FEMA headquarters in Washington. A judge on Friday ruled that a Department of Homeland Security plan to reduce staffing at the agency was unlawful. (Al Drago/The New York Times) By MACK LIEDERMAN A federal judge ruled that the Trump administration acted unlawfully when it ordered that the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s workforce be cut in half. In her ruling on Friday, U.S. District Judge Susan Illston of the Northern District of California wrote that the Department of

President Donald Trump speaks during the Sept. 11 memorial service at the Pentagon in Arlington, Va., on Friday morning, Sept. 11, 2026. At moments in his remarks, Trump justified his decision to attack Iran this year by invoking the lessons of a quarter-century ago, casting it as an extension of the war on terrorism that began in the hours after the World Trade Center towers fell. (Aaron Schwartz/The New York Times) By DAVID E. SANGER They were brief but unmistakable allusio

From left, Democratic Senate candidate Angie Nixon and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) during a campaign event in Kissimmee, Fla., on Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2026. Ocasio-Cortez, who has carefully picked which progressive Democrats to support in this year’s midterm elections, quietly made her way to Central Florida on Wednesday to lend her star power to Angie Nixon’s underdog Senate candidacy. (Zack Wittman/The New York Times) By PATRICIA MAZZEI Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cort

President Donald Trump onstage at the Republican midterm convention in Dallas, Sept. 9, 2026. In his convention speech, the president floated a $5,000 “Trump Dividend” for every adult American if Republicans keep control of Congress. The idea, like many others, may not come to pass.(Haiyun Jiang/The New York Times) By JOHN YOON President Donald Trump on Wednesday floated the idea of issuing every American adult a $5,000 “dividend” check if his party kept control of the House

By DAVID OVALLE and CHRISTINA MORALES They fled Cuba to build better lives in America. They collected trash and wiped down seats on airplanes at the Miami airport to support their families both in Florida and on their native island. Then came an unexpected peril: An Amazon cargo jet crashed into their van, killing five and injuring two others. One of the victims who died, Javierkys Reyes Quevedo, 47, had worked to save for a trip to Cuba in December to visit his teenage daugh

By KAROUN DEMIRJIAN and DAVID OVALLE The pilots of the Amazon cargo jet that overran a runway at Miami International Airport on Sunday were not fully in control of the aircraft as it touched down and appeared to have temporarily considered aborting the landing, according to a timeline of the final seconds before the deadly crash that federal investigators unveiled late Tuesday. The sequence of events detailed by National Transportation Safety Board investigators likely cost t

By VIMAL PATEL The American Bar Association, the lawyers group that sets standards for the legal profession, eliminated earlier this week a diversity requirement for law schools after facing pressure from the Trump administration. The bar association said that the diversity requirement could jeopardize its role as an accreditor that oversees nearly 200 juris doctorate programs. The association’s mandate had said that law schools should demonstrate by “concrete action” a commi

A tree branch hangs on a power line in Lihue, Kauai, Hawaii, on Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2026. Hurricane Lowell flooded roads and knocked out power for thousands in Kauai. About 90 percent of the island was out of power as emergency crews cleared downed trees and power lines. (Erin Schaff/The New York Times) By JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER, BILLY WITZ and ERIN SCHAFF As Tuesday dawned on the Hawaiian island of Kauai, roaring winds quieted into a more familiar breeze, no longer drowning o

By KAROUN DEMIRJIAN Over the past 30 years, an increasing number of airports in the United States have installed buffer areas of crushable concrete at the end of their runways to help stop planes that overshoot their landings before they can crash into anything. Miami International Airport, where an Amazon cargo jet overran the runway’s terminus Sunday, killing five people and injuring five more, does not have such a buffer. Engineered materials arresting systems, referred to

First responders work to rescue survivors from the wreckage of the collapsed World Trade Center in New York on Sept. 12, 2001. New York City officials are making public more than 170,000 pages of documents related to the air quality around the World Trade Center site in the months after the Sept. 11 attacks. (Ruth Fremson/The New York Times) By SALLY GOLDENBERG and NINA AGRAWAL In the harrowing months that followed the attacks on the World Trade Center, New Yorkers were repea