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Feb 08, 2025
President Trump announced potentially crippling tariffs against Canada, only to suspend them for 30 days. What will satisfy him remains unknown.
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Feb 08, 2025
Trump administration officials have misled about how the aid agency is spending its funding, in an effort to cite widespread "waste."
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Feb 08, 2025
The collapse of U.S.A.I.D. at the hands of President Trump and Elon Musk is already leaving gaping holes in vital health care and other services that millions of Africans rely on for their survival.
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Feb 08, 2025
President Trump's aggressive moves against transgender rights and diversity, equity and inclusion programs have left the Democratic Party casting about for a strategy for how to respond.
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Feb 08, 2025
Critics say a Trump administration order calls into question the United States' global standing and reliability.
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Feb 08, 2025
President Trump tangled with its forecasters during his first term. As he slashes government spending, many wonder what that means for weather data.
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Feb 08, 2025
The president defended Elon Musk's role in seeking to slash budgets and cut payrolls as the young aides burrowing into federal agencies came under scrutiny.
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Feb 08, 2025
Grief and "dizzying chaos" struck communities around the globe as networks for delivering medicine, nutrition and maternal care were abruptly shut down.
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Feb 08, 2025
Judge Carl Nichols temporarily blocked plans to put 2,200 employees on paid leave and recall nearly all agency workers abroad. He also temporarily reinstated 500 workers already on leave.
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Feb 08, 2025
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba is the latest figure to offer ample compliments to a president known for his transactional, if not unpredictable, approach to foreign policy.
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Feb 08, 2025
"No cause or reason was cited," wrote the archivist, Colleen Shogan. But the National Archives had been deeply involved in the classified documents case against President Trump.
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Feb 08, 2025
Other diplomats across the continent are sending similar cables to the secretary of state to try to maintain lifesaving aid programs on which millions of Africans depend.
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Feb 07, 2025
The move by the president, whose authority to make the changes was not clear, is the latest attempt to bring a Washington institution under his control.
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Feb 07, 2025
Grants from the National Institutes of Health come with additional money for overhead. Proposed funding cuts would leave colleges with large budget gaps.
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Feb 07, 2025
The clause is included in a disputed plea agreement between a Pentagon official and the man accused of planning the attacks that killed 3,000 people.
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Feb 07, 2025
It's the first sign of unified opposition for a rudderless and leaderless Democratic Party.
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Feb 07, 2025
The president ordered that all foreign assistance to South Africa be halted and said his administration would prioritize the resettling of white, "Afrikaner refugees" into the United States.
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Feb 07, 2025
The cover of the venerable newsweekly, long an object of fixation for the president, put Elon Musk behind the Resolute Desk.
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Feb 07, 2025
President Trump says the work of the I.C.C., the world's highest criminal court, threatens the national security of the United States and its allies, including Israel.
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Feb 07, 2025
Gov. Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, has been balancing a desire to push back on Republican policies with a need to cooperate in seeking federal disaster aid.
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Feb 07, 2025
As the acting deputy attorney general, Emil Bove has overseen the forced transfers of senior officials and an effort to collect the names of F.B.I. agents who worked on Jan. 6 cases.
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Feb 07, 2025
Job offers have been rescinded and start dates pushed back just as firefighting staffing for the summer wildfire season was beginning, a union said.
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Feb 07, 2025
The National Endowment for the Arts said it will instead prioritize work that connects with the upcoming 250th anniversary of American independence.
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Feb 07, 2025
The confirmation of Russell T. Vought to lead the powerful White House budget office is likely to escalate the funding fights roiling Washington and the nation.
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Feb 07, 2025
Some local officials are pushing back against the federal government's assertion that they must help ICE with its deportation campaign.
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Feb 07, 2025
Much of the billionaire's handiwork — gaining access to internal systems and asking employees to justify their jobs — is being driven by a group of engineers operating in secrecy.
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Feb 07, 2025
Soon after Mr. Trump's remarks, Elon Musk wrote on X that the employee, Marko Elez, would be rehired.
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Feb 07, 2025
A court ordered the administration to keep secret a list of F.B.I. officials who had pursued Jan. 6 rioters. Then Trump said he would "surgically" fire some agents.
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Feb 07, 2025
The defense secretary, speaking to the Pentagon work force, defended his "unconventional approaches" to an audience that included women and people of color.
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Feb 07, 2025
In the three weeks since President Trump took office and gave Elon Musk free rein inside the federal government, millions of calls have poured in to members of Congress, jamming the system.
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Feb 07, 2025
An administration lawyer said a Tennessee law barring some medical treatments for transgender youths is constitutional and urged the justices to say so.
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Feb 07, 2025
President Trump supports the Japanese company's taking a stake in the American steel maker after the U.S. blocked a $14 billion takeover bid.
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Feb 07, 2025
The president's demand to end the U.S. Agency for International Development came as the vast majority of the agency's employees were expecting to be placed on indefinite administrative leave.
