Ooops...this plugin cannot read your feed at this time. The error message is: WP HTTP Error: SSL connect error.
It might be temp. not available or - if you use it for the first time - you might have mistyped the url or a misformatted RSS or Atom feed is present.
Please, check if your browser can read it instead: http://www.nytimes.com/services/xml/rss/nyt/US.xml.
If yes, contact me at stefonthenet AT gmail DOT com with your RSS or Atom feed URL and the shortcode or widget params you want to use it with; if not, contact the feed URL provider.