Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Gen. Dan Caine, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, took questions from reporters for the first time in nearly two weeks.
An emerging Republican plan to skirt a Democratic filibuster and fund an entire department without congressional appropriations would be the latest example of surrendering power to the White House.
The president’s foundation released a video showing a gleaming tower by Biscayne Bay emblazoned with his name. It would dominate the skyline.
At least 120,000 law enforcement officers who work for the agency have continued to collect paychecks throughout the funding lapse. But tens of thousands of workers have gone without pay.
Even opponents of the conflict should want to see Iran defanged and defeated.
Iran continued to retaliate across the region on Tuesday but markets saw hopes that fighting might ebb. Israel said it would occupy a large chunk of Lebanon even after the war ends.
A growing energy crisis could push countries to burn more fossil fuels in the short term, experts say. Plus more climate news.
Funcionarios estadounidenses habrían asegurado al gobierno de Colombia que el presidente no se enfrenta a cargos penales relacionados con sus investigaciones.
A federal judge required the president to seek lawmakers’ input and pursue traditional approvals before proceeding with the $400 million replacement for the East Wing.
A federal judge in Massachusetts ordered the Trump administration to reinstate the legal status of those who were invited to use the Biden-era app.
Trump should set aside his 15-point peace plan and reduce it to these two points.
President Trump and his aides have made contradictory statements on whether the United States and Israel have transformed the Iranian government through violence.
El presidente de EE. UU. quiere una negociación, pero los iraníes dicen que se niegan hasta que se declare un alto al fuego.
The Justice Department is examining Gustavo Petro for possible ties to drug traffickers. U.S. officials have told him that for now he does not face criminal charges arising from the probes.
Readers criticize President Trump over his bellicose statements on Iran. Also: Education for every child, citizen or not; the cost of war.
The suit is one of the broadest bids yet seeking accountability against the F.B.I. director, Kash Patel, and Attorney General Pam Bondi for getting rid of employees who have run afoul of President Trump.
Arquitectos y organizaciones conservacionistas han advertido que se ha prestado poca atención a los planes de diseño del proyecto.
President Trump has fired criticism at America’s longtime ally over the war in Iran, but there are hopes that the royal visit will help shore up relations.
The scholar Henry Farrell explains how efforts to capture Trump’s attention and approval through spectacle resemble the attention dynamics in Nazi Germany.
President Trump’s latest outbursts followed reports that European countries were imposing more restrictions on American aircraft in their airspace.
The panel voted to override Endangered Species Act restrictions on oil and gas activities in the Gulf of Mexico, home to critically endangered whales and other imperiled wildlife.
President Trump posted a video rendering that appeared to include elements generated by artificial intelligence of a skyscraper in Miami featuring what appeared to be Air Force One.
The peptides, which are increasingly marketed as providing longevity and health benefits, were removed in 2023 from the agency’s list of products that compounding pharmacies can sell.
The average price of gasoline in the U.S. has topped $4 a gallon, a multiyear high, as war in the Middle East roils the oil market and slams drivers.
Presidents since at least the Carter administration have seen their approval ratings tied to gas prices. But there are signs the correlation may be weakening.
Plus, a three-minute, multimillion-dollar art heist.
Investors weighed the news that the owner of a Kuwaiti tanker loaded with oil said it had been hit in an Iranian attack near Dubai.
This is not how American democracy is supposed to work.
Edward Russo, the only member of a White House task force, thinks the president doesn’t get enough credit for conservation at his golf courses, among other things.
As the justices prepare to hear a landmark case about birthright citizenship, their family stories are a reminder that the law has shaped who can be an American.
In the 1990s, Democrats were split in their support for birthright citizenship, and even proposed legislation to end it.
No president since the Apollo era has pushed harder to return to the moon than President Trump. But he wants a space achievement that is about “more than getting rocks this time.”
La secretaria de prensa de la Casa Blanca dijo que Estados Unidos evaluaría los envíos de petróleo a Cuba “caso por caso”, después de que un petrolero ruso lleno de crudo llegara a la isla.
A month since the first U.S.-Israeli attacks and Iran’s response effectively shut off Persian Gulf oil, drivers are paying significantly more to fill up.
Decenas de dirigentes iraníes han muerto desde que comenzó la guerra hace cuatro semanas, y aquellos que sobreviven han tenido dificultades para comunicarse.
El miércoles, la Corte Suprema escuchará los argumentos sobre la legalidad de la orden ejecutiva de Trump, y algunos expertos legales conservadores afirman que podría ser un caso más disputado de lo que se pensaba.
