Plus, the Friday news quiz.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/podcasts/the-headlines/trump-big-bill-supreme-court.html
The preservative thimerosal started Robert F. Kennedy Jr. down the path of questioning vaccine safety. A panel of experts he appointed will no longer recommend annual flu shots that contain it.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/us/politics/rfk-jr-flu-vaccine-thimerosal.html
With the broad tax and health care bill they are now trying to muscle into law, Senate Republicans are preparing to upend Washingtonās accounting standards.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/business/republican-policy-bill-budget.html
The Justice Department has demanded that James E. Ryan step down to help resolve a civil rights investigation into the school, three people familiar with the matter said.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/26/us/politics/university-of-virginia-president-trump.html
The subpoena letter adds yet another front to the battle between the university and Republicans in Washington.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/26/us/politics/harvard-subpoena-house-judiciary.html
Even some of his supporters say Andrew M. Cuomo ran an aloof campaign for mayor that underestimated his chief rival, Zohran Mamdani.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/nyregion/cuomo-mayor-campaign.html
The responses to Zohran Mamdaniās showing in the New York City mayoral primary were the latest examples of how some G.O.P. lawmakers have grown more overt in using bigoted language and tropes.https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06/26/us/trump-news/zohran-mamdani-congress-racism
Zohran Mamdaniās parents, a filmmaker and a professor, gave him the foundation for his run for mayor of New York. But their own political views may open him up to attacks.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/26/nyregion/zohran-mamdani-parents-mira-nair.html
Unhappy with his companyās artificial intelligence efforts, Metaās C.E.O. is on a spending spree as he reconsiders his strategy in the contest to invent a hypothetical āsuperintelligence.āhttps://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/technology/mark-zuckerberg-meta-ai.html
Companies like OpenAI, Amazon and Meta have supersized their spending on artificial intelligence, with no signs of slowing down.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/technology/ai-spending-openai-amazon-meta.html
U.S. intelligence agencies had long assessed that, faced with the possibility of an attack on its nuclear facilities, Iran would try to move its stockpile.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/26/us/politics/iran-nuclear-program-uranium.html
The assessment came hours after the countryās supreme leader had downplayed the damage the U.S. strikes had caused.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/26/world/middleeast/iran-foreign-minister-nuclear-facilities-seriously-damaged.html
President Trumpās claimed Iranās capabilities were āobliterated.ā The full extent of the damage is still emerging.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/26/world/middleeast/iran-nuclear-program-israeli-us-attacks.html
An assault on federal protections may bring about a new era of unchecked discrimination.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/magazine/trump-civil-rights-law-discrimination.html
After rapid growth, Thailand is the biggest overseas supplier of pet food in the United States. Volatility in policy has some importers looking elsewhere.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/business/thailand-pet-food-exports.html
Steve Mills has been collecting secondhand books in England to reawaken lost memories. His search revealed more about his familyās past than he thought possible.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/26/world/europe/uk-book-collector-wife.html
Foreign policy by FOMO is not a sustainable strategy.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/opinion/trump-iran-israel-policy.html
This is the moment for Israel to move on from intense military operations to political statecraft.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/opinion/israel-iran-statesman-diplomacy-war.html
We compiled the list by polling more than 500 people in and around the film industry.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/briefing/the-centurys-best-movies.html
While filling in for Kimmel this week, the actor-director got the attention of Laura Ingraham, who said sheād never seen the show before.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/arts/television/diego-luna-jimmy-kimmel-fox.html