U.S. employers and colleges are contending with more young people who are behind academically. Some are trying to make up where schools have failed.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/25/us/what-declines-in-reading-and-math-mean-for-the-us-work-force.html
Zohran Mamdani’s upstart campaign for mayor of New York City is inspiring the growing South Asian community to be more active in politics.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/25/nyregion/mamdani-south-asian-voters.html
Former Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, who is running for mayor of New York City as an independent, visited The New York Times for an interview.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/25/nyregion/andrew-cuomo-10-questions.html
My problem with the conversation about Kirk’s killing is that many people seem to have no coherent idea about the proper relationship between faith and politics.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/25/opinion/kirk-trump-christianity.html
The late night host pointed to President Trump’s approval level after he said on social media to “let Jimmy Kimmel rot in his bad ratings.”https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/25/arts/television/late-night-jimmy-kimmel-trump.html
Physicists have devised a new model to account for the discomfort that airline passengers know all too well.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/science/physics-airplanes-turbulence.html
The Himalayan region supplies most of India’s apples. But when heavy rains left a major highway blocked for weeks, farmers couldn’t get them to markets.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/25/world/asia/india-apples-kashmir-flooding-landslide.html
After serving as an aide to Vice President Walter Mondale, he spent 17 years at the forefront of the fight to save numerous endangered landmarks.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/us/politics/richard-moe-dead.html
Drones forced Aalborg Airport to close, and others were spotted near three airports in the south. Days earlier, sightings closed Copenhagen and Oslo airports.https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/09/25/airport-russia-denmark-drones/
China’s proposal for a large embassy by the Tower of London, near critical communications cables, has led to espionage concerns. China describes the claims as “slander.”https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/09/25/china-london-embassy-spying/
More than 6 in 10 Lebanese adults approved of the country’s leadership, up from 16 percent in 2024. The upswing is one of the largest for a government in 20 years.https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/09/25/after-years-chaos-lebanese-leadership-nets-record-approval-poll-finds/
Top members on the Judiciary Committee wrote to Amazon, Apple and other big companies, with the lawmakers raising concerns about layoffs and slumping job prospects for Americans.https://www.wsj.com/business/h1b-visa-grassley-durbin-letter-tech-firms-8fe931e9?mod=pls_whats_news_us_business_f
Such incidents have led to brain injuries for crew and passengers, The Wall Street Journal reported earlier this month.https://www.wsj.com/business/airlines/delta-airlines-engine-unit-replacement-fumes-0bfae0aa?mod=pls_whats_news_us_business_f
New Albany, Ohio, was supposed to be the site of an advanced semiconductor factory for Intel, but progress is slow.https://www.wsj.com/tech/ohio-intel-chipmaking-investment-status-d135e52c?mod=pls_whats_news_us_business_f
Google's tool greatly simplifies photo editing; just tell your phone what changes you want in the photo, and it'll execute them. It also hints at the coming leap in how we interact with computers.https://www.wired.com/story/google-photos-conversational-photo-editor/
For the first time, US residents can now invest in memecoins through traditional brokerages. Trading will only get stranger from here.https://www.wired.com/story/memecoins-are-coming-to-the-stock-market/
From lava worlds to gas giants, NASA says the variety of these worlds is staggering—and that signs of a further 8,000 distant planets are awaiting confirmation.https://www.wired.com/story/6000-planets-have-been-found-outside-the-solar-system/
Jeffrey Epstein: Bad Pedophile is a very silly deep dive on a very serious issue. In the current media landscape, it’s a wonder it even got made.https://www.wired.com/story/the-onion-made-an-absolutely-unhinged-jeffrey-epstein-mockumentary/
WIRED spoke with more than 200 federal workers in dozens of agencies to learn what happened as the Department of Government Efficiency tore through their offices.https://www.wired.com/story/oral-history-doge-federal-workers/
Amazon Prime Day is back on October 7, but we've already found good deals on WIRED-approved gear.https://www.wired.com/story/early-prime-day-deals-october-2025/