1755051895 Trump’s D.C. Crackdown Plan Begins to Take Shape as National Guard Deploys https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/us/politics/dc-police-national-guard.html Troops appeared near the Washington Monument on Tuesday evening. But it remained unclear whether the eventual show of force would match the president’s apocalyptic rhetoric. html Tyler Pager and Devlin Barrett 1755044164 Trump Deploys National Guard for Local Crime After Calling Jan. 6 Rioters ‘Very Special’ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/us/politics/trump-jan-6-dc-crime.html President Trump said he needed to send in the Guard to secure the nation’s capital. But on Jan. 6, 2021 — the most lawless day in recent Washington history — he had a very different reaction. html Luke Broadwater 1755048710 Fact-Checking Trump’s False and Misleading Claims About Crime in D.C. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/us/politics/trump-dc-crime-data-fact-check.html The president cited a number of false and misleading claims about homicides and youth crime in the nation’s capital. html Linda Qiu 1755033096 Rollout of Trump’s D.C. Crackdown Included Fox News Stars and Charts https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/us/politics/trump-dc-takeover-crime-fox-news.html Jeanine Pirro had a starring role in promoting the president’s federal takeover on TV, and Will Cain’s charts made a cameo. html Michael M. Grynbaum 1755039161 Cuomo’s Attack on Mamdani’s Apartment Struck a New York Nerve https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/nyregion/cuomo-mamdani-rent-stabilized.html The attacks in the New York City mayor’s race may have veered into the personal, but they also reflected a larger debate on who should benefit from government regulation of housing costs. html Nicholas Fandos 1755035719 What Is Rent Stabilization, and Why Is It an Issue in the NYC Mayor’s Race? https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/nyregion/mamdani-cuomo-rent-stabilized-apartment.html Former Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo’s push to keep “rich” people out of less-expensive apartments is aimed at his political rival in New York, Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani. html Mihir Zaveri 1755057668 Trump Will Discuss Ukraine With European Leaders Ahead of Putin Meeting https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/13/world/europe/trump-europe-ukraine-talks-putin.html Chancellor Friedrich Merz and several allies will host the president for a video call, the latest in a summer-long effort to hold ranks in supporting Ukraine. html Jim Tankersley 1755053927 Trump to Meet Putin at U.S. Military Base in Anchorage https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/us/politics/trump-putin-summit-alaska.html The American and Russian presidents will meet face to face at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Alaska on Friday, according to a White House official. html Katie Rogers 1755032187 Russia Is Suspected to Be Behind Breach of Federal Court Filing System https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/us/politics/russia-hack-federal-court-system.html Federal officials are scrambling to assess the damage and address flaws in a sprawling, heavily used computer system long known to have vulnerabilities. html Adam Goldman, Glenn Thrush and Mattathias Schwartz 1755064521 White House Announces Comprehensive Review of Smithsonian Exhibitions https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/arts/design/smithsonian-exhibitions-review-white-house-trump.html The Trump administration is giving museums 120 days to replace “divisive or ideologically driven language with unifying, historically accurate and constructive descriptions.” html Graham Bowley, Jennifer Schuessler and Robin Pogrebin 1755053180 Human Rights Report Under Trump Blunts Language on Israel and El Salvador https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/us/politics/trump-human-rights-israel-saudi-arabia-china.html A collection of U.S. reports on human rights offenses trimmed or omitted past language on violations in El Salvador, Hungary, Saudi Arabia, the U.A.E. and Israel, all seen as partners by President Trump. html Edward Wong 1755036703 Hidden Inside Our Electronics, Tiny Doodles From Another Era https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/technology/silicon-chips-doodles.html Decades ago, designers etched microscopic doodles onto silicon chips to leave their marks. Now, techno-archaeologists search for the tiny fossils. html Emmett Lindner and Lyndon French 1755046617 New Video Shows Uvalde School Chief Trying to Negotiate With Gunman https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/us/uvalde-documents-video-arredondo.html The video, part of a trove of materials that authorities had refused to release, shows the minutes in which a commander tried to talk to a gunman barricaded in a room with dozens of children. html Edgar Sandoval 1755038563 Cristiano Ronaldo and Georgina Rodríguez Are Engaged. All Eyes Are on the Ring. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/style/georgina-rodriguez-cristiano-ronaldo-engagement-ring.html After years of speculation, the soccer superstar’s engagement is big news, but it’s the enormous diamond perched on Ms. Rodríguez’s finger that has everyone talking. html Sadiba Hasan 1755068868 Trump Is Giving Putin a Most Wonderful Gift https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/13/opinion/trump-putin-ukraine-alaska.html There is something Putin cares about more than money. html M. Gessen 1755033334 Trump Is Squandering the Greatest Gift of the Manhattan Project https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/opinion/trump-manhattan-project.html The U.S. risks not just being left behind, but out of the game entirely. html Garrett M. Graff 1755060706 Heavy Rain Causes Flash Flooding in Chattanooga https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/us/flooding-chattanooga-tennessee.html The mayor of Hamilton County, Tenn., declared a state of emergency as rescue crews pulled people out of submerged cars and homes. html Hannah Ziegler and Francesca Regalado 1755044932 Six Convicted in 2017 Fire That Killed 41 Girls in Guatemala Group Home https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/world/americas/guatemala-convictions-deadly-fire.html The girls were locked in a classroom in a government-run group home for at-risk youth. The officials were charged with child abuse, dereliction of duty, manslaughter and other counts. html Jody García and James Wagner 1755032772 Remains of British Researcher Lost in 1959 Are Discovered Off Antarctica https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/world/british-researcher-frozen-remains-antarctica.html Dennis “Tink” Bell was 25 years old when he fell into a crevasse on King George Island. Over the decades, a glacier receded, and a scientific team from Poland found his remains this year. html Neil Vigdor 1755033794 Danielle Spencer, Child Star on ‘What’s Happening!!,’ Is Dead at 60 https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/arts/television/danielle-spencer-dead.html She played a witty teenager on one of the first American television shows that centered Black teenagers. html Sopan Deb