The entrance of the Department of Homeland Security's headquarters at the St. Elizabeths campus in Washington, on March 15, 2024. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has navigated staffing cuts without a Senate-confirmed leader. Employees have become demoralized and concerned about the agency’s ability to ward off threats. (Valerie Plesch/The New York Times) By ADAM SELLA In his first term, President Donald Trump established the Cybersecurity and Infrastructu

By ORLANDO MAYORQUÍN and DAVE PHILIPPS The bodies of nine skiers who were killed in an avalanche in the mountains near Lake Tahoe in California this past week have been recovered, authorities said Saturday, bringing to a close an effort that had been hampered for several days by hazardous weather conditions. A ninth victim who had been missing was found and recovered along with four other victims Friday, Lt. Dennis Haack of the Nevada County sheriff’s office said at an aftern

Mar-a-Lago, President Donald Trump’s private club and residence, in Palm Beach, Fla., on June 26, 2020. A man was shot and killed by law enforcement, including agents from the United States Secret Service, after he entered the secure perimeter of Mar-a-Lago early Sunday morning, Feb. 22, 2026, according to a statement posted by the agency on X. (Saul Martinez/The New York Times) By MINHO KIM, ALI WATKINS and TYLER PAGER An armed man was shot and killed by law enforcement, inc

President Donald Trump speaks to reporters after a Supreme Court ruling struck down many of his tariffs policies, at the White House in Washington, on Friday, Feb. 20, 2026. Signaling that the president would press ahead despite the legal setback from the Supreme Court, Trump said on Saturday that he would raise his new, global tariff from 10 percent to 15 percent. (Anna Rose Layden/The New York Times) By SHANE GOLDMACHER and KATIE GLUECK President Donald Trump’s defiant resp

The U.S. Department of Justice building in Washington, July 26, 2025. A federal judge in Minnesota found a Trump administration lawyer in civil contempt of court on Wednesday, Feb. 18, 2026, a significant escalation between the judiciary and the executive branch amid a ballooning caseload triggered by President Trump’s immigration raids and novel interpretations of law. (Michael A. McCoy/The New York Times) By MATTATHIAS SCHWARTZ and SEAMUS HUGHES A federal judge in Minnesota

A snow-covered trail leading to Castle Peak, near Soda Springs, Calif., late Wednesday, Feb. 18, 2026. Eight skiers were killed and one other was presumed dead following an avalanche on Tuesday, the deadliest snow disaster in modern California history. Six were found alive. (Max Whittaker/The New York Times) By THOMAS FULLER and JILL COWAN It was announced as the first big blizzard of the year in California, and the warnings were stark. The National Weather Service posted Sun

The remains of a home destroyed by the Eaton Fire in Altadena, Calif., March 1, 2025. Legislators in the state want fossil fuel companies to help cover home insurance costs caused by wildfires and other climate disasters. (Mark Abramson/The New York Times) By MAXINE JOSELOW In Colorado, historically a hub of coal mining, legislators are planning to give drivers a $2,000 discount on new electric vehicles, more than double the current amount offered by the state. In Virginia, w

Visitors at the President’s House Site in Philadelphia, Jan. 31, 2026, a week after the Trump administration ordered the removal of all interpretive signs. A federal judge on Monday, Feb. 16, ordered the Trump administration to temporarily restore displays about George Washington’s ownership of enslaved people at a monument on the site of his former house in Philadelphia. (Hannah Yoon/The New York Times) By ANUSHKA PATIL A federal judge earlier this week ordered the Trump adm

Rep. Bryan Steil (R-Wis.) speaks alongside Republican lawmakers and activists during a news conference on the “Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act” at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Feb. 11, 2026. Steil’s bill would ban universal voting by mail and prohibit the counting of ballots received after Election Day. (Eric Lee/The New York Times) By ANNIE KARNI The strict voter identification measure that Republicans have pushed through the House is just their opening salvo in

he Rev. Jesse Jackson addresses the 1984 Democratic National Convention in San Francisco on July 17, 1984. His 50-minute speech was perhaps the emotional high point of the party’s doomed campaign against Ronald Reagan. (Jim Wilson/The New York Times) By NEIL VIGDOR Millions of Democrats cast primary votes for him, envisioning him as America’s first Black president. Along the way, there would be convention keynote speeches and, at times, self-inflicted controversy for the Rev.