A Man Who Shunned Cheap Sentiment Left a Gift for Others: Life

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25 décembre 2025 à 11:00

Brendan Costello was a cleareyed writer who might have found this article a bit treacly. Such is the cost of being a good guy.

Dr. Sylvio Burcescu received a kidney from Brendan Costello, pictured. He struggles with the reality of never being able to thank the person who gave him such a life-altering gift.

Let Your Phone Go Gray

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Par :Julia Angwin

25 décembre 2025 à 11:00

Julia Angwin turns her iPhone screen to gray and learns a lot about her relationship with her phone.

His Death Was Interrupted, Just as He Had Planned

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Par :Dan Barry and Sarah Blesener

16 mars 2025 à 10:00

Brendan Costello’s family was bracing for goodbyes. But he had one last wish.

Brendan Costello’s Mass card and a watercolor painting by his aunt Cathy Costello.

No Power, No Heat, No Water: Odesa’s Days of Hell Under Russian Fire

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Par :Kim Barker · Oleksandra Mykolyshyn and Laetitia Vançon

25 décembre 2025 à 18:10

The toll on older people and those with disabilities is especially severe as Moscow’s forces repeatedly attack the port city’s infrastructure.

Distributing hot meals to those affected by power outages in Odesa last week.

Prominent Leaders Amplify Disinformation About Brown University Shooting

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Par :Steven Lee Myers

25 décembre 2025 à 18:05

Prominent business and government figures spread rumors about the attack on Brown University’s campus this month, reigniting questions about accountability in online discourse.

A memorial outside the Van Wickle Gates on the Brown University campus, where a mass shooting killed two people.

Estonia’s Man on Capitol Hill Is on a Charm Offensive

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Par :Adam Sella

25 décembre 2025 à 16:57

The Baltic nation’s congressional liaison is using candy, an American flag outfit and “Die Hard” jokes to make friends in Congress as the Trump administration turns against Europe.

In his time in Washington, Karl-Gerhard Lille has helped recruit more than 70 representatives and about a dozen senators to the Baltic Caucus, with many joining this year.

Why the Right Is Boycotting Havaianas Flip-Flops

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Par :Ana Ionova

25 décembre 2025 à 11:02

For decades, Havaianas flip-flops have been a beloved global symbol of Brazilian culture, worn by millions of people each day. They are now ensnared in a political fight.

The trouble started for Havaianas with the beginning of a new holiday campaign starring the popular Brazilian actress Fernanda Torres.

That Old Classic Film in the Theater? It Might Be From This Man’s House.

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Par :Andrew Keh

25 décembre 2025 à 09:00

The artifacts of 20th-century cinema are being preserved in museums, and in the care of private film collectors like Brian Darwas, who has hundreds of movie prints at his home.

Brian Darwas stores his films in a climate-controlled room at his home in Westchester County, N.Y.

King Charles Urges ‘Compassion’ and Finding Strength in Diversity in Annual Christmas Message

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Par :Lizzie Dearden

25 décembre 2025 à 16:13

His annual Christmas message was more outward-looking than last year’s, when he focused on the medical workers who had helped him and his daughter-in-law after their cancer diagnoses.

King Charles III and Queen Camilla arriving at St. Mary Magdalene Church in Sandringham, England, on Thursday for a Christmas Day service.

Christmas Around the World in Photos

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Par :The New York Times

25 décembre 2025 à 15:17

The holiday spirit is bringing people together, with celebrations of lights, dance and Santa.

A Christmas Eve service at the Syriac Catholic Cathedral of the Sacred Heart in Basra, Iraq.

Pope Leo Surprises St. Peter’s Crowd Before Christmas Eve Mass

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Par :Steve Kenny

25 décembre 2025 à 11:38

Pope Leo XIV greeted the soggy faithful in St. Peter’s Square in both English and Italian and apologized that there wasn’t enough room in the basilica for them all.

Pope Leo XIV, center, performed the Christmas Eve mass at St Peter’s Basilica in the Vatican on Wednesday.

What Hollywood Has That TikTok, Video Games and YouTube Don’t

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Par :Peter Suderman

25 décembre 2025 à 11:01

Hollywood is Hollywood because of its gift for mythmaking.

