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U.A.E. Firm Quietly Took Stake in the Trump Family’s Crypto Company

The $500 million agreement raises new concerns about the propriety of the president negotiating foreign policy with his own business partners.

© Katarina Premfors for The New York Times

Zach Witkoff, left, and Eric Trump, speaking in Dubai in May. Eric Trump signed an agreement with an Emirati-backed investment firm days before his father’s inauguration in January 2025.
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Can Tom Homan De-escalate ICE Tensions in Minnesota?

The White House border czar wants to focus more on getting immigrants already in jails. He’ll have to persuade Democrats to do it.

© Jamie Kelter Davis for The New York Times

Tom Homan, the border czar, at a news conference last week. After starting his career as a New York police officer, Mr. Homan spent decades in immigration enforcement, rising up to leadership roles.
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Russia Strikes Ukraine’s Energy Sector, Killing 12 Miners

The attack comes during a winter freeze and despite efforts by President Trump and others to get the two countries to negotiate a truce.

© Lynsey Addario for The New York Times

A tent provided by the government to provide heat and electricity in Kyiv last month. Russia has devastated Ukraine’s power grid this winter, the coldest in more than a decade.
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A ‘Historic’ Snowfall Hits the Carolinas

Blanketed beaches. Frozen suburbs. Football fields buried in snow. Everywhere in the region, people felt the storm, which caused two deaths.

© Daniel Pullen for The New York Times

A winter storm pushed the Atlantic Ocean into Buxton Village on the coast of North Carolina.
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Rare Albatross Coasts Above California Waters Far From Home

The unexpected sighting of a waved albatross, which was thousands of miles from its typical range, earned it a label ornithologists reserve for the unexpected: an avian “vagrant.”

© Melody Baran/University of California-San Diego-Scripps Institution of Oceanography, via Associated Press

A rare waved albatross was spotted off the coast of Point Piedras Blancas, Calif., this month.
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