↩ Accueil

Vue lecture

A Reddit Post Led to a Breakthrough in the Brown Shooting Investigation

A Reddit user provided information that helped identify Claudio Manuel Neves Valente as not only the suspect in the campus shooting, but also the murder of an M.I.T. professor.

© Christopher Capozziello for The New York Times

A vehicle is loaded onto a tow truck outside the storage facility in Salem, N.H., where the Brown University shooting suspect’s body was found on Thursday.
  •  

What We Know About the Suspect in the Brown and M.I.T. Killings

Officials identified a man from Portugal as the suspect in the deadly shooting at Brown University and the killing of an M.I.T. professor. The police said on Thursday he died from a self-inflicted gunshot.

© Christopher Capozziello for The New York Times

Law enforcement officers outside a storage facility on Hampshire Road in Salem, N.H., on Thursday night.
  •  

Australia Announces Plan to Buy Back Guns in Wake of Bondi Attack

The program is expected to take hundreds of thousands of firearms out of circulation, the prime minister said on Friday.

© Hilary Wardhaugh/Getty Images

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, right, at a news conference in Canberra, Australia, on Friday. He announced a nationwide gun buyback plan on the heels of a deadly mass shooting in Sydney last weekend.
  •  

Trump Administration to Appeal Harvard Funding Case

Facing a deadline to appeal, the Justice Department told the courts late Thursday that it would try to overturn a judge’s ruling in favor of Harvard.

© Sophie Park for The New York Times

The Harvard University campus in Cambridge, Mass.
  •  

Britain Is Preparing for Attacks on Its Soil. Critics Say It Must Move Faster.

As military officials sound the alarm over Russian hybrid attacks, the chair of Parliament’s defense committee said the government’s progress on ramping up home defense was “glacial.”

© Andrei Pungovschi/Getty Images

British soldiers during an exercise in Smardan, Romania, in February. In June, the British government published a strategic defense review that said the country must move to “war-fighting readiness.”
  •  

Putin’s Year-End News Conference Set for Friday

The annual news conference sets the Kremlin’s tone for the next year and highlights President Vladimir V. Putin’s grip over Russia.

© Ramil Sitdikov/Reuters

A digital screen in Moscow promoting President Vladimir V. Putin’s year-end televised phone-in and news conference.
  •  

Bank of Japan Raises Interest Rates to Highest Level in 30 Years

The Bank of Japan moved to slow inflation as the prime minister is borrowing more to fund an ambitious effort to build up industry and support households.

© Greg Baker/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

The rate increase is widely viewed as an attempt to ultimately help cool inflation and give wages a chance to keep up.
  •  

Takeaways From the Trial of Wisconsin Judge Hannah Dugan

The Milwaukee judge was charged with obstructing federal immigration agents, who were trying to arrest a man who had appeared before her on a battery charge.

© Sara Stathas/Reuters

Judge Hannah C. Dugan, right, outside the federal courthouse in Milwaukee earlier this week.
  •  

Democratic State Lawmakers Vow to Unite and Push Back on Trump’s Deportations

Lawmakers from a half-dozen states said Thursday they will use legislation next year to thwart the tactics of federal law enforcement carrying out immigration policies.

© Victor J. Blue for The New York Times

Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents and other federal law enforcement officers conducted a street raid in New York in October.
  •  

New Judges Take Charge of Sept. 11 Case at Guantánamo

The long-running case had been on hold for nearly a year because of higher court appeals and the retirement of the military judge.

© United States Air Force

Lt. Col. Michael Schrama was a student at Georgetown University on Sept. 11, 2001. He is now the fifth judge to preside in the military commission case of defendants in the terrorism attacks.
  •  

Trump Relies on Distortions to Support His Pressure Campaign on Venezuela

The president has a long record of making false or misleading statements. But the sheer density of them in his administration’s boat attacks and Venezuela pressure campaign is exceptional.

© Doug Mills/The New York Times

Mr. Trump says an “armed conflict” makes the killings of people on the vessels lawful, but law-of-war experts say standards for a war to exist are not met.
  •  

James B. Hunt Jr., North Carolina Governor Who Kept State Blue, Dies at 88

During his 16 years in office, he earned national acclaim for his focus on education. But losing his bid for the Senate in 1984 cost him a shot at the presidency.

© J. Scott Applewhite/Associated Press

Gov. James B. Hunt Jr. of North Carolina in 1982. He sustained the state’s Democrats as a political force for more than a quarter century, even as he lost a vicious Senate race to Jesse Helms in 1984.
  •  

TikTok Signs Agreements With Investors in Step Toward Avoiding a U.S. Ban

The Chinese-owned video app formalized commitments from the software giant Oracle and two investment firms as part of a deal to keep operating in the United States.

© Hollie Adams/Reuters

Investment agreements bring TikTok, one of the country’s most popular social media apps, closer to resolving years of questions about its future.
  •  

Jelly Roll Is Pardoned for Previous Robbery and Drug Convictions

The clemency decision by Gov. Bill Lee of Tennessee could make it easier for the country star to travel internationally.

© Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images for iHeartRadio

Jelly Roll was found guilty of participating in an armed robbery in 2002. In another case, the police found cocaine and marijuana in his car.
  •  

Mamdani Appointee Resigns After Decade-Old Antisemitic Posts Re-emerge

Catherine Almonte Da Costa resigned from her just-announced post as Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani’s director of appointments after the Anti-Defamation League resurfaced the comments.

© Heather Khalifa for The New York Times

Catherine Almonte Da Costa resigned from her new post a day after it was announced, apologizing for her remarks and for becoming a distraction from the transition’s work.
  •  

The Junior Congressman Who’s Pushing Republicans on Epstein

The top Democrat on the Oversight Committee, Representative Robert Garcia has brought aggressive tactics and reality-show flair to investigating Jeffrey Epstein’s ties to President Trump.

© Kenny Holston/The New York Times

Mr. Garcia, 48, is a former mayor of Long Beach, Calif., who has been in Congress fewer than three years. He has been leading Democrats on the Oversight Committee, the House’s top investigative panel, for almost six months.
  •  

Man Accused of Dismembering Woman Had Surgical Skills

The remains of a woman and her child were found near Gilgo Beach on Long Island. Prosecutors accused Andrew Dykes, the father of the child, who had worked in Army clinics, in the woman’s murder.

© Philip Marcelo/Associated Press

Tanya Jackson began imploring Andrew Dykes to give more time and fatherly attention to Tatiana, prosecutors said.
  •