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

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth arrives at a closed-door briefing on Capitol Hill in Washington, on Tuesday, Dec. 9, 2025. Hegseth briefed congressional leaders on Tuesday about the monthslong military campaign targeting people suspected of being drug traffickers at sea. (Eric Lee/The New York Times) By JONAH E. BROMWICH Legal organizations earlier this week sued the Justice Department and other government agencies for the release of a secret memo offering formal justificat

The New York Catholic Center in Manhattan, Sept. 20, 2018. The Archdiocese of New York said on Monday, Dec. 8, 2025, that it had agreed to negotiate a settlement that would benefit roughly 1,300 people who have said they were sexually abused as minors by its priests and lay staff members. (Karsten Moran/The New York Times) By LIAM STACK The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York said earlier this week that it was raising at least $300 million as it moved to negotiate a settle

President Donald Trump, left, shakes hands with Xi Jinping, China’s top leader, after their meeting in Busan, South Korea, Oct. 30, 2025. China, the United States’ main economic and technological competitor, released figures earlier this week showing that it continues to run a record trade surplus with the rest of the world. (Haiyun Jiang/The New York Times) By DAVID E. SANGER On President Donald Trump’s proclaimed “Liberation Day” in April, when he announced the tariffs that

Rep. Jim Himes (D-Conn.) during a television interview on Capitol Hill in Washington, April 10, 2025. Top Democrats called on Sunday, Dec. 7, 2025, for the release of classified video of the U.S. military’s first operation targeting a boat in the Caribbean in early September. (Haiyun Jiang/The New York Times) By MEGAN MINEIRO Top Democrats called earlier this week for the release of classified video of the U.S. military’s first operation targeting a boat in the Caribbean in e

By JENNIFER SCHUESSLER The federal agency that supports the nation’s libraries has restored thousands of grants canceled by the Trump administration, following a federal judge’s ruling that the executive order mandating the cuts was unlawful. The executive order, issued in March, said the Institute for Museum and Library Services, along with six other small agencies, must “be reduced to the maximum extent consistent with the applicable law.” Soon after, the agency put most of

Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-Texas) at the Capitol in Washington, Sept. 22, 2023. President Donald Trump on Sunday, Dec. 7, 2025, upbraided Cuellar for not switching parties in his re-election bid after Trump pardoned him and his wife on bribery charges last week, saying Cuellar’s decision displayed a “lack of LOYALTY.” (Kenny Holston/The New York Times) By ANUSHKA PATIL President Donald Trump earlier this week upbraided Rep. Henry Cuellar, D-Texas, for not switching parties in his