The president plans to use his first State of the Union address since Republicans took control of the House to call for bipartisan cooperation. Neither he nor many others expect that to happen.
The move by the alliance of conservative donors could provide an enormous boost to a Republican alternative to the former president.
From the police to academia, we often see what we want to see.
Donald Trump has reunited with a former business partner to sell online trading cards, hoping to recreate a once-profitable mix of hype and celebrity. Initial sales hint at how difficult that will be in 2023.
The settlement with a former campaign aide who says she was the target of sexual discrimination effectively invalidates agreements hundreds of 2016 Trump campaign officials signed.
Mark F. Pomerantz, who resigned from the Manhattan district attorney’s office last year, wrote that he had pursued a racketeering case against the former president.
Concerns about the president’s age are being overcome by enthusiasm about his record so far, optimism about the G.O.P. field — and the absence of better options.
For now, allowing the former president to fade is wiser than attacking him.
Jeff Miller is the new House speaker’s top fund-raiser and closest confidant. He is also one of Washington’s most prominent corporate lobbyists, an arrangement that is drawing scrutiny.
The polls are surprisingly divided, but higher-quality surveys point to an answer.
Manhattan prosecutors warned that they might charge Allen H. Weisselberg with insurance fraud to pressure him to cooperate in an investigation of the former president.
The former president faces several potential Republican challengers in his bid for the White House.
The Florida governor’s influence on an A.P. Black studies course. Also: The killing of Black men; a formidable Trump; anti-boycott bills; living without plastic.
Fani Willis’s aggressive tactics have sparked criticism — and won over voters. What do they tell us about how she might prosecute the former president?
Republicans have wrongly suggested that President Biden and his party are solely responsible for the situation, while Democrats have overstated former President Donald J. Trump’s role.
Nikki Haley is expected to join the 2024 race this month, but other G.O.P. contenders are taking a wait-and-see approach. Some anti-Trump Republicans worry that too much dithering could be costly.
“It’s important not to overstate the damage that some perceive liberalism as having done to the Democrats’ electoral fortunes,” one scholar says.
The F.B.I. appeared to be blinded by a lack of imagination, a narrow focus on “lone wolf” offenders and a misguided belief that the threat from the far left was as great as that from the far right, new congressional documents show.
After announcing presidential runs, Mitt Romney, Hillary Clinton and Jeb Bush all raised more per day in their out-of-the-gates fund-raising periods.
It is not clear if the search, which was done with the cooperation of Mr. Biden’s legal team, uncovered any additional classified files.
The former president’s familiar tactics of defiance, counterattacks and delays appear less successful than ever as investigations and court proceedings against him grind on.
El expresidente ha vuelto a tener acceso a publicar en Facebook y Twitter. Los expertos en extremismo advierten que podría llevar el enfoque que emplea en su red, Truth Social, a un público más amplio.
A perfect demonstration of how the right’s scandalmongering works.
Officials who have worked with Democratic and Republican presidents describe an elaborate system for classified documents but a more casual one for everyday records.
The Manhattan district attorney’s decision represents a dramatic escalation of the inquiry, and potentially sets the case on a path toward criminal charges against the former president.
As the league announced more details of a 14-stop second season, former President Donald J. Trump’s courses remained central to the schedule, deepening his ties to Riyadh.
Only by understanding how the rioters lost faith in government can we figure out how to protect our democracy from future attacks.
The Durham investigation was a failed attempt by Mr. Barr to rewrite the sour truths of Donald Trump’s history.
The former president, now free to post again on Facebook and Twitter, has increasingly amplified far-right accounts on Truth Social. Experts on extremism worry that he will bring this approach to a far wider audience.
At two events on Saturday, Donald J. Trump embraced more traditional campaigning as he struggles to maintain support for his third White House bid.
The National Archives does not have any independent ability to enforce its request that former presidents and vice presidents scour their files for classified documents.
Ronna McDaniel won a fourth two-year term to lead the Republican National Committee, fending off a fierce challenge after the party’s poor midterm showing.
The Jan. 27, 2023, episode of “The Ezra Klein Show.”
