In Speech to Justice Dept., Trump Airs Grievances Against His Enemies

The president, once the target of federal prosecution, says he wants to combat “weaponization” of the department, even as he uses its powers to punish enemies and reward allies.In an hourlong speech, President Trump veered from his prepared remarks to lash out at lawyers and former prosecutors by na

G Glenn Thrush, Zolan Kanno-Youngs and Tyler Pager

The Senate votes to avert a shutdown after Schumer relents.

After days of Democratic agonizing, the Senate voted to keep federal funds flowing through Sept. 30 just hours before a midnight deadline.The vote on the Republican stopgap spending bill laid bare an intraparty feud among Democrats about how to mount the most effective resistance to President Trump.

C Catie Edmondson and Carl Hulse

Left for Dead, the C.F.P.B. Inches Back to Life

Court orders have paused, and at times reversed, the Trump administration’s efforts to shut down the consumer watchdog agency.Protesters outside the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau building last month. The bureau has become a test case for the boundaries of President Trump’s power to hobble gov

S Stacy Cowley

Trump Orders Gutting of 7 Agencies, Including Voice of America’s Parent

The order targeting the agencies, largely obscure entities that address issues like labor mediation and homelessness prevention, appeared to test the bounds of the president’s power.The Voice of America building in Washington. President Trump is seeking to dismantle the federal agency that oversees

T Tyler Pager

‘On the Tightrope’: Britain Tries to Bridge a Widening Trans-Atlantic Gap

Five years after Brexit, Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s intense diplomacy on Ukraine has put Britain back in a familiar role on the global stage.Prime Minister Keir Starmer with Volodymyr Zelensky and Emmanuel Macron, the presidents of Ukraine and France. Mr. Starmer’s diplomacy revives a role that B

M Mark Landler and Stephen Castle

Trump Tries to Use White South Africans as Cautionary Tale

The president and his allies accuse South Africa of discriminating against and killing white people, and warn that it could happen in America if attempts to promote diversity aren’t stopped.White South Africans rallying in support of President Trump outside the U.S. Embassy in Pretoria, South Africa

J John Eligon

Draft List for New Travel Ban Proposes Trump Target 43 Countries

A draft circulating inside the administration lists three tiers of countries whose citizens may face restrictions on entering the United States.The most stringent restriction level would flatly bar citizens from 11 countries from entering the United States.

C Charlie Savage, Ken Bensinger and Allison McCann

As Trump Stirs Doubt, Europeans Debate Their Own Nuclear Deterrent

Talk of replacing the American nuclear umbrella over Europe with the small British and French nuclear armories is in the air, however vague and fanciful.Submarines docked at His Majesty’s Naval Base Clyde in Faslane, Scotland, this month. The base hosts Britain’s nuclear submarines, which are armed

S Steven Erlanger

The Frick Glows With a Poetic, $220 Million Renovation

The museum, based in Henry Clay Frick’s 1914 Fifth Avenue mansion, reopens with a deft expansion worthy of a New York treasure.The new limestone-clad addition, left, overlooking the garden, steps back for a row of hornbeams.

M Michael Kimmelman and Lila Barth

Five Years On, Ghosts of a Pandemic We Didn’t Imagine Still Haunt Us

Time’s passage may have granted the illusion of distance, but we are living in a world that has yet to put the effects of Covid behind it.The old movie theater in Maplewood, N.J., closed in early 2020. Its marquee stands frozen in time, about the only visible trace of what we endured.

D Dan Barry

Science Amid Chaos: What Worked During the Pandemic? What Failed?

As the coronavirus spread, researchers worldwide scrambled to find ways to keep people safe. Some efforts were misguided. Others saved millions of lives.Workers made disposable face shields ordered by New York State for use as personal protective equipment during the early days of the pandemic.

A Apoorva Mandavilli

Public Health Survived the Pandemic. Now It Fights Politics.

Five years after the pandemic began, many local health officials say that the politicization of Covid has left them with fewer tools and fresh challenges.Since the Covid pandemic, trust in public health has dropped sharply and new laws in some states limit local officials’ authority to issue health

K Kate Zernike, Emily Cochrane and Isabelle Taft

Walz, Newsom and Buttigieg Are Among Democrats Stirring 2028 Presidential Chatter

Tim Walz was in Iowa. JB Pritzker’s heading to New Hampshire. Pete Buttigieg is keeping his options open. It’s far too early to run for president, but some Democrats seem to be exploring the idea.Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota at a town-hall event on Friday in Des Moines. He has said he would consider a

L Lisa Lerer and Shane Goldmacher

Social Distance

On the five-year anniversary of Covid, a look at the ways we vowed our lives and relationships would change afterward — and how they still might.

M Melissa Kirsch

Haiti’s Biggest Hospital, Dependent on U.S.A.I.D., Goes Up in Smoke

A fire set by gangs at the country’s largest public hospital underscores long-simmering problems in Haiti, which is heavily dependent on international aid.A woman sleeping inside the State University Hospital of Haiti last year. The United States has invested tens of millions of dollars to build a n

D David C. Adams and Frances Robles