Readers respond to a column by Nicholas Kristof. Also: Imposing religion.
James Antaki’s efforts to develop a baby’s heart were close to success when his federal funding was cut off. The grants were eventually restored; rebuilding what was lost wasn’t so easy.
The dismissal appears to be part of the Trump administration’s effort to effectively settle the case, which stemmed from the leak of his tax returns in 2019.
Defense Department officials typically stay away from partisan politics to maintain the military’s apolitical image.
President Trump’s open willingness to hold up a $14 billion Taiwan arms package is a win for Beijing. Now China could be weighing how to keep the weapons on ice for as long as it can.
The president has sought to force Iran to accept his terms on its nuclear program or else face renewed war. An emboldened Iran has rebuffed Trump’s demands.
Plus, inside the closed-door talks over Greenland.
A 37 percent approval rating in a new Times/Siena poll suggests the G.O.P. is facing a big midterm problem despite recent redistricting gains.
Under pressure from President Trump, the legislature will consider new House districts this week. Some in the G.O.P. worry changes would be too costly and could backfire.
Top policymakers were expected to discuss rising energy prices and sanctions policy at a critical summit in Paris this week.
If you’re not strutting, you’re not selling
Across the states that have had their maps redrawn, partisan gerrymandering is eroding the number of competitive districts where elections are actually won and lost.
Representative Thomas Massie, the Republican who wears his rifts with President Trump as badges of honor, is battling Trump-backed challenger Ed Gallrein to keep his seat.
The war has revealed the true puniness of Trump’s power
With the midterms nearing, President Trump’s approval rating has hit a second-term low as voters question his handling of the economy, according to the latest New York Times/Siena poll.
The timing brought the court into the middle of a fight to redraw voting maps across the South, even as some primaries were underway.
Greenlandic officials worry about the direction of the negotiations aimed at defusing President Trump’s threats to seize their island. But they have little leverage.
Doctors and patients complain that the controversial practice of prior authorization for treatment and procedures is still widespread.
El presidente nunca ha pretendido ser un estadounidense de a pie, pero una reciente “verdad incómoda” lo ha expuesto a críticas de que no comprende la tensión económica de su guerra en Irán.
The humanitarian relief system, decimated by cuts, faces a grave challenge as the Middle East war causes soaring costs for food, fuel and fertilizer.
After President Trump hinted that weapons sales to Taiwan could figure in negotiations with China, officials emphasized their island’s strategic importance.
Gov. Jared Polis’s decision to commute the sentence of Tina Peters came after months of tense discussions, including one with President Trump.
Republican Senator Bill Cassidy lost his Louisiana primary on Saturday after President Trump targeted him for voting to impeach him in 2021. The two-term senator took veiled swipes at the president in his concession speech.
For this to happen, however, both men would need personality transplants.
The president has never pretended to be an ordinary American, but a recent “truth bomb” has opened him to criticism that he doesn’t grasp the economic strain of his war with Iran.
Just months before another election that may hinge on the economy, the war in Iran has sent gas and other goods soaring.
The defeat of Senator Bill Cassidy showed the president’s dominance in his party at a moment when a broader range of views about Mr. Trump could be a major liability for November.
Here is what we know about the sexual predator whose secrets spurred an international reckoning over money, power and complicity. Check back for updates.
In a new memoir, the former senator, governor and cabinet member says President Trump committed an impeachable offense on Jan. 6 and calls on Congress to assert its power.
Senator Bill Cassidy’s defeat means no more than two of them will be left in Congress next year.
Democrats announced Saturday night that the Senate’s top parliamentary referee had determined that the $1 billion provision did not comply with budget rules.
Senator Bill Cassidy, a two-term Republican who voted to convict President Trump in his 2021 impeachment trial, could not muster enough votes to continue to a runoff next month.
A long-shot emergency request to restore a voting map was the latest salvo in an all-out legal war over control of the House.
The lack of concrete agreements with Beijing shows the risks of President Trump’s personality-driven foreign policy, which rests on the belief that he can defend U.S. interests through charm and force of will.
The Russian leader will go to Beijing on Tuesday for talks with President Xi Jinping. The Kremlin said he had watched President Trump’s visit closely.
In shutting down a 33-year late-night franchise, CBS is assenting to its own diminishment.
The country seems to be tiring of the Trump era. Now what?
We are in a moment when we need to build and think to the future.
