espera que un nuevo enfoque para las solicitudes de asilo le permita controlar un debate sobre inmigración que amenaza su gobierno. La propuesta ha provocado reacciones negativas.
• Haití celebra su primera clasificación al Mundial en 50 años. El triunfo de la selección nacional que le consiguió un puesto en la Copa dio a los haitianos de todo el mundo un respiro momentáneo de las profundas crisis de su país.
• EE. UU. presiona a un Zelenski ya asediado. Las opciones del presidente ucraniano se reducen al enfrentarse a una propuesta de 28 puntos elaborada por enviados estadounidenses y rusos.

Negocios

• ¿La animación de Disney puede recuperar su magia? Jared Bush está tratando de que el corazón del imperio mediático palpite de una manera más constante. “Zootopia 2” será una prueba.
• Las ofertas irresistibles los endeudaron. Ahora intentan controlar sus gastos excesivos. Las fechas de rebajas como el Black Friday, la comodidad de comprar con un clic y los préstamos “compra ahora y paga después” están facilitando que la gente compre —y compre y compre— durante las fiestas.
• El auge de la IA continúa. ¿Por qué aún es inquietante? Vivimos una época de superlativos en la industria tecnológica, con ganancias, cotizaciones bursátiles y precios de transacción históricos. Suficiente para poner muy nerviosos a algunos.
• La incertidumbre y el riesgo recorren la economía mundial. Algunos expertos ven una peligrosa combinación de factores que recuerdan las prácticas que condujeron a anteriores crisis financieras.

Opinión

• Cuidar a mi papá en su vejez. Estados Unidos envejece. Y rápido. Necesitamos líderes que comprendan la magnitud del desafío y lo tomen en serio.
• España debe enterrar el fantasma de Franco. Cincuenta años después de la muerte del dictador español, su influencia sigue viva.
• Los grupos que defienden a los migrantes en EE. UU. necesitan ayuda. Estas organizaciones están atrapadas entre una necesidad cada vez más grande de sus servicios y un gobierno que intenta privarlas de recursos.
• La guerra falsa de EE. UU. contra Venezuela podría volverse de verdad. La retórica del gobierno de Trump sobre la guerra contra las drogas parece un pretexto. ¿Pero un pretexto para qué?
• ‘El sistema está hecho para quebrarte’: lo que el ICE le hace a gente que está en EE. UU. legalmente. Algo nuevo está ocurriendo en la amplitud y la fiereza de los esfuerzos por cambiar la composición de Estados Unidos.

Tiempo y clima

• Estos chocolateros han encontrado una forma deliciosa de ayudar a la Amazonía. Una nueva generación de chocolateros artesanales de Brasil está creando tabletas con “identidad”. Y también están ayudando a conservar la selva.

