Mi Tierra Fruit Market in the Bronx, New York, Oct. 30, 2025. A federal judge told the Trump administration on Friday to continue funding for food stamps during the government shutdown, a legal victory for local officials and nonprofits that sought to spare roughly 42 million Americans from losing the benefits in a matter of days. (Marco Postigo Storel/The New York Times) By TONY ROMM One day after ordering the Trump administration to continue funding food stamps during the s

Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic candidate for New York City mayor, speaks during a canvassing event at McCaffrey Playground in Manhattan, Oct. 28, 2025. Mamdani has said he cannot support Israel as long as it is an officially Jewish state — more than 1,100 American rabbis are warning that the safety of Jews is at risk. (Vincent Alban/The New York Times) By LISA LERER and JENNIFER MEDINA The controversy over Zohran Mamdani’s criticism of Israel has moved well beyond New York Ci

Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) speaks to reporters alongside other Republican senators outside the West Wing after a lunch with President Donald Trump at the White House in Washington, Oct. 21, 2025. Significant milestones over the next few weeks could shuffle the status quo — for now, both sides remain dug in as the government shutdown heads into a fifth week. (Doug Mills/The New York Times) By CARL HULSE and CATIE EDMONDSON Senate Republicans were confident that

A P-3 Orion hurricane hunter plane, nicknamed “Kermit,” preparing to take off from Lakeland, Fla., to collect data on what became Hurricane Helene, Sept. 24, 2024. Staffing cuts and a federal government shutdown are stretching scientists’ ability to make valuable hurricane observations. (Zack Wittman/The New York Times) By SCOTT DANCE Frank Marks has flown aboard hurricane hunter aircraft dozens of times over the past 45 years, collecting data that has revolutionized meteorol

President Donald Trump speaks to reporters aboard Air Force One, late on Friday, Oct. 24, 2025. More than two dozen states sued the Trump administration on Tuesday over its recent refusal to fund food stamps during the government shutdown, seeking to spare roughly 42 million people from hunger and financial hardship starting in a matter of days. (Haiyun Jiang/The New York Times) By TONY ROMM and EMILY COCHRANE More than two dozen states sued the Trump administration earlier t

U.S. Border Patrol agents take a man into custody outside a train station in Chicago, Oct. 11, 2025. Targeting people for immigration enforcement based on race or ethnicity alone was forbidden by the U.S. Supreme Court in a unanimous decision 50 years ago. Such profiling has become a key part of the Trump administration’s playbook. (Jamie Kelter Davis/The New York Times) By JAZMINE ULLOA Again and again in Chicago and elsewhere in recent weeks, masked federal agents have acco

Bracelets with messages of “Serve All the People” and “Support the Constitution” at a weekly vigil to mark staffing cuts and a loss of funding under the Trump administration, outside the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md., Oct. 25, 2025. As more than one million government employees go without pay, many are turning to side jobs and food banks to make ends meet. (Jason Andrew/The New York Times) By EILEEN SULLIVAN and DREW ATKINS When Jill Hornick woke up on a rece

Zohran Mamdani, a New York State Assembly member and democratic socialist mayoral candidate, embraces U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) during a “City We Can Afford” rally at Terminal 5 on the first day of early voting in New York, on Saturday, June 14, 2025. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Ocasio-Cortez joined Mamdani on Sunday to help push his bid to win the Nov. 4 election for mayor of New York City. (Shuran Huang/The New York Times) By LISA LERER Zohran Mamdani,