Former Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem during a press conference in New York, Jan. 8, 2026. The Federal Emergency Management Agency is reversing job cuts that Noem had overseen before she was fired last month. (Angelina Katsanis/The New York Times) By SCOTT DANCE The Federal Emergency Management Agency is reversing job cuts that former Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem had overseen before she was fired last month. FEMA has reinstated 14 people who had signed

Rudy Giuliani, former NYC mayor and former personal lawyer to Donald Trump, speaks to the press after leaving Federal District court in Manhattan on Thursday, Nov. 7, 2024. Giuliani was in a Florida hospital in critical condition, his spokesman said Sunday. (Jefferson Siegel/The New York Times) By JONAH E. BROMWICH Rudy Giuliani, the former mayor of New York City, was still in critical condition as he recovered from pneumonia in a Florida hospital on Monday, his spokesperson

The U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, on April 29, 2026. The Supreme Court ruling said there must be proof that a racial group was “intentionally” disadvantaged. The dissent called it “well-nigh impossible.” (Kenny Holston/The New York Times) By RICHARD FAUSSET In 1965, the year Congress passed the Voting Rights Act, it did not take much detective work to discover how some of the South’s most powerful white politicians felt about their Black neighbors. Sen. James Eastland, D-

A screen grab from a video released by the FBI on May 1 shows a man identified as Cole Tomas Allen running through a security checkpoint outside the White House correspondents’ dinner on Saturday, April 25, 2026. Jeanine Pirro, the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, asserted asserted that the video resolved uncertainty about whose gunfire had struck a Secret Service officer. (Federal Bureau of Investigation via The New York Times) By MALACHY BROWNE New video footage

Voters wait at the Fire Station Building to cast ballots in Baton Rouge, La., on May 2, 2026. On the first day of early voting, some glimpses of voter bewilderment came into focus, part of a dizzying scramble playing out days after a major Supreme Court ruling. (Emily Kask/The New York Times) By EMILY COCHRANE, TIM BALK, NICK CORASANITI and AIDAN McCAHILL The signs were stark, in bold, capital letters at early voting sites in Louisiana on Saturday: “ATTENTION! NOTICE OF CANCE

An undated photo provided via Baptiste Family shows Israel and Max Makoka, from the Republic of Congo, who were attending classes and playing on the basketball team at Hancock High School in Mississippi. A school transfer disrupted two brothers’ visas, their lawyer said, leaving them vulnerable to arrest by ICE and unsettling their Mississippi school community. (via Baptiste Family via The New York Times) By CHRISTINA MORALES and HAMED ALEAZIZ Two teenage brothers from the R

A masked federal agent guards a gate at an ICE facility from protesters trying to blockade it, in Newark, N.J., June 12, 2025. The Trump administration on Wednesday, April 29, 2026, sued New Jersey’s governor and attorney general over a state law that bars law enforcement officers, including Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, from wearing masks while on duty. (Victor J. Blue/The New York Times) By TRACEY TULLY The Trump administration sued New Jersey’s governor and a

Former FBI Director James Comey appears before the Senate Intelligence Committee in Washington on June 8, 2017, weeks after he was fired by President Donald Trump. (Doug Mills/The New York Times) By AISHVARYA KAVI James Comey, the former FBI director, made his first court appearance Wednesday after being charged over a photograph of seashells he had posted on social media that the Justice Department branded a serious threat to President Donald Trump. Comey, a longtime critic

From left, Queen Camilla and King Charles III of the United Kingdom, with President Donald Trump and Melania Trump, the first lady, during a state dinner in the White House in Washington on Tuesday, April 28, 2026. Six members of the Supreme Court were invited to the dinner, alongside top administration officials, billionaires and Republican lawmakers. (Kenny Holston/The New York Times) By SHAWN McCREESH King Charles III demonstrated what seemed to be a master class in Trump

Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida, center, attends the first round of the Masters golf tournament at Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, Ga., April 9, 2026. DeSantis has proposed a congressional map that could result in up to four new Republican-leaning seats. Some in the party fear it could backfire. (Doug Mills/The New York Times) By PATRICIA MAZZEI and NICK CORASANITI Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida proposed a redraw of the state’s congressional districts earlier this week that