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Aug 29, 2025
After a bruising redistricting fight, Gov. Greg Abbott signed a new congressional map into law. But the Republican-led Legislature, newly emboldened, has not stopped there.
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Aug 29, 2025
The Secret Service usually protects a former vice president for six months after they leave office.
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Aug 29, 2025
Weather Service employees help air traffic controllers keep planes away from severe weather. Fewer than half of the country's control centers are fully staffed, a government report says.
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Aug 29, 2025
The United States generally allows foreign officials to attend the United Nations General Assembly. The administration's move comes amid a new push for Palestinian statehood.
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Aug 29, 2025
Activists are pointing to the attacker's gender identity to falsely portray all transgender people as prone to mental illness and violence.
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Aug 29, 2025
Lawyers for the administration told a court it should be "highly deferential" to the president when it comes to firing a Federal Reserve governor "for cause."
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Aug 29, 2025
Democrats still face an uphill fight to win in Iowa and retake the majority in the closely divided Senate.
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Aug 29, 2025
The failure of the U.S. attorney's office in Washington to obtain indictments in at least three separate cases — in some incidents that were clearly captured on video — is all but unheard-of.
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Aug 29, 2025
Deep within obscure footnotes, the Trump administration is claiming more of Congress's constitutional power of the purse by threatening to block funding.
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Aug 29, 2025
After a bruising political fight, Gov. Greg Abbott signed into law a new congressional map. But the Republican-led Legislature, newly emboldened, has not stopped there.
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Aug 29, 2025
The White House notified Congress that it plans to use a legally untested maneuver to circumvent lawmakers and claw back more money for foreign aid programs.
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Aug 29, 2025
Patrick Braxton won the first mayoral election in a half century in the small town of Newbern, five years after its leaders put up roadblocks to his assuming office.
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Aug 29, 2025
Because a C.D.C. panel has not yet recommended the shots, the country's largest pharmacy chains are requiring prescriptions or holding back altogether under some state laws.
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Aug 29, 2025
The code of conduct for federal judges does not appear to apply to Mr. Bove, who has yet to be sworn in. But his continued presence at the department has raised eyebrows.
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Aug 29, 2025
The Secret Service usually protects a former vice president for six months after they leave office, but President Joseph R. Biden Jr. had extended Ms. Harris's protection beyond that.
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Aug 29, 2025
A network dedicated to early phase trials of treatments for children with brain cancer will be phased out.
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Aug 29, 2025
President Trump's effort to oust the Federal Reserve governor has kicked off a landmark legal battle, one that will have far-reaching consequences for the institution's independence.
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Aug 29, 2025
What Gavin Newsom is up to in his ‘Patriot Shop.'
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Aug 29, 2025
Electric models from the luxury car brand have been very successful, but they may struggle once a $7,500 federal tax credit ends next month.
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Aug 29, 2025
The court voted not to revisit a fight over billions in frozen funds, but simultaneously revised an earlier order to give nonprofits that sued a narrow path forward in the case.
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Aug 29, 2025
The pre-Labor Day order included NASA, the National Weather Service and the agency that oversees Voice of America.
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Aug 28, 2025
Legislation aimed at curtailing mail-order abortions in Texas cleared a decisive hurdle, part of a broader push by abortion opponents to limit the procedure even in states where it is legal.
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Aug 28, 2025
A pair of hijackers got settled in California with help from a man paid by the Saudi government. A federal judge found that might have been part of his official duties.
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Aug 28, 2025
The Education Department gave Denver Public Schools 10 days to ban transgender students from using bathrooms that align with their gender identity.
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Aug 28, 2025
The Pentagon is putting back up a portrait of Gen. Robert E. Lee at the military academy, as the Trump administration seeks to restore honors for American figures who fought to preserve slavery.
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Aug 28, 2025
The request came after President Trump and several of his top aides had attacked Mr. Abrego Garcia as a threat, even though federal judges have ruled that he is not a danger to the public.
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Aug 28, 2025
A network of hospitals and cancer centers dedicated to early phase trials of novel treatments will no longer receive federal funding.
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Aug 28, 2025
The country's largest pharmacy chain said it needed a C.D.C. panel to recommend the shots before it could offer them nationwide.
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Aug 28, 2025
The ruling cited concerns about the appearance of bias, pointing to comments that the judge who presided over the trial of three former police officers reportedly made afterward.
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Aug 28, 2025
The three-time All-Star, who hit more than 400 home runs during his career, says he hopes to fill the seat held by Representative Chip Roy, a Republican.
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Aug 28, 2025
Trump officials say the president is within his rights to fire officials who do not share his agenda.
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Aug 28, 2025
The ruling is a setback to President Trump and Kari Lake, a Trump ally who has led efforts to shutter federally funded news networks.
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Aug 28, 2025
The U.S. attorney's office in Washington has struggled to convince judges and grand jurors of the viability of several cases arising from President Trump's deployment of troops and federal agents to fight crime.
