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November 13, 2025
President Donald Trump speaks beside Air Force One.
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THE DAILY

Epstein’s Trump Emails

David Enrich and Michael Gold, who have been covering the story, explain what the new documents tell us.

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THE INTERVIEW

Fox News Wanted Greg Gutfeld to Do This Interview. He Wasn’t So Sure.

David Marchese sits with the pugnacious conservative late-night host to discuss his “hierarchy of smears” and the risks of being a scold.

Leah Stavenhagen wears a pink and white floral patterned blouse and sits in a wheelchair, having her makeup done. A tube-like device is attached to her nose.
Leah Stavenhagen, now 32, started Her A.L.S. Story in 2021, two years after she herself was diagnosed with A.L.S., because she wanted to connect with other young women with the disease. A BiPAP machine helps her breathe. Lucy Lu for The New York Times

REPORTER READS

The Young Women Grappling With an ‘Old Man’s Disease’

Roni Caryn Rabin visits an annual retreat where women with A.L.S. share stories, tequila and dark humor.

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THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE

More Teens Are Taking Antidepressants. It Could Disrupt Their Sex Lives for Years.

Research on adults who take S.S.R.I.s shows they tamp down sexual desire. Why aren’t we studying what that could mean for adolescents who take them?

Two hands fight over a bill
Illustration by Brian Rea

MODERN LOVE

On Our Third Date, I Asked for a Joint Bank Account

Splitting the bill felt awkward. Paying it herself was getting expensive. The writer Janene Lin had a different idea.

Valentino Luchin in a restaurant kitchen. He has a goatee and is wearing glasses and a navy blue chef’s coat.

REPORTER READS

The Celebrated Chef Who Robbed Banks

Corina Knoll unspools how Valentino Luchin went from acclaimed restaurant owner to inmate.

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THE OPINIONS

Africa Is Rising. The World Shouldn’t Turn Its Back.

Lydia Polgreen speaks to the former Times bureau chief Howard W. French about the cost of not engaging with Africa.

In March, the U.S. government sent more than 200 Venezuelan men to a maximum-security prison in El Salvador. Adriana Loureiro Fernandez for The New York Times

REPORTER READS

‘You Are All Terrorists’: Four Months in a Salvadoran Prison

The Times interviewed dozens of migrant men sent to a prison in El Salvador by the Trump administration.

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CANNONBALL WITH WESLEY MORRIS

Where Have All the Covers Gone?

Beyoncé did “Jolene.” But pop music has mostly abandoned the art of covering other people’s music. Wesley and the Grammy-nominated jazz singer Cécile McLorin Salvant discuss.

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REPORTER READS

What Does ‘6-7’ Mean? Maybe Tweens Don’t Want You to Know.

Everyone wants to understand the generation below them. Can young people rebuff those efforts by being completely absurd?

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