As a senator, Marco Rubio even hinted at the need for regime change in China. Now he talks about cooperation.
Senator Bill Cassidy, who has drawn President Trump’s ire, is fighting for political survival.
Xi Jinping se ha pasado el último año haciendo frente al presidente Donald Trump. Ahora, tras dejar clara su posición y establecer a China como par de Estados Unidos, se está enfocando en redefinir su relación.
The leader, whom the State Department designated a terrorist in 2023, had been hiding in Africa, President Trump said.
The president said a potential arms deal for Taiwan was a “very good negotiating chip” in talks with Beijing. His words raise questions about the steadfastness of U.S. support.
En medio de un aumento de los vuelos de vigilancia, una visita del director de la CIA y un embargo energético, la Casa Blanca intenta aumentar la presión sobre Cuba.
State officials had asked the justices to step in to allow the state to use a congressional map in the midterms that was drawn by Democrats and recently approved by voters.
The language had been removed from wall text in the National Portrait Gallery, but it’s back as the museum unveiled changes to its exhibition on U.S. presidents.
Amid stepped-up surveillance flights, a visit of the C.I.A. director and an energy embargo, the White House is trying to increase pressure on Cuba.
Gov. Jared Polis, a Democrat, commuted the sentence of Ms. Peters, a former county clerk serving a nine-year sentence for her role in a plot to examine voting machines after the 2020 election.
Critics denounced the highly unusual plan, which has yet to be finalized or approved, as a vast political slush fund financed by taxpayers.
The F.B.I. director continues to come under scrutiny for mixing government business with dates, vacation and leisure time.
Top aides have drafted battle plans as peace negotiations have stalled.
Responses to a guest essay by Molly Jong-Fast, “I Tried to Become My Mother and Ended Up Becoming Myself.” Also: President Trump in China; a gift to Big Tobacco.
After President Trump’s meeting in Beijing with China’s leader, Xi Jinping, our reporter David Sanger examines the differences in their body language and style.
El Departamento de Seguridad Nacional de EE. UU. creó una unidad encargada de revisar los antecedentes de miles de migrantes con residencia permanente.
El presidente regresa a Estados Unidos tras una cumbre en China, en la que ambos países trataron de estabilizar sus relaciones económicas y políticas.
Trump is attacking the data that helps Americans understand reality itself. In this video from Times Opinion, we examine how his war on numbers follows a familiar authoritarian playbook.
The call, initiated by Friedrich Merz, came soon after he told young people, “I am a great admirer of America. My admiration is not increasing at the moment.”
The president has shifted the foundations of American policy toward China, throwing aside the adversarial approach of recent years.
On Threads and other sites, liberal-minded Chinese accounts were mocking the proceedings and offering a rare window into opinions on Xi Jinping and his leadership style.
The Trump administration has authorized a test program to see if the cannabis compound can ease some symptoms and reduce health care costs among older patients.
The Trump-Xi summit emphasized stability. But China’s recruitment of foreign agents has fueled suspicion of Chinese Americans.
The engagement between the president and the Chinese leader may have tested a decades-old U.S. assurance to Taiwan not to consult Beijing on the topic.
The loyalist, Dan Bishop, put his fealty to the president on display when he pressed the F.B.I. to chase investigative leads it had already rejected.
Having fought the Trump administration to a draw, China’s Xi Jinping is proposing “constructive strategic stability,” aimed at drawing lines he thinks the U.S. should not cross.
Representative Thomas Massie, the incumbent, has opposed President Trump’s military strikes on Iran. He is now facing the biggest challenge of his career.
There was no major breakthrough in Beijing, but China pulled out all the stops for President Trump, with extravagant ceremonies and a state banquet.
President Trump is returning home from Beijing after a two-day summit that achieved a few deals but left investors and analysts underwhelmed.
Watch an exchange between the two men in which the Chinese leader sought to signal exclusivity and name-dropped Russia’s president.
Hopes for an end to the war in Iran faded after President Trump failed to secure a commitment from China to help persuade Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz.
After several years of dismissing A.I. safety as doomer fear-mongering, parts of the Trump administration now seem ready to support regulation.
We wrap up President Trump’s visit to China.
President Trump and China’s leader, Xi Jinping, emphasized stability but announced no major breakthroughs on points of contention like trade, Taiwan and the war in Iran.
The president left Beijing following a summit with China, during which the two countries sought to stabilize their economic and political relations.
