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The F.B.I. director spent about eight hours at the White House Friday focused on the effort, which led to the subpoenaing of several Times r...
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The F.B.I. director spent about eight hours at the White House Friday focused on the effort, which led to the subpoenaing of several Times r...
The state’s large Muslim and Somali communities expressed indignation after the president reposted a video of a kindergarten promotion cerem...
Two senior editors discuss the difficult effort to track down allegations against the leading Democrat for Senate in Maine and the questions...
The secretary of state effectively controls Venezuela’s finances, the distribution of its natural resources and its government. His grip on...
The Justice Department is seeking to compel testimony from reporters who wrote about the new Air Force One. The Times called the move a “bra...
A May lawsuit by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission claims the newspaper discriminated against a white male employee who did not ge...
The president did not say he would veto the housing legislation, so it would still become law unless he does. But his pronouncement reflects...
The White House is sidestepping Congress to make huge decisions for even the most important private industries.
Plus, the Friday news quiz.
Advancements in renewable energy are paving the way for a new climate politics. The environmentalist Bill McKibben articulates some of the p...
Penn Station needs massive fixes, but the Trump administration is going about it all wrong.
The firings and a resignation render the Election Assistance Commission useless. The moves come as President Trump seeks to impose control o...
Experts said the lack of such capabilities poses a potential risk when the president travels overseas. The White House defended the aircraft...
Is the right giving up on America?
How much have the rules of politics changed?
State actors in China, Russia and Iran have sought to exploit the U.S. public debate over the effects of the technology.
The Graham Platner experiment has failed. “There have been so many errors of judgment at every step of the way,” the columnist Michelle Gold...
The proposed 250-foot arch would violate a height limit on Washington structures under the traditional reading of the law. But the panel, no...
Ambassador Brian Burch must navigate the relationship between the two most prominent American men in the world. His priority is the one in W...
The last time the justices granted a rehearing request after a case decision was in 1965. The court has only once reversed itself after rehe...
The Secret Service is said to have asked that the president not use the Qatari-donated jet when he left Ankara. The swap deepens questions a...
The vice president called Democrats “a party that is fighting for fraud,” even as he highlighted the case of a woman who was first indicted...
In a wide-ranging interview with The New York Times, Hakeem Jeffries, the House Democratic leader, said he didn’t consider the recent wave o...
The former Wisconsin judge, Hannah C. Dugan, was accused of ushering an undocumented immigrant out a side door as federal agents waited for...
The ruling, based on an agreement the Trump administration signed with Florida last year, contradicted an earlier order by a judge in Washin...
The former Chicago mayor, a Democrat exploring a 2028 presidential run, is in Tel Aviv calling for an end to unconditional U.S. support of I...
The ruling cast serious doubts on the department’s efforts to reinvestigate the race, finding that it was too late to bring criminal charges...
Many voters said they expected Graham Platner, the state’s Democratic nominee for Senate, to exit the race after a former girlfriend publicl...
The “death certificates” issued for liberalism, one analyst says, are “premature.”
Venezuelans are publicly expressing their anger over their government’s disaster response, despite the risk of imprisonment.
The president’s call to the head of FIFA underscores that he has yet to find an area of American, or even global, life where he is unwilling...
As the administration works to expand gun rights, hospitals and community groups have lost funding, and reports on preventing firearm injuri...
A Supreme Court ruling that presidents can fire independent regulators without cause has added volatility for industries that prefer stable...
The president, who is headed to a NATO summit in Ankara this week, had imposed the ban himself amid concerns that giving Turkey the jets cou...
Plus, the museum that wants you to touch the art.
The administration’s report criticizing the National Museum of American History echoes themes of President Trump’s push to reshape the Ameri...
The president has glossed over persistently high unemployment among African Americans, a group he needed to secure a second term.
The vice president’s theology comes in book form.
Publicly and behind the scenes, the president continues to try to impose his own views of American history and culture, presenting an ongoin...
The United States Preventive Services Task Force has been stymied under Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
The Washington Passport Agency started issuing the limited-release documents with President Trump’s image on Monday, catching a few applican...
A White House correspondent and a sports reporter confirmed that President Trump had called Gianni Infantino of FIFA to review the suspensio...
The Kentucky Republican and former Senate majority leader was hospitalized on June 14. Scant details about his condition have emerged since.
The C.D.C.’s tobacco control office has been shut for more than a year. After its most prominent antismoking campaign went off the air, call...
Attitudes in the party have shifted, Democrats say, with a growing appetite for outsider candidates vowing to overhaul the system. Some worr...
President Trump is appointing his former personal lawyers to judgeships, part of a larger effort to put his stamp on the federal courts.
The president placed his image and initiatives front and center, blurring the line, critics said, between loyalty to nation and loyalty to h...