As the United States expands its armada of warplanes on British soil, Prime Minister Keir Starmer says he is trying to defend Britain’s interests while keeping the country out of war.
Iran maintained that no negotiations have been held with the United States, and said none would while the fighting continues.
The White House press secretary said the United States would evaluate oil shipments to Cuba on a “case-by-case basis,” after a Russian tanker full of crude reached the island.
The airport near West Palm Beach will be rebranded the President Donald J. Trump International Airport on July 1, if approved by the Federal Aviation Administration.
Here’s a crash course on what’s coming up next.
Claudia Sheinbaum, president of Mexico, said her country would take legal steps to demand better conditions at immigration detention facilities, where she said 14 Mexican citizens had died since President Trump took office.
La llegada de un buque a Cuba le dará el combustible que tanto necesita. También representa un cambio en los esfuerzos estadounidenses por bloquear los envíos de petróleo y presionar al gobierno cubano.
Architects and preservation organizations have warned that little scrutiny has been given to the project’s design plans.
La base de la Marina en la bahía de Guantánamo brilla por la noche mientras los vecinos al otro lado de un campo de minas cubano batallan en la oscuridad, víctimas de un embargo de combustible.
The bombing campaign Mr. Trump is threatening in Iran could affect millions of Iranian civilians’ access to water, electricity and food.
States ranging from California to Utah are taking steps to place guardrails on the technology even after the president ordered them to stop.
A memo that President Trump signed on Friday ordering the Department of Homeland Security to pay T.S.A. officers did not specify whether they would be paid on a regular schedule.
As leaders are killed and replaced, Iranian negotiators may not know what their government is willing to concede in any negotiations.
President Trump threatened to hit vital infrastructure in Iran if the Strait of Hormuz was not reopened, but he also said that “regime change” had already been achieved.
Last year, the state said it would not follow President Trump’s directive on transgender athlete participation in girls’ sports.
Los agentes de la TSA han dejado de ir a trabajar o renunciado tras semanas sin cobrar durante el cierre parcial del gobierno. Agentes del ICE han empezado a cubrir sus funciones.
The ship’s arrival would bring Cuba some badly needed fuel. It also marks a shift from U.S. efforts to block oil shipments and pressure the Cuban government.
The Navy base at Guantánamo Bay sparkles at night while neighbors across a Cuban minefield struggle in darkness driven by a Trump fuel embargo.
Personas cercanas al presidente Trump han llamado la atención de los servicios de inteligencia de Dinamarca por intentar estrechar relaciones y llegar a acuerdos en el territorio danés.
The Labor Dept. proposed a change that would make it easier for workplace retirement plans to include alternative investments like private credit and crypto.
Readers discuss the huge rallies on Saturday protesting the president.
With Brian Nathan’s victory certified, Democrats won two of three state legislative races in this month’s special elections, all in Republican-leaning districts.
Lawyers for a fired Justice Department lawyer say the agency’s inspector general appears to have ignored at least 20 different requests to scrutinize misconduct.
At a sparsely attended Conservative Political Action Conference, young Republicans were eager to start the post-Trump era.
President Trump said in a newspaper interview that the United States might try to invade the Persian Gulf island, which is Iran’s main oil export hub.
President Trump suggested that Iran’s current leaders were “much more reasonable” as he sought to show progress in his war aims. Despite a month of U.S.-Israeli attacks, Iran’s government, led by clerics and the Revolutionary Guards, appears firmly in control.
Economists and investors are increasingly pricing in a slowdown, or even a global recession, if the fighting drags on.
The United States and Iran have struggled to find a way to begin negotiations over peace terms, with each insisting it had the upper hand in the war.
Transportation Security Agency officers have called out of work or quit after weeks of not getting paid during a partial government shutdown. ICE agents have begun to fill their roles.
Fewer international tourists are visiting, and fewer immigrants are moving here. The city needs both groups, experts say.
Markwayne Mullin, the incoming D.H.S. secretary, faces a difficult balance: a public reset of the agency while delivering on President Trump’s deportation agenda.
The president’s depravity is deathless
The Trump administration is poised to broaden access to risky investments that are showing signs of strain.
Before President Trump’s order to limit birthright citizenship, there was widespread agreement that the 14th Amendment guaranteed citizenship for U.S.-born babies.
The framers of the 14th Amendment endorsed a capacious definition of ‘American.’
Nicole Daedone, the former leader of OneTaste, is set to be sentenced after being convicted of forced labor conspiracy last year. But she is still finding ways to spread her message from behind bars.
Trump’s war on Iran is dangerous for everyone.
President Trump said that Iran had agreed to release 20 more cargo ships of oil through the Strait of Hormuz starting on Monday.
