Our Pentagon correspondent Helene Cooper explains how a lack of transparency reflects a tension between the Pentagon’s claims of operational security and the American public’s right to know what the military is doing in Iran.

ICE has been trying to continue its mass deportations without drawing headlines. Our White House correspondent Zolan Kanno-Youngs explains how two fatal shootings at traffic stops raise the question of whether the Trump administration can continue its campaign without deadly consequences.

Our Justice Department reporter Devlin Barrett describes how Todd Blanche, President Trump’s former personal lawyer and current nominee for attorney general, has helped Mr. Trump gain more control over the Justice Department.

The U.S. and Israel were united in going to war with Iran to change the regime. Mark Mazzetti, a New York Times investigative reporter, explains how the failure of Israel to install Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as Iran’s new leader led the U.S. to narrow its efforts in Iran to just launching attacks with no plan for a new government.

The U.S. and Israel were united in going to war with Iran to change the regime. Mark Mazzetti, a Times investigative reporter, explains how the failure of Israel to install Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as Iran’s new leader led the U.S. to narrow its efforts in Iran to just launching attacks with no plan for a new government.

Supreme Court justices are asking lawmakers on Capitol Hill to increase their 2027 budget, with most of the additional funding earmarked for security. Ann E. Marimow, a New York Times reporter, explains why the justices say these measures are necessary to protect them from rising threats.

Eric Schmitt, a New York Times National Security correspondent, analyzes recent skirmishes between the U.S. and Iran and whether they threaten ongoing negotiations for a peace deal.

At this year’s NATO summit in Turkey, President Trump is arriving with his own priorities — and, as Tyler Pager, The Times’s White House correspondent, explains, they do not necessarily align with those of other NATO leaders.

Abbie VanSickle, a Supreme Court correspondent for The New York Times, takes stock of the court’s term this year. Opinions largely broke for conservatives, but the court pushed back on some of President Trump’s boldest ideas.

Our chief legal affairs correspondent, Adam Liptak, explains how two Supreme Court rulings on the firings of independent regulators first expand the power of the president, and then carve out an exception.

Our Supreme Court reporter Ann E. Marimow describes how a 6-3 majority of the justices removed protections for immigrants and asylum seekers amid the Trump administration’s crackdown.

Our Washington correspondent Michael Bender explains how the Trump administration is trying to use a civil rights law that prohibits sex-based discrimination to roll back protections for transgender students.

President Trump is demanding that Congress pass the SAVE America Act to change American elections. Our national politics reporter Nick Corasaniti looks at what’s in it.

Our reporter John Ismay, who served as a Navy explosive ordnance disposal officer and deep-sea diver for eight years, explains why mines in the Strait of Hormuz may outlast the war.

A sprawling influence campaign to promote a risky drug called kratom has gained allies among top Trump administration officials. Our investigative reporter Kenneth P. Vogel explains.

For days, protesters have been clashing with law enforcement over conditions at an ICE detention center in New Jersey. The New York Times reporter Hamed Aleaziz explains how these complaints persist across the country and takes a closer look at the problems documented at one center in Louisiana.

President Trump’s advisers gathered in secret in the Situation Room without him as they struggled to handle the Epstein files scandal, our reporters Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan learned while researching their book, “Regime Change.” Here’s the inside story. Correction: An earlier version of this video mislabeled the date of Pam Bondi’s interview clip.

As negotiations to end the war in Iran drag on, our reporter David E. Sanger describes the factors that are complicating any agreement.

President Trump’s new counterterrorism strategy focuses on “violent left-wing extremists,” as well as narcoterrorists and Islamic terror groups. Our White House correspondent Zolan Kanno-Youngs explains what it means.

With Ken Paxton defeating Senator John Cornyn in Texas’ Republican runoff for the Senate, The New York Times’s national political correspondent Shane Goldmacher explains why Democrats may now see their best chance in years to flip the seat.