With the vote, the Senate approved its 235th lifetime judge of President Biden’s tenure, besting his predecessor by a single judgeship.
The administration may extend protections for hundreds of thousands of immigrants whose legal status is set to expire near the start of the Trump administration.
A short lapse in funding would probably do only modest damage. But it could send a troubling signal about government dysfunction.
The decision to withdraw the regulations seemed to be an acknowledgment that they would go nowhere under the Trump administration.
It was a cushion for workers hurt by free trade. Why did Congress let it lapse?
The president-elect was eager to evade responsibility for the consequences of a potential shutdown even as he blew up a bipartisan deal that would have kept the government open.
Quedan 11 días de 2024 y esto es lo que hay que saber.
Jigar Shah and Robinson Meyer discuss how the decarbonization rollout can continue during the second Trump administration.
Opinion writers discuss potential legal issues and executive power in a second Trump term.
The U.S. officials in Damascus are also looking for signs of Austin Tice, a missing American journalist, as well as other U.S. citizens.
The Food and Drug Administration released final rules on labeling foods as “healthy,” tightening limits for sugar, sodium and saturated fat.
La oposición del presidente electo Donald Trump al proyecto de ley bipartidista prácticamente ha enterrado ese acuerdo, a dos días de expirar la financiación del gobierno.
For the 47th president, illusion is the new accountability.
The Senate backed a bipartisan bill to add dozens of judges, but the House held off on voting until after Election Day. Now, Donald Trump would be assured at least 22 picks.
We cover a lesson from the Democrats’ 2024 defeat.
President-elect Donald J. Trump’s denunciation of a bipartisan spending bill all but buried that deal while leaving unclear what form a new agreement could take.
The promise of deeper emissions cuts will very likely be ignored by the Trump administration, but officials hoped it would send a signal to the world.
The Trump administration is expected to revoke the program, setting up a legal clash between the state and federal government.
Todavía afectado por el resultado de las elecciones, el presidente estadounidense está enfocado en resolver sus últimas prioridades al margen de la conversación nacional y la discusión sobre Donald Trump.
Senior officials discussed U.S. plans to announce additional support for Ukraine, and spoke about casualties among North Korean troops sent to help Russia.
There’s plenty to dislike and fear about Trump, but Never Trumpers overstated our case, defeating our purpose.
With President Biden under pressure to add an amendment explicitly guaranteeing sex equality to the Constitution, Colleen Shogan said she could not legally certify it.
The long-awaited study was criticized by the oil and gas industry and could help environmental groups that want to stop new export terminals.
Still stinging from the election, President Biden is pushing for his final priorities but has largely absented himself from the national conversation about Donald Trump after warning repeatedly that he was a threat to American democracy.
The detainee was approved for transfer from Guantánamo Bay three years ago as the Biden administration tried to empty the wartime prison.
Reality has set in on Capitol Hill that with President-elect Donald J. Trump poised to take office, the era of U.S. military support for Ukraine is coming to an end.
The pace of peace talks has picked up, pushed by multiple factors, including wars in Lebanon and Syria that have seriously weakened Hamas’s allies and the election victory of Donald J. Trump.
Nongovernmental workers and journalists have scoured prisons for clues about his fate in the absence of an official American presence in the country.
Responses to a guest essay by Sarah Isgur, who is on Kash Patel’s enemies list. Also: A strategy intended to prevent suicides; a renewal of hope.
The loan, the biggest-ever commitment from the Loan Programs Office, is intended to fund the California utility’s grid and climate resiliency projects.
The Commerce Department is banning the few remaining operations of China Telecom in the United States, a move that appears unlikely to deter Beijing from conducting sophisticated cyberoperations.
The president-elect and the president are in transition.
The president can still do a lot before he leaves the White House.
Los funcionarios ucranianos, incluyendo el presidente Volodímir Zelenski, están haciendo todo lo posible para atraer al presidente electo Donald Trump a su bando.
Using diplomacy, flattery and the occasional shot in the dark, Ukraine is doing everything it can to win over President-elect Donald J. Trump to its side.
Las autoridades fronterizas estudiaron la posibilidad de utilizar barreras flotantes desde Texas hasta California en 2022. El esfuerzo podría ayudar a allanar el camino para su despliegue bajo el mandato del presidente electo Donald Trump.
California and 11 other states want to halt the sale of new gas-powered cars by 2035. President-elect Donald Trump is expected to try to stop them.
The justices agreed to decide whether industry groups have suffered the sort of injury that gave them standing to sue over an unusual waiver.
