What’s Next for New York’s Congestion Pricing Tolls
On the campaign trail, President Trump vowed to end New York’s congestion pricing plan. His administration followed through on Wednesday by moving to revoke federal approval for the tolling program…
Hamas Hands Bodies of 4 Hostages Back to Israel
Hamas handed over on Thursday what it said were the remains of four Israeli hostages abducted during the Oct. 7, 2023, attack on southern Israel, including a woman and her…
Stephen Colbert Would Like to Know Who’s in Charge Here
Welcome to Best of Late Night, a rundown of the previous night’s highlights that lets you sleep — and lets us get paid to watch comedy. Here are the 50…
Trump Flips the Script on the Ukraine War, Blaming Zelensky Not Putin
When Russian forces crashed over the borders into Ukraine in 2022 determined to wipe it off the map as an independent state, the United States rushed to aid the beleaguered…
How Republican Senators Have Shifted Tone on Russia and Ukraine
Republican members of Congress have been some of the strongest critics of Russia and its president, Vladimir V. Putin, keeping in line with their party’s traditional hawkish views about the…
Hegseth Orders Pentagon to Draw Up Plans for Budget Cuts
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered senior military and Defense Department officials to draw up plans to cut 8 percent from the defense budget over each of the next five…
As Trump Turns Against Ukraine, Republicans in Congress Stay Quiet
As President Trump makes an abrupt pivot toward Russia, upending generations of American foreign policy, he is also defying members of his own party in Congress, many of whom have…
Trump’s No-Prisoners Approach to Iran-China Oil Crackdown | naked capitalism
Yves here. We have yet another report from uber-neocon Simon Watkins, here on the US plans to mess Iran oil sales to China. resilc, who had worked extensively overseas and…
Muni Long, Victoria Monét and Other Women Reinventing R&B
To accompany this article, Adam Bradley created a playlist of the songs that define R&B’s new era. THE R&B SINGER-SONGWRITER Muni Long has a voice that people say could sing…
Opinion | Vance’s Munich Disgrace
In April 1928, Joseph Goebbels, later the Third Reich’s chief propagandist, wrote a newspaper essay addressing the question of why the National Socialists, despite being an “anti-parliamentarian party,” would nonetheless…