Lindsey Halligan’s indictments against James B. Comey, the former F.B.I. director, and Letitia James, the attorney general of New York, were dismissed last month over Ms. Halligan’s appointment.
Las tribulaciones de Donald Trump se parecen cada vez más a las de Joe Biden.
President Trump’s comments deepened his rift with mainstream European leaders over defense and Ukraine policy.
President Trump’s move fulfills a major goal of the chipmaker. But the move faces opposition in Washington — and uncertainty in Beijing.
President Trump said Nvidia can export some chips. But years of U.S. restrictions have propelled China to make everything it needs for advanced A.I.
The findings are the latest example of how the notion of a single price is breaking down in the digital age, a trend economists say could be pushing up some prices.
Plus, a big Hollywood battle just got messier.
The president seemed poised for a big Supreme Court win letting him remove officials without cause. But the justices appeared to struggle with how to insulate the Federal Reserve from politics.
Through their reporting, the columnists share how regular citizens stand up to governments they oppose.
Threats against us aren’t limited to one hemisphere.
The case centers on efforts by Republican officials to lift limits on how much money political parties can spend in coordination with candidates.
Innovations in A.I., synthetic biology and quantum computing are set to change war.
A case over a firing at the F.T.C. has far-reaching implications for the federal government.
A judge blamed “deliberate indifference” for the illness of a man held by immigration officials. Across the country, several courts have blasted conditions in U.S. facilities.
En 2020, una viróloga china huyó a EE. UU., ayudada por aliados del presidente Trump que pretendían promover sus teorías no demostradas sobre los orígenes de la COVID-19. Su esposo sigue sin poder encontrarla.
El exmandatario hondureño fue indultado por el presidente Donald Trump y liberado de prisión en EE. UU. Ahora lo buscan las autoridades de su país.
The attorney general said he had asked Interpol to detain Juan Orlando Hernández, who was freed from a U.S. prison last week.
El presidente Trump vuelve a la carga contra uno de los mayores socios comerciales de Estados Unidos.
The threat is the latest aggressive action that President Trump has taken against America’s biggest trading partners.
Demócratas y republicanos han solicitado, sin éxito, que se liberen los videos completos del embate del 2 de septiembre. Ahora usarán una iniciativa de ley para obtener respuesta del gobierno de Trump.
The president rolled out a $12 billion bailout for farmers as he makes the case that his policy is working — or will soon.
President Trump promised struggling farmers billions in federal aid during a round-table meeting on Monday. This comes after China boycotted American farm products in retaliation for U.S. tariffs.
The president ordered a stop to permits for all wind farms on federal lands and waters. A judge called that “capricious.”
Mr. Blakeman, the Nassau County executive, would face a bitter Republican primary showdown with Representative Elise Stefanik.
Approval for the H200 chip followed months of haggling between tech industry backers and defense hawks.
“Jimmy Kimmel Live!” became a flashpoint about free speech in the country after it was temporarily suspended this year.
In a sign of bipartisan frustration with the Defense Department, the final defense policy bill aims to compel the Pentagon to share execute orders and video documentation.
The nature of war has drastically changed. The editorial board argues that the U.S. must reform its military.
The president said he would defer to his defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, on whether to release a video showing a follow-up attack that killed survivors of a Sept. 2 strike on an alleged drug smuggling boat.
Visitors will instead get free entry on President Trump’s birthday, which coincides with Flag Day.
“I’m not going to make any predictions, but I will say it feels as if right now is the most popular he’s going to be over the next year,” the columnist Jamelle Bouie predicts of Trump.
On “The Opinions,” the columnist Jamelle Bouie argues that the president is randomly blowing up boats in the Caribbean — what Bouie calls “criminal murder.”
Ms. Habba resigned on Monday, after a federal appeals court last week found she had been serving as U.S. attorney unlawfully.
The president has shattered norms by pledging to “be involved” in the regulatory fate of a transaction that could reshape the news and entertainment industries.
A five-year-old photo of agents kneeling at a D.C. protest after George Floyd’s killing led to the firing of about 16 agents.
Andrew Ferguson has used the Federal Trade Commission’s consumer protection mandate to investigate issues important to President Trump and his base.
Readers respond to Michelle Cottle’s essay about her experience with her parents and the growing caregiver crisis.
Los aranceles del presidente Trump no bastaron para frenar la avalancha exportadora mundial de China, que superó el récord del año pasado en solo 11 meses.
