U.S. Attorney Rebuffed by Justice Dept. in Push to Escalate Inquiry into Schumer
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...
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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...
Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s emergency declaration calls for sending 2,000-pound bombs and other weapons to Israel as the war in Gaza co...
The president’s about-face on Ukraine has taught our allies a lesson they won’t be unlearning anytime soon.
A call for a reform project that is ambitious, radical and iconoclastic yet grounded in a genuine desire to fix the problems of American gov...
Inside the nation’s courthouses, administration lawyers are now facing 100 lawsuits. Outside, the White House is mounting political attacks...
President Trump’s effort to remake the government is a direct challenge to a decades-long effort to build a civil service stocked with exper...
Feng Tao, who was tenured at the University of Kansas, was cleared of charges brought under a discontinued Trump program aimed at Chinese sp...
The order was a victory for America’s English-only movement, which has long had ties to efforts to reduce immigration and restrict bilingual...
The president initiated an investigation that could lead to tariffs on lumber imports, nearly half of which comes from Canada.
The president has rescinded a Biden-era system that required high-level approval for certain drone strikes and commando raids, reverting to...
In his 2016 campaign, President Trump seized on the death of Sarah Root, who police said was killed by an undocumented immigrant suspected o...
After President Trump’s rebukes, President Volodymyr Zelensky tried to repair the relationship with his counterpart while also reaching out...
Democrats say the calls to remove judges who block Trump administration initiatives amount to intimidation. Some senior Republicans were als...
The party’s storehouse of everything it knows about American voters required an extraordinary intervention to keep it running, people involv...
President Trump also repeated his call for Rose, who was banned from the sport for gambling, to be inducted into the Hall of Fame.
The remarkable scene of a vice president injecting himself into a tense diplomatic discussion suggested that JD Vance does not want to be re...
Never in the past few decades at least has an American president engaged in such an angry, scathing attack on a visiting foreign leader in t...
Among the items taken from the president’s Florida residence were files that investigators said contained classified material and formed the...
The ratings are never far from President Trump’s mind.
The president’s explosive Oval Office encounter reflected his determination to put aside alliances and commitments to principles in favor of...
The statements piled up on social media, offering words of encouragement to the Ukrainian leader and his people.
During the Oval Office meeting, President Trump told the Ukrainian leader: “You’re either going to make a deal or we’re out.”
The order is expected to be largely symbolic but would be a victory for America’s English-only movement, which has long had ties to efforts...
Elon Musk sowed chaos across the government just days ago by asserting that failure to comply with a similar directive would result in their...
The cost of steel pipe used to line oil and gas wells rose after President Trump said he would impose tariffs on steel and aluminum imports.
The central bank wants to see further progress that price pressures are easing before it lowers interest rates again.
If only the powerful are free to speak their minds, it’s not free speech.
The operation was driven with a frenetic focus by the billionaire, who channeled his resentment of regulatory oversight into a drastic overh...
The newly released requirements for agencies to move forward with mass cuts to the federal work force have employees even more on edge.
During a visit to the White House by the British prime minister, President Trump refused to to pledge U.S. military support for a peacekeepi...
The release of flight logs and Jeffrey Epstein’s contact list by the attorney general was met with criticism from those who had expected the...
President Trump has little use for America’s traditional alliances, and tends to evaluate U.S. relationships according to whether countries...
Progressives, who believe in using government to do good things, have built a system that renders government incompetent.
Behind the scenes, cabinet secretaries compared notes as they tried to figure out how to respond to a directive from President Trump’s most...
The president also said he would impose an additional 10 percent tariff on China as he tries to force other countries to take more action on...
Indigenous activists behind protests against the Dakota Access Pipeline say a lawsuit against Greenpeace is trying to rewrite their role and...
The men and women of the G.O.P. are changing their minds about how men and women should behave.
The House Republican budget plan would pair tax cuts that primarily benefit the rich with cuts to programs that help the poor.
When the next environmental catastrophe arrives, who will be there to deal with the emergency and its aftermath?
Debate is building over just how deep the Trump administration’s antagonism runs, and whether the real goal is to destroy the European Union...