#United States

The west facade of the United States Supreme Court building in Washington, D.C., photographed at dusk in 2011.

Supreme Court will decide whether Trump can switch off asylum at the southern border

The operations floor of the FAA's Anchorage Air Route Traffic Control Center, one of the agency's 22 en route centers, in 2006.

Air traffic control

A four-hour nationwide ground stop halts 10,000 US flights, and airlines cancel more than 2,000 more on Saturday

The Marriner S. Eccles Building in Washington, D.C., headquarters of the Federal Reserve's Board of Governors, photographed in 2011.

October consumer prices rise 0.4% and push the Fed toward a rate increase on December 9

Pete Crow-Armstrong walks back to the Chicago Cubs dugout during a game against the Miami Marlins in September 2026, the season that earned him the National League MVP award.

Yordan Alvarez and Pete Crow-Armstrong win MVP unanimously, in the first year baseball's four big awards were all swept

Jensen Huang speaks to a computer science class at Stanford University in April 2026, seven months before his resignation as Nvidia's chief executive.

Jensen Huang resigns from Nvidia after 33 years, and the board hands the company to CFO Colette Kress

Victor Wembanyama playing for the San Antonio Spurs at the NBA Cup at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, in December 2025.

Spurs erase a 22-point hole in Chicago for a 10th straight win, 124-119, as the Bulls fall to 1-9

A Honda Accord e:HEV, one of the hybrid models behind the demand Honda cites for its new Ohio plant, photographed in April 2026.

Automotive industry

Honda commits $3 billion to a hybrid plant in Ohio, its fourth in the state, with 2,000 jobs and 240,000 vehicles a year

A Bureau of Land Management public land auction held in Nevada in May 2015 under the Southern Nevada Public Land Management Act.

Interior's new five-year plan makes shrinking the federal estate an official goal, with land sales to states, localities and Tribes

Representative Jim Jordan, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, speaks at an FBI oversight hearing in Washington in July 2023.

House leadership

House Republicans pick Jim Jordan over Steve Scalise, 106-73, to lead them in the next Congress

Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins in her official USDA portrait, taken in Washington in February 2025.

Food assistance

USDA moves to cut 6.3 million people from SNAP by narrowing automatic eligibility to cash welfare households

Jensen Huang, founder and chief executive of Nvidia, speaking at Stanford University in April 2026.

Nvidia's board opens an investigation into Jensen Huang after he admits an affair with a woman accused of spying for China

The United States Capitol in Washington at sunrise, in a photograph released by the House of Representatives in January 2023.

Congress returns for a five-week lame duck with a December 11 funding cliff and a leadership fight on Tuesday

The interior of Hinkle Fieldhouse at Butler University in Indianapolis, photographed in 2008.

The NBA Cup opens group play, and for the first time the final leaves Las Vegas for a 1928 college gym in Indianapolis

The John Joseph Moakley United States Courthouse in Boston, seat of the US District Court for the District of Massachusetts, in September 2024.

A federal judge strikes down the narrower "medically frail" test for the Medicaid work requirements that start on January 1

Exterior view of the CDC's Roybal campus in Atlanta, Georgia, the agency's headquarters.

CDC counts 4,588 measles cases in 2026, and 96% of the patients were unvaccinated or of unknown status

Demonstrators march in the rain during the first No Kings protest, in Manhattan, New York, in June 2025.

Midterm elections

No Kings turns its protest machine into an early-voting drive before the November 3 midterms

Demolition of the White House East Wing in Washington on October 22, 2025. The ballroom is being built on the cleared site.

Apple and Nvidia each gave $25 million to Trump's White House ballroom, on a donor list that adds up to $333 million

The city of Bend, in central Oregon, photographed in 2007. Silver Rail Elementary School belongs to the Bend-La Pine Schools district.

School shooting

A 16-year-old shot through the locked doors of a Bend, Oregon, elementary school and killed three children and a teacher

Governor Gavin Newsom at a 2025 press conference on California's artificial intelligence workforce agreements with technology companies.

Artificial intelligence

California bans the "robo boss": an algorithm alone may no longer fire a worker

The Supreme Court building in Washington, seen from the Library of Congress in 2023.

The Supreme Court takes up the case of a Brazilian jailed without a bond hearing after a decade in the United States