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08/18/2026   New York Times Top News
Yields on the 30-year U.S. Treasury and government bonds across the world rose to multiyear highs as investors fret about inflation, deficits and A.I. spending.
08/18/2026   New York Times Top News
Storage tanks at an oil refinery, in Yokohama, Kanagawa, in Japan in April.
08/18/2026   New York Times Top News
Hayden Panettiere with Jay Leno in 1996, when she was a 7-year-old actress.
08/18/2026   New York Times Top News
During the trial, to be held in the U.S. District Court of Oakland, Calif., four states are expected to argue that Meta violated federal child privacy and state consumer protection laws.
08/18/2026   New York Times Top News
Florida has leaned to the right in recent elections.
08/18/2026   New York Times Top News
For years, doctors were stumped about why Jeff Will was having episodes of forgetting things and staring vacantly. It took the epilepsy experts to figure it out.
08/18/2026   New York Times Top News
The defunct Abu al-Duhur air base in northwestern Syria on Tuesday. Control of the facility changed several times during the nearly 14-year civil war that ended in 2024.
08/18/2026   New York Times Top News
The consequences of A.I. for the budget will largely hinge on whether — and to what extent — the technology reshapes the labor market.
08/18/2026   New York Times Top News
Joseph Pascaretta on a first date, investing in his future.
08/18/2026   New York Times Top News
The Texas Tech campus in Lubbock is in a right-leaning part of the state. Its leader is trying to clamp down on teaching about gender and sexuality.
08/18/2026   New York Times Top News
Vessels near the Strait of Hormuz, as seen from Musandam, Oman, on Monday. Traffic through the strait has dwindled since the conflict began.
08/18/2026   New York Times Top News
Dan Sullivan, a retired schoolteacher from tiny Petersburg, Alaska, shares a name with the incumbent senator he hopes to defeat. Is he a spoiler trying to divide the Republican vote? We traveled to Alaska to find out.
08/18/2026   New York Times Top News
A reworking of the spacecraft’s power systems could extend the nearly 50-year-old Voyagers’ exploration of interstellar space into the early 2030s.
08/18/2026   New York Times Top News
Cutting sugar cane on a plantation in the Dominican Republic in 2023. Concerns over forced labor and human rights abuses in the Dominican sugar sector have existed for decades.
08/18/2026   New York Times Top News
The Gordie Howe International Bridge, connecting Windsor, Ontario, and Detroit, on the day after it opened last month. President Trump had threatened to block the bridge’s opening.
08/18/2026   New York Times Top News
Meena Geltink and Minal Tijssen were adopted from India by families in the Netherlands and grew up less than 100 miles apart.
08/18/2026   New York Times Top News
Google has updated Gmail’s policy to allow political committees to more easily bypass its spam filter when sending emails for donations, allowing more political ads to land in inboxes.
08/18/2026   New York Times Top News
We aren’t the only animals that like to take care of other species. A new study finds that the roots of keeping a pet may stretch deep into our primate past.
08/18/2026   New York Times Top News
The power grid relies on thousands of aging, hand-built transformers. If enough fail, the blackout could last years.
08/18/2026   New York Times Top News
An ABC News reporter prepares to broadcast from outside the New York Stock Exchange.