Trump’s Tariffs by Whim Keep Allies and Markets Off Balance
Investors sent stock prices down on Thursday amid the uncertainty over what President Trump’s inconstancy means for the global economy.
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Investors sent stock prices down on Thursday amid the uncertainty over what President Trump’s inconstancy means for the global economy.
The order against the firm, which did work for Democrats during the 2016 campaign, represents an escalation of efforts to punish groups the...
Republicans are pitching the strategy as a way of avoiding a politically damaging shutdown fight while giving President Trump more power to...
People say they are intimidated by online attacks from the president, concerned about harm to their businesses or worried about the safety o...
Without Congress, President Trump cannot dismantle the agency. No modern president has ever tried to unilaterally shut down a federal depart...
Ten members of his party joined Republicans in voting to officially condemn the Texas Democrat after he was ejected from the president’s joi...
Plus, Dolly Parton’s love story.
President Trump has not made good on a promise to disclose who contributed to his transition effort.
After voting to confirm Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as health secretary, Senator Bill Cassidy, a doctor and Republican of Louisiana, is embracing...
Elon Musk heads to Capitol Hill for a diplomatic mission.
The fired employees were on probationary status, swept up in the administration’s push to rapidly reduce the size of the federal work force...
The fired employees were on probationary status, swept up in the administration’s push to rapidly reduce the size of the federal work force...
The groups that sued insist the court’s ruling ought to force the Trump administration to restore all funding delivered via U.S.A.I.D. But t...
Republicans accused the mayors of New York, Chicago, Denver and Boston of providing sanctuary to criminals, while Democrats pointed to falli...
Democrats argue that Elon Musk’s criticism of the program and push to squeeze savings from it is a prelude to benefit cuts. Republicans and...
At a House hearing, the mayors of Boston, Chicago, Denver and New York City rejected accusations that they were harboring criminals by not a...
Party leaders opted for a soberly delivered, centrist counter to the president’s speech, but the dominant image of Democratic pushback was a...
Bezalel Smotrich, the Israeli finance minister, had drawn rebukes from the Biden administration for his opposition to a cease-fire in Gaza a...
Plans to transform Hanford, which was integral to the nation’s nuclear arsenal after World War II, had just begun inching forward when Presi...
Trump’s commerce secretary suggested a compromise might be reached to reduce the 25 percent tariff, following a day of turmoil in the stock...
But is this really a “Barbie” moment?
President Trump’s comments on tariffs and Social Security sent something of a chill through the House chamber.
Plus, the sky-high cost of concert tickets.
Trump hasn’t altered his behavior to be president. He altered the presidency to match his personality.
The leaders of Boston, New York, Chicago and Denver will appear before the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
The president’s speech to Congress covered tariffs, Ukraine and cuts to the federal work force but did little to address the perils that acc...
What Times Opinion columnists and writers thought of the president’s speech to Congress.
Republicans had the Texas Democrat, who introduced the first articles of impeachment against Trump in 2017, ejected after he shouted at the...
Eliminating “underutilized” federal office space has become a fixation for Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency operation.
Losing half of its employees would severely strap the I.R.S., meaning Americans may have to wait longer to receive tax refunds.
President Claudia Sheinbaum of Mexico took steps sought by President Trump, including sending troops to the border and cracking down on drug...
Cutting down emissions of planet-warming methane from oil and gas production was supposed to be relatively simple. It hasn’t worked that way...
The Michigan Democrat, a first-term senator, is expected to lay out the economic and national security stakes of President Trump’s agenda.
The Trump administration is stepping in to help Texas respond to the deadly and highly contagious respiratory virus.
The president has repeatedly made false or misleading claims in pursuing an aggressive agenda in the first weeks of his second term.
Is Trump wreaking havoc for havoc’s sake or is it something much worse?
Presidents typically use these speeches to promote their accomplishments and lay out their plans. President Trump is expected to touch on Uk...
At 9 p.m. Eastern, President Trump will speak to a joint session of Congress for the first time in his second term. The New York Times will...
The directive, which takes effect immediately, affects more than $1 billion in arms and ammunition in the pipelines and on order.
Ed Martin, the acting U.S. attorney in Washington, has been blocked so far in seeking a grand jury investigation into remarks made by Senato...
James E. Dennehy had told agents to “dig in” in the face of the Trump administration’s culling of officials who investigated the Jan. 6 atta...
Tuesday night’s address will be a remarkable return to a chamber that President Trump last addressed five years ago, before voters ousted hi...
The S&P 500 fell 1.8 percent on Monday after President Trump doubled down on plans to impose 25 percent tariffs on Canada and Mexico startin...
President Trump’s executive order puts his “America first” stamp onto the nation’s speech. But the effect might be muted.
Educators are embracing rather than restricting discussions of race in schools. Leaders have said they’ll do so whether the Trump administra...
Investors’ increasingly gloomy sentiment about economic growth appears to be driving down the 10-year Treasury yield.
Canada is one of the United States’ largest trading partners, but President Trump wants to either take it or leave it.
Behind closed doors, many top executives voice support for the new administration.
Donald Trump is already wreaking havoc — even on his own supporters. But don’t worry. Democrats have a winning strategy to beat him. Or not.
The move comes as lawmakers hear from constituents over President Trump’s and Elon Musk’s efforts to slash federal spending and cull the civ...