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Breaking News: The Trump administration moved to open the habitats of imperiled animals to farming, drilling, mining and other development. Environmentalists characterized it as the most severe erosion of protections for wildlife in half a century. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/10/c...
Breaking News: Federal officials acknowledged in court documents that they canceled grants to states that didn’t vote for President Trump in 2024. nyti.ms/4gRd5Kb
Breaking News: Federal immigration agents who killed a man during a traffic stop in Houston on Tuesday had been searching for a different person, according to a Department of Homeland Security spokeswoman. nyti.ms/4pfTwgK
The Trump administration is scrapping more than three dozen firearms regulations, abandoning a crackdown on illegal sales, restoring gun rights to some people with mental illness and loosening oversight of private weapons transactions. nyti.ms/4aALj0u
An agreement between between the U.S. and Kazakhstan has given President Trump and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick’s sons access to one of the world’s largest untapped reserves of tungsten, continuing a pattern of self-enrichment in the second Trump administration. trib.al/TDMlCHG
“This was good trouble.” Rep. Joyce Beatty successfully sued President Trump and forced the removal of his name from the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. The Ohio Democrat said she took on the fight because her ties to the venue — and to the Kennedy family — run deep. nyti.ms/4pcULxi
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com
“Americans are right to be alarmed,” David French writes. “A failed war. A purge of officers. Potential war crimes. Each of these things should be a stark warning that the Trump administration is in the process of breaking one of America’s most vital institutions.”
The Justice Department on Saturday argued that an offer from India’s richest man, Gautam Adani, to invest $10 billion in the U.S. played no role in the department’s decision to drop criminal charges against him. nyti.ms/4eWdpof
The White House announced on Friday that President Trump had issued pardons to 11 men, most of whom had been convicted of crimes related to the Clean Air Act, a bedrock environmental law.
Breaking News: The Supreme Court declined President Trump’s request to review a $5 million civil judgment against him after a jury found in 2023 that he sexually abused and defamed the writer E. Jean Carroll. nyti.ms/4oWpoH2
As the Kennedy Center prepares for major renovations, former project managers there have sent Congress internal documents that they say show how the institution bypassed government contracting norms in work carried out under President Trump.
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com
The words of the Constitution “mean little if members of Congress do not stand up to dangerous presidential power grabs,” the editorial board writes about Todd Blanche’s impending confirmation hearing to lead the Justice Department.
Breaking News: The nation’s largest group of scholars of U.S. history denounced a White House report attacking the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History.
Brazilian authorities blocked two senior U.S. officials from traveling to the country next week, concerned that the visitors planned to sow doubt about the security of the nation’s voting systems, according to U.S. and Brazilian officials.
The Trump administration issued subpoenas to New York Times journalists who wrote about the new Air Force One, an escalation of pressure on the media.
Strikes carried out by Iran last week injured dozens of U.S. service members and damaged several helicopters, according to U.S. officials. But the Pentagon did not disclose these strikes, nor the casualties and damage they inflicted.
Breaking News: Federal agents are said to have been told that the FBI will no longer investigate confrontations with immigration agents. If enacted, such a change would sharply limit law enforcement scrutiny of immigration agents.
President Trump is building a permanent helipad on the South Lawn, bypassing Congress and review panels. nyti.ms/4w3jxT0
Mayor Zohran Mamdani said in an interview with The New York Times that his administration was still discussing whether to arrest the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, if he comes to New York City as expected for the U.N. General Assembly in September.
“It’s hard to explain to a New Yorker why their needs are not even being discussed, and yet we have billions of dollars to kill civilians halfway across the world,” said Mayor Zohran Mamdani of New York on “The Interview.” Watch, read or listen to the full conversation. trib.al/3wdiLUk
President Trump flew in Marine One over MetLife Stadium on Sunday ahead of his arrival to the World Cup final. It was the second time recently that he sought to seize the spotlight at a major sporting event.
Breaking News: Three U.S. soldiers have been killed since Friday and another unidentified body was found as the war with Iran escalates. Follow live updates.
Sam Neill, the versatile New Zealand screen actor who appeared in more than 150 productions over a five-decade career, and who was perhaps best known for his star turn as Dr. Alan Grant in the “Jurassic Park” series, died on Monday in Sydney, Australia. He was 78.
Japan's Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi has said she gets just “zero to three hours” of sleep a night, prompting a debate in the country over work-life balance.
Senior living facilities in the U.S. are in distress as immigrant caregivers are pushed out because of Trump administration policies.