State Rep. Angie Nixon, right, a Democratic primary candidate for the U.S. Senate, speaks at a campaign rally in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., Aug. 14, 2026. Nixon of Jacksonville, a progressive firebrand who ran a long-shot underdog campaign, won the Democratic nomination for Senate in Florida, according to The Associated Press, the latest left-wing victory against establishment Democrats. (Saul Martinez/The New York Times) By PATRICIA MAZZEI State Rep. Angie Nixon, a progressive f

Volunteers pack food boxes for Haitian families at St. Vincent de Paul in Springfield, Ohio, on Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2026. Federal agents have begun detaining Haitians in the Ohio city, signaling an ICE ramp-up that has panicked the community and kept many from leaving home. (Maddie McGarvey/The New York Times) By MIRIAM JORDAN Federal agents have been detaining small numbers of Haitians over the past week in Springfield, Ohio, according to community leaders and advocates, fueli

By JUDSON JONES When the Pacific is overly active with tropical cyclones like Lala, the Atlantic typically remains quiet. That has been the case so far this hurricane season, with more activity in the Pacific and less in the Atlantic — but in the public imagination, one major storm can upset that relative quiet. A little over two months into the Atlantic hurricane season, the United States has largely been spared. There have been only three Atlantic storms that have grown str

An impromptu memorial for Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero at the intersection where he was fatally shot by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent in Biddeford, Maine, July 14, 2026. (Christopher Capozziello/The New York Times) By MAIA SPOTO and MURRAY CARPENTER The Department of Homeland Security said its inspector general would investigate an agent’s decision to open fire on a Colombian immigrant last month in Maine. But scant information about the inquiry has frustrate

Carlos Garcia stands in front of Charas/El Bohio Community Center in Manhattan in 2000. Garcia, a New York activist and organizer known as Chino, whose fight to save the thriving community center that he co-founded was emblematic of a larger struggle against the gentrification of New York City, died on July 24, 2026, at his home in Manhattan. He was 80. (Suzanne DeChillo/The New York Times) By ADAM NOSSITER Carlos Garcia, a New York activist and organizer known as Chino, whos

President Donald Trump arrives at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland following spending the weekend at his golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey, on Sunday, August 16, 2026. In a social media post, the president scolded South Korea for not helping denuclearize Iran, and also praised North Korea and its leader. (Al Drago/The New York Times) By HELENE COOPER President Donald Trump said on Sunday that he had instructed the Pentagon to reduce joint military exercises with South Korea,

Workers assess a fallen tree on busy Kanoelehua Avenue as Hurricane Lala pummels with high winds and heavy rain in Hilo, Hawaii, on Saturday, Aug. 15, 2026. (Bruce Omori/The New York Times) By CHRISTINA MORALES and JUDSON JONES Hawaii residents faced extensive power outages, submerged bridges and roads, and damaged homes after Hurricane Lala brushed along the islands. Hurricane Lala, which was a Category 1 hurricane, did not make landfall but moved close enough to wash out hi

Central Synagogue in Manhattan on Sept. 3, 2021. Police said a man on Friday, Aug. 15, 2026, struck a congregant at the prominent Upper East Side synagogue, as Jews in the city contend with threats, fears and internal divides. (Anna Watts/The New York Times) By EMMA GOLDBERG and MAIA COLEMAN Sabbath services just began at Central Synagogue on Friday night when prayers were interrupted by a crashing sound. Shouts rang out. Congregants held their breath. It was a scenario that

The Department of Justice in Washington, June 15, 2026. The U.S. attorney’s office in Chicago has spent the past year investigating a Democratic fund-raising firm once co-owned by the daughter of the judge in President Donald Trump’s hush-money trial in New York, according to court filings and people familiar with the inquiry. (Alex Kent/The New York Times) By GLENN THRUSH The U.S. attorney’s office in Chicago has spent the past year investigating a Democratic fundraising fir

Johanna Fernández holds some of the police surveillance records that she used in her research on her lap, in her home in New York, Aug. 8, 2014. Fernández, a Dominican American historian whose authoritative book about the Young Lords helped revive the legacy of that leftist collective, a revolutionary Latino counterpart to the Black Panthers, died on July 30, 2026, in Manhattan. She was 55. (Christopher Gregory-Rivera/The New York Times) By RICHARD SANDOMIR Johanna Fernández,