Brad Raffensperger, state’s top election official, is hoping to qualify for a runoff in the Republican primary for governor.
In a one-page document quietly posted on the Justice Department’s website, officials vowed not to pursue any matters, including those involving President Trump’s tax returns, that are pending.
The finding effectively paves the way for continued use of atrazine, a widely used herbicide that has been linked to birth defects and cancer in humans.
News that President Trump had snubbed Senator John Cornyn of Texas, the four-term incumbent, was met with shock, anger and fear that the G.O.P. could lose his seat.
Ken Paxton, the Texas attorney general, seems poised to defeat Senator John Cornyn, a four-term incumbent.
David Schutzenhofer, a Trump Organization employee, reached out to one of the vendors the government later hired for the iconic site near the Lincoln Memorial, documents show.
Younger Republicans are less likely to support overseas interventions and aid, a Times/Siena poll shows.
The president embraced Ken Paxton, a MAGA loyalist, over Senator John Cornyn, despite warnings from Republican leaders about Mr. Paxton’s history of scandal.
The United States and Europe were at odds over the Trump administration’s decision to ease oil sanctions on Russia.
El presidente Trump dijo que había pospuesto un “ataque muy importante” contra Irán, mientras Pakistán proseguía sus esfuerzos de mediación para poner fin a la guerra.
Officials wrote a memo outlining ways to challenge President Trump’s suit against the Internal Revenue Service. The administration is instead creating an “anti-weaponization” fund.
Readers will miss Stephen Colbert’s “joy, wit, nonsense and sanity,” in the words of one writer. Also: President Trump’s fund; Kash Patel’s snorkeling trip; Meta’s retort.
Brian Morrissey, encargado jurídico principal del departamento, dejó su puesto horas después de que el gobierno de Trump diera a conocer el fondo de 1800 millones de dólares.
El presidente de EE. UU. parece atrapado entre dos impulsos contrapuestos: obligar a Irán a someterse y declarar la victoria y seguir adelante.
With the upheaval in the Persian Gulf disrupting oil and gas supplies, Russia is looking to deepen its energy ties to China.
After President Trump’s threats to seize the island, Gov. Jeff Landry’s offers of MAGA hats and chocolate chip cookies fall flat.
Andrew Giuliani, the son of Rudy and a longtime Trump loyalist, is overseeing American hosting duties for the World Cup next month. It’s a big promotion.
The Republican primary in Representative Thomas Massie’s district has drawn vast spending, but it is just one of several contests on Tuesday that will test the power of big money.
President Trump said he had postponed a “very major attack” against Iran, as Pakistan continued its mediation efforts to end the war.
In a Republican primary for a House seat in Kentucky, Rep. Thomas Massie is facing off against Ed Gallrein, who is backed by the president.
Plus, a North Korean soccer team hits the road.
Una nueva investigación arroja luz sobre cómo empleados mediocres ayudan a los aspirantes a autoritarios a mantener el poder.
The political scientist Lee Drutman argues that we should switch to a system of proportional representation and put an end to our “trench warfare politics.”
Times Opinion convened a panel of state experts to weigh in on the primary.
In a representative democracy, no one should hold so much power for so long.
According to a new study, construction was impacted more than any other industry studied, with American-born workers losing more jobs than immigrants as a result of the deportations.
While President Trump remains overwhelmingly popular within the Republican coalition, a New York Times/Siena poll found, a sizable share wants the party’s next nominee to take a different approach.
A prominent Republican critic of President Trump is trying to hang on in Kentucky, and other states are also holding primaries that will test Mr. Trump’s power over his party.
The president is popping up on the back of the iconic three-wheeler to kick off America’s 250th anniversary celebrations in India.
The exhaust from helicopters’ engines has been known to occasionally scorch the grass on their landing zones.
Traveling across the country, justices defend the role of the court even as strained relations among its members emerge in writing and remarks.
Brian Morrissey, the department’s general counsel, stepped down hours after the Trump administration announced the $1.8 billion fund.
The Trump administration argues that an “emergency refugee situation” in South Africa merits bringing more Afrikaners to America, at a cost of some $100 million.
La medida supone una importante escalada en la campaña del gobierno de Trump para obligar al gobierno comunista a revisar su sistema económico y político.
La abierta disposición del presidente Trump a retrasar un paquete de armas para Taiwán por valor de 14.000 millones de dólares es una victoria para Pekín.
The Trump administration, ratcheting up its effort to cripple the Cuban government, also imposed sanctions on three government agencies, including the police.
Un índice de aprobación del 37 por ciento en una nueva encuesta de Times/Siena sugiere que el Partido Republicano se enfrenta a un problema a mitad de legislatura.
President Trump announced the addition of 600 medicines to his online drugstore as he appeals to Americans concerned about high drug prices and affordability.
Qué revelaron los archivos, las investigaciones y los testimonios sobre la red de poder y complicidad que rodeó a Epstein.
The Trump administration sued Harvard earlier this year over allegations it had not done enough to combat antisemitism on campus.
President Trump has repeatedly threatened new military action against Iran, only to pull back from resuming major fighting in a deeply unpopular, expensive conflict.
Renewable energy has helped make the worst-case scenario a bit less bad. The president said, falsely, it shows that climate scientists were wrong all along.
First on Democrats’ to-do list must be banning gerrymandering, restoring voting rights protections and reforming the Supreme Court.
The rules were established by the Biden administration after research linked the compounds to a range of serious health problems.
The Trump administration is creating a $1.8 billion fund to compensate people it says were wronged by the federal government, a group that could be largely made up of the president’s allies.
On the eve of their primary, Republicans have grown nervous about their prospects in November against Mr. Ossoff, regarded as the most vulnerable Democratic senator in the fall midterms.
El objetivo del acto de oración, que contó con miembros del gabinete, era consolidar la idea de que la fundación de EE. UU. fue un proyecto intencionalmente cristiano.
Louisiana wants the Food and Drug Administration to curtail access to the medication. Doing so could cost Republicans at the polls.
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.