Even accepting the Trump administration’s claim that there is an armed conflict with suspected drug runners, the laws of war bar “perfidy.”Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth in the Capitol last week.
The Venezuelan regime had high-powered air defense systems from its allies in the Kremlin, but failed to set much of it up.A destroyed Buk launcher at La Carlota air base in Caracas after the U.S. strikes.
Venezuela’s new leaders and President Trump have alluded to a major release of political prisoners, but the liberations have been slow to come.The opposition politician Juan Pablo Guanipa, in Caracas in 2020.
Last week, a lawyer came forward claiming to represent the unseated president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro. The judge overseeing the case settled the matter on Monday.Last week, Bruce Fein told the court that he was Nicolás Maduro’s lawyer, but on Monday a judge removed him from the case.
Former department officials warned that such a broad inquiry raised the specter that forms of political protests could be criminalized.A memorial for Renee Good on Jan. 7 close to where she had been shot and killed by a federal agent hours earlier.
The Customs and Border Protection officers are joining 2,000 other officers and agents at the Department of Homeland Security who have recently been deployed to the Minneapolis region.Border Patrol agents in Minneapolis last week. Local officials have urged federal forces to leave the city, saying t
The two Democratic-led states claimed in separate lawsuits that the immigration enforcement campaigns violated the Constitution.Mayor Jacob Frey of Minneapolis, center, spoke at a news conference at City Hall on Monday.
Last week’s shooting of two Venezuelan immigrants put the city on edge. Federal officials said the man who was shot had repeatedly backed into a Border Patrol car.Law enforcement blocked off an area near where U.S. Border Patrol agents shot two people during a “targeted vehicle stop” in Portland, Or
The Justice Department’s decision to open up a criminal investigation of Jerome H. Powell, the chair of the Federal Reserve, is a major escalation in the pressure campaign against the central bank to cut interest rates.Jerome H. Powell is the first Federal Reserve chair to face a criminal investigat
The Justice Department’s probe into whether Jerome H. Powell, the chair of the Federal Reserve, lied about renovations to the central bank’s headquarters has raised alarms.The Federal Reserve building in Washington under construction in July.
The Federal Reserve is likely to hold interest rates steady when it meets at the end of the month, keeping tensions high with President Trump.John Williams, President of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, in October.
Senator Mark Kelly on Thursday at the Capitol.
Robert K. McBride had been serving as the top deputy to Lindsey Halligan, who has continued to act as the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia.A courthouse in the Eastern District of Virginia. Robert K. McBride had been working in the U.S. attorney’s office for the district for only a
The ruling means that construction can continue on Revolution Wind, a $6.2 billion project off the coast of Rhode Island, at least for now.Components of the Revolution Wind farm project on a pier in New London, Conn., in September.
In a reversal, the agency plans to calculate only the cost to industry when setting pollution limits, and not the monetary value of saving human lives, documents show.The change could make it easier to repeal limits on pollutants from coal-burning power plants, oil refineries, steel mills and other
The layoffs are set to be announced this week and would affect Meta’s work on the metaverse, as the company spends heavily on building artificial intelligence.Michael Abrash, chief scientist of Reality Labs, during a presentation for Meta last year.
Apple was facing increasing questions about its plans for artificial intelligence as other big tech companies invested tens of billions in the technology.New versions of Apple’s Apple Intelligence models will be based on Google’s Gemini A.I. models and its cloud computing services.
The Pentagon is presenting a wider range of strike options to the president than previously reported. Targets could include Iran’s nuclear program and ballistic missile sites.An image taken from a social media post released on Friday showing demonstrators gathered in Tehran. President Trump has said
The comments came after President Trump said he was “ looking at some very strong options” to curb the Iranian authorities’ harsh repression of anti-government protests.Iran’s foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi, in Beirut, Lebanon, last week. On Monday, he expressed an openness to negotiations with th
High-tempo Special Operations training can cause brain injuries that accumulate unnoticed. One soldier says that is why he snapped and killed three people.
Does Iowa deserve another shot? Is South Carolina too red? New Hampshire too white? Nevada too far-flung? Democrats are starting their calendar from scratch, and there’s a lot to consider.Iowa, Nevada, South Carolina and New Hampshire are all angling for positions at or near the front of the Democra
The Massachusetts senator signaled alarm about her party’s movement toward the center, warning in a speech that Democrats should not cozy up to the wealthy and the powerful.“There are two versions for what a big tent means,” Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts said in a speech on Monday in Was
The suspect, Stephen Spencer Pittman, was turned in by his father, who said his son had laughed as he confessed to the fire that damaged the synagogue, investigators said.The Beth Israel Congregation library, which was set on fire early Saturday morning, in Jackson, Miss.
A fragile democracy, the Weimar Republic, briefly took hold in Germany before the Nazis seized power. Now, Weimar’s collapse is seen as a warning.The German National Theater in Weimar, Germany, where leaders met in 1919 to create a new national Constitution.
