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

People embrace outside the Islamic Center of San Diego after at least three people were killed in an attack there on Monday, May 18, 2026. Three men were killed in the attack, including a security guard who officials credited with preventing a more deadly massacre at the mosque. (John Francis Peters/The New York Times) By TIM ARANGO, NEIL VIGDOR and POOJA SALHOTRA A mother warned the San Diego police that her teenage son and a companion had taken several guns from her home on

By ANNA GRIFFIN Federal prosecutors will try to make the case this week that three activists who protested immigration enforcement last summer crossed the line from political dissent into criminal conspiracy — a legal theory that prompted the top federal prosecutor in eastern Washington to resign rather than sign off on the charges. The trial is likely to be a closely watched test of the Trump administration’s push to prioritize immigration protest cases and the strategy of u

Attendees watch a pre-recorded video of President Donald Trump at Rededicate 250: A National Jubilee of Prayer, Praise & Thanksgiving, in Washington on Sunday, May 17, 2026. Thousands of people gathered on the National Mall on Sunday for a daylong rally blending Christian prayer and political fervor, a gathering President Trump had touted as an opportunity to “rededicate America as one nation under God.” (Alex Kent/The New York Times) By ELIZABETH DIAS and RUTH GRAHAM Thousan

By POOJA SALHOTRA Catholic clergy members have secured the right to visit a Chicago-area immigration processing center to provide daily ministry and pastoral support to detainees, according to an agreement reached last week between a religious nonprofit group and the Trump administration. The deal comes about six months after several Roman Catholic clergy members in an Illinois-based Catholic advocacy group, the Coalition for Spiritual and Public Leadership, filed a lawsuit a