The conflict that has put rebels in control of much of the east of the country has left victims with no legal recourse and dismantled many of the clinics that offered care.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/22/health/rape-congo-sexual-violence.html
The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression has long been a critic of progressive campus culture. Now it’s taking on new, and surprising, targets.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/22/arts/fire-freedom-expression-trump.html
The company famous for car radio and Howard Stern has recently climbed the podcast charts by betting hundreds of millions of dollars on shows like “Call Her Daddy” and “SmartLess.”https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/22/business/media/siriusxm-podcasts-alex-cooper-mel-robbins.html
Alex Kachkine spends his days working on microchip research — a skill set surprisingly similar to that needed for restoration.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/22/world/europe/art-restoration-ai-innovation.html
His role in the dramatic HBO comedy “Somebody Somewhere” earned him his first Emmy nomination. It was also, more or less, his first major role.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/22/arts/television/jeff-hiller-emmys-nomination-somebody-somewhere.html
Gerrymandering is a form of cheating. And it is preventable.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/22/opinion/gerrymandering-redistricting-texas.html
Rachael Bedard and David Wallace-Wells on Covid disillusionment and the rise of the MAHA movement.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/22/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-rachael-bedard-david-wallace-wells.html
We look at the relationship between digital stars and their followers.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/22/briefing/fan-encounters.html
The decommissioning would leave the United States with no icebreaker to study the southern seas and cede scientific leadership to rival countries like China.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/22/climate/nathaniel-b-palmer-ship-budget-cuts-polar-science.html
Some parents are reliving a golden era of boy bands and girl groups — “but now I’m handing out juice boxes instead of dancing like a rave with a glow stick,” one said.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/22/arts/kpop-demon-hunters-netflix.html
In Edison, thousands of immigrant workers toil in hundreds of warehouses, sorting millions of boxes arriving from nearby ports.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/22/nyregion/immigration-raids-edison-new-jersey.html
New York Times reporters witnessed supporters of Mayor Eric Adams handing out cash-filled envelopes. Sometimes, that money went to reporters from Chinese-language outlets.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/nyregion/eric-adams-chinese-cash-envelopes.html
Advocates say hanging up England’s St. George’s Cross flag is patriotic. But critics say the flag has been co-opted by the far right for nationalistic purposes.https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/08/22/england-flag-immigration-protest-racism/
More than half a million people in and around Gaza City are facing catastrophic conditions “characterized by starvation, destitution and death,” the IPC said.https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/08/22/gaza-city-famine-ipc/
For Greece, a gateway into the 27-member European Union, the lengthy incarceration of irregular migrants could soon be the new norm.https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/08/22/greece-migrants-criminalization-detention-trump/
A wave of attacks by armed groups across Colombia this year has left Colombians fearing a return to the country’s more violent past.https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/08/21/colombia-truck-bomb-helicopter-attack/
Jalal al-Labbad and his brothers were imprisoned over charges stemming from participation in Arab Spring protests. He and one of his brothers have since been executed.https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/08/21/saudi-arabia-execution-minor-shia-protester/
Cesar Atencio and Lina Arias wanted a better life. Instead, they faced gangs, kidnappers and a closed border. Their journey toward the U.S. shows a region reshaped and a dream reimagined.https://www.wsj.com/world/they-set-out-to-find-the-american-dream-theyre-stuck-in-a-mexican-nightmare-a9aeb59d
Recent optimism for peace has faded, and President Trump is looking for new answers.https://www.wsj.com/world/russia-ukraine-peace-deal-trump-push-0da03328
Food-security experts said a famine has taken hold in the Gaza City area, the first-ever such determination in the Middle East and one that puts more pressure on Israel.https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/famine-announced-in-parts-of-gaza-8b1763d0