❌

Vue lecture

✇NYT > U.S. News
↗️

South Dakota Governor Seeking Full Term Clinches G.O.P. Nomination

Par :Mitch Smith
Gov. Larry Rhoden, who ascended to the office last year when Kristi Noem left for the Trump cabinet, overcame a large Republican primary field and won a runoff election.

© Alex Brandon/Associated Press

Gov. Larry Rhoden of South Dakota at Mount Rushmore near Keystone, S.D., on July 3.
  •  
  • ↗️
✇NYT > U.S. News
↗️

The Doctor and His Diary: What Fauci’s Innermost Musings Reveal

Par :Shawn McCreesh
Dr. Anthony S. Fauci seemed to be the life of the party, even in the midst of a deadly pandemic.

© Leigh Vogel for The New York Times

Dr. Anthony Fauci is honored at the National Portrait Gallery’s Portrait of a Nation gala in Washington in 2022.
  •  
  • ↗️
✇NYT > U.S. News
↗️

Senate Confirms Jay Clayton to Lead U.S. Intelligence Community

Par :Dustin Volz
Mr. Clayton, who shed Democratic support after he refused to clearly say Joseph R. Biden Jr. won the 2020 election, will take over the Office of the Director of National Intelligence from Bill Pulte.

© Alex Kent/The New York Times

Jay Clayton during the Senate Intelligence Committee hearing to confirm him as the director of national intelligence.
  •  
  • ↗️
✇NYT > U.S. News
↗️

At Graham’s Farewell, a Glimpse Into Power in Trump’s Washington

Par :Peter Baker
The political evolution of Lindsey Graham, the South Carolina senator, both captivated and confused many of his old friends but reflected the changing order in the nation’s capital.

© Doug Mills/The New York Times

President Trump during the funeral for Senator Lindsey Graham at the National Cathedral in Washington on Tuesday.
  •  
  • ↗️
✇NYT > U.S. News
↗️

Domestic Abuse Allegations Rock Max Miller’s Ohio House Race

Par :Annie Karni and Robert Draper
Representative Max Miller, a Republican, is facing accusations of abuse from his ex-wife in a bitter family feud that might put his otherwise safe seat in play.

© Eric Lee/The New York Times

Representative Max Miller has been accused by his ex-wife, Emily Moreno, of domestic abuse against her and their 2-year-old daughter.
  •  
  • ↗️
✇NYT > U.S. News
↗️

At Graham’s Farewell, a Glimpse Into Power in Trump’s Washington

Par :Peter Baker
The political evolution of Lindsey Graham, the South Carolina senator, both captivated and confused many of his old friends but reflected the changing order in the nation’s capital.

© Doug Mills/The New York Times

President Trump during the funeral for Senator Lindsey Graham at the National Cathedral in Washington on Tuesday.
  •  
  • ↗️
✇NYT > U.S. News
↗️

Ghost Gun Was Used in Seattle Festival Shooting, Police Say

Par :Drew Atkins
Untraceable firearms purchased without background checks and assembled from parts that have no serial numbers remain a growing problem, despite Biden-era prohibitions.

© Lindsey Wasson/Associated Press

Police Chief Shon Barnes of Seattle spoke at a vigil for victims of a shooting at Bite of Seattle food festival.
  •  
  • ↗️
✇NYT > U.S. News
↗️

Police Chief Filed Sexual Harassment Complaint Against St. Paul’s Mayor

Par :Ernesto Londoño
The city has hired an outside lawyer to investigate after Chief Axel Henry accused Mayor Kaohly Her, in her first term in office, of behaving inappropriately toward police officers.

© Vincent Alban/The New York Times

Mayor Kaohly Her of St. Paul, Minn.
  •  
  • ↗️
✇NYT > U.S. News
↗️

What’s Going on With Mitch McConnell? Kentucky’s Governor Has Questions.

Par :Jess Bidgood and Michael Gold
Gov. Andy Beshear called on Senator McConnell, who has been hospitalized since June, to prove his capacity to serve, or resign.

© Nick Hagen for The New York Times

Gov. Andy Beshear of Kentucky wrote a pointed letter asking Senator Mitch McConnell, who has been hospitalized for more than six weeks, about his health.
  •  
  • ↗️
✇NYT > U.S. News
↗️

A U.S. Citizen Deleted His Phone’s Data. Now He Faces a Felony Charge.

Par :Adeel Hassan
Federal prosecutors charged a man returning to the United States with obstruction because he gave them a passcode that erased his smartphone during a customs search.

© Annegret Hilse/Reuters

A U.S. citizen used an open-source operating system, GrapheneOS, on his Google Pixel phone to “delete the digital contents,” before the device was seized, an indictment against the man said.
  •  
  • ↗️
✇NYT > U.S. News
↗️

Trump Asks Supreme Court to Overturn $83.3 Million Award in Carroll Defamation Case

Par :Abbie VanSickle
President Trump paid E. Jean Carroll more than $5 million from a 2023 lawsuit, but he is now asking the court to overturn a much larger award that a jury ordered him to pay in 2024 for defaming her.

