Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) speaks to reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington on Monday, Nov. 10, 2025. The end to the longest U.S. government shutdown ever was in sight on Monday, the day after eight senators who caucus with Democrats broke ranks and provided the votes to advance a plan to fund most federal agencies through January. (Tierney L. Cross/The New York Times) By CATIE EDMONDSON The Senate passed legislation Monday night to end the nation’s longest g

A demonstrator waves a pride flag outside the Supreme Court in Washington on June 25, 2015. The Supreme Court on Monday, Nov. 10, 2025, turned down a request that it consider overturning its landmark decision to legalize same-sex marriage a decade ago. (Doug Mills/The New York Times) By ANN E. MARIMOW The Supreme Court on Monday turned down a request that it consider overturning its landmark decision to legalize same-sex marriage a decade ago. The court, without comment, decl

By TONY ROMM and ABBIE VANSICKLE The Trump administration on Monday said it would return to the Supreme Court in yet another attempt to halt full federal funding for food stamps, signifying the latest twist in a winding saga that has imperiled the nation’s largest anti-hunger program. The administration revealed its intentions just hours after an appeals court refused to block the decision of a lower court judge, who had previously ordered the government to finance benefits c

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) at a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington on Monday morning, Nov. 10, 2025. “You need to begin right now in returning to the Hill,” Johnson said in remarks directed to members of the House, where Republicans hold a slim majority. (Tierney L. Cross/The New York Times) By ASHLEY AHN, MICHAEL GOLD and CATIE EDMONDSON The end to the longest U.S. government shutdown ever was in sight Monday, the day after eight senators who caucus with D

Mayor-elect of New York City Zohran Mamdani greets people after speaking at the Labor Breakfast organized by Somos Inc., the NY Senate Puerto Rican/Hispanic Task Force, and the NY Labor Council for Latin American Advancement at the Somos conference in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Saturday, November 8, 2025. (Erika P. Rodríguez/The New York Times) By NICHOLAS FANDOS, EMMA G. FITZSIMMONS and BENJAMIN ORESKES Three days after winning New York City’s bitterly fought mayoral election, Z

People line up at the Church of the Good Shepherd food pantry in Manhattan, Nov. 1, 2025. The Supreme Court late Friday temporarily allowed the Trump administration to continue to withhold some funding for food stamps, the nation’s largest anti-hunger program, the latest twist in a dizzying legal battle with great stakes for millions of low-income Americans. (Marco Postigo Storel/The New York Times) By TONY ROMM The Trump administration told states that they must “immediately

In an image provided by the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet, the aftermath of a plane crash near the Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport in Louisville, Ky., on Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2025. Data from Flightradar24, a tracking platform, showed that a UPS plane, a McDonnell Douglas MD-11F, bound for Honolulu took off from the airport shortly after 5 p.m. and it reached an altitude of just 175 feet before swiftly descending. (Kentucky Transportation Cabinet via The New York T

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy speaks at a news conference about the federal government shutdown at the U.S. Capitol, Oct. 23, 2025. Duffy said this week that a 10% reduction of air traffic at 40 of the nation’s busiest airports was an attempt to “alleviate the pressure” on air traffic controllers, who have been working without compensation since the start of the shutdown and have not received a paycheck since mid-October. (Kent Nishimura/The New York Times) By KAROUN DE