Gameplay

• Connections Companion No. 903. Scroll down for hints and conversation about the puzzle for Sunday, Nov. 30, 2025.
• Strands Sidekick No. 637. Scroll down for hints and conversation about the puzzle for Sunday, Nov. 30, 2025
• Wordle Review No. 1,625. Scroll down for hints and conversation about the puzzle for Sunday, Nov. 30, 2025.
• Spelling Bee Forum. Feeling stuck on today’s puzzle? We can help.
• Take It Back! Adrian Johnson’s latest themeless puzzle is gritty and graceful.
• Connections Companion No. 902. Scroll down for hints and conversation about the puzzle for Saturday, Nov. 29, 2025.
• Strands Sidekick No. 636. Scroll down for hints and conversation about the puzzle for Saturday, Nov. 29, 2025.
• Wordle Review No. 1,624. Scroll down for hints and conversation about the puzzle for Saturday, Nov. 29, 2025.
• Hustle. Jacob McDermott opens our solving weekend.
• Connections Companion No. 901. Scroll down for hints and conversation about the puzzle for Friday, Nov. 28, 2025.
• Strands Sidekick No. 635. Scroll down for hints and conversation about the puzzle for Friday, Nov. 28, 2025.
• Wordle Review No. 1,623. Scroll down for hints and conversation about the puzzle for Friday, Nov. 28, 2025.
• Tread on Me! Alexander Liebeskind goes back to his roots.
• Connections Companion No. 900. Scroll down for hints and conversation about the puzzle for Thursday, Nov. 27, 2025.
• Wordle Review No. 1,622. Scroll down for hints and conversation about the puzzle for Thursday, Nov. 27, 2025.
• Strands Sidekick No. 634. Scroll down for hints and conversation about the puzzle for Thursday, Nov. 27, 2025.
• Drive Back. John McClung makes his New York Times Crossword debut.
• Connections Companion No. 899. Scroll down for hints and conversation about the puzzle for Wednesday, Nov. 26, 2025.
• Wordle Review No. 1,621. Scroll down for hints and conversation about the puzzle for Wednesday, Nov. 26, 2025.
• Strands Sidekick No. 633. Scroll down for hints and conversation about the puzzle for Wednesday, Nov. 26, 2025.
• Post at Sea. Try not to spiral as you solve John Ewbank’s puzzle.
• Connections Companion No. 898. Scroll down for hints and conversation about the puzzle for Tuesday, Nov. 25, 2025.
• Wordle Review No. 1,620. Scroll down for hints and conversation about the puzzle for Tuesday, Nov. 25, 2025.
• Strands Sidekick No. 632. Scroll down for hints and conversation about the puzzle for Tuesday, Nov. 25, 2025.
• Three-Point Hoops Shot. Zhou Zhang brings us into her circle.
• Connections Companion No. 897. Scroll down for hints and conversation about the puzzle for Monday, Nov. 24, 2025.
• Strands Sidekick No. 631. Scroll down for hints and conversation about the puzzle for Monday, Nov. 24, 2025.
• Wordle Review No. 1,619. Scroll down for hints and conversation about the puzzle for Monday, Nov. 24, 2025
• Puzzle Mania 2025 Variety Puzzle Answers. Check your puzzle answers.
• How a Maximalist Puzzle Buffet Gets Made. Puzzle Mania, the annual print section, takes a village to grow it from a kernel of an idea to the extravaganza it is today.
• Your Guide to the 2025 Super Mega Crossword. See the clues, discuss the puzzle and read a Q&A with Christina Iverson, who constructed it.
• Spelling Bee Writing Contest Winners. We asked you to submit your Spelling Bee sentences. Here are the winning entries.
• Second in Command. Trenton Charlson takes charge of your Sunday with an imposing puzzle.

Weather

• Snow Squalls and Heavy Winds Pummel Parts of Southern Ontario. More localized bands of squalls were expected to form, with up to two feet of snow possible in some areas, according to Canada’s forecast agency.
• Heavy Snow in Parts of the U.S. Complicates Post-Thanksgiving Travel. Forecasters say a winter storm will bring heavy snow, sleet, freezing rain and blizzard conditions to the Northern Plains, Upper Midwest and Great Lakes from Friday through the weekend.
• Winter Storm in Northern U.S. Expected to Snarl Post-Thanksgiving Travel. Forecasters say a winter storm could disrupt travel, dumping up to a foot of snow across parts of the Midwest through the holiday weekend.
• Winter Storm Brings Heavy Snow to Upper Midwest. Blizzards blanketed the parts of northern Wisconsin and Michigan’s Upper Peninsula with heavy snow. Some areas may receive up to 30 inches of snow, according to the Weather Service.
• Heavy Snow Expected Across Upper Midwest Through Thanksgiving. Forecasters said the snow was expected to be unusually intense, even for areas used to heavy snow.
• Here’s Where Weather May Slow Your Thanksgiving Travel This Week. Some storms could make for sloppy travel before the holiday.

Special Series

• A Highway Is Crumbling. New York Can’t Agree on How to Fix It. The Brooklyn-Queens Expressway has exceeded its life span. Clashing visions have hindered a solution.

Polls

• Tennessee Seventh District Special Election 2025: Latest Polls. Track the latest polls about Democrat Aftyn Behn and Republican Matt Van Epps in the special election in Tennessee's Seventh Congressional District.
• Control of Congress 2026: Latest Polls. Track the latest congressional ballot surveys that ask who Americans plan to vote for in the 2026 midterm election.