Iran’s Fractured Leadership Is Struggling to Coordinate, Officials Say

As leaders are killed and replaced, Iranian negotiators may not know what their government is willing to concede in any negotiations.Many senior Iranian leaders and their deputies have been killed, and those who survive have had difficulty communicating.

J Julian E. Barnes, Adam Goldman and Ronen Bergman

Trump Claims ‘Regime Change’ in Iran Is Already Complete

President Trump suggested that Iran’s current leaders were “much more reasonable” as he sought to show progress in his war aims. Iran’s power structure appears firmly in control despite a month of U.S.-Israeli attacks.President Trump speaking aboard Air Force One, in Florida, on Sunday.

A Amelia Nierenberg

TSA Workers Begin to Receive Paychecks After Trump Signs Executive Order

A memo that President Trump signed on Friday ordering the Department of Homeland Security to pay T.S.A. officers did not specify whether they would be paid on a regular schedule.Transportation Security Administration officers at a security checkpoint in Pittsburgh International Airport on Monday.

M Madeleine Ngo

Senate Republicans Make No Move to End DHS Shutdown in Brief Session

With Congress in recess, much of the Homeland Security Department remains without money because of the impasse on Capitol Hill, even as airport security workers are to begin getting paid.“If we had something good to go today, we could have done it today,” Senator John Hoeven said on Monday.

C Carl Hulse

Senators Seek Answers From Trump Administration About Airport Immigration Arrests

Airport security officials have been sharing passenger data with immigration agents, but the program received little attention until videos captured a woman and her daughter being detained at San Francisco’s airport.The Transportation Security Administration began sharing passenger information with

H Heather Knight and Hamed Aleaziz

Mexico Pressures U.S. Over Deaths of Its Citizens in ICE Custody

Claudia Sheinbaum, president of Mexico, said her country would take legal steps to demand better conditions at immigration detention facilities, where she said 14 Mexican citizens had died since President Trump took office.President Claudia Sheinbaum of Mexico at a news conference on Monday.

T Tim Arango, Jazmine Ulloa and Allison McCann

After Months of Threats, Trump Softens His Stance on Blocking Oil to Cuba

The White House press secretary said the United States would evaluate oil shipments to Cuba on a “case-by-case basis,” after a Russian tanker full of crude reached the island.An oil tanker near the coastline of Matanzas, Cuba, on Monday. The ban on foreign oil imports has plunged the country into a

Z Zolan Kanno-Youngs, Anton Troianovski and Maria Abi-Habib

DeSantis Signs Bill to Rename Florida Airport for Trump

The airport near West Palm Beach will be rebranded the President Donald J. Trump International Airport on July 1, if approved by the Federal Aviation Administration.President Trump at Palm Beach International Airport in West Palm Beach, Fla., last month.

P Patricia Mazzei

Trump Reveals New Look for White House Ballroom After Times Article

Architects and preservation organizations have warned that little scrutiny has been given to the project’s design plans.President Trump showing a new rendering of the proposed White House ballroom’s south portico, without the grand staircase that appeared in previous plans.

E Emily Badger

The Dogma of Meat

From Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s food pyramid to online influencers, beef has become more than just a source of protein.

L Lisa Miller

‘I Think That MAGA Is Dying:’ Inside the Youth Movement at CPAC

At a sparsely attended Conservative Political Action Conference, young Republicans were eager to start the post-Trump era.The annual Conservative Political Action Conference has been gradually waning in energy for years, but empty convention halls and an anemic speakers list gave many young people i

N Nathan Taylor Pemberton

Mark Sanford, Years After Scandal, Aims for a Comeback to Congress

The former South Carolina governor and congressman filed papers to run for his old seat, six years after running for president and nearly two decades after a high-profile affair.Mark Sanford in 2023. His star has risen and fallen in Republican politics over the years.

R Reid J. Epstein

NASA Is Launching Astronauts to the Moon, but Americans Aren’t That Excited

Polling has consistently found that most people would prefer NASA spend money on things like monitoring climate change and averting asteroid collisions rather than human spaceflight.Artemis II pilot Victor Glover met with young space enthusiasts at the Kennedy Space Center in January. While overall

K Kenneth Chang

Israel Passes Law to Hang Palestinians Convicted of Deadly Attacks

Experts say the law was written in such a way as to ensure that it was unlikely to ever apply to Jewish extremists who commit similar crimes.Itamar Ben-Gvir, center, the national security minister, and other Israeli hard-liners had campaigned on a promise to execute Palestinian militants.

A Aaron Boxerman and Johnatan Reiss

What to Know About California’s Executive Order on A.I.

Gov. Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, issued an order requiring safety and privacy guardrails for artificial intelligence companies contracting with the state.Gov. Gavin Newsom. California has been a leader in tech lawmaking, and was the first state to pass a law mandating safety and transparency from the

C Cecilia Kang

Woman Spent Five Months in Jail After A.I. Linked Her to Bank Fraud Case

The police chief in Fargo, N.D., acknowledged “missteps” but stopped short of apologizing to Angela Lipps, a Tennessee resident who said she had never been to North Dakota before she was arrested.Angela Lipps outside her home in Elizabethton, Tenn., before she was arrested in July 2025. She spent fi

M Michael Levenson

Can You Fake Being Rich?

A spate of popular social media accounts offer advice on how to achieve an “old-money” look.The appearance of wealth, and how to get it, has become a hot topic on social media.

G Guy Trebay