There has been rampant speculation online about whether the Chinese government changed the transliteration of Marco Rubio’s name to overlook sanctions. But that theory is wrong.
What you should know about the federal government’s pilot program offering GLP-1s solely for weight loss.
Two powerful forces in politics clash.
And no, an exit strategy won’t help you, either.
Authoritarians go after data. The president has already started.
China’s leader, Xi Jinping, gave President Trump a tour of secretive Beijing compound toward the end of their two-day summit.
The deal, if it materializes, would be a major win for Boeing, which has lost ground to Airbus in one of the world’s largest aviation markets.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent did not say when these talks would happen. There are fears in the United States and China about the threats from A.I., but neither side is willing to slow down its development.
China’s leader, Xi Jinping, was meeting with President Trump on Friday at Zhongnanhai, a heavily guarded Beijing compound where top Chinese officials live and work.
At a court hearing over a presidential order seeking to exert more control over elections, a government lawyer said no “responsible state” should rely on the lists to update their voter rolls.
El gobierno cubano lidia con una grave crisis energética debido al colapso de las infraestructuras y la disminución del suministro de Venezuela.
A pesar de los problemas de China —deflación, despoblación, la burbuja inmobiliaria—, Xi dejó claro que había llegado el momento de que su país actuara como una superpotencia.
But he stopped short of ordering lawmakers to redo the map so that Republicans could sweep the state’s congressional delegation, which President Trump has pressured them to do.
Federal records show that the no-bid contract to repair the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool and paint it blue now costs $13.1 million. That’s about seven times the amount President Trump initially said it would cost.
Vice President JD Vance traveled to Maine for a speech, making a midterm election pitch that only Republicans could root out fraud in public benefits.
John Ratcliffe, director de la CIA, es el funcionario de más alto rango del gobierno de Trump que ha visitado el país.
A federal appeals court ruling against the Food and Drug Administration would have restricted access by mail to mifepristone.
But two vulnerable Republicans joined Democrats in the effort to force President Trump to win authorization from Congress, in the latest sign of G.O.P. jitters over the war.
Como jefe del Estado Mayor Conjunto, el general Dan Caine está obligado a mantenerse al margen de la refriega política provocada por la guerra en Irán. Pero trabaja para un presidente que le exige lealtad absoluta.
John Ratcliffe, the C.I.A. director, is the highest-ranking official in the Trump administration to visit the country.
El juez consideró que era muy probable que el gobierno de Donald Trump hubiera infringido la ley al deportar a la mujer al país africano a pesar de que este se negaba a acogerla.
A long-running energy crisis in the island nation reached a breaking point this week, when government officials said they had run out of reserves.
Los chefs chinos trataron de apelar a las preferencias culinarias de Trump al tiempo que utilizaban ingredientes y técnicas de cocina tradicionales.
El Departamento de Justicia de EE. UU. impulsa una propuesta para intentar paralizar o retrasar que los colegios de abogados sancionen la ética de los profesionales que trabajan para el gobierno de Trump.
Although at odds over issues like trade and Taiwan, the U.S. and Chinese leaders met in Beijing with a show of friendly gestures.
A regulatory filing explains just how much it costs to keep an aging coal plant open under the Trump administration’s orders.
New research claims that bipartisan primaries have broad societal benefit, but opposition is growing, and Louisiana voters this weekend will participate in the state’s first closed primary since 1978.
The board said the administration is taking “a significant step backwards” on preventing chemical disasters.
A three-judge panel showed few signs of siding with the president on his efforts to compel law firms to work for the administration or face threats.
In contrast to his rhetoric about China at home, President Trump spoke in conciliatory terms with Xi Jinping, the Chinese leader.
The agency also said it would delay the implementation of an air pollution rule for cars and trucks by two years.
El líder chino, Xi Jinping, dijo que las relaciones entre ambos países podrían volverse una “situación extremadamente peligrosa” si Trump hace caso omiso de las exigencias chinas sobre Taiwán.
After months of avoiding confrontation, the Trump administration has taken recent steps to call out China on Iran, artificial intelligence and spying.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth are among the scheduled speakers at the event, part of festivities for the nation’s 250th birthday.
The decision came after a meeting in which a lawyer for the billionaire, Gautam Adani, made an unusual offer, according to people familiar with the matter.
Higher fuel prices are a burden on low-income families.
The Gulf Arab states have been grappling with how to deter Iran after the war made clear the limits of American security guarantees.
