The New York Times

THE NEW YORK TIMES: It is a fool’s errand to try to rationalise President Donald Trump’s obsession with tariffs. This is not to say that people haven’t tried.

QUESTION: My friend won’t speak to me after I blabbed about her secret Lover. How do I win her trust back?

THE NEW YORK TIMES: It’s widely known that during his first term, the so-called adults in the room thwarted some of Trump’s most destructive whims. There have been far fewer such figures in the Trump sequel.

There are two related theories of what Donald Trump’s dramatic revision of the global trade system is intended to accomplish.

They’ve long been the subject of science fiction movies, but humanoid robots that can help with chores around the house are here — and they’re getting smarter every day.

Checking a bag is an exercise in trust and one that involves a significant amount of human effort. Here’s the journey your luggage takes before it gets to your plane.

THE NEW YORK TIMES: A doctor whose academic paper was used to help convict Lucy Letby of murder says his work was misinterpreted by an expert witness. He’s now searching for the truth.

The Pentagon is preparing to brief US President Donald Trump’s right-hand man, DOGE leader Elon Musk, on a 20-30 page top-secret military plan for war with China.

JAMELLE BOUIE: Donald Trump is clearly not restrained by the Constitution. He’s also not restrained by another important element of constitutionalism — an interest in and concern for the future.

THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN: Are we seeing the slow-motion collapse of the rule of law in the United States and Israel at the same time?

The Chinese Government has issued a lengthy stimulus plan, in yet another move by Beijing to offset potential harm from its escalating economic war with the US. But will it be enough?

THE NEW YORK TIMES: The coronavirus pandemic can seem so safely submerged in the past that we sometimes have to stop and ask ourselves: Did that really happen? It did.

THE NEW YORK TIMES: The question of the day is whether the United States is embroiled in a constitutional crisis.

THE NEW YORK TIMES: President Donald Trump does not seem to notice or care that if you betray people, or jerk them around, they will revile you. So what’s going to happen?

A 21-year-old US man who fatally shot four family members and a brother’s pregnant girlfriend in 2021, after his father reprimanded him for staying out late, has been sentenced to 360 years in prison.