The pardon of Paul Walczak, who had been convicted of tax crimes, comes as the president uses clemency to reward allies and swipe at perceived enemies.
A new memo suggests that investigations may be launched not just for leaks of classified information, but where disclosures “undermine” Trump administration policies.
Lower courts had blocked the policy, saying it was not supported by evidence and violated equal protection principles.
How Democrats found their way out of the political wilderness once before, and how they could do it again now.
Weakening or rolling back longstanding environmental regulations would worsen the problem, the American Lung Association assessment says.
Federal prosecutors charged six members of the Venezuelan gang and 21 members of a violent splinter group.
When it comes to the presidency, a consequential start does not in any way equate to long-term success.
What goes around, comes around. And it is not likely to be good for the White House.
The head of the division directed its staff to focus on enforcing edicts on transgender women in sports and other issues, shifting from its founding purpose of fighting race-based discrimination.
And how this could all go down in the courts.
Plus, “The Great Moose Migration.”
Why an effort to reindustrialize America is likely to fail.
In Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s first extensive speech since he left office, he accused the Trump administration of “taking a hatchet” to the Social Security Administration.
In his first expansive public comments since leaving the White House, former President Joseph R. Biden Jr. spoke out against the Trump administration’s cuts to the Social Security Administration.
President Trump directed his administration to help states import drugs from Canada. But a proposal to alter a Medicare program to reduce costs could wind up raising prices.
Fast fashion retailers rely heavily on shipping by air. The president’s tariffs could change that.
The Biden-era program has allowed hundreds of thousands of migrants from Cuba, Nicaragua, Venezuela and Haiti to enter the United States and work legally.
The Biden administration allowed 900,000 people to use an app to schedule appointments to cross the border. Emails over the last few days told them to leave or face deportation.
Coal has been displaced by cheap and plentiful natural gas and the rapid growth of wind and solar energy — forces that President Trump will struggle to do away with.
Speed is a progressive virtue.
It was the latest in a series of moves to scrap or soften punishments against President Trump’s supporters, including members of the violent mob that attacked the Capitol.
Steve Sisolak, the former governor of Nevada, says he is weighing a rematch against Gov. Joe Lombardo, the Republican who ousted him in 2022.
His predecessor as defense secretary, Lloyd J. Austin III, started the roughly 50-nation group to support Kyiv after Russia invaded in 2022, but Mr. Hegseth has given up leadership.
The departure may complicate the already delicate relationship between Washington and Kyiv, which has been stressed by President Trump’s efforts to end the war.
El presidente de Estados Unidos dirigió las órdenes ejecutivas a dos funcionarios de su primer gobierno y a un bufete de abogados de élite como parte de su campaña de represalias.
Ksenia Karelina, who was jailed in Russia over a one-time donation to a Ukrainian charity group, was released in exchange for Artur Petrov, a dual Russian-German citizen.
Some State Department officials have proposed closing the embassy in Mogadishu, the Somali capital, as a precaution after recent gains by Al Shabab militants.
President Trump, who has waged a long-running battle against low water pressure, signed an executive order that redefined a common bathroom fixture.
The president targeted two officials from his first administration and an elite law firm as part of his campaign for retribution.
The Ukrainian president did not suggest that they had been sent by Beijing’s military, but he pointed to their presence as further evidence that Moscow was not truly interested in peace.
President Trump is reversing the Biden plan to increase tax revenue through more enforcement.
On the war, President Trump is more aligned than his predecessor with the aims of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel and his right-wing coalition.
The real threat isn’t immigrants. It’s misused power.
Chris Whipple offers an insiders’ account of a disastrous political campaign.
Marc Andreessen explains the newest faction of conservatism.
President Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are using similar playbooks as they face turmoil.
The Biden-era limits were designed to reduce emissions of toxic pollutants, including a cancer-causing ingredient used in antifreeze and plastics.
Administration officials reversed a decision made during the Biden presidency that would have given millions of people access to weight-loss drugs paid for Medicare and Medicaid.
