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A Fragile Cease-Fire in Gaza
L.A. on Fire
The End of Justin Trudeau’s Canada
Terror in New Orleans
The Year in Books
The Sunday Read: ‘Ozempic Could Crush the Junk Food Industry. But It Is Fighting Back.’
The Sunday Read: ‘My Goldendoodle Spent a Week at Some Luxury Dog ‘Hotels.’ I Tagged Along.’
The Year in TV & Movies
How a Skeptical Critic Came to Love Bad Christmas Movies
Could One Phone Call Lead to the 28th Amendment?
The Sunday Read: ‘The Alienation of Jaime Cachua’
A Turning Point for Ultraprocessed Foods
The Manhunt, the Manifesto and the Murder Charge
From Wirecutter: Don't Get Swindled on Black Friday
Thanksgiving With Ina Garten
How Israel Uses Palestinian Detainees as Human Shields
A Sudden Escalation in Ukraine Before Trump Takes Office
Matt Gaetz Calls It Quits
The Appeal of the Smaller Breast
From Resistance to Reflection
Elon Musk Launches Into American Politics
Why Abortion Rights Won Even as Kamala Harris Lost
Democrats Search For Answers
The Sunday Read: ‘Online Dating After 50 Can Be Miserable. But It’s Also Liberating.’
A Guide to Election Night 2024
Inside an Unprepared Secret Service
The Walz-Vance Debate: Civility and Then a Clash
Hurricane Helene’s 600 Miles of Destruction
The Criminal Indictment of New York City’s Mayor
The Slide Toward War in Lebanon
How Telegram Became the Underworld’s Favorite App
Six Weeks to Go
The Day Thousands of Pagers Exploded in Lebanon
A Second Assassination Plot and the New Era of Political Violence
How the Election Is Sinking a $15 Billion Business Deal
The Harris Honeymoon Is Over
Kamala Harris’s Record on Immigration
The Battle to Control the World’s Most Powerful Technology
The Push to Ban Phones in School
Why Tipping Is Everywhere
The War That Won’t End
The First Major Cyberattack of the 2024 Election
A Controversial Crackdown on Homeless Encampments
How One Tech Monopoly Paved the Way for Another
Harris Takes the Lead in Key States
Breaking’s Olympic Debut
What Just Happened on Wall Street?
The Secret Succession Fight That Will Determine the Future of Fox News
A Radical Reboot of Nuclear Energy
Is One Third of Venezuela’s Population About to Flee?
Joe Biden Drops Out
The Surprise Ending to the Mar-a-Lago Documents Case
Trump Picks His Running Mate — and Political Heir
The Sunday Read: ‘A Republican Election Clerk vs. Trump Die-Hards in a World of Lies’
Loving Their Pets to Debt
Trump Wins Broad Immunity
The Doping Scandal Rocking the Upcoming Olympics
France’s Far Right at the Gates of Power
The Army of Poets and Students Fighting a Forgotten War
Abortion United Evangelicals and Republicans. Now That Alliance Is Fraying.
'The Interview': Serena Williams’s Next Challenge? The Rest of Her Life.
Inside Trump’s Search for a Vice President
The Criminal Conviction of Hunter Biden
Biden’s Hard-Line Effort to Close the Border
Real Teenagers, Fake Nudes: The Rise of Deepfakes in American Schools
The Fight Over the Next Pandemic
Biden’s Push to End the War in Gaza
A Conversation With President Zelensky
The Government Takes On Ticketmaster
The Closing Arguments in the Trump Trial
The Alitos and Their Flags
Whales Have an Alphabet
Biden’s Open War On Hidden Fees
The Crypto Comeback
Was the 401(k) a Mistake?
Stormy Daniels Takes The Stand
A Plan to Remake the Middle East
How Changing Ocean Temperatures Could Upend Life on Earth
R.F.K. Jr.’s Battle to Get on the Ballot
The Secret Push That Could Ban TikTok
Harvey Weinstein Conviction Thrown Out
A Salacious Conspiracy or Just 34 Pieces of Paper?
The Evolving Danger of the New Bird Flu
The Supreme Court Takes Up Homelessness
Are ‘Forever Chemicals’ a Forever Problem?
A.I.’s Original Sin
Iran’s Unprecedented Attack on Israel
The Staggering Success of Trump’s Trial Delay Tactics
Trump's Abortion Dilemma
The Eclipse Chaser
The Sunday Read: ‘What Deathbed Visions Teach Us About Living’
An Engineering Experiment to Cool the Earth
The Accidental Tax Cutter in Chief
Kids Are Missing School at an Alarming Rate
Democrats’ Plan to Save the Republican House Speaker
The United States vs. the iPhone
The Sunday Read: ‘Sure, It Won an Oscar. But Is It Criterion?’
