Author E. Jean Carroll leaves the Thurgood Marshall United States Courthouse in lower Manhattan, Sept. 6, 2024. Andrew Boutros, the Trump-appointed U.S. attorney for Northern Illinois, has opened a criminal investigation into Carroll, the 82-year-old former magazine writer who accused President Trump of sexual assault, according to a person with direct knowledge of the situation. (Dave Sanders/The New York Times) By GLENN THRUSH and BENJAMIN WEISER The Justice Department has

An aerial view of the Port of Longview, Washington in 2008. Nine workers at a paper mill in the city remained missing and two were dead in what Gov. Bob Ferguson warned would likely be the worst industrial disaster in the state’s modern history. (Wikipedia) By BILLY WITZ, CHRISTINE HAUSER, ALEXANDRA BERZON, ANNA GRIFFIN and CHRISTINE MORALES Nine workers at a paper mill in southern Washington state remained missing and two were dead earlier this week in what Gov. Bob Ferguson

Attorney General Ken Paxton of Texas waves as he arrives at a primary election night gathering in Dallas, March 3, 2026. Paxton, the scandal-scarred attorney general of Texas and loyalist to President Trump, defeated Senator John Cornyn in a Republican primary runoff election on Tuesday, May 26, 2026, according to The Associated Press, casting out the state’s senior senator and bolstering Democratic hopes of flipping the seat. (Desiree Rios/The New York Times) By SHANE GOLDMA

The Brigade 2506 Monument in the Little Havana neighborhood of Miami, March 8, 2026. More than 4,300 Cubans were deported from the United States to Mexico between President Trump’s 2025 inauguration and March 9, 2026. (Eva Marie Uzcategui/The New York Times) By PATRICIA MAZZEI Record numbers of Cuban nationals have been deported from the United States since President Donald Trump returned to office last year, but most have not been repatriated to Cuba. Instead, they have been

President Donald Trump shows a signed executive order in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, March 31, 2026. President Trump is trying to create individual lists of citizens by state to determine who can vote, even as his administration acknowledges they would be unreliable. (Doug Mills/The New York Times) By ADAM SELLA President Donald Trump is seeking to create state-by-state citizenship lists, saying they are necessary to block noncitizens from voting, a virt

Sen. Andy Kim (D-N.J.), center left, attempts to de-escalate tensions between protesters and ICE agents outside Delaney Hall in Newark, N.J., as a hunger strike by immigration detainees there entered its fourth day on Monday, May 25, 2026. New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill and other politicians joined protesters at the immigration jail on Monday, the latest standoff between her and President Trump over his immigration policies. (Dakota Santiago/The New York Times) By WINNIE HU a

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