There are no good choices facing President Trump as he tries to find a way out of the deeply unpopular conflict. But there are choices.
The president said on Sunday that the U.F.C. chief executive “loves the idea” of being the White House spokesman but that his public offer of the job was “just a little fun.”
The president was asked in a “60 Minutes” interview that aired on Sunday whether his deportation policies went too far. “I think it might be too tough,” he said.
Democrats have begun laying the groundwork for an aggressive oversight agenda aimed at the Trump administration. But a political reckoning could come before the new Congress begins.
As Americans absorb a stunning new political reality, they face a gap between the time they effectively decided to be done with the president and the time he is actually done.
American forces are helping Colombia and Venezuela hunt the ELN. This weekend, the group attacked a Colombian military base with drones, officials said.
Democrats have said they will hold Trump officials accountable when they take control of Congress after huge wins in the midterms. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth’s impeachment may be on the agenda.
After last week’s midterm losses, the Republican Party entered its most uncertain moment in years. Some Republicans called for moderation and cleaning house, but that will be difficult with President Trump still in the White House.
The midterm elections in the United States and recent votes in Europe show how blowout victories can make results impossible to deny.
The secretary of state’s role in drafting a secret memo highlights how top officials were concerned by last spring about Jensen Huang’s relationship with a woman tied to Chinese intelligence.
Kelly Holley-Bockelmann was one of the top astrophysicists in the country until President Trump’s policies affected every part of her work.
There’s an opportunity for the side that takes the time to understand young men and helps them achieve their American dreams.
For the most part, young men want to be good men.
Realignment is so 2024.
Readers respond to a report on the administration’s campaign to defund and eliminate crucial scientific research.
The Democratic senator-elect from Texas popped up to turn the tables on the show’s Trump impersonator, James Austin Johnson, in an episode hosted by the comedian Druski.
Negotiators and leaders are gathering for annual United Nations climate talks. They come as global temperatures are set to breach a key threshold.
War, artificial intelligence and the Trump era have overshadowed climate change. But officials from nearly every nation are meeting to confront global warming.
On social media, the president offered the now-vacant job of White House press secretary to Dana White, the organization’s C.E.O., and told him to bring along fighters as aides.
The president’s new chief of staff has already demonstrated his intention to forge ahead with an agenda that many voters rejected.
White voters without a college degree, a cornerstone of the Republican base in the Trump era, moved left this year. Some cited high prices, the war with Iran and more in their decisions.
Some blamed President Trump for backing the novice candidate after the death of her brother, Lindsey Graham. Others accused Mr. Graham’s team of pushing her to run despite her lack of experience.
Judge Ana C. Reyes wrote that she intended to pick a former U.S. attorney in Washington to investigate whether officials misled the court about changes to the East Potomac Golf Links.
The contest to replace António Guterres as U.N. secretary general has been jolted by last-minute entrants and deep divisions among members of the Security Council.
The Justice Department’s intervention in the Texas lawsuit could signal that the administration is ready to challenge newly elected Democrats in state offices.
Stephen Miller has replaced Susie Wiles as President Trump’s White House chief of staff. Miller is the hard-line policy adviser responsible for many of Trump’s most aggressive immigration policies.
Republicans violated the Notorious B.I.G.’s fourth crack commandment.
8 writers and experts on the legislation Democrats should consider.
Five signals from the Democrats’ extraordinary string of victories.
A Norma Desmond crash-out to end all crash-outs.
Jeffrey Wigand, who took on Big Tobacco, counsels insiders who think they have a story about wrongdoing. There are quite a few of them.
While U.S. voters largely oppose the trade war with Canada, many Democrats and their supporters have protectionist leanings.
Following an election-year rout for Republicans, Trump castigated lawmakers for not passing the Sunshine Protection Act. Some scientists have warned against the change.
The architect of President Trump’s mass deportation campaign, Mr. Miller has been the public face of many of Mr. Trump’s immigration policies.
A wave of high-ranking women have left the Trump administration in the past year. Many were replaced by men.
The president has bulldozed through obstacles as he has sought to remake the face of Washington. But newly empowered Democrats and angry judges are setting up a high-stakes showdown.
A looming impeachment push could put President Trump’s polarizing defense secretary in a standoff with Democrats and Republicans.