Members of President Trump’s circle, working in plain sight, have caught the eye of Denmark’s intelligence services for trying to make friends and cut deals on the Danish territory.
The president, speaking to reporters on Air Force One, cast the permission as a “sign of respect.” He also asserted that the United States had already achieved “regime change” in Iran.
Investors digested increasing signs of escalation of the U.S.-Israeli war in Iran, which has led to a blockage of critical energy supplies.
The commandos have not been assigned specific roles. But President Trump has expressed concern about the now-closed Strait of Hormuz and Iran’s store of enriched uranium.
La guerra en Irán impulsó a muchos jóvenes a salir a las calles, pero el control migratorio del gobierno de Trump sigue siendo un tema central. Los candidatos al Senado se unieron a la multitud.
A close U.S. ally and regional rival of Iran, the kingdom has faced hundreds of Iranian missile and drone attacks since the war began.
The arrival of 2,500 Marines and another 2,500 sailors is keeping the number of American troops in the region at roughly 10,000 more than usual.
Transportation safety officers are set to be paid on Monday, but Tom Homan, the White House’s border czar, said ICE agents may stay where there are shortages.
Seeking a comeback after voters flocked to Mark Carney’s Liberals, the New Democrats picked Avi Lewis, a scion of a leftist political dynasty.
The war in Iran was a galvanizing force, but plenty of protesters focused on President Trump’s immigration crackdown. Senate candidates in several key races joined the crowds.
Fake windows and a stairway to nowhere: Three months that could change the White House for generations.
Es evidente que los drásticos vaivenes del presidente Trump se han combinado para dar a su gestión de la guerra un carácter errático e improvisado.
El rostro de la ofensiva migratoria de Trump se retira esta semana y afirma que no fue lo suficientemente lejos en sus acciones.
A wave of strikes across the Middle East in recent days shows that Iran has not lost the capacity to retaliate.
The war with Iran escalated on Saturday as the Iran-allied Houthis joined the conflict and Israel bombarded Tehran with airstrikes.
Conference organizers presented the poll results as a rebuttal to narratives that Republicans were split over the Iran war and support for Israel.
The urgent instructions at the Trump administration’s behest to gather and relay the files on Representative Eric Swalwell have alarmed some career law enforcement officials.
Thousands of organized demonstrations stretched across the country. Minnesota was a focal point of the protests after a tumultuous immigration crackdown.
The Ukrainian president visited the Middle East, where he sought to shift his country from a recipient of military aid to a supplier.
Mientras los funcionarios de Trump exigen cambios, la familia Castro reaparece en la escena política de Cuba. Algunos incluso se preguntan: ¿Podría alguno de ellos ser la “Delcy de Cuba”?
It’s the third time that protesters have organized events around the globe to protest President Trump and his policies. In the United States, more than 3,000 demonstrations are planned.
Since the start of his second term, there have been more than a dozen instances of his name, image or signature emblazoned on a variety of American initiatives and institutions.
Any deal with Iran would probably be a bad one. But sending ground troops to seize Iranian territory would be an even worse choice.
Three journalists on the potential repercussions of Operation Epic Fury.
When you’re a wannabe king they let you do it.
A costly war will make Iran’s enemies think twice before attacking again.
There’s been a vibe shift in Hollywood. Fun movies are back.
Readers respond to Thomas L. Friedman’s column about the community spirit helping Minnesotans in their opposition to ICE.
In Canada, mercurial weather in March and April is known as false spring, but Blue Jays’ opening day delivered spiritual spring on a winter cold night. We’ll take it.
Historically, quagmire abroad and high prices at home are the ingredients of a failed presidency.
As Trump officials demand changes, Castro family members are suddenly popping up across Cuba’s political scene. Some even ask: Could one be the “Cuban Delcy?”
The high rollers may still be crowding the tables, but high prices and pinched discretionary incomes are driving a sharp drop-off in visitors to Las Vegas as Nevada’s governor runs for re-election.
The Conservative Political Action Conference typically seeks to establish orthodoxy with its roster of speakers. This year, organizers created space for dissent, highlighting ongoing schisms in the MAGA movement.
These groups’ dream has long been to establish federal autonomy, akin to that of their fellow Kurds in Iraq. With Iran’s leaders battered and degraded, they hope their moment has come.
President Trump has vacillated between boasting about U.S. military superiority and deep frustration that his war of choice is not always having the desired effects.
Organizers want this to be largest protest yet. But is hitting a number enough to deliver an effective political movement?
Offshore wind is out. Geothermal power is in. And many climate technology start-ups are looking for ways to carry on without federal backing.
