The plan is a further blow to America’s weakening European alliances and likely to be welcomed by President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia.
The military that Gen. Mark A. Milley represents is facing what could be the worst schism with the American public since the fractious Vietnam War years.
The president tweeted a defense of Saints quarterback Drew Brees, who had said it was disrespectful to kneel during the national anthem, as Colin Kaepernick and other players began doing in 2016 to protest racial injustice.
It increasingly resembles a Washington version of the Green Zone that sheltered American and Iraqi officials in Baghdad.
The ruling came with assurance that the White House could remove any “rogue, mooning journalists” if such a disruption were to happen.
Americans traditionally have looked to the president for empathy in a crisis. This time, they turned to their phones, to a memorial service — even to the Rock.
In this time of the virus and civil unrest, a reader wishes for a true leader. Also: Alcohol consumption in the pandemic.
Many in tech cheered when Twitter added labels to President Trump’s tweets. But civil libertarians caution that social media companies are moving into uncharted waters.
Never before in the history of modern polling has the country expressed such widespread agreement on racism’s pervasiveness in policing, and in society at large.
When it comes to our dead, Mexicans have deeply ingrained cultural traditions, which involves bringing them back to the place where they were born.
Democrats can learn from the people who know Trump’s base best — the Never-Trump Republicans.
Meyers fact-checked Trump’s claim to have christened the former defense secretary “Mad Dog”: “We know you didn’t come up with it because it’s a cool nickname.”
The president has tried to parlay space policy into an upbeat campaign issue for the 2020 election.
But what appeared to be an uneasy truce between the White House and military leaders did not mean the conflict was over.
How should opinion pages respond to the right’s authoritarian turn?
The Trump administration has deployed phalanxes of officers in riot gear and no identifiable markings to police demonstrations in the capital. Democrats want to know who they are.
Polls and private concerns from top social conservatives show the president’s standing with the cornerstone of his base isn’t what it used to be. A photo op with the Bible was supposed to help fix that.
He — and his party — is much, much worse.
The attorney general has granted more power to federal agents to try to combat looting, vandalism and other violence around the country.
Attorney General William P. Barr pushed back against criticism of President Trump’s decision to forcibly clear protesters for his visit to a historic church.
“There is a thin line between the military’s tolerance for questionable partisan moves over the past three years and the point where these become intolerable,” a retired general said.
The technology giant also confirmed reports that Iran had targeted President Trump’s campaign, underscoring the persistent threat of hackers in the 2020 election.
Republicans on two Senate committees moved to give their chairmen power to subpoena dozens of Obama administration and F.B.I. officials for the election-year inquiry.
Readers discuss comments by the current defense secretary, Mark Esper, and a predecessor, Jim Mattis.
The Senate approved Michael Pack, an ally of Stephen K. Bannon’s, to run the agency in charge of the Voice of America. President Trump hopes he will dictate more favorable news coverage.
Prescriptions soared after the president began promoting two antimalarial drugs to treat coronavirus infections. Nothing of the sort happened when he later announced he was taking one of them.
Twin environmental actions set for Thursday underscored the president’s push to roll back regulations as the coronavirus crisis continues.
The president threatens to bring a particularly authoritarian brand of executive power to American cities.
The senator suggested the former defense secretary’s scathing remarks might be a tipping point, prodding other Republicans to go public with longstanding concerns about President Trump.
While the president cloaks himself in spiritual authority, he preaches the antithesis.
Sixty-three years ago, American troops were deployed to quell racial unrest. It made this country a better place.
New charges in Minneapolis, but calls for systemic change remain: This is your morning tip sheet.
What happened outside the White House, and what it reveals about the debate inside over using the military to quell protests.
The president’s unapologetic calls for force, and his efforts to bring the military into his political line, follow a strongman’s playbook. It’s a risky move for him, and for democracy.
The president’s unapologetic calls for force, and his efforts to bring the military into his political line, follow a strongman’s playbook. It’s a risky move for him, and for democracy.
The polarization roiling the country has the Supreme Court in its grip.
Minor offenses should not lead to deadly encounters with the police. But when police brutality happens, the state should come down hard.
President Trump continued to get mocked for his photo op at St. John’s Episcopal Church after protests were forcibly broken up nearby.
Mark Esper’s comments reflected the turmoil within the military over President Trump, who has said he could put active-duty troops on the streets to perform law enforcement functions.
As polls show President Trump significantly trailing his rival, Joseph R. Biden Jr., his campaign is spending heavily in states, like Ohio, that it had hoped would not be competitive at all this year.