Border officials explored using floating barriers from Texas to California in 2022. The effort could help pave the way for their deployment under President-elect Donald J. Trump.
Senator Kirsten Gillibrand of New York is leading the charge for Democrats to persuade President Biden to adopt the Equal Rights Amendment, which would invite a Supreme Court battle.
Some leaders have begun to put a sunnier spin on the November outcome by pointing to down-ballot victories — a possible sign that Democrats may not tear down their party after all.
We should show that we trust the fairness of the justice system.
Among those whose sentences were commuted was Rebecca Parrett, an Arizona woman who now hopes to travel to meet her great-grandchildren for the first time.
The president-elect’s intervention could help the longshoremen’s union win concessions and avoid the resumption of a strike on East and Gulf Coast ports.
President Biden and House Democrats objected to the bipartisan measure that would immediately give President-elect Donald J. Trump about two dozen new judicial seats to fill.
An intense struggle has unfolded in Washington between companies and officials over where to draw the line on selling technology to China.
Alexander Smirnov’s deal with the special counsel overseeing the investigation into Hunter Biden could lead to 48 to 72 months in prison, though a federal judge would need to review the deal.
La mayoría de las personas a las que se ha concedido clemencia habían estado recluidas en sus casas durante la pandemia. Algunos republicanos han intentado impulsar leyes que las habrían obligado a volver a prisión.
Many of those being granted clemency had been placed in home confinement during the coronavirus pandemic.
What will the president-elect do with them?
It is unclear whether the rule, which could help save Americans billions in fees each year, will remain in place after President-elect Donald J. Trump returns to office.
Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken plans to hold meetings in Jordan and Turkey. Jake Sullivan, the national security adviser, is visiting Israel.
The U.S. has identified prisons of interest as it searches for clues about Austin Tice, who was abducted in 2012 and whose fate remains unknown.
The agency is asking the White House, in the final days of the Biden era, to move ahead with plans to drastically reduce the addictive substance in traditional tobacco cigarettes.
President Biden says he weakened Russia, Iran and Hezbollah, laying the groundwork for Bashar al-Assad’s ouster. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says the Syrian leader would still be in power had he listened to American advice.
We explain the scale of recent immigration to America.
The editorial board writer Farah Stockman argues that ending the sanctions on Syria is the best way for America to help stabilize the country after the collapse of the Assad regime.
Senior Treasury officials are holding a final round of talks with a new round of economic volatility on the horizon.
The party’s weakened condition leaves it ill prepared to defend itself against a Republican Party determined to eviscerate liberalism and the left.
Under President Biden, more than two million immigrants per year have entered, government data shows.
The president also said his successor would face blowback from the Republican Party if he tried to unwind the Biden agenda.
The legislation would create more than 60 new federal court seats over the next decade, giving the Trump White House a first shot at filling dozens of new vacancies.
The economic lifeline ensures that Ukraine will have economic support after President-elect Donald J. Trump takes office.
Readers discuss a column by Michelle Goldberg and an editorial. Also: Farewell, Paul Krugman; jeopardizing jobs; hating and fearing death.
Regulators are working around the clock to cement four years of tech policy ahead of the inauguration of President-elect Donald J. Trump.
Mayor Eric Adams has become more outspoken about his desire to detain “dangerous” immigrants, a view more closely aligned with President-elect Donald J. Trump.
The fighters shared a desire to topple Bashar al-Assad’s government, but they don’t share much else.
Bashar al-Assad is gone, and Russia and Iran have stepped back. But Israel, Turkey and the United States are carrying out airstrikes.
The Biden administration is relying on Turkey to convey messages to Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, which toppled Bashar al-Assad but is designated by the U.S. as a terrorist organization.
At a gathering of Democratic governors, many were reluctant to discuss the issue that sank President Biden’s campaign: age. Others are ready for a Gen X president.
The series of open letters from human rights activists and former corrections officials aligned with a larger push from Democrats for sweeping clemency action for those in prison.
A bipartisan crowd honored Francis Ford Coppola, the Grateful Dead, Bonnie Raitt, Arturo Sandoval and the Apollo Theater. Some wondered if Donald J. Trump would attend next year.
Who among us deserves a get-out-of-jail-free card?
The overthrow of the Assad government could mean Russia’s bases in Syria are closed and Iran’s pathway to Hezbollah is cut off. Now Iran, newly vulnerable, will have to decide between negotiation and the bomb.
