Bracelets with messages of “Serve All the People” and “Support the Constitution” at a weekly vigil to mark staffing cuts and a loss of funding under the Trump administration, outside the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md., Oct. 25, 2025. As more than one million government employees go without pay, many are turning to side jobs and food banks to make ends meet. (Jason Andrew/The New York Times) By EILEEN SULLIVAN and DREW ATKINS When Jill Hornick woke up on a rece

Zohran Mamdani, a New York State Assembly member and democratic socialist mayoral candidate, embraces U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) during a “City We Can Afford” rally at Terminal 5 on the first day of early voting in New York, on Saturday, June 14, 2025. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Ocasio-Cortez joined Mamdani on Sunday to help push his bid to win the Nov. 4 election for mayor of New York City. (Shuran Huang/The New York Times) By LISA LERER Zohran Mamdani,

People line up outside a food bank in Duquesne, Pa. on Thursday, Oct. 23, 2025. Growing need and decreased resources were squeezing the charitable food system beyond its capacity even before the federal government shutdown, leaders say. (Jeff Swensen/ The New York Times) By CHRIS HIPPENSTEEL Food banks across the United States were stretched thin even before the federal government shut down. Rising food prices had driven a growing number of people to their doors. Cuts to fede

By MARK SOMMER It’s been a strange fall in two of New York state’s westernmost counties, Niagara and Erie, on the Canadian border. Far fewer Canadians are crossing into New York to enjoy the changing foliage and the region’s plentiful vineyards and orchards. This is not entirely unexpected: Canadians have been scarce at cultural attractions, sporting events and shopping malls in the area since President Donald Trump threatened Canada with tariffs two weeks into his second adm

Lorraine Avila, who says she may have to give up insurance coverage altogether if extra Obamacare subsidies expire at the end of the year, in Miami, Oct. 18, 2025. If the extra subsidies that help Americans pay for Obamacare insurance coverage expire at the end of the year as planned, the most intense reverberations will be felt in South Florida, the country’s top market for the coverage. (Eva Marie Uzcategui/The New York Times) By PATRICIA MAZZEI If the extra subsidies that

Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) speaks to reporters alongside other Republican senators outside the West Wing after a lunch with President Donald Trump at the White House in Washington, Oct. 21, 2025. As the shutdown drags and Donald Trump flexes, Congress cedes its relevance; “it’s like we have given up,” one Republican lawmaker said. (Doug Mills/The New York Times) By CARL HULSE By almost any measure, Congress is failing. And flailing. The government is shut down

By MEGAN MINEIRO Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva, D-Ariz., who was elected almost exactly a month ago, filed a lawsuit in federal court earlier this week demanding that Speaker Mike Johnson or another government official swear her in to Congress. Grijalva easily won a Sept. 23 special election to fill the seat left vacant in March by the death of her father, Rep. Raúl Grijalva, who served for more than two decades in Congress. But Johnson, who has kept the House in recess for mor

President Donald Trump holds up a floor plan for where tables could be set up inside the new White House ballroom as he meets with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Oct. 22, 2025. (Doug Mills/The New York Times) By LUKE BROADWATER As roaring machinery tore down one side of the White House, President Donald Trump acknowledged earlier this week that he was having the entire East Wing demolished to make way for his 90,000-squa