While Joe Biden was vice president, his son used the letterhead of a Ukrainian energy company when writing to a U.S. ambassador with ties to the family.
In just three weeks, the Pentagon has used $200 million worth of munitions in Operation Rough Rider against the Houthi militia, officials said.
Xavier Becerra, the former secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, may face Kamala Harris in a potential Democratic showdown in their home state.
The agency head said a $20 billion Biden climate program was marred by fraud and abuse. A judge said on Wednesday the E.P.A. hasn’t provided evidence.
The $4 billion project was the Biden administration’s signature initiative in Africa. Early signs are that the Trump team supports it, too, for mineral access if nothing else.
El presidente Trump ha dado la vuelta a un precepto central de la diplomacia estadounidense, acercándose a los líderes que abandonan los principios democráticos.
In an unorthodox move, Ed Martin, the interim U.S. attorney in Washington, is questioning former President Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s family and former White House officials about clemency.
The president wants to weaken limits on tailpipe pollution. Scientists say it’s driving climate change and taking human lives “every day.”
El fármaco se ha convertido en una especie de símbolo de resistencia a lo que algunos en el movimiento MAGA describen como una élite corrupta.
Five years after the pandemic began, interest in the anti-parasitic drug is rising again as right-wing influencers promote it — and spread misinformation about it.
Una investigación de The New York Times reveló que la implicación de Estados Unidos en la guerra de Ucrania fue mucho más profunda de lo que se creía. He aquí los puntos clave.
Two prosecutors were dismissed out of the blue, notified by a terse one-sentence email stating no reason for the move other than that it was on behalf of the president himself.
An investigation by The New York Times has revealed that America was woven into the war far more than previously known.
This is the untold story of America’s hidden role in Ukrainian military operations against Russia’s invading armies.
Devon Archer used his knowledge about Hunter Biden’s foreign business dealings to gain favor from Republicans and appeal for clemency.
President Trump has turned a central precept of American diplomacy on its head, embracing fellow leaders who abandon democratic principles.
A central dictum in the Trump White House is that Joseph R. Biden Jr. is to blame for just about anything and everything.
In the Trump era, the definition of an official secret depends on whatever works best for the president.
U.S. officials seek to curb the militants’ attacks on ships in the Red Sea, but the group was not deterred by strikes in the Biden era and won’t be beaten by air power alone, experts say.
It feels as if the pandemic is behind us. But we’re living in the world it made.
A new analysis that began under the Biden administration is released by the C.I.A.’s new director, John Ratcliffe, who wants the agency to get “off the sidelines” in the debate.
In a wide-ranging interview, Xavier Becerra, President Biden’s health secretary, defended his tenure and hinted that he might run for governor of California.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. petitioned the F.D.A. to revoke authorization of the shots at a time when they were in high demand and considered life-saving.
La gestión de Biden estará en los libros de historia como un interregno entre dos mandatos de Donald Trump, una pausa en medio de un periodo caótico de cambio, para bien o para mal.
Biden’s disastrous debate performance highlighted age concerns.
He didn’t get the credit he deserved on the economy.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and other candidates for top health posts are at odds with the drug industry, setting the stage for tense battles over regulatory changes.
What we learned from interviewing nearly 700 Americans over almost three years.
Podrían pasar días hasta conocer al ganador, como ocurrió en 2020, pues el recuento de los votos por correo lleva tiempo.
It could take days to know the winner, as it did in 2020, because counting mail ballots takes time. But returns on election night could also offer clarity.
Thanks to human nature, we misunderstand the pain, and sometimes the purpose, of rising prices.
La Casa Blanca informó que el presidente de EE. UU. viajaría de Las Vegas a Delaware, donde se aislará y “seguirá desempeñando todas sus funciones”.
The president defended his debate performance with exaggerations about polling, his recent appearances and his opponent.
Millions of people are overdue on their federal loans or still have them paused — and court rulings keep upending collection efforts.