The new White House chief of staff is responsible for some of the most provocative policies of President Trump’s second term, as well as an aggressive approach to executive power.
Plus, a surprisingly good jobs report. Here’s the latest at the end of Friday.
Behind the scenes, the world’s richest person spent a record amount over two years to bend the country’s politics to his will. He couldn’t.
A memo that circulated among U.S. policymakers cited intelligence that Alice Huang, a Chinese executive who developed a relationship with Nvidia’s leader, was an asset of Beijing’s Ministry of State Security.
Jason Reding Quiñones joins what is expected to be a succession of departures at the Justice Department after the midterm elections, including that of the leader of the national security division.
The Department of Housing and Urban Development credited President Trump, while homeless advocacy groups said that so-called Housing First policies of his predecessors played a part.
The commanding victory of the Democrats has brought private relief to some Europeans but no official glee, with Ukraine, Iran and NATO all hanging in the balance.
Victory for Democrats could alter the course of peace negotiations and a war nearing its fifth year.
Anger over tariffs and higher costs because of the war in Iran led many Republican farmers and ranchers to vote blue — or stay home.
Democrats’ wins in the Lone Star state exceeded their wildest dreams.
Four cabinet officials left their positions in the Trump administration earlier this year
A judge has twice tossed the president’s defamation complaint, which centered on an article about a birthday greeting to the sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
The documentary, which the first lady executive produces, will debut on Nov. 20. Brett Ratner directs.
By leaning into nativist absolutism, Netanyahu almost doubled the Arab vote, creating a political — and foundational — crisis for Israel.
Readers discuss the blue wave midterm elections, looking back and ahead. Also: Applying to New York City high schools.
The Republican provocateur is trailing her Democrat challenger, Eileen Laubacher, by less than a percentage point in a normally red district.
Anthony Constantino, a self-funded sticker magnate who recorded a rap album in tribute to President Trump, defeated Blake Gendebien, a second-generation dairy farmer.
He will need to sell voters on a tarnished Trump brand.
Democrats have a chance to rewrite the rules of the economy. Here’s how.
The country needs a careful, restrained government — and always has.
There’s a big difference between a midterm election and a presidential election.
He’s the country’s top Democrat now. He needs to act like it.
The Trump administration is scaling back or stalling investments that help vulnerable places harden themselves to rising flood and fire threats.
“When he feels cornered, when he feels attacked, he fights back,” the columnist Carlos Lozada says of Donald Trump, who is now entering the lame-duck phase of his presidency. Columnists from across Times Opinion share their predictions for what the final two years of Trump’s term might look like — and they’re not pretty.
A summit could bolster Xi Jinping’s stature. But talks about Ukraine’s future and limits on nuclear weapons pose uncomfortable choices for China.
Democrats are on track to win the largest House majority since 2008, when they won 257 seats.
Millions of Americans cast their ballots on Tuesday in an election that showed the resiliency of democracy. The president said he would accept the results.
In a new video, the defense secretary vowed to “finish what we have started.” Some Republicans say the Iran war was a big factor in their party’s midterm losses.
The justices took just hours to reject Trump’s bid to meddle in the election.
The president’s announcement reinforced his post-midterm elections preoccupation on White House renovation projects.
Russia was linked to influence campaigns targeting Democrats that gained little traction, but the Kremlin may be more focused on France’s elections in the spring.
President Trump’s secretary of state and national security adviser said he intended to stick with the administration to the end.
President Trump said the deal “might involve all of Europe.” He indicated he had met with a Kremlin envoy whom Melania Trump hosted at the White House on Thursday.
Investigators, using subpoenas and other law enforcement powers, are accelerating an inquiry that takes the Trump administration into the inner workings of the court.
The Pentagon said that the decision by Pete Hegseth to widen the patrols was made on Oct. 29, just before a landslide defeat for Republicans in the midterm elections.
The move came after conflicts with Justice Department leaders, including disagreements over legal strategy in the midterm elections, people familiar with the matter said.
President Trump’s 250-foot arch project is expected to win approval on Thursday from a federal planning board. Court action and Democrats’ upcoming control of Congress could halt the plans.
From Miami, Flávio Bolsonaro is making unfounded claims of a stolen election and plotting to sway his nation’s politics from afar, even though his party is not challenging the results.