It Sucks to Be 33
The Alarming Findings Inside a Mass Shooter’s Brain
Oregon Decriminalized Drugs. Voters Now Regret It.
The Billionaires’ Secret Plan to Solve California’s Housing Crisis
The State of the Union
The Unhappy Voters Who Could Swing the Election
A Deadly Aid Delivery and Growing Threat of Famine in Gaza
An F.B.I. Informant, a Bombshell Claim, and an Impeachment Built on a Lie
How Poisoned Applesauce Found Its Way to Kids
An Arms Race Quietly Unfolds in Space
The Alabama Ruling That Could Stop Families From Having Kids
The Sunday Read: ‘How Do You Make a Weed Empire? Sell It Like Streetwear.’
Trump’s Cash Crunch
What Happens if America Turns Its Back on Its Allies in Europe
Sunday Special: Un-Marry Me!
How China Broke One Man’s Dreams
Why the Race to Replace George Santos Is So Close
Why Boeing’s Top Airplanes Keep Failing
On the Ballot in South Carolina: Biden’s Pitch to Black Voters
Secure the Border, Say Republicans. So Why Are They Killing a Plan to Do That?
Is the Future of Medicine Hidden in Ancient DNA?
What the Houthis Really Want
The Messy Fight Over the SAT
Trump’s Domination and the Battle for No. 2 in Iowa
Why Are So Many More Pedestrians Dying in the U.S.?
Biden’s 2024 Playbook
Trump's 2024 Playbook
Baseball’s Plan To Save Itself From Boredom: An Update
A Mother, a Daughter, a Deadly Journey: An Update
Inside Russia’s Crackdown on Dissent: An Update
Biden Supports Israel. Does the Rest of America?
Why a Colorado Court Just Knocked Trump Off the Ballot
The Woman Who Fought the Texas Abortion Ban
Ukraine’s Counteroffensive Fizzled. U.S. Funding May Be Next.
Can an ‘Anarcho-Capitalist’ President Save Argentina’s Economy?
Nikki Haley’s Moment
Opioid Victims Have a Settlement. Will the Supreme Court Undo It?
The Blurry Line Between Rap Star and Crime Boss
Should You Rent or Buy? The New Math.
The Bad Vibes Around a Good Economy
Ending Roe Was Supposed to Reduce Abortions. It Didn’t.
Botox, Hermès and OnlyFans: Why This May Be George Santos’s Last Week in Congress
Inside the Coup at OpenAI
The New Speaker Avoided a Shutdown. Can He Avoid Being Ousted?
Two Superpowers Walk Into a Garden
Biden’s Electric Car Problem
From Serial: ‘The Kids of Rutherford County’
The Supreme Court Tests Its Own Limits on Guns
The Trumps Take the Stand
The Growing Republican Battle Over War Funding
Swing State Voters Are Souring on Biden
The Many Missed Warnings Before Maine’s Mass Shooting
A Historic Strike (And Win) For Auto Workers
Israel's Invasion Begins
A New Threat: Surprise Hurricanes
The House Finally Has a Speaker
Why Israel Is Delaying the Ground Invasion
The Lawyers Now Turning on Trump
The Problem With a $2 Trillion Deficit
A Texas Town Wanted Tougher Border Security. Now It’s Having Regrets.
The Arm-Twisting, Back-Stabbing Battle for House Speaker
The Sunday Read: ‘Is Måneskin the Last Rock Band?’
The Spoiler Threat of R.F.K. Jr.
Israel’s Plan to Destroy Hamas
War in Israel
The New Supreme Court Cases to Watch
The Ouster of House Speaker Kevin McCarthy
Sam Bankman-Fried Goes on Trial
Amazon’s Most Beloved Features May Turn Out to Be Illegal
Why the Government is About to Shut Down
The Presidential Politics of the Autoworkers’ Strike
Did Hollywood Writers Get Their Happy Ending?
Gold Bars, Wads of Cash and a Senator’s Indictment
An Unexpected Battle Over Banning Caste Discrimination
Canada Confronts India Over Alleged Assassination
Is College Worth It?
The Republican Attempt to Impeach President Biden
An Armored Train and a Dangerous New Alliance
A New Covid Shot for a New Covid Era
U.S. v Google
How 100,000 Migrants Became a Political Crisis in New York
Passenger Planes Nearly Collide Far More Than You Know
A Breakout Moment for Vivek Ramaswamy

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Waiting for the Immigration Raids, Again
Drunkenness, Women and Wokeness: A Dramatic Confirmation Hearing for Pete Hegseth
Big Tech’s Big Bet on Trump
Trump 2.0: A Criminal Sentencing, Presidential Legacies, and Greenland
Republicans Take Control of Congress — and Harris Certifies Her Own Loss
The Reinvention of Jan. 6
Dana White, Donald Trump and the Rise of Cage-Match Politics
The Year in Wisdom
The Life and Legacy of Jimmy Carter
The Year in Music
'The Interview': Jonathan Roumie Plays Jesus to Millions. It Can Get Intense.