Truth Social, the social network started by former President Donald J. Trump, has struggled to attract large brands.
The political scientist Jessica Chen Weiss warns of escalating tensions between Washington and Beijing.
Plus, we play the Bored Ape Yacht Club’s video game “Dookey Dash.”
The responsibility to comply with federal records law “does not diminish after the end of an administration,” the archives said in a letter.
The review by John Durham at one point veered into a criminal investigation related to Donald Trump himself, even as it failed to find wrongdoing in the origins of the Russia inquiry.
Interviews with more than a third of the Republican National Committee’s members point to a desire for an alternative presidential nominee to emerge from a competitive primary.
The discovery of classified documents has thrust President Biden into an uncomfortable position after he started the new year with plans to do a victory lap of sorts.
Meta said the suspensions of Donald Trump’s accounts would be lifted “in the coming weeks,” with measures in place to discourage repeat offenses. Twitter reinstated Mr. Trump last year.
The former president, averse to leaving records of his communications, had long avoided text and email.
A proposal to end a decade-long attempt to seek the death penalty before a military tribunal carries political risks, but the Trump administration also decided the system failed.
The prosecutor asked that a report on efforts to overturn former President Donald J. Trump’s election loss not be released, saying that she was “mindful of protecting future defendants’ rights.”
The cases are markedly different in their particulars. But they are similar enough that as a practical matter, Democrats will have a hard time using the issue against former President Donald J. Trump.
The documents were “inadvertently boxed and transported” to the former vice president’s home at the end of the Trump administration, Mr. Pence’s representative wrote in a letter to the National Archives.
In one deep-red pocket of rural Pennsylvania, three warring factions each claim to represent the Republican Party. Tensions boiled over in a scuffle over a booth at a farm show.
We will soon know just how critical the president’s chief of staff was to his success.
The special counsel regulations were not designed for the problem of having two simultaneous high-profile cases.
Despite an injection of funding, the agency still has not recovered from an exodus of scientists and policy experts, both insiders and critics say.
Political implications of the documents cases. Also: The mass shooting in California; sending tanks to Ukraine; protests in Peru; college admissions.
The House Jan. 6 committee report offered fresh evidence that former President Donald J. Trump was at the center of efforts to overturn election results in Georgia.
Congress has to get serious about the 14th Amendment. So does President Biden.
The freshman representative fits right in to the Republican majority in the House.
Two decades of tax cuts, recession responses and bipartisan spending fueled more borrowing — contributing $25 trillion to the total and setting the stage for another federal showdown.
Activists are pushing for tougher abortion restrictions, while politicians fear turning off swing voters who don’t support strict limits like a national ban.
The president needs to be a sharper politician than he has been and also not become his own worst enemy.
After the scathing ruling, the former president also dropped a lawsuit against New York’s attorney general that had been pending before the same judge.
Readers blame the G.O.P., but also the Internal Revenue Code. Also: China’s population; crowds at the Louvre; work clothes for Missouri politicians and nonbinary people.
A legal reckoning awaits a chief architect of Donald Trump’s effort to reverse his election loss. But in Mr. Eastman’s telling, he was far from a criminal.
The former president, who relied on evangelical voters in 2016, has accused Christian leaders of “disloyalty” and blamed them for Republicans’ disappointing midterm performance.
The environmental, social and corporate governance investment trend is booming, but it has also become a big distraction for business leaders.
Biden’s case acts as a counterexample to show why Trump’s is more alarming.
Some of the former president’s most outspoken defenders will sit on the House’s main investigative committee, underscoring their high-profile roles in the new Republican majority.
Special counsel investigations have become increasingly common, but some think the system is broken.
Does the Freedom Caucus just want to watch the world burn?
Chris Whipple’s “The Fight of His Life” chronicles the administration in medias res.
The Manhattan prosecutors’ meeting with Michael D. Cohen could presage a flurry of activity as the district attorney’s investigation into the former president is revitalized.
The bank, owned by the Turkish government, said criminal charges against state-owned entities are never proper under the doctrine of sovereign immunity.