© Sarah Blesener for The New York Times

E. Jean Carroll in Manhattan in 2024.
  •  
  • ↗️
✇NYT > U.S. News
↗️

Iran Considered Retaliatory Strike on Ukrainian Seaport

Par :Farnaz Fassihi · Julian E. Barnes and Eric Schmitt
A flurry of diplomacy has eased tensions, officials said, after an incident risked triggering a wider war.

© Hadi Mizban/Associated Press

Abbas Araghchi, Iran’s foreign minister, said in a post on Tuesday that Andrii Sybiha, his Ukrainian counterpart, had described an attack on a cargo ship as unintentional.
  •  
  • ↗️
✇NYT > U.S. News
↗️

Behind Closed Doors, Trump Huddles With Netanyahu and Zelensky

Par :Katie Rogers
The visits by the leaders of Israel and Ukraine underscored just how deeply President Trump was enmeshed in conflicts he had promised — and failed — to end quickly.

© Doug Mills/The New York Times

President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine arriving at the White House for his meeting with President Trump on Tuesday.
  •  
  • ↗️
✇NYT > U.S. News
↗️

Who Wins (and Who Loses) in the Democrats’ New 2028 Primary Calendar?

Par :Lisa Lerer
Democratic Party officials have approved a new calendar that puts South Carolina at the head of the line. Black and Latino voters will gain new clout.

© Jim Lo Scalzo/EPA, via Shutterstock

A South Carolina voter prepares to cast his ballot in Camden, S.C., in 2024.
  •  
  • ↗️
✇NYT > U.S. News
↗️

Senate Advances Graham’s Russia Sanctions Bill

Par :Robert Jimison
As Washington remembered Senator Lindsey Graham, his colleagues cleared away a hurdle to passage of his long-stalled bill to penalize Moscow.

© Alex Kent/The New York Times

An honor guard awaiting the coffin of Senator Lindsey Graham on Tuesday.
  •  
  • ↗️
✇NYT > U.S. News
↗️

Trump’s Spy Chief Spends Final Hours in Job Boasting of Mass Firings

Par :Julian E. Barnes and Dustin Volz
Bill Pulte, the acting director of national intelligence, said he has terminated nearly a third of the officials in his office, but others doubt the figures are accurate.

© Eric Lee/The New York Times

Bill Pulte, the acting director of national intelligence, has not laid out the goals of his purported reductions.
  •  
  • ↗️
✇NYT > U.S. News
↗️

Graham and Netanyahu Worked Together to Denounce International Criminal Court

Par :Maggie Haberman
Senator Lindsey Graham helped to coordinate a group of lawmakers to rebuke the I.C.C., which was investigating Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel.

© Ronen Zvulun/Reuters

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel, second from right, and Senator Lindsey Graham, Republican of South Carolina, second from left, in March 2019.
  •  
  • ↗️
✇NYT > U.S. News
↗️

Georgia Teen Is Sentenced to Life for Deadly School Shooting

Par :Rick Rojas and Sean Keenan
The boy pleaded guilty to 55 charges stemming from the 2024 attack at Apalachee High School in Winder, Ga., that killed two students and two teachers.

© Pool photo by Jason Getz

Colt Gray, the 16-year-old Apalachee High School shooting suspect, is led in by deputies for his sentencing at Barrow County Superior Court on Monday in Winder, Ga.
  •  
  • ↗️
✇NYT > U.S. News
↗️

Obama to Headline Democratic Redistricting Fund-Raiser

Par :Nick Corasaniti
After exhausting their gerrymandering options in 2026, the party is hoping to redraw more congressional maps ahead of the next election cycle.

© Jamie Kelter Davis for The New York Times

Former President Barack Obama will headline a fund-raiser on Martha’s Vineyard in August to help Democrats gerrymander more congressional maps ahead of the 2028 cycle.
  •  
  • ↗️
✇NYT > U.S. News
↗️

ICE Arrests Surge at Airports, Opening New Front in Deportation Drive

Par :Hamed Aleaziz and Miriam Jordan
Federal agents are arresting spouses of Americans, tech workers and others whose visas have expired, including many who have active applications to stay in the country.

© Alicia Dantzker

Chantal Morales Rojas, a 27-year-old from Ecuador, was detained by plainclothes officers as she tried to board a flight at Denver International Airport on July 20.
  •  
  • ↗️
✇NYT > U.S. News
↗️

Biden Acknowledges Keeping Classified Materials in Newly Released Tapes

Par :Karoun Demirjian
Recordings from 2016 and 2017 show that Joseph R. Biden Jr. knew he had retained classified materials but reveal little that was not already documented in a special counsel’s report.

