Takahiro Shiraishi was put to death on Friday, eight years after body parts were found in coolers at his home outside Tokyo. It was Japan’s first execution in years.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/world/asia/japan-serial-killer-execution.html
As A-listers gather in Venice to celebrate the union of Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez, the couple is following a familiar playbook of how to control the message.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/26/style/jeff-bezos-lauren-sanchez-wedding-privacy.html
Researchers spent years quietly studying a stone carved with 255 runes and the image of a boat found in northern Ontario. Now, revealing the stone’s existence, they’re asking the public for help.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/world/canada/canada-runestone-ontario.html
University Hospital at Downstate in Brooklyn faces many of the problems plaguing other medical centers in New York, but the state has reversed course and is investing in it.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/nyregion/brooklyn-hospital-new-york-state-funding.html
As federal immigration sweeps have prompted protests across the nation, the border is eerily quiet, as would-be migrants stay away and undocumented workers hide at home.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/us/politics/border-immigration-farms.html
Why Eliot Cohen, an intellectual architect of the Iraq War, thinks Trump was right to strike Iran.https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/inside-the-mind-of-a-never-trump-war-hawk
The movement has survived all sorts of political stress tests, but there’s one schism that could actually pose a problem.https://www.newyorker.com/news/fault-lines/jon-allsop-fault-lines-maga-iran
The NATO secretary-general goes all in on strategic self-abasement while meeting with his American “Daddy.”https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-trumps-washington/a-week-for-the-ages-in-the-annals-of-trump-suckuppery
The announcement offered hope of a reprieve on shortages that have hit American industry, and came after President Trump said he signed a deal with China.https://www.wsj.com/world/asia/china-to-approve-exports-of-controlled-items-to-u-s-b2f37389
The data gives an early indication of any effect Middle East tensions had on prices in major eurozone economies.https://www.wsj.com/world/europe/french-inflation-ticks-higher-for-first-time-in-2025-e9b4d4c5
Many countries are studying ways to use crypto, but being a crypto pioneer doesn’t come without risk.https://www.wsj.com/world/asia/a-remote-himalayan-kingdom-bet-big-on-bitcoin-mining-so-far-it-has-paid-off-a28bc4b8
The U.S. Treasury accuses CIBanco, Intercam Banco and Vector Casa de Bolsa of money laundering and facilitating payments related to fentanyl.https://www.wsj.com/world/americas/mexico-takes-over-two-small-local-banks-sanctioned-by-washington-aa1d518b
Pilots trained for years and intelligence forces built up networks for the multipart offensive in Iran, which included a gambit called “Red Wedding.”https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/israel-iran-attack-operation-narnia-a2c38ace
Andrew Cuomo’s policies planted the seeds of his own defeat.https://www.wsj.com/opinion/zohran-mamdani-andrew-cuomo-new-york-democrats-crime-housing-a07eddb2
CBO says most don’t work even part-time or are illegal migrants.https://www.wsj.com/opinion/gop-congress-medicaid-cbo-health-insurance-7dc67d2d
Tim Kaine’s resolution is gesture politics that accomplishes nothing.https://www.wsj.com/opinion/war-powers-resolution-tim-kaine-donald-trump-iran-senate-military-4f32fcdf
The Justices say the abortion provider can’t sue South Carolina.https://www.wsj.com/opinion/medina-v-planned-parenthood-south-carolina-supreme-court-medicaid-88d4581a
We discovered how easily a model’s safety training falls off, and below that mask is a lot of darkness.https://www.wsj.com/opinion/the-monster-inside-chatgpt-safety-training-ai-alignment-796ac9d3
A Supreme Court victory for victims of Palestinian terrorism.https://www.wsj.com/opinion/no-the-plo-isnt-a-person-law-terrorism-6ca8f6b9
The Iran strikes leave the president bolder than ever. Meanwhile, can New York survive a socialist mayor?https://www.wsj.com/opinion/trump-seeks-greatness-as-mamdani-rises-strike-on-iran-nyc-primary-mayor-7c9299d1