The chief federal judge in Minnesota said ICE had disobeyed more judicial directives in January alone than “some federal agencies have violated in their entire existence.” www.nytimes.com/2026/01/28/u...

"You don’t come here for friendships, not in this arena. This is competitive bridge. I would say about 70 percent of the people out there are playing with people who are like pros. If you want a friend, go to church. You ain’t going to find no friends here!" www.curbed.com/article/hono....

At the start of the year, I did a 🧵 of all The Great Reads that Metro published last year. In the interests of not overwhelming people's timelines, I'm going to start the thread today and add to it through the end of the year. Here's one from Corey Kilgannon from January.

The suit argues that the DOD's new policy violated the First Amendment and “seeks to restrict journalists’ ability to do what journalists have always done — ask questions of government employees and gather information to report stories that take the public beyond official pronouncements.”

"As children, they watched their parents work double shifts and multiple jobs. As adults, they gave their parents a version of the American dream." www.nytimes.com/2025/12/01/r...

Net migration to Britain has fallen by almost 80% from its 2023 peak, according to data released on Thursday.

Cleaning Woman Killed Through Door After Arriving at Wrong Home, Police Say www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/u...

Europeans recognize Zohran Mamdani’s supposedly radical policies as ‘normal’ www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Courtney Williams, a Minnesota Lynx all-star, wears sneakers made by Moolah Kicks, a relatively new women’s basketball shoe company. She was fined four times by the WNBA for wearing them. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/n...

"In March, Mr. Hatch testified, he formed a 'tiger team,' or a specialized task force, to respond to abrupt orders that he rush analysis on thousands of people whose names and identities had been published by Canary Mission." www.nytimes.com/2025/07/09/u...

Customer charged $195 for A.I.-detected damage: “It could have been a shadow. We were pulling it up on the app, and we’re like, ‘This is so bananas.’” www.nytimes.com/2025/07/09/t...

Protesters in all 50 states marched against President Trump's policies on Saturday as Trump held a military parade in Washington. Read more: https://trib.al/JnBJSdw

“It is clear that the bureau’s current leadership has no intention to enforce the law in any meaningful way,” Ms. Petersen wrote in her farewell email. “While I wish you all the best, I worry for American consumers.” www.nytimes.com/2025/06/10/u...

Gavin Newsom says the president's claim that the two men spoke by phone yesterday is false. Newsom's spokesman told The Times that he had personally looked through the governor's cell phone and that there was “No missed call. No voicemail. Nothing.” www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06...

National Institutes of Health Workers Denounce Trump Administration's ‘Harmful’ Policies In a scathing letter, employees accused the administration of illegally withholding money, endangering study participants and censoring research. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/h...

Top leaders at the Justice Department and the F.B.I. are "running what amounts to a conspiracy theory fulfillment center with unstocked shelves, critics say." www.nytimes.com/2025/06/08/u...

"People making over $500,000 on their latest return were more than twice as likely to be audited compared with the same point in the audit cycle in previous years." www.nytimes.com/2025/06/05/u...

Trump and his family have monetized the White House more than any other occupant, normalizing activities that once would have provoked heavy blowback and official investigations. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/25/u...

Once drawn to the U.S. as a haven, some int'l students find it is not the bedrock of free speech they expected. “That respect in the American system has kind of faded away and been replaced with this bitter animosity." w/ the wonderful @holpuch.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/w...

"When knowledge is threatened, don’t just mourn it. Build around it." www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/o...

The N.S.F. said it was terminating awards that were not in line with its priorities, "including but not limited to awards focused on D.E.I. as well as misinformation and disinformation." www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/s...

"Mr. Prada’s disappearance has created concerns that more immigrants have been deported to El Salvador than previously known. It also raises the question of whether some deportees may have been sent to other countries with no record of it." www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/u...

DHS denied Mahmoud Khalil permission to attend the birth of his first child, who was delivered in New York on Monday, according to emails reviewed by The New York Times. Instead, he experienced the birth of his son by telephone from Jena, La. It is unclear when he will be able to see the baby.

“It’s totally silly,” Dani Rodrik, an economist who studies globalization at Harvard University, said of Mr. Trump’s focus on bilateral deficits. “There’s no other way to say it, it makes no sense.” www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/b...

The Times spoke with demonstrators in cities including Albany, Denver, Atlanta, Chicago, Baltimore and Ketchum, Idaho. Some said it was their first protest ever. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/05/u...

