Mississippi Says It Won’t Bring Criminal Charges in Police Shooting of Toddler NYT - Top Stories By: Joseph Cranney and Mukta Joshi 20 October 2026 at 09:16 Attorney General Lynn Fitch issued a terse statement, months after officers, responding to a report of stolen diapers, surrounded a car, guns drawn. © Chris Day/The Commercial Appeal, via USA Today, via ReutersDemonstrators marching down Norfleet Drive in Senatobia, Miss., in June, after Kohen Wiley, a 1-year-old child, was shot and killed by police.
Ellie Kemper: Nora Ephron Wrote to Amuse Herself NYT - Top Stories By: Ellie Kemper 19 October 2026 at 14:14 The actress and comedian riffs on the essay Nora Ephron wrote for The Times in 2008.
How We Reported on the Cornell Case NYT - Top Stories By: Patrick Healy 15 October 2026 at 18:09 In our first edition of The Backstory, a new newsletter about Times journalism, we’re diving into coverage of a rape allegation and talking to a critic who says we’re not tough enough on Trump. © Heather Ainsworth for The New York TimesStudents walk past the now shuttered Chi Phi fraternity house at Cornell University.