timef 12/20/2025
- From A.I. to Tariffs, 14 Charts That Explain 2025 nytimes.com2025-12-20 21:00:04
President Trump’s trade policy, inflation and climbing stock prices shaped business and the economy this year.
- How to Watch the Ursids Winter Solstice Meteor Shower nytimes.com2025-12-20 18:02:21
The Ursids this weekend are a winter solstice light show.
- Why Middle-Class Americans Say Life Is Unaffordable nytimes.com2025-12-20 18:00:54
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.
- How to Stop Supporting Your Adult Kids When You’re Retired nytimes.com2025-12-20 18:00:42
In trying to help grown children, parents can hurt their own retirement security. Here’s how to stop the flow of money.
- U.S. and Venezuela Jam Caribbean GPS Signals to Thwart Attacks, Raising Flight Hazard nytimes.com2025-12-20 18:00:36
Military brinkmanship between President Trump and Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela has led to an increase in electronic warfare in the region.
- Elon Musk’s 2018 Tesla Pay Deal Is Restored by Delaware Supreme Court nytimes.com2025-12-20 06:00:05
A lower-court judge had invalidated the package, saying shareholders had not been properly informed about the plan. Friday’s ruling means the pay deal, worth about $139 billion now, can proceed.
- N.B.A. Tweaks Its Rules to Thwart Sports Betting Cheats nytimes.com2025-12-20 05:32:59
The basketball league will require teams to submit injury reports closer to tipoff, an attempt to close one source of inside information.
- Controversial Dakota Pipeline Gets a Big, Belated Government Boost nytimes.com2025-12-20 04:37:07
A delayed environmental review cleared the Dakota Access Pipeline to continue operating. Separately, a North Dakota judge expressed unusual exasperation over the tangled legal battles.
- Suspect in MIT Professor’s Death Was an Ex-Classmate from Portugal, Prosecutors Say nytimes.com2025-12-20 04:07:19
Nuno F.G. Loureiro, the professor, and the man suspected in his killing attended the same physics program in Portugal during the 1990s.
- The Meek Really Did Inherit the Earth, at Least Among Ants nytimes.com2025-12-20 03:00:07
How did ants take over the world? The answer may be skin deep.
- Real or Fake? There’s a War Over Christmas … Trees. nytimes.com2025-12-20 02:46:14
Tree farmers and the marketing group that supports them want more Americans to buy live-cut trees. A new Home Depot ad gave them holiday hope.
- Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern Try Making Their Case for a Merger nytimes.com2025-12-20 02:01:31
Regulators will decide whether a merger of Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern would improve shipment times or stifle competition. A decision is expected in 2027.
- Museum of the Earth and Its Fossil Collection Fight Their Own Extinction nytimes.com2025-12-20 01:44:03
A funding crisis at the Museum of the Earth and the Paleontological Research Institution in Ithaca, N.Y., could scatter priceless specimens and end nearly a century of pioneering research.
- A Somber Mood at Science Meeting as Trump Budget Cuts Continue nytimes.com2025-12-20 01:21:49
News of the breakup of a leading science institution rippled through an annual gathering of Earth, ocean and space scientists. Many say American science is suffering under the Trump administration.
- Trump Media Merger With Nuclear Fusion Firm Raises Ethics Questions nytimes.com2025-12-20 00:58:37
Trump Media plans to merge with a company developing nuclear fusion technology, putting the president’s financial interests in competition with other energy companies over which his administration holds sway.
