Obamacare Policies Hit Again With Steep Premium Increases for 2027

Premiums will increase an average 13 percent next year for millions of Americans, on top of an earlier steep increase. It adds to the problems facing the program, which the Trump administration has weakened.The average price of health insurance in the Obamacare marketplaces will rise by 13 percent n

R Reed Abelson and Margot Sanger-Katz

Justice Dept. Confirms Alaska Inquiry Even as Its Focus Remains Unclear

Democrats and former officials have accused the department of pursuing a political goal in the guise of a legal one: to publicize a scheme, sordid but not illegal under state law, damaging to Democrats.Michael J. Heyman, the U.S. attorney for Alaska, spoke to the media during a news conference Frida

A Anna Griffin and Glenn Thrush

Polymarket and Kalshi Face a Major Accuracy Test: The Midterms

Studies have shown that the betting sites can predict races correctly, but their ability to forecast U.S. midterm elections is an important proving ground.Prediction platforms like Polymarket are hoping the U.S. midterm elections will be their moment to shine.

S Stuart A. Thompson

Binance’s $6.3 Billion Hack Is Just the Start of a Risky New Era

The largest cyber heist in history came as attackers increasingly use artificial intelligence and other advanced techniques to steal crypto and quickly launder the funds.The founder of Binance, Changpeng Zhao, in Hong Kong in August. The company, the world’s biggest crypto exchange, has promised to

D David Yaffe-Bellany and Dustin Volz

Prosecutors Suggest They May Seek Additional Comey Charges

At a hearing in federal court, prosecutors defended an unusual, 11th-hour criminal case accusing the former F.B.I. director of leaking classified information a decade ago.During President Trump’s second term, the Justice Department has pursued James B. Comey without pause.

D Devlin Barrett

Christa Pike Describes Pain and Isolation After Botched Execution

Christa Pike, who was convicted of a 1995 murder, released her first statement since the failed attempt to execute her last month.It took about 30 minutes to verify the authenticity of the call for an ambulance from the prison. Christa Pike was in a private Nashville hospital for more than a week.

E Emily Cochrane

Minnesota Declined to Buy a Prison for $75 Million. D.H.S. Paid $495 Million.

The recent purchase of the prison to hold immigrants is among the acquisitions facing scrutiny in the Trump administration’s mass deportation push.The Prairie Correctional Facility was purchased by the Department of Homeland Security to serve as an immigrant detention center in Appleton, Minn.

E Ernesto Londoño

Judge Blocks Expediting Migrant Children’s Asylum Cases, For Now

Lawyers for the children praised the pause on fast-tracked interviews of unaccompanied minors, calling it a blow against the Trump administration’s “deportation assembly line.”An unaccompanied five-year-old migrant surrendered to Border Patrol officers last year.

M Madeleine Ngo

Patrick Stewart Embraced His Baldness and Became an Icon

It took him a while to realize that his lack of hair only added to his quietly commanding presence.In his memoir, Patrick Stewart wrote that he came to regard his baldness as a strength: “As I reconciled myself to my fate — or is it pate? — I realized that I had been given a strategic advantage.”

G Guy Trebay