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Two Dead and Scores Rescued as Flooding Engulfs Central Texas

Flooding from relentless rain, which Gov. Greg Abbott said was likely to break records, left a trail of damage in many communities in the Hill Country region.

Destroyed cars in Kerrville, Texas.

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Elon Musk Loses $150 Billion Suit Against OpenAI and Sam Altman

By: Cade Metz and Mike Isaac
A nine-member jury found that Mr. Musk had waited too long to sue. The setback for the tech mogul frees OpenAI to continue in the artificial intelligence race.

OpenAI’s president, Greg Brockman, right, was also named in Mr. Musk’s lawsuit.

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Five Takeaways From the Blockbuster Trial Pitting Elon Musk Against OpenAI

By: Cade Metz
It took a jury less than two hours to decide that Mr. Musk had waited too long to sue. But the testimony over three weeks was still illuminating.

The federal courthouse in Oakland, Calif., on Monday, when a jury decided that Elon Musk had waited too long to file his lawsuit against OpenAI.

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Gun Found in Mangione’s Backpack Can be Used as Evidence, Judge Says

By: Hurubie Meko and Anusha Bayya
The ruling was a partial victory for prosecutors in the murder trial of Luigi Mangione. A state judge ruled that some other material and statements could not be used.

Luigi Mangione’s lawyers have argued that the evidence found in his backpack when he was arrested was obtained illegally and cannot be used at trial.

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OpenAI Trial Starts With Two Very Different Tales of a Company’s Early Years

By: Cade Metz and Mike Isaac
In the trial’s first day of testimony, Elon Musk said greed led co-founder Sam Altman to pull the A.I. lab away from its nonprofit roots. OpenAI says that’s nonsense.

Elon Musk arriving at the Ronald V. Dellums U.S. Courthouse in Oakland Tuesday.

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Mamdani Reverses Call to End Mayoral Control of NYC Public Schools

By: Troy Closson
The mayor-elect’s turnaround came as he selected Kamar Samuels to lead New York City’s school system at a precarious moment.

Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani named Kamar Samuels as New York City’s schools chancellor. He starts on Thursday.

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Texas L.G.B.T.Q. Teenagers and Families Navigate a Public School Clampdown

By: Pooja Salhotra
Under a new state law, public schools can no longer sponsor gay and gender clubs or “assist” with transitioning, but implementation appears to be varying by the politics of the districts.

Kenneth and Amelia Smith hold hands with their child at home in Katy, Texas. The day before summer break ended, Mr. and Mrs. Smith learned their child would not be addressed at school by her preferred name.

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Late Night Sums Up Day 2 of the Shutdown

By: Trish Bendix
“No one has any idea how long it will last,” Jimmy Fallon said. “People are calling it the ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ of government shutdowns.”
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Stephen Colbert Would Like to Know Who’s in Charge Here

By: Trish Bendix
The “Late Show” host was taken aback by the White House’s claim that Elon Musk doesn’t run DOGE: “It’s literally named after his favorite meme!”
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From Free Speech to Free Palestine: Six Decades of Student Protest

By: Richard Fausset
The protests against Israel’s war in Gaza are merely the latest in a tradition of student-led, left-leaning activism dating back at least to the civil rights and anti-Vietnam War protests of the 1960s.

Students occupied Columbia’s Hamilton Hall in April 1972.

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U.S. v. Texas Is a Constitutional Crisis Stress Test, and We Are Failing

By: Stephen I. Vladeck
The underlying dispute of the latest squabble between the Texas governor and the president is over what U.S. immigration policy should look like.

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Sam Altman Is Said to Be Discussing Return to OpenAI With Company’s Board

By: Cade Metz, Mike Isaac and Erin Griffith
Mr. Altman was forced out of the artificial intelligence start-up on Friday, leading to an outcry from his supporters and the company’s investors.

The new talks between Sam Altman and OpenAI’s board were the latest twist in a fast-moving drama at what is perhaps the world’s highest-profile artificial intelligence company.

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The Fear and Tension That Led to Sam Altman’s Ouster at OpenAI

By: Cade Metz
The departure of the high-profile boss of the San Francisco company drew attention to a philosophical rift among the people building new A.I. systems.

The senior executives of OpenAI in March. From left, Mira Murati, now the company’s interim chief executive; Sam Altman, the ousted chief executive; Greg Brockman, OpenAI’s president who quit on Friday night; and Ilya Sutskever, a member of the company’s board.

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Will the Supreme Court Toss Out a Gun Law Meant to Protect Women?

By: Linda Greenhouse
Even pro-firearms politicians are absent in the briefs supporting a lawsuit to make it harder to keep weapons out of abusers’ hands.

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Is Texas’ Busing Responsible for the Migrant Crisis Across Cities?

By: Miriam Jordan and Edgar Sandoval
Gov. Greg Abbott of Texas has run a high-profile campaign to send migrants to Los Angeles, New York and other cities. But they are a fraction of the number of new migrants boarding buses.

Families boarding a bus in Texas in October from a center that serves as the staging area for migrants before they leave on free buses bound for other cities.

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