In a Truth Social post, the president said he would sign an order that would eliminate a patchwork of state laws that have emerged in recent years.
The court heard arguments Monday on a case that could determine the independence of agencies like the National Transportation Safety Board and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Caleb E. Nelson, a leading originalist law professor, challenged the conventional wisdom of the “unitary executive theory” in an article that was debated in the parties’ briefs ahead of Monday’s arguments.
Melania Trump went minimal, Gloria Gaynor dressed to shine, but the star of the night was the president.
America’s recent flirtation with kingship is unsettling, but history has shown us that monarchy is much more than power grabs and gilded rooms.
The fate of the blockbuster Hollywood deal is in the hands of federal regulators.
Ms. Slaughter, a Democratic member of the Federal Trade Commission, sued President Trump after he fired her because she did not align with his agenda.
President Trump said the acquisition “could be a problem,” suggesting he will insert himself into the regulatory review of the transaction.
Sin duda, el país sigue enfrentándose a muchos retos. Pero ahora algunas cosas van bien allí, y también merecen nuestra atención.
Men deported to El Salvador said they were shackled, beaten, shot with rubber bullets and tear-gassed until they passed out.
Trump’s travails look more and more like Biden’s.
As a lawyer for a conservative think tank, Ms. Bondi, now the attorney general, filed a Supreme Court brief last year saying service members who followed such orders were committing crimes.
The court’s conservative majority has generally let President Trump remove leaders of independent agencies like the Federal Trade Commission, at least temporarily.
The chair of the central bank is dealing with internal divisions while being besieged by President Trump and front-runners jockeying to replace him.
The latest and best evidence of the damage is a warning about Trump-era tariff policies.
Investing in the old ways of war leaves America at risk.
Will the court grant a vast transfer of power from Congress to the president?
People who have insurance under the Affordable Care Act are being asked to pay more for plans that will cover less of their care.
Ukraine’s president was expected in London to discuss with the leaders of Britain, France and Germany ways of ending the conflict against Russia. Negotiations thus far have made little progress.
President Trump hosted the Kennedy Center Honors on Sunday, recognizing artists for lifetime achievements. Trump, who appointed himself chairman of the center, became the first president to host the ceremony.
Huge reductions in foreign aid by the United States and Europe have led the U.N.’s emergency relief coordinator to slash its fund-raising targets for next year.
President Trump’s tariffs weren’t enough to hold back the global export flood by China, which pushed past last year’s record in just 11 months.
Lawmakers aim to send the bill, which authorizes $8 billion more than the White House requested, to the president’s desk by the end of the year.
The plane, carrying about 50 Iranians and other deportees, took off from Arizona on Sunday, under a deal the Trump administration reached with Iran two months ago.
Days after pardoning him, President Trump accused Representative Henry Cuellar of Texas of disloyalty for not switching to the Republican Party.
Debemos cuestionar la legalidad de los ataques. Pero también tenemos que ver cómo encajan en el esfuerzo más amplio del gobierno de Trump por cambiar Estados Unidos.
The country certainly still faces many challenges. But some things are now going right there — and those are worth our attention, too.
Past presidents have attended the marquee event, but on Sunday Mr. Trump will be the first to host it, putting his cultural takeover of Washington in sharp relief.
Top Democratic lawmakers who have seen the footage said Sunday that making the video public would provide transparency around the strikes that killed two survivors on Sept. 2.
El presidente Trump apoyó a Nasry Asfura días antes de las elecciones del 30 de noviembre y denunció a sus oponentes. En una contienda reñida, eso ha inclinado potencialmente la balanza.
The Treasury Secretary said on Sunday he recently shed his holdings to comply with his federal ethics agreement.
A former secretary of homeland security on the illegality of Trump’s boat strikes.
What a special House election just told us.
Mounting questions will go unanswered because of a Supreme Court decision shielding presidents from scrutiny.
President Trump is shifting from discussion of the long-lasting competition among the world’s biggest economies and nuclear powers.
President Trump has repeatedly ousted leaders of independent agencies despite federal laws meant to shield those regulators from politics.
Franklin D. Roosevelt’s efforts to oust a Federal Trade Commission leader offer parallels to the current fight over President Trump’s actions.
After months of holding steady, President Trump‘s approval rating has dipped over the past several weeks, according to a New York Times analysis of public polling.
