The president said he had made flag burning a crime punishable by a year in prison. But such a claim contradicts both Supreme Court precedent and the text of an executive order he signed.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/us/politics/trump-freedom-of-speech-flag-burning.html
An executive of a Singaporean firm called Megaspeed socialized with Nvidia’s Jensen Huang. Now the company is being scrutinized by U.S. officials for its ties to China.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/technology/nvidia-chips-china-megaspeed.html
The centerpiece of the company’s comeback hopes is a multibillion-dollar facility in the Arizona desert. Will it draw new customers?https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/technology/intel-chip-factory-fab52.html
The number of city households with three or more children has dropped by nearly 17 percent over the past decade as families struggle with the cost of child care and rent.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/nyregion/who-can-afford-three-kids-in-new-york-city.html
After a TikTok video of a woman charging to “car sit” gained attention, New Yorkers were reminded that the price of street parking is rarely paid at a meter.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/nyregion/new-york-city-parking-alternate-side.html
Mordechi Rosenfeld, known as Modi, already has the synagogue crowd. Now he wants the “Goyim, gays and theys,” too.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/style/gay-jewish-comedian-modi-rosenfeld.html
Bill Burr, Dave Chappelle and others have framed their participation as a matter of open expression. Yet they’re maddeningly vague about how much dissent is possible in Saudi Arabia.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/arts/television/riyadh-comedy-festival-free-speech.html
The former Democratic congresswoman, known for her own grilling of executives on Capitol Hill, threatened to abandon an interview after she was asked several follow-up questions.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/us/katie-porter-interview-ca-governors-race.html
Energy costs have become a central issue in the governor’s race between Jack Ciattarelli, the Republican, and Representative Mikie Sherrill, the Democrat.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/business/new-jersey-electricity-prices-governor-election.html
For decades, Thai students have been subjected to unwanted haircuts in class. Many of them carry the humiliating memory into adulthood.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/world/asia/thailand-school-students-haircuts.html
Promises of peace between Jews and Palestinians must be turned into reality.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/opinion/palestinians-israel-gaza-war-ceasefire-peace.html
President Vladimir Putin’s rare acknowledgment of a Russian military mistake came as relations have deteriorated between the two former Soviet states.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/world/europe/russia-azerbaijan-flight-8243-crash.html
He made billions selling energy with his Coastal Corporation, courted presidents and dictators, and eventually went to prison for paying kickbacks to the Iraqi government.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/business/oscar-s-wyatt-jr-dead.html
Haitian children face intensifying problems of crime, hunger and homelessness as the country’s humanitarian crisis shows no signs of easing, a report from a U.N. agency found.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/us/haiti-violence-children-crime.html
As air-traffic controllers and TSA officers continue to work without pay, both political parties are jockeying to show concern while trying to avoid blame for flight problems.https://www.wsj.com/us-news/air-traffic-controllers-government-shutdown-1cbd12f2
WSJ readers tell us how they think artificial intelligence will change the game.https://www.wsj.com/finance/investing/ai-investing-future-3407e68b
A Biden appointee holds the agency’s nonprofit rules to be unconstitutional.https://www.wsj.com/opinion/irs-scandal-makes-it-to-court-free-speech-law-politics-b0288382
The judge lengthened his sentence over conduct for which he was acquitted.https://www.wsj.com/opinion/prison-time-for-something-diddy-didnt-do-acquitted-conduct-0f244246
A national victimization survey confirms Trump’s claim that U.S. cities have grown more dangerous.https://www.wsj.com/opinion/the-urban-crime-spike-is-real-555b7410
It wasn’t supposed to cost hundreds of billions of tax dollars a year to make healthcare ‘affordable.’https://www.wsj.com/opinion/democrats-keep-shoveling-money-at-obamacare-936c25f2