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Plus, the campy singing contest the whole world watches.
For more than a century, there was broad consensus that the 14th Amendment established birthright citizenship for children born in the Unite...
The Supreme Court will hear arguments on whether federal judges can block Trump administration policy across the country.
House Republicans, mostly from New York, have gone to war with party leadership over their push to raise or abolish the $10,000 cap on the s...
Serbian authorities say an official admitted to forging a document allowing a protected site in Belgrade to be demolished and replaced with...
In Saudi Arabia, the president denounced Western intervention and nation-building, garnering both praise and eye rolls.
Almost all of the cuts that Republicans hope to pass in the coming weeks will last only until President Trump is set to leave office.
Mexico’s security secretary confirmed reports that 17 family members of Sinaloa Cartel leaders had entered the United States, likely as part...
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is testifying before Congress for the first time as health secretary on Wednesday.
A House Republican bill introduced this week would do away with tax credits that had encouraged Americans to buy electric vehicles and autom...
Sure, everyone likes gifts. But presidents have to refuse them most of the time.
Despite soaring power demand, Republican lawmakers in the Texas Legislature are pushing to rein in renewable energy, part of a national wave...
As President Trump guts American research institutions, world leaders see a “once-in-a-century brain gain opportunity.”
John Ewing Jr. would be the first elected Black mayor of Omaha, the largest city in Nebraska. The Republican incumbent, Jean Stothert, had b...
Lawmakers bickered, protesters shouted and senators came to take in the moment as a House committee weighed a critical portion of a bill to...
The firm, which produces content for TikTok, recorded no revenue last year, but it announced this week that a mysterious stock sale would al...
The Trump administration carved out an exception to its refugee ban for white South Africans. But other groups, including Afghans who helped...
The latest broadside from the federal government comes as Harvard faces multiple investigations from across the Trump administration.
A 90-day pause on punishing tariffs could restart trade between the world’s largest economies. But it is not enough to resolve uncertainty a...
The Trump Administration’s decision to stop funding for a Danish lecture series showed its determination to extend its control to the smalle...
Donald Trump is well on his way to becoming one of the most corrupt presidents in the history of the United States.
The Senate Democratic leader plans to demand answers on Qatari influence in the United States and call for testimony from the attorney gener...
The famously liberal bastion of Austin is grappling uneasily with Elon Musk’s rightward turn, which has begun transforming his adopted home...
Limiting funding for SNAP could help defray the costs of President Trump’s tax plans, but could result in millions of low-income families lo...
It is common for a man of Mr. Biden’s age to experience prostate issues. His spokesman declined to elaborate on any details about his care.
The Federal Railroad Administration has brought in the tunneling company to help with a multibillion-dollar rail project.
House Republicans on Monday outlined their plans for a far-reaching tax bill that would deliver on several of President Trump’s campaign ple...
“Returning more production to the United States will require a national approach and broad-based policy solutions,” the groups said in a let...
President Trump’s triple-digit tariffs on Chinese products disrupted global trade — but haven’t appeared to result in major concessions from...
With a crucial week looming in the House, the G.O.P. is groping for ways to achieve savings without provoking a political backlash. It’s a l...
President Trump seems to think not. The industries he constantly mentions when he pushes his case, including autos, energy and lumber, beg t...
Justice David H. Souter, who died last week, said in 2012 that public ignorance of the Constitution could lead to the rise of an autocrat an...
Few policy differences have emerged among the Democrats vying to replace the retiring Senator Richard J. Durbin, while Gov. JB Pritzker’s in...
President Trump goes to the Gulf kingdom this week seeking $1 trillion worth of investments in the United States — a sum equivalent to the e...
The proposal, which is to be considered this week by a key House panel, omits some of the furthest-reaching reductions to the health program...
The plan raises substantial ethical issues, given the immense value of the lavishly appointed plane and that Mr. Trump intends to take owner...
The letter comes as the commerce secretary plans to accompany President Trump to Saudi Arabia this week as part of a weeklong trip to the Mi...
Dozens of Afrikaners who claim discrimination in their home country left Johannesburg on Sunday. Their departure for the U.S. came as the Tr...
Musk is leaving Washington looking less like a legend.
Both men are politically divisive, fiercely combative and have outsize egos. But as Mr. Trump arrives in the Middle East next week, the fate...
Companies squeezed by Shein and Temu are welcoming the end of a shipping rule that bolstered the Chinese e-commerce giants. But broader tari...
Dartmouth College is not on the Trump administration’s target lists and its funding remains intact, unlike the rest of its peers. Its presid...
After Vice President JD Vance suggested that the conflict between India and Pakistan was not America’s problem, the Trump administration gre...
The party is trying to leverage local entrepreneurs’ concerns to argue that President Trump’s tariffs are yet another gift to the rich and p...
In a wide-ranging interview, Stephen Miran, the chair of President Trump’s Council of Economic Advisers, said, “Volatility doesn’t necessari...
President Trump’s insistence that the United States do less toward securing Europe means that allies, scrambling to arm themselves, have les...
The Tesla billionaire is using his social media site X to rant and accuse. The politics of rage rarely worked out well for earlier moguls.
The order, which would use state and local officers, among others, would represent an enormous expansion of immigration enforcement. But it...
An emergency ruling by a federal judge in California amounted to the broadest effort yet to halt the Trump administration’s overhaul of the...
House Republicans rolled out the first pieces of a roughly $4 trillion tax cut they hope to pass, including measures that would last just fo...