Plus, how K-pop controls its stars.
The midterm results laid bare the deep unpopularity of the war of choice that President Trump started and is now struggling to end.
Some Democrats quickly signaled they could try to roll back the president’s tax and trade policies, ignoring his early veto threats.
Both Moscow and Kyiv say Mrs. Trump’s team was the driving force behind an evacuation of a besieged city. It was also in their interest to deliver her a humanitarian win.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio laid out a series of steps the United States wants to see before Venezuela holds free elections.
A ballot-counting issue in the key suburban district delayed the official result, but even before the race was called, Mr. Lawler conceded to Ms. Conley.
The prime minister’s second budget repeatedly stresses diversifying Canada’s economy away from the United States.
The G.O.P. cannot allow itself to be defined by its radicals.
The artist, who has been facing sexual misconduct allegations, became a single father in May and returns to the gallery world this week with a new show, “What the Light Becomes.”
Readers respond to articles about Vice President JD Vance. Also: Votes not for sale; the Iran war; air pollution and cancer; benefits of exercise.
Two Times reporters were the first to get ahold of the president Tuesday evening, when a blue wave was crashing across the country.
The Ozymandias election.
After his party suffered its worst election results in decades, President Trump emerged before the cameras for the first time to talk about his White House ballroom project.
In the days after Republicans suffered massive midterm election defeats, President Trump appeared unmoved. The New York Times’s White House correspondent Maggie Haberman explains how Trump’s public demeanor compares with what he has shared behind closed doors about voters’ frustration with some of his policies.
The New York Post used a Hokusai work to depict Donald Trump being swept away by Democrats’ midterm election win. Some in Japan were bothered by the imagery.
The Times’s chief political analyst breaks down the results of the midterm elections.
What an amazing election night.
Our reporter Emily Badger visits the site of President Trump’s proposed 250-foot-tall triumphal arch.
The Democratic surge on Election Day is expected to lead to New Yorkers occupying the top echelons of power in the U.S. government. The state could benefit.
How an unpopular president and an unpopular war provided an opening for Democrats to make sweeping gains in the midterms.
Victories by moderates in competitive or Republican-leaning states and districts paved the way for large new Democratic majorities likely to be shaped by their priorities.
President Trump usurped power from the legislative branch with Republican help for two years. Democrats are now positioned to try to claw back some of Congress’s prerogatives.
The conservative justice has told friends he does not plan to step down before the end of the court’s term, even as Democrats are set to seize the Senate in January.
After a decade at the center of American politics, President Trump is politically wounded, with diminished power. Those who know him say the next two years will be unpredictable.
Trump Media & Technology Group’s stock plunged 24 percent a day after Democrats made huge gains in the midterm elections.
When a new Congress is sworn in, it will have the power to hold hearings and issue subpoenas, prompting one representative to advise White House officials and others to “lawyer up.”
His party just suffered a drubbing unseen in decades. But the president, leading a tour of his ballroom project, was placid and eager to wax on about construction instead.
The vice president offered his striking critique of the administration’s agenda and messaging with Mr. Trump’s apparent approval.
In country after country stricken by democratic decay, overwhelming turnout in elections is making a difference.
The two companies settled billing disputes between doctors and insurers, keeping patients out of the middle. One let doctors win 96 percent of the time.
Plus, how to vote from space.
The administration pushed back a hearing for Lisa D. Cook, the Federal Reserve governor that President Trump has tried to fire, after her lawyers raised scheduling issues.
The president loves combat and chaos. He’s about to get more of it.
Global leaders shared their reactions a day after Democrats routed the Republican Party in the midterm elections and were on track to control both the House and the Senate.
Herbert Hoover and the Great Depression united Democrats for election after election. The Opinion contributing writer E.J. Dionne Jr. argues Trump could become a Hoover-like figure in the years ahead. “When people look back on this,” he says, “they’re going to ask, ‘What were we doing as a country in this period?’”
The Maine Republican survived tough cycles in the past even as the political ground shifted beneath her. But the anti-Trump fever in her state doomed her this time.
Americans are ready for a different kind of politics, and that showed up in the election results, the Opinion contributing writer E.J. Dionne Jr. argues. “People are tired of the division. They’re tired of wasting time. They’re tired of stupidity and ballrooms and wars,” he says.
