President Donald Trump arrives at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland following spending the weekend at his golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey, on Sunday, August 16, 2026. In a social media post, the president scolded South Korea for not helping denuclearize Iran, and also praised North Korea and its leader. (Al Drago/The New York Times) By HELENE COOPER President Donald Trump said on Sunday that he had instructed the Pentagon to reduce joint military exercises with South Korea,

Workers assess a fallen tree on busy Kanoelehua Avenue as Hurricane Lala pummels with high winds and heavy rain in Hilo, Hawaii, on Saturday, Aug. 15, 2026. (Bruce Omori/The New York Times) By CHRISTINA MORALES and JUDSON JONES Hawaii residents faced extensive power outages, submerged bridges and roads, and damaged homes after Hurricane Lala brushed along the islands. Hurricane Lala, which was a Category 1 hurricane, did not make landfall but moved close enough to wash out hi

Central Synagogue in Manhattan on Sept. 3, 2021. Police said a man on Friday, Aug. 15, 2026, struck a congregant at the prominent Upper East Side synagogue, as Jews in the city contend with threats, fears and internal divides. (Anna Watts/The New York Times) By EMMA GOLDBERG and MAIA COLEMAN Sabbath services just began at Central Synagogue on Friday night when prayers were interrupted by a crashing sound. Shouts rang out. Congregants held their breath. It was a scenario that

The Department of Justice in Washington, June 15, 2026. The U.S. attorney’s office in Chicago has spent the past year investigating a Democratic fund-raising firm once co-owned by the daughter of the judge in President Donald Trump’s hush-money trial in New York, according to court filings and people familiar with the inquiry. (Alex Kent/The New York Times) By GLENN THRUSH The U.S. attorney’s office in Chicago has spent the past year investigating a Democratic fundraising fir

Johanna Fernández holds some of the police surveillance records that she used in her research on her lap, in her home in New York, Aug. 8, 2014. Fernández, a Dominican American historian whose authoritative book about the Young Lords helped revive the legacy of that leftist collective, a revolutionary Latino counterpart to the Black Panthers, died on July 30, 2026, in Manhattan. She was 55. (Christopher Gregory-Rivera/The New York Times) By RICHARD SANDOMIR Johanna Fernández,

Francesca Hong, a Wisconsin state assemblywoman and Democratic candidate for governor, addresses supporters at her primary election night watch party in Madison, Wis., on Tuesday, Aug. 11, 2026. Hong was supposed to prove that a democratic socialist could win a statewide election. Instead, her surprise loss in the primary election for governor of Wisconsin dealt a blow to the progressive movement and initiated a scramble among Democratic factions to define her narrow defeat e

By ERNESTO LONDOÑO Amy Klobuchar, a powerful four-term senator with broad appeal across Minnesota, won Tuesday’s Democratic primary race for governor, according to The Associated Press. Klobuchar, 66, a moderate who faced minimal competition in the contest, jolted Minnesota politics when she signaled interest in the race early this year as a welfare fraud scandal was dogging Gov. Tim Walz’s bid for a third term. Few had expected Klobuchar to give up her role in the Senate, wh

President Donald Trump disembarks from Air Force One after he had secretly reboarded it at Royal Air Force Mildenhall in the United Kingdom, July 8, 2026. President Trump was part of a particularly elaborate deception last month, boarding one jet before being spirited away to another. (Doug Mills/The New York Times) By ERIC SCHMITT, MAGGIE HABERMAN, ARIC TOLER, JAMIE LEVENTHAL, SIMON DUCROQUET and YULIYA PARSHINA-KOTTAS President Donald Trump boarded Air Force One on July 8 a

Produce on displace at the District 7 Fresh Market at the Spauldings Branch Library in District Heights, Md., June 10, 2026. The location is among a growing number of free grocery stores that have opened across the country in recent years to help address food insecurity and stubbornly high grocery prices. (Caroline Gutman/The New York Times) By AUDRA D. S. BURCH Brittanie Brooks walked into a library in Prince George’s County, Maryland, breezing past the shelves of books, a p

President Donald Trump disembarks Air Force One upon arrival at Newark Liberty International Airport, in Newark, N.J., Aug. 7, 2026. President Trump is pushing for federal legislation that would require people to show proof of U.S. citizenship to register to vote. (Anna Rose Layden/The New York Times) By MADELEINE NGO, NICK CORASANITI and HAMED ALEAZIZ The Trump administration is making an intense push to identify and deport noncitizens who registered to vote, even if they di