Antonio Reynoso, the Brooklyn borough president, speaks to reporters at Junior’s Restaurant and Bakery in Brooklyn, Sept. 16, 2024. Reynoso’s bid to succeed Rep. Nydia Velázquez in Congress will most likely be contested by a candidate backed by the Democratic Socialists of America. (Eric Lee/The New York Times) By NICHOLAS FANDOS and BENJAMIN ORESKES Antonio Reynoso, the Brooklyn borough president, said Thursday that he would run for a New York City House seat being vacated b

Authorities work near an area where two members of the National Guard were shot in Washington, Nov. 26, 2025. The Trump administration is prioritizing the detention of Afghan nationals who have previously been ordered to leave the United States, part of a broader crackdown on refugees from Afghanistan after last week’s shooting of two National Guard troops in Washington, according to internal documents reviewed by The New York Times. (Eric Lee/The New York Times) By MIRIAM JO

President Donald Trump participates in a cabinet meeting, in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington on Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2025. Near the end of the two-hour meeting, Trump unleashed a xenophobic tirade against Somali immigrants, calling them “garbage” he does not want in the United States. (Doug Mills/The New York Times) By ZOLAN KANNO-YOUNGS and SHAWN McCREESH President Donald Trump unleashed a xenophobic tirade against Somali immigrants earlier this week, calling t

President Juan Orlando Hernández of Honduras addresses the United Nations General Assembly, Sept. 25, 2019. President Donald Trump formally pardoned Hernández on Dec. 1, 2025. Hernández was accused of flooding the United States with cocaine and had been sentenced to 45 years in prison. (Brittainy Newman/The New York Times) By WILLIAM K. RASHBAUM, MAGGIE HABERMAN, KENNETH P. VOGEL and JONAH E. BROMWICH President Donald Trump formally pardoned former President Juan Orlando Hern

A FEMA search and rescue worker in Swannanoa, N.C., after Hurricane Helene, Oct. 6, 2024. The Federal Emergency Management Agency on Monday, Dec. 1, 2025, said it was revoking the reinstatement of 14 employees who had been on administrative leave since August, when they wrote a letter to Congress warning that President Trump was gutting disaster response in the United States. (Loren Elliott/The New York Times) By MAXINE JOSELOW The Trump administration said earlier this week

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth attends a bilateral meeting between President Donald Trump and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Nov. 18, 2025. The suggestion that Hegseth or his officials targeted shipwrecked survivors has been galvanizing because that would apparently be a war crime even if one accepts Trump officials’ broader argument for the strike campaign. (Kenny Holston/The New York Times) By CHARLIE

A section of Logan International Airport that contains passenger gates for commercial airliners, in Boston, Sept. 1, 2021. A 19-year-old college student was about to board a flight to surprise her family in Texas for Thanksgiving when she was detained at Boston Logan International Airport and deported to Honduras two days later, her father and lawyer said. (Cody O’Loughlin/The New York Times) By AMANDA HOLPUCH and ANNIE CORREAL A 19-year-old college student was about to board

Rep. Mike Turner (R-Ohio) during an event of the 75th anniversary of NATO, at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation & Institute in Washington, July 9, 2024. Top Republicans have joined Democrats in demanding answers about the escalating military campaign the Trump administration says is aimed at targeting drug traffickers. (Eric Lee/The New York Times) By MICHAEL GOLD A top Republican and Democrats in Congress suggested earlier this week that U.S. military officials might