By KAROUN DEMIRJIAN Over the past 30 years, an increasing number of airports in the United States have installed buffer areas of crushable concrete at the end of their runways to help stop planes that overshoot their landings before they can crash into anything. Miami International Airport, where an Amazon cargo jet overran the runway’s terminus Sunday, killing five people and injuring five more, does not have such a buffer. Engineered materials arresting systems, referred to

First responders work to rescue survivors from the wreckage of the collapsed World Trade Center in New York on Sept. 12, 2001. New York City officials are making public more than 170,000 pages of documents related to the air quality around the World Trade Center site in the months after the Sept. 11 attacks. (Ruth Fremson/The New York Times) By SALLY GOLDENBERG and NINA AGRAWAL In the harrowing months that followed the attacks on the World Trade Center, New Yorkers were repea

A 24th anniversary ceremony in lower Manhattan to remember those killed in the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center, Sept. 11, 2025. Rudy Giuliani, third from left, the former mayor who shepherded New York City through the Sept. 11 attacks, said on Sunday, Sept. 6, 2026, that he did not think Mayor Zohran Mamdani should attend memorial ceremonies to mark the 25th anniversary of the attacks. (Vincent Alban/The New York Times) By LIAM STACK Rudy Giuliani, the former mayor

By MAIA SPOTO A cargo plane overran a runway at Miami International Airport on Sunday afternoon, killing at least five people, injuring at least five others and snarling air travel for thousands of passengers during a busy holiday weekend. The plane, operated for Amazon, had departed from Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport in San Juan, Puerto Rico, and touched down in Miami just before 2 p.m., according to the Federal Aviation Administration. The National Transportation S

Voters and poll workers arrive at their polling site at The Coliseum before voting begins for Florida’s Primary Election Day in St. Petersburg, Fla., on Tuesday, August 18, 2026. From Oregon to Florida, officials are at once reassuring voters that their ballots are safe and encouraging them to use drop boxes or vote in person. (Zack Wittman/The New York Times) By ANNA GRIFFIN, REBECCA FAIRLEY RANEY, KENDAL ASHBURY and DAVID IVERSEN President Donald Trump’s legal and rhetorica

By RICHARD FAUSSET Kevin Reddington, a veteran trial lawyer, kicked off the defense of his client earlier this summer with an audacious assertion, given that his client is Lindsay Clancy, the Massachusetts nurse who had admitted to strangling her three young children. “This,” Reddington told 12 jurors in his opening remarks, “is not a righteous prosecution.” Eleven of those jurors voted not to convict Clancy, 36, who claimed she was suffering from postpartum psychosis at the

Darrin Francom, assistant general manager for the Central Arizona Project, stands at Central Arizona Project headquarters in Phoenix, Aug. 17, 2026. Decades ago, Arizona won funding for a massive Colorado River project by agreeing to be first in line for cuts at a time of deep drought. The Trump administration says that time has come. (Rebecca Noble/The New York Times) By REIS THEBAULT From a secure, windowless room in northern Phoenix, technicians control the Colorado River

President Donald Trump holds a folder during an executive order signing event in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Aug. 6, 2026. A federal judge in Maryland temporarily blocked much of President Trump’s latest effort to withhold citizenship from babies born in the United States to noncitizen parents, ruling that the Supreme Court had already settled questions reopened by an executive order Trump signed in August. (Haiyun Jiang/The New York Times) By ZACH MONTA

Stephen Feinberg, then the nominee for deputy secretary of defense, during his confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Feb. 25, 2025. Feinberg, the deputy secretary of defense, has been charged with trying to help rejuvenate the U.S. defense industrial base. (Eric Lee/The New York Times) By EDWARD WONG, REBECCA F. ELLIOTT and ANATOLY KURMANAEV As the U.S. government faced shortcomings in the country’s weapons manufacturing, the Pentagon set up a new office that wo

Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) speaks at a groundbreaking ceremony at GreenTech Park in Worcester, Mass., Aug. 13, 2026. Markey, a progressive Massachusetts Democrat who has served in Congress for a half-century, defeated a much younger rival in a primary race on Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2026, according to The Associated Press. (Mel Musto/The New York Times) By REID J. EPSTEIN Massachusetts, as it turns out, is a good state in which to be a very old Democratic incumbent. Three Democrats w