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Headlines from The New York Times for Wednesday, July 20, 2022

Top News

  1. Europe’s Heat Wave Shatters British Records and Drives Wildfires

    By Mark Landler

    Page A1

  2. War and Warming Upend Global Energy Supplies and Amplify Suffering

    By Somini Sengupta and Melissa Eddy

    Page A1

  3. Putin Finds a New Ally in Iran, a Fellow Outcast

    By Anton Troianovski and Farnaz Fassihi

    Page A1

Editors' Picks

  1. Students Are Learning Well Again. But Full Recovery? That’s a Long Way Off.

    By Sarah Mervosh

    Page A12

  2. The Republican Ticket Is Being Helped by the Last People You’d Expect

    By Brian Beutler

    Page SR9

Today’s Videos

  1. House Passes Bill to Protect the Right to Same-Sex Marriage

    By FedNet

  2. Fires Destroy Homes in Greater London

    By Reuters

  3. Sinkhole Swallows Van in the Bronx

    By Storyful

World

  1. Scenes of Devastation Emerge From a Fire-Ravaged Southwestern France

    By Constant Méheut

    Page A7

  2. Kharkiv Tried to Return to Normal. Russian Shelling Wouldn’t Let It.

    Page A9

  3. Out of Cash and Out of Fuel, Sri Lanka Runs on Patience

    By Mujib Mashal, Emily Schmall, Skandha Gunasekara and Atul Loke

    Page A4

U.S.

  1. Trump Electors Targeted in Georgia Criminal Inquiry

    By Danny Hakim

    Page A1

  2. After Indiana Mall Shooting, One Hero but No Lasting Solution

    By Richard Fausset, Eliza Fawcett and Serge F. Kovaleski

    Page A1

  3. He Fought Boston’s Blue Wall of Silence. Now He’s the Commissioner.

    By Ellen Barry

    Page A18

Politics

  1. House Moves to Protect Same-Sex Marriage From Supreme Court Reversal

    By Stephanie Lai

    Page A1

  2. Secret Service Says Some Missing Jan. 6 Texts Are Unlikely to Be Recovered

    By Zolan Kanno-Youngs and Maggie Haberman

    Page A14

  3. ISIS Fighters’ Children Are Growing Up in a Desert Camp. What Will They Become?

    By Charlie Savage

    Page A11

Business

  1. Hey, Is Anybody Watching the Interns?

    By Emma Goldberg

    Page B1

  2. Netflix Says It Lost Nearly 1 Million Subscribers, and Breathes a Sigh of Relief

    By Nicole Sperling

    Page B1

  3. ‘My Worldview Has Been Destroyed’: Chinese Banking Scandal Tests Faith in the System

    By Vivian Wang and Zixu Wang

    Page B1

Technology

  1. Intelligence Agencies Say Russia Election Threat Persists Amid Ukraine War

    By Adam Goldman

    Page A16

  2. Elon Musk and Twitter will go to trial over their $44 billion deal in October.

    By Kate Conger

    Page B3

  3. Two Companies Aim to Beat SpaceX to Mars With ‘Audacious’ Landing

    By Kenneth Chang

    Page B4

Sports

  1. Wherever Juan Soto Goes, Remarkable Things Tend to Happen

    By Tyler Kepner

    Page B7

  2. U.S. Women Beat Canada to Claim Spot in Paris Olympics

    By Andrew Das

    Page B8

  3. M.L.B. Commissioner Rejects Idea That Minor Leaguers Aren’t Paid Fairly

    By James Wagner

    Page B8

Arts

  1. Claes Oldenburg Captured a Carefree (and Consumerist) America

    By Deborah Solomon

    Page C1

  2. Lizzo’s Empowerment Pop Gets Stuck in the Same Groove

    By Lindsay Zoladz

    Page C1

  3. A Behind-the-Scenes Eminence Shapes a Festival’s Future

    By Zachary Woolfe

    Page C1

New York

  1. Facing Tepid Support, Bill de Blasio Drops N.Y. House Bid

    By Nicholas Fandos

    Page A15

  2. This Political Neophyte Is a Lock for Congress. His Name Helps.

    By Tracey Tully

    Page A15

  3. Bodega Clerk Who Fatally Stabbed Man Will Not Face Charges

    By Jeffery C. Mays and Jonah E. Bromwich

    Page A19

Food

  1. The Jewish Deli: An American Tale Told in Pickles and Pastrami

    By Adam Nagourney

    Page D2

  2. 20 Easy Salads for Hot Summer Days

    Page D1

  3. Take a Korean Barbecue Master Class at San Ho Won

    By Tejal Rao

    Page D6

Obituaries

  1. Ritzi Jacobi, Maker of Mind-Bending Textile Art, Dies at 80

    By Nina Siegal

    Page A20

  2. Nikolai Krogius, Adviser in Chess ‘Match of the Century,’ Dies at 91

    By Dylan Loeb McClain

    Page A20

  3. Hobie Billingsley, Coach of a Diving Dynasty, Dies at 95

    By Frank Litsky

    Page A21

Opinion

  1. Why Russia Believes It Cannot Lose the War in Ukraine

    By Serge Schmemann

  2. Why Housing Is So Expensive — Particularly in Blue States

    By ‘The Ezra Klein Show’

  3. One of America’s Most Seductive States Is Also One of Its Scariest

    By Frank Bruni

    Page SR12