Eileen Wang, the former mayor of Arcadia, California (Wikipedia) By POOJA SALHOTRA Eileen Wang, the mayor of Arcadia, California, resigned Monday after federal prosecutors announced they had charged her with acting as an illegal agent of the Chinese government. She will plead guilty to the charge, according to a plea deal unsealed the same day. The felony charge comes with a potential sentence of up to 10 years in prison. The court document outlined Wang’s efforts, beginning

From left, Rep. Steve Cohen (D-Tenn.) and Tennessee State Sen. Raumesh Akbari examine the new House map unveiled by Tennessee Republicans in Nashville, May 6, 2026. The nation’s redistricting war has escalated at a dizzying rate over the last few weeks, potentially becoming a defining issue of this year’s midterm elections as much as the war with Iran or rising gas prices. (Brad J. Vest/The New York Times) By NICK CORASANITI The nation’s redistricting war has escalated at a d

By CHRISTINA MORALES Six people were found dead Sunday afternoon in a boxcar in Laredo, Texas, a spokesperson for the Laredo Police Department said. At approximately 3 p.m. local time, an employee for Union Pacific who was responsible for loading and unloading train cars at a rail yard before they headed north reported the discovery of the bodies, said the spokesperson, Investigator Joe E. Baeza. The circumstances of their deaths were unknown, he said, adding that police were

The entrance to the biocontainment unit at Nebraska Medicine in Omaha, March 5, 2020. Sixteen of 18 passengers who might have been exposed to hantavirus while aboard a cruise ship were isolating at a special quarantine center in Omaha, Nebraska on Monday, including one person who tested “mildly” positive for the virus and was in a more restrictive biocontainment unit, U.S. officials said. (Tim Gruber/The New York Times) By SONIA A. RAO, JACEY FORTIN and JIN YU YOUNG The waiti

Rescue boats at a staging area for emergency workers in Kerrville, Texas, before dawn on Tuesday, July 8, 2025. An expert panel appointed by President Donald Trump recommended on Thursday, May 7, that the Federal Emergency Management Agency make changes that could speed the flow of disaster aid to communities but also force states to cover more of the costs of more disasters without federal help. (Loren Elliott/The New York Times) By SCOTT DANCE An expert panel appointed by P

In an undated image from the Department of Defense, a page from a 1969 technical debriefing of Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins, the three American astronauts on the Apollo 11 moon mission. The Pentagon on Friday released online what it called “new, never-before-seen” files, dating back decades, related to unidentified flying objects. (Department of Defense via The New York Times) By MICHAEL LEVENSON Government drones, errant weather balloons, experimental spy

The downtown area in Annapolis, the capital of Maryland, where some Democratic state lawmakers have been pushing for the state to redraw its congressional map before the midterms, April 1, 2020. Democrats are still widely favored to win control of the U.S. House of Representatives in the November midterm elections, but Republicans have gained a new structural edge through their redistricting efforts. (Andrew Mangum/The New York Times) By SHANE GOLDMACHER and TIM BALK Just two

From left: State Sens. Charlane Oliver and Raumesh Akbari, with State Rep. Justin J. Pearson, join demonstrations outside the Tennessee State Capitol in Nashville after the Republican-controlled state legislature passed a new congressional map on Thursday, May 7, 2026. After a Supreme Court ruling that weakened the Voting Rights Act of 1965, Republicans have moved to carve up a majority-Black Memphis seat. (Brad J. Vest/The New York Times) By EMILY COCHRANE Tennessee Gov. Bil

Federal disaster declarations, which unlock millions of dollars in aid for communities hit by catastrophes, have been delayed significantly in President Trump’s second term, and money is flowing especially slowly to states that Trump lost in the 2024 election, according to a New York Times analysis. By SCOTT DANCE and ASHLEY CAI Federal disaster declarations, which unlock millions of dollars in aid for communities hit by catastrophes, have been delayed significantly in Presid

By MINHO KIM, GLENN THRUSH, JACEY FORTIN and JIN YU YOUNG The man accused of shooting at Secret Service agents on the National Mall in Washington expressed hostility toward the White House after he was wounded and taken into custody, authorities said earlier this week, as prosecutors prepared federal charges against him. Jeanine Pirro, the U.S. attorney for D.C., said in an interview with ABC News that the man would be charged with an assault on a federal officer and discharg