President Donald Trump speaks to reporters outside of the White House in Washington, on Friday, Feb. 27, 2026. A decade after propelling himself to the highest office by promising to focus on “America first,” President Trump has become increasingly willing to assert power overseas. (Anna Rose Layden/The New York Times) By PETER BAKER When he first ran for president in 2016, Donald Trump disavowed the military adventurism of recent years, declaring that “regime change is a pro

Barry Pollack, left, the attorney representing Nicolás Maduro, the ousted president of Venezuela, departs a federal courthouse in Manhattan, Jan. 5, 2026. A lawyer for Maduro, who was seized from his country by U.S. forces last month and charged with federal crimes, says the Trump administration is blocking the Venezuelan government from paying Maduro’s legal fees. (Karsten Moran/The New York Times) By JONAH E. BROMWICH A lawyer for Nicolás Maduro, the Venezuelan leader who w

By CHRIS CAMERON Trump administration officials announced earlier this week that the federal government would withhold $259 million in Medicaid funds to Minnesota, the latest effort by the federal government to pull funding from Democratic-led states as President Donald Trump rails against a major welfare fraud scandal there. Federal judges have blocked most of the Trump administration’s efforts to claw back funds from states including Minnesota, New York, California, Illinoi

A group of Middle Eastern and Asian migrants deported by the U.S. government at a shelter in Panama City, March 11, 2025. A federal judge in Boston on Wednesday, Feb. 25, 2026, found that the Trump administration’s policy of summarily deporting immigrants to so-called third countries — nations other than their countries of origin — is unlawful. (Nathalia Angarita/The New York Times) By MATTATHIAS SCHWARTZ A federal judge in Boston earlier this week found that the Trump admini

By APOORVA MANDAVILLI Aiming to reverse recent changes to federal vaccine recommendations, 15 states led by Democrats announced earlier this week that they were suing the Trump administration. The lawsuit, filed by a coalition of 14 attorneys general and the governor of Pennsylvania, asks the courts to nullify the administration’s decision in January to reduce the number of diseases children are routinely immunized against to 11 from 17. It also challenges “the unlawful repla

President Donald Trump gestures while delivering his State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress at the Capitol in Washington, on Tuesday, Feb. 24, 2026, as Vice President JD Vance, left, and House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) look on. (Kenny Holston/The New York Times) By KATIE ROGERS It was spectacle as survival strategy. In his State of the Union address, President Donald Trump didn’t bother to introduce a raft of new policies — unusual in a midterm election

By NICHOLAS BOGEL-BURROUGHS Television news anchor Savannah Guthrie said Tuesday that her family is offering up to $1 million for information that leads to finding her mother, Nancy, who was abducted from her home more than three weeks ago. Guthrie, a “Today” show host, made the new offer in a four-minute video posted on Instagram in which she acknowledged that her 84-year-old mother may already be dead, but said the family was holding out hope for a miracle. If Nancy Guthrie

Shoveling snow outside of a laundromat in Queens, on Monday, Feb. 23, 2026. The powerful winter storm pummeling a vast swath of the Eastern Seaboard left a heavy blanket over the region Tuesday, dumping snow at a furious rate and strangling major metropolitan areas at the dawn of the workweek. (José A. Alvarado/The New York Times) By JACEY FORTIN and ANDY NEWMAN A blizzard that buried much of the Northeast and New England left a heavy blanket over the region Tuesday, as well

A photo provided by the Havana Docks Company shows a brochure from the 1950s advertising the company’s dock facilities in Cuba. Amid rising tensions with Cuba, the Trump administration is backing lawsuits that would allow Americans to get compensation for property confiscated by Fidel Castro’s regime. (Havana Docks Company via The New York Times) By ANN E. MARIMOW More than 60 years ago, Fidel Castro rose to power in Cuba and began confiscating the assets of all American-owne

People play golf at Mar-a-Lago on Thanksgiving Day while President Donald Trump speaks with members of the military on the phone nearby, in Palm Beach, Fla., Nov. 22, 2018. The 21-year-old man who was fatally shot on Sunday after entering Mar-a-Lago with a weapon was a recent high school graduate who started an artwork company last year that specialized in handmade drawings of golf courses. (Sarah Silbiger/New York Times) By SONIA A. RAO and CHRISTINA MORALES The 21-year-old