Trump Threatens to Impose New Tariffs on China and Cancel Meeting With Xi
The president proposed economic retaliation after Beijing imposed new restrictions on the export of rare earth minerals, which are vital sup...
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The president proposed economic retaliation after Beijing imposed new restrictions on the export of rare earth minerals, which are vital sup...
Scientists at the Environmental Protection Agency found that they could develop methods to identify traces of the medication if necessary —...
America is now in a dangerous period, in which the president can order investigations and indictments against his enemies.
Plus, your Friday news quiz.
The president and New York’s attorney general accused each other of real estate fraud. But the sum involved in her case is $18,933, while mi...
President Trump and his administration are amplifying the voices of pro-White House podcasters and streamers eager to ratify the president’s...
When it comes to education policy, Republicans are now kicking Democrats in the butt.
The United States finalized a $20 billion lifeline for Argentina that will benefit Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s allies.
Trained in New York City real estate, the president’s son-in-law had a singular goal: Get to a yes first, and hash out the details later. “I...
The president said he had made flag burning a crime punishable by a year in prison. But such a claim contradicts both Supreme Court preceden...
The threat of rising Obamacare premiums has been Democrats’ main focus in the public debate, but the president’s defiance of laws, norms and...
University leaders are wary of a new proposal from the Trump administration to impose far-reaching changes in higher education.
As local anxiety builds, Illinois officials say the deployment of Guard troops violates state sovereignty, while the White House says the tr...
The president is going after clean energy, and Americans will face higher bills as a result.
For President Trump, success in brokering a cease-fire is the ultimate test of his self-described goal as a deal maker and a peacemaker.
Republicans in the Senate blocked a measure that would terminate the president’s legally disputed campaign targeting alleged drug runners.
A lawyer for the former F.B.I. director said he would accuse the Justice Department of malicious and selective prosecution and contend that...
State leaders have prided themselves on finding bipartisan consensus, but President Trump’s deployment of National Guard troops from Texas t...
Online skeptics wondered if Mr. Miller had caught himself saying something he did not mean to. CNN says there was a technical glitch.
As the federal closure slides into a second week, Republicans are working to peel off five more Democratic senators to join them in voting t...
As New York and other states tally the damage, a leaked document suggests more Energy Department cuts may be coming.
Oregon officials say the atmosphere outside an ICE building that has drawn daily demonstrations since June has grown worse since the preside...
In a rare interview, the justice reflected on the state of the nation, the challenges facing the Supreme Court and, at 89, his own history a...
The case against James B. Comey, the former F.B.I. director, was deemed too thin by a previous federal prosecutor, who quit under pressure f...
People and institutions of civil society must coordinate against him.
The founder of the Equal Justice Initiative says it would be “dishonorable” to remain silent in the face of President Trump’s efforts.
The case, one of several challenges to mail-in ballot rules lodged by allies of President Trump, involves an effort to exclude votes receive...
Higher education leaders and public-school superintendents say they depend on skilled foreign workers to fill critical roles.
The Canadian prime minister came to Washington determined to take the heat out of the relationship. He mostly succeeded, at least for now.
The session before a Senate panel featured more fireworks than facts as Democrats and the attorney general repeatedly clashed.
At a Senate committee hearing, the attorney general avoided answering pointed queries by repeatedly laying into her questioners and casting...
Even President Trump has conceded that he and his party could face political pain from rising premiums, stiffening Democrats’ spines as they...
After all, there is “an enemy within.”
Unions have sued to block any firings, which budget experts believe are not even needed to protect essential federal services.
Union leaders and Democratic lawmakers say the move would run afoul of a law adopted under President Trump’s first term.
Plus, a new way to fight robocalls.
The president’s claims about cities don’t hold up.
As it did in 2018, the White House plans to dole out relief funds to struggling U.S. farmers who have lost their biggest customer.
By sending troops to U.S. cities that are not in active crisis, President Trump is breaking with military tradition. Helene Cooper, who cove...
As Republicans try to pin blame for shutdown damage on Democrats, they are hailing a federal bureaucracy they normally bash as wasteful and...
The Treasury Department said that a 2020 collectible coinage law allows a living person to appear on U.S. currency.
President Trump’s attempts to politicize the military have become more overt as he makes the case for having troops at his disposal in Ameri...
As the president cancels projects in Democratic-run states, he is cutting money that benefits his own party’s lawmakers in some of the most...
Mr. Hunt, a U.S. House member, and Senator John Cornyn will be competing for voters who dislike the state’s attorney general, Ken Paxton, wh...
Judge Karin Immergut worked on Ken Starr’s investigation of Bill Clinton. Now she’s ruled against Trump’s attempt to send troops to Portland...
As the government shutdown entered its first full week, emotions across the country ranged from uneasy to unconcerned.
The lawsuit accused the Environmental Protection Agency of illegally revoking the money without congressional approval.
Plus, when Silicon Valley comes to the farm.
Republicans’ exploitation of government’s closure is the tell that they prefer it this way.
As the justices return to the bench Monday, the court will confront a series of cases central to the president’s agenda.