President Donald Trump stops to speak with reporters before departing the White House on Sunday, Oct. 5, 2025. Trump has said he wants to eventually shift the burden of disaster relief and recovery onto states. It’s already happening. (Pete Marovich/The New York Times) By SCOTT DANCE Life is inching back to normal in the town of Cave City seven months after a tornado slammed into its corner of northeastern Arkansas. The only grocery store is about to reopen. Crews are startin

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) and Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.) during the third day of the speakership vote at Capitol Hill in Washington, on January 5, 2023. It took months of social media pleas, weekly dispatches in a small newspaper, handwritten letters from solitary confinement, entreaties from Republican allies and 84 days of prison time. But Santos’s request was finally granted. (Haiyun Jiang/The New York Times) By MAIA COLEMAN In the hours after President Donald T

Demonstrators march down 7th Avenue in Manhattan during a No Kings Day protest on Saturday, Oct. 18, 2025. (Adam Gray/The New York Times) By CORINA KNOLL They were teachers and lawyers, military veterans and fired government employees. Children and grandmothers, students and retirees. Arriving in droves across the country in major cities and small towns, they appeared in costumes, blared music, brandished signs, hoisted American flags and cheered at the honks of passing cars.

The Russell Smith Federal Courthouse in Missoula, Mont., Sept. 12, 2025. (Tailyr Irvine/The New York Times) By KAREN ZRAICK A federal judge in Montana earlier this week dismissed a novel lawsuit filed by 22 young people alleging that three of President Donald Trump’s executive orders on energy and the environment violated their constitutional rights. Judge Dana L. Christensen wrote that he had “reluctantly” made the decision, despite convincing evidence presented by the plain

Demonstrators during a rally outside the Supreme Court in Washington on Wednesday morning, Oct. 15, 2025. The court on Wednesday heard arguments in a challenge to Louisiana’s congressional map, a legal battle over whether states can use race as a factor in drawing electoral lines. (Kenny Holston/The New York Times) By ABBIE VANSICKLE The Supreme Court appeared poised earlier this week to weaken a key provision of a landmark civil rights law by sharply limiting the ability of

Crowds gather as a helicopter carrying hostages freed from captivity by Hamas in Gaza arrives at Beilinson Hospital in Petah Tikva, Israel, on Monday, Oct. 13, 2025. With Hamas freeing the last 20 living Israeli hostages and Israel releasing some 2,000 Palestinian prisoners, President Trump proclaimed an ‘end’ to the war. (Amit Elkayam/The New York Times) By JULIE BOSMAN Federal agents deployed tear gas on Chicago residents and more than a dozen police officers Tuesday, the l

A protest against Department of Education layoffs in Washington, March 13, 2025. A pair of decades-old promises from Congress — ensuring disabled students receive a free and appropriate education and protecting all pupils from discrimination in schools — have been thrown into doubt after a round of sweeping layoffs at the Education Department. (Eric Lee/The New York Times) By SARAH MERVOSH, MICHAEL C. BENDER and DANA GOLDSTEIN A pair of decades-old promises from Congress — en

By PATRICIA MAZZEI and POOJA SALHOTRA One person died and two are missing in western Alaska after remnants of Typhoon Halong flooded remote communities, Alaska State Troopers said earlier this week, confirming the first death in the state from the powerful storm. All three people had been reported missing from Kwigillingok, one of the low-lying villages along the Bering Sea that were hard-hit by winds and floods that tore some houses off their foundations on Sunday. The storm