Legislation won’t fix white supremacy. But a government response can ensure that cruelty is punished.
Steve A. Linick, the former State Department inspector general, testified that a top agency official tried to “bully” him as he investigated the potential misconduct by the administration.
What we have here is a failure to dominate.
The legislation now heads to the president’s desk, just days before some businesses will run out of time to spend the loan money.
The president’s response to the coronavirus that killed more than 100,000 people was lethargic and ineffective. But when it came to anti-racism protesters, it was time to call in the troops.
He “does not even pretend to try” to unite Americans, the former defense secretary said, breaking his long public silence on the president amid protests across the nation.
The president has hailed the drug as a cure for Covid-19, but his own health officials have questioned its effectiveness and safety. His doctor’s comments were part of a summary of the president’s health.
An apolitical army is central to American democracy. But the president is using the armed forces to subvert it.
Mr. Obama, offering a starkly more upbeat assessment of peaceful protesters and their motives than President Trump has, urged people to “remember that this country was founded on protest — it is called the American Revolution.”
The social media company’s decision follows Twitter’s moves to label Mr. Trump’s posts inaccurate or as inciting violence.
Their accounts have been contradicted by witnesses.
During testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee, the former deputy attorney general Rod J. Rosenstein defended his decision to appoint Robert S. Mueller III as special counsel for the Trump-Russia investigation.
The White House is eager to project progress, but the public-private partnership it has created still faces scientific hurdles, internal tensions and questions from Congress.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau struggled to find the words to answer a question about President Trump’s response to the protests roiling the United States.
Cuando se escriba la historia de su presidencia, el choque con los manifestantes que precedió a la caminata del mandatario por la plaza Lafayette será recordado como uno de sus momentos definitorios. Entrevistas con testigos, funcionarios y una investigación visual reconstruyen esos instantes.
Cuando se escriba la historia de su presidencia, el choque con los manifestantes que precedió a la caminata del mandatario por la plaza Lafayette será recordado como uno de sus momentos definitorios. Entrevistas con testigos, funcionarios y una investigación visual reconstruyen esos instantes.
Beijing will allow limited flights by international carriers to resume after the White House threatened to block Chinese passenger jets from flying to the U.S.
The decision comes after Chinese regulators effectively prevented American airlines from resuming service to their country at a moment of rising tension.
We analyzed the president’s Twitter feed for a week. A third of his posts contained falsehoods or murky accusations, underscoring the challenge to Twitter’s chief, Jack Dorsey, of policing him.
Los presidentes de Brasil y Estados Unidos están desacreditando a las instituciones estatales que ellos mismos lideran. Parece una contradicción, pero si revisamos la historia del fascismo encontraremos claves y antecedentes.
The technology was old, the data poor, the bureaucracy slow, the guidance confusing, the administration not in agreement. The coronavirus shook the world’s premier health agency, creating a loss of confidence and hampering the U.S. response to the...
Protesters went back to the streets and, oh, elections took place: This is your morning tip sheet.
But the former deputy attorney general said he would not have signed an application to renew a wiretap on a former Trump adviser if he had known of its flaws.
How the protests come to be viewed may determine who the next president is. The way that will play out could surprise us.
“Trump couldn’t have done more damage to the Constitution last night if he’d pulled a Sinead O’Connor and ripped it up on live television and then ate the pieces,” Seth Meyers joked on Tuesday.
Early mistakes in testing, aging data systems, clashes with President Trump and an overly cautious culture shook confidence in the nation’s premier public health agency.
When the history of the Trump presidency is written, the clash with protesters that preceded President Trump’s walk across Lafayette Square may be remembered as one of its defining moments.
Nearly a dozen federal agencies — even the Transportation Security Administration — were sent to Washington and other cities after the president vowed to “dominate” protesters.
George Floyd’s death and the pandemic both reveal American infections. Why is the federal government undermining my fight against them?
The president has a long history of contradictory remarks about the book he held up after forcibly clearing protesters for a photo op on Monday.
The president’s crackdown on peaceful protesters drew condemnations from a handful of Republican lawmakers, but Democrats planned to push them to back up their words with legislative measures.
The Episcopal bishop Mariann Edgar Budde and the Catholic Archbishop Wilton Gregory said the president was using holy sites as political props.
In a call with Facebook employees, who have protested the inaction on Mr. Trump’s messages, Mr. Zuckerberg said his decision was “pretty thorough.”