Ring-Kissing, Lawsuits and a Looming Shutdown
Crypto’s Big Bet Is Paying Off
The Sunday Read: ‘What if A.I. Is Actually Good for Hollywood?’
'The Interview': Rick Steves Refuses To Get Cynical About the World
How China Hacked America’s Phone Network
Notre-Dame Rises From the Ashes
The Texas Village Rethinking Homelessness
The Supreme Court Takes On Transgender Care for Minors
K-Pop Trained Rosé to Be ‘a Perfect Girl.’ Now She’s Trying to Be Herself.
Will Republicans Reject Gaetz?
Bernie Sanders Says Democrats Have Lost Their Way
Inside Trump World as the Next Chapter Begins
Donald Trump’s America
Trump, Again
The Sunday Read: ‘Their Son’s Death Was Devastating. Then Politics Made It Worse.’
'The Interview': Peter Singer Wants to Shatter Your Moral Complacency
Black Voters and the Democratic Party: One Family’s Story
Six Days Left: Closing Arguments, Racist Jokes and Burning Ballots
The Trump Campaign’s Big Gamble
'The Interview': John Fetterman Fears Trump Is Stronger Than Ever
The United States of Pennsylvania
The Gender Election
'The Interview': Mia Khalifa’s Messy World of Money, Sex and Activism
Trump 2.0: A Presidency Driven by Revenge
25 Days to Go
The Parents Aren’t All Right
Four Weeks to Go
Iran Retaliates
Alliance vs. Isolation: Harris and Trump’s Competing Views on Foreign Policy
'The Interview': John Oliver Is Still Working Through the Rage
The Profitable Business of Holding Patients Against Their Will
How the Cost of Housing Became So Crushing
Three Undecided Voters, Two Swing States, One Big Decision
The Sunday Read: ‘The For-Profit City That Might Come Crashing Down’
'The Interview': Demi Moore Is Done With the Male Gaze
The Story Behind ‘They’re Eating the Pets’
Harris Baits Trump: Inside Their Fiery Debate
The First Post-Affirmative Action Class Enters College
What Phil Donahue Meant to Me
Trump vs. Harris on the Economy
Introducing ‘The Wirecutter Show’
Inside the Three Worst Weeks of Trump’s Campaign
'The Interview': James Lankford Tried to Solve Immigration for the GOP
Dispatches From a Kamala Harris Field Office
Harris Chooses Walz
She Used to Be Friends With JD Vance
'The Interview': Vince Vaughn Turned This Interview Into Self-Help
The Long Shadow of Julian Assange’s Conviction
The V.P.’s Search for a V.P.
'The Interview': Pete Buttigieg Thinks the Trump Fever Could Break
The Harris Campaign Is Born
Sunday Special: The 100 Best Books of the Century (So Far)
'The Interview': Joel Embiid Believes He Could Have Been the GOAT
At the Republican Convention, Trump Achieves Mythical Status
Trump 2.0: He’s Never Sounded Like This Before
The Attempted Assassination of Donald Trump
'The Interview': Robert Putnam Knows Why You’re Lonely
The American Journalist on Trial in Russia
Will Biden Withdraw?
'Animal,' Episode 5: Wolves
A Brutal Debate for Biden
The Plan to Defeat Critics of Israel in Congress
'Animal,' Episode 4: Ferrets
'The Interview': Gretchen Whitmer Wants a Gen X President — in 2028
'Animal,' Episode 3: Manatees
How to Retire as Early as Humanly Possible
The Rise and Fall of Congestion Pricing in New York
'The Interview': The Darker Side of Julia Louis-Dreyfus
How Trump’s Conviction Could Reshape the Election
'The Interview': Richard Linklater Sees the Killer Inside Us All
Guilty
'The Interview': Ted Sarandos’s Plan to Get You to Binge Even More
'The Interview': Charlamagne Tha God Won’t Take Sides
One Strongman, One Billion Voters, and the Future of India
Introducing ‘The Interview’: Yair Lapid Says the World Misunderstands Israel
Introducing ‘The Interview’: Anne Hathaway Is Done Trying to Please
The Crackdown on Student Protesters
Sunday Special: 'Modern Love'
The Sunday Read: ‘What I Saw Working at The National Enquirer During Donald Trump’s Rise’
How One Family Lost $900,000 in a Timeshare Scam
How Tesla Planted the Seeds for Its Own Potential Downfall
Israel’s Deadly Airstrike on the World Central Kitchen
Ronna McDaniel, TV News and the Trump Problem
From Serial: Season 4 - Guantánamo
The Newest Tech Start-Up Billionaire? Donald Trump
A Journey Through Putin’s Russia
The Miseducation of Google’s A.I.
