Critics say the nets harm marine life and aren’t the best way to keep swimmers safe. Recent shark attacks have complicated a plan to remove some of them.

President Trump has a history of insulting people from African countries, but the outburst was shocking in its unapologetic bigotry. Vice President JD Vance banged the table in encouragement.

The judge found that immigration agents were likely acting illegally when making arrests without a warrant.

Almost every election night this year has gone poorly for the Republicans — a familiar position for the party that occupies the White House.

He emerged out of obscurity when his cargo plane was shot down while illegally ferrying arms to Nicaraguan rebels, setting off a scandal that tarnished the Reagan and Bush White Houses.

Matt Van Epps fended off a Democrat to protect Republicans’ slim House majority, but the relatively close margin in a red district sent the party a warning shot before the 2026 midterms.

Jay Clayton, Manhattan’s top federal prosecutor, had called his office’s drug prosecution of an ex-president of Honduras a success. President Trump decided to free him this week.

Mr. Solomon was elected mayor over Mr. McGreevey, who was hoping for a comeback after resigning in 2004 as New Jersey’s governor amid a sex scandal.

Officials told staff members at two student-run publications, called Nineteen Fifty-Six and Alice, that they were not compliant with Attorney General Pam Bondi’s memo on diversity programs.

President Trump began the meeting by criticizing media coverage about him showing signs of fatigue. Last month, he appeared to doze off during a meeting in the Oval Office.

The pause, which will halt green card and U.S. citizenship processing for broad swaths of people, deepens a remarkable crackdown on legal immigration pathways in recent days.

The essay, written for a psychology class by a University of Oklahoma student, called the idea of multiple genders “demonic.” The instructor said it did not answer the assignment.

President Trump is growing frustrated as Americans struggle with higher prices and pessimism over the state of the economy.

Adm. Frank M. Bradley will soon face questions from lawmakers, as Republicans and Democrats express concerns about a Sept. 2 attack on a boat in the Caribbean.

Don’t let Trump sell out its freedom for business deals with Putin.

The stepped-up enforcement comes as the Trump administration has also moved to reassess the vetting of Afghans who came to the country under the Biden administration.

The two sides did not reach any specific compromises, an aide to President Vladimir V. Putin said, as the United States pushes a plan to end the war in Ukraine.

A Pennsylvania patrolman said a superior had offered him a hoagie if he responded to a call at a local McDonald’s. The officer recognized the suspect and then played for time.

The defense secretary supported the admiral he said called for the second strike on Sept. 2 against a boat the administration says was smuggling drugs.

Juan Orlando Hernández was convicted of flooding the United States with cocaine and had been sentenced to 45 years in prison.

The city attorney accuses large manufacturers of causing diseases that have burdened governments with public health costs.

President Trump’s threat of military action has confronted President Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela with the gravest challenge of his crisis-ridden reign.

James Pugh, one of two men originally convicted in the savage killing of Deborah Meindl near Buffalo in 1993, said all along that he was innocent.

Ms. Pressley, a prominent progressive, will instead run for re-election to the House. Her move is expected to help Senator Ed Markey, though he still faces one well-known Democratic primary challenger.

The philanthropy has become one of America’s biggest, but most of its giving went to charities closely tied to the world’s richest man.

The flight’s approval illustrates how the United States and Venezuela are still communicating, after a declaration from President Trump that Venezuelan airspace was “closed in its entirety.”

The staff of The New York Times Book Review choose the year’s top fiction and nonfiction.

The tests have not been approved by federal regulators, but that hasn’t stopped patients from wanting them — and doctors from worrying.