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Don’t take on satirists — they always get the last laugh.
Joe Kennedy III, the grandson of Senator Robert F. Kennedy, says there is work to do in red states. He also has a few things to say about hi...
After meetings with Democrats from the Texas House, Gavin Newsom and JB Pritzker suggested their states could counter a gerrymander by Texas...
President Trump, asked whether he would consider pardoning her, said, “I’m allowed to do it, but it’s something I haven’t thought about.”
The administration’s claims are overblown, but newly declassified information provides some messy details about a January 2017 intelligence...
The director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency has made the removal of the Fed chair his personal mission.
Tyler Hassen, a former oil executive who had spent time on Elon Musk’s cost-cutting team, faced criticism because he had been given broad au...
Two groups of Democrats left Texas to confer with Govs. Gavin Newsom and JB Pritzker, who have suggested their Democratic-controlled states...
The five-day visit will be a mix of personal business and golf with some diplomacy thrown in.
Democrats are leery of supporting Republican spending measures after the White House forced through clawbacks of funding already approved by...
President Trump is used to world leaders bowing down to him, and to cabinet members fawning over him. Jerome H. Powell, the chair of the Fed...
President Trump wants Texas Republicans to redraw the state’s House maps to nab as many as five seats now held by Democrats. But no new maps...
The director of national intelligence gave the Justice Department little warning before she demanded an investigation.
“South Park,” Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert have all been critical of their own company and President Trump this week.
The attorney general of Texas, who is challenging Senator John Cornyn, could have secured favorable mortgage rates, and may have violated th...
When central banks are pressured by politicians into overheating the economy, everyone ends up getting burned.
There was a single goal in mind: find something — anything — that could be released to the public to satisfy President Trump’s supporters.
The artist said that she made the decision after she said she learned that her painting of a transgender Statue of Liberty might be removed...
Chip and Joanna Gaines had the temerity to feature a gay couple on their new show.
A conspiracy theory many of them once dismissed has given Democrats a potent tool for exploiting G.O.P. divisions, even if it has little to...
It was not clear what those documents were, or in what context the president’s name was raised.
The ruling from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit brings the White House’s theory of citizenship closer to a full Supreme Cour...
In the Biden era, the government feared AI models would guide the spread of chemical, biological or nuclear weapons. President Trump signed...
The Republican-led House Appropriations Committee put forth legislation that would slash the foreign aid and State Department budget but sal...
Some Democrats are irate over the end of Stephen Colbert’s show, but others see a lack of focus on real issues.
President Trump will get to decide where to invest Japanese money and the United States will keep 90 percent of the profits, the White House...
The president and his subordinates, including Attorney General Pam Bondi, have come under enormous pressure to release further details about...
The release of National Archives documents is the latest attempt to define what the Civil Rights icon believed, and what that means now for...
The case of Jeffrey Epstein, sex offender and former friend of the president, has blown up into a major headache for the White House.
After focusing his second-term ire on other individuals and institutions, President Trump is again seeking prosecution of his most prominent...
In an “A.I. Action Plan,” the White House outlined steps it said would promote American dominance in the fast-growing technology.
Republican leaders said they were ready to vote as soon as this month on punishing penalties against Moscow but have paused after President...
The vice president envisions a world of tiered citizenship, where entry depends on heritage and status rests on obedience.
Plus, Ozzy Osbourne’s wild life.
The real danger of a strongman isn’t his tactics; it’s how others, especially those with power, justify their acquiescence.
The two are constrained by the thing that has kept them linked for a decade: their shared reliance on Fox News die-hards.
Even the president has to negotiate with his base.
President Trump deflected questions about the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein by lashing out at his perceived enemies.
The Republican speaker truncated the legislative schedule for the week ahead of a summer recess, moving to deny Democrats the chance to forc...
The administration provided some insight into the terms that were agreed upon between Indonesia and the United States, hinting at how other...
G.O.P. leaders scrounging for the votes to push through the president’s priorities have increasingly turned to him and his team to win over...
Federal judges responded to a request from the attorney general to release grand jury transcripts from cases against Jeffrey Epstein and his...
The latest effort by Trump subordinates is intended to quell a political crisis precipitated by the department’s announcement that it would...
The British drug maker plans to invest $50 billion in the United States as it seeks to appease President Trump.
Republicans are seeking to undermine the Government Accountability Office as it investigates, and considers suing, over the Trump administra...
President Trump has placed a 20 percent tariff on goods imported from the country, effective Aug. 1.
Trump’s approval rating is falling. It’s not helping his opponents.
The Trump administration’s efforts to deport foreign students who espoused pro-Palestinian views under a little-used foreign policy provisio...
In a profane tirade, the former president’s son sought to settle scores with Anita Dunn, David Axelrod, James Carville and George Clooney. A...
The release is in keeping with an executive order by President Trump in making public the files, despite the opposition of Dr. King’s family...