The U.S. investigation targets nine countries, plus the European Union, that have adopted or are considering new taxes that would hit American companies like Google and Amazon.
Brian D. Miller, the White House lawyer tapped to oversee the Treasury Department’s $500 billion fund, has said he would not be influenced by political pressure.
Commentators on the right have tried to paint the mask as a cowardly affectation. A flood of masked demonstrators tells a different story.
The president’s true believers saw a message to appreciate. Many others saw something more alarming.
The president’s true believers saw a message to appreciate. Many others saw something more alarming.
After a stalemate with Democrats in North Carolina, Republicans said the president wouldn’t accept the party’s nomination at its convention in Charlotte, as planned, but would do so in another city.
The nonprofit Center for Democracy and Technology argues that the president’s move against Twitter and other companies is retaliatory.
A retired minister is appalled at the president’s use of a “prop Bible” to pander to his evangelical base. Another writer bemoans his lack of compassion and empathy.
After years of snubs and American unilateralism, European allies have stopped looking to the president for leadership, and are turning their backs on him.
His executive order aimed at social media companies should be ignored.
In a speech in Philadelphia, Mr. Biden assailed the president’s handling of the protests over police brutality and racial justice, declaring that he had “turned this country into a battlefield.”
Speaker Nancy Pelosi called President Trump a “fanner of the flame” of division, as two Republican senators criticized the use of tear gas to clear the way for his photo opportunity.
Lawyers for Bijan Kian argue that prosecutors should drop their appeal of his acquittal because it was intertwined with the case of the former national security adviser.
El anuncio del presidente estadounidense en Twitter atrajo nueva atención a los manifestantes antifascistas, a los que culpó por incitar a la violencia en las protestas.
After military helicopters carried out a “show of force” mission to discourage protesters, retired senior military leaders condemned their successors for deploying such tactics.
Legal experts regard the act as a major exception to the law that generally forbids the use of the military for domestic law enforcement.
The president brandishes a Bible in front of a church, in search of a divine mandate that isn’t coming.
Chinese officials and state media are seizing on the moment to tout Beijing’s authoritarian system and condemn American hypocrisy — a narrative that ignores many of their own issues.
After resisting calls to try to calm the public, the president chewed out governors and declared himself “your president of law and order.”
The Trump administration unilaterally excluded those with criminal records from loan programs. The decision should be reversed.
Newly declassified transcripts show the seeds of Russia’s overtures to the Trump administration as both sides sought to downplay Moscow’s election sabotage.
Trump’s plan to campaign as the second coming of Richard Nixon shows the limits of historical analogy. It’s not 1968.
Newly declassified transcripts show the seeds of Russia’s overtures to the Trump administration as both sides sought to downplay Moscow’s election sabotage.
The George Floyd protests expose the fault lines in metropolitan America.
The president is incapable of summoning the better angels of our nature. He doesn’t even seem to know what they are.
Brazil, Russia, Britain and the U.S. have something in common.
Memories of 2011’s Arab Spring, and its fragile hopes, have been revived in the minds of many Egyptians as they’ve watched a strikingly similar dynamic play out in the United States.
Officials and strategists warned that if a wide partisan gap over mail voting continues in November, Republicans could be at a disadvantage.
On Monday night, hosts talked about the protests, police brutality and racism. Jimmy Fallon started by addressing the fact that he’d worn blackface on “Saturday Night Live.”
In a sign of partisan divide, his monologue came as Anderson Cooper of CNN criticized Mr. Trump for calling protesters “thugs.”
“He did not pray,” said Mariann E. Budde, the Episcopal bishop of Washington. “He did not mention George Floyd, he did not mention the agony of people who have been subjected to this kind of horrific expression of racism and white supremacy for hu...
Washington’s elite has long bemoaned the “shattered norms” of the Trump presidency. But it has felt beside the point — like privilege talking — in the angry crowds of the last few nights.
The post, from Representative Matt Gaetz, a Florida Republican, had likened protesters to terrorists and called for them to be hunted down.
The Congressional Budget Office projects a nearly $16 trillion hit to the gross domestic product over the next decade, $7.9 trillion after adjusting for inflation.
The British and Canadian governments oppose admitting Russia into the bloc, as President Trump continues a renewed courtship of Russia’s leader.
Will weaponized racism destroy America?
Twitter is only bringing more attention to the president’s tweets, and Facebook’s strategy has been to do nothing.
A lawyer for the trial judge told an appeals court why he wanted to examine the Justice Department’s “unusual” request to dismiss the charge.
