The chief federal judge in Minnesota said ICE had disobeyed more judicial directives in January alone than “some federal agencies have violated in their entire existence.” www.nytimes.com/2026/01/28/u...
"You don’t come here for friendships, not in this arena. This is competitive bridge. I would say about 70 percent of the people out there are playing with people who are like pros. If you want a friend, go to church. You ain’t going to find no friends here!" www.curbed.com/article/hono....
At the start of the year, I did a 🧵 of all The Great Reads that Metro published last year. In the interests of not overwhelming people's timelines, I'm going to start the thread today and add to it through the end of the year. Here's one from Corey Kilgannon from January.
The suit argues that the DOD's new policy violated the First Amendment and “seeks to restrict journalists’ ability to do what journalists have always done — ask questions of government employees and gather information to report stories that take the public beyond official pronouncements.”
"As children, they watched their parents work double shifts and multiple jobs. As adults, they gave their parents a version of the American dream." www.nytimes.com/2025/12/01/r...
Net migration to Britain has fallen by almost 80% from its 2023 peak, according to data released on Thursday.
Cleaning Woman Killed Through Door After Arriving at Wrong Home, Police Say www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/u...
Europeans recognize Zohran Mamdani’s supposedly radical policies as ‘normal’ www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Courtney Williams, a Minnesota Lynx all-star, wears sneakers made by Moolah Kicks, a relatively new women’s basketball shoe company. She was fined four times by the WNBA for wearing them.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/n...
"In March, Mr. Hatch testified, he formed a 'tiger team,' or a specialized task force, to respond to abrupt orders that he rush analysis on thousands of people whose names and identities had been published by Canary Mission." www.nytimes.com/2025/07/09/u...
Customer charged $195 for A.I.-detected damage: “It could have been a shadow. We were pulling it up on the app, and we’re like, ‘This is so bananas.’” www.nytimes.com/2025/07/09/t...
Protesters in all 50 states marched against President Trump's policies on Saturday as Trump held a military parade in Washington. Read more: https://trib.al/JnBJSdw
“It is clear that the bureau’s current leadership has no intention to enforce the law in any meaningful way,” Ms. Petersen wrote in her farewell email. “While I wish you all the best, I worry for American consumers.” www.nytimes.com/2025/06/10/u...
Gavin Newsom says the president's claim that the two men spoke by phone yesterday is false. Newsom's spokesman told The Times that he had personally looked through the governor's cell phone and that there was “No missed call. No voicemail. Nothing.” www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06...
National Institutes of Health Workers Denounce Trump Administration's ‘Harmful’ Policies
In a scathing letter, employees accused the administration of illegally withholding money, endangering study participants and censoring research. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/h...
Top leaders at the Justice Department and the F.B.I. are "running what amounts to a conspiracy theory fulfillment center with unstocked shelves, critics say." www.nytimes.com/2025/06/08/u...
"People making over $500,000 on their latest return were more than twice as likely to be audited compared with the same point in the audit cycle in previous years." www.nytimes.com/2025/06/05/u...
Trump and his family have monetized the White House more than any other occupant, normalizing activities that once would have provoked heavy blowback and official investigations. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/25/u...
Once drawn to the U.S. as a haven, some int'l students find it is not the bedrock of free speech they expected. “That respect in the American system has kind of faded away and been replaced with this bitter animosity."
w/ the wonderful @holpuch.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/w...
"When knowledge is threatened, don’t just mourn it. Build around it." www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/o...
The N.S.F. said it was terminating awards that were not in line with its priorities, "including but not limited to awards focused on D.E.I. as well as misinformation and disinformation." www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/s...
"Mr. Prada’s disappearance has created concerns that more immigrants have been deported to El Salvador than previously known. It also raises the question of whether some deportees may have been sent to other countries with no record of it." www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/u...
DHS denied Mahmoud Khalil permission to attend the birth of his first child, who was delivered in New York on Monday, according to emails reviewed by The New York Times.
Instead, he experienced the birth of his son by telephone from Jena, La. It is unclear when he will be able to see the baby.
“It’s totally silly,” Dani Rodrik, an economist who studies globalization at Harvard University, said of Mr. Trump’s focus on bilateral deficits. “There’s no other way to say it, it makes no sense.” www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/b...
The Times spoke with demonstrators in cities including Albany, Denver, Atlanta, Chicago, Baltimore and Ketchum, Idaho. Some said it was their first protest ever. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/05/u...
A former U.S.A.I.D. employee said an estimated $27 million worth of family planning products are stuck at places including warehouses and ports with no employees or programs left to unload them or hand them over to governments. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/h...
"Syrians are proud of their rich culinary traditions, but not precious about allowing them to evolve. There are now olives in the fattoush salad. Onions in the shawarma. Parsley in the hummus. And then there is marook." www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/w...
"Physicians at Covenant Children’s Hospital in Lubbock, Texas, say they’ve now treated a handful of unvaccinated children who were given so much vitamin A that they had signs of liver damage." www.nytimes.com/2025/03/25/h...
The Guardian talked to nine Panther cubs across the U.S. "All have shared intimate stories about their exceptional childhoods, born to parents who challenged America’s white establishment in a bid for what they saw as Black self-determination." www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
“Whatever people are reading in newspapers, it’s 10 times worse,” one scientist at the National Institutes of Health said. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/24/h...
