Earth Is Spinning Faster, Making Some Summer Days Shorter

The planet’s rotation fluctuates as it travels around the sun, and measurements suggest we’re losing more than a millisecond during the long days of summer.

News
Trump’s Purge of Foreign Workers Arrives at Amazon’s Warehouses

The tech giant has quietly shed warehouse employees whose work authorizations were revoked after the Trump administration ended a Biden-era immigration program.

News
‘Buy the Dip’ Wins Again for Stock Investors

Individual investors were the ones who piled into stocks when they plunged in early April, while big Wall Street institutions missed out on the gains.

News
Skydance in Early Talks to Acquire Bari Weiss’s Free Press

David Ellison, the founder of Skydance, and Bari Weiss, the co-founder of The Free Press, are attending the annual Allen & Co. conference in Sun Valley this week.

News
N.Y. County Settles With Woman Who Says the Police Removed Her Hijab

Suffolk County’s $225,000 settlement provides a striking counterpoint to the anti-sanctuary policies that have recently taken shape across Long Island.

News
Texas Flood Survivors Recount Night of Terror at Waterfront Campgrounds

The half-mile stretch occupied by two campgrounds appears to have been one of the deadliest spots along the Guadalupe River in Central Texas during last week’s flash floods.

News
S.E.C. Accuses Prominent Georgia Republican of Running Ponzi Scheme

Edwin Brant Frost IV, a well-known Republican, is accused of defrauding 300 investors of $140 million, and using some funds for political donations. He said he took “full responsibility.”

News
After Texas Flooding, Two Brothers Search for Their Missing Parents

Luke and Robert Leroy Brake Jr. haven’t seen their parents since a deadly flood swept through their camp site on July 4. They spoke to The New York Times about what happened that day.

News
Judge Signals She Will Protect Abrego Garcia From Hasty Second Deportation

The judge, Paula Xinis, said some legal safeguard was needed because the Trump administration had already shown in this and other deportation cases that it could not be trusted.

News
Want to Understand Russia? Visit Dubai.

It’s a key refuge for Moscow’s wealthy, including the record producer Iosif Prigozhin. He insists he still loves President Vladimir V. Putin, no matter what you’ve heard.

News