The health secretary has walled himself off from government scientists and empowered fellow activists to pursue his vaccine agenda.Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the health secretary, conferring with Hannah Anderson, then one of his top advisers, during a hearing in May.
The details could raise questions about who was responsible for a follow-up strike on Sept. 2 — the commander who ordered it or the defense secretary.On orders from President Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, the U.S. military has attacked 21 boats in the Caribbean Sea and eastern Pacific Oc
Bipartisan congressional oversight is underway, but for now is focusing on narrow details about one missile instead of broader legal issues.Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s orders regarding a lethal Sept. 2 attack on a boat in the Caribbean Sea are under scrutiny.
The lawsuit said the Defense Department’s new set of rules for journalists “violates the Constitution’s guarantees of due process, freedom of speech and freedom of the press.”A new set of press restrictions at the Pentagon took effect in October.
The Trump administration’s deportation agenda is reverberating beyond immigrant communities as agents begin fanning out around New Orleans.The agents, including several from the Border Patrol, had shown up and tried to detain the men, but they refused to get down from the roof.
More than a year before the Trump administration granted asylum to the Afghan immigrant, the volunteer’s emails raised concerns that he was unraveling.Two National Guard troops were shot near the White House on the day before Thanksgiving.
The government presents its migrant policy as a welcoming alternative to U.S. crackdowns. But activists say those arriving on boats from Africa are excluded from that embrace.Luz Fanny Arce Campiño in the restaurant she works in, in Paiporta, Spain, in October.
The president has sent federal agents to Democratic-led cities in several states, prompting lawsuits and stirring anger among local leaders.Members of the California National Guard were deployed during immigration protests in downtown Los Angeles in June.
Many of the year’s best series seemed to be in conversation with one another, including “Severance,” “The Pitt,” “Andor,” “Pluribus,” “The Lowdown” and others.
Cornelia Foss, better known as a confidante to other artists than as an artist herself, has put aside landscape painting for something far more visceral.Cornelia Foss in the art studio of her Manhattan apartment.
About half of people covered under the Affordable Care Act say that if their health costs spike, it will have a “major impact” on how they vote in the 2026 midterm elections, a survey found.If the Senate doesn’t vote to extend expanded Obamacare subsidies, many Americans will see their health expens
A small group of G.O.P. women has been among the most vocal in raising what their colleagues say is a broader frustration with the speaker.
Hearings that began Wednesday in Washington reflected anxiety over the future of the U.S.-Mexico-Canada trade pact and whether the president could end up scrapping it.Though President Trump negotiated and signed the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement, he said this year that he wanted to make it a “much be
As President Emmanuel Macron of France visited China, its leader, Xi Jinping, said his country would play a constructive role in ending the fighting.President Emmanuel Macron of France with Xi Jinping, China’s leader, in Beijing on Thursday. Mr. Macron was welcomed with a red carpet and honor guard.
The death of a British woman from Novichok was the result of a botched assassination attempt on a former Russian spy, an official report said on Thursday.A police cordon around the residential area where Dawn Sturgess was exposed to the Novichok nerve agent in Salisbury, England, in 2018.
The Trump administration, which crippled Russia’s oil sales to India with sanctions, will be watching Mr. Putin’s talks with Prime Minister Narendra Modi.In this photo released by Russian state media, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi greets President Vladimir V. Putin in New Delhi, where he arriv
President William Ruto faces pressure after a Times investigation showed that his government downplayed or ignored the mistreatment of women working in Saudi Arabia.Pauline Muthoni Kariuki said her Saudi employer and his friend raped her in 2020. She became pregnant and sought help at the embassy. T
The Israeli government authorized 22 settlements in May, the largest expansion in decades, and Palestinian families are now being forced from their homes.“All my memories are in that home. They are not only stealing our land but also trying to cut the roots that connect us to it,” Muhammad Abdulrahm
Israel launched a military strike after it said Hamas militants attacked its soldiers, the latest clashes in the two months since a truce was signed.The site of an Israeli strike on an encampment in Khan Younis, Gaza. A Palestinian health official said the attack killed at least six people and injur
Yasser Abu Shabab, a Bedouin man in his 30s, was at the center of an Israeli project in Gaza to build up anti-Hamas militias.Destruction in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, where Yasser Abu Shabab was reported killed on Thursday.
Investors are deciding within 15 minutes whether to shovel millions into A.I. start-ups and taking entrepreneurs weight lifting and rock climbing to get deals done.Colin Roberts, left, and Vivek Nair, the founders of Multifactor, an A.I. start-up, fielded interest from more than 250 investors and ra
Gov. Kathy Hochul received nearly $250,000 for her re-election campaign from donors eager to have her sign a bill that would regulate the A.I. field in New York.Gov. Kathy Hochul of New York faces a contested re-election bid next year, both in the primary and in the general election.
Shop owners say the thieves who took 990 pounds of snails must have been escargot cognoscenti.A snail farm in Souligné-sous-Ballon, in western France.
Having “real estate deal guys” as America’s negotiators on the war in Ukraine is a liability, not an advantage. You want a statesman.
