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By Lauren Jackson

I’m an editor for this newsletter.

• Texas flooding: The Times joined two brothers as they searched for their parents.

• Climate change: The world breached a key limit for global warming. The Times explained what’s next.
• Immigration: In Charlotte, N.C., border patrol agents appeared at an after-school care facility for immigrant children. Families went into hiding.
• ICE agents: We went inside their job fair.

• Police violence: Los Angeles police officers broke protocol and injured protesters.
• Plane crash: We looked at what happened in the moments before the midair collision near Reagan National Airport that left 67 dead.
• Louvre heist: Thieves stole priceless jewelry in just eight minutes. This is how they did it.
• War in Ukraine: Kyiv is making advances in how it fights with drones.

• War in Gaza: Video of a child escaping a burning building after an Israeli airstrike garnered widespread attention online. We found her in a hospital in Gaza and pieced together what had happened.
• Six deadly minutes: We took a close look at how Israeli soldiers killed 15 rescue workers in Gaza.
• Aid cuts: The Trump administration has cut nearly a billion dollars in food aid, creating a scarcity crisis at food banks across the country. Fresh food is being replaced with junk.
• Elon Musk: As his Department of Government Efficiency slashed federal spending, we found huge errors in its “wall of receipts,” where the group listed what it had saved by canceling federal contracts.
• Coughing black dust: Recycling lead for U.S. car batteries is poisoning children. We know because we tested them.

• Tate brothers: Andrew Tate and his brother, Tristan, were prohibited from leaving Romania for years after they were accused of trafficking dozens of women for a porn business. They courted powerful figures on the American right in order to gain their freedom.
• Miley Cyrus: Lulu Garcia-Navarro interviewed the pop star about fame, family and the therapy she said saved her life.

• As President Trump pushed publicly for an end to the war in Ukraine, factions in the Pentagon and the White House were severing an alliance between Washington and Kyiv that had helped the country survive the Russian invasion. A Times investigation reveals the details.
• The investigation, by Adam Entous, drew on hundreds of interviews with military officials, intelligence officers and diplomats around the world. Here are takeaways.

• Newly released emails show that Justice Department leaders pushed for charges against Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, raising questions about whether officials had misled a judge in the case.
• A federal judge ruled that the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau cannot lose its funding. The Trump administration has been trying to defund it.
• A federal judge blocked the deportation of more than 200 migrants from South Sudan.

• The federal health department paused child care payments to Minnesota in response to a growing fraud scandal involving the state’s social services programs.
• The crew of an oil tanker fleeing U.S. forces in the Atlantic Ocean painted a Russian flag on the side of the vessel in an apparent attempt to claim Russian protection, American officials said.

• Protests in Iran over worsening economic conditions spread to universities in several cities. Students clashed with security forces near some campuses.
• The government of the former Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad interfered with evidence to conceal atrocities it committed during the Syrian civil war, a Times investigation found.

• Tatiana Schlossberg, who died at 35, leaves behind a husband, two young children and a grieving Kennedy family. Read more about her life and her work.
• Here’s a look ahead at the space events our science reporters are anticipating next year, including spaceflights and a solar eclipse.