President Donald Trump holds an event regarding health care policy and drug prices, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington on Friday, Sept. 18, 2026. The president’s ban of three media outlets from the White House fits a pattern of using the apparatus of government to crack down on his perceived enemies. (Haiyun Jiang/The New York Times) By ZOLAN KANNO-YOUNGS President Donald Trump’s grabs for power kept falling short, and he appeared ready to turn to a familiar

Generators outside a data center in Ashburn, Va., on June 22, 2026. Data centers, the large complexes of servers that are crucial to powering AI development, have become the most visible avatar of voters’ fears over the growth of AI and the power of big tech companies. (Caroline Gutman/The New York Times) By MICHAEL GOLD The House earlier this week overwhelmingly passed a bipartisan bill that encourages state utility regulators to insulate consumers from rising energy costs t

Participants in an AI summer camp at California Polytechnic State in San Luis Obispo, Calif., July 28, 2025. Across American universities, the hodgepodge of policies created to respond to artificial intelligence reflects substantial confusion about how to proceed — with some clear dos and don’ts, but often a lot of wiggle room for faculty and students to figure it out on their own. (Philip Cheung/The New York Times) By MARK ARSENAULT, DAN GOLDSTEIN, ALAN BLINDER and SARAH MER

A worker moves bins full of mail ballots at the Los Angeles County Election Center in City of Industry, Calif., Nov. 4, 2025. After the Supreme Court has blocked President Donald Trump’s executive order restricting mail voting ahead of the 2026 midterms, election officials across the country were shelving their contingency plans and preparing for a new effort: restoring trust in mail voting. (Philip Cheung/The New York Times) By NICK CORASANITI, ANNA GRIFFIN and RICHARD FAUSS

A fishing charter making its way back to the marina in Key West, Fla., on July 14, 2025. The end of legal protections for Haitian immigrants nationally has jolted the labor market in this remote vacation destination in Florida where many live and work. (Scott McIntyre/The New York Times) By DAVID OVALLE The Haitian hotel housekeepers, restaurant cooks and Uber drivers who quietly help power Key West’s tourism economy are disappearing. Some have been detained by Border Patrol

President Donald Trump tours the immigration detention center known as Alligator Alcatraz in Ochopee, Fla., July 1, 2025. The state-run immigration detention center in the Florida Everglades failed to comply with a host of federal detention standards, creating cramped conditions and confining migrants in “small metal enclosures,” according to a new report by the Department of Homeland Security’s independent watchdog. (Doug Mills/The New York Times) By MADELEINE NGO, HAMED ALE

Newly printed mail-in ballots in Phoenix on Oct. 7, 2022. The Supreme Court on Monday dealt President Trump a major blow when it blocked his executive order to restrict mail ballots, but Trump’s battle to assert control over the election process is far from finished. (Rebecca Noble/The New York Times) By ZOLAN KANNO-YOUNGS The Supreme Court on Monday dealt President Donald Trump a major blow when it blocked his executive order to restrict mail ballots. But Trump’s battle to a

From left: Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Vice President JD Vance and House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) listen as President Donald Trump speaks at the Republican Party’s midterm convention in Dallas on Wednesday night, Sept. 9, 2026. When Trump took the stage, he returned — again and again and again — to baseless claims that Democrats were running as communists in the midterms. (Haiyun Jiang/The New York Times) By TIM BALK One by one, Republican speakers at Presiden

A neighborhood in Poca across the Kanawha River from the John Amos Power Plant, a three-unit, coal-fired power plant in Winfield, W.Va., Sept. 19, 2025. The Trump administration was expected to announce Monday that the United States will no longer limit the planet-warming pollution that power plants pump into the air while burning coal and gas. (Alyssa Schukar/The New York Times) By MAXINE JOSELOW and LISA FRIEDMAN The Trump administration plan to announce Monday that the Uni

By JUDSON JONES Traditionally, this past week has been the peak of the Atlantic hurricane season, the busiest time of year for storms to spin up and barrel west into North America. Instead, nearly four months into the season, and with two more to go, not a single hurricane has formed, a drought not seen in more than eight decades. While the inactivity is unusual, meteorologists said it is explainable — and they warned against confusing a quiet start with a quiet finish. Not s