President Donald Trump speaks during announcement on greenhouse gas regulation in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, on Thursday, Feb. 12, 2026. President Trump on Thursday announced he was erasing the scientific finding that climate change endangers human health and the environment, ending the federal government’s legal authority to control the pollution that is dangerously heating the planet. (Tierney L. Cross/The New York Times) By KAREN ZRAICK When the T

Border Patrol agents stop vehicles and confront drivers following them in Minneapolis, Jan. 29, 2026. The Department of Homeland Security’s funding has lapsed and lawmakers are deadlocked over a proposal to restore it, with Democrats seeking restrictions on the federal agents carrying out President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown. (Victor J. Blue/The New York Times) By THE NEW YORK TIMES The Department of Homeland Security’s funding has lapsed and lawmakers are deadlocke

President Donald Trump at the announcement of the new Trump-class of ships at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Fla., on Monday, Dec. 22, 2025. President Trump has engaged in a spree of self-aggrandizement unlike any of his predecessors, fostering a mythologized superhuman persona and making himself the inescapable force at home and around the world. (Eric Lee/The New York Times) By PETER BAKER The racist online video that President Donald Trump recently shared and then deleted gener

Lake Powell last July. Officials said that flows into the lake this year are 52 percent less than average, potentially rendering the dam unable to produce hydroelectric power by December. By SCOTT DANCE The seven Western states that rely on water from the Colorado River have run out of time for a compromise to share its dwindling supplies, just as new projections show reservoir levels could sink to a critical low by the end of this year. Interior Secretary Doug Burgum said Sa

Federal agents face off with protesters in Minneapolis, Jan. 14, 2026.The collapse of the Trump administration’s version of events in the case was only the most recent instance in which officials gave an account of a shooting that was later contradicted. (Jamie Kelter Davis/The New York Times) By MITCH SMITH and HAMED ALEAZIZ When an immigration agent shot Julio C. Sosa-Celis in the leg last month in Minneapolis, touching off hours of tense protests, the Trump administration

Gen. Dan Caine, center, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, arrives for a meeting with members of Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington, Jan. 5, 2026. Dozens of military chiefs from the Western Hemisphere are gathering on Wednesday, Feb. 11, in Washington for the first time to discuss a wide range of security issues that the Trump administration says are paramount to safeguarding the U.S. (Eric Lee/The New York Times) By ERIC SCHMITT and JOHN ISMAY Dozens of military

Tom Homan, the White House border czar, speaks at the Whipple Federal Building in Minneapolis on on Feb. 4, 2026. Homan said on Feb. 12 that it was ending its deployment of immigration agents to Minnesota, unwinding an aggressive operation that has stretched for more than two months despite loud opposition from residents and local officials. (Jamie Kelter Davis/The New York Times) By ERNESTO LONDOÑO, MITCH SMITH and POOJA SALHOTRA The Trump administration said Thursday that i

An area related to the case of Nancy Guthrie is closed off in Rio Rico, Ariz., Feb. 10, 2026. New images and videos released on Tuesday showed a masked, armed person at Nancy Guthrie’s doorstep on the night she was abducted, the first significant break in the search for the 84-year-old mother of the “Today” show host Savannah Guthrie. (Cassidy Araiza/The New York Times) By NICHOLAS BOGEL-BURROUGHS FBI agents were scouring roadways in the foothills near Nancy Guthrie’s home no