The Department of Education in Washington, Nov. 13, 2025. A coalition of educators, school districts, unions and an advocacy organization for people with disabilities sued the Trump administration in federal court on Tuesday, Nov. 25, 2025, arguing that the government’s latest attempt to dismantle the Education Department was unlawful. (Eric Lee/The New York Times) By MICHAEL C. BENDER A coalition of educators, school districts, unions and an advocacy organization for people

Members of the National Guard at the scene where two Guardsmen were shot near the White House in Washington on Wednesday, Nov. 26, 2025. The identity and condition of the Guardsmen were not immediately known and local police said one suspect was in custody. (Eric Lee/The New York Times) By CAMPBELL ROBERTSON, ANTON TROIANOVSKI and KAROUN DEMIRJIAN Two members of the West Virginia National Guard were shot near the White House on Wednesday afternoon, the state’s governor said,

Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) speaks during a press conference at the Capitol in Washington, April 1, 2025. The Pentagon said on Monday, Nov. 24, that it was investigating Kelly for “serious allegations of misconduct,” less than a week after he took part in a video that reminded troops to refuse illegal orders. (Kenny Holston/The New York Times) By GREG JAFFE The Pentagon said earlier this week that it was investigating Sen. Mark Kelly, D-Ariz., for “serious allegations of miscon

Former FBI Director James Comey is sworn in during a Senate hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, June 8, 2017. A federal judge threw out the criminal charges against James Comey, the former F.B.I. director, and Letitia James, New York’s attorney general, on Monday after finding that the prosecutor President Trump handpicked to bring the cases had been illegally appointed. (Doug Mills/The New York Times) By ALAN FEUER and DEVLIN BARRETT A federal judge tossed out separate cr

Women shop at the Karmel Mall, a Somali shopping center, in Minneapolis, Oct. 14, 2019. President Donald Trump intends to strip hundreds of Somalis living in the United States of the protected status they have had for decades under a program for immigrants from countries in crisis. (Jenn Ackerman/The New York Times) By NICHOLAS BOGEL-BURROUGHS President Donald Trump intends to strip hundreds of Somalis living in the United States of the protected status they have had for deca

Zohran Mamdani, mayor-elect of New York City, speaks to reporters after attending a Sunday service at Union Grove Missionary Baptist Church in the Crotona Park East neighborhood of the Bronx, on Sunday, Nov. 23, 2025. In a Sunday interview on “Meet the Press,” Mamdani said he had made a forceful case to President Donald Trump that troops were not needed in the city. (Dave Sanders/The New York Times) By NATAHN TAYLOR PEMBERTON It was a break-the-internet moment if there ever w

An exam room at the Red River Women’s Clinic in Moorhead, Minn., which was the only remaining abortion provider in North Dakota before it moved across the border into Minnesota, May 26, 2023. The North Dakota Supreme Court reinstated a near-total abortion ban on Friday, reversing a judge’s earlier decision and making abortion once again illegal in the state. (Jenn Ackerman/The New York Times) By SONIA A. RAO The North Dakota Supreme Court reinstated a near-total abortion ban

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) speaks during a news conference about the Epstein files on Capitol Hill in Washington, Sept. 3, 2025. Rep. Greene’s resignation blindsided her conservative Georgia district, which had stuck by her through ups and downs, including her split with the president. (Eric Lee/The New York Times) By RICK ROJAS and SEAN KEENAN A portion of the country might have looked at Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene as a symbol of how caustic and bewildering nationa