The April 1975 effort matched more than 2,800 infants and children evacuated from Vietnam with adoptive families. Today, the adoptees are searching for clues to their past—and reflecting on the complicated legacy of their evacuationhttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/this-adoptee-discovered-a-trove-of-documents-in-a-nuns-basement-the-rare-vietnam-warrecords-rewrite-the-story-of-operation-babylift-180987435/
State leaders have prided themselves on finding bipartisan consensus, but President Trump’s deployment of National Guard troops from Texas to Illinois has ripped the veneer off that image.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/us/politics/national-guard-governors.html
Oregon officials say the atmosphere outside an ICE building that has drawn daily demonstrations since June has grown worse since the president’s threats.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/us/politics/trump-portland-troops.html
Officials say that Jonathan Rinderknecht, 29, of Melbourne, Fla., had intentionally set a fire that rekindled a week later into a devastating blaze that killed 12 people.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/us/los-angeles-palisades-fire-arrest.html
A lawyer for the former F.B.I. director said he would accuse the Justice Department of malicious and selective prosecution and contend that a U.S. attorney was illegally appointed.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/us/politics/comey-legal-challenges-explained.html
The wife of Senator Edward Kennedy for a quarter of a century, she both basked and struggled in the reflected glare of a political family in the spotlight.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/us/joan-kennedy-dead.html
As the federal closure slides into a second week, Republicans are working to peel off five more Democratic senators to join them in voting to reopen the government.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/us/politics/key-democrats-ending-shutdown.html
A pair of Democratic senators confronted the Republican speaker of the House over his refusal to swear in a colleague during the shutdown.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/us/politics/mike-johnson-spat-democrats-shutdown-epstein.html
Online skeptics wondered if Mr. Miller had caught himself saying something he did not mean to. CNN says there was a technical glitch.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/business/media/stephen-miller-plenary-authority-cnn-conspiracies.html
An Israeli American student said he was assaulted during a protest. Two years later, Republicans continue to raise the episode in their campaign to force schools to punish the student protesters.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/us/harvard-palestinian-protest-die-in-lawsuit.html
As Mr. Mamdani seeks to reassure New York City he is open to compromise, his views on Israel and Palestinians have been the biggest exception.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/nyregion/zohran-mamdani-israel-palestine.html
Zohran Mamdani, the leading candidate in the race to be New York City’s next mayor, held a campaign event on a bus that crawled across Midtown Manhattan to highlight a signature proposal.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/nyregion/mamdani-bus-plan-nyc-mayor.html
Former Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo wants to ditch New York City’s plan to replace the Rikers Island jail complex and use the sites for the proposed borough-based jails for affordable housing.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/nyregion/cuomo-rikers-island-jails.html
Young people in Nepal rose up against corruption and inequality. But they say they did not expect the bloodshed, arson and government downfall that followed.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/world/asia/nepal-gen-z-revolution.html
Critics initially panned it, but public love for the musical with songs like “One Day More” and “On My Own” has kept it going strong for four decades — and counting.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/theater/les-miserables-40th-anniversary.html
Twenty-two people in a broad spectrum of the arts and sciences were awarded the fellowship, which comes with an $800,000 stipend.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/arts/design/macarthur-foundation-2025-genius-grant-winners.html
Derrick Groves, a convicted murderer who escaped with nine other inmates in May, was taken into custody after a brief standoff with the police.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/us/derrick-groves-new-orleans-escapee-captured-atlanta.html
People and institutions of civil society must coordinate against him.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/opinion/trump-universities-compact-civil-society.html
Authoritarian creep reaches a new phase.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/opinion/ice-masks-immigration.html
Also, National Guard troops assembled near Chicago and Portland. Here’s the latest at the end of Wednesday.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/briefing/comey-not-guilty-plea-national-guard-chicago.html