President Donald Trump and Kristi Noem, his Homeland Security secretary, tour the detention camp billed by the state of Florida as Alligator Alcatraz, at the Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport in Ochopee, Fla., July 1, 2025. (Doug Mills/The New York Times) By PATRICIA MAZZEI and HAMED ALEAZIZ Florida intends to shut down a high-profile immigration detention center that it opened last summer in the Everglades, according to a federal official and three people familiar

The Dock Street Dam on the Susquehanna River in Harrisburg, Pa., on April 17, 2026. The majority of U.S. dams were built decades ago to create swimming and fishing holes or reservoirs for water supplies, among other uses. (Andrew Mangum/The New York Times) By CARA BUCKLEY Even though the two dams spanning the river in Bedford, Pennsylvania, were old, troublesome and functionally useless, locals just couldn’t quit them. The dams were built for swimming and fishing, but so much

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, center, and Gen. Dan Caine, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, right, testify before the House Appropriations subcommittee on Defense on Capitol Hill in Washington, on Tuesday, May 12, 2026. (Haiyun Jiang/The New York Times) By MEGAN MINEIRO A top Pentagon official testified earlier this week that the cost of the war with Iran had risen to around $29 billion, as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth refused repeatedly to tell members of Congre

Dr. Marty Makary, the commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, speaks during a news conference in Washington, April 22, 2025. Makary resigned on Tuesday, May 12, 2026, according to an administration official, after weeks of pressure and rumors that President Donald Trump was planning to fire him. (Al Drago/The New York Times) By CHRISTINA JEWETT Dr. Marty Makary, the commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, resigned Tuesday, after weeks of pressure and rumor

Eileen Wang, the former mayor of Arcadia, California (Wikipedia) By POOJA SALHOTRA Eileen Wang, the mayor of Arcadia, California, resigned Monday after federal prosecutors announced they had charged her with acting as an illegal agent of the Chinese government. She will plead guilty to the charge, according to a plea deal unsealed the same day. The felony charge comes with a potential sentence of up to 10 years in prison. The court document outlined Wang’s efforts, beginning

From left, Rep. Steve Cohen (D-Tenn.) and Tennessee State Sen. Raumesh Akbari examine the new House map unveiled by Tennessee Republicans in Nashville, May 6, 2026. The nation’s redistricting war has escalated at a dizzying rate over the last few weeks, potentially becoming a defining issue of this year’s midterm elections as much as the war with Iran or rising gas prices. (Brad J. Vest/The New York Times) By NICK CORASANITI The nation’s redistricting war has escalated at a d

By CHRISTINA MORALES Six people were found dead Sunday afternoon in a boxcar in Laredo, Texas, a spokesperson for the Laredo Police Department said. At approximately 3 p.m. local time, an employee for Union Pacific who was responsible for loading and unloading train cars at a rail yard before they headed north reported the discovery of the bodies, said the spokesperson, Investigator Joe E. Baeza. The circumstances of their deaths were unknown, he said, adding that police were

The entrance to the biocontainment unit at Nebraska Medicine in Omaha, March 5, 2020. Sixteen of 18 passengers who might have been exposed to hantavirus while aboard a cruise ship were isolating at a special quarantine center in Omaha, Nebraska on Monday, including one person who tested “mildly” positive for the virus and was in a more restrictive biocontainment unit, U.S. officials said. (Tim Gruber/The New York Times) By SONIA A. RAO, JACEY FORTIN and JIN YU YOUNG The waiti

Rescue boats at a staging area for emergency workers in Kerrville, Texas, before dawn on Tuesday, July 8, 2025. An expert panel appointed by President Donald Trump recommended on Thursday, May 7, that the Federal Emergency Management Agency make changes that could speed the flow of disaster aid to communities but also force states to cover more of the costs of more disasters without federal help. (Loren Elliott/The New York Times) By SCOTT DANCE An expert panel appointed by P

In an undated image from the Department of Defense, a page from a 1969 technical debriefing of Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins, the three American astronauts on the Apollo 11 moon mission. The Pentagon on Friday released online what it called “new, never-before-seen” files, dating back decades, related to unidentified flying objects. (Department of Defense via The New York Times) By MICHAEL LEVENSON Government drones, errant weather balloons, experimental spy