Laurel Rosenhall, one of our California reporters, describes how proponents of a tax on billionaires are countering their opponents’ enormous TV ad spending by spending small amounts on influencers.

When Hurricane Helene hit western North Carolina in 2024, hundreds of households lost the private bridges they rely on to access their homes. Two years later, only 44 bridges have been rebuilt by the state. Our reporter Eduardo Medina takes us there.

Our politics reporter Kellen Browning walks through the four Senate races that progressive Democrats are closely watching in the upcoming midterm elections.

After a Cornell student’s lawsuit alleging the school failed her when she reported sexual assault, there’s a new focus on Title IX, the federal law barring sex discrimination in federally funded education. Our Washington correspondent Michael C. Bender traces how interpretations of the law shifted between the Obama and Trump administrations.

After Russia released an American prisoner, President Trump’s special envoy praised President Vladimir V. Putin as “a humanitarian.” Our White House and national security correspondent, David E. Sanger, describes how the release comes amid Mr. Trump’s broader shift toward Russia and away from Ukraine.

Our national investigative reporter, Mike Baker, helped pry loose previously sealed court files that reveal important new details in the O.J. Simpson case.

The homeland security secretary, Markwayne Mullin, has repeatedly said ICE agents are pursuing “the worst of the worst” criminals. But as Hamed Aleaziz, a reporter for The New York Times, explains, data shows that arrests of people with no criminal record have soared this summer.

Many election officials fear that the Trump administration is laying the groundwork to challenge the midterm results in November if they do not favor Republicans. Our White House correspondent Zolan Kanno-Youngs describes what the administration is doing.

As the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran continues, it’s being felt in a wider region. Eric Schmitt, a national security correspondent at The New York Times, explains how the conflict is reaching U.S. bases and why the United States is pulling back its military presence in some locations.

Vice President JD Vance claimed that the White House anti-fraud task force found $250 billion of fraud. Our reporter Linda Qiu explains why that claim is exaggerated.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has lost close to 30 percent of its staff in the past year, with big turnover in top leadership and entire teams effectively shut down. Our health reporter Apoorva Mandavilli explains how these changes have affected the work of the department.

Our White House and national security correspondent, David Sanger, compares past “forever wars” that President Trump campaigned against with an Iran War that has no clear endgame.

Our polling reporter Ruth Igielnik describes what likely voters told us in the latest Times/Siena poll leading up to this year’s midterm elections.

The Department of Homeland Security is in the midst of a weeks-long hunt for noncitizens among the nation’s registered voters despite the absence of evidence of widespread fraud. Reporter Hamed Aleaziz breaks down how a D.H.S. agency is using open-source state voter registration websites in their search for voter fraud.

Shane Goldmacher, one of our national political correspondents, looks at the Republican candidates who spoke this week at their party’s unusual midterm convention, called a “Trumpapalooza.” Some other vulnerable candidates avoided it because of President Trump’s unpopularity.

Our politics reporter Reid Epstein explains how the Trump administration is using the Postal Service to intervene in mail-in voting in state elections.

Our White House correspondent Zolan Kanno-Youngs explains how so-called third-country deportations are sending immigrants to countries across the globe.

Our energy reporter Rebecca F. Elliott explains how oil reserves helped prevent an oil shock caused by the war in Iran from getting even worse — and how low those reserves are now.

Our reporter Julian E. Barnes, who covers U.S. intelligence agencies, describes how the Trump administration has been looking for a current or former Cuban official to take over the island’s government.

Dozens of U.S. water systems have been the targets of cyberattacks in the past week. Our reporter Dustin Volz explains how Iranian hackers are suspected, and how President Trump has cast blame elsewhere.