The U.S. Department of Education headquarters in Washignton, Nov. 13, 2025. The Trump administration announced on Tuesday, June 16, 2026, plans to move programs for disabled students into the Health and Human Services Department and the enforcement of civil rights laws in schools to the Justice Department, in the White House’s most aggressive move yet to dismantle the Education Department. (Eric Lee/The New York Times) By MICHAEL C. BENDER and DAVID GOLDSTEIN The Trump admini

The runway at Edwards Air Force Base in California, Dec. 5, 2024. A B-52 bomber crashed at Edwards Air Force Base in California on Monday, June 15, 2026, Air Force officials said in a statement. The condition of the pilot and any other crew members was unknown. (Philip Cheung/The New York Times) By SHAWN HUBLER, JILL COWAN and JOHN ISMAY Eight crew members were confirmed dead after a B-52 bomber crashed explosively at Edwards Air Force Base in California during a routine test

Sheriff’s deputies in Laramie County, Wyo., detain a man after a traffic stop on May 12, 2026. The sheriff’s department in the county has an agreement with the federal government to perform immigration arrests. (Todd Heisler/The New York Times) By ALLISON McCANN Early on a Tuesday morning last month, the sky still black, a group of deputies from the Laramie County sheriff’s office set out to patrol two major interstates that cross their corner of southeast Wyoming. Over the c

The University of Michigan campus in Ann Arbor, on Feb. 2, 2024. Indictments on federal conspiracy charges against eight pro-Palestinian activists with ties to the University of Michigan were unsealed in June 2026. (Nic Antaya/The New York Times) By MITCH SMITH For much of Friday afternoon, the four defendants sat in orange jumpsuits, their hands cuffed in front of their waists, as a judge weighed a federal prosecutor’s request to keep them locked up before trial. That prosec

President Donald Trump sits between first lady Melania Trump and Dana White, the president and CEO of the Ultimate Fighting Championship, as he looks up at Diego Lopes after Lopes won his match against Steve Garcia during “UFC Freedom 250,” a UFC event hosted by President Trump for his 80th birthday on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, on Sunday, June 14, 2026. (Kenny Holston/The New York Times) By SHAWN McCREESH President Donald Trump’s 80th birthday UFC stunt

In an image provided by the U.S. Department of Defense, an artistic interpretation of a 2022 incident potentially involving unidentified anomalous phenomena, or UAP, reported near Colorado Springs. The flying spud, or what looked like one, was sighted by an Army intelligence officer and four members of his unit from Fort Carson, according to documents that were among a new tranche of UFO files released by the Trump administration on June 12, 2026. (U.S. Department of Defense

The summit of Cowboy Mountain, about 75 miles east of Seattle, Wash., on Nov. 15, 2012. The Cascades separate the lush western counties of Washington and Oregon from the dry, agricultural counties to the east. (Ruth Fremson/The New York Times) By ANNA GRIFFIN Last month, a journalist turned organizer named Andrew Engelson invited friends and fellow Pacific Northwesterners to a small club in Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood for an evening of verse, in which his guests would

A Social Security Administration office in the East Village neighborhood of Manhattan, Sept. 3, 2025. The financial forecast for Social Security worsened this year, according to the annual financial report released on Tuesday, June 9, 2026, by the program’s trustees. (Dave Sanders/The New York Times) By TARA SIEGEL BERNARD and MARGOT SANGER-KATZ The financial forecast for Social Security worsened this year, according to the annual financial report released earlier this week b

“Latinos for Trump” signs at a campaign event for President Donald Trump in Phoenix, Sept. 23, 2020. Latino voters shifted sharply toward President Trump in each of the last two presidential elections, a trend that shocked and confounded Democrats. (Adriana Zehbrauskas/The New York Times) By JENNIFER MEDINA Latino voters shifted sharply toward President Donald Trump in each of the past two presidential elections, a trend that shocked and confounded Democrats. Many in the part

Graham Platner takes the stage at his election night watch party with his wife, Amy Gertner, after he won the Democratic nomination for Senate, in Blue Hill, Maine, on Tuesday, June 9, 2026. Platner, the progressive oyster farmer who toppled Maine’s political establishment even as a series of unsettling revelations about his past rattled his party, won the Democratic nomination for Senate on Tuesday, according to The Associated Press. (Sophie Park/The New York Times) By KELLE