A New York Times review of President Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s actions on immigration showed that they created an opening for a more aggressive Trump administration agenda.
The Democratic president and his top advisers rejected recommendations that could have eased the border crisis that helped return Donald Trump to the White House.
The judge’s decision prevented the government until at least next Friday from having access to much of the evidence it used to secure its original indictment against Mr. Comey.
At an appearance in California, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth was noncommittal about releasing the full video of a U.S. military attack on a boat in the Caribbean.
President Trump backed Nasry Asfura days before the Nov. 30 election and denounced his opponents. In a close race, that has potentially tipped the scales.
Mr. Trump is pushing to approve their production in the United States.
Hamed Aleaziz, our immigration reporter, describes the sweeping changes the Trump administration has made that affect asylum seekers — people fleeing harm in their home countries — since the shooting of two National Guard members in Washington.
A new White House policy document formalizes President Trump’s long-held contempt for Europe’s leaders. It made clear that the continent now stands at a strategic crossroads.
Not too much religious moralism in the administration, but too little.
Until the court imposes limits, the administration will keep acting as if there are none.
When students are treated like customers, they can demand educators grade accordingly.
A new architect will oversee President Trump’s vision for the East Wing ballroom. See what we know about the original design so far.
The white descendants of Europeans who colonized the country are getting greater access to American officials this year, both in Washington and in Pretoria.
Michael and Susan Dell’s $6.25 billion donation to child savings accounts fits a trend: giving with no strings attached. In some ways, it’s a bipartisan philosophy.
El país sudamericano cuenta con las mayores reservas de petróleo del mundo. La producción, sin embargo, es poca.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. may be only beginning to put his stamp on American immunization policy.
Judge Sparkle L. Sooknanan stopped short of ordering the shuttering of the detention operation. But a lawyer for the challengers said they would soon seek a closure order.
“Trumpism without Trump is going to move in different directions because Trumpism was always a somewhat amorphous set of half-baked ideas,” Bret Stephens says.
“I think Americans — those who are not spending all their lives on social media — are so tired of the temperature of our political discourse,” Frank Bruni says on “The Opinions.” The solution? A “poetic and charismatic” centrist.
Top Republicans have said they want to produce a proposal in short order to counter Democrats pressing for an extension of health care subsidies. They have not gotten far.
President Trump’s new National Security Strategy describes a country that is focused on doing business and reducing migration while avoiding passing judgment on authoritarians.
The court’s conservative majority said that Texas’ asserted political motives justified letting the state use voting maps meant to disadvantage Democrats in the midterms.
The secretary of education is barnstorming the country, talking to schoolchildren about civics and promoting patriotism. Critics claim the lessons have been crafted by partisan and religious groups.
Some activists have lashed out, in a reprise of the backlash over the unsuccessful effort by Trump appointees to shut down the Epstein investigation.
La supervisión bipartidista del Congreso está en marcha, pero por ahora se enfoca en detalles concretos sobre un misil en lugar de en cuestiones legales más amplias.
Not long after President Trump missed out on the Nobel Peace Prize, his friend and FIFA president, Gianni Infantino, had his organization establish its own.
La extorsión de los cárteles está haciendo subir los precios en México, y se está convirtiendo en un problema político que la presidenta Claudia Sheinbaum no puede ignorar.
Las audiencias que iniciaron el miércoles en Washington reflejan la inquietud sobre el futuro del pacto comercial entre Estados Unidos, México y Canadá.
Estados Unidos critica políticas migratorias de varios países aliados en un documento recién publicado sobre seguridad nacional.
A federal judge in Florida ordered the release of previously sealed testimony, after legislation passed last month authorizing the disclosure.
The administration asked the justices to uphold an executive order ending birthright citizenship after lower courts ruled it violated the Constitution.
The South American country increasingly at odds with the Trump administration has the world’s largest oil reserves.
Readers react to President Trump’s disparaging comments about Somalis in the U.S. Also: Academic censorship; a prejudice against psychiatric medication.
A Trump-aligned political group is quietly spending millions to help state Republicans have a friendlier House map in 2028 — not in 2026, as with all of his other redistricting efforts.
Su reemplazo dependería en gran medida de la forma de su salida. Una dimisión voluntaria, un golpe de Estado interno o una acción militar externa darían lugar a diferentes contendientes.
