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December 20, 2025, 4:45 p.m. Eastern time

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She Was Discovered on the Subway. Then She Walked a Chanel Runway.

After Bhavitha Mandava appeared in the luxury house’s latest show, she became the most talked-about model of the season. She’s as surprised about it as everyone else.

Woody Allen Is Not Sorry About His Friendship With Jeffrey Epstein

The nonagenarian director is taking a slightly different tack than many of the other powerful people associated with the disgraced former financier.

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To mark the winter holidays — an especially popular time to break up — we asked people around the world for their most striking parting words to each other.

The Meaning of Luigi Mangione’s New Suits

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Economists say that a typical middle-class family today is richer than one in the 1960s. Americans in their 20s and 30s don’t believe it.

Slain M.I.T. Professor Was a ‘Brilliant Scientist’ and a Beloved Colleague

Nuno Loureiro, 47, was killed by an old classmate who was on the run from a shooting at Brown University, the authorities said.

Elise Stefanik Tried Everything to Please Trump. He Still Jilted Her.

The G.O.P. congresswoman who ran as a moderate but became an “ultra MAGA” Trump acolyte ultimately found herself undermined by the president and politically adrift.

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With Attacks on Oil Tankers, Ukraine Takes Aim at Russia’s War Financing

Strikes on four vessels signal that Kyiv is willing to expand the maritime theater of the conflict in an effort to crimp Moscow’s military funding.

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