Hours before visiting the Capitol, the president scrapped plans to sign a major housing bill, condemning “bad Republicans” for resisting his demands to ram through new voting restrictions.Those attending the meeting at the Capitol on Wednesday said President Trump made a series of highly personal at
The president had a lengthy and angry exchange with Senator Bill Cassidy of Louisiana and lit into other Republicans who voted to check his war powers.Senator Bill Cassidy of Louisiana at the Capitol on Wednesday, ahead of a meeting with President Trump and other Senate Republicans.
Also, Western Europe is sweltering. Here’s the latest at the end of Wednesday.Townhouses being built in Simpsonville, S.C., in January.
The president has sought to recast the Iranian government as he pursues a peace deal. But there are signs that a softening on Iran in the Republican Party goes well beyond him.A pro-government demonstration in Tehran last month.
The proposal was all but dead on arrival in the Senate, where it would need bipartisan support, and comes amid growing G.O.P. skepticism about the conflict.Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has met privately with Republicans recently to make the case that the Pentagon urgently needed funding to buy add
The New York Times has confirmed that Taylor Swift has rented the sports arena for the July 4 weekend, suggesting plans for a days-long celebration.There has been intense speculation about the details of Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s wedding ever since they announced their engagement in August 202
A look at the backlash to same-sex marriage — its strength, seriousness and the reasons behind it.The U.S. Supreme Court established same-sex marriage as a national right in 2015.
Sentiment is shifting amid frustration in the antiabortion movement that more abortions are happening now than when Roe v. Wade fell.Seth Gruber, an antiabortion activist who leads a group called the White Rose Resistance, has been circulating a petition among other activists to garner support for c
An unlikely trio of justices issued a slashing critique of plea bargains that included several references to orangutans.The U.S. Supreme Court still has yet to decide on several major cases, as its summer recess draws near.
The party secured key victories in New York City, but battles across the state suggest a larger fight awaits in the fall.Cait Conley, right, will face Representative Mike Lawler in what may be the Democratic Party’s best chances of flipping a House seat.
Pro-Israel leaders in New York expressed alarm at the primary victories of three Democratic candidates backed by Mayor Zohran Mamdani. Progressive Jewish groups celebrated.
Alex Bores’s close loss in New York could pave the way for other Democrats to take political advantage of being attacked by the increasingly unpopular A.I. industry.Alex Bores with his wife, Darya Moldavskaya, on Tuesday night after he conceded his Democratic primary race for the House in New York C
More than a dozen countries have issued urgent heat warnings. France saw its highest average temperature ever on Tuesday.
The burning of fossil fuels is raising temperatures worldwide, but local factors, on land and at sea, determine which regions warm most rapidly.Morning commuters on the London Bridge on Wednesday, where temperatures reached 96 degrees Fahrenheit, the hottest recorded June day in the United Kingdom.
People have long gathered in solidarity by the Reflecting Pool, but amid the turmoil of President Trump’s attempted repairs there is little unity to be found.The changing color of the water has been the subject of curiosity and controversy over the last two weeks.
Ms. Russini’s closeness to a coach, Mike Vrabel of the New England Patriots, led to her breakup with The Athletic and its parent, The New York Times Company.
A doctor who had traveled to the Democratic Republic of Congo was infected, the French health ministry said. The authorities said the risk to the wider population was low.Health workers last month in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the center of an Ebola outbreak that has killed more than 200 peop
Scientists believe that the Bundibugyo virus persists in an animal species, occasionally spilling over into humans. But they have yet to identify the species.
Wearables can offer rough information about a person’s health, experts say, but only some metrics are medically useful.
Ken Griffin, the hedge fund manager, looks for artworks with a “wow” factor, never mind the number of zeros on the price tag. Ten of his Basquiats are on loan to the Pérez Art Museum Miami.Art handlers with Basquiat’s “Pez Dispenser,” from 1984, at PAMM. The show represents the collector Ken Griffin
Why the president’s latest renovation project is so irresistible and resonant.
Tuesday’s primary demonstrated the astonishing political power of Mamdani and of the Democratic Socialists of America.
Doctors are contending with low supplies and unfilled orders of generic chemotherapy infusions that are central to the treatment of a long list of cancers.Chemotherapy drugs, carboplatin and cisplatin, in the pharmaceutical storage room at the Center for Cancer and Blood Disorders in Fort Worth. The
