The “best bromance in tech” has had a reality check as OpenAI has tried to change its deal with Microsoft and the software maker has tried to hedge its bet on the start-up.

Microsoft and OpenAI’s Close Partnership Shows Signs of Fraying

New data shows the challenges facing Chinese policymakers trying to stimulate an economy marked by falling prices, weak consumer spending and a housing market crash.

China’s Lackluster Growth Continues, Signaling Why Beijing Acted on Economy

Donald J. Trump has been talking up his economic record for Black voters. The legacy of the last eight years is complicated.

How Is the Economy for Black Voters? A Complex Question Takes Center Stage.

This pioneering composer is not the easiest to love. But while he explores the poison of American nationalism, his music also offers an antidote.

At 150, Charles Ives Still Reflects the Darkness and Hope of America

He collaborated with Eisa Davis to make a concept album inspired by the 1979 movie. One big change: the main gang is made up of women.

‘The Warriors’ Hooked Lin-Manuel Miranda at 4. Now Comes the Album.

The Peacock horror comedy finds timeliness in a dark chapter of American history. “Satan was always an existential threat,” the actor said.

Bruce Campbell on ‘Hysteria!’ and Why the Satanic Panic Never Ended

Apple earbuds and others can help you hear dining companions. Here’s how to use them.

Hate Noisy Restaurants? Stick This in Your Ear.

Analysts call the killing of several Hamas leaders, including Yahya Sinwar, a deep blow to the Palestinian militant group, but expect it to keep fighting.

Sinwar’s Death Could Shake but Not Topple Hamas, Experts Say

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said it was looking into what Elon Musk’s electric car company called the full self-driving system.

Tesla Self-Driving System Will Be Investigated by Safety Agency

There were grudge matches and sycophancy in equal measure at the Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner. “Isn’t it just exciting, what’s going on,” Donald Trump said.

Trump Among New York’s Elites at a Charity Dinner: It Got Awkward

Assassinating Yahya Sinwar was Israel’s Osama bin Laden moment. But getting a cease-fire deal done in the last three months of the Biden presidency is a much bigger reach.

Sinwar’s Death Was a Victory for Israel. But Can the U.S. Persuade It to ‘Take the Win’?

Israeli forces had been steadily closing in on Yahya Sinwar, the Hamas leader, for weeks before he was cornered and killed in a ruined house in the Gaza Strip.

Sinwar’s Final Moments: On the Run, Hurt, Alone, but Still Defiant

Quotation of the Day for Friday, October 18, 2024

Quote of the Day: Charged Up Over Electric Cars

Over the past four years, I’ve written more than 100 articles that explain our journalism. What I learned might surprise you.

What I’ve Learned Interviewing More Than 200 New York Times Journalists

Through design objects and artwork by former athletes, “Get in the Game” at SFMOMA examines the central, and often provocative, role that sports occupy in American culture.

Draw Sports Fans to an Art Museum? That’s the Goal.

Some 90 percent of the economy in this coastal California region relies on visitors. But overtourism, the high cost of living and most worrisome, the effects of global warming, create a future of uncertainty.

Our Boundless Love for Big Sur May Be Killing It

The HBO series uses familiar comedic actors in cheeky re-enactments of real Florida events, most of them subjects of past viral news reports.

‘It’s Florida, Man’ Reveals the Lives Behind Bizarre News Stories

A vocal group that says women in video games are being defeminized wants to return to 1990s babes like Lara Croft.

Gaming’s Uneven Progress Toward Diverse Female Figures

The term refers to the perception that a food product is generally good for us based on a single claim, casting subliminal power over our diets and dollars.

At the Grocery Store, Blinded by the Light of the ‘Health Halo’

This is no ordinary election, and we cannot act like it is.

There Is No Precedent for Something Like This in American History

This week the network rolled out an “NCIS” spinoff, a “Young Sheldon” spinoff, a “Good Wife” spinoff and … “Matlock”?

At CBS, Everything Old Is New Again, Including ‘NCIS’

Even with further Fed rate cuts likely, money market funds are a good alternative for stashing cash, and investors are still flocking to them, our columnist says.

Money Market Rates Are Lower, Yes. But Compared to What?

Shares of the health care conglomerate dropped after the sudden departure of Karen Lynch and a downbeat update on the state of the company’s finances.

CVS Ousts C.E.O. as Sluggish Growth Spooks Investors

Men who attended the Kyiv concert of a popular rock band had their papers checked on the way out. Some were detained. Tickets to subsequent shows suddenly became available.

They Came for the Music. They Left With Draft Officers for Ukraine’s Army.

In the new biopic “The Apprentice,” much is made of Trump’s tutelage under the venal fixer Roy Cohn. But the film shrewdly locates the secret of his success: tax abatements.

October 18, 2024

Headlines from October 18, 2024

Microsoft and OpenAI’s Close Partnership Shows Signs of Fraying

China’s Lackluster Growth Continues, Signaling Why Beijing Acted on Economy

How Is the Economy for Black Voters? A Complex Question Takes Center Stage.

At 150, Charles Ives Still Reflects the Darkness and Hope of America

‘The Warriors’ Hooked Lin-Manuel Miranda at 4. Now Comes the Album.

Billboard 200

Moon Music

Short n' Sweet

The Rise And Fall Of A Midwest Princess

One Thing At A Time

Hit Me Hard And Soft

Historical Context for October 18, 2024