Biden, Trump and a Split Screen at the Texas Border
The Voters Willing to Abandon Biden Over Gaza
Putin’s Opposition Ponders a Future Without Aleksei Navalny
Stranded in Rafah as an Israeli Invasion Looms
The Booming Business of Cutting Babies’ Tongues
An Explosive Hearing in Trump’s Georgia Election Case
The Biden Problem Democrats Can No Longer Ignore
The Sunday Read: ‘The Unthinkable Mental Health Crisis That Shook a New England College’
Trump’s Voters vs. Haley’s Donors
The Hybrid Worker Malaise
In Iowa, Two Friends Debate DeSantis vs. Trump
A Confusing New World for College Applicants
The New State of the War in Gaza
Football’s Young Victims
The Man Who Counts Every Shooting in America
The Year of Taylor Swift
Antisemitism and Free Speech Collide on Campuses
The Sunday Read: ‘The Bodily Indignities of the Space Life’
Biden Is Trying to Rein In Israel. Is It Working?
The Oct. 7 Warning That Israel Ignored
Israel and Hamas’s Fragile Cease-Fire
A Reporter’s Journey Into Gaza
The Sunday Read: ‘What Does the U.S. Space Force Actually Do?’
A Strategy to Treat Big Tech Like Big Tobacco
Hamas’s Bloody Arithmetic
The Doctors of Gaza
What Adidas Knew About Kanye
1948
Lessons From an Unending Conflict
Hamas Took Her Son
The Diplomatic Scramble to Contain the Israel-Hamas War
Voices from Gaza
Golan’s Story
The Sunday Read: ‘The Dungeons & Dragons Players of Death Row’
Chaos or Conscience? A Republican Explains His Vote to Oust McCarthy.
The Mosquitoes Are Winning
The Sunday Read: ‘The Art of Telling Forbidden Stories in China’
The Sunday Read: ‘The Kidnapped Child Who Became a Poet’
He Tried to Save a Friend. They Charged Him With Murder.
Inside Ukraine’s Drone Attacks on Russia
The Ozempic Era of Weight Loss
A Breaking Point for the U.S. Auto Industry
A Tragic Fire and Broken Promises in South Africa
Why One Drug Company Held Back a Better Drug
Arizona’s Pipe Dream
A Major Overhaul of Prescription Drug Prices
A Marriage, a Secret and a Crackdown in China

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'The Interview': Ben Stiller on 'Severance,' Selling Out and Being Jewish Today
'The Interview': Antony Blinken Insists He and Biden Made the Right Calls
'The Interview': Tilda Swinton Would Like a Word With Trump About His Mother
From Serial: ‘The Good Whale’
'The Interview': The Doctor Who Helped Me Understand My Mom’s Choice to Die
The Army of Election Officials Ready To Reject The Vote
On the Ballot: An Immigration System Most Americans Never Wanted
'The Interview': A Conversation With JD Vance
How NAFTA Broke American Politics
'Book Review': Robert Caro on 50 Years of 'The Power Broker'
'The Interview': Sally Rooney Thinks Career Growth Is Overrated
'The Interview': Change Can Be Beautiful. Just Ask Will Ferrell and Harper Steele.
The Sunday Read: ‘The Woman Who Could Smell Parkinson’s’
The Sunday Read: ‘The Kidnapping I Can’t Escape’
'The Interview': Eddie Murphy Is Ready to Look Back
'Animal,' Episode 2: Puffins
Trump 2.0: What a Second Trump Presidency Would Bring
Hamas Took Her, and Still Has Her Husband
The Sunday Read: ‘Can Humans Endure the Psychological Torment of Mars?’
The Sunday Read: ‘How Tom Sandoval Became the Most Hated Man in America’
'Hard Fork': An Interview With Sam Altman
Thanksgiving With 'The Run-Up': Are Black Voters Leaving Democrats Behind?
The Sunday Read: ‘The Botched Hunt for the Gilgo Beach Killer’
The Sunday Read: ‘Who Hired the Hitmen to Silence Zitácuaro?’
The Sunday Read: ‘The Genius Behind Hollywood’s Most Indelible Sets’
The Sunday Read: ‘The Inheritance Case That Could Unravel an Art Dynasty’
The Sunday Read: ‘Wikipedia’s Moment of Truth’

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