RFK Jr. Appears Disengaged on Many Health Department Matters Beyond Vaccines
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has demonstrated little interest in managing his sprawling department as he focuses on food and vacci...
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Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has demonstrated little interest in managing his sprawling department as he focuses on food and vacci...
Two senior Republicans urged the Trump administration to prepare for the possible expiration of a contentious intelligence-gathering authori...
A federal judge sided with jazz performer Chuck Redd, who canceled a 2025 holiday concert after President Trump’s name was added to the buil...
Trust, well-being and mental health are all down in America. But some states are better to live in than others, according to a new study.
The Democrat from Georgia on what he sees as the moral issues of our time.
Experts say speeding up the count in California would take more resources, but also scaling back rules that expand voting access.
The Texas attorney general has mounted an all-out effort to prove Democratic Hispanic groups have been corrupting elections. Now he could be...
Stephen Buyer, a former Republican representative from Indiana, was convicted of trading stock related to two deals before they were made pu...
President Trump was in Wisconsin to reassure farmers who have been stung by his tariff policies and rising fuel prices from the war in Iran.
It was the department’s clearest statement to date that it was pulling back from a plan to use taxpayer money to make payments to people who...
It was the department’s clearest statement to date that it was pulling back from a plan to use taxpayer money to make payments to people who...
An auction to drill in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge ended with just 10 percent of the available land claimed for oil development.
Even as they rebelled against a $1.8 billion fund for President Trump’s allies, Republicans looked the other way as his administration grant...
The Maine Republican, who is in the middle of a tumultuous re-election race, became the first senator in history to reach the threshold with...
Democrats who had been expected to supply the votes necessary to advance it balked after President Trump named Bill Pulte to head the intell...
Plus, the Friday news quiz.
The journalist Helen Lewis examines the ancient, angry gender politics of the New Right.
A three-judge panel will consider whether a lower court erred in ordering construction stopped until President Trump secured the support of...
The president’s base is thought to be unmovable. But one-third of these voters say they are unhappy about certain issues and are not knee-je...
The vote on Democrats’ proposal, which would have sent the G.O.P. immigration bill back to committee, kicked off a marathon of votes that st...
The Republicans Steve Hilton, who is running for governor, and Spencer Pratt, running for Los Angeles mayor, have shown early strength, but...
President Trump has pursued fame his entire adult life. Now in his second term in the White House, he is finding how little power he has to...
The president announced a new project that would connect the memorial to the Potomac River. He isn’t sure if he wants it to be named after h...
The agency had warned it could run out of money within months, but its regulators said suspending payments to a retirement fund had given of...
The center’s general counsel also said that a federal judge’s order meant the president’s name must be taken off indoor and outdoor signage...
The former Trump national security adviser plans to plead guilty to a count of illegal retention of classified information, which could resu...
With the East Wing turned to rubble, our Graphics staff set out to show what exactly the president planned to build there and elsewhere.
Plus, could streetlights be making your allergies worse?
Americans should think big about shaking up how we vote.
As Republicans break up majority-Black House districts, Democrats must decide whether to preserve seats concentrated in urban areas or push...
The presidential center that opens this month seems out of step with the zeitgeist of the moment and produces emotional reactions among the...
Ms. Bass, a Democrat, has had a roller-coaster first term. She now faces the first runoff since 2005 for an incumbent mayor in the city.
The president’s unilateral and retributive style of governing is starting to hit a wall in both chambers of Congress.
After G.O.P. leaders blocked additional aid to Ukraine, six Republicans and an independent joined Democrats to force the measure to the floo...
Todd Blanche, the acting attorney general, said on Tuesday that the administration was “not moving forward with the fund, period,” after the...
Several Republicans suggested they would insist on adding a measure to bar the president from creating a fund to pay people who claim to be...
Despite long-established procedures for bringing Americans home for monitoring and treatment, the Trump administration has not said that it...
The immigration agency had apparently cut training requirements as a part of its enforcement push over the past year.
Pulte’s one evident qualification is his eagerness to advance the president’s political revenge campaign.
Critics say it is unseemly for retired judges to trade on the prestige of their former positions.
The administration has started to repay some of the money, but has signaled it may make it harder for certain businesses to claim the full a...
President Trump said Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio should split a ticket, without mentioning who should be at t...
A measure to direct the president to halt U.S. engagement in Iran had been on track to pass in late May, but Republican leaders postponed ac...
Plus, how Marcia Lucas was “the heart” behind “Star Wars.”
Lincoln would know how to deal with these Republicans.
Without a dominant candidate in the governor’s race, Democratic voters ultimately wanted to ensure that their party wasn’t shut out of the g...
The former congressman was referred to federal authorities after he bet on his own attendance at the State of the Union address, a person fa...
Ms. Haaland, a former Interior secretary, took a big step toward making history as the first Native American woman to be a governor when she...
Republicans hoped the acting attorney general’s vow that the administration was “not moving forward” with a fund for people claiming to be v...
The acting attorney general told lawmakers that he would leave in place an order forcing the I.R.S. to drop investigations into President Tr...