The New York Times

A ramp agent loads bags into a plane’s cargo hold at LaGuardia Airport.

The hidden journey your luggage takes from check-in to plane

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.

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Lucy Letby: A jury found the baby-killer nurse was the face of evil. Could they have been wrong?

One doctor’s quest for the truth about convicted baby killer

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.

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Elon Musk is set to be briefed on top-secret United States-China war plans.

Pentagon to brief Musk on top-secret China war plan

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.

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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.

Trump has gone from unconstitutional to anti-constitutional

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.

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Thomas L. Friedman: The rule of law is in danger in both America and Israel if some red lines are not drawn and defended right now.

Democracy is on the line in Israel and America

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?

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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.

China unveils stimulus plans in fight against Trump tariffs

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?

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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.

Five years on ghosts of a COVID-19 pandemic still haunt us

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.

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THE NEW YORK TIMES: Have Elon Musk and Donald Trump got the US embroiled in a constitutional crisis?

Have Musk, Trump got US embroiled in constitutional crisis?

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

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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?

What will happen now that the US is surrounded by enemies?

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?

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Kezzie Childs(left), and her daughter Rita. Elijah Childs and Raymond Childs, 42(right).

US man who killed five family members gets 360-year sentence

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.

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THE NEW YORK TIMES: Four years of Trump’s zigzagging strategies on Ukraine, tariffs & more will not work.

Four years of Trump’s zigzagging strategies will not work

THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN: If you are confused by President Donald Trump’s zigzagging strategies on Ukraine, tariffs, microchips or a host of other issues, it is not your fault. It’s his. 

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President Donald Trump.

The surprising thing that could be Donald Trump’s undoing

NICHOLAS KRISTOF: If there are Martian scholars examining the United States right now, they might be puzzling over the great Trump paradox.

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What does US President Trump want?

‘Domination’: Trump’s strategy working as his ultimate cover

Donald Trump has long dealt in distortions and lies, including in his first term. Now, as he executes a much more aggressive agenda, his contradictions have become more brazen and his plan may be working.

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The pressing question is whether the EU, with its consensus-focused, clunky structure, can adapt itself quickly enough to ensure that Europe doesn’t get left behind as President Donald Trump rapidly changes the global order.

Europe races to craft a Trump-era plan for Ukraine & defence

THE NEW YORK TIMES: European leaders find themselves plunged into a hostile new era of less cooperation from the United States, a greater threat from Russia, and an increasingly uncertain outlook for Ukraine.

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President Donald Trump and President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine during their meeting in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Feb. 28, 2025.

Is Donald Trump hiding something on Ukraine?

THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN: Whenever President Donald Trump talks about Ukraine there is always something off, something missing, that makes you wonder what he is really up to.

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