For Stephen Miller, Election Defeat Is No Reason to Back Down on Immigration Crackdown
The president’s new chief of staff has already demonstrated his intention to forge ahead with an agenda that many voters rejected.
Susie Wiles Is the Latest Powerful Woman to Exit the Trump Administration
A wave of high-ranking women have left the Trump administration in the past year. Many were replaced by men.President Trump talking with Susie Wiles at the White House last year.
What to Know About Stephen Miller, Trump’s New Chief of Staff
The architect of President Trump’s mass deportation campaign, Mr. Miller has been the public face of many of Mr. Trump’s immigration policies.Stephen Miller in the White House with President Trump.
Schumer Is on Track to Remain Democratic Leader in Senate After Election Blowout, Aides Say
The Democratic leader still faces skeptics in his ranks and hostility from some activists, but aides say he has enough commitments of support to be elected majority leader.Senator Chuck Schumer, Democrat of New York, and his political team engaged in a $550 million push to put more Senate seats in p
Turning Point Bet on the Midterms and Lost. Some Republicans Are Furious.
Candidates backed by the right-wing activist group did not fare well, and the results set off recriminations from establishment Republicans.Erika Kirk, chief executive of Turning Point USA, during a Turning Point Action event in Phoenix in April.
With So Much New Blood in the Senate, the Average Age Is Falling. To 63.
Incoming senators are nearly 15 years younger than departing ones, on average. But the chamber’s overall age isn’t shifting much.
How Elon Musk Frittered Away Nearly $500 Million on the Midterm Elections
Behind the scenes, the world’s richest person spent a record amount over two years to bend the country’s politics to his will. He couldn’t.Elon Musk has become by far the Republican Party’s biggest megadonor, spending nearly $500 million during the 2025-26 midterm election cycle.
Inside the Operation That Helped Ukraine Reverse Some Russian War Gains
After months of secrecy, Ukrainian commanders let New York Times journalists join them in bunkers and training grounds used to reverse some Russian territorial gains.
How Cardiologists’ High Hopes for Two Drugs Were Dashed
By every measure, the drugs were no better than placebos, full data revealed on Saturday. Was it the fault of the design of the studies, or our very hypotheses about heart disease?
Illeana Douglas Looks Back on Hollywood’s Biggest ‘Cat Fight’
After publishing a book about the 1939 classic “The Women,” the actress and writer talks about her film career and her role in #MeToo.Douglas says she has learned to be “very strong and very direct.”
The Midterms Were Spectacular. Here’s What They Showed.
Five signals from the Democrats’ extraordinary string of victories.
What Michelle Goldberg Learned From the Most Exciting Democrats
Michelle Goldberg reported on the Democrats’ most exciting campaigns. Here’s what she saw.
Hunkering Down
The urge to hibernate comes on strong as the days get shorter. But there are good reasons to resist, at least a little.
More Than 50 Killed in Yemen in One of the Deadliest 24 Hours of the War
Strikes show the heavy toll since fighting between the Houthis and the Saudi-backed government reignited in August, with civilians paying a heavy price.A boy being treated after being injured in a strike near Sanaa, Yemen, on Saturday.