By NICHOLAS FANDOS Rep. Nydia M. Velázquez (D-N.Y.) has a word of warning for Zohran Mamdani, the New York City mayor she just helped to elect: Back off city politics. Tension has quietly been growing between the two Democratic allies for weeks over who should succeed Velázquez in Congress as she retires after 32 years representing parts of Brooklyn and Queens. But Velázquez pushed it into the open Thursday in an interview with The New York Times, when she formally endorsed A

Federal agents perform immigration enforcement operations in Minneapolis, on Wednesday, Jan. 14, 2026. A federal agent shot and injured an immigrant in Minneapolis on Wednesday night, federal officials said, an incident that touched off clashes between protesters and law enforcement and that came just one week after an immigration agent killed a woman in the city. (Todd Heisler/The New York Times) By MITCH SMITH, NICHOLAS BOGEL-BURROUGHS, SHAILA DEWAN and REIS THEBAULT Gov. T

Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) speaks to reporters at the Capitol in Washington, Jan. 7, 2026. Republican leaders in the Senate are mounting a last-minute effort to snuff out dissent within their own party and block a resolution that would require President Donald Trump to seek congressional approval for any U.S. military action related to Venezuela. (Kenny Holston/The New York Times) By ROBERT JIMISON and MEGAN MINEIRO The Senate earlier this week blocked a resolution that sought

People gather at a makeshift memorial at the scene where Renee Nicole Good was killed by a federal immigration agent in Minneapolis, Jan. 9, 2026. The split-screen television images of mass demonstrations in Minneapolis and Tehran have highlighted the president’s disparate views of democracy and popular dissent. (Ryan Murphy/The New York Times) By PETER BAKER President Donald Trump had a ringing message of solidarity on Tuesday for demonstrators in the streets. “KEEP PROTESTI

Federal agents arrest a protester on the street amid an operation in Minneapolis, on Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2026. (David Guttenfelder/The New York Times) By THOMAS FULLER and JAZMINE ULLOA The video shows a young employee in a reflective vest being hauled away by federal agents from the entrance of a Target store in a Minneapolis suburb. “I’m a U.S. citizen!” the worker shouted as the armed agents shoved him into an SUV on Monday, after he had directed expletives at one. “U.S. cit

Brad Lander, the former New York City comptroller and a current Democratic candidate for the House, applauds striking nurses on the picket line outside Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan, one of the hospitals affected by a strike, on Monday morning, Jan. 12, 2026. The striking nurses are aiming to force hospitals to ensure minimum staffing ratios. (Vincent Alban/The New York Times) By JOSEPH GOLDSTEIN Nearly 15,000 nurses went on strike earlier this week at some of New York Ci

People in the community run from clouds of tear gas deployed by federal agents after federal immigration officers crashed into a vehicle in south Minneapolis, Jan. 12, 2026. (Jamie Kelter Davis/The New York Times) By ERNESTO LONDOÑO Six federal prosecutors in Minnesota resigned Tuesday over the Justice Department’s push to investigate the widow of a woman killed by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent and the department’s reluctance to investigate the shooter, accordi

The Four Corners Power Plant outside of Fruitland, N.M., on Oct. 10, 2025. The president’s embrace of fossil fuels and withdrawal from the global fight against climate change will make it hard to keep warming at safe levels, scientists said. (Benjamin Rasmussen/The New York Times) By LISA FRIEDMAN By pulling the United States out of the main international climate treaty, seizing Venezuelan crude oil and using government power to resuscitate the domestic coal industry while ch

Venezuela’s autocratic leader, Nicolás Maduro, waves the country’s flag during a rally in Caracas, Venezuela, Dec. 1, 2025. The government will have to navigate difficult legal issues and use testimony about incidents clouded by time. But conspiracy laws are powerful tools for prosecutors. (Adriana Loureiro Fernández/The New York Times) By JONAH E. BROMWICH, BENJAMIN WEISER and WILLIAM K. RASHBAUM The episodes described in the indictment are vivid, even cinematic. There is Ni

Demonstrators are placed under arrest by police during a protest outside of an immigration detention facility in Portland, Oregon, on Thursday night, Jan. 8, 2026. Federal agents shot two people in Portland on Thursday during a traffic stop, a day after the fatal shooting of a woman in Minneapolis stoked outrage over the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown. (Jordan Gale/The New York Times) By GLENN THRUSH The Trump administration blocked Minnesota officials from inve