Former FBI Director James Comey is sworn in during a Senate hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, June 8, 2017. A federal judge threw out the criminal charges against James Comey, the former F.B.I. director, and Letitia James, New York’s attorney general, on Monday after finding that the prosecutor President Trump handpicked to bring the cases had been illegally appointed. (Doug Mills/The New York Times) By ALAN FEUER and DEVLIN BARRETT A federal judge tossed out separate cr

Women shop at the Karmel Mall, a Somali shopping center, in Minneapolis, Oct. 14, 2019. President Donald Trump intends to strip hundreds of Somalis living in the United States of the protected status they have had for decades under a program for immigrants from countries in crisis. (Jenn Ackerman/The New York Times) By NICHOLAS BOGEL-BURROUGHS President Donald Trump intends to strip hundreds of Somalis living in the United States of the protected status they have had for deca

Zohran Mamdani, mayor-elect of New York City, speaks to reporters after attending a Sunday service at Union Grove Missionary Baptist Church in the Crotona Park East neighborhood of the Bronx, on Sunday, Nov. 23, 2025. In a Sunday interview on “Meet the Press,” Mamdani said he had made a forceful case to President Donald Trump that troops were not needed in the city. (Dave Sanders/The New York Times) By NATAHN TAYLOR PEMBERTON It was a break-the-internet moment if there ever w

An exam room at the Red River Women’s Clinic in Moorhead, Minn., which was the only remaining abortion provider in North Dakota before it moved across the border into Minnesota, May 26, 2023. The North Dakota Supreme Court reinstated a near-total abortion ban on Friday, reversing a judge’s earlier decision and making abortion once again illegal in the state. (Jenn Ackerman/The New York Times) By SONIA A. RAO The North Dakota Supreme Court reinstated a near-total abortion ban

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) speaks during a news conference about the Epstein files on Capitol Hill in Washington, Sept. 3, 2025. Rep. Greene’s resignation blindsided her conservative Georgia district, which had stuck by her through ups and downs, including her split with the president. (Eric Lee/The New York Times) By RICK ROJAS and SEAN KEENAN A portion of the country might have looked at Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene as a symbol of how caustic and bewildering nationa

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), one of the loudest critics of antisemitism among Republicans, at the Capitol Building in Washington, Sept., 17, 2025. Tensions over right-wing antisemitism have burst to the forefront of Republican politics, and show signs of becoming a fierce point of contention in the midterms and beyond. (Tierney L. Cross/The New York Times) By KATIE GLUECK and JENNIFER MEDINA For years, Jewish Republicans often denied that the right had a serious problem with anti

By LUKE BROADWATER Relenting to pressure from his base, President Donald Trump earlier this week announced on social media that he signed legislation calling on the Justice Department to release its files on convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein within 30 days. Trump’s signature does not guarantee the release of all the files. The bill contains significant exceptions, including a provision protecting continuing investigations, which could mean many documents would stay confi

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem speaks during a news conference about flooding in Kerrville, July 5, 2025. Jordan Vonderhaar/The New York Times) By MAXINE JOSELOW and SCOTT DANCE A task force formed by President Donald Trump to consider changes to the Federal Emergency Management Agency has recommended that it should not be abolished, according to four people briefed on the matter, a position that conflicts with Trump’s earlier assertion that the agency should “go awa