Readers critique her analysis of her former boss’s strengths and weaknesses. Also: Russia’s aggression in Ukraine; robots’ self-awareness.
A top House Republican had demanded the logs after classified documents were found at President Biden’s personal residence.
Remember when it was ‘Democrats fall in love; Republicans fall in line'? Me neither.
Lycoming County, Pa., officials were persuaded to conduct a 2020 recount, a three-day undertaking that showed almost no change, but left skeptics just as skeptical.
Alvin L. Bragg finished his first year in office with a conviction of the Trump Organization, but he must still contend with rising crime.
America’s system for protecting classified documents has spun out of control.
In allowing E. Jean Carroll’s lawsuit to move forward, Judge Lewis Kaplan upheld the legality of New York’s Adult Survivors Act.
Presidents have established and developed the classification system through a series of executive orders around World War II and the early Cold War.
The five defendants are members of one of the nation’s best-known far-right groups and are accused of helping to lead the assault on the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
Investigations into two presidents’ handling of secret documents. Also: Hunter Biden and Prince Harry; the debt limit; psychiatric care; editing; libraries.
The Trump Organization must pay $1.6 million for giving executive off-the-books benefits and pay.
How the cases of President Biden and former President Donald Trump compare.
Shrugging off Mr. Trump’s 2024 candidacy is a fool’s errand. But it would also be foolish to assume that his path to another presidency would be smooth.
The new investigation is sure to muddy the waters politically as former President Donald J. Trump cries persecution over his own documents inquiry, although the cases differ significantly.
The freshman Republican from Arizona was the only newcomer to hold out against Speaker Kevin McCarthy until the very end.
He argued against affirmative action and the Voting Rights Act and represented former President Trump in fighting the release of his tax returns.
The discovery of classified documents in President Biden’s private office and home has prompted comparisons to former President Trump’s hoarding of sensitive government records.
There are now two special counsels looking into presidents — Jack Smith was appointed in November by the attorney general to oversee the two investigations into former President Trump. Here’s more about the powers of a special counsel and why they...
The Justice Department is scrutinizing how both presidents came to have classified records after they left office. But there are major differences.
G.O.P. infighting figures to be the political story line of 2023.
G.O.P. voters discuss Trump’s 2024 candidacy, the 2022 midterms and the second anniversary of the Capitol attack.
This new committee is no Church Committee; it’s a coven of conspiracy theorists.
Las autoridades investigan el hallazgo de documentos clasificados en un despacho que ocupó Biden tras dejar la vicepresidencia. Pero hay contrastes con el caso de los papeles recuperados en la residencia de Trump.
The revelation is sure to intensify Republican attacks on the president, who has called former President Donald J. Trump irresponsible for hoarding sensitive documents at his estate in Florida.
How Jan. 8 confirmed two tendencies of contemporary populism.
The Justice Department is scrutinizing how both presidents came to have classified records after they left office. But there are major differences.
Ms. Hardaway rose to fame with one of her sisters as a conservative media celebrity.
Republicans pushed through a measure to create a powerful new committee to scrutinize what they have charged is an effort by the government to target and silence conservatives.
At issue is whether former President Donald J. Trump was acting in his official capacity as president when he made disparaging comments about a writer who had accused him of rape.
Allen H. Weisselberg served the family company for decades but agreed to testify about its tax fraud in exchange for a lighter punishment.
The Florida governor easily won re-election despite little engagement with mainstream news outlets, another sign of partisan division ahead of the 2024 presidential race.
The subpoena to Rudolph W. Giuliani in November came as prosecutors have been examining the workings of former President Donald J. Trump’s fund-raising vehicle.
Readers write about the author of “Little Women.” Also: Brazil’s insurrection; credit for ghostwriters; law school rankings; resisting temptation.
A hearing will be held to determine whether the report will be made public. Any criminal charges would have to be brought by a regular grand jury.
Kevin McCarthy gets his chance to bang the gavel.
The Florida governor is viewed as a top Republican presidential contender — at a time when the party is at a crossroads on foreign policy.
