In Their Own Words: Trump and Top Officials Change Tone on Free Speech
In the wake of Charlie Kirk’s assassination, the president’s pledges to guarantee free speech have been replaced by efforts to suppress — an...
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In the wake of Charlie Kirk’s assassination, the president’s pledges to guarantee free speech have been replaced by efforts to suppress — an...
Leaders across the political spectrum have figured out how easily they can motivate people with anger, fear and domination.
Judge Timothy J. Kelly, a Trump appointee, wrote that the government had given dubious justifications for removing the children that “crumbl...
ABC’s decision to “indefinitely” suspend Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night talk show illuminates the administration’s efficacy so far.
The central bank is grappling with how quickly to lower interest rates after restarting cuts on Wednesday, amid mixed economic signals and a...
President Trump has accused Britain of mounting a crackdown on political expression. But he welcomed the ABC network’s suspension of Jimmy K...
A pattern of getting rid of statistics has emerged that echoes the president’s first term, when he suggested if the nation stopped testing f...
The vacation, amid diplomatic talks on oil industry expansion, is a measure of how hard it is to tell where the interests of government end...
Both the United States and Britain are suffering through crises of identity.
Former President Barack Obama said the job of an American president was to “remind us of the ties that bind us together.” President Trump ap...
After rejecting a G.O.P.-written plan to keep federal funding flowing, Democrats released a counteroffer that would add more than $1 trillio...
In using the nuclear option, John Thune has turned a Senate precedent on its head, defying his reputation as an institutionalist.
A day of military and monarchical pageantry demonstrated Britain’s eagerness to appeal to a president who has seemed intent on upending the...
The president’s voters wanted to have it both ways. Reality said no.
Two nonprofits prided themselves on being neutral voices. Then they found that there seemed to be no middle ground in the nation’s redistric...
Plus, Robert Redford’s legacy.
Wednesday’s hearing before the Senate health committee promises to be a referendum on the health secretary’s leadership and expose a rocky t...
His first term focused on America’s rival superpowers. Now the emphasis is on homeland defense and troops on city streets.
President Trump’s signature domestic policy law could make it harder for states to fund programs to help people find stable housing.
Speaking at an educational summit, former President Barack Obama criticized his successor’s attacks on his political rivals in the wake of C...
In the wake of Charlie Kirk’s killing, President Trump and his allies have laid out a broad plan to target liberal groups, monitor speech, r...
Erika McEntarfer, in her first appearance since she was ousted from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, cautioned that “economic data must be fr...
Erika McEntarfer, in her first appearance since she was ousted from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, cautioned that “economic data must be fr...
The F.B.I. director has come under withering attack in recent days, but with Republicans backing him, the proceedings fell into a familiar p...
After allowing a stopgap spending bill to move forward earlier this year, Democrats are under intense pressure not to do so again.
In financial filings, Casey Means stated that she would liquidate holdings in companies that sell personal devices, supplements, tobacco and...
The legislation is part of a package that House Republicans are pushing to impose more federal control over the District in line with Presid...
Ukrainian and European officials, analysts and entrepreneurs keep asking privately, “What’s up with Trump?”
It was the fourth time President Trump extended the deadline for TikTok to find a new owner or face a ban in the United States. This time, o...
The speaker put forward a stopgap bill to fund the government past Sept. 30, saying there was “zero chance” he would add concessions Democra...
Senator Bill Cassidy, a Republican physician and vaccine proponent who is facing a primary challenge from the right, has a fraught relations...
Ben Shapiro and I discuss the state — and stakes — of political disagreement in America.
Antiwar Russians are being sent back as part of President Trump’s immigration crackdown, despite facing imprisonment and other dangers.
Gov. Gavin Newsom and Democratic state lawmakers have focused on pocketbook concerns this year, seeing their party’s national losses as a re...
Geoff Duncan could prove to be a wild card in an election next year that will be a crucial test for Georgia’s relatively new status as a swi...
Plus, a “sci-fi” discovery about ants.
Voters will decide whether three Democratic State Supreme Court justices will keep their seats in a swing state that will be crucial to the...
In an interview with The New York Times, former Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, a lifelong Democrat, said the party “is not meeting the moment.”
Lina Hidalgo, the top elected official in Harris County, which includes Houston, says she will not run for re-election or any other office i...
Mortgage fraud allegations, like those President Trump has leveled against Lisa Cook, are hard to prove. A New York Times review of the hold...
Only a handful of Democrats and none of the party’s top leaders attended the ceremony, an outpouring of praise and mourning for the right-wi...
Arnold Schwarzenegger issued his first public rebuke since Gov. Gavin Newsom placed a gerrymander plan on the ballot.
The decision came just a day before the Federal Reserve begins a two-day meeting at which policymakers are expected to cut interest rates.
After Charlie Kirk’s death, the Trump administration has identified a bigger culprit: leftists bent on violence.
Some of the highest-ranking officials in the federal government used Charlie Kirk’s podcast, guest-hosted by Vice President JD Vance, to lay...
The Justice Department gave no reason for its dismissal of Maurene Comey, a longtime federal prosecutor in Manhattan and the daughter of the...
While crime falls, the other investigative work of the F.B.I. is being delayed, frustrating law enforcement officials and leading some to qu...
In a notice to Congress, the Trump administration said the additional $58 million would go to the U.S. Marshals Service. It also said it sup...
Representative Michael McCaul, an 11-term Texas Republican who chairs the House Foreign Affairs Committee, announced on Sunday that he would...
No matter the direction of the tragedy, the end result is the same — the right grows angrier at the left, and the left grows angrier at the...