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‘Devastating’ Damage as Hard Rains and Flash Floods Batter the Southwest

Some towns received more rain in a single day than they typically get during all of November, forcing evacuations across the Four Corners region.

© Kathy Smith, via Associated Press

The Fun Valley Family Resort, a campground in Rio Grande County, Colo., was among the areas heavily damaged in flooding last month. A potent storm on Sunday was bringing heavy rain to some of those same spots.

Deportees Turn to TikTok to Document Life Starting Over

On TikTok, men and women sent back after living in the United States are documenting the reality of starting over — and finding an audience.

© Heather Michelle Photography

Catherine Coe with her family in Tuscaloosa, Ala., before Mr. Benitez was deported in September of 2025.

Deportees Turn to TikTok to Document Life Starting Over

On TikTok, men and women sent back after living in the United States are documenting the reality of starting over — and finding an audience.

© Heather Michelle Photography

Catherine Coe with her family in Tuscaloosa, Ala., before Mr. Benitez was deported in September of 2025.

Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas, Who Helped End One-Party Rule in Mexico, Dies at 92

Mr. Cárdenas, the only son of a Mexican president, never won the office but became a leading figure in the country’s democratic transformation.

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Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas in Mexico City in 2023.

Mexico’s Top Election Official Resigns Amid Corruption Scandal

Guadalupe Taddei Zavala, the head of the electoral watchdog, stepped down after facing accusations of corruption and influence peddling.

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The president of the National Electoral Institute, Guadalupe Taddei Zavala, resigned days after the nation’s top auditing and oversight authority announced it had opened an investigation based on irregularities in contracts awarded by the electoral agency.

Meta Ordered to Pay $25 Billion Over Cambridge Analytica Privacy Violations

The penalty, one of the largest levied against a tech giant, stemmed from a lawsuit by New Mexico claiming the social media company had misled users about their data privacy.

© Gabriela Bhaskar/The New York Times

Meta’s annual Meta Connect event at the company’s Menlo Park, Calif., campus.

OpenAI’s A.I. Tried Breaching Four Other Targets, With No Prompting

In each incident, the technology appeared to be conducting mundane data collection and resorted to hacking techniques to get it, researchers said.

© Lucas Foglia for The New York Times

OpenAI’s offices in San Francisco. At least four times this year, the company’s artificial intelligence hacked or tried to break into government and university websites without being instructed to do so.
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