Passengers wait in a line at a security checkpoint at LaGuardia Airport in New York on Tuesday, March 24, 2026. A meltdown in relations between the two GOP-led chambers of Congress caused the embarrassing collapse late last week of a Senate-passed proposal to reopen the Department of Homeland Security before lawmakers raced out of town on a two-week recess. (Dave Sanders/The New York Times) By CARL HULSE Eight months away from elections that will decide if they keep control o

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) departs a post-luncheon news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, March 24, 2026. Schumer said Democrats would pursue an agenda to reduce energy costs if they win back control of Congress. (Eric Lee/The New York Times) By LISA FRIEDMAN If Democrats win control of Congress in this fall’s elections, they will try to restore and expand tax credits for wind, solar and other renewable energy that President Donald Trump and Republi

Federal immigration agents patrol John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York, on Monday, March 23, 2026. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents stationed at several airports on Wednesday were checking travelers’ IDs and performing other screening duties alongside personnel from the Transportation Security Administration. (Vincent Alban/The New York Times) By CHRISTINA MORALES, CHRISTINE CHUNG, HAMED ALEAZIZ, SEAN KEENAN and ROWAN MOORE GERETY Immigration and Custom

A house damaged by floodwaters in Waialua, on the island of Oahu, Hawaii, March 22, 2026. Residents of Waialua described seeing cars overturned, trucks washed downstream, and mud filling rooms in their homes. (Gabriela Bhaskar/The New York Times) By SONIA A. RAO A resident in Oahu evacuated her home in knee-high water, leaving her husband’s ashes behind. Seventy people, in a group that included children, were surrounded by water and stranded at a campsite. Others found that t

By DAVID W. CHEN Democrats on Tuesday flipped a Florida legislative district that includes President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, pulling off another upset in a state House election but this time one with obvious symbolic power. Emily Gregory, a first-time candidate with a public health background, became the latest Democrat to win a special election and claim a statehouse seat previously held by a Republican. Across the state, another Democrat, Brian Natha

Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) speaks to reporters at the Capitol in Washington on Tuesday, March 24, 2026. A day after President Donald Trump said he did not want a compromise, Republicans were exploring breaking off ICE funding so the rest of the Department of Homeland Security could reopen. (Kenny Holston/The New York Times) By MICHAEL GOLD Less than 24 hours after President Donald Trump threw cold water on their efforts to cut a deal to reopen the Department o

By EMILY COCHRANE and ERICA L. GREEN A visit by President Donald Trump earlier this week revealed how torn Memphis, Tennessee, was over becoming a test case for his administration’s aggressive approach to urban crime. Hundreds gathered outside a Memphis shopping plaza to protest Trump’s arrival in the city, where federal agents have been working for months with Tennessee Highway Patrol officers and local police to make thousands of arrests and seize drugs and guns. Trump firs

Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-Okla.), President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the Department of Homeland Security, testifies during his confirmation hearing before the Senate Homeland Security Committee in Washington on Wednesday, March 18, 2026. In choosing Mullin, who has warm relationships across the Capitol and the political aisle, President Trump was reverting to a bygone tradition. (Kenny Holston/The New York Times) By MICHAEL GOLD Facing a phalanx of fellow senators who he

A passenger plane passes the wreckage of a fire truck and an Air Canada Express jet that collided on a runway at LaGuardia Airport in New York, on Tuesday, March 24, 2026. More delays were expected at the airport on Tuesday after the fatal collision forced the closure of a runway that officials say may not reopen for days. (Dave Sanders/The New York Times) By LIAM STACK, ASHLEY SOUTHALL, KAROUN DEMIRJIAN and NATE SCHWEBER The preliminary investigation into the deadly runway c

By JACEY FORTIN, HAMED ALEAZIZ and GABE CASTRO-ROOT Agents with Immigration and Customs Enforcement were deployed at airports across the United States on Monday, but their presence did not initially appear to ease the pain of many travelers. Between 100 and 150 ICE officers were sent to the airports to assist Transportation Security Administration agents, according to a U.S. official who spoke on the condition of anonymity because that person was not authorized to discuss the