© Ruth Fremson/The New York Times

“I just found all the classified stuff downstairs,” Joseph R. Biden Jr. told his ghostwriter in a February 2017 conversation.
  •  
  • ↗️
✇NYT > U.S. News
↗️

Trump Loved Graham, Not So Much His Beloved Senate

Par :Carl Hulse
The South Carolinian relished serving as a “bridge” between the institution he revered and the president, but now that bridge is gone.

© Nicole Craine for The New York Times

President Trump and Senator Lindsey Graham in Columbia, S.C., in 2023. One of Mr. Graham’s many self-appointed roles was to interpret the Senate for Mr. Trump.
  •  
  • ↗️
✇NYT > U.S. News
↗️

Darline Graham Mourns Her Brother as She Seeks His Seat

Par :Olivia Diaz
Senator Darline Graham, who was appointed to serve out Lindsey Graham’s term after his unexpected death, appeared somber and stoic.

© Haiyun Jiang/The New York Times

Senator Darline Graham touched the casket of her brother, Lindsey Graham, at the Capitol on Tuesday.
  •  
  • ↗️
✇NYT > U.S. News
↗️

Florida Executes 2 Men Within Hours of Each Other

Par :Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs
Both men had been convicted of murder in the 1980s. One had maintained his innocence, while the other became the second octogenarian to be put to death in the U.S. in the last 50 years.

© Curt Anderson/Associated Press

The state is carrying out both executions at Florida State Prison in north-central Florida.
  •  
  • ↗️
✇NYT > U.S. News
↗️

An Anthropic Claude AI Model Finds Flaws in Tough-to-Crack Encryption Algorithms

Par :Dustin Volz
Claude Mythos Preview discovered new attacks in testing against weakened cryptographic algorithms, which protect online financial transactions, private communications and more.
  •  
  • ↗️
✇NYT > U.S. News
↗️

Graham to Be Honored at Funeral Services This Week. Here’s How to Watch.

Par :Chris Cameron
Closed ceremonies for the Republican senator, a stalwart ally of President Trump, will be held in Washington on Tuesday before a procession and public funeral in South Carolina the next day.

© Mariam Zuhaib/Associated Press

Military members practicing outside the Capitol on Monday for a ceremony honoring Senator Lindsey Graham.
  •  
  • ↗️
✇NYT > U.S. News
↗️

Aide Who Had Affair With Newsom 20 Years Ago Details Her Experience

Par :Heather Knight
Ruby Rippey had stayed mostly quiet since her relationship with the San Francisco mayor rocked the city.

© Gabriela Bhaskar/The New York Times

In a new essay, Ruby Rippey gives her first detailed account of her affair with Gavin Newsom when he was the mayor of San Francisco.
  •  
  • ↗️
✇NYT > U.S. News
↗️

AFSCME Leader Lee Saunders to Retire as Unions Face New Opposition

Par :Rebecca Davis O’Brien
Lee Saunders has led the country’s top union for local public workers at a time of growing public support and official opposition.

© Demetrius Freeman for The New York Times

Lee Saunders in his office in Washington in May. He’s stepping down after 50 years at the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees.
  •  
  • ↗️
✇NYT > U.S. News
↗️

Graham to Be Honored at Funeral Services This Week. Here’s How to Watch.

Par :Chris Cameron
Closed ceremonies for the Republican senator, a stalwart ally of President Trump, will be held in Washington on Tuesday before a procession and public funeral in South Carolina the next day.

© Mariam Zuhaib/Associated Press

Military members practicing outside the Capitol on Monday for a ceremony honoring Senator Lindsey Graham.
  •  
  • ↗️
✇NYT > U.S. News
↗️

Senate Democrats Press Blanche on Times Subpoenas

Par :Michael Gold
Days before a committee vote on Todd Blanche’s nomination to be attorney general, Democrats demanded answers about the since-withdrawn subpoenas.

© Kenny Holston/The New York Times

Todd Blanche, the acting attorney general, testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee this month.
  •  
  • ↗️
✇NYT > U.S. News
↗️

Newport Beach in California Struggles to Copy With Rowdy Outsiders

Par :Jill Cowan
More than 400 people were arrested in Newport Beach on the July 4 weekend after a social media “takeover” got out of hand. Now the city is trying to figure out how to stop it from happening again.

© Ariana Drehsler for The New York Times

A group of runners near the Newport Beach Pier in Newport Beach, Calif., earlier this month.
  •  
  • ↗️
✇NYT > U.S. News
↗️

Police Say Binance Is Making It Harder to Fight Crime

Par :Michael Forsythe and David Yaffe-Bellany
Investigators in Europe said that the cryptocurrency giant Binance had made it more difficult to track down scammers and solve other crimes.

© Pedro Fiúza/NurPhoto, via Getty Images

A Binance display at the 2022 Web Summit in Lisbon.
  •  
  • ↗️
❌