John F. Kennedy and Richard M. Nixon were the last presidential candidates to debate with no live audience during a general election.
Some voters blame the American Rescue Plan for fueling price increases. But the growth it unleashed may be helping the president stay more popular than counterparts in Europe.
Responses to a guest essay asserting that the pandemic likely began with a lab leak. Also: President Biden’s image problems; “junk fees” in restaurants.
An interview with America’s top public health official about new challenges and the recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic.
We asked voters for the one thing they remembered most about the Trump era. Few of them cited major events like the pandemic and Jan. 6.
President Biden has homed in on the infamous moment, which crystallized the chaos of the Trump presidency, as he trolls his political opponent.
Four years later, the shadow of the pandemic continues to play a profound role in voters’ pessimism and distrust amid a presidential rematch.
A report found that large firms pressured suppliers to favor them over competitors. It also concluded that some retailers “seem to have used rising costs as an opportunity to further hike prices.”
The war in Ukraine. Hamas’s attack on Israel. Inflation. The former president has insisted that none would have occurred if he had remained in office after 2020.
Readers discuss the special counsel’s decision not to prosecute. Also: Covid and the “nocebo effect”; New York’s primary; Black English; journaling.
Four years after the pandemic began, parents continue to struggle with a broken child care system, but there’s reason to hope for a better future.
Americans’ economic pessimism.
And he made the nightmare much worse.
Now that federal pandemic-era funds are shrinking, states like Indiana are ending or curtailing programs that finance home care by relatives of seriously ill children and adults.
Infection control lapses, severe staffing shortages and lowering vaccination rates have continued to plague many facilities beyond the pandemic.
Republican cynicism seems to have no bottom.
Responses to an article in the “Uncharted Waters” series. Also: Paxlovid and Covid; Taylor Swift’s fans; Democratic vice-presidential choices.
His candidacy and message are likely to be about restoring a prepandemic order and a sense of security in an unstable world.
The great Medicaid unwinding of 2023 is doing real damage.
This isn’t the recession they were looking for.
Five months into her tenure at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Dr. Mandy K. Cohen is trying to put a human face on public health.
Households may now order another four at-home tests, or eight if they have not placed an order since the program was revived in September.
The case is the second one this term asking the justices to decide when government activity crosses the line to become coercion forbidden by the First Amendment.
His four years as the senior military adviser to two presidents spanned an unusually chaotic period.
The Biden administration is restarting a program that has provided hundreds of millions of free tests through the Postal Service.
A Fifth Circuit panel partly upheld restrictions on the Biden administration’s communications with online platforms about their content.
The first lady’s brief Covid episode had threatened to upend President Biden’s trip to a Group of 20 summit in India.
Jill Biden was experiencing mild symptoms and recovering at the family home in Delaware, the White House said. President Biden returned to Washington after her diagnosis.
Stuart Delery, who has been President Biden’s chief official lawyer since last year, helped develop strategies to distribute Covid-19 vaccines, forgive student loans and revamp immigration rules.
The presidential bid by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has tested the bonds of an iconic Democratic clan that does not want him to run and does not know what to do about it.
Dr. Paul Friedrichs, a military combat surgeon and retired Air Force general, will lead the new office, which was created by Congress.
We got our economic response to the coronavirus right. Why would we let go of that success?
A memo said an official suspension of funding to the lab, which has not received any U.S. money since 2020, was necessary to “mitigate any potential public health risk.”
The order came in a lawsuit filed by the attorneys general of Missouri and Louisiana, who claim the administration is trying to silence its critics.
Dr. Cohen will replace Dr. Rochelle P. Walensky, an infectious disease expert who has overseen the agency since the beginning of Mr. Biden’s term and started a broad effort to reorganize it.
Dr. Jha, who oversaw the Biden administration’s pandemic response as it wound down, will return to his post as dean of the School of Public Health at Brown University.
