‘Russian bombers are burning en masse’ — Ukraine's SBU drones hit ‘more than 40’ aircraft in mass attack, source claims  —  Editor's note: This is a breaking story and is being updated.  —  An operation by Ukraine's Security Service (SBU) using first-person-view (FPV) …

Aide to Rep. Nadler Is Handcuffed Amid Confrontation With Federal Agents  —  Captured on video, the episode occurred in the congressman's Manhattan office, shortly after the aide observed agents detaining immigrants outside a courtroom.  —  Federal officers entered Representative Jerry Nadler's office …

Are International Students Good for American Universities?  —  Several years ago, a colleague teaching at Miami University, a large state school in Ohio, kindly invited me to give a talk there.  After picking me up at the airport, he suggested that we have lunch at a Sichuan restaurant near campus.

Unease at F.B.I. Intensifies as Patel Ousts Top Officials … The F.B.I. headquarters in Washington.Erin Schaff/The New York Times  —  Before being confirmed as the director of the F.B.I., Kash Patel made clear his intent to remake it in his own image, reflecting a larger desire by the White House to bend the agency to its will.

Immigrants Rebuilt a Pennsylvania Town — Then Became Targets  —  Haitians in Charleroi filled pews and revived stores.  Now they face deportation and backlash.  —  Larry Celaschi summons me to look at his cell phone, which displays a photo of a truck.  The picture, which someone shared with Celaschi …

How to Dismantle a Democracy, One Job Posting at a Time  —  OPM's new hiring memo imports the authoritarian playbook—quietly, bureaucratically, and by design.  —  The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) recently unveiled a “Merit Hiring Plan” that, despite its name, signals a profound departure …

Will America's National Parks Survive Trump?  —  Like a cinnamon river overflowing its banks, thousands of elk have been making their way across Jackson Hole, Wyo., to their summer range below the high, jagged peaks of Grand Teton National Park.  —  This is one of the world's most spectacular migrations …

Trump to Withdraw Musk's Ally as Nominee for Top NASA Job  —  Jared Isaacman was a close associate of Elon Musk, whose SpaceX company has multiple contracts with NASA.  —  President Trump plans to withdraw his nomination of Jared Isaacman, a billionaire entrepreneur and close associate of Elon Musk's …

Wes Moore and Tim Walz Go to a Fish Fry and Spatter 2028 Gossip Everywhere  —  As the two governors made buzzy appearances in South Carolina, Democrats in the influential state were already looking to the next election and wondering: Who can win?  —  Gov. Wes Moore of Maryland played …

Gabbard Wants Fox Hosts to Feed Trump Top Secret Intel: 'Doesn't Read'  —  BURN AFTER WATCHING  —  Because the president is “on broadcast all the time,” the director of national security plans to revamp his daily intelligence briefings.  —  Director of National Security Tulsi Gabbard wants …

Early adoption of AI will boost US growth  —  Artificial intelligence may buoy stocks even as it destroys jobs  —  Simply sign up to the US economy myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox.  —  Business deployment of artificial intelligence has reached a tipping point.

UK announces billions in fresh defense splurge amid worries about Russia  —  The U.K. will spend at least £3 billion on long-range weapons, housing facilities and arms factories as it seeks to revive its defense industry and gear up for a potential conflict with Russia.

MAGA's world tour exports Trumpism beyond U.S. borders  —  MAGA media heavyweights are intervening in elections around the world, increasingly obsessed with exporting President Trump's brand of right-wing populism beyond America's borders.  —  Why it matters: What began as a nationalist reaction …

RFK Jr. May Have Just Ruined Our Best Weapon Against Bird Flu  —  IMAGINE BEING HANDED the ultimate weapon to win a future war and throwing that weapon away.  —  That's a fair description of what Robert F. Kennedy Jr. did last week when he canceled a $766 million government contract to develop a new bird flu vaccine.1

Dollar's correlation with Treasury yields breaks down  —  Investors' concerns about US policymaking and Fed independence weigh on greenback and bonds  —  Simply sign up to the US economy myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox.  —  The close relationship between US government bond yields …

Federal agent's tattoo stokes fear  —  ICE denies connections between the officer and white supremacy.  —  A federal immigration enforcer's tattoo that matches the description of a symbol used by white supremacists has caused some Vineyarders to sound alarm bells.

May 31, 2025  —  “I would like to speak briefly and simply about a serious national condition,” Senator Margaret Chase Smith of Maine told her colleagues on June 1, 1950.  “It is a national feeling of fear and frustration that could result in national suicide and the end of everything …

New Covid shot recommendations appear to contradict Kennedy  —  An update to the CDC's website shows that children “may” get the Covid vaccine if their parents and doctors want them to.  —  An update to the CDC's vaccine schedule seems to contradict Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s plan …

Trump's Hated ‘TACO’ Nickname Is Catching On: CNN Data Guru  —  WHAT'S IN A NAME?  —  The president is not happy with his new Wall Street-inspired moniker.  —  CNN's resident data guru says President Donald Trump's hated “TACO” nickname is gaining popularity.

Trump's Birthday Military Parade Will Do $16M in Damages to D.C. Streets  —  BIRTHDAY BLOWOUT  —  Armored vehicles rolling down Constitution Avenue are expected to tear millions of dollars' worth of holes in the tarmac.  —  Pothole repair is about to be big business in Washington …

North and South Korea are in an underground war - Kim Jong Un might now be winning  —  The border between North and South Korea is swamped with layers of dense barbed-wire fencing and hundreds of guard posts.  But dotted among them is something even more unusual: giant, green camouflaged speakers.

Senate rankings: The 5 seats most likely to flip  —  The 2026 midterm cycle is already bustling with activity as Senate Republicans gear up to defend their majority and Democrats try to reverse course from a difficult few years and chart a path forward.  —  The fields are starting to take shape …

Can the ‘Abundance Agenda’ Save the Democrats?  —  Dispirited liberals are embracing—and feuding over—a new book's call for cutting red tape  —  SAN FRANCISCO—A raging political fad has taken over the Democratic Party, coalescing politicians, activists and rank-and-file partisans around …