Eliott Rodriguez, a Democrat running for congress against Republican incumbent Rep. María Elvira Salazar, campaigns in the Little Havana neighborhood in Miami, Sept. 25, 2026. A provocative campaign ad in which Rep. Salazar says that President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown has “gone too far,” has caused a stir among Republicans and drawn attention to her Democratic opponent. (Saul Martinez/The New York Times) By PATRICIA MAZZEI To hear Rep. María Elvira Salazar explain

By EMMA GOLDBERG Editors of The Cornell Daily Sun clustered around their computers late Monday, getting ready to send out a letter from the editor. They looked bleary-eyed, and one reporter confessed she had skipped her class on Nietzsche that day. These student journalists at Cornell University were pressing through a dizzying two weeks following the story of a student’s allegation that she was raped on campus in 2024. The case had long had their attention; now it had burst

By ZACH MONTAGUE A federal judge in Rhode Island ruled earlier this week that the Trump administration had unlawfully sought to withhold funding from more than two dozen domestic violence and sexual assault prevention groups, while using the grants to try to extract political concessions. In a 10-page ruling, Judge Melissa R. DuBose said she had no reason to revisit her initial reaction in April that the Justice Department had improperly tried to coerce grantees into acceptin

Christa Pike, who has been on death row for the better part of three decades after being convicted of torturing and killing a classmate at age 18, attends a court hearing via a video link as her lawyers mount a last round of appeals on her behalf, in Knoxville, Tenn., Aug. 11, 2026. Tennessee has called off another planned execution in 2026 and will review the way it puts prisoners to death after Pike survived two doses of a lethal drug in the state’s second botched attempt a

Military troops attend a ceremony with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth at Meridian Hill Park in Washington, July 2, 2026. The number of National Guard soldiers on the streets of Washington has fallen to 2,921, according to a Pentagon task force in the city, down from a peak of 5,148 troops on July 10. (Alex Kent/The New York Times) By JOHN ISMAY The number of National Guard soldiers on the streets of Washington has fallen to 2,921, according to a Pentagon task force in the cit

Boys Town Junction, in Monrovia, Liberia, on Aug. 23, 2026. The U.S. deportation deal with Liberia is one of the largest third-country deportation agreements struck by the Trump administration. (Carielle Doe/The New York Times) By ABBIE VANSICKLE The Supreme Court earlier this week gave President Donald Trump a temporary victory on a central piece of his mass deportation agenda, agreeing the administration can, for now, resume rapidly deporting immigrants to countries other t

Evan Gershkovich, a Wall Street Journal reporter, arrives at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland after his release in a prisoner swap following 16 months in a Russian prison, Aug. 1, 2024. In an interview, Gershkovich, a Wall Street Journal reporter who was imprisoned in Russia for 16 months, described his ordeal and the moment that nearly broke him. (Haiyun Jiang/The New York Times) By PETER BAKER It took 16 months to get Evan Gershkovich out of a Russian prison. It took many mor

President Donald Trump speaks to reporters at the White House in Washington on Sept. 23, 2026. The White House on Friday, Sept. 25, 2026, informed Congress that it intended to cancel about $810 million that lawmakers had approved for education and health-related programs, its latest attempt to use a legally untested power to unilaterally rescind spending without the approval of lawmakers. (Salwan Georges/The New York Times) By CATIE EDMONDSON The White House late last week ni

Flooding on Randall Ave., two blocks inland of the oceanfront in Point Pleasant Beach, N.J. on Saturday, Sept. 26, 2026. While strong winds were slowly dying down, the storm was not expected to fully leave the area until today. In the meantime, forecasters were expecting lingering flooding on Monday. (Dave Sanders/The New York Times) By CHRISTINA CARON The powerful nor’easter that slammed into parts of the East Coast over the weekend isn’t quite done yet. While the storm was

By NINA AGRAWAL An advisory committee to the Food and Drug Administration recommended on Wednesday that the agency approve a blood test designed to detect various cancers in the early stages, despite concerns among doctors about the test’s efficacy. The test, which is called Galleri and is manufactured by Grail, is one of a handful of so-called early detection blood tests that claim to be able to find multiple cancers at early stages. The idea of catching cancers sooner with