Francesca Hong, a Wisconsin state assemblywoman and Democratic candidate for governor, addresses supporters at her primary election night watch party in Madison, Wis., on Tuesday, Aug. 11, 2026. Hong was supposed to prove that a democratic socialist could win a statewide election. Instead, her surprise loss in the primary election for governor of Wisconsin dealt a blow to the progressive movement and initiated a scramble among Democratic factions to define her narrow defeat e

By ERNESTO LONDOÑO Amy Klobuchar, a powerful four-term senator with broad appeal across Minnesota, won Tuesday’s Democratic primary race for governor, according to The Associated Press. Klobuchar, 66, a moderate who faced minimal competition in the contest, jolted Minnesota politics when she signaled interest in the race early this year as a welfare fraud scandal was dogging Gov. Tim Walz’s bid for a third term. Few had expected Klobuchar to give up her role in the Senate, wh

President Donald Trump disembarks from Air Force One after he had secretly reboarded it at Royal Air Force Mildenhall in the United Kingdom, July 8, 2026. President Trump was part of a particularly elaborate deception last month, boarding one jet before being spirited away to another. (Doug Mills/The New York Times) By ERIC SCHMITT, MAGGIE HABERMAN, ARIC TOLER, JAMIE LEVENTHAL, SIMON DUCROQUET and YULIYA PARSHINA-KOTTAS President Donald Trump boarded Air Force One on July 8 a

Produce on displace at the District 7 Fresh Market at the Spauldings Branch Library in District Heights, Md., June 10, 2026. The location is among a growing number of free grocery stores that have opened across the country in recent years to help address food insecurity and stubbornly high grocery prices. (Caroline Gutman/The New York Times) By AUDRA D. S. BURCH Brittanie Brooks walked into a library in Prince George’s County, Maryland, breezing past the shelves of books, a p

President Donald Trump disembarks Air Force One upon arrival at Newark Liberty International Airport, in Newark, N.J., Aug. 7, 2026. President Trump is pushing for federal legislation that would require people to show proof of U.S. citizenship to register to vote. (Anna Rose Layden/The New York Times) By MADELEINE NGO, NICK CORASANITI and HAMED ALEAZIZ The Trump administration is making an intense push to identify and deport noncitizens who registered to vote, even if they di

An aerial view of homes destroyed by the Eaton fire in Altadena, Calif., Jan. 26, 2025. The deadly blaze that devastated the community of Altadena in Los Angeles County early last year was ignited by a transmission tower belonging to the utility company Southern California Edison, fire officials said in a report released on Tuesday, Aug. 4, 2026. (Erin Schaff/The New York Times) By LIVIA ALBECK-RIPKA, IVAN PENN and SHAWN HUBLER The deadly blaze that devastated the Altadena ne

Lake Mead, the largest reservoir in the country, is formed on the Colorado River at the Hoover Dam on Aug. 25, 2021. The reservoir’s water level has significantly dropped, along with the river. (Matthew Reamer/The New York Times) By REIS THEBAULT Lake Mead, the nation’s largest reservoir and a vital source of water for more than 25 million people across the Southwest, has dwindled to its lowest levels ever as the region struggles through a punishing drought. The record, first

Todd Blanche, the acting attorney general, at his confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, on Wednesday, July 15, 2026. A bitterly divided Senate confirmed Donald Trump’s former defense lawyer to the post of attorney general in a 50-49 vote in the early hours of Saturday, Aug. 8. (Kenny Holston/The New York Times) By MICHAEL GOLD, GLENN THRUSH and CARL HULSE A bitterly divided Senate narrowly confirmed Todd Blanche as attorney general on Saturday, elevating Preside

Demonstrators protest outside the U.S. Supreme Court after the court issued a 6-3 ruling that significantly impacts the future of Temporary Protected Status, a U.S. immigration program established by Congress in 1990, in Washington, June 25, 2026. The Trump administration is facing pressure on the right to ramp up arrests of about 350,000 Haitians who recently lost their legal status after the Supreme Court cleared the way for termination of a humanitarian program allowing th

The water treatment plant in Social Circle, Ga., Feb. 26, 2026. Federal and state officials are racing to address an assault on the nation’s water supply that they believe is the work of Iranian hackers. (Nicole Craine/The New York Times) By DUSTIN VOLZ In 2023, the Environmental Protection Agency under the Biden administration proposed creating stronger cybersecurity guidelines to better safeguard the nation’s water supply from hackers. The steps were modest, but necessary,