Providence police officers gather while going door-to-door seeking video footage that could help identify a suspect in the Brown University shooting in Providence, R.I., on Monday, Dec. 15, 2025. (Christopher Capozziello/The New York Times) By MARK ARSENAULT, THOMAS GIBBONS-NEFF, IRINEO CABREROS and JACEY FORTIN Police officers went door to door through the streets of Rhode Island’s capital city Monday afternoon in search of video footage that might help them track down the g

The Federal Emergency Management Agency headquarters in Washington, June 16, 2025. A task force that President Donald Trump created to explore an overhaul of FEMA on Thursday, Dec. 11, abruptly postponed a meeting where it had been scheduled to vote on recommendations to reshape the agency. (Eric Lee/The New York Times) By SCOTT DANCE A task force that President Donald Trump created to explore an overhaul of the Federal Emergency Management Agency late last week abruptly post

By MICHAEL GOLD and MARGOT SANGER-KATZ House Republicans plan to hold votes this week on a narrow health care bill that would allow expanded Affordable Care Act subsidies to expire as scheduled at the end of the month while making several changes aimed at holding down costs. They released the measure late Friday afternoon, just a week before Congress was scheduled to depart for the year and as the party faced mounting political pressure to do something to address the rising p

Police, fire and rescue personnel gather near the scene of a shooting at Brown University in Providence, R.I., Saturday, Dec. 13, 2025. A gunman shot 11 people, killing two of them, on the campus Saturday afternoon, local officials said. A person of interest was in custody early Sunday. (Mark Arsenault/The New York Times) By THOMAS GIBBONS-NEFF, MARK ARSENAULT and MITCH SMITH Federal agents detained a suspect in connection with a deadly shooting at Brown University after offi

Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) at a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Dec. 9, 2025. The Senate was on track Thursday to block two competing proposals to avert rising health care premiums, with back-to-back floor votes that were expected to highlight a partisan deadlock on the issue. (Eric Lee/The New York Times) By CARL HULSE The Senate on Thursday deadlocked on competing proposals to avert rising health care premiums, blocking Democratic and Republic

Chairwoman Jennifer Homendy speaks to representatives of the U.S. Army during the third day of the National Transportation Safety Board’s hearings on the Jan. 29 midair collision over the Potomac, at the NTSB boardroom in Washington, Aug. 1, 2025. The NTSB chair warned that a provision in the new defense bill would worsen the risk of midair collisions near the Washington-area airport where a deadly crash in January killed 67 people. (Kenny Holston/The New York Times) By MEGAN

By PATRICIA MAZZEI Miami voters elected Eileen Higgins as mayor in a rout Tuesday, choosing a Democrat to lead the city for the first time in almost 30 years in a race that Democrats hope sets a precedent for the 2026 midterms. Higgins, 61, will become Miami’s first female mayor and its first non-Hispanic mayor since the 1990s. Cuban American Republicans have dominated city politics over the past three decades. “Together, we turned the page on years of chaos and corruption an

By CHRIS CAMERON Facing criticism for rising costs for American consumers under his administration, President Donald Trump stoked fear of immigrants from poor countries to rally a crowd of his supporters at a Pennsylvania casino on Tuesday. In a speech that the White House billed as an address on the economy, amid a backlash driven in part by Trump’s sweeping tariffs, Trump veered between assurances that life was better than ever under his administration and blaming immigrant