As President Trump talks of land swaps, Ukrainians find it difficult to imagine giving up the Donbas, for military, humanitarian and political reasons.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/world/europe/russia-ukraine-donbas-land-swap.html
Plus, why that old song suddenly has a new music video.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/13/podcasts/the-headlines/trump-dc-takeover-smithsonian.html
President Trump has become the semiconductor sector’s leading decision maker, from new fees on exports to China to a brief demand for a C.E.O.’s firing.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/13/technology/trump-chips-nvidia-intel.html
Nvidia and AMD will give the Trump administration a cut of chip sales to China in a deal that raises questions about national security and trade policy goals. Tripp Mickle explains.https://www.nytimes.com/video/business/100000010334605/what-to-know-about-trumps-deal-with-ai-chipmakers.html
Corporate spending on artificial intelligence is surging as executives bank on major efficiency gains. So far, they report little effect to the bottom line.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/13/business/ai-business-payoff-lags.html
Troops appeared near the Washington Monument on Tuesday evening. But it remained unclear whether the eventual show of force would match the president’s apocalyptic rhetoric.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/us/politics/dc-police-national-guard.html
President Trump said he needed to send in the Guard to secure the nation’s capital. But on Jan. 6, 2021 — the most lawless day in recent Washington history — he had a very different reaction.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/us/politics/trump-jan-6-dc-crime.html
The president cited a number of false and misleading claims about homicides and youth crime in the nation’s capital.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/us/politics/trump-dc-crime-data-fact-check.html
The attacks in the New York City mayor’s race may have veered into the personal, but they also reflected a larger debate on who should benefit from government regulation of housing costs.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/nyregion/cuomo-mamdani-rent-stabilized.html
Former Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo’s push to keep “rich” people out of less-expensive apartments is aimed at his political rival in New York, Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/nyregion/mamdani-cuomo-rent-stabilized-apartment.html
The Manhattan restaurant drew global praise and skepticism with its climate-minded, all-plant menu. Now its chef wants to be more welcoming — and popular.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/13/dining/eleven-madison-park-meat.html
JD Vance, the vice president, sat down with Nigel Farage, a longtime supporter of President Trump whose party, Reform U.K., is leading in British polls.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/13/world/europe/jd-vance-nigel-farage-reform-uk.html
In its campaign against “woke” science, the Trump administration has closed down studies and programs focused on the gaps between racial and socioeconomic groups.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/13/health/nih-grant-cancellations-dei.html
We look at how the Trump administration deals with unfavorable data.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/13/briefing/trump-administration-data.html
Senator John Cornyn and Attorney General Ken Paxton are vying to be the tougher candidate on Democratic lawmakers who left Texas, as potential Democratic rivals seek their own spotlight.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/13/us/politics/texas-redistricting-senate.html
Israel has extensively documented the 2023 Hamas-led assault and is believed to be holding at least 200 Palestinians suspected of involvement. Not one has been charged or put on trial.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/13/world/middleeast/israel-oct-7-palestinians-trial.html
Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir has pushed back against a proposal to control Gaza City, according to officials. One hard-right member of the government suggested he could be dismissed.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/13/world/middleeast/israel-gaza-plan-military-government-zamir.html
Fewer than 1,000 private-sector jobs were added, the slowest growth in the labor market outside a recession and the pandemic since 2003.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/13/nyregion/nyc-jobs.html
The soccer star has been living in the country with Georgina RodrĂguez, the mother of his children, testing the boundaries of social change in the conservative Islamic kingdom.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/13/world/middleeast/ronaldo-engagement-saudi-arabia.html
After years of speculation, the soccer superstar’s engagement is big news, but it’s the enormous diamond perched on Ms. RodrĂguez’s finger that has everyone talking.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/style/georgina-rodriguez-cristiano-ronaldo-engagement-ring.html