President Trump is growing frustrated as Americans struggle with higher prices and pessimism over the state of the economy.President Trump on Tuesday called the issue of affordability a “fake narrative” and “con job” created by Democrats to dupe the public.
The pause, which will halt green card and U.S. citizenship processing for broad swaths of people, deepens a remarkable crackdown on legal immigration pathways in recent days.A camp for internally displaced people in Somalia in September. It is one of the countries on the travel ban list, which inclu
President Trump began the meeting by criticizing media coverage about him showing signs of fatigue. Last month, he appeared to doze off during a meeting in the Oval Office.President Trump during a cabinet meeting at the White House on Tuesday.
Adm. Frank M. Bradley will soon face questions from lawmakers, as Republicans and Democrats express concerns about a Sept. 2 attack on a boat in the Caribbean.Adm. Frank Mitchell Bradley has taken part in operations that span the globe from Afghanistan to Yemen.
The defense secretary supported the admiral he said called for the second strike on Sept. 2 against a boat the administration says was smuggling drugs.Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth speaking with reporters at the Cabinet Room on Tuesday.
President Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela during a rally in Caracas on Monday.
The flight’s approval illustrates how the United States and Venezuela are still communicating, after a declaration from President Trump that Venezuelan airspace was “closed in its entirety.”Venezuela’s president, Nicolás Maduro, during a speech in November.
Matt Van Epps fended off a Democrat to protect Republicans’ slim House majority, but the relatively close margin in a red district sent the party a warning shot before the 2026 midterms.Matt Van Epps at his election night party in Nashville. He drew help from President Trump and national Republican
Mr. Solomon was elected mayor over Mr. McGreevey, who was hoping for a comeback after resigning in 2004 as New Jersey’s governor amid a sex scandal.James Solomon, center, celebrates after winning the mayoral election in Jersey City, N.J., on Tuesday night.
Ms. Pressley, a prominent progressive, will instead run for re-election to the House. Her move is expected to help Senator Ed Markey, though he still faces one well-known Democratic primary challenger.Representative Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts has attracted a national following among progressiv
Juan Orlando Hernández was convicted of flooding the United States with cocaine and had been sentenced to 45 years in prison.Juan Orlando Hernández, the former president of Honduras, at the U.N. General Assembly in 2018.
The stepped-up enforcement comes as the Trump administration has also moved to reassess the vetting of Afghans who came to the country under the Biden administration.National Guard troops standing near the scene where two Guard members were shot in Washington last week.
Jay Clayton, Manhattan’s top federal prosecutor, had called his office’s drug prosecution of an ex-president of Honduras a success. President Trump decided to free him this week.Jay Clayton, the U.S. attorney in Manhattan, speaking at a symposium on international white-collar crime on Tuesday in New
The latest threat to SNAP funding came after weeks of confusion over the status of benefits during the government shutdown.Brooke L. Rollins, the agriculture secretary, threatened to withhold food assistance funding from more than 20 Democratic-led states.
The staff of The New York Times Book Review choose the year’s top fiction and nonfiction.
The two sides did not reach any specific compromises, an aide to President Vladimir V. Putin said, as the United States pushes a plan to end the war in Ukraine.
The philanthropy has become one of America’s biggest, but most of its giving went to charities closely tied to the world’s richest man.Elon Musk’s foundation gave $370 million last year to a nonprofit in Texas led by his top aide that operates an elementary school in a rural area where many of Mr. M
The tech billionaire and his wife hope other philanthropists follow their $6 billion lead in expanding the reach of soon-to-be-created “Trump accounts.”Michael Dell, the head of Dell Technologies, said that giving directly to children echoed his early business model of direct computer sales.
Next year, Michael and Susan Dell plan to move $250 into the new Trump accounts of millions of children under 10. You’ll need to live in the right ZIP code.Michael Dell, chairman and chief executive of Dell Technologies, and his wife, Susan, announced that they were donating $6.25 billion to benefit
An adaptation of Denis Johnson’s novella arrives at the same time as a new biography, unlocking one of his best-loved and least-understood books.
The tests have not been approved by federal regulators, but that hasn’t stopped patients from wanting them — and doctors from worrying.William Hill, a firefighter in Brockton, Mass., was diagnosed with cancer after taking an experimental blood test.
The essay, written for a psychology class by a University of Oklahoma student, called the idea of multiple genders “demonic.” The instructor said it did not answer the assignment.Responding to a scholarly article that discussed teasing as a way to enforce gender norms, the University of Oklahoma stu
Officials told staff members at two student-run publications, called Nineteen Fifty-Six and Alice, that they were not compliant with Attorney General Pam Bondi’s memo on diversity programs.The University of Alabama campus in Tuscaloosa. The school said that because of shifting federal policy and div
He emerged out of obscurity when his cargo plane was shot down while illegally ferrying arms to Nicaraguan rebels, setting off a scandal that tarnished the Reagan and Bush White Houses.Eugene Hasenfus after he was captured by Sandinista soldiers in October 1986. His plane ferrying supplies to right-