Mr. Kennedy, a long-shot Democratic presidential candidate with surprisingly high polling numbers, said he wanted to close the Mexican border and attributed the rise of mass shootings to pharmaceutical drugs.
The legislation would prevent President Biden from issuing another last-minute extension on the payments beyond the end of the summer.
Also, a reader-made playlist.
The Biden administration has prioritized preserving a $5 billion vaccine development program in discussions with House Republicans on clawing back unspent Covid-19 funds.
The justices acted after the Biden administration announced that the health emergency used to justify the measure, Title 42, was ending.
International travelers entering the country are no longer required to be vaccinated, removing the last of the restrictions on travel put in place beginning in 2020.
El gobierno estadounidense intenta restringir los cruces fronterizos que podrían aumentar al vencer una política implementada por la pandemia, pero tiene poco control sobre las crisis que han trastocado las vidas de millones en América Latina.
The United States is trying to curtail border crossings as a Covid-era immigration policy lifts this week, but it has little control over the crises in Latin America that have upended the lives of millions.
The United States’ struggle to respond to the virus has highlighted the importance of communicating with the public, sharing data and stockpiling vital supplies.
Honest reflection is essential to ensure that the nation’s response to the next pandemic is better.
The coronavirus public health emergency, declared by the Trump administration in 2020, will expire on Thursday. Interviews with senior health officials suggest the nation is not ready for a new pandemic.
After making little progress with Republican leaders at the White House on Tuesday, the president previewed two possible endgames to resolve a debt-limit standoff.
An emergency health rule used to swiftly expel migrants is about to expire, and a spike in arrivals is expected at the southern border.
La política que ha permitido la rápida expulsión de muchos inmigrantes en la frontera sur se levantará el jueves. Las autoridades se preparan para un nuevo aumento de la inmigración.
Una regla sanitaria implementada durante la pandemia, y que se utilizaba para expulsar inmediatamente a los migrantes, pronto dejará de estar vigente.
Title 42, the rule used to immediately expel migrants, will end this week. U.S. officials expect illegal crossings to increase, placing additional strain on an already overtaxed system.
Title 42, the policy that has allowed the swift expulsion of many migrants at the southern border, will lift on Thursday. Officials are bracing for a new immigration surge.
The requirements helped end the public health emergency. But they also prompted a politically charged debate.
Three years ago we were caught flat-footed, and many people died.
The president omitted key context when discussing the federal deficit, exaggerated his approval ratings and misstated his family history.
While fingers are pointed at Trump and Fauci, the virus was an unbeaten foe.
Mothers continue to work around the clock. The pandemic didn’t change that.
President Biden has acknowledged that he has not accomplished all he wished to. But that, he maintains, is an argument for his re-election.
Here’s what you need to know at the end of the day.
The program, which will include a partnership with pharmacy chains, will help cover the cost of vaccinating patients when the shots move to the commercial market later this year.
This is the best job market in a generation.
Cecilia Rouse says lingering effects of the coronavirus pandemic continue to haunt the recovery from recession — and drag on Americans’ optimism for the economy.
The president has promised a veto, but Republicans scored another win in their campaign to put Congress on record against White House policies.
Or maybe more than a word.
Rollbacks on child labor protections are happening amid a surge of child labor violations.
The restriction was put into place as the end of China’s “zero Covid” policy prompted a surge of cases in the country.
Djokovic, the world No. 1, who is unvaccinated against Covid-19, has lobbied the Biden administration for an exemption so he can play at Indian Wells and the Miami Open. So far, he has come up short.
The administration faced a conservative court that has insisted that government initiatives with major political and economic consequences be clearly authorized by Congress.
Scientists and spy agencies have tried to determine where the coronavirus originated, but conclusive evidence is hard to come by and the nation’s intelligence agencies are split.
The conclusion, which was made with “low confidence,” came as America’s intelligence agencies remained divided over the origins of the coronavirus.
Some medications, like Ritalin and Vicodin, would require an in-person doctor’s visit under the new rules, a reaction to the pandemic-era rise of telemedicine.