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Aug 28, 2025
The plans involve sending in hundreds of homeland security officers and using a naval base as a staging area.
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Aug 28, 2025
The director, Susan Monarez, declined to fire agency leaders or to accept all recommendations from a vaccine advisory panel made over by Mr. Kennedy, according to people with knowledge of the events.
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Aug 28, 2025
President Trump's extraordinary push to override local authority and militarize cities in Democratic-run states has prompted an unusually united response from state leaders.
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Aug 28, 2025
Both parties appear to be weighing gatherings that would gin up excitement for candidates in 2026 — and give a major platform for ambitious politicians hoping to lead the parties in 2028.
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Aug 28, 2025
He helped litigate a landmark school desegregation case before the U.S. Supreme Court and overturn wrongful convictions of Black defendants in North Carolina.
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Aug 28, 2025
Lawyers for the agency's chief, Susan Monarez, insist that the impasse with Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. can only be resolved by President Trump.
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Aug 28, 2025
The new song, "Big Crime," does not mention President Trump by name but includes lines such as, "There's big crime in D.C. at the White House."
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Aug 28, 2025
The Mississippi Civil Rights Museum put the gun on display days after the federal government released thousands of pages of records on the Till case.
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Aug 28, 2025
Lisa Cook, who has not been charged with a crime, sought to retain her position, arguing her firing was "unprecedented and illegal."
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Aug 28, 2025
U.S. and European military officials are increasingly concerned about the flights, even as Russian acts of sabotage have declined.
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Aug 28, 2025
The president's steep tariffs and erratic moves have turned manufacturing abroad into a minefield, even for entrepreneurs who set up in countries viewed as safe alternatives to China.
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Aug 28, 2025
A pilot program in six states will use a tactic employed by private insurers that has been heavily criticized for delaying and denying medical care.
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Aug 27, 2025
Susan Monarez was said to have refused to adopt Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s stance on vaccination policy.
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Aug 27, 2025
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is said to have demanded that the director, Susan Monarez, either quit or be fired. Her lawyers say she won't resign.
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Aug 27, 2025
The president is signaling a tough-on-crime message for the midterms next year.
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Aug 27, 2025
It is not clear what country intercepted Mr. Bolton's private emails, but the investigation into President Trump's former national security adviser picked up momentum under the Biden administration.
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Aug 27, 2025
"An attack on one of us is an attack on all of us," said Mayor Justin Bibb of Cleveland, who led a private strategy call on Wednesday.
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Aug 27, 2025
Susan Monarez's brief tenure was roiled by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s decisions to overhaul vaccine policy and gut a critical advisory panel.
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Aug 27, 2025
The meeting focused on the postwar future of the Gaza Strip, where Mr. Trump has mused about removing Palestinian residents and setting up a luxury resort.
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Aug 27, 2025
The Supreme Court has said the Federal Reserve Board's independence warrants protection. President Trump's effort to fire a member will test that commitment.
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Aug 27, 2025
The agency's fall recommendations underscore the goals of Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to limit access to the vaccines, which he has long opposed.
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Aug 27, 2025
The agency's fall recommendations underscore the goals of Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to limit access to the vaccines, which he has long opposed.
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Aug 27, 2025
The request is another possible path for the Salvadoran man, who has already been deported and returned by the Trump administration, to remain in the country.
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Aug 27, 2025
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy announced that his department, which owns Union Station, will assume control of the train hub from the nonprofit that has been controlling it.
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Aug 27, 2025
The conservative majority has been largely receptive to the administration's claims of executive power.
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Aug 27, 2025
It was a sharp rebuke to the prosecutors who are dealing with the fallout from President Trump's move to send National Guard troops and federal agents into Washington.
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Aug 27, 2025
Joe Gebbia wants to make government services more "satisfying." Some peers in the design industry are skeptical.
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Aug 27, 2025
Amid deep cuts, more than 90 parks have reported problems like lost revenue and cuts to emergency services. One expert called this "a dangerous path."
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Aug 27, 2025
Last spring, when we recommended five state parks to visit, readers told us we had missed some of their favorites. So here are a few you wanted us to share.
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Aug 27, 2025
President Trump wants to cut federal spending for education. The money often goes toward disadvantaged students in Republican states.
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Aug 27, 2025
President Trump made the announcement in a brief social media post. It was his latest effort to push crime to the foreground of American politics.
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Aug 26, 2025
The letter, sent to Congress on Monday, said cuts made by the Trump administration had erased improvements made to disaster response since Hurricane Katrina.
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Aug 26, 2025
President Trump, who has sent the military into Los Angeles and Washington, has targeted states and cities governed by Democrats.
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Aug 26, 2025
The Senate seat in the Sioux City area had been held by a Republican. It would be the second time this year that Iowa Democrats had flipped a legislative district.
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Aug 26, 2025
It is unclear how Mr. Trump would carry out his directive. The Supreme Court ruled that mandatory death sentences were unconstitutional nearly half a century ago.