In a Rose Garden speech shaded with anger, President Trump threatened to send the American military to states where governors could not bring under control the protests over police brutality.
While Twitter started labeling some of the president’s inflammatory messages, Facebook’s chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg, has said his company should leave them alone.
Police must take collective responsibility for the failings within their ranks.
“I’ve really never seen anything like this”: Reporters and news photographers describe being roughed up, arrested and shot with projectiles while covering demonstrations across the country.
A reader cites the many miseries facing the U.S. and laments the president’s “utter failure to provide the requisite leadership.”
The agency tweaked the rules on how to apply the Clean Water Act, which New York and other states have used to fight fossil-fuel ventures.
Readers call on white Americans to “wake up,” question the president’s credibility on police brutality, encourage “taking a knee” in peaceful protest, and more.
The New York Times obtained audio of a private conference call President Trump had with governors, in which he tells them to crack down on protesters.
Researchers whose canceled U.S. grant caused an outcry from other scientists urge preventive monitoring of viruses in southwestern China.
President Trump, in a call with governors, said they would look like “jerks” if they did not toughen their response to protesters. “Someone throwing a rock is like shooting a gun. You have to do retribution.”
A foreign ministry spokesman stayed close to the Communist Party’s official position on Hong Kong, suggesting that Beijing was waiting to see the specifics of the U.S. plan.
Mass protests denounce racial inequality and police violence: This is your morning tip sheet.
The coronavirus may have changed almost everything, but it didn’t change this: Global competition spins ahead — and in many ways has accelerated.
The attorney general has long held an expansive view of presidential power. With multiple crises converging in the run-up to the 2020 election, he is busy putting his theories to work.
Public outcries over racism in the United States erupted from Addis Ababa to Vancouver. China and Iran, criticized on human rights by the Trump administration, called the killing of Mr. Floyd a symbol of American hypocrisy.
The president spent Sunday out of sight, berating opponents on Twitter, even as some of his campaign advisers were recommending that he deliver a televised address to an anxious nation.
It’s us versus them.
President Trump’s announcement brought renewed attention to the anti-fascist protesters he has blamed for inciting violence at protests.
President Trump’s announcement on Twitter brought renewed attention to the anti-fascist protesters he has blamed for inciting violence at protests.
Readers discuss how violence and looting have flared up, and worry that the president, instead of quelling the unrest, may worsen it.
The state provides a case study in how the president’s impulsive and insulting statements can undermine his push for re-election.
The president and his administration have blamed the far-left movement for the violence this weekend. But it was uncertain whether the declaration would carry any real meaning.
Joe Biden wants to heal the soul of the country in this moment of protest and loss, and win the White House. Simply telling people to vote in November may not help with either goal.
Joe Biden wants to heal the soul of the country in this moment of protest and loss, and win the White House. Simply telling people to vote in November may not help with either goal.
The president said he also planned to invite South Korea, Australia and India to the meeting of world leaders in order to discuss China’s future.
The president, beleaguered by a pandemic, economic troubles and racial unrest, viewed the liftoff as a welcome moment of triumph that he celebrated with a campaign rally-style speech.
At least six people have been killed in violence connected to the protests that started after Mr. Floyd died in police custody.
As China projects its power across Asia, and along the disputed India-China border in the Himalayas, India is feeling surrounded. Both sides insist they don’t want a war, but thousands of troops have been sent.
Mr. Trump has presented himself as someone who seeks conflict, not conciliation, a fighter, not a peacemaker. And he has lived up to his self-image at a perilous time.
Eventually doctors will develop a coronavirus vaccine, but black people will continue to wait for a cure for racism.
Trump, Twitter and the society-crushing pursuit of monetized rage.
Greed and globalization set us up for disaster.
Trump, Twitter and the society-crushing pursuit of monetized rage.
The president, before traveling to Florida to watch a rocket launch, also said that his base “loves the black people.” Hours later, intense protests erupted near the White House for a second night.
Inside the company, one faction wanted Jack Dorsey, Twitter’s chief, to take a hard line against the president’s tweets while another urged him to remain hands-off.
Mr. Kobach’s polarizing presence in a race in a reliably Republican stronghold has party leaders worried that Kansas will become a high-stakes battleground for control of the Senate.
President Trump’s predecessors took different approaches when responding — or not responding — to police killings or assaults of black men. But they never threatened violence against protesters.
The reactions to President Trump’s decision fell along familiar political fault lines in a city wracked by nearly a year of protests.
A California church argued that restrictions on public gatherings treated houses of worship worse than many businesses.