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Feb 07, 2025
The International Criminal Court said President Trump's executive order sought to harm its "independent and impartial judicial work." Several European countries reaffirmed support for the body.
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Feb 07, 2025
House Republicans have been toiling unsuccessfully to reach agreement on a fiscal blueprint. Their Senate colleagues are leapfrogging ahead.
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Feb 07, 2025
Tom Krause, a software executive, is the Treasury Department's fiscal assistant secretary with access to a system that disburses government funds and includes Americans' personal information.
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Feb 07, 2025
Sixty-five thousand have submitted resignations as part of Elon Musk's "fork in the road" offer. But 150,000 voluntarily leave every year anyway.
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Feb 07, 2025
One of the D.N.C.'s first official moves with Ken Martin at the helm is joining a lawsuit seeking to block the hand-counting of ballots in Georgia.
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Feb 03, 2025
The new secretary of transportation, Sean Duffy, appeared to walk back an enticement to retire, saying F.A.A. safety workers were exempt from the offer for federal workers.
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Feb 03, 2025
The president is right that the economy is a powerful lever against other countries but his tactics could have widespread economic repercussions.
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Feb 03, 2025
Investigators have yet to determine whether the crew of an Army helicopter was wearing the devices when the Black Hawk crashed into a civilian airliner last week.
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Feb 03, 2025
The agency's funding accounts for a tiny portion of the federal budget, but its structure may have made it an easy target for Trump-era cost-cutting.
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Feb 03, 2025
Gov. Kathy Hochul signed a bill meant to protect medical practitioners in New York who prescribe and send abortion pills out of state.
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Feb 03, 2025
The president's tariff measures included a big change to trade rules that could increase costs for many purchases from sites like Amazon, Shein and Temu.
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Feb 03, 2025
The secretary replaces Rohit Chopra, who had aggressively sought to expand the bureau's authority over banks and other financial firms.
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Feb 03, 2025
The statement, along with a similar order from Friday, amounted to a rebuke of the move as an overreach that likely lacked legitimate authority.
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Feb 03, 2025
Marco Rubio, the secretary of state, told reporters he had taken over the U.S. Agency for International Development and would delegate its day-to-day business to a yet unnamed individual.
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Feb 03, 2025
As Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel prepares to meet with President Trump, the question of whether to strike Iran's facilities or negotiate with Tehran appears certain to be under debate.
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Feb 03, 2025
About 200 Marines and soldiers arrived over the weekend as the base faces its most drastic changes since the Pentagon opened a prison there after the Sept. 11 attacks.
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Feb 03, 2025
Democrats are united in opposition to her serving as the director of national intelligence. A single Republican no vote would complicate her confirmation by the full Senate.
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Feb 03, 2025
Intense backlash prompted the reinstatement of some online resources. But guidelines for safe contraception and information on racial inequities in health care remain missing.
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Feb 03, 2025
Alexandra Bell is bringing more than a decade of experience in nuclear policy to the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, the organization that sets the Doomsday Clock.
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Feb 03, 2025
President Trump has promised a "colorblind and merit-based" society, while also equating diversity with incompetence.
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Feb 03, 2025
The new investment for the midterms is a shift from 2024, when the House Majority PAC's initial funds were earmarked for battleground seats in California and New York.
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Feb 03, 2025
President Trump's threats are carrying more weight after his moves against Canada, Mexico and China. Europe has been preparing for the possibility of a trade war for months.
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Feb 03, 2025
President Cyril Ramaphosa of South Africa said that his country had not seized land. Ownership of land in the country has been a contentious issue for generations.
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Feb 03, 2025
President Trump has stopped short of saying the U.S. Agency for International Development should be closed. Elon Musk's comments added to the questions surrounding its future.
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Feb 03, 2025
In a letter to the Treasury secretary, the Democratic senator warned against meddling with a system that processes trillions of dollars of transactions.
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Feb 03, 2025
President Trump says the canal authority is overcharging. Recent increases are attributed in part to drought, maintenance investments and demand.
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Feb 03, 2025
The government space agency has vocally promoted diversity and inclusion for decades, even during the first Trump administration.
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Feb 02, 2025
Windsor, the heart of Canada's auto industry, had been on the upswing. Now people feel betrayed by a neighbor, fearing that factories will close.
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Jan 28, 2025
The oil company plans to build natural gas power plants that will be directly connected to data centers used by technology companies for artificial intelligence and other services.
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Jan 28, 2025
General Motors, the largest producer of cars in Mexico, won't provide details on how it would react if President Trump imposes 25 percent tariffs from the two countries.
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Jan 28, 2025
In positioning himself as a junior partner to the president and doing his bidding on matters large and small, the Louisiana Republican is diminishing a job that involves leading a coequal branch of government.
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Jan 28, 2025
The president is increasingly threatening other countries with tariffs for issues that have little to do with trade.
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Jan 28, 2025
During President Trump's first term, demanding personal loyalty didn't always work; stocking top jobs with loyalists is the tack now. At the F.B.I., this entails bucking its institutional history.