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Aug 26, 2025
The president has praised Chinese students several times. But his policies are making it more difficult for students from China to come to the United States.
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Aug 26, 2025
The two PACs reflect a new level of political engagement by companies like Meta and investors such as Andreessen Horowitz, which are spending heavily on artificial intelligence.
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Aug 26, 2025
As hours ticked by, President Trump played reality television host — "This has never been done before!" — as his cabinet members offered praise. It was a glimpse of how he runs his presidency.
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Aug 26, 2025
It is the latest effort by President Trump and his allies to impugn the Russia investigation, which the president sees as having been a partisan witch hunt.
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Aug 26, 2025
President Trump claimed he has cause to remove a member of the independent board who has not obeyed his demands to vote for lower interest rates.
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Aug 26, 2025
Officials made no mention of politics in cutting ties with a network of nonprofit funds, but Bill Gates has made other moves to insulate the charity from political pressures.
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Aug 26, 2025
The market reaction was muted after President Trump moved to fire the Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook. One economist likened the response to a frog in "gently heating" water.
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Aug 26, 2025
When Republicans repealed a Biden-era "access and equity" grant program for transportation, they canceled funding for projects in some of their own districts.
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Aug 26, 2025
President Trump's attempt to fire Lisa Cook, a Fed governor, will set off a long legal battle. Economists warn it could lead to higher inflation and government borrowing costs.
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Aug 26, 2025
The director of Federal Housing Finance Agency could win the president an opening on the Federal Reserve board.
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Aug 26, 2025
President Trump, during his campaign for a second term, was accused of fraudulently inflating his net worth in order to get better rates on bank loans.
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Aug 26, 2025
The annual financial disclosure reported no income as of yet from Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr.'s recently reported book deal.
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Aug 26, 2025
The measures were almost entirely symbolic, yet laid bare the broader fault lines dividing and shaping the party nearly two years after the war began.
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Aug 26, 2025
The White House suggested that countries with digital regulations restricting U.S. tech companies could face penalties. The question is whether Europe can stand firm.
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Aug 26, 2025
The judge used the ruling to take President Trump and some of his top aides to task for having repeatedly attacked other judges who have dared to rule against the White House.
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Aug 26, 2025
Lawyers for Ms. Cook promised to take legal action one day after the president moved to fire her over allegations of mortgage fraud.
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Aug 26, 2025
The president said War Department "just sounded better" than Defense Department, a name that has been in use since 1949.
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Aug 26, 2025
The Diplomatic Security Service traditionally focused on protecting diplomats, helping secure overseas missions and managing background checks. Now it is doing beat-cop work.
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Aug 26, 2025
The White House suggested that countries with digital regulations restricting U.S. tech companies could face penalties. The question is whether Europe can stand firm.
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Aug 26, 2025
DOGE team members uploaded a database with the personal information of hundreds of millions of Americans to a vulnerable cloud server, according to the agency's chief data officer.
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Aug 26, 2025
Ms. Cook said that she would not resign from the Board of Governors, hours after President Trump announced he was firing her.
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Aug 26, 2025
At the White House, President Trump and Lee Jae Myung praised each other's eagerness to talk to North Korea's leader — even if he doesn't want to talk to them.
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Aug 26, 2025
The Trump administration is halting wind projects that had been approved, financed and underway while providing little to no justification.
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Aug 26, 2025
Threatened by the president with political retribution, Republicans agreed to defund public broadcasting, imperiling a lifeline of communication in rural Alaska.
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Aug 26, 2025
Since Congress approved President Trump's request to claw back $1.1 billion in funding for public broadcasting, local stations in rural areas are at risk of going dark. Megan Mineiro, a congressional reporter for The New York Times, went to rural Alaska to see how the cuts affect one radio station and a town that relies on it.
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Aug 26, 2025
Ms. Cook said that she would not resign from the board of governors, hours after President Trump announced he was firing her.
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Aug 26, 2025
Ms. Cook said that she would not resign from the board of governors, hours after President Trump announced he was firing her.
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Aug 25, 2025
President Trump told Lisa Cook that he had found sufficient cause "to remove you from your position." Her dismissal could touch off a landmark legal battle over the Fed's independence.
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Aug 25, 2025
"I have determined that there is sufficient cause to remove you from your position," Mr. Trump said in a letter. Her dismissal threatened to touch off a landmark legal battle over the Fed's independence.
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Aug 25, 2025
President Trump is using crime as a political weapon, proclaiming quick-fix solutions to deeply rooted challenges in cities led by Democrats.
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Aug 25, 2025
Stephen Nakagawa, a former dancer with the Washington Ballet, wrote a letter to the leader of the arts center complaining about "radical leftist ideologies in ballet."
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Aug 25, 2025
Representative James E. Comer of Kentucky demanded financial records, video recordings and information on meetings with famous people.
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