The top four leaders on Capitol Hill are each facing high stakes and competing political incentives as they barrel toward a shutdown.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/us/politics/schumer-thune-jeffries-johnson-shutdown.html
Russell T. Vought spent years drawing up plans to expand presidential power and shrink federal bureaucracy. Now he is moving closer to making that vision a reality, threatening to erode checks and balances.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/us/politics/russell-vought-trump-budget.html
Without a deal in Congress by Tuesday, the government will run out of funding.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/us/politics/government-shutdown-federal-services-mail-parks.html
Eric Adams is just the second Black mayor elected in New York City, and his downfall has been painful for many who supported him.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/nyregion/eric-adams-black-voters.html
Mr. Adams has suspended his re-election campaign, becoming the first mayor of New York City to fail to win a second term since David N. Dinkins.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/nyregion/eric-adams-mayor-history.html
The F.B.I. described the shooting and fire that destroyed a Church of Latter Day Saints meeting house as a “targeted act of violence.”https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/us/michigan-church-attack.html
At least four people were killed after an attacker opened fire at a Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saint building and intentionally set fire to the structure.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/us/michigan-mormon-church-shooting-fire.html
Kat Timpf got pregnant, got breast cancer, then got back to work on the political comedy show “Gutfeld!” — all as a culture war brews over ambition, motherhood and women’s health.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/28/style/fox-news-kat-timpf-greg-gutfeld.html
As immigration agents take a more aggressive approach, they have stopped and in some cases detained American citizens.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/us/trump-immigration-agents-us-citizens.html
Import duties are posing a challenge to some smaller companies, which fear that raising prices to cover higher costs will drive away customers.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/business/trump-tariffs-small-businesses.html
A look at how one state has turbocharged the crackdown on anyone who has criticized Charlie Kirk after his death.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/us/charlie-kirk-free-speech.html
Much of the speculation around the death of the right-wing activist is being promulgated by conspiracy-minded personalities he helped elevate.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/us/charlie-kirk-assassination-conspiracy-theories.html
The new effort, which includes opening 13.1 million acres of federal land for mining and eliminating pollution limits, aims to save an industry that has been declining for decades.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/climate/trump-coal-revival.html
The authorities say Trey Reed took his own life on his college campus, but in a nation ready to jump to judgment and in a state with its history of racial violence, that conclusion has not ended the story.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/us/politics/trey-reed-hanging-mississippi.html
The Zaporizhzhia site in southeastern Ukraine has lacked external power to cool its reactors for five days. Kyiv says Moscow has manufactured the crisis.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/world/europe/zaporizhzhia-nuclear-power-plant-russia-ukraine.html
Moldova’s pro-European party held onto its absolute majority in Parliament in national elections, but it still has a long road into the European Union.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/world/europe/moldova-elections-russia-europe.html
The highly intelligent cephalopods filled fishing nets and gobbled up crabs and lobsters in Devon and Cornwall this summer.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/world/europe/octopus-invasion-england-uk.html
Richard Gere, Glenn Close and Samuel L. Jackson were among the stars who came out for the 50th anniversary extravaganza Mr. Armani had planned before his death.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/style/giorgio-armani-last-show.html
A blistering assault on economic elites, a moderate stance on cultural issues and a rejection of politics as usual. That’s how to remake the Democratic Party.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/opinion/democrats-dan-osborne.html
The end of a government shutdown doesn’t mean that everything springs back to normal. Some of the damage endures.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/opinion/flight-delays-faa-government-shutdown.html