President Trump compared crime in Washington to violence in Latin American capitals. Mexico City’s mayor said “many parts of the world would like to have” her city’s safety.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/world/americas/trump-crime-mexico-brazil.html
Anger over well-paid manufacturing jobs giving way to lower-wage work fueled President Trump’s rise. With his movement now in power, who gets blamed as the trend continues?https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/us/trump-plant-closure-montana.html
July’s Consumer Price Index report showed an acceleration in “core” prices that strip out volatile food and energy items.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/business/cpi-inflation-trump-tariffs.html
The decision cited a Supreme Court order in June granting DOGE analysts sweeping access to other data stored at the Social Security Administration.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/us/politics/appeals-court-doge-data.html
Austerity is coming to colleges boxed in by President Trump’s cuts and their own troubles. As they lay off workers, cut majors and take other steps, the changes may eventually be felt in classrooms.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/us/college-financial-troubles-student-experience.html
In 1989, Patrick Swayze played a bouncer at an outrageously out-of-control bar. It set a standard for a movie that’s irresistible, almost in spite of itself.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/movies/road-house-patrick-swayze-good-bad-movie.html
Working-class Americans who until recently voted Democratic said the party should not count on a backlash to President Trump to win them back. Still, there were pockets of opportunity.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/us/politics/democrats-working-class-voters.html
The former three-term senator is said to be running to get his old job back, delivering a recruitment coup for Democrats facing an uphill battle to win a Senate majority next year.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/us/politics/sherrod-brown-plans-to-try-for-a-senate-comeback-in-ohio.html
Robert Longo was a little nervous about opening a big show in Denmark this year.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/t-magazine/robert-longo.html
Zakaria Zubeidi inspired Palestinians and horrified Israelis. Freed from jail during a recent truce, he questions what his many lives have achieved.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/world/middleeast/zakaria-zubeidi-palestine-interview.html
Decades ago, designers etched microscopic doodles onto silicon chips to leave their marks. Now, techno-archaeologists search for the tiny fossils.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/technology/silicon-chips-doodles.html
The tiny start-up hopes to take advantage of an upcoming antitrust ruling against the tech giant.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/technology/perplexity-google-chrome-bid.html
The U.S. risks not just being left behind, but out of the game entirely.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/opinion/trump-manhattan-project.html
Being an anti-feminist, it turns out, is no shield against abusive male power.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/11/opinion/lauren-southern-tradwife-maga.html
Ethan Nieneker, who was charged with capital murder, had a history of domestic violence, mental health problems and arrests.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/11/us/austin-shooting.html
As heat waves batter Europe, the need (or not) for air-conditioning has become part of the political tug of war in France between the right and the left.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/world/europe/heat-waves-france-air-conditioning.html
Footage shows a Chinese coast guard vessel chasing a Philippine boat and then ramming a Chinese warship. It was the latest confrontation in the contested waters.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/world/asia/south-china-sea-chinese-navy-philippines-collision.html
The Central Park Conservancy, which manages the park, had not taken a public stance on the issue as it became especially politically contentious over the past decade.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/nyregion/central-park-horse-carriages.html
Infantry soldiers have made a small penetration in eastern Ukraine. Kyiv’s military said it is counterattacking.https://www.wsj.com/world/europe/russian-military-makes-surprise-push-in-ukraine-ahead-of-trump-talks-bf032007
The impact of America’s cuts is rippling across the continent.https://www.wsj.com/world/africa/refugees-in-africa-fight-over-food-as-u-s-aid-cuts-take-hold-bfccae49