President Biden faces the challenge of deciding how to engage the main armed group that toppled President Bashar al-Assad, even though it remains designated a terrorist organization by the United States.
Climate purity is a recipe for failure.
Portraits of the presidents hang outside the boardroom at The New York Times Building.
The department has confronted the challenge of China by restricting key exports, a policy that is likely to continue in the Trump administration.
But aides to President Biden have made clear that the United States has no intention of intervening in support of either President Bashar al-Assad or the rebels.
The president-elect will be at the cathedral alongside dozens of world leaders. He was also meeting with President Emmanuel Macron of France, with whom he has had a rocky relationship.
Leaders of the Trump and Harris campaigns met this week to talk tactics. It wasn’t pretty.
Europe’s new pact with South America, its largest deal to date, could be a sign of how countries will diversify trade relationships as Donald Trump threatens tariffs.
That figure, which includes totals from the three presidential contenders’ main allied groups, emerged in the final federal filings of a staggeringly expensive campaign.
The Democratic mayor of New York City has embraced President-elect Donald J. Trump lately. He was a registered Republican in the 1990s.
De proceder, sería la primera vez que un presidente indultaría en masa a funcionarios del gobierno por temor a que un sucesor intentara procesarlos por venganza partidista.
Plus, the spectacular rebirth of Notre-Dame.
The president has a chance to save innocent people from MAGA persecution.
The program will unleash an economic boon, breathing new life into a city still trying to get its bearings post-Covid.
With airspace closed and missiles flying, visiting Kyiv typically means 10 hours on bumpy tracks — even for presidents, prime ministers and business magnates. It’s plenty of time to reflect.
White House officials believe President-elect Donald J. Trump’s selection of partisan warriors for top law enforcement jobs indicates that he will pursue revenge against his perceived enemies.
An interview with Senator Laphonza Butler, Democrat of California, during her final week in the Senate.
It sends a signal that Trump’s abuse of the pardon system was not an aberration.
The criticism of the president’s pardon of his son from within his own party underscores how far gone his relationship with Democrats in Congress already was.
In his last announced trip abroad as president, Mr. Biden relished touring a U.S.-financed train line in Angola intended to transport goods and critical minerals to port.
Speaking at The New York Times DealBook Summit, former President Bill Clinton argued that President Biden had reason to issue the pardon, but wished Mr. Biden had not repeatedly said he would not do so.
Since the federal government brought the challenge, the change in administration could affect its future before the Supreme Court.
The former president, speaking at the DealBook Summit, suggested that he understood the move but that he wished President Biden “hadn’t said he wasn’t going to do it.”
Donald J. Trump had been seen as the main risk factor for the partnership between Tokyo, Seoul and Washington. Then came martial law in South Korea.
Readers discuss the ongoing political and legal debate over whether the pardon was justified. Also: South Korea’s crisis; tariffs; crosswords.
Carrboro accused Duke, one the nation’s largest utility companies, of ignoring data about climate change while increasing use of fossil fuels.
El presidente de EE. UU. se enfrenta a críticas por absolver a Hunter Biden tras insistir en que no lo haría y, según algunos críticos de su propio partido, allanar el camino para el regreso de Donald Trump a la presidencia.
President Biden is facing criticism for pardoning his son Hunter after insisting he would not. Peter Baker, the chief White House correspondent for The New York Times, explains how the decision will shape the outgoing president’s place in history.
The mayor has argued that he was indicted because he criticized border policies. He also said that he has rights that migrants do not because “the Constitution is for Americans.”
The post-Watergate norm that political leaders should steer clear of criminal cases is being tested from opposite ends of the political spectrum.
In becoming the first American leader to visit Angola, President Biden said it was important not to forget the ugly legacy of the human trade that originally defined relations with Africa.
Presidents have extraordinary control over climate policy, in part, because it’s been decades since Congress has passed a comprehensive environmental bill.
The Biden administration has hailed South Korea as a model democracy and bolstered military ties as it relies on the country as a bulwark against North Korea, China and Russia.
La decisión creó un conflicto entre dos identidades fundamentales: la del padre angustiado que intenta proteger a su hijo y la del presidente que se enorgullece de mantener sus principios.
A chance meeting in December 2017 plunged Zoë Kestan, a downtown “it” girl and social media star, headlong into an unpredictable affair.
A plan by the Biden administration would phase out a provision that allows employers to pay workers with disabilities less than the federal minimum wage.
Había sido aclamado por los medios de comunicación estatales chinos como un modelo por sus esfuerzos para promover los intereses de Pekín en Estados Unidos. En realidad, era un informante del FBI.