The new detail further complicates the military’s explanations for its actions during the Sept. 2 strike in the Caribbean Sea.
Several senior Venezuelan officials and opposition politicians would have a claim to power in a transition, but all would face difficulties.
America’s goal should be “to help Europe correct its current trajectory,” the administration said in its new National Security Strategy.
The arrest came after years of false leads and speculation over who planted the bombs near the Capitol before the Jan. 6 riot.
En toda la región se ha producido un aumento del tráfico de cocaína mientras Estados Unidos ha dado prioridad a la lucha contra el fentanilo.
Mientras Washington hacía de la lucha contra el fentanilo una prioridad, el tráfico de cocaína se ha disparado. En ningún lugar se han sentido las ondas como en Ecuador, donde los grupos criminales han campado a sus anchas.
Across Latin America, there has been a surge in cocaine trafficking as Washington prioritized combating fentanyl. Times reporters traveled to Ecuador to see how criminal groups are wreaking havoc.
We need to question the strikes’ legality. But we also need to see how they fit into the Trump administration’s larger effort to change America.
Once nativism escalates, it’s hard to stop.
A new $40-million exhibit, opening nine months after President Trump fired the chief archivist, uses technology to explore the 13 billion-plus items in its vaults.
The shift, while small, is notable after months of stability in President Trump’s approval rating.
We are seeing an intentional effort from justices to rebalance the separation of powers in the federal government.
Ezra Klein answers your questions on the year’s political lessons, the struggles of young men and handling heat on the show.
As Washington made combating fentanyl a priority, cocaine trafficking has surged. Nowhere have the ripples been felt like in Ecuador, where criminal groups have run rampant.
Cartel extortion is pushing up prices in Mexico — and becoming a political problem President Claudia Sheinbaum can’t ignore.
Gianni Infantino, head of soccer’s governing body, has been ingratiating himself with the president to help ensure a successful 2026 World Cup.
Congress is focusing on two deaths in one strike. But nine other people died in that same attack, and the United States has killed 87 in all. Were any of those killings legal?
President Trump presided over a Congo-Rwanda peace deal on the same day his administration was being questioned about potential war crimes.
The automaker switched production from Ontario in a bid to please President Trump. But the company defaulted on contracts covering hundreds of millions of dollars in assistance, Canada said.
The president had clashed with the original designer and insisted on increasing the size and scope of the ballroom on a short timeline.
Minnesota’s governor said the president’s xenophobic remarks were dangerous as the state continued to face fiscal questions about a fraud scandal.
The move was the latest in an intensifying crackdown on legal immigration after an Afghan national was charged with shooting two National Guard members.
Redistricting talks in Florida got off to a slow start on Thursday, as state lawmakers grapple with political and legal questions amid internal power struggles.
Texas officials had asked the court to allow the state to use the new maps in the midterm elections, part of a push by President Trump to gain a partisan advantage.
After a judge dismissed the Trump administration’s first attempt to indict the attorney general of New York State, a new grand jury effort failed, according to people familiar with the matter.
Brad Parscale trabajó para impulsar a Nasry Asfura, representante de derecha que recibió el respaldo del mandatario estadounidense.
A week after the president surged more members of the National Guard to Washington, an appeals court halted an order that would have required the Guard to pull out after Dec. 11.
Readers told us how insurers are raising premiums and, in some cases, cutting back coverage, as climate change shakes up the real estate market.
In high-profile operations, more than half of those arrested had no criminal record, an analysis shows.
Just three days after President Trump pardoned the former Honduran president, Midence Oqueli Martinez Turcios, a former congressman and drug trafficker, got nearly 22 years.
For years, ordinary Filipinos fought for justice. Former President Rodrigo Duterte’s arrest proves that resistance matters.
Attacks on Somali Americans are a cruel distraction.
Democrats won an agreement for a floor showdown after the shutdown, but consensus still eludes the Senate. Will Republicans pay a political price?
Readers discuss an essay by Anand Giridharadas about Jeffrey Epstein’s circle. Also: The White House ballroom; Medicare for All; immigrant fears.
Un abogado de la que fue compañera del financiero caído en desgracia Jeffrey Epstein dijo que su representada pediría ser excarcelada de su prisión federal de mínima seguridad.
La demanda decía que el nuevo conjunto de normas del Departamento de Defensa para los periodistas “viola las garantías constitucionales del debido proceso, la libertad de expresión y la libertad de prensa”.