A former U.S.A.I.D. employee said an estimated $27 million worth of family planning products are stuck at places including warehouses and ports with no employees or programs left to unload them or hand them over to governments. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/h...

"Syrians are proud of their rich culinary traditions, but not precious about allowing them to evolve. There are now olives in the fattoush salad. Onions in the shawarma. Parsley in the hummus. And then there is marook." www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/w...

"Physicians at Covenant Children’s Hospital in Lubbock, Texas, say they’ve now treated a handful of unvaccinated children who were given so much vitamin A that they had signs of liver damage." www.nytimes.com/2025/03/25/h...

The Guardian talked to nine Panther cubs across the U.S. "All have shared intimate stories about their exceptional childhoods, born to parents who challenged America’s white establishment in a bid for what they saw as Black self-determination." www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

“Whatever people are reading in newspapers, it’s 10 times worse,” one scientist at the National Institutes of Health said. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/24/h...

"By limiting resources, the cutbacks pare back work meant to prevent problems and to focus efforts on cases in which someone was already hurt or killed, Darin Detwiler, a food safety consultant and associate professor at Northeastern University, said." www.nytimes.com/2025/03/19/h...

“The birds are definitely quieter, there’s less territoriality,” said Ms. McMahon. “There’s a little bit more laying down and resting.” @holpuch.bsky.social in @nytimes.com #penguins #animals

Paddington has the Home for Retired Bears. The New England Aquarium has the Island for Retired Penguins. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/16/s...

A kidney transplant specialist and professor at Brown University’s medical school has been deported from the U.S., even though she had a valid visa and a court order temporarily blocking her expulsion, according to her lawyer and court papers.

Since DOGE first posted its list of canceled contracts, "the total amount of savings that the initiative has claimed from cutting contracts has steadily declined, from $16 billion at first to less than $9 billion now." www.nytimes.com/2025/03/03/u...

Here’s my NYT Books piece on Jaime Hernandez’s “Locas” stories

Last week, DOGE posted an online “wall of receipts,” celebrating how much it had saved by canceling federal contracts. Now it has deleted all of the 5 biggest “savings” on that original list, after NYT and other outlets pointed out errors. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/25/u...

The play that changed my life: Sing Sing’s Clarence Maclin on lessons from Sophocles in prison www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/f...

The podcast company that will release "Heavyweight" expects a full 10-episode season late in 2025 and some "less intensive" episodes in the spring. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/25/b...

Some came with complaints about Elon Musk. Others chided the GOP to push back against President Trump’s moves to trample the constitutional power of Congress. In districts around the U.S. over the past week, Republican lawmakers faced a groundswell of fear and disaffection from constituents.

Inside the Oscar-Nominated Film That No Studio Will Touch www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/m...

What we know about the secretive migrant mission at Guantanamo Bay: The migrants, the mission, the messaging and more. --Many questions are being raised; and we can provide a few answers.

Roughly 350 people, including children, deported by the U.S. have been locked in a hotel in Panama City for nearly a week, while officials ready a camp near the jungle. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/w...

"Critics had long mocked the measure, saying the warnings were so ubiquitous... that they had become largely meaningless in the eyes of shoppers. But the latest study found that companies, more than consumers, may be most influenced by the warnings." www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/c...

Pamela Karlan, a law professor at Stanford, said: “Up until now, while presidents might engage in particular acts that were unconstitutional, I never had the sense that there was a president for whom the Constitution was essentially meaningless.” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/10/u...

"The study was intended to measure how the nation’s lands, water and wildlife are faring, how they are expected to change, and what that means for people." www.nytimes.com/2025/02/10/c...

The top agent at the FBI’s New York field office vowed in a defiant email to his staff to "dig in" after the Trump administration targeted officials involved in the investigations into the Jan. 6 attack — and praised the bureau’s interim leaders for defending its independence.

Deborah Moore, the library’s manager, said that as the stench of burned books filled her nostrils, the feeling was, “Watch us come back from this, because we won’t be beaten.” www.nytimes.com/2025/01/27/w...

New: Two US companies lured cancer patients to a Caribbean island to undergo an unproven medical procedure outside the jurisdiction of American regulators. Then patients began dying. Big NYT investigation from @johncarreyrou.bsky.social 🎁🔗 www.nytimes.com/2025/01/23/b...