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In 2024, a jury found that Donald J. Trump approved a scheme to falsify business records to conceal a hush-money payment to a porn star. He...
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In 2024, a jury found that Donald J. Trump approved a scheme to falsify business records to conceal a hush-money payment to a porn star. He...
An appeals court sided with the director of the U.S. Copyright Office, saying her role is to work with Congress.
The Trump administration is hailing a potential deal that may return the U.S.-China relationship to where it was before the president began...
A suit filed by an election law firm contends that the state’s 11th Congressional District, represented by a Republican, is drawn in a way t...
State lawmakers are convening to take a vote that would allow redistricting before next year’s midterms, though the process would take month...
The justices used the doctrine, a judicially created method of reading statutes, to thwart several major Biden programs.
President Trump has embarked on a six-day diplomatic tour of Asia, testing his role as a statesman and negotiator as he pursues a trade deal...
Trump’s immigration tactics violate both the law and human decency.
Whether because of his increasingly mercurial approach or despite it, President Trump has won some foreign policy victories in his second te...
Whether he is negotiating a deal in the Middle East, bombing boats off the coast of Venezuela or deploying troops to American cities, it’s a...
The state has become a stronghold for President Trump. Now, his efforts on trade, energy and immigration are squeezing farmers, disrupting l...
Buttressed by courts and support from some Republican lawmakers, federally funded newsrooms that President Trump has tried to eliminate have...
He is the only prosecutor to convict a president. But mentioning Donald Trump to him on the campaign trail is a conversation stopper.
Timothy Mellon is a billionaire and a major financial backer of President Trump.
Vice President JD Vance has found himself defending or promoting positions that he once opposed, even as recently as the campaign.
Demolition Man builds a monument to his wrecking-ball style.
The speaker’s decision to hold the House in an indefinite hiatus during the shutdown is his latest move to diminish the role of the legislat...
President Trump is embarking on a six-day diplomatic tour of Asia, testing his role as a statesman and negotiator as he pursues a trade deal...
A small company that has been manufacturing motors domestically for only a few weeks and has Donald Trump Jr. as an adviser won a parts orde...
The proposal was the latest twist in a byzantine saga that has transformed the Salvadoran migrant into one of the best-known symbols of Pres...
From the first day of his second term, President Trump has taken an ends-justify-the-means approach to his presidency.
We look back at the history of this corner of the White House.
Plus, your Friday news quiz.
Daniel Lurie, the San Francisco mayor, relied on powerful tech executives and his own low-key approach to help his liberal city escape a rus...
The East Wing was where Eleanor Roosevelt walked. It was where Jacqueline Kennedy planned the Rose Garden. Now it’s all but gone.
The White House has made no legal argument explaining its bald claim that the president has wartime power to summarily kill people suspected...
Presidents have always tailored the White House to their needs, but with the demolition of the East Wing, a $300 million ballroom and other...
European leaders want to build on President Trump’s sanctions on Russia with new commitments of financial and military support for Kyiv.
For President Trump, creating an aura of criminality around the indicted New York attorney general — through public scrutiny of her and her...
The president said his move, which again throws relations with one of the United States’ closest trading partners into turmoil, was motivate...
President Harry S. Truman consulted Congress, architects and a fine arts commission on everything from construction plans to fabric samples....
The president said he would bypass Congress rather than ask for approval for his military campaign against drug traffickers, even as he said...
The billionaire’s swipes at Sean Duffy are the latest example of his tangling with members of the Trump administration.
President Trump said he had halted a planned federal deployment of immigration agents to the city. It was not clear what that meant for the...
Yes, Trump is assaulting democracy, but what worries me more is what has happened to the rest of us — the loss of the convictions and norms...
After months of restraint, President Trump’s move to blacklist Lukoil and Rosneft will hit Russia where it hurts.
The Interior Department also said it would allow a contentious road to be built through the Izembek National Wildlife Refuge in southwestern...
The antidote to our polarized politics is a creative, re-energized political center.
Vice President JD Vance calls symbolic votes in Israel’s Parliament to annex West Bank territory a “very stupid political stunt.”
A Republican measure that would pay essential government employees faltered in the Senate, and the G.O.P. blocked a pair of Democratic bills...
The Trump administration is preparing to file a trade investigation into China’s compliance with a 2020 trade deal, which could raise tensio...
Burns’s 12-hour documentary about our national origin story is landing in the middle of a culture war. Yes, it’s complicated. No, he does no...
Democrats used to be known as the party of the poor and the working class. Two decades of federal income data show how that changed.
Plus, the island that just got its first mosquitoes.
Ryan Chen has turned an uncanny impersonation of President Trump into a social media career, and a mirror of China’s fascination with Americ...
Gov. Gavin Newsom has a long relationship with Marc Benioff, the chief executive of Salesforce, that dates back to a different era in San Fr...
The San Francisco district attorney said in an interview that she came up with the strategy after seeing federal agents repeatedly roughing...