Here’s What Trump Could Unleash by Invoking the Insurrection Act
Why Congress should take up Insurrection Act reform.
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Why Congress should take up Insurrection Act reform.
As the shutdown nears a fourth week, President Trump has pushed his political opponents to further dig in.
Half a century ago, Congress protected its power of the purse, and conservatives balked at letting presidents disobey lawmakers’ instruction...
At the White House, President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine made the case for why a weapons sale would help end the war. Mr. Trump at first...
The dismissal was the latest fallout from attempts by career Justice Department officials to impede the president’s wide-ranging campaign of...
The G.O.P. officials who participated in a group chat have faced calls to step down. State Senator Samuel Douglass was the group’s only elec...
The disgraced former congressman was sentenced to prison, years after his credentials and career began to unravel. Then President Trump comm...
The president has mobilized state-based military forces to U.S. cities over the objections of state and local officials.
Consumers are facing greater costs for their 2026 A.C.A. health coverage as Congress continues to debate whether to extend subsidies that he...
Mr. Bolton appeared in federal court in Greenbelt, Md., a day after he was indicted by a grand jury.
Unions representing federal workers told a judge they believed the administration might violate a temporary ban on layoffs during the shutdo...
Plus, your Friday news quiz.
Ms. Pelosi, 85, has not yet said whether she will run again. The challenge would be the latest example of the Democratic Party facing a push...
A federal judge had previously dismissed the complaint as unnecessarily lengthy and digressive. The president claims that The Times sought t...
Mr. Bolton, a Trump aide turned critic, is part of a string of presidential foes to become prosecutorial targets. But his case gained moment...
The San Francisco-based firm has told ICE that it could use A.I. to help the agency nearly triple its staff. The company’s C.E.O., once a pr...
Some charges against the onetime national security adviser resemble the dropped case against President Trump, but there are also differences...
After the Supreme Court appeared poised to weaken a key provision of the landmark civil rights law, both parties began to reckon with an unc...
Democrats want guarantees that President Trump will not continue to claw back spending, ignoring any agreement they strike. But he has promi...
For Jon Ossoff, the most endangered Senate Democrat, the shutdown fight could rally support among some voters, but risks alienating others i...
President Trump has said he wants to eventually shift the burden of disaster relief and recovery onto states. It’s already happening.
Plus, where are all the pennies?!
Don’t mistake a revolution for a revival.
The president lauded dozens of executives and businesspeople for the “tremendous amounts of money” they have pledged for his project, which...
The layoffs have raised fears that the administration could be effectively ending an initiative that provides contraception for millions of...
Ten members of Congress wrote in a letter to the governor that a gas pipeline proposed for New York Harbor runs counter to the state’s emiss...
Representative Dave Taylor of Ohio condemned the symbol as “vile” and said his office was investigating with the U.S. Capitol Police.
Labor groups are set to square off against the Trump administration one day after the president renewed his threat to cut “Democrat programs...
Representative Kevin Kiley of California has criticized his own party for keeping the House out of session during the shutdown. He is battli...
The proposals would transform a program aimed at helping the most vulnerable people in the world into one that gives preference to mostly wh...
An influence campaign has relied on allies of the president, including Rudolph W. Giuliani, to cast a Serbian politician as a victim of poli...
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said China’s dominance of rare earths calls for a more assertive American industrial policy.
Some G.O.P. officials who participated in a monthslong online chat are losing their jobs or being pressured to resign.
Labor groups are set to square off against the Trump administration one day after the president renewed his threat to cut “Democrat programs...
President Trump presented the medal to Charlie Kirk’s widow, Erika, on what would have been his 32nd birthday.
President Trump’s threats to provide the missiles to Ukraine, whether he follows through on them or not, are a sign of his growing frustrati...
About a fifth of the agency’s remaining staff was affected, including employees working on special education, funding for low-income student...
Message to Trump: As hard as stage one was for Gaza peace, you have not even seen hard yet.
The panel’s Republican chairman, Representative Jim Jordan, accused the former special counsel of “prosecutorial misconduct and constitution...
The departures of Todd Gilbert and his deputy in the Western District of Virginia show the pressure being brought on prosecutors to pursue t...
The president said he would release a list of the cuts on Friday. “We are closing up Democrat programs that we disagree with, and they’re ne...
With federal subsidies ending or becoming hard to claim, companies are racing ahead with solar, wind and battery projects.
The president’s bellicose vow of steep new tariffs, followed quickly by a more conciliatory message, pointed to an internal tug of war over...
Representative Mikie Sherrill, a New Jersey Democrat, said a firm once owned by her Republican opponent, Jack Ciattarelli, spread misinforma...