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Jan 28, 2025
The president also ordered the Pentagon to end diversity programs, reinstate many service members dismissed for refusing the coronavirus vaccine and create a new missile defense system.
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Jan 28, 2025
The termination of more than a dozen lawyers who worked with the special counsel, Jack Smith, came hours after the department's most senior career official was reassigned.
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Jan 27, 2025
The full extent of the order was not immediately clear, but the directive sent to government agencies on Monday threatened to paralyze a vast swath of federal programs.
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Jan 27, 2025
An email to the aid agency's employees cited actions "that appear to be designed to circumvent" an executive order by President Trump.
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Jan 27, 2025
An email to the aid agency's employees cited actions "that appear to be designed to circumvent" an executive order by President Trump.
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Jan 27, 2025
His opening moves on abortion weren't exactly "shock and awe." Democrats see an opening.
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Jan 27, 2025
Bessent, a hedge fund manager, becomes the nation's 79th Treasury secretary. He will lead President Trump's economic agenda.
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Jan 27, 2025
The police said that Matthew W. Huttle, 42, of Hobart, Ind., who was sentenced to six months for his role in the riot at the U.S. Capitol in 2021, resisted arrest after he was stopped in Indiana on Sunday.
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Jan 27, 2025
The move removed three of the four sitting members of the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board, leaving it unable to act as the Trump administration begins reshaping intelligence agencies.
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Jan 27, 2025
The full scope of the Friday night mass firings was coming into sharper view as one fired watchdog official warned of "a never-ending cycle of politicization."
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Jan 27, 2025
The move was the latest example of how the prosecutor in charge in Washington, Ed Martin, has sought in recent days to wind down the office's sprawling investigation of the Capitol attack.
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Jan 27, 2025
Several Colombians whose visas were revoked were World Bank employees traveling in the United States at the time. They were deported.
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Jan 27, 2025
There were no Situation Room meetings and no quiet calls to de-escalate a dispute with an ally. Just threats, counterthreats, surrender and an indication of the president's approach to Greenland and Panama.
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Jan 27, 2025
The announced departure of Deborah F. Rutter, the center's president since 2014, comes as the center continues to search for a new board chair while navigating a second Trump term.
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Jan 27, 2025
The president made good on promises to seek revenge against enemies during his first week back in power, signaling in the process that anyone who crosses him in the future could also suffer.
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Jan 27, 2025
The president's confrontational foreign policy has created opportunity for his allies on K Street who are willing to take on clients he has targeted.
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Jan 27, 2025
Oil and gas executives welcomed President Trump's early moves on energy policy, but many said they did not plan to increase production unless prices rose significantly.
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Jan 27, 2025
The president made good on promises to seek revenge against enemies during his first week back in power, signaling in the process that anyone who crosses him in the future could also suffer.
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Jan 27, 2025
"Those who do not comply will no longer work here," Pete Hegseth said in a handwritten notice saying diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives were not welcome at the Pentagon.
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Jan 27, 2025
"Whatever is needed at the border will be provided," Pete Hegseth, the new defense secretary, told reporters.
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Jan 27, 2025
A contest for control of Wisconsin's top court may be even nastier and more expensive than its bitter 2023 predecessor, with the fate of an 1849 abortion ban and other policies at stake.
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Jan 27, 2025
A contest for control of Wisconsin's top court may be even nastier and more expensive than its bitter 2023 predecessor, with the fate of an 1849 abortion ban and other policies at stake.
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Jan 27, 2025
The husband of former Vice President Kamala Harris will advise companies in crisis as a partner at the law firm Willkie Farr & Gallagher.
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Jan 27, 2025
The prime minister's office said the two leaders agreed to meet soon and discussed trade, the economy and the Middle East.
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Jan 27, 2025
The 14th Amendment overturned the 1857 decision that denied citizenship to Black people. Scholars say President Trump's proposal betrays that history.
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Jan 27, 2025
In "Eureka Day," changes were made to a scene because "the laughter was so robust backstage, they couldn't hear the cues."
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Jan 27, 2025
States are using higher registration fees for electric cars to make up for declining fuel taxes, but some are punitive, environmentalists say. A federal tax could be coming.
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Jan 27, 2025
Ms. Gabbard grew up in a secretive offshoot of the Hare Krishna movement and has made a dizzying journey from conservative to liberal darling to Trump ally.
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Jan 27, 2025
Colombia is a relatively minor trading partner to the United States, but some industries are much more exposed than others.
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Jan 27, 2025
The president, who has assailed California's leaders over wildfires, issued the directive in an executive order that was dated Friday but released on Sunday.
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Jan 27, 2025
President Trump jabs at the Russian leader with threats; Vladimir Putin responds with flattery. But there are notable signals in their jousting, including a revived discussion about nuclear arms control.
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Jan 26, 2025
Colombia is a relatively minor trading partner to the United States, but some industries are much more exposed than others.
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