President Trump answered questions on Wednesday from reporters about the election results. He also commented on Vice President JD Vance’s lengthy social media post that largely blamed the Republican losses on the war in Iran.
The results from the U.S. midterm elections could be the beginning of the end of the Trump era.
Democrats won control of state governments in Wisconsin, Michigan, Minnesota, Pennsylvania, Nevada, and won chambers in Texas, Georgia and North Carolina.
The electoral backlash extended even into deep red states and indicated that President Trump has lost his hold over the coalition that lifted him to the White House twice.
Breathe easy. For a minute.
Republicans tried to redraw congressional maps to tilt more seats in their favor. Democrats captured many of the new districts instead.
U.S. stock futures fell as the first results came in, but later traded higher as investors assessed the outlook for artificial intelligence and other key sectors as the balance of power shifts in Washington.
Israel once had bipartisan support in the United States, but a strong showing for Democrats, some of whom are deeply critical of the war in Gaza, has left the country with fewer friends in Congress.
From joy to concern, readers react to the Democrats’ “shellacking” of the Republicans in the midterm elections.
Gov. Brian Kemp, a Republican, declined to call a special session to draw new congressional maps or weaken the power of the governor’s office before a Democrat takes office.
“Sometimes life is bumpy and you have to man up,” Representative Jeff Van Drew said as he acknowledged his loss to Zack Mullock, the mayor of Cape May, N.J.
It was hard to imagine that an electoral wave this big was still possible. But there have been extraordinary changes just beneath the surface.
The gap between U.S. exports and imports, which remained at a relatively high level in September, has defied efforts by President Trump to decrease it with tariffs.
Democrats celebrated a seismic triumph in the midterm elections, winning control of the Senate and the House as voters delivered a blistering rebuke to President Trump. Peter Baker, The New York Times’s Chief White House correspondent explains what this historic reset of the balance of power in Washington means.
What mattered most in these midterms?
Investors are already picking the winners and the losers after Democrats glided to a landslide victory in the midterm elections.
Democrats flipped several Senate seats, most of which had been held by Republicans since former President Obama was elected in 2008.
There was nothing inevitable about this comeuppance.
The party clinched the House and the Senate in the midterm elections, giving Democrats a powerful platform to counter President Trump.
While the president attributed sweeping losses to the fact that he was not on the ballot, others in his party dismissed his explanation and pinned blame squarely on him.
Gov. Kathy Hochul won re-election to a second full term, and Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez secured a fifth term in Congress.
The Democratic Party wrested control of Congress from Republicans in a wave of midterm victories as voters delivered a scathing rebuke to President Trump.
“People hate the way that Trump is running this country,” the columnist Michelle Goldberg argues. Her fellow columnists and the American electorate agree. Democrats had a great night, but what now? Eight Opinion columnists offer their views on what Democrats need to do next, and what Trump’s final two years in office might hold.
Commentators abroad wondered what the president’s electoral losses might mean for oil prices, the war on Iran and the end of the Trump era.
Democrats won control of both the Senate and the House in a stunning rebuke of President Trump.
Democrats won shocking victories all over the map and flipped the Senate and House with ease, leaving the president weakened. “There was a mood in the air, I guess,” he said.
For Republicans, Texas has long been a dependable political anchor. Now, it’s finally blue.
Voters from South Carolina to Ohio to Texas have elevated a new class of Democrats who could not be more different from one another.
The party’s victory in the House cemented an era of divided government and a freshly assertive Congress after two years in which Republicans ceded power to President Trump.
A G.O.P. voter in Kansas put it bluntly: “The Republican Party has lost its way.”
On TV, the outcome of the midterm elections became clear early on. Pundits celebrated and grieved by turns.
Every Senate win holds important lessons for Democrats.
One of the greatest survivors in U.S. politics finally falls.
Our White House correspondents Tyler Pager and Erica L. Green called President Trump to ask whether he would accept the results of the election.
With President Trump a focus of the race, Ms. James overcame a challenge from a Republican former federal prosecutor, Saritha Komatireddy.
Americans showed that the power to choose their leaders belongs to them. Now they must remain vigilant until officials certify every race and the winners take office.
What’s stunning about his win is that it wasn’t a surprise by Election Day.