Pope Leo Makes Christmas Call for Dialogue to Address World’s Conflicts

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Par :Motoko Rich

25 décembre 2025 à 14:21

Leo XIV’s Christmas address was his first since being elected pontiff and was scrutinized for comparisons with those of his predecessor, Francis.

Pope Leo XIV greeting the crowd gathered at the Vatican on Christmas Day.

A Top Candidate for Prime Minister Returns to Bangladesh After 17 Years in Exile

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Par :Saif Hasnat and Mujib Mashal

25 décembre 2025 à 14:18

Tarique Rahman, who had managed his party’s political affairs from Britain, is back in his country to campaign in elections.

Tarique Rahman of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party waved to supporters at an airport in Dhaka on Thursday, after returning from Britain.

The Year in News

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Par :Lauren Jackson

25 décembre 2025 à 14:12

We look back at 2025.

Clockwise from top left, Pope Leo XIV; Volodymyr Zelensky and President Trump; wildfires in California; Zohran Mamdani.

California Gets Heavy Rain, Snarled Travel and Power Outages for Christmas

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Par :Alexander Nazaryan and Thomas Gibbons-Neff

25 décembre 2025 à 20:16

Officials warned that driving for holiday celebrations would be hazardous across much of the state, with more than half an inch of rain still to fall in some places.

Los Angeles set a record for Christmas Eve rainfall on Wednesday. Another half inch could fall on Thursday.

Pope Leo Surprises St. Peter’s Crowd Before Christmas Eve Mass

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Par :Steve Kenny

25 décembre 2025 à 11:38

Pope Leo XIV greeted the soggy faithful in St. Peter’s Square in both English and Italian and apologized that there wasn’t enough room in the basilica for them all.

With Airspace Closed, a Lonely Christmas for Many Venezuelans

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Par :Annie Correal

25 décembre 2025 à 11:02

The holidays usually bring home huge numbers from the Venezuelan diaspora. But this year, after international airlines halted almost all service, many people are spending Christmas alone and on edge.

Most foreign flights into and out of Simón Bolivar International Airport, the main airport serving Venezuela’s capital, Caracas, have been canceled.

Martin Scorsese: Rob Reiner Had Me in the Palm of His Hand

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Par :Martin Scorsese

25 décembre 2025 à 11:02

“We had a natural affinity for each other,” Martin Scorsese writes of Rob Reiner.

‘Carol of the Bells’ Once Filled the Air Here. Now It’s Only Bombs.

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Par :Constant Méheut and Olha Konovalova

25 décembre 2025 à 11:02

Mykola Leontovych, the Ukrainian composer of the famed festive song, lived in the eastern city of Pokrovsk. Months of Russian assaults have erased most tributes to his life there.

A statue of the Ukrainian composer Mykola Leontovych outside a park in Pokrovsk, Ukraine, in August last year, a few days before it was relocated for safekeeping.

Trump Says ‘Housing First’ Failed the Homeless. Here’s What the Evidence Says.

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Par :Jason DeParle

25 décembre 2025 à 11:02

The Trump administration has sought to move away from the model, which supporters call “evidence based” but opponents consider overly permissive.

Few aid policies have been studied as extensively as Housing First, and supporters’ faith that it is “evidence based” lends the debate special intensity.

With Trump in Power, Democrats Try to Redefine Themselves as Disrupters

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Par :Lisa Lerer

25 décembre 2025 à 11:01

Since President Trump’s rise, Democrats have served as defenders of a political system many Americans believe is broken. Now the party is trying a new approach.

“The Democratic Party should be leading, rather than just saying: ‘No, no, no. Status quo, status quo,’” Senator Elissa Slotkin of Michigan, left, said in May. Next to her on the Capitol steps is Senator Andy Kim of New Jersey.

Tesla Robotaxis Are Big on Wall St. but Lagging on Roads

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Par :Jack Ewing

25 décembre 2025 à 11:01

Shares of Tesla have hit new highs on optimism about the company’s self-driving taxis. But experts say Tesla is far behind Waymo, which has a big head start.

Republicans Who Backed Afghan Visas Are Mum as Trump Halts Them

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Par :Megan Mineiro and Adam Sella

25 décembre 2025 à 11:01

After a fatal shooting, the Trump administration froze a visa program for Afghans that Republicans in Congress had championed. The G.O.P. has not objected.

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