New York Times gift articles

Small improvements in taxes are overshadowed by cuts to health insurance and other federal aid, resulting in a package favoring the wealthy.

The federal website hosting five legislatively mandated reports stopped working Monday afternoon.

Even some of his supporters say Andrew M. Cuomo ran an aloof campaign for mayor that underestimated his chief rival, Zohran Mamdani.

By ending tax credits for wind and solar power, Senate Republicans may have jeopardized billions in investments in their own districts.

The best thing to do to limit it right now is for Congress to reject the massive increase in funding for deportation that's tucked into the budget bill. If you're an American, give your senators and rep a call.

Brent Efron’s “boring” Tinder date wanted to hear all about his work at the Environmental Protection Agency, so Mr. Efron talked. If only he’d seen the hidden camera.

Senate Republicans can afford to lose no more than three of their own votes on the bill, but two already are opposed and others remained undecided.

The paper is here

Best option for putting a stop to this is to give your Senators a call — the budget bill their voting on today would entrench the damage described in this article.

Anxiety over federal immigration detentions has gripped thousands of residents in the area and led many to limit the time they spend in public.

The key issue is that ICE isn't looking for criminals or recent arrivals; they're trying to sweep up anybody whose skin is too dark. Hence the need for citizens to carry passports at all times.

Firefighters were responding to a blaze in the panhandle of Idaho when the shooting happened, a sheriff said. The body of a suspect was recovered on Sunday evening.

I'll note that the Aryan Nations Nazi compound used to be in the area. They ultimately lost control of it after the SPLC sued them for shooting at people. The buildings were donated to local firefighters, who burned them as part of practice. The shooting happened on the anniversary of that burning.

If huge cuts for everybody in order to preserve tax breaks for the wealthy seems like a bad deal to you, let your Senators know

There's a table of what's in the bill

U.S. officials said they would stop providing the satellite data online on July 31 rather at the end of June.

Data from this instrument also reveals sea ice extent, and that can't be allowed.

Importantly, he turned out a lot of young voters:

In short, having huge numbers of Americans complain to Congress, as with this piece of legislation, can influence laws at the margin.

The rest of the bill is still awful; it imposes new and large taxes on wind and solar while eliminating subsidies for them, funds a the deportation of millions, cuts medicaid sharply (in large part through imposing onerous paperwork on people) and cuts taxes for billionaires while raising them on the poor.

Wind and solar companies were already bracing for Congress to end federal subsidies. But the Senate bill goes even further and penalizes those industries.

If you want this to change, it means calling your rep and senators — especially if they're Republicans.