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

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