The New York Times

THE NEW YORK TIMES: A US federal judge has issued a decision on the Justice Department’s request to unseal grand jury transcripts related to the case of Jeffrey Epstein’s longtime companion, Ghislaine Maxwell.

THE NEW YORK TIMES: President Donald Trump is destroying trust in public institutions, and there’s a reason for that.

THE NEW YORK TIMES: The shorter route saves over two weeks of travel time, but it has left shipping analysts making one bold assumption.

THE NEW YORK TIMES: ‘Ukrainians will not gift their land to the occupier’.

THE NEW YORK TIMES: Israel’s own military — the same military that is expected to carry out a directive to take control of a war-torn Gaza City — are sceptical of Benjamin Netanyahu’s plan

THE NEW YORK TIMES: Donald Trump has secretly signed a directive to the Pentagon to begin using military force against Latin American drug cartels that his administration deems terrorist organisations.

THE NEW YORK TIMES: A gunman who believed the coronavirus vaccine was to blame for his ailments opened fire outside the headquarters of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, killing a police officer.

THE NEW YORK TIMES: After a soccer player stood under an umbrella held by a woman, the event went viral, and gender roles were at the heart of the debate.

THE NEW YORK TIMES: The nations with some of the highest standards of living are seeing the greatest declines in well-being.

THE NEW YORK TIMES: The American trade deficit with China, once the largest American deficit with any country, shrank to its narrowest in decades.

THE NEW YORK TIMES: The US Supreme Court will likely repeal a law that was viewed as the cornerstone of democracy by many. Its efforts are in line with Donald Trump’s broad expansion of executive power.

THE NEW YORK TIMES: There are laws against gender-based violence in Pakistan, but killings like these often go unreported or unpunished, as tribal code trumps civil law in vast swathes of the country.

THE NEW YORK TIMES: Experts say AI companions have the potential to help keep the brain active and alleviate loneliness in dementia patients, and to reduce some of the burden on caregivers. But there are risks.

NEW YORK TIMES: Ghislaine Maxwell, the longtime companion of Jeffrey Epstein, asked a federal judge to deny the government’s request to unseal grand jury transcripts from its investigation of the two.

THE NEW YORK TIMES: Oslo wants to parlay the skills of the petroleum industry and its favourable geology into a kind of garbage disposal service for emissions from heavy industry.