Marco Rubio, Secretary of Everything
Secretary of state. Acting administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development. Acting archivist for the National Archives and Records Administration. And now interim national security adviser to President Trump.…
When Taxpayers Fund Shows Like ‘Blue Bloods’ and ‘S.N.L.,’ Does It Pay Off?
New Yorkers — and residents of many other states — have paid more for entertainment in recent years than just their Netflix or Hulu subscriptions. Each New York household has…
Federal Report Denounces Gender Treatments for Adolescents
Federal health officials published a report on Thursday declaring that the use of hormonal and surgical treatments in young people with gender dysphoria lacked scientific evidence and expressing concern about…
U.S. Prosecutors Accuse Large Insurers of Paying Kickbacks for Private Medicare Plans
The Justice Department on Thursday accused three of the nation’s largest health insurers of paying hundreds of millions of dollars in illegal kickbacks over several years to insurance brokers that…
Family of 8-Year-Old Migrant Girl Who Died in U.S. Custody Seeks $15 Million
The death of an 8-year-old migrant girl in 2023 while she was in the custody of U.S. Customs and Border Protection prompted investigations and the removal of the agency’s chief…
Apple’s Quarterly Earnings Tops Wall Street Expectations With $24.78 Billion Profit
Apple built its business by innovating. But lately, it’s been leaning on diplomacy. Tim Cook, Apple’s chief executive, recently scored exemptions from tariffs on exports of Chinese-made iPhones. The maneuver…
Friday Briefing: A White House Shake-Up
Trump removed his national security adviser President Trump announced yesterday that he was removing his national security adviser, Michael Waltz, naming Secretary of State Marco Rubio as his interim replacement.…
Overlooked No More: Joyce Brown, Whose Struggle Redefined the Rights of the Homeless
This article is part of Overlooked, a series of obituaries about remarkable people whose deaths, beginning in 1851, went unreported in The Times. Joyce Brown’s New York minute lasted longer…
Kennedy Issues Demands for Vaccine Approvals That Could Affect Fall Covid Boosters
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Thursday announced plans to require all new vaccines to be tested against placebos and to develop new vaccines without using mRNA technology, moves…
‘The Narrow Road to the Deep North’ Is a Brutal but Poetic War Drama
Jacob Elordi stars in the brutalizing five-part Australian mini-series “The Narrow Road to the Deep North,” available on Amazon Prime Video. The show is based on the novel by Richard…