K.K. Rebecca Lai

Recent and archived work by K.K. Rebecca Lai for The New York Times

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    Who Sat in Trump’s V.I.P. Box at the Convention?

    The most prominent seats at the 2024 R.N.C. were three rows of white chairs in Donald J. Trump’s V.I.P. box. Here’s a look at who sat there.

    By Ashley Wu, Marco Hernandez, Alicia Parlapiano, June Kim, K.K. Rebecca Lai, Helmuth Rosales, Karen Yourish and Jon Huang

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    How the Israeli Hostage Rescue Led to One of Gaza’s Deadliest Days

    A firefight amid a recovery mission. At least 19 Israeli airstrikes. Scores of Palestinians killed. A Times visual analysis shows how the June 8 operation had such a high toll.

    By Neil Collier, Bora Erden, K.K. Rebecca Lai, Riley Mellen, Bilal Shbair, Anjali Singhvi, Ainara Tiefenthäler and Aric Toler

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    How the Pressure Grew for Biden to Drop Out

    A small but vocal faction of party members urged the president to withdraw from the race or consider doing so in time for a replacement to be chosen.

    By June Kim, Blacki Migliozzi, K.K. Rebecca Lai, Neil Vigdor and Lily Boyce

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    Why GPS Is Under Attack

    Satellite signals run the modern world. See just how vulnerable they are.

    By Selam Gebrekidan, K.K. Rebecca Lai, Pablo Robles and Jeremy White

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    Tracking the Attacks in the First Presidential Debate

    See how much time Biden and Trump spent attacking each other in the first presidential debate.

    By Kalina Borkiewicz, Lily Boyce, Allison McCann, Lazaro Gamio, Blacki Migliozzi, June Kim, K.K. Rebecca Lai, Andrew Park, Ashley Wu and Christine Zhang

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    The Trump Manhattan Criminal Verdict, Count By Count

    Former President Donald J. Trump faced 34 felony charges of falsifying business records, related to the reimbursement of hush money paid to the porn star Stormy Daniels in order to cover up a sex scandal around the 2016 presidential election.

    By Lazaro Gamio, Karen Yourish, Matthew Haag, Jonah E. Bromwich, Maggie Haberman and K.K. Rebecca Lai

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    How the Pandemic Reshaped American Gun Violence

    The footprint of gun violence in the U.S. has expanded, as shootings worsened in already suffering neighborhoods and killings spread to new places during the pandemic years.

    By Robert Gebeloff, K.K. Rebecca Lai, Eli Murray, Josh Williams and Rebecca Lieberman

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    No Box to Check: When the Census Doesn’t Reflect You

    Most people of Middle Eastern and North African descent are classified as “white” in U.S. census data. Thousands of respondents to a Times survey told us how they actually identify.

    By Karen Zraick, Allison McCann, Sarah Almukhtar, Yuliya Parshina-Kottas, Robert Gebeloff and Denise Lu

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    Trump Leads Biden in Number of Small Donors

    Former President Donald J. Trump dominated fund-raising last year by at least one critical measure: his number of small donors.

    By Albert Sun, K.K. Rebecca Lai, Andrew Fischer and Rebecca Davis O’Brien

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    Inside the Deadly Maui Inferno, Hour by Hour

    The Times reconstructed the day of the Lahaina wildfire, tracing the path of the blaze and the failures that left so many people trapped.

    By Mike Baker, Malika Khurana, K.K. Rebecca Lai, Riley Mellen, Natalie Reneau, Bedel Saget, Elena Shao, Anjali Singhvi and Charlie Smart

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    An American Puzzle: Fitting Race in a Box

    Census categories for race and ethnicity have shaped how the nation sees itself. Here’s how they have changed over the last 230 years.

    By K.K. Rebecca Lai and Jennifer Medina

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    How Each Member Voted on the Senate Stopgap Spending Measure

    The Senate overwhelmingly passed a bill to fund the federal government through mid-November. See how each senator voted.

    By Lazaro Gamio, Alicia Parlapiano, Jasmine C. Lee, Helmuth Rosales, Molly Cook Escobar, Allison McCann, Karen Yourish and K.K. Rebecca Lai

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    How the Shutdown Holdouts Have Antagonized McCarthy Before

    Some of Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s most persistent tormentors assembled Friday to defeat a stopgap spending measure to avoid a government shutdown, the latest episode in a pattern of blocking his efforts in the House.

    By Karen Yourish and Lazaro Gamio

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    Mapping the Wildfire Destruction in Lahaina

    In an analysis of satellite imagery, The Times identified about 1,900 structures that had been visibly damaged or destroyed by the blaze.

    By Molly Cook Escobar, K.K. Rebecca Lai and Elena Shao

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    Why One Upscale Apartment Building Became a Death Trap

    A Times investigation and forensic analysis uncovered how flawed design and minimal oversight proved fatal when a major earthquake struck southern Turkey.

    By Ben Hubbard, Anjali Singhvi, James Glanz, Mika Gröndahl, Elif Ince, Beril Eski and Safak Timur

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    See One Historic Turkish Street Before and After the Earthquakes

    The Times flew a drone over a street in Antakya’s Old City to show the places that were lost — among them, a barber shop, a historic church and doner kebab shops.

    By Anjali Singhvi, Bedel Saget, K.K. Rebecca Lai, Yuliya Parshina-Kottas, Sergey Ponomarev and Jeremy White

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