How Markwayne Mullin Became Trump’s Homeland Security Pick
The Oklahoma senator whom President Trump chose to run the Department of Homeland Security has risen in Washington by styling himself as a M...
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The Oklahoma senator whom President Trump chose to run the Department of Homeland Security has risen in Washington by styling himself as a M...
The Export-Import Bank is providing a $10 billion loan to Project Vault, an initiative to stockpile critical minerals. The project is the ad...
The attack, in the eastern Pacific, was part of a continuing campaign by the U.S. Southern Command to target people suspected of smuggling d...
J. Todd Inman, who was prominent in the investigation of the midair collision in Washington last year, said no reason was given for his firi...
Representative Thomas Massie’s race against a rival backed by President Trump is shaping up as a key midterm testing ground for G.O.P. attit...
President Trump thinks Republicans should “take over” election procedures in parts of the United States. But where? Here are some possibilit...
The ruling, which said that Kari Lake’s appointment to oversee V.O.A.’s parent agency was invalid, was a major rejection of President Trump’...
Documents show how A.I. was used to cancel most previously approved grants by the National Endowment for the Humanities as the agency embrac...
The drop in arrests reflects a retreat, at least for now, from some of the administration’s most aggressive immigration enforcement tactics.
Kristi and Corey cavorted in the swamp as D.H.S. got bogged down.
The desire for a revolutionary presidency gives hubris a lot of space to work.
A carefully disciplined campaign that capitalized on viral media, months of organizing and strong outreach to Latino voters helped propel Ja...
In his National Cybersecurity Strategy, President Trump sought an expanded role for private firms in cyberwarfare. He did not take on China...
President Trump, who values loyalty, has at times tried to distance himself from his administration’s own actions when they become political...
Firings, resignations and diversions to the president’s priorities have left elite counterterrorism and counterintelligence units stretched...
The move comes as President Trump is ratcheting up his rhetorical assault on Cuba’s leadership.
The move comes as President Trump is ratcheting up his rhetorical assault on Cuba’s leadership.
He hosted a home improvement radio show, fought in cage matches and inherited a plumbing business before becoming a “MAGA warrior” in Congre...
The president has said he plans to shut down the center for two years starting this summer for a “complete rebuilding.”
The weaker-than-expected numbers quickly became a source of tension between the two parties ahead of the midterm elections.
Economists say estimates from the Bureau of Labor Statistics and other agencies are reliable, but they worry the quality of data is eroding.
Colton Moore, who hopes to win a special election on Tuesday to replace Ms. Greene, has the same flair for the dramatic and the ultra-MAGA p...
Colton Moore, who hopes to win a special election on Tuesday to replace Ms. Greene, has the same flair for the dramatic and the ultra-MAGA p...
Several House members had called for Mr. Gonzales, a Texas Republican, to step down after texts emerged showing his pursuit of a staff membe...
The pages had been withheld from the trove of documents related to the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein because of what officials call...
The president’s choice of Senator Markwayne Mullin of Oklahoma to replace her at the Department of Homeland Security could trigger a cascade...
A new analysis of prescription data found that emergency room orders for acetaminophen for pregnant women fell for weeks after the federal w...
The Oklahoma senator has been a staunch defender of the Trump administration’s mass deportation campaign.
A handful of Democrats joined Republicans to defeat an effort to force President Trump to go to Congress for approval to continue using forc...
“No permission was granted for the use of our intellectual property,” the company said. The Trump administration frequently promotes policie...
Long delays in FEMA assistance brought bipartisan complaints, especially in North Carolina after Hurricane Helene in 2024.
The actions of Ms. Halligan, who as a U.S. attorney brought criminal cases against President Trump’s enemies, are under review by the organi...
For the third time, a bill to fund the Department of Homeland Security failed as Democrats refused to support the money without new restrict...
The lawsuit filed by two dozen states seeks to invalidate the president’s new, 10 percent global tax on imports.
The physical struggle, involving Senator Tim Sheehy of Montana, was captured on video. The protester, Brian McGinnis, said on social media t...
Even as some top targets held on, lawmakers in both parties were pushed into runoffs by challengers in Texas, while some in the North Caroli...
Presidents have sidestepped Congress to launch limited military strikes for decades. Trump’s decision to attack Iran is an aggressive escala...
After clinching the Democratic Senate primary, he told supporters in Austin that the country’s real divide is between “top versus bottom,” n...
Decisions come fast, even if contradictions and inconsistencies abound. But without much of a process, there is little preparation for how t...
Texas voters will revisit the Republican Senate primary — and some House races where no candidate captured more than 50 percent of the vote...
The Trump administration is likely to appeal the move, as it ramps up its attempt to slow or potentially block the repayment of billions in...
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem pushed back against her department’s inspector general, who told Congress in a letter that she had “...
A Texas writer assesses the Senate race.
Companies including Google, Microsoft and OpenAI committed to pay for the power plants and grid upgrades needed to run their data centers.
The Oversight Committee took the action over the objections of its Republican chairman, after several G.O.P. members sided with Democrats to...
Prosecutors in the U.S. attorney’s office in Washington were unable to build a case, underscoring the department’s increasing inability to f...
The bid came as Representative Tony Gonzales of Texas has been forced into a runoff amid resurfaced allegations of having an extramarital af...
Hungary. Cuba. Afghanistan. Iraq. Now Iran?
The veteran Texas senator faces what promises to be a bruising runoff with the state attorney general challenging him from the right. But he...
On the sorry state of retirement savings in the United States, and a policy that could help.