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
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.
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
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
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
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
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.
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
Shipments surged into Gaza after Israel and Hamas reached a cease-fire, even if they weren’t enough. Then Israel blocked the border again to pressure Hamas in truce talks.Food handouts in Beit Lahia this week.
As part of an effort to deepen its influence in southern Syria, Israel has been seeking stronger ties with the Druse religious minority that holds sway there.
Emergency crews in both states were scrambling to keep up with all the blazes popping up across the map.
An intense storm system has brought damaging strong winds and tornadoes across the Midwest, and dust storms and wildfires to the Plains.Inspecting storm damage in Florissant, Mo., on Friday night.
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.
During the first Trump era, the resistance engaged in soaring rhetoric about unity — then fell apart. Will this time be different?
Thousands of women may have been raped by Russian soldiers, experts say, but have kept quiet for fear of the stigma. But that is changing.Liudmyla in Ukraine’s Kherson region last year.
Moscow said it had retaken two villages outside the town of Sudzha in Russia’s Kursk region. Ukrainian officials did not immediately comment on the claim.Ukrainian soldiers repairing a vehicle near the border with Russia’s Kursk region in January.
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.
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.
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
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
Mr. Walz, the governor of Minnesota and last year’s Democratic nominee for vice president, has been meeting with members of his party in recent weeks.Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota at an event in Des Moines on Friday.
A year after a landmark settlement called for a disruption in how real estate agents are paid, people say they still feel forced to pay them excessive commissions.Mike Chambers wanted to prove he could sell his house without an agent. He made an Instagram account, @realtorshateme, to chronicle the p
Demand to see Denzel Washington and Jake Gyllenhaal play Shakespeare has set a record in a year when big stars have been driving up the prices of Broadway plays.Crowds line up to see Denzel Washington play the title role in “Othello.”
This is a moment to trumpet the strengths of higher education and address its weaknesses.
