Trump’s Tanker Crackdown Paralyzes Venezuelan Oil Exports

Oil exports, the country’s financial lifeblood, have plummeted after the United States took action against three ships that have been used to carry its crude.Since the Skipper, a tanker carrying Venezuelan oil, was seized on Dec. 10, only two tankers carrying crude appear to have tried to sail beyon

A Anatoly Kurmanaev and Rebecca F. Elliott

U.S. Is Adding to Its Military Buildup in the Caribbean

Over the past week, C-17 heavy-lift cargo planes, which usually transport troops and equipment, flew to Puerto Rico at least 16 times, according to flight tracking data reviewed by The New York Times.Ground crews unloaded cargo last week from an Air Force C-17 Globemaster III aircraft, top, parked n

C Christiaan Triebert and Helene Cooper

Supreme Court Refuses to Allow Trump to Deploy National Guard in Chicago

President Trump ordered state-based troops to Portland, Ore.; Los Angeles; Washington; and Chicago over the objections of state and local officials.The president’s efforts to use troops for domestic policing have prompted legal challenges accusing the Trump administration of exceeding its authority.

A Ann E. Marimow

19 States Sue to Block White House Plan to End Gender-Related Care for Minors

The coalition of states seeks to stop a Trump administration effort to cut off federal funding to hospitals that provide such care.Letitia James, left, attorney general of New York, at a conference in May with attorneys general from other states including, from left, Rob Bonta of California, Kwame R

O Orlando Mayorquín and Chris Hippensteel

Student Loan Borrowers in Default Could See Wages Garnished in Early 2026

Starting the week of Jan. 7, the Education Department will begin sending notices about paycheck deductions to about 1,000 of five million borrowers in default.According to the federal government’s student aid website, up to 15 percent of a defaulted borrower’s paycheck can be taken after other deduc

E Emmett Lindner

National Guard Troops to Arrive in New Orleans

The troops will join an existing wave of Border Patrol agents, months after Gov. Jeff Landry first suggested that the National Guard could help tamp down on crime in Louisiana.Members of the National Guard will join Border Patrol agents who have already been in New Orleans since early December as pa

E Emily Cochrane

Redacted Material in Some Epstein Files Is Easily Recovered

The ease of recovering information that was not properly redacted digitally suggests that at least some of the documents released by the Justice Department were hastily censored.The executors of Jeffrey Epstein’s estate faced a civil suit filed in the Virgin Islands in 2021. Documents from the suit

S Santul Nerkar

Zelensky Opens Way to Demilitarized Zone in Eastern Ukraine to Reach Peace

The offer was the closest Mr. Zelensky has come to addressing the thorny territorial disputes in Donetsk that have repeatedly derailed peace talks.A heavily damaged Sloviansk, one of two Ukrainian-held cities that form Kyiv’s last main defensive belt in the Donetsk region in the east, and which coul

C Constant Méheut

Kate Winslet’s Unhappy Family Christmas

The British actress’s directorial debut, “Goodbye June,” is based on a script written by her son and follows a fractured family reuniting in the hospital over the holidays.

E Eleanor Stanford and Thea Traff

Stephen Miller Cites Children of Immigrants as a Problem

As it seeks to end birthright citizenship, the Trump administration is arguing that immigrants bring problems that extend for generations. The data shows otherwise.Stephen Miller is stressing an argument that immigrants bring problems to the United States that extend through generations.

H Hamed Aleaziz

How Did DOGE Disrupt So Much While Saving So Little?

The group’s biggest claims were largely incorrect, a New York Times analysis found. And its many smaller cuts added up to few savings.

E Emily Badger, David A. Fahrenthold, Alicia Parlapiano and Margot Sanger-Katz

The Confederacy Goes on Trial, Along With Schools Named Jackson and Lee

In an unusual trial, the N.A.A.C.P. has sought to show a school board’s “racist intent” by proving that the names of Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson can’t be separated from white supremacy.Stonewall Jackson High School was renamed Mountain View High School in 2020. The change was reversed by the

C Clyde McGrady

Pennsylvania Nursing Home Explosion Kills 2

A resident and an employee were killed after two explosions at the Bristol Health and Rehab Center resulted in a large fire and partial collapse of the building, officials said.A gas explosion at a nursing home in Bristol, Pa., drew a large emergency response on Tuesday afternoon.

C Chris Hippensteel, Rylee Kirk, Pooja Salhotra, Mark Bonamo and Francesca Regalado

Thailand, Attacking Cambodia, Says Its Target Is the Scam Industry

Thai warplanes have bombed compounds where people are forced to defraud others online. Rights activists say trafficking victims’ lives are at risk.Pheap Sreymean, 20, worked at a scam center in O’Smach, Cambodia. She said foreign workers were not allowed to leave when the center was attacked.

S Sui-Lee Wee and Lam Yik Fei