China’s leader reached for Greek history to warn the United States of what can happen when a rising power meets an incumbent one.
Costs have been mounting in the year since the Trump administration began directing aging coal plants to say open.
A pledge for more Chinese investment could face backlash given longstanding national security concerns in the United States.
Guests included top U.S. and Chinese officials and the chief executives of several major American companies.
It was unclear why Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth called off the deployment to Poland, which has close relations with the United States.
He has minimized soaring gas prices, rising inflation and the American economy’s need for the Strait of Hormuz.
Nearly all the business leaders and officials accompanying President Trump in China are men. There are few women on the Chinese side, too.
Residents in four Chinese cities described a mixture of amusement and anger, blaming U.S. tensions for a slowing economy and rising fuel prices.
President Trump and President Xi Jinping of China emphasized cooperation in their remarks after walking into the Great Hall of the People side by side.
A mixture of Chinese and international dishes were on the menu as Beijing’s chefs sought to appeal to President Trump’s tastes.
President Trump and China’s leader, Xi Jinping, exchanged pleasantries and also tackled areas of contention like Taiwan and trade.
El presidente será recibido con todos los honores, pero la profunda brecha que hay entre Estados Unidos y China será muy difícil de reparar.
During the first round of two days of talks, Xi Jinping issued a stern warning about Taiwan while Trump touted all the top business leaders in his delegation.
Some of Mr. Trump’s most influential cabinet members and the C.E.O.s of some of America’s biggest corporations accompanied him on his visit to Beijing.
Kevin Warsh was sworn in as the new chair of the Federal Reserve.
From satellite phone check-ins to a borrowed royal plane, new details show how Taiwan’s leader’s team outwitted China and pulled off an audacious journey to southern Africa.
Earlier, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said in an interview that China should take a more active role in resolving a standoff over the strait.
Mr. Musk is part of a delegation of business leaders to China, where his interests include Tesla’s electric vehicle factory and solar panels.
When MAHA turns into HAHA.
The president is expected to urge the Chinese leader to help ease tensions in the Middle East by helping to persuade Iran to end the war.
An individual with principles and quirks, and against being told what to do.
M. Gessen and Rachel Louise Snyder on the parallels between authoritarianism and domestic violence.
A scene inspired by the winter at Valley Forge has become more prominent in the Trump era, along with claims that the United States was founded as a Christian nation.
The collection of names is admittedly speculative, and it’s likely to grow.
After a series of political victories under President Trump, firms are lobbying Congress for a sweeping framework they helped shape.
Beijing approved export licenses for hundreds of American slaughterhouses to resume beef shipments, ending a 15-month ban.
President Trump shook hands with President Xi Jinping of China at the start of a two-day summit in Beijing on Thursday. They are expected to discuss trade, Iran and Taiwan.
The Temple of Heaven and Great Hall of the People embody distinct parts of China’s history, which Xi Jinping has sought to underscore while hosting state visits.
La política de Trump hacia China ha debilitado a EE. UU., especialmente en su segundo mandato.
His talks with Xi Jinping in Beijing could decide whether the United States and China maintain their uneasy truce on trade.
El líder de España ha establecido una filosofía de gobierno alternativa al trumpismo.
Historic sites and roads have been closed in the Chinese capital for President Trump’s state visit, resulting in severe traffic and disappointed tourists.
China quiere que continúe la tregua comercial con EE. UU. Eso significa que Xi negociará con Trump para que no se impongan más aranceles, ni controles a las exportaciones, ni sanciones a sus empresas.
The billionaire investor who predicted the 2008 financial crash is bearish on America’s future standing in the world. On “Interesting Times,” Ray Dalio tells the columnist Ross Douthat why.
The unusual ruling came after the judge found that the Trump administration had most likely violated the law by deporting the 55-year-old woman to the African country despite its refusal to take her.
The move escalates the administration’s feud with legal disciplinary bodies over the ethical conduct of government lawyers.
President Trump brought more than a dozen executives of lead financial and tech companies on his trip to Beijing. Trump is expected to discuss the creation of a board of investment and a board of trade with China.
There are few issues in diplomacy more complicated than the status of the self-governing island, which China claims as its own. It is almost certain to come up when President Trump meets China’s leader.
But the agreement is the latest softening of carbon reduction measures introduced by Prime Minister Mark Carney since he took office last year.
President Trump’s visit to Beijing comes as relations with China have became more combative.