University of Arkansas Withdraws Job Offer for Emily Suski Over Transgender Stance

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15 janvier 2026 à 23:37

The University of Arkansas withdrew a job offer to a legal scholar after state officials learned that she had signed a legal brief concerning transgender athletes, lawmakers said.

The University of Arkansas came under political pressure to rescind the choice, state lawmakers said.

U.S. Forces Seize Sixth Oil Tanker Linked to Venezuela

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Par :Christiaan Triebert · Nicholas Nehamas and John Ismay

15 janvier 2026 à 23:26

The Coast Guard boarded and seized the Russian-flagged tanker, originally named Veronica, in a pre-dawn operation in the Caribbean Sea.

An image from video released by the U.S. military showing the oil tanker Galileo, previously named Veronica, in the Caribbean on Thursday.

Italian Court Closes Fraud Case Against Influencer Chiara Ferragni

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Par :Josephine de La Bruyère and Isabella Kwai

15 janvier 2026 à 22:48

A judge dropped the case against Ms. Ferragni, who had been embroiled in a scandal over sales of a limited edition Christmas cake marketed as supporting cancer treatment.

Chiara Ferragni arriving at the Milan Courthouse on Wednesday. A judge dismissed the fraud case against the influencer, but prosecutors could still consider an appeal.

Nick Reiner Was in a Mental Health Conservatorship in 2020

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Par :Tim Arango · Julia Jacobs · Ellen Barry and Matt Stevens

15 janvier 2026 à 21:43

Mr. Reiner, who is accused of killing his parents, was under a yearlong legal arrangement that allows for involuntary psychiatric treatment.

Nick Reiner was charged with two counts of first-degree murder. The mental health challenges he faced in recent years are likely to be central to his legal defense.

None of Mamdani’s Deputy Mayors Are Black. It Has Become a Problem.

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Par :Jeffery C. Mays

15 janvier 2026 à 21:27

Some Black and Latino leaders worry they are being denied access to power under Mayor Zohran Mamdani and that they may lose the ground they had gained under former Mayor Eric Adams.

Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Thursday announced Afua Atta-Mensah, who led his campaign outreach to Black voters, as the director of the Mayor’s Office of Equity and Racial Justice.

Big Plan for Fannie and Freddie I.P.O. in Flux as Trump Pushes Affordability

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Par :Matthew Goldstein and Lauren Hirsch

15 janvier 2026 à 21:13

Six months after President Trump told Wall Street banks to prepare a swift stock offering, there is no firm plan for how to take the giant mortgage firms public.

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were taken over by the federal government during the 2008 financial crisis, but their status after a planned I.P.O. remains unclear.

Jim Hartung, Gymnast Who Helped Deliver U.S. Gold, Dies at 65

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Par :Jeré Longman

15 janvier 2026 à 20:49

In an upset victory over China at the 1984 Olympics, he and five others became the only American men ever to win the gold medal in the gymnastics team competition.

Hartung during his floor exercise at the 1984 Games. The American men’s team victory was so surprising that the team’s coach compared it to the United States hockey team’s “Miracle on Ice” victory at the Winter Olympics four years earlier.

Nydia Velázquez Gives Mamdani a Warning as She Endorses a Successor

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Par :Nicholas Fandos

15 janvier 2026 à 22:27

The veteran congresswoman said she would like Antonio Reynoso, the Brooklyn borough president, to replace her after she retires. She also said the mayor should stay out of political races.

Representative Nydia M. Velázquez was an early backer of Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s campaign.

Mamdani’s Consumer Protection Commissioner Vows More Aggressive Action

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Par :Matthew Haag

15 janvier 2026 à 20:26

“I want to be very public that there’s a new cop on the beat,” said Samuel Levine, the new commissioner of New York City’s Department of Consumer and Worker Protection.

Samuel Levine was previously the director of the Federal Trade Commission’s Bureau of Consumer Protection in the Biden administration.

Abolish ICE? It’s a Slogan Some Democratic Critics of ICE Would Abolish.

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Par :Jennifer Medina

15 janvier 2026 à 16:07

As Democrats grow more alarmed about the Trump administration’s aggressive immigration raids in American cities, some worry that calls to eliminate the agency will distract from efforts to rein it in.

Some Democrats who are critical of the Trump administration’s immigration raids in cities across the nation are urging the party not to embrace calls to “Abolish ICE.”

2 Polling Experts on How the ICE Shooting Is More Trouble for Trump

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Par :Kristen Soltis Anderson · Nate Silver and John Guida

15 janvier 2026 à 14:15

The general sense of the world being chaotic does not necessarily help Trump.

