Missing Airman Raises Concerns That Iran Could Gain Leverage Over the U.S.

Since 1979, Iran has repeatedly used Americans and Europeans detained on its territory to win concessions over more powerful adversaries.Women walking by a mural of the Statue of Liberty on the outer wall of the former U.S. embassy in Tehran. In 1979, a group of militant students took over the embas

Y Yeganeh Torbati

New Attorney General, Same Albatross: Trump’s Quest for Retribution

The name atop the Justice Department’s organizational chart matters less than the presence of a president whose demands for revenge have become so extreme that even his most obsequious appointees have fallen short.The legal system has pushed back in an extraordinary manner over the past few months a

A Alan Feuer and Glenn Thrush

Trump Contemplates Other Cabinet Changes as He Faces Political Clock

With the midterms approaching, the president may be running out of time to get new cabinet members confirmed without bipartisan support.President Trump has contemplated making additional changes to his cabinet.

Z Zolan Kanno-Youngs, Rebecca Davis O’Brien and Julian E. Barnes

Trump Budget Does Little to Address Nation’s Fiscal Challenges

While the federal deficit has started to shrink under President Trump, his plans could make the long-term situation worse.President Trump’s latest budget proposal includes little that would realistically bolster the country’s financial health.

A Andrew Duehren and Alan Rappeport

Epstein Presented Himself to Indian Tycoon as a Trump White House Insider

The convicted sex offender gave Anil Ambani information on appointments and foreign policy. Some seemed prescient, though there was no evidence he was close to the administration.Anil Ambani, an Indian businessman who exchanged emails with Jeffery Epstein for more than two years, in 2022 in Mumbai.

A Anupreeta Das

Trump Wants to Make Deportation Deals. Autocrats Are Ready to Listen.

The White House has turned deportations, a signature domestic issue, into a major piece of foreign policy. Here’s what we know about the program.President Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio last month at the White House.

E Eileen Sullivan, Hamed Aleaziz, Megha Rajagopalan and Pranav Baskar

Foreign Doctors Forced Out of U.S. Hospitals by Trump Immigration Policy

Physicians from 39 countries are being pushed out of U.S. hospitals as a policy blocks their ability to work.Faysal Alghoula, a 38-year-old pulmonologist from Libya who treats patients in an underserved area, could lose his ability to work in the U.S. because of a Trump immigration policy.

M Miriam Jordan

ICE Review Finds Dozens of Violations at Texas Migrant Detention Center

A review of Camp East Montana in Texas found failures in medical care, disease control and oversight, including improperly documented uses of force.Large tents meant to house thousands of immigrants held at Camp East Montana, a detention facility at Fort Bliss in El Paso, Texas.

J Jesus Jiménez

‘Hacks’ Has the Last Laugh

As the HBO comedy finished production earlier this year, a photographer captured some of the final days on set and the showrunners looked back on its award-winning run.

C Chantal Anderson and Alexis Soloski

Living Space

We don’t have to travel to the moon to gain some of the insight that astronauts do.

M Melissa Kirsch

Are These Crumbling New York City Housing Projects Worth Saving?

The city thinks four developments in Chelsea are too run-down to be saved, and wants to rebuild them, adding mixed-income housing. Some residents are opposed.Public housing buildings on the campuses of the Fulton and Elliott-Chelsea Houses, left, have deteriorated over the years, even as the surroun

M Mihir Zaveri

She Wanted Her Hair Done for a Special Day. She Left the Salon in Tears.

A Black woman is pushing for changes in the hair industry after claiming in a lawsuit that she and her 7-year-old were turned away from an Ulta Beauty salon in Manhattan because of their hair texture.Lauren Smith, who lives in West Harlem, said a stylist at an Ulta Beauty salon on the Upper East Sid

S Skylar Mitchell