Attorney General Pam Bondi makes remarks in the briefing room at the White House in Washington, June 27, 2025. The name atop the Justice Department’s organizational chart matters less than the presence of a president whose demands for revenge have become so extreme that even his most obsequious appointees have fallen short. (Pete Marovich/The New York Times) By ALAN FEUER and GLENN THRUSH President Donald Trump’s pick to replace Pam Bondi will face the same conundrum that eve

A photo provided by NASA shows astronaut Christina Koch illuminated by a screen inside the darkened Orion spacecraft on the third day of the agency’s Artemis II mission, April 3, 2026. The astronauts said they had lost track of which day it is on Earth on their transit to the moon. (NASA via The New York Times) By KATRINA MILLER As Day 4 dawned on the Artemis II mission, the astronauts were closer to the moon than to Earth, after crossing the halfway point between the two bod

An attendee waits for former President Donald Trump to arrive at a religious gathering in Washington, Sept. 15, 2023. A federal judge in Texas on Tuesday, March 31, 2026, dismissed a lawsuit seeking to overturn the 70-year-old ban on political activity by churches, abruptly ending a case that conservative Christian groups had hoped could free pastors to endorse candidates from the pulpit. (Kenny Holston/The New York Times) By DAVID A. FAHRENTHOLD and ELIZABETH DIAS A federal

The University of Pennsylvania campus in Philadelphia, March 13, 2025. Some Jewish students and faculty at the University of Pennsylvania have expressed concern about the Trump administration’s tactics. (Rachel Wisniewski/The New York Times) By MICHAEL C. BENDER and ALAN BLINDER The Trump administration was within its rights to demand that the University of Pennsylvania turn over information about Jews on campus as part of a federal investigation into discrimination at the sc

By JACEY FORTIN Two people detained at the Rikers Island jail complex in New York have died in the past week, the first deaths under Mayor Zohran Mamdani, who faces a 2027 deadline to close the troubled facility. On Wednesday, a 39-year-old man was found at George R. Vierno Center on the island in need of medical aid, according to the Department of Correction. The man, Barry Cozart, entered Rikers in November and faced burglary charges among other counts. He was pronounced de

Police vehicles outside Temple Israel in West Bloomfield Township, Mich., March 13, 2026. The man who rammed his truck into a Michigan synagogue and killed himself during a firefight with security guards this month was “motivated and inspired by Hezbollah’s militant ideology,” federal officials said on Monday, March 30, 2026. .(Nick Hagen/The New York Times) By JACEY FORTIN The man who rammed his truck into a Michigan synagogue and killed himself during a firefight with secur

President Donald Trump signs executive orders in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington on the first day of his second term in office, Jan. 20, 2025. Before President Trump’s order to limit birthright citizenship, there was widespread agreement that the 14th Amendment guaranteed citizenship for U.S.-born babies. (Doug Mills/The New York Times) BY RUTH IGIELNIK In 1993, a freshman senator from Nevada stood on the Senate floor to denounce birthright citizenship for th

Mourners during the funeral of Emmanuel Damas, 56, whose death has galvanized opposition to collaboration between ICE and local and state authorities in Boston, in Dorchester, Mass., on March 28, 2026. As immigrant detainee deaths have increased, conditions in detention facilities nationwide are coming under more scrutiny. (Sophie Park/The New York Times) By JAZMINE ULLOA, ALLISON McCANN and EMILIANO RODRÍGUEZ MEGA It started with sharp pain in a tooth. For about a week, Emma

By KENNETH CHANG In a few days, four astronauts could be strapped into a spacecraft for the first crewed trip to head toward the moon since 1972. “Things are certainly starting to feel real,” said Christina Koch, a NASA astronaut and one of the four members of the Artemis II crew, said during a news conference Sunday morning. She and her crewmates — Reid Wiseman and Victor Glover of NASA, and Jeremy Hansen of the Canadian Space Agency — spoke from crew quarters at Kennedy Spa

Federal immigration officers stand near exit areas at O’Hare International Airport in Chicago on March 23, 2026. Transportation safety officers were set to be paid on Monday, but Tom Homan, the White House’s border czar, said ICE agents may stay where there are shortages. (Jamie Kelter Davis/The New York Times) By AISHVARYA KAVI Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents could remain at U.S. airports, where President Donald Trump had sent them to respond to a shortage of secu