The Times interviewed dozens of migrant men sent to a prison in El Salvador by the Trump administration. Independent forensic analysts called the testimony credible and consistent and said the treatment met the U.N.’s definition of torture.
The Trump administration ordered the cuts as the shutdown left air traffic controllers working without pay. Disruptions at major airports appeared limited for now.
The government shutdown canceled a second straight jobs report, but private data sources suggested the labor market has weakened modestly since summer.
The Chinese government followed through on promises it made publicly after a recent summit, but has not yet taken other actions sought by the White House.
His opponents tried to smear him for his youth, inexperience, and leftist politics. But New Yorkers didn’t want a hardened political insider to be mayor—they wanted Zohran Mamdani.
Dick Cheney’s Brand of Conservatism
For years before taking office, the former Vice-President appeared less dogmatic than he was.
The Dishy Operatics of Lily Allen’s Breakup Album
On “West End Girl,” all the gritty bits are there: messages with a husband’s mistress, the discovery of a cache of sex toys.
For some time now, El Fasher in Sudan has been a city beyond the reach of journalists. But the haunting satellite image on our cover this week, of smoke billowing from fires near El Fasher’s airport, told its own story as starkly as anything that could be reported from the ground.
Other satellite images showed clusters of burned-out vehicles, and what appeared to be pools of blood beside piles of bodies on the ground. A massacre was under way that could be seen from space.
The last major city in Darfur to fall to the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) was already the scene of catastrophic levels of human suffering, but has “descended into an even darker hell”, senior UN officials warned last week. This key moment in the two-and-a-half-year-long civil war has unfolded in plain sight with minimal intervention from the international community, unless you count the United Arab Emirates, which has been arming the RSF paramilitaries.
Spotlight | The Andrew formerly known as a prince Stupidity and self-entitlement sank King Charles III’s disgraced younger brother – and the royal reckoning may not be over yet, writes Stephen Bates
Technology | What if the internet just … stopped working? Could everything suddenly go offline and if so, how? Aisha Down goes inside the fragile system holding the modern world together
Interview | Margaret Atwood puts the world to rights At 85, she’s a literary seer and saint – and queen of the Canadian resistance. So what does the writer make of our dystopian society? Lisa Allardice finds out
Opinion | World leaders: Cop30 could be your great legacy With the US backing away from the climate crisis, now is the moment when other nations must step up, says former British prime minister Gordon Brown
Culture | Back to black with Lynne Ramsay The Scottish film director burst on to the scene with Ratcatcher and terrified audiences with We Need to Talk About Kevin. Her latest film stars Hollywood darling Jennifer Lawrence, but it doesn’t flinch from the dark side of family life, finds Amy Raphael
President Trump and administration officials indicated that fallout could intensify in the coming days, even as he has kept a distance from the crisis.
It may break the 34-day record set in 2018. Officials warned of an air travel “disaster,” and only partial payments will be sent to millions on food stamps.
ChatGPT does not have an inner life. Yet it seems to know what it’s talking about. By James Somers
Voting Rights and Immigration Under Attack
The President’s goals were clear on the first day of his term, when he issued an executive order overruling the Fourteenth Amendment’s birthright-citizenship clause. By Jelani Cobb
Mobsters We Have Seen on High
The jewel heist at the Louvre reminded Brooklynites of the time, in 1952, when two bejewelled crowns were swiped from a beloved local church—the one with a Mob boss on the ceiling. By Susan Mulcahy
President Trump is imploring lawmakers to redraw their congressional maps, but the debate over redistricting has revealed fissures within both parties.
Governors’ races, mayoral contests and referendums will provide a critical update on the party’s rebuilding project, and a preview of the 2026 midterms.
A new kind of Mideast peace process is underway, as a determined Trump administration and its allies in the Muslim world seek to broaden a tenuous cease-fire between Israel and Hamas.
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