Plus, three new teams for the WNBA.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/01/podcasts/the-headlines/migrant-detention-facility-dollar-big-drop-wnba.html
Gov. Gavin Newsom and state lawmakers scaled back a law that was vilified for its role in California’s housing shortage and homelessness crisis.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/30/us/california-environment-newsom-ceqa.html
Towns and troops long accustomed to merciless bombardment are adjusting to an even denser pattern of attacks.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/01/world/europe/ukraine-russia-frontline.html
Timur Ivanov, a longtime deputy defense minister, was sentenced to 13 years in a penal colony, according to the Russian state news agency Tass.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/01/world/europe/russia-timur-ivanov-verdict.html
Bryan Kohberger, a former criminology student, is charged in the stabbing deaths of four University of Idaho students. Prosecutors said they had reached a plea agreement that avoids the death penalty.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/30/us/idaho-murders-bryan-kohberger-plea.html
In her first review as our new critic, Tejal Rao visits Acamaya, where the chef Ana Castro is writing the latest chapter in the city’s rich culinary story.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/01/dining/acamaya-restaurant-review-new-orleans.html
It has continued to slide even as President Trump has backed down from his tariff threats and the U.S. stock market has recovered from its losses.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/30/business/dollar-decline-trump.html
Stocks have rebounded, but the dollar is in a deep slump. Here’s what could go right (and very wrong) for investors.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/01/business/dealbook/2025-markets-outlook.html
With developing nations crushed by unaffordable borrowing and Washington on the sidelines, some leaders are brokering debt forgiveness deals.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/01/business/debt-eu-africa-china.html
The case is likely to be the first to reach the Supreme Court on the substantive issue of the president’s invocation of a rarely used wartime law.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/30/us/politics/appeals-court-trump-alien-enemies-act-deportations.html
Two ex-presidents and a rock star thanked the outgoing workers of a doomed agency.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/30/us/politics/usaid-staff-obama-bush-bono.html
The former White House chief strategist speaks about the threats he sees to the political movement that formed around Donald J. Trump.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/01/podcasts/the-daily/steve-bannon-interview-maga.html
The arrests have raised fears that a new wave of repression is coming, as the government seeks to root out spy networks and clamp down on any dissent.https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/07/01/iran-israel-conflict-arrests/
Kim paid public tribute to North Korean soldiers killed in Russia’s war against Ukraine, part of an effort to cement the two countries’ strategic defense pact.https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/07/01/north-korea-soldiers-killed-russia-ukraine-war/
Japanese companies’ rigid hierarchies can make it hard to confront bosses. Enter “proxy quitters.”https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/07/01/japan-job-resignation/
The analysis, published in the Lancet, estimates the agency’s programs saved 91 million lives worldwide over two decades, playing a vital role in global health.https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/07/01/usaid-cuts-aid-14-million-deaths/
Russia’s army has vast manpower and equipment advantages over Ukraine but its progress has been slow and Russian military bloggers blame a culture of military corruption.https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/06/30/russia-military-challenges-summer-offensive/
Ottawa said Prime Minister Mark Carney and President Donald Trump had agreed to resume negotiations on a trade agreement and would aim to reach a deal by July 21.https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/06/30/canada-cancel-digital-services-tax-trump/
The security architecture dissuading countries from growing and pursuing their own nuclear weapons is collapsing.https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/06/30/nuclear-bomb-iran-israel-world-proliferation/
Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s effort to ban Pride backfired, drawing a huge throng in support of LGBTQ+ rights and hurting him and his party ahead of elections next year.https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/06/29/hungary-pride-budapest-viktor-orban/