The Colorado Supreme Court building in Denver, Dec. 19, 2023. The Democrats behind a 2028 redistricting push in Colorado have grown increasingly concerned that the state Supreme Court’s delay in ruling on the validity of their ballot measures could endanger the effort. (Stephen Speranza/The New York Times) By NICK CORASANITI The Democrats behind a 2028 redistricting push in Colorado have grown increasingly concerned that the state Supreme Court’s delay in ruling on the validi

From left, Mayor Zohran Mamdani and state Assemblywoman Claire Valdez greet supporters as they canvass for Democratic primary voters in Brooklyn, June 23, 2026. In the New York election results, more evidence of eroding support for Israel; if the shift in public opinion continues, it could reshape one of the United States’ closest alliances. (Bing Guan/The New York Times) By ANTON TROIANOVSKI and JENNIFER MEDINA At two separate victory parties after the Democratic House prima

Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents detain an immigrant from Guatemala outside a court hearing in lower Manhattan on July 22, 2025. A federal judge in California issued an order on Tuesday, June 23, 2026, blocking immigration agents nationwide from making arrests inside immigration courts. The decision halts what had been one of the most aggressive aspects of President Trump’s mass deportation campaign. (Victor J. Blue/The New York Times) By JAZMINE ULLOA and LUIS FERR

Assemblywoman Claire Valdez, right, is joined by Mayor Zohran Mamdani at her primary night watch party in Brooklyn, on Tuesday, June 23, 2026. Valdez, a Democratic socialist and close ally of Mamdani, won the Democratic nomination for an open House seat in Brooklyn and Queens on Tuesday. (Bing Guan/The New York Times) By NICHOLAS FANDOS Mayor Zohran Mamdani and his allies swept a series of congressional primaries in New York City on Tuesday in a remarkable show of strength fo

A view from the Washington Monument of the Lincoln Memorial and workers continuing to mitigate the algae blooms that have overrun the Reflecting Pool in Washington, June 21, 2026. President Donald Trump said the blooms of green algae and the peeling polyurethane had nothing to do with the rushed $16.4 million makeover he had ordered. (Doug Mills/The New York Times) By LUKE BROADWATER and MAXINE JOSELOW President Donald Trump knows one thing for sure about the sorry state of t

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. testifies at a Senate hearing in Washington on April 22, 2026. Alienated by Kennedy Jr.’s claims about autism, advocates for disabled students are sounding the alarm about the Trump administration’s shifting special education programs to his department. (Tierney L. Cross/The New York Times) By MICHAEL C. BENDER and SHERYL GAY STOLBERG The Trump administration’s decision last week to put Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in charge of

By JOHNNY DÍAZ A driver in a Tesla vehicle that was engaged in automated driver-assistance mode crashed into a house in Texas on Friday night and killed a woman inside, authorities said. The driver, Michael Butler, was in a Tesla Model 3 about 8 p.m. local time and operating the car “with an automated driving assistance system,” the Harris County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement on Saturday. The crash happened in Katy, Texas, about 30 miles west of Houston in Harris Count

The entrance to the biocontainment unit at Nebraska Medicine in Omaha, Neb., March 5, 2020. Quarantine ended on Sunday for American passengers of a cruise ship that was hit by a deadly hantavirus outbreak. (Tim Gruber/The New York Times) By MAIA SPOTO Quarantine ended on Sunday for American passengers of a cruise ship that was hit by a deadly hantavirus outbreak. The passengers had been held for weeks at a federal facility in Nebraska. The quarantine was lifted at 2 p.m. Cent

Alexandria Gomez, who co-founded the Phillips Community Free Store in 2020 after the death of George Floyd, near her home in Minneapolis, May 8, 2026. During the federal immigration enforcement surge, she helped raise rent money for impacted families. (Caroline Yang/The New York Times) By CARI SPENCER When Kate Eubank showed up to Minneapolis City Hall in January to advocate a statewide eviction moratorium, she thought of a 5-year-old boy at her daughter’s school. Eubank had

Kevin Stull, right, fills out his ballot as Bryan Diaz waits to give a haircut at Ana’s Hair Salon, which was acting as a polling place, on primary election day in San Francisco, on June 2, 2026. Voters rejected more local taxes than usual in the June election, a sign that they are feeling the pinch from rising costs. (Minh Connors/The New York Times) By SOUMYA KARLAMANGLA Californians say they can’t afford housing. They find gas prices too high. And when they were asked at t