NYT
- How Stablecoins Can Help Criminals Launder Money and Evade Sanctionsby Aaron Krolik on 07/12/2025 at 18:07
Through layers of intermediaries, stablecoins can be moved, swapped and mixed into pools of other funds in ways that are difficult to trace, experts say.
- Bessent Divested From Soybean Farms After Ethics Office Warningby Alan Rappeport on 07/12/2025 at 17:39
The Treasury Secretary said on Sunday he recently shed his holdings to comply with his federal ethics agreement.
- This Nebraska Prison Rehabilitated Inmates. Until ICE Paid to Fill It With Immigrants.by Allison McCann and Cheney Orr on 07/12/2025 at 17:09
Over two decades, a minimum-security prison aimed at helping inmates prepare to leave prison was a point of civic pride. Now, state officials have converted it to ICE detention.
- Presidential Power Gets Tested Before Supreme Court After Long Conservative Project to Shrink Agenciesby Ann E. Marimow on 07/12/2025 at 16:56
President Trump has repeatedly ousted leaders of independent agencies despite federal laws meant to shield those regulators from politics.
- Benin Coup Attempt to Oust Talon Has Been Foiled, Interior Minister Saysby Amelia Nierenberg and Saikou Jammeh on 07/12/2025 at 15:27
The country’s interior minister said the situation was under control after a “small group of soldiers launched a mutiny,” but the president had yet to make a public statement.
- Your Gift Dilemmas, Solvedby Hannah Morrill on 07/12/2025 at 12:59
An expert from Wirecutter helps Morning readers with their trickiest holiday gift searches.
- Judge Stalls Justice Dept. Effort to Seek New Comey Indictmentby Alan Feuer on 07/12/2025 at 12:34
The judge’s decision prevented the government until at least next Friday from having access to much of the evidence it used to secure its original indictment against Mr. Comey.
- Hong Kong Holds Vote as Officials Move Against ‘Anti-China’ Elementsby David Pierson on 07/12/2025 at 11:03
The government is pushing hard to raise turnout in an election overshadowed by a deadly fire and public anger over safety lapses and official accountability.
- What Do Republicans Have to Fear? Ask Tennessee.by David French on 07/12/2025 at 11:00
What a special House election just told us.
- The Crucial Lesson of a Forgotten Nixon-Era Episodeby Dan Sturman on 07/12/2025 at 11:00
After my father-in-law died, we found something interesting in his files.
- Superpower Competition: The Missing Chapter in Trump’s Security Strategyby David E. Sanger on 07/12/2025 at 10:02
President Trump is shifting from discussion of the long-lasting competition among the world’s biggest economies and nuclear powers.
- For Landmark Test of Executive Power, Echoes of a 1930s Supreme Court Battleby Abbie VanSickle on 07/12/2025 at 10:02
Franklin D. Roosevelt’s efforts to oust a Federal Trade Commission leader offer parallels to the current fight over President Trump’s actions.
- 4 Takeaways From The Times’s Reporting on Biden’s Immigration Recordby Christopher Flavelle on 07/12/2025 at 10:01
A New York Times review of President Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s actions on immigration showed that they created an opening for a more aggressive Trump administration agenda.
- A Small Illinois City at the Center of a Seismic Shift in Abortion Accessby Elizabeth Williamson and Julia Rendleman on 07/12/2025 at 10:00
Carbondale, Ill., a liberal enclave within driving distance of 10 states with abortion bans, has become a hub for the procedure. Last year there were nearly 11,000 abortions in this city of 21,000.
- How Biden Ignored Warnings and Lost Americans’ Faith in Immigrationby Christopher Flavelle on 07/12/2025 at 10:00
The Democratic president and his top advisers rejected recommendations that could have eased the border crisis that helped return Donald Trump to the White House.
- The Married Scientists Torn Apart by a Covid Bioweapon Theoryby Katie J.M. Baker on 07/12/2025 at 10:00
In 2020, a Chinese virologist fled to the United States, aided by allies of President Trump who sought to promote her unproven theories about the origins of Covid-19. Her husband still can’t find her.
- In Brazil’s Answer to Hollywood, Dreams and Drought Share the Stageby Ana Ionova and Dado Galdieri on 07/12/2025 at 08:00
A dusty town in the parched northeast has become the nation’s show business destination. But climate change and technology are posing new challenges there.














