Lunch Break Reads: October 22, 2025

In interviews with The New York Times, the guard, Glenn Juenke, offered the most detailed firsthand account yet of what staff members did as floodwaters rose at the Texas camp in July.

In the years after lockdown, four women roamed lower Manhattan, their lives and work guided by a faceless internet prophet.

Anna Bower’s Signal exchange with the interim U.S. attorney about the Letitia James grand jury.

Manolo Betancur, owner of Manolo’s Bakery in Charlotte, North Carolina, has been giving out cakes to his homeless neighbors for more than 12 years.

Michael Froehlich celebrated his 50th birthday in 2000 by buying 50 vintage cars, all manufactured the year he was born.