The New York Times

Video
President Donald Trump during a campaign rally in Dubuque, Iowa, on November 1, 2026.

Republicans turn on Trump after election wipeout

While the president was quick to lay blame for the election drubbing, his party was soon pointing the finger back at him.

Updated
Read more (5 min) →
Video
US Senator-elect James Talarico (D-TX) speaks during a midterm election night event at the Long Center for the Performing Arts on November 03, 2026 in Austin, Texas.

How the mid-terms’ blue wave became a red wipeout

Republicans lost control of the House and Senate as voters offered a stinging rebuke to President Trump’s agenda.

Updated
Read more (6 min) →
Video
Oregon Democrat Tina Kotek speaks at a rally in November 2022.

Endangered Democratic governor wins re-election in Oregon

Governor Tina Kotek, one of the few endangered Democratic incumbents, rode the mid-terms’ nationwide Blue wave back into office in Oregon.

Updated
Read more (1 min) →

Sign up to The Nightly's newsletters.

Get the first look at the digital newspaper, curated daily stories and breaking headlines delivered to your inbox.

Email Us
By continuing you agree to our Terms and Privacy Policy.
Video
President Donald Trump attends a campaign rally in Dubuque, Iowa, Nov. 1, 2026. President Trump said Tuesday night, Nov. 3, 2026, that he would accept the results of the midterm elections and was prepared to work with Democrats. (Doug Mills/The New York Times)

‘Work something out’: Trump vows to accept election results

In his short conversation with the New York Times, the President sounded subdued as he absorbed the decisive Democratic wins across the country.

Updated
Read more (6 min) →
 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is in a struggle to remain in power.

Israel’s covert chemical weapons warning splits US officials

Israel has shared intelligence claiming Iran is considering using chemical weapons against its foes.

Updated
Read more (5 min) →
In Black Doves, Knightley plays a spy-for-hire married to a British prime minister.

Keira Knightley knows the spying game

THE NEW YORK TIMES: Once the victim of paparazzi stalking and tabloid phone hacks, the actor is starring in two projects that deal explicitly with surveillance.

Updated
Read more (7 min) →
Video
Donald Trump and Xi Jinping.

Beijing’s plan to make the world dependent on China

Beijing is quietly tightening its grip on technologies the world relies on, and Xi Jinping’s latest power play could have enormous consequences for the West.

Updated
Read more (6 min) →
Three customers and two workers at a Chili's Grill & Bar suffered chemical burns after drinking margaritas laced with degreaser.

Margaritas rimmed with degreaser burn five patrons at bar

Three customers and two employees were burned on and around their mouths after a granulated substance was mistaken for sugar, a health official said.

Updated
Read more (2 min) →
Michigan Democrats have been baffled by Hayley Stevens’ lacklustre support for Abdul El-Sayed in the general election campaign.

Staff quit amid poll turmoil after Democrat backs Republican

Republicans have secured an unexpected boost in Michigan, with an endorsement from a prominent Democrat,

Updated
Read more (3 min) →
Video
 Stewart found acclaim as a Shakespearean actor before making an unlikely career pivot in middle age.

How Shakespeare actor became a huge TV star

THE NEW YORK TIMES: Long before he became Captain Picard, Patrick Stewart was a working-class Yorkshire boy whose talent, determination and grit carried him to the heights of theatre and then Hollywood.

Updated
Read more (9 min) →
Video
Jensen Huang, the chief executive of Nvidia, takes questions from reporters at an Nvidia conference in San Jose, California March 17, 2026.

Nvidia chief Jensen Huang seen as target of Chinese spy plot

A Chinese businesswoman who had a close relationship with Jensen Huang was found to be passing intelligence to Beijing. President Trump was briefed and took no action.

Updated
Read more (10 min) →
Benjamin Netanyahu sought for weeks to orchestrate a new air strike on Iran but ran into resistance from the military.

Israeli military warned Bibi against pre-poll Iran strike

THE NEW YORK TIMES: Benjamin Netanyahu sought for weeks to orchestrate a new air strike on Iran but ran into resistance from the military’s chief of staff.

Updated
Read more (4 min) →
Video
Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s prime minister, speaks to supporters in the food court of a shopping mall in Holon, Israel, during a campaign visit, on October 13, 2026.

Israeli Jews across the spectrum face an election of fears

Supporters and opponents of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu have expressed intense anxieties about isolation abroad, security at home and the future of Israel’s identity.

Updated
Read more (9 min) →
Video
What began as a student-led protest movement has mutated into something darker.

Hundreds of thousands of French protestors clash with police

What began as a student-led protest movement has mutated into something darker.

Updated
Read more (3 min) →
Video
Mr Netanyahu visited the site of the attacks and said Israel would carry out a major operation

‘High price’: Israel vows retaliation after soldiers killed

Hamas praised the attack Friday as a “heroic operation,” but it stopped short of taking responsibility.

Updated
Read more (4 min) →
Video
North Korea has been installing mines and barriers along the border ‌for more than two years. (EPA PHOTO)

Arms race intensifies as North emboldened by Russia

A rare escalation this month exposed the increasingly lethal arsenals the two Koreas are building up across the world’s most heavily fortified border.

Updated
Read more (6 min) →
US President Donald Trump asked Elon Musk to fully restore Starshield’s satellite network.

Trump asks Musk to restore Ukraine’s crucial internet speed

THE NEW YORK TIMES: US President Donald Trump called Elon Musk last week and asked him to restore Ukraine’s full access to the Starshield satellite communications network.

Updated
Read more (4 min) →
Residents, plantation workers, and security officials gather around a large charred metallic fragment, suspected to be rocket debris, at an oil palm plantation in East Kotawaringin Regency, in Indonesia's Central Kalimantan province. Indonesian authorities were investigating  after a piece of rocket the size of a car crashed into an oil palm plantation on Indonesian Borneo.

Space junk falls from sky in US one day and Borneo the next

The international space race and boom in satellite launches means a serious incident from space debris hitting the earth inevitable.

Updated
Read more (3 min) →