In the face of mounting discontent over his administration’s handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files, President Trump has turned to deflection, denial and downplaying.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/14/us/politics/fact-check-trump-epstein.html
Donald Trump was friendly for at least 15 years with Jeffrey Epstein, the multimillionaire financier and convicted sex offender who died in jail in 2019.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/us/politics/timeline-trump-epstein.html
Thunder Ranch is one of the best-known shooting schools in American gun culture, offering firearms as a way to change your life when all else fails.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/14/us/men-shooting-range-thunder-ranch-guns.html
Officials and volunteers patrolled areas around schools, part of an effort to warn families about potential raids and reassure them that their children were safe at school.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/14/us/los-angeles-raids-school-patrols.html
Former Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo’s proposal is a dig at Zohran Mamdani, his main opponent in the mayor’s race, but it could upend the housing search for middle-income New Yorkers.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/14/nyregion/cuomo-mamdani-zohrans-law.html
The plan would open a swath of Midtown, including the garment district, to residential development.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/14/nyregion/midtown-manhattan-residential-development.html
Bezalel Smotrich, the finance minister, said on Thursday that a plan to significantly expand a settlement near occupied East Jerusalem had won approval. But a procedural step remained.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/14/world/middleeast/israel-smotrich-settlements-palestinian-state.html
Israel says its has allowed more aid into Gaza in recent days, and food prices are dropping, but humanitarian groups warn it is not enough.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/14/world/middleeast/israel-aid-gaza-issues.html
The event’s organizers said the producers of the film, which includes footage of atrocities recorded by Hamas fighters during the attack, had failed to obtain the rights to the videos.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/14/world/canada/tiff-israel-oct-7-documentary-canceled.html
In a recent study, scientists successfully decoded not only the words people tried to say but the words they merely imagined saying.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/14/science/brain-neuroscience-computers-speech.html
The end of “And Just Like That …” means the end of a real estate portfolio that includes a cozy Upper East Side studio and a grand Gramercy townhouse.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/14/realestate/carrie-bradshaw-apartments-sex-and-the-city.html
Trump isn’t just shaping the nation; he’s also changing the evangelical church.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/14/opinion/douglas-wilson-evangelical-hegseth.html
The dominant air carrier in Canada set in motion a process that could ground 130,000 passengers a day by Saturday.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/14/world/canada/air-canada-flight-attendant-strike-canceled.html
A trade group representing sites like Facebook and X said the law ran afoul of the First Amendment.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/14/us/politics/supreme-court-mississippi-social-media.html
The Justice Department said the yacht, Amadea, was worth at least $300 million when it was seized in 2022 from a Russian oligarch. It’s unlikely to sell for that price.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/14/world/europe/russian-yacht-seized-sanctions-auction.html
The order comes after a series of legal setbacks for the families of Sandy Hook victims as they tried to collect money owed to them by the conspiracy theorist Alex Jones.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/14/us/infowars-sale-alex-jones-sandy-hook.html
The data tables briefly appeared on the agency’s web site earlier than expected due to a “process error,” it said.https://www.wsj.com/economy/statistics-canada-says-elements-of-junes-factory-data-inadvertently-published-7ed7de97
Elevated rates and home prices have kept homeownership out of reach for many prospective home buyers.https://www.wsj.com/economy/housing/mortgage-rates-slip-to-lowest-level-of-2025-7c1be5d2
Wholesale inflation jumped to a recent high, likely pushing up the Fed’s preferred price metric.https://www.wsj.com/economy/central-banking/inflation-producer-price-index-18134c13
The report, which focused on violence against Syria’s Alawite communities along the Mediterranean coast in March, uncovered no evidence that the country’s new government orchestrated the attacks.https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/u-n-report-finds-widespread-killing-by-syrian-government-allies-earlier-this-year-d740ba2f