Plus, the big business of youth sports.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/09/podcasts/the-headlines/trump-mass-layoffs-putin.html
Officials said the search for remains would continue until all the victims have been accounted for. In the hardest-hit county, no survivors have been found since Friday.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/09/us/texas-floods-missing-search.html
The rivers etching the terrain are a beloved feature of the rapidly growing region. But last week’s flooding was an agonizing reminder of the dangers they pose.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/09/us/rivers-are-the-soul-of-the-texas-hill-country-and-a-source-of-heartache.html
President Trump wants to shutter the agency and shift responsibility and costs of emergency management to the states. In Texas, that process appears to already be underway.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/08/climate/texas-flood-fema-trump.html
The industry’s courtship of Donald J. Trump resulted in one of the great lobbying free-for-alls in recent Washington history.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/09/us/politics/trump-crypto-lobbying.html
The pivot to crypto highlights the reality of Truth Social, one of President Trump’s highest-profile business interests: It doesn’t generate much revenue.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/09/business/truth-social-trump-media-crypto.html
A court-ordered pause in May covered nearly two dozen federal agencies at different stages of executing President Trump’s directive for mass layoffs. The Supreme Court said the administration could proceed.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/08/us/politics/trump-federal-workers-firings.html
Secretary of State Marco Rubio and the U.S. envoy to Venezuela were both working on different deals and ended up at cross purposes.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/08/world/americas/trump-venezuelan-migrants-us-prisoner-swap.html
The president held forth in public for 104 minutes, using a cabinet meeting to express much that is on his mind.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/08/us/politics/trump-cabinet-meeting-decor.html
A small but influential cohort of the president’s far-right political coalition spared him their ire but turned with a vengeance on the attorney general and the top officials at the F.B.I.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/08/us/politics/trump-epstein.html
Mr. Shteyngart was once told he might be. With his sixth novel, “Vera, or Faith,” out now, he’s spent the last few years spending it well.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/08/style/gary-shteyngart-book-vera-or-faith.html
“Vera, or Faith” follows a 10-year-old girl navigating family drama and a dystopian America.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/07/books/review/gary-shteyngart-vera-or-faith.html
The longtime enemies have opened contacts, reflecting a power shift across a Middle East in which they have newfound common ground: antipathy for Iran.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/09/world/middleeast/syria-israel-talks.html
The country is experiencing its worst drought in decades, which has set the conditions for the blazes to scorch an area the size of Washington, D.C.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/09/world/middleeast/syria-wildfires-photos-videos.html
President Trump lashed out at the Russian leader on Tuesday, signaling a change in his posture toward the conflict.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/08/us/politics/trump-putin-ukraine.html
A new study that found high levels of heavy metals in popular nicotine vapes adds to concerns about the products.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/09/well/vaping-health-risks.html
Lena Dunham wanted to open up the world of romantic comedies with her new Netflix series. In interviews, she and the stars Megan Stalter, Janicza Bravo and Emily Ratajkowski discuss how they did it.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/09/arts/television/too-much-lena-dunham-emily-ratajkowski-megan-stalter.html
Like the lead character of “Too Much,” they moved across the Atlantic with visions of Jane Austen and Merchant Ivory. The reality was a little less dreamy.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/09/style/americans-england-romance-tv-movies.html
Firefighters worked through the night to prevent the blaze from entering France’s second-biggest city, and brought the wildfire under control on Wednesday morning.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/09/world/europe/marseille-wildfires-france.html
The rapid analysis by World Weather Attribution calculated that climate change might have tripled the death toll from the event.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/09/climate/europe-heat-waves-deaths.html