‘Operation Pushkin’: Paris Trial Puts Spotlight on Rare-Book Heists NYT - Top Stories By: Ephrat Livni 12 June 2026 at 05:01 One by one, valuable works by Russian masters like Pushkin and Gogol were disappearing from libraries across Europe. Now six defendants are being prosecuted. © Dmitri Lovetsky/Associated PressA sculpture of Alexander Pushkin made of paper at a bookstore in St. Petersburg, Russia, this week.
Inside Trump’s White House, the Epstein Files Caused a Freakout NYT - Top Stories By: Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan 10 June 2026 at 19:46 The president’s top advisers gathered in a series of Situation Room meetings as they struggled to contain a scandal engulfing Donald Trump himself.