By MITCH SMITH and JULIE BOSMAN A security guard opened fire on a driver who rammed a truck into a synagogue outside of Detroit on Thursday, authorities said. No one inside the building at the time, including students at the synagogue’s preschool, appeared to have been injured. Sheriff Michael Bouchard of Oakland County, Michigan, said at a news conference that “at least one individual came to the temple; security saw him, engaged him in gunfire.” He said it was too soon to d

An examination room at a medical practice in Evanston, Ill., on Oct. 28, 2024. A recent poll found that health care costs topped a list of the public’s economic anxieties, above concerns about the prices of food and groceries, gas and utilities. (Taylor Glascock/The New York Times) By REED ABELSON Americans are feeling the squeeze from rising health care costs, and they are already doing without. One-third of Americans — an estimated 82 million people — say they are making sa

Students are reflected in a window showcasing an Israeli flag at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, Dec. 14, 2023. The Trump administration, which said it is investigating harassment, sued the University of Pennsylvania after it refused a request to provide information about Jewish students and staff. (Rachel Wisniewski/The New York Times) By ALAN BLINDER and MICHAEL C. BENDER Jacob Naimark, a law student at the University of Pennsylvania, has worried ever since

Martine Moïse speaks during the funeral of her husband, Jovenel Moïse, in Cap-Haitien, Haiti, July 23, 2021. Nearly five years after Haiti’s president was assassinated in his bedroom, in front of his wife, Martine Moïse choked back tears on Tuesday, March 10, 2026, as she began testifying in the U.S. trial of four of the men charged with his murder. (Federico Rios/The New York Times) By DAVID C. ADAMS Nearly five years after Haiti’s president was assassinated in his bedroom,

A gas pipeline under construction near Amarillo, Texas, on Nov. 10, 2025. The Trump administration on Jan. 13 moved to limit the ability of states to block the construction of oil pipelines, coal export terminals and other energy projects that could pollute local waterways. (Paul Ratje/The New York Times) By SOUMYA KARLAMANGLA President Donald Trump has the authority to restart an oil pipeline project off the Santa Barbara, California, coast by invoking the Defense Production

New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani during a news conference outside of Gracie Mansion in New York, on Monday, March 9, 2026. In the days after a homemade bomb laced with metal was hurled into a highly charged protest near his official residence in Manhattan, Mayor Mamdani did not turn to his typical means of communication. (Graham Dickie/The New York Times) By KYLE BAGENSTOSE and JOHN LELAND Details slowly started to emerge Monday about the two young men charged over the weekend w

A plume of smoke rises to the sky from an oil storage facility that was targeted in Tehran, Iran, March 8, 2026. Health experts warn of long-term respiratory and neurological risks as smoke from burning oil spreads across the region. (Arash Khamooshi/The New York Times) By LILY BOYCE and RUTH IGIELNIK In the days after President Donald Trump launched U.S. forces in an attack against Iran, support for the strikes is far lower than what it has been at the beginnings of previous

Travelers wait in long security lines at William P. Hobby Airport in Houston, on Sunday, March 8, 2026. Travelers at airports in Houston and New Orleans were greeted with hours of long waits early Sunday as the airports struggled to adequately staff security lines. (Steven Kenny/The New York Times) By BILLY WITZ and SHANNON SIMS Travelers at airports in Houston and New Orleans were greeted with hours of long waits early Sunday as the airports struggled to adequately staff sec

Federal agents outside the Fulton County Election Hub and Operation Center in Fairburn, Ga., Jan. 28, 2026. Facing the possibility of big losses for Republicans in the midterm elections, President Donald Trump has reiterated his unfounded assertions of electoral fraud. (Nicole Craine/The New York Times) By NICK CORASANITI and RICHARD FAUSSET Facing the possibility of big losses for Republicans in the midterm elections, President Donald Trump has reiterated his unfounded asser

A man cries as he sits on his bed at the Annunciation House, a migrant shelter, in El Paso, Texas, on Friday, Jan. 30, 2026. The D.C. Circuit ruled against the Trump administration, ensuring Haitians can remain in the United States and keep working while the underlying lawsuit proceeds. (Ivan Pierre Aguirre/The New York Times) By MIRIAM JORDAN A federal appeals court late last week upheld a lower court’s ruling that the Trump administration had unlawfully terminated Temporary