Una mezcla de emisarios —un amigo, un familiar, un funcionario de línea dura y uno conciliador— en la crisis de Irán refleja el enfoque improvisado del presidente Trump.
At a Saudi event, the president said Iran was “begging to make a deal,” seemingly unaware of reports that an Iranian strike on a Saudi base had injured American troops.
The combined missile and drone attack amounted to one of the most serious breaches of American air defenses in the course of the monthlong war with Iran.
Photos and video verified by The New York Times show mines dispensed by cluster bombs in a village a few miles from a missile site.
American officials sought to temper concerns of a possibly expanding military incursion after the Pentagon’s decision to deploy more troops to the Middle East.
After Israel said it would intensify attacks on Iran’s industrial infrastructure, major steel plants and other vital plants were struck.
Bitter rifts have opened over the defense secretary’s campaign to reverse policies that he says are prejudiced against white officers.
The number of Republicans departing the House this cycle is one of the highest since 1930.
The president announced new loan guarantees at a White House event that appeared intended to reassure a group that has found itself caught in the crosshairs of some of his major policies.
The president’s potential successors “are mortal men,” one attendee said.
Two ships turned back after being warned not to pass through the Strait of Hormuz on Friday. Iran said strikes in the country had hit a uranium processing plant and industrial sites.
The pair joined in a gathering of artists and others who denounced censorship and faulted President Trump’s growing influence over the nation’s cultural life.
Is this really what winning the war with Iran looks like? Mark Dubowitz, the chief executive of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, joins Ross Douthat on “Interesting Times” to make the case that Operation Epic Fury has degraded Iran’s military power enough to make victory achievable.
The Conservative Political Action Conference has been an America First gathering for years, but with President Trump pursuing war in Iran, organizers have tried to make a shift, with mixed results.
Officials in Tehran and Washington alike are trading taunts in English, often using American pop culture references.
The SAVE America Act, which the president wants to use to address issues like voting and transgender surgeries, allows him to try to shift the conversation from worries over inflation and war.
A jazz drummer who called off a performance in protest of the center’s being renamed for President Trump said the president’s allies had sued him as punishment.
Mr. Musk’s participation was notable because it is rare for a private citizen to be on a call between heads of state. It also suggests that Mr. Musk is back on better terms with the president.
Tehran has effectively closed off the critical waterway, turning back container ships on Friday, and Iranian lawmakers are considering whether to formalize charging fees to pass.
Reaction to President Trump’s signature on the dollar. Also: Innocent lives lost in Iran; Democrats’ brand; young job seekers; subway announcements; calling all teenagers.
Los legisladores han tenido dificultades para llegar a un acuerdo sobre la financiación del Departamento de Seguridad Nacional, del que depende la TSA. Sus agentes llevan semanas sin recibir compensación.
El gobierno de Trump está considerando designar como grupos terroristas a las dos mayores organizaciones de narcotraficantes de Brasil, tras la presión ejercida por los hijos del expresidente encarcelado Jair Bolsonaro.
As the U.S.-Israeli campaign enters a second month, analysts see a growing toll. One forecast predicts oil hitting $200 a barrel.
Plus, the Friday news quiz.
Hace una generación, la indiganción en el mundo por la invasión a Irak se mezclaba con el sentimiento anti-Estados Unidos. Ahora, algunos en Europa parecen dispuestos a distinguir entre Trump y el resto del país.
The right-wing thinker Christopher Caldwell believes the Iran war is the end of Trumpism. Is he right? What was Trumpism in the first place?
Never before has America arrived at the threshold of a quagmire so quickly.
A generation ago, foreign fury over the Iraq invasion often blurred into anti-Americanism. Now, some Europeans seem ready to distinguish between the president and the American people.
When the world map of literal power changes, the political hierarchy shifts, too
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s highly unusual decision to remove officers from a one-star promotion list has spurred allegations of racial and gender bias.
Is Muskism the new Fordism?
The Trump administration is weighing declaring Brazil’s two largest drug gangs terrorist groups, after lobbying by the sons of jailed former President Jair Bolsonaro.
Some conservative sheriffs have raised concerns about the aggressive enforcement tactics that Gov. Ron DeSantis, a Republican, has embraced.
El presidente encarna el viejo sentimiento de una nación que cree que puede moldear al mundo a su semejanza.
President Trump’s signature will be added to U.S. paper currency later this year, the Treasury Department said on Thursday.
Gov. Kathy Hochul of New York has demonstrated her ability to negotiate with the president and his team on thorny issues like immigration enforcement.
Jennifer Schuessler, a culture reporter who writes about intellectual life, is now covering President Trump’s attempts to amend the presentation of American history.