Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaks during an announcement regarding autism at the White House in Washington, Sept. 22, 2025. In a severe blow to the Trump administration’s health agenda, a U.S. district court in Massachusetts on Monday, March 16, 2026, blocked the government from implementing a series of decisions on vaccines made over the last year by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (Tierney L. Cross/The New York Times) By MAGGIE ASTOR an

By KAROUN DEMIRJIAN and MADELEINE NGO Many Department of Homeland Security employees were on track to miss a paycheck last Friday amid the nearly monthlong lapse in funding for the agency, leading officials to warn of potential disruptions in air travel if more airport security workers call out of work. Travelers have already experienced long security line delays at some major airports, including John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York and William P. Hobby Airport i

An Oakland County Sheriff vehicle stationed outside Temple Israel, which was attacked by a naturalized U.S. citizen born in Lebanon who drove a car loaded with fireworks into the synagogue in West Bloomfield, Mich., March 13, 2026. The Israeli military says that the brother of Ayman Mohamad Ghazali, who was killed by armed guards after his attack on the synagogue, was a Hezbollah commander killed in an Israeli airstrike in Lebanon earlier this month. (Nick Hagen/The New York

The Tim Hortons coffee shop in Buffalo, N.Y., where Nurul Amin Shah Alam, 56, a nearly blind Rohingya refugee who spoke limited English, was dropped off by U.S. Border Patrol agents after his release from the Erie County Holding Center, on Feb. 26, 2026. Buffalo’s Arakan Rohingya community was rattled after a disabled man’s death. “Our worry comes from future incidents that may happen,” one resident said. (Jalen Wright/The New York Times) By MARK SOMMER In the Broadway-Fillmo

President Donald Trump salutes as coffins holding six Army Reservists killed by an Iranian drone strike in Kuwait were brought off a plane at Dover Air Force Base, Del., March 7, 2026. The group, Never Surrender, sent out an email on Thursday with an official photograph of Trump wearing a white campaign baseball cap and saluting as coffins holding six Army Reservists killed by an Iranian drone strike in Kuwait were brought off a plane at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware on Ma

An oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico on April 11, 2024. The Trump administration has approved a $5 billion oil drilling project in ultradeep waters of the Gulf of Mexico. Kaskida would be the BP’s first new deepwater project in the Gulf since the Deepwater Horizon explosion in 2010, which set off the worst oil spill disaster in U.S. history. (Erin Schaff/The New York Times) By LISA FRIEDMAN and REBECCA F. ELLIOTT The Trump administration late last week approved a $5 billion

A man visits a memorial to the anti-Communist militants who sailed from the Florida Keys and wound up in a gunfight off Cuban shores, held by Cuban exiles in Miami on Sunday, March 8, 2026. Five of the 10 are dead and the rest remain detained in Cuba. Some in the Cuban exile community hailed them for seizing an opportunity to try to provoke unrest in their homeland. (Eva Marie Uzcategui/The New York Times) By PATRICIA MAZZEI and DAVID C. ADAMS Before Héctor Cruz Correa left h

President Donald Trump greets Ed Gallrein, a farmer who has repeatedly voiced his support for him, on stage at an event at Verst Logistics in Hebron, Ky., Wednesday, March 11, 2026. Trump has endorsed Gallrein in a challenge to Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.). (Doug Mills/The New York Times) By LUKE BROADWATER In recent weeks, President Donald Trump has set out on a multistate tour designed to show midterm election voters that he is focused on the economy and their pocketbooks. Bu

By MITCH SMITH and JULIE BOSMAN A security guard opened fire on a driver who rammed a truck into a synagogue outside of Detroit on Thursday, authorities said. No one inside the building at the time, including students at the synagogue’s preschool, appeared to have been injured. Sheriff Michael Bouchard of Oakland County, Michigan, said at a news conference that “at least one individual came to the temple; security saw him, engaged him in gunfire.” He said it was too soon to d

An examination room at a medical practice in Evanston, Ill., on Oct. 28, 2024. A recent poll found that health care costs topped a list of the public’s economic anxieties, above concerns about the prices of food and groceries, gas and utilities. (Taylor Glascock/The New York Times) By REED ABELSON Americans are feeling the squeeze from rising health care costs, and they are already doing without. One-third of Americans — an estimated 82 million people — say they are making sa