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Here Are the Republicans Vying to Replace McCarthy as House Speaker
WASHINGTON — Within hours of Rep. Kevin McCarthy’s removal as speaker of the House, the race among Republicans to succeed him was on. The No. 2 House Republican, Rep. Steve Scalise of Louisiana, has begun working the phones to shore up support for the job, as has a well-known conservative, Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio, the chair of the Judiciary Committee.
A Ransom Note and a Fingerprint: How a Missing 9-Year Old Was Found
It was 4:20 a.m., long before dawn Monday, when a driver approached the house of a missing girl in upstate New York, placing a note in the black mailbox before darting off through a dark spider web of country roads.
A ‘Shadow’ Lending Market in the U.S., Funded by Insurance Premiums
In 2009, as the banking business was on the verge of being reshaped by new regulations in the wake of the great financial crisis, the private equity giant Apollo Global Management found a way to make money off the retirement savings of millions of everyday Americans.
Jailed and Desperate, Immigrants Are Enlisted in Border Crackdown
Several months ago, as a federal judge worked through a docket of smuggling cases in the bustling border city of Laredo, Texas, three people were escorted into the courtroom. Because they were immigrants living in the country without legal permission, the judge explained, they would be sent to jail. But they were not being charged with a crime. Instead, they would be compelled to testify against the people accused of helping them enter the United States.
Eric Adams Thinks His Critics Are Fools and Buffoons. Nothing Personal.
NEW YORK — At a high school in Southeast Queens, not far from where he grew up, Mayor Eric Adams began addressing the crowd at a community conversation. Introductory pleasantries quickly yielded to complaints of indignities the mayor said he has suffered, and he began excoriating his critics, mostly unnamed.
Las Vegas and Its Big, Big Ambitions
LAS VEGAS — It’s just past dusk on the Las Vegas Strip and traffic has come to a standstill. That’s usual for a weekend night, but this is Monday. Round-the-clock construction makes every excursion a dice roll with traffic, and these days everyone seems a loser. I turn right on Sands Avenue, just before the golden tower of the Wynn Las Vegas, and am so stunned by what I see that I join three dozen other cars illegally parked next to the crowded sidewalk. Some people are sitting on the concrete divider to gawk, camera phones pointed toward an otherworldly spectacle: a colossal eye seemingly the size of the Death Star staring down the street at us. The eye is so large and glaring that the neon-lit hotels and casinos are mere shadows.
How a Pricing Change Led to a Revolt by Unity’s Video Game Developers
SAN FRANCISCO — John Riccitiello probably should have seen the outrage coming. A video game industry veteran, Riccitiello is the CEO of Unity Technologies, a company that isn’t a household name but is a fixture for more than 2 million game developers who use its software to power their games.
Who’s Rooting Hardest for a Sam Bankman-Fried Conviction? The Crypto Industry.
SAN FRANCISCO — Travis Kling has spent a lot of time this year focusing on his mental, physical and spiritual health. That has been his coping mechanism since his cryptocurrency firm, Ikigai Asset Management, lost most of its assets from last year’s collapse of the cryptocurrency exchange FTX, where he was a customer.
An Ancient City, Now in Ruins, Struggles to Keep Its Soul
ANTAKYA, Turkey — The businessperson fondly recalled his bakery and cafe in the ancient Turkish city of Antakya, where his staff made bread, cakes and cookies and locals gathered for breakfast, coffee and ice cream.
Maybe in Your Lifetime, People Will Live on the Moon and Then Mars
The moon is a magnet, and it is pulling us back. Half a century ago, the astronauts of Apollo 17 spent three days on that pockmarked orb, whose gravitational pull tugs not just on our oceans but our imaginations. For 75 hours, the astronauts moonwalked in their spacesuits and rode in a lunar rover, with humanity watching on television sets 240,000 miles away. The Apollo program was shuttered after they splashed back down to the Pacific Ocean in December 1972, and since then, the moon has hung, uncharted and empty, a siren in the sky.
Menendez Co-Defendant’s Curious Path From Bad Deals to a Meat Monopoly
Just five years ago, Wael Hana was reeling from a string of bad business deals in New Jersey, having tried to launch a truck stop, an Italian restaurant, a limousine service and other companies without ever hitting it big.
Congress Races to Avoid a Shutdown As House Democrats Help Pass Stopgap Bill
WASHINGTON — Congress rushed on Saturday to avert a government shutdown that was just hours away as the House, in a stunning turnabout, approved a stopgap plan to keep the federal government open into mid-November and sent it to the Senate for quick consideration.
In Texas, Mums Rival Football as the Big Homecoming Attraction
RICHARDSON, Texas — The J.J. Pearce High School homecoming football game was underway on a hot, breezy Friday night. Up in the bleachers, tubas swayed from side to side as if waving hello, and bare backs rippled with red and blue paint that spelled, “Go Mustangs!”
Saturn’s Rings May Have Formed in a Surprisingly Recent Crash of 2 Moons
Try to imagine Saturn without its signature rings. Now picture two large icy moons shifting closer together little by little until — boom. Chaos. What was solid is now fluid. Diamantine shards scatter into the darkness. Many icy fragments tumble close to Saturn, remain there and dance around the gas giant in unison, ultimately forging the heavyweight body’s exquisite discs.
McCarthy’s Temporary Spending Bill Fails to Pass the House
WASHINGTON — Hard-line conservatives on Friday tanked House Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s long-shot bid to pass legislation to avert a government shutdown, in an extraordinary display of defiance that made it all but certain that Congress would miss a midnight deadline Saturday to keep federal funding flowing.
How Gen. Charles Q. Brown Became the Nation’s Highest-Ranking Officer
WASHINGTON — Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr. is known for being steady in a storm. There was the time in 1991 when his F-16 was struck by lightning and he had to eject into the alligator-infested Everglades, earning the call sign “Swamp Thang.” The time in 2020, just days before his Senate confirmation vote to be Air Force chief, when he spoke quietly but forcefully in a video of the many African Americans who have suffered the same fate as George Floyd.
Battling a Water Crisis: Bottles, Barges and Maybe a Quarter-Billion-Dollar Pipe
People in New Orleans are used to preparing for hurricanes and floods. So when they learned of a new threat — an infusion of salty water creeping slowly up the Mississippi River, threatening municipal drinking water supplies — they did what comes naturally: strip bottled water from grocery store shelves.
A Silicon Valley Supergroup Is Coming Together to Create an AI Device
SAN FRANCISCO — Since founding OpenAI in 2015, Sam Altman has spent many days thinking that the company’s generative artificial intelligence products need a new kind of device to succeed. Since leaving Apple in 2019, Jony Ive, the designer behind the iPhone, iPod and MacBook Air, has been considering what the next great computing device could be.
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