Con el indulto a su hijo, el presidente Joe Biden añadió su nombre a la lista de presidentes estadounidenses que deshonraron su cargo abusando de la facultad de indultar.
President Biden wants to make it more difficult for President-elect Donald J. Trump to repeal his signature legislation, which sent money flowing to Republican districts nationwide.
It has never happened before.
Protecting land and appointing judges could go a long way toward bolstering Biden’s legacy.
He had been hailed by Chinese state media as a model for his efforts to promote Beijing’s interests in the United States. He was in fact an F.B.I. informant.
El presidente Joe Biden y el presidente electo Donald Trump coinciden en un punto: el Departamento de Justicia se ha politizado.
While the pardon is legal, the rule of law isn’t maintained by merely keeping to the letter of the law.
The announcement reiterated sentiments the president-elect expressed on the campaign trail, and further imperiled a deal that had already run into widespread political opposition.
President Biden has pardoned people convicted of some marijuana offenses, but advocates for prisoners say he has been slow to grant other requests.
The package, the largest since April, comes amid deep concerns in Ukraine that the Trump administration may cut off aid. The president-elect has vowed to end the war quickly, but has not said how.
President Biden is facing criticism for absolving his son after insisting he would not and, according to some critics in his own party, paving the way for Donald Trump’s return to office.
The threat of a retribution-focused Trump administration and his son’s looming sentencings prompted the president to abandon a promise not to get involved in Hunter Biden’s legal problems.
President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to lead the F.B.I. has called for firing the agency’s top officials, shutting down its Washington headquarters and prosecuting journalists.
A tension between parenthood and politics has defined the Biden presidency.
The gun case federal prosecutors brought against Hunter Biden was relatively rare, but the tax charges he pleaded guilty to may have been less unusual.
LG Energy Solution will now solely own a factory in Michigan that it had planned to operate through a joint venture with General Motors.
Lawmakers in the president’s own party, many of them moderates, said his decision to pardon his son was selfish and would further damage Americans’ waning faith in democracy and the rule of law.
With the pardon of his son, President Biden added his name to the roll call of presidents who dishonored their office by misusing the pardon power.
La persistencia del presidente electo en hacer elecciones poco convencionales para su gabinete revela lo decidido que está a rodearse de seguidores leales en los que pueda confiar para llevar a cabo su agenda.
Readers understand a father’s desire to help his son but diverge from there. Also: A pick as envoy to France; overdose deaths; 5 days in the office.
Tras años de insistir reiteradamente que no lo haría, el presidente Joe Biden indultó a su hijo, quien enfrentaba cargos por mentir en un formulario federal sobre su adicción a las drogas.
The loan, from the Biden administration, was designed to withstand Republican attacks and will be used to make electric-car batteries in Indiana.
President Biden and President-elect Donald Trump now agree on one thing: The Justice Department has been politicized.
The president arrived in Angola, where he will highlight American commitment to Africa in the economic competition against China.
On Thanksgiving eve, U.S. diplomats reunited family members who had not seen each other in years because of China’s harsh policies on the ethnic group.
President-elect Donald J. Trump’s decision to install Kash Patel as F.B.I. director indicates that he remains undaunted by Washington resistance as he appoints ideological warriors, conspiracy theorists and even relatives.
New rules significantly expand restrictions on selling China chip technology, but critics say they also contain carve-outs that are favorable to industry.
When President Biden visits Angola on Monday, he will promote a rail project meant to show America’s commitment to the continent and to counter Chinese influence.
The Office of the Pardon Attorney mostly recommends full pardons for people who have already served their sentences. Hunter Biden has not been sentenced.
President Biden complained about selective prosecution and political pressure in a system he has spent his public life defending.
The president’s son had pleaded guilty to nine federal tax charges and was convicted of three felony counts for lying on a federal firearms application.
Mr. Biden’s plea deal did fall apart at the last minute last year. But it did so after the judge overseeing the case raised issues.
President Biden issued the statement after signing a pardon for Hunter Biden Sunday night.
In Angola on likely his last overseas trip in office, the president will tour a slavery museum and spotlight a rail corridor that is part of his administration’s strategy in the region.
When President Biden visits the country this week, he is expected to highlight a largely overlooked bond between Angola and the United States that was born out of the trans-Atlantic slave trade.
Los grupos delictivos convierten los campus universitarios mexicanos en centros de reclutamiento, atrayendo a estudiantes de química con grandes ganancias.