American flags hang from the James Tanner Amphitheater ahead of Memorial Day at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va., May 23, 2026. On this Memorial Day, families of those killed in the Iraq War reflected on the sacrifice and offered advice to today’s military families. (Caroline Gutman/The New York Times) By CLARENCE WILLIAMS Over the past several days, as clouds darkened the sky over Arlington National Cemetery, familiar scenes played out: school children on field

President Trump holds an official state dinner for King Charles III and Queen Camilla at the White House in Washington, on April 28, 2026. (Kenny Holston/The New York Times) By ANN E. MARIMOW Vice President JD Vance made an unannounced visit to the Supreme Court this month to attend a private dinner in a wood-paneled conference room with Chief Justice John Roberts and dozens of the chief justice’s former law clerks. Accompanying his wife Usha, who clerked for the chief justic

Secret Service and National Guard personnel on the scene after a shooting near the White House on Saturday, May 23, 2026. A man took a gun out of a bag and fired a volley of shots near the White House on Saturday evening before being shot and fatally wounded by U.S. Secret Service police officers, the Secret Service said in a statement. (Greg Kendall-Ball/The New York Times) By CAMPBELL ROBERTSON, CHELSIA ROSE MARCIUS and CLARENCE WILLIAMS A man who was already known to the U

Bags of items that will be shipped to Cuba sit outside a courier shipping business where a line of people waiting for service had formed, in Hialeah, Fla., May 20, 2026. Months into the oil blockade imposed by President Donald Trump, many Cubans are relying more than ever on deliveries of food and other necessities from relatives in the U.S. (Saul Martinez/The New York By TRACEY TULLY People in Cuba are enduring food shortages, near-constant blackouts and suffocating heat. F

Officer Daniel Hodges of Washington’s Metropolitan Police, left, and Harry Dunn, then an officer with the U.S. Capitol Police, at a congressional hearing in Washington on June 16, 2022. The two filed a lawsuit on Wednesday, May 20, 2026, accusing the Trump administration of creating a “slush fund” to reward Jan. 6 rioters and groups that committed violence on behalf of President Donald Trump. (Kenny Holston/The New York Times) By LUKE BROADWATER Two police officers who defend

President Donald Trump speaks to reporters aboard Air Force One, Jan. 31, 2026, as he travels from Joint Base Andrews, Md., to Palm Beach, Fla. Trump’s $1.8 billion fund tests constitutional limits; the deal the president reached with his own subordinates relies on a mechanism created by Congress that legal experts had warned was subject to manipulation. (Eric Lee/The New York Times) By PETER BAKER It is hard to imagine that any previous president would have thought he could

Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) speaks to reporters outside the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Nov. 18, 2025. In Tuesday’s primaries, Massie lost to a Trump-backed challenger. (Tierney L. Cross/The New York Times) By REID J. EPSTEIN President Donald Trump’s approval rating is drooping. His party is poised to lose seats in the House and is worried about the Senate. And yet Republican primary voters remain so loyal that they have no tolerance for Trump dissenters. Republicans backed by

Children are reunited with their families outside the Islamic Center of San Diego after at least three people were killed in an attack there on Monday, May 18, 2026. The authorities said the three victims were shot and killed by two teenagers, who later killed themselves in a vehicle blocks away. (John Francis Peters/The New York Times) By CHRISTINA MORALES, JILL COWAN and NEIL VIGDOR Every morning, before he headed to work across town as a security guard at the Islamic Cente

Police block off an area in Minneapolis near the area where a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent shot a man, Jan. 14, 2026. State prosecutors on Monday, May 18, charged a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent with assault in the January shooting of a Venezuelan immigrant in Minneapolis, an incident that sparked violent protests at the height of the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown. (Jamie Kelter Davis/The New York Times) By ERNESTO LONDOÑO and

By SOUMYA KARLAMANGLA and AMY GRAFF A fast-moving brush fire in a suburban community north of Los Angeles destroyed one home Monday and threatened thousands more, though officials said weather conditions and firefighting efforts had slowed activity by nighttime. The blaze in Simi Valley, California, about 40 miles northwest of downtown Los Angeles, began just before 11 a.m. Monday and grew to 1,368 acres as of Tuesday morning, according to the California Department of Forestr