August 23, 2026, 4:50 p.m. Eastern time

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Ben Salb for The New York Times The Summer the Ticks Took Over A scientific and civilizational horror story. Read more

From our Sunday Magazine

What if America Went Completely Dark? The power grid relies on thousands of aging, hand-built transformers. If enough fail, the blackout could last years.

Someone Was Impersonating Her in Online Affairs. She Says It Was Her Husband. The German actress Collien Fernandes set out to discover who was pretending to be her online and sending men sexually explicit material. Her answer ignited a feminist movement.

My Husband Has Alzheimer’s. Can I Date Other People? I’m now his caregiver, a single mother and the breadwinner for our family.

Everyone’s Using This A.I. Dictation App That I Want to Murder With a Hammer Wispr Flow is supposed to make writing effortless and magical. So I “wrote” this column with it.

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Jeffries and Kushner Meet Privately as Midterm Attacks Fly President Trump’s son-in-law and the man in line to be speaker of a Democratic-led House discussed how Democrats and the administration could work together.

A 20-Minute Workout for Strong, Healthy Hips These exercises can help you build strength to avoid aches and pains.

Court Slashes Award Alex Jones Was Ordered to Pay Sandy Hook Parents An appeals court reduced the award to the parents of one victim to $6 million from $49 million, citing a Texas damages cap. The conspiracy theorist owes over $1 billion in other cases.

For Some in a Disrupted D.C., Grand Prix Is More Irritation Than Celebration Race preparations have snarled traffic, rerouted flights and forced the National Gallery of Art to conduct vibration tests.

The Midterms Feel Like 2006 All Over Again With an unpopular war and high prices agitating voters, members of both parties see parallels to an election cycle when Democrats romped. But a lot has changed.

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