The former president had a moment, but now the sun is setting on that moment.
Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s slog to his post ended with a remarkably public show of intraparty strife that played out in a history-making overnight session.
In the struggles over the speakership, the old G.O.P. world, with all its dysfunctions, stalemates and futility, has come again.
Mr. Gingrich began the zero-sum politics that mutated into the brand of the Tea Party and Trump M.A.G.A. Republicans and that presaged the raucous speaker battle in the House.
Readers are moved by a column by Charles Blow and offer their own experiences. Also: Santos’s lies; Covid in China; digital payments; ableist language.
For some lawmakers and politicians on both sides of the aisle, brandishing Title 42 is a way to flaunt an aggressive stance on the border.
Plus: Elon Musk asks Twitter users if he should resign.
At issue is Title 42, a public health measure invoked by the Trump administration during the pandemic to block migrants from seeking asylum in the United States.
An examination by the Democratic staff of the Senate homeland security committee portrayed a government wholly unprepared for the arrival of the coronavirus.
For all their differences, President Biden and Prime Minister Rishi Sunak of Britain share a challenge: operating in the wake of a larger-than-life predecessor. They have tactics in common, too.
The justices left in place an injunction blocking the Biden administration’s authority to forgive up to $20,000 in debt per borrower.
The pandemic-era health order, known as Title 42, has allowed the government to expel hundreds of thousands of migrants who otherwise might be allowed to pursue asylum claims.
A pair of prominent headlines highlights the reversals.
Representative Lee Zeldin painted a bleak portrait of New York, while Gov. Kathy Hochul stressed her rival’s anti-abortion stance and his support for Donald Trump.
A federal watchdog tripled its earlier estimate of benefits that the U.S. government paid to people who weren’t entitled to them.
A federal watchdog tripled its earlier estimate of benefits that the U.S. government paid to people who weren’t entitled to them.
Readers discuss new aspects of the workplace during the pandemic. Also: A political balance; Vladimir Putin and Mikhail Gorbachev; student newspapers.
Speaking to “60 Minutes,” the president also declared the Covid-19 pandemic to be “over” in the United States.
Readers react to an editorial urging an indictment to show that he “is not above the law.” Also: Abortion and data privacy; Moderna’s suit; children’s mental health.
Plus the decline in American life expectancy and the latest on Typhoon Hinnamnor.
Readers respond to Ross Douthat’s warning that Merrick Garland “can’t afford to miss.” Also: Trump like a toddler; monkeypox; masks on the subway; flood insurance.
Anthony Fauci did not set out to become a political lightning rod. But, as Sheryl Gay Stolberg explains, he couldn’t escape becoming a polarizing figure in Donald Trump’s Washington.
Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, who has advised seven presidents and spent more than half a century at the National Institutes of Health, will leave government service by the end of the year.
Plus Russia prepares for show trials and Taiwan does not rise to China’s provocations.
Plus new details about explosions in Crimea and revelations about the victims of Seoul’s floods.
The Republican hopeful has called the 2020 election stolen. But she sidestepped questions during an appearance on Fox News just two days after receiving the former president’s endorsement.
Readers discuss the latest hearing by the Jan. 6 committee. Also: War poetry; child care funding; pregnant at 10; shrugging at the pandemic.
Mr. Trump’s infection, which came before vaccines were available, was kept secret for days, until he became severely ill and had to be hospitalized.
The former White House coronavirus coordinator, who became a controversial figure, said there was a consistent effort to stifle information as virus cases surged in late 2020.
Dr. Deborah Birx, who became a controversial figure during her time in the White House, said there was a consistent effort to stifle information as virus cases surged in the second half of 2020.
The killing of a Chinese American, Vincent Chin, 40 years ago changed the way people of Asian descent began to see themselves.
A congressional report claimed that meatpacking companies issued “baseless” warnings about food shortages and influenced government decisions to keep plants open early in the pandemic.
The teen mental health crisis. Also: Elon Musk, Donald Trump and Twitter; Vladimir Putin’s gambit; Russian TV; Penn Station; flying without masks.