Plus, a Labubu heist.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/11/podcasts/the-headlines/trump-putin-israel-journalists-gaza.html
Ukraine fears that the Kremlin will try to convince President Trump at U.S.-Russian talks in Alaska that Ukraine, not Russia, is the obstacle to peace.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/11/world/europe/ukraine-russia-putin-zelensky-alaska-talks.html
The vice president said the White House was trying to determine “when these three leaders could sit down and discuss an end to this conflict.”https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/10/us/politics/jd-vance-zelensky-trump-putin.html
May Mailman is credited as an animating force behind a strategy that has intimidated independent institutions and undercut years of medical and scientific research.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/11/us/politics/harvard-trump-may-mailman.html
In a neighborhood that appeals to people from both the right and the left, residents strive for a finely tuned state of political harmony.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/11/us/politics/ohio-maha-moms-farms.html
The system for compensating people injured by vaccines needs significant reform. But the health secretary could alter it in ways that ultimately reduce vaccine access for everyone.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/11/health/kennedy-vaccine-court.html
The Israeli government said last week that it wanted to capture Gaza City, but how and when it will proceed has yet to be decided.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/11/world/middleeast/israel-gaza-netanyahu.html
Anas al-Sharif, a well-known correspondent, was among those killed. Israel said it had targeted Mr. al-Sharif, claiming he worked for Hamas, which he had denied.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/10/world/middleeast/israel-gaza-journalists-killed.html
After similar announcements by France, Britain and Canada, Australia said it would act at the United Nations General Assembly session next month.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/11/world/australia/australia-palestine-statehood.html
The siblings “really enjoyed make-believe” as kids. Now they are playing Shakespeare under the stars at the newly reopened Delacorte Theater in Central Park.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/11/theater/lupita-nyongo-twelfth-night-shakespeare-delacorte.html
Artificial intelligence apps generating fake nudes, amid other privacy concerns, make “sharenting” far riskier than it was just a few years ago.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/11/technology/personaltech/ai-kids-photos.html
When Helene disconnected my part of North Carolina for weeks, my neighbors and I had to relearn old ways of knowing what was happening — and what wasn’t.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/11/magazine/hurricane-disaster-information-media-blackout.html
Jay Clayton, the interim U.S. attorney for the Southern District, was named on an interim basis after Senator Chuck Schumer blocked his nomination.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/11/nyregion/jay-clayton-attorney-doj-trump.html
Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic candidate for mayor, will seek to highlight the ways he believes President Trump’s agenda hurts New York City.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/11/nyregion/mamdani-trump-cuomo-mayor-nyc.html
New Hampshire is backing away from a promise to pay victims hundreds of millions of dollars. Other states are also rethinking payouts to those harmed under their care.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/11/us/politics/new-hampshire-sexual-abuse-settlements.html
For Quebec City’s tiny English-speaking community, a former jail turned library serves as an essential sanctuary in a metropolis where the domination of French is enshrined in law.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/11/world/canada/quebec-city-morrin-centre.html
Many in the capital worry that the secular freedoms they enjoyed under the Assad regime are under threat from the new Islamist government.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/11/world/middleeast/syria-damascus-conservative.html
Trump may be able to escape the consequences of his actions; the rest of us cannot.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/11/opinion/america-short-term-thinking.html
Critical thinking is not going to save us.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/11/opinion/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-deepfake-ai.html
Kim Jong-un’s daughter, Kim Ju-ae, is perhaps being primed to take control of the regime one day.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/11/briefing/north-koreas-succession-kim-jong-un.html