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
We explore the president’s new tough-on-crime tactics and how they’re working.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/briefing/trumps-tactics-on-crime.html
Brazil’s fast and free homegrown digital payment system, PIX, has become wildly popular. The Trump administration says it unfairly undercuts U.S. companies.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/world/americas/brazil-digital-payments.html
Jared Kushner’s private equity firm and Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund are some of the investors teaming up to take the video game giant private.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/business/dealbook/electronic-arts-buyout-jared-kushner.html
The plane’s owner, an 82-year-old veteran, has asked the Supreme Court to hear his case and set limits on forfeitures of property used to commit crimes.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/us/politics/alaska-plane-beer-supreme-court.html
Indigenous groups created the small beads from mollusk shells. They're the first artifacts of their kind ever found at the Colony of Avalon in Newfoundlandhttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/archaeologists-unearth-seven-rare-wampum-beads-at-17th-century-english-settlement-in-canada-180987413/
It’s a grand day to enjoy coffee-centric snapshots from the Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contesthttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/celebrate-international-coffee-day-get-caffeine-fix-15-photos-180987406/
"The Dream (The Bed)" will go under the hammer at Sotheby's in November. Experts say it could fetch between $40 million and $60 millionhttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/this-frida-kahlo-portrait-could-become-the-most-expensive-work-by-a-female-artist-ever-sold-at-auction-180987396/
Maria Branyas Morera, formerly the world’s oldest person, allowed researchers to take a detailed look at her biology before she died last yearhttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/scientists-studied-the-genes-of-a-woman-who-lived-117-years-heres-what-they-learned-180987412/
The demand for data centers is growing faster than our ability to mitigate their skyrocketing economic and environmental costshttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/with-ai-on-the-rise-what-will-be-the-environmental-impacts-of-data-centers-180987379/
A new exhibition at the National Museum of Women in the Arts spotlights 40 women who found fame in the Low Countries between 1600 and 1750, including Koerten, Judith Leyster and Clara Peetershttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/this-17th-century-female-artist-was-once-bigger-star-than-rembrandt-why-did-history-forget-about-johanna-koerten-and-her-peers-180987410/
Electronic Arts Videogame maker Electronic Arts said a group of investors including private-equity firm Silver Lake, Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund and Jared Kushner’s investment firm Affinity Partners will buy it.https://www.wsj.com/business/deals/electronic-arts-to-go-private-in-55-billion-deal-a4a4479c?mod=pls_whats_news_us_business_f
First Brands enters bankruptcy protection after lenders raised red flags over the company’s billions of dollars of off-balance-sheet debt.https://www.wsj.com/articles/auto-parts-supplier-first-brands-files-for-bankruptcy-39623602?mod=pls_whats_news_us_business_f
The videogame company is going private in a $55 billion deal, as it finally has a potential hit combat game on its hands.https://www.wsj.com/business/media/why-ea-is-ready-to-quit-wall-streets-game-2261d5c7?mod=pls_whats_news_us_business_f
Michael Cavanagh will serve as co-chief executive alongside the longtime CEO, the company said Monday.https://www.wsj.com/business/media/comcast-names-president-as-co-ceo-to-serve-with-brian-roberts-880a399f?mod=pls_whats_news_us_business_f