Alexander Brothers Accuser Was Found Dead Last Year, Authorities Say

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Par :Debra Kamin

15 janvier 2026 à 20:34

The death of Kate Whiteman, whose accusation of sexual assault against Oren and Alon Alexander opened a floodgate of similar allegations, is under investigation.

Alon Alexander, right, and his twin brother, Oren, left, in court in December 2024. Kate Whiteman accused them of sexually assaulting her in 2012.

Inside an ICE Confrontation in Minneapolis

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Par :David Guttenfelder · Todd Heisler · Christina Shaman · Sutton Raphael · Laura Salaberry · Coleman Lowndes and Thomas Vollkommer

15 janvier 2026 à 17:45

Our visual journalists David Guttenfelder and Todd Heisler describe a dramatic incident in which federal agents dragged a woman out of her car in Minneapolis near where Renee Nicole Good had been killed days before.

Trump Outlines Health Care Proposals as Prices and Premiums Rise

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Par :Luke Broadwater · Rebecca Robbins · Margot Sanger-Katz and Michael Gold

15 janvier 2026 à 19:00

The long-awaited plan would leave much to Congress and calls for payments to health savings accounts rather than insurance subsidies, among other broad proposals.

President Trump released a video promoting what he calls “the great health care plan.”

The Judge in the Maduro Case Is 92. All Eyes Will Be on His Stamina.

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Par :Santul Nerkar

15 janvier 2026 à 18:44

Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein was seen drifting in and out of sleep in court last year. The case of Nicolás Maduro, the Venezuelan leader, will test his endurance.

Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein was appointed by President Bill Clinton in 1998.

Weather Detours a Scientific Expedition to Antarctica’s Thwaites Glacier

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Par :Raymond Zhong

15 janvier 2026 à 18:12

Bad weather has postponed attempts to set up camp on the Thwaites Glacier. So researchers got onto the sea ice and met a local.

Why Israel Is Wary of Intervening in Iran

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Par :David M. Halbfinger

15 janvier 2026 à 19:24

Israel is unlikely to do much to try to precipitate a regime change in Iran, seeing the government as far from the brink of collapse and the current protests as insufficient to push it to that point.

A photograph posted on social media showing a protest in Tehran last week.

‘Hell’s Kitchen’ Will End Broadway Run and Open Overseas

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Par :Michael Paulson

15 janvier 2026 à 17:30

Though the show will close in New York next month, a North American tour will continue, and productions in Australia, Germany and South Korea are planned.

“Hell’s Kitchen,” which won two Tonys and a Grammy, will conclude its Broadway run on Feb. 22.

The Truth About Weight-Loss Drugs Like Ozempic: You Probably Need Them Forever

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Par :Dani Blum

15 janvier 2026 à 17:10

Many people who use these medications don’t want to stay on them long term. But research has repeatedly shown that quitting the drugs means gaining back weight.

The Priest, the Financier and the $10 Millon Townhouse

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Par :Ginia Bellafante

15 janvier 2026 à 22:08

When a pastor learned his childhood home might undergo a glow-up, he saw his beloved Brooklyn further receding — and took to a different kind of pulpit.

The home in question, a modernist townhouse in Brooklyn Heights designed by Mary and Joseph Merz.

Under Trump, a Shift Toward ‘Absolute Immunity’ for ICE

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Par :Hamed Aleaziz and Nicholas Nehamas

15 janvier 2026 à 16:56

Since the fatal shooting of Renee Good in Minneapolis, administration officials have defended the use of deadly force, which agency guidelines say should be a last resort.

Newly recruited Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents at a training center last year. President Trump and administration officials have given tacit approval for more aggressive tactics by the agency.

Something Is Rotten in the State of America

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Par :David French

15 janvier 2026 à 19:57

This is the thanks Denmark gets?

For the World’s Food Supply, Federal Funding Cuts Have Long-Term Impacts

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Par :Ted Alcorn

15 janvier 2026 à 17:07

The U.S. Agency for International Development has been a major supporter of global agriculture research. Now many studies are being scuttled or scaled back.

Brian Diers was employed by the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign soybean “innovation lab” before it was shuttered. Now he works with soybean plants on a volunteer basis.

Coinbase, the Biggest U.S. Crypto Company, Asserts Its Power in Washington

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Par :David Yaffe-Bellany

15 janvier 2026 à 20:00

The top executive of the crypto exchange Coinbase scuttled a planned Senate committee vote on a major cryptocurrency bill after voicing his concerns, a sign of the company’s clout.

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