By LUKE BROADWATER President Donald Trump on Monday lashed out at communities that are protesting data centers, suggesting that residents who do not go along with the artificial intelligence revolution must prefer to be “backwards and poor.” “The only reason that communities throughout the U.S.A. should not want Data Centers is if they want to end up being backwards and poor,” Trump posted on his Truth Social site. “If they want to be successful and rich, with far lower taxes

Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) questions Todd Blanche, the acting attorney general, during his Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, on July 15, 2026. Blumenthal’s office published a whistleblower report on Tuesday, Sept. 1 alleging that the Postal Service is moving forward with a “secretive, rushed” effort to implement President Donald Trump’s order exerting federal control over mail voting, despite a court order blocking those pla

By ALBERT SUN and ALLISON McCANN A surge in immigration arrests this summer has swept up thousands of people who had not previously been the focus of President Donald Trump’s mass deportation campaign. They included people married to U.S. citizens, people who had entered legally and were pursuing an asylum claim, and others with a temporary legal status that the administration pushed to revoke. A majority of the immigrants arrested in July were people who were accused of viol

An absentee ballot drop box outside the City of Southfield Center in Southfield, Mich., on Tuesday, Feb. 27, 2024. Voting by mail would become much more difficult, if not impossible, for tens of millions of Americans if the U.S. Postal Service is allowed to implement a restrictive rule governing mail voting that President Trump has demanded. (Emily Elconin/The New York Times) By REID J. EPSTEIN Voting by mail would become much more difficult, if not impossible, for tens of mi

Nauset Beach, part of a stretch of coastline with one of the world’s densest seasonal populations of white sharks, in Orleans, Mass., July 26, 2026. Over the last several years, a resurgent seal population has turned Cape Cod into one of the world’s top seasonal hot spots for great white sharks. (Amir Hamja/The New York Times) By MICHAEL HARMON On a cloudless afternoon in July, Nicole Sweeney was on a charter boat off the southeastern corner of Massachusetts’ Cape Cod, cruisi

Demonstrators protest outside the U.S. Supreme Court after the court issued a 6-3 ruling that significantly impacts the future of Temporary Protected Status, a U.S. immigration program established by Congress in 1990, in Washington, June 25, 2026. (Kenny Holston/The New York Times) By HAMED ALEAZIZ, ZOLAN KANNO-YOUNGS and FRANCES ROBLES The Trump administration plans to step up deportation flights to Haiti, according to documents obtained by The New York Times, a move intende

New homes in northeast El Paso, Texas, a short distance from an enormous Meta AI data center under construction, on July 27, 2026. The Trump administration plans to eliminate a federal requirement that states publicize and solicit public input on applications for air pollution permits for a range of industrial facilities, including new data centers and the power plants needed to run them. (Paul Ratje/The New York Times) By MAXINE JOSELOW The Trump administration is moving to

By MICHAEL C. BENDER and GREG JAFFE After 17 years of teaching science at West Point, Dr. Adam Kalkstein says he was suddenly ordered last year to cut from his curriculum information about the human causes of climate change, according to a new lawsuit filed against the U.S. Military Academy. The change was immoral and potentially illegal, Kalkstein says he told Brig. Gen. Shane R. Reeves, who at the time was dean of West Point. Instead of upholding Army values, Kalkstein said

Federal agents near the scene where a federal agent shot a man from Venezuela while trying to detain him in Minneapolis, Jan. 14, 2026. An immigration officer facing state charges in connection with a shooting in Minneapolis was released from jail on Thursday after Republican officials in Texas prevailed in an extradition battle with their Democratic counterparts in Minnesota. (David Guttenfelder/The New York Times) By ERNESTO LONDOÑO and MITCH SMITH An immigration officer fa

People gather at the statue depicting Dolly Parton in Sevierville, Tenn., her hometown, to mourn her death on Tuesday, Aug. 25, 2026. As the nation mourned the singer-songwriter’s death on Tuesday, the grief was perhaps the most profound in Tennessee. (Will Crooks/The New York Times) By EMILY COCHRANE Before she became a country music icon, Dolly Parton belonged to Tennessee. Her rise to fame started, of course, with her music: an album cover featuring the view from an easter