President Donald Trump speaks to reporters while signing an executive order in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, on Monday, Aug. 3, 2026. The rebellion against Todd Blanche’s nomination to be attorney general, now seemingly contained, at no point fundamentally questioned President Trump’s new protections from the I.R.S. (Doug Mills/The New York Times) By ANDREW DUEHREN Even as he bowed to Republican demands to pare back the extraordinary benefits the Justice D

Christine and Bryan Farris hug after all of their belongings burned from the Old Trail wildfire in Spokane, Wash., on Sunday, Aug. 2, 2026. Hundreds of structures were destroyed and thousands of people in Spokane County, Wash., remained under evacuation orders on Sunday as firefighters continued their efforts to knock back and control several blazes in the area. (John Stember/The New York Times) By CHRISTINA MORALES In what authorities have described as the largest natural di

A student posts up drawings at the Head Start program for gifted kindergartners in New York, July 16, 2010. The Trump administration is preparing a major rollback of federal requirements for Head Start, a change that supporters of the child care program fear could gut its longstanding antipoverty mission. (Yana Paskova/The New York Times) By CORAL DAVENPORT The Trump administration is preparing a major rollback of federal requirements for Head Start, a change that supporters

President Donald Trump gestures to supporters after speaking at a political rally at Rockland Community College in Suffern, N.Y., May 22, 2026. Barely a third of Americans approve of Trump’s handling of the job, putting him at historic depths for a second-term president at this stage of his tenure. (Bryan Anselm/The New York Times) By PETER BAKER After a spate of bad polls earlier this summer, President Donald Trump simply declared that they were not true. “MY REAL POLL NUMBE

A water tower in Flint, Mich., Aug. 20, 2020. Michigan and Minnesota are among at least seven states coping with cyberattacks aimed at disrupting water systems nationwide. (Erin Kirkland/The New York Times) By DUSTIN VOLZ and ERNESTO LONDOÑO The scope of cyberattacks on U.S. water systems has grown to include at least seven states and may be far wider, officials and experts warned, as authorities raced to safeguard the nation’s water supply against an assault that increasingl

President Donald Trump takes the stage to deliver remarks at the General Motors Proving Ground in Milford, Mich., July 27, 2026. The sanctions legislation that moved forward in the Senate this week goes beyond enacting new financial restrictions on Russia and Iran. It would also give Trump broad new powers to impose tariffs on imports from some of the world’s largest economies. (Doug Mills/The New York Times) By ALAN RAPPEPORT The sanctions legislation that moved forward in t

An undated photo of a custom photo book made for Chantal Rojas by Lauren and Scott Cahr, who hired her to care for their children. Federal agents are arresting spouses of Americans, tech workers and others whose visas have expired, including many who have active applications to stay in the country. (via The New York Times) By HAMED ALEAZIZ and MIRIAM JORDAN The Trump administration has begun arresting foreign citizens with expired U.S. visas as they travel through airports, i

From center to right: President Donald Trump, Vice President JD Vance, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Eric Trump as the coffin of Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) is brought into the Washington National Cathedral in Washington on Tuesday, July 28, 2026. Graham, the Trump opponent turned outspoken ally who died at 71 this month, was to be honored with two days of funeral services this week. (Doug Mills/The New York Times) By KAROUN DEMIRJIAN, CHRIS CAMERON, PETER BAKER and D

By NICHOLAS BOGEL-BURROUGHS Florida took the rare step of executing two men within five hours of each other Tuesday, part of a dramatic rise in the carrying out of capital punishments during Gov. Ron DeSantis’ second term. The men died by lethal injection at Florida State Prison in north-central Florida after the Supreme Court declined to halt their executions. Each had been convicted of murder in the 1980s. James Duckett, 68, a former police officer who was convicted of sexu

Dr. Anthony Fauci, former Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, with his attorney, David Schertler, left, as he prepares for the start of a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington on Wednesday, July 29, 2026. (Haiyun Jiang/The New York Times) By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG Dr. Anthony Fauci refused Wednesday to answer questions from a Senate committee investigating the origins of COVID-19, accu