Some senior officials who have taken the test have been asked whether they said anything negative about the F.B.I. director, Kash Patel.The use of the polygraph, and the nature of the questioning, is part of the F.B.I.’s broader crackdown on news leaks, reflecting, to a degree, the director's acute
In an interview with The New York Times, a former Justice Department lawyer, Erez Reuveni, said officials pressed subordinates to mislead judges, and dared the courts to stop it.At his confirmation hearing for a judgeship, Senate Democrats asked Emil Bove III about a claim that he and Trump administ
Doctors and hospitals were subpoenaed for private information on gender-related care for minors, the latest move by the Trump administration to stop the treatments.Attorney General Pam Bondi said Wednesday that “medical professionals and organizations that mutilated children in the service of a warp
The task force recommends which screenings and other preventive health measures must be covered by insurance.Robert F. Kennedy Jr. also recently fired 17 members of the advisory committee on immunization to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, saying that the move would restore the public
The letters, many of which were already available online, detail why the regulators initially declined to approve some drugs. All eventually passed muster.Dr. Marty Makary, the F.D.A. commissioner.
Kerr County repeatedly failed to secure a warning system, even as local officials remained aware of the risks and as billions of dollars were available for similar projects.
Most summers, Kerrville, Texas, draws crowds for its July 4 celebration. This year, the streets are filled with emergency responders.
In the case of Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, the administration appears primarily concerned with ensuring that a man it has described as a “dangerous illegal alien” never walks free on U.S. soil.Supporters of Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia rallying outside the U.S. District Court in Greenbelt, Md., du
The announcement comes near the anniversary of the shooting at Donald J. Trump’s campaign rally in Butler, Pa.Secret Service agents protecting Donald J. Trump after the shooting in Butler, Pa., in 2024.
At a bar association event in Indiana, the justice told those gathered that she is focused on drawing attention to what is happening to the government.Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, photographed last year, is the Supreme Court’s most junior member, but she wrote an unusually large number of concurri
The A.I. chip maker reached the landmark before Apple and Microsoft, as its value rose more than tenfold after ChatGPT’s release in late 2022.
The president signaled he would seek to use the threat of steep levies to reorient trade and protect his political allies.President Trump linked his threat of a 50 percent tariff on Brazil this week to that country’s treatment of its former president Jair Bolsonaro, above.
President Trump wants America to produce more of the much-needed mineral, but a 50 percent tariff could undermine his aim of a manufacturing renaissance.Copper smelting at a processing facility in Machalí, Chile. The United States imports about 40 percent of the copper it consumes, much of it from C
President Trump has told 22 countries that they will face tariffs of at least 20% on Aug. 1 if they don’t reach agreements by then.
The reversal reflected a growing struggle over the use of ballot measures to answer policy questions in Republican-led states.Gov. Mike Kehoe of Missouri in January.
The assessment came as experts are trying to determine how long it would take Iran to rebuild its nuclear program in the aftermath of U.S. and Israeli strikes.A uranium processing site in Isfahan, which hosts Iran’s nuclear laboratory, seen in 2005.
During the Obama administration, a Times reporter revealed details of a cyberattack on a nuclear enrichment center in Iran. He followed the story to the White House, and learned lessons critical to covering the recent bombing of Fordo and Natanz.
They reached the heights of corporate success. Now some women are trying to redefine what ambition looks like.
The announcement could have a significant impact on the race for U.S. Senate in Texas. Mr. Paxton is challenging Senator John Cornyn in the Republican primary.State Senator Angela Paxton in her office at the Texas State Capitol in Austin.
His “The Happy Organ” reached No. 1 in 1959, but his pop stardom was short-lived, and his death in 2022, with an anonymous burial, remains a source of mystery.Dave “Baby” Cortez in 1959, the year his instrumental “The Happy Organ” reached No. 1 on the Billboard singles chart.
Milan’s famed opera house is cracking down on the underdressed, even as it and other European opera companies try to attract a wider audience.Visitors dressed in formal attire in the Teatro alla Scala bar in December.
Des Moines Metro Opera has become one of the country’s most successful smaller companies doing adventurous repertory in a 467-seat space.A scene from Des Moines Metro Opera’s production of Janacek’s “The Cunning Little Vixen,” one of three operas performed this summer.
It plays a much smaller role in our national life, and this has a dehumanizing effect on our culture.
The rise of a toxic online politics.
