America must defend its greatest asset: Its alliances.
El costo de los préstamos ya está ahogando el gasto público crucial en muchas economías en desarrollo. Ahora está haciendo saltar alarmas más grandes.
Since President Trump’s rise, the issue has been a strength for the party. But now, after the chaos in Minnesota, Democrats see an opening and some Republicans worry that Mr. Trump is going too far.
Readers react to news and an editorial about the unrest in Minneapolis. Also: Vaccines and health priorities.
A draft resolution revealed some of the plans for the new international body, which met for the first time last week amid criticism from some U.S. allies.
Scott Bessent said that the Canadian prime minister had recanted his call on middle powers to no longer accommodate the U.S.
Andrea Lucas, the chair of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, has said she wants to undo years of what she describes as activist excess around labor law.
La senadora por Florida Ileana Garcia, quien es cubanoestadounidense, predijo que su partido perderá las elecciones intermedias si la Casa Blanca no reconsidera pronto sus tácticas.
The new census estimates reflect President Trump’s anti-immigration policies. South Carolina is the nation’s fastest-growing state, while Florida’s growth declined.
Las declaraciones de Mark Rutte, secretario general de la alianza, abordaron la preocupación de que EE. UU. y Europa se estén distanciando por las ambiciones de Trump sobre Groenlandia.
State Senator Ileana Garcia, who is Cuban American, was once such a true believer in President Trump that she co-founded “Latinas for Trump,” a national group.
The case tests the Trump administration’s argument that its extrajudicial killings of people suspected of smuggling drugs at sea have been lawful.
La reunión es una señal de que el presidente está preocupado por las consecuencias de la muerte de Alex Pretti, quien fue abatido a tiros por agentes de migración.
Jennifer Homendy, the outspoken chairwoman of the National Transportation Safety Board, is reclaiming the spotlight at a meeting on Tuesday about the Washington, D.C., crash that killed 67.
El gobierno de Trump planea trasladar fuera al oficial cuyas tácticas en las principales ciudades de EE. UU. han generado polémica, según dos funcionarios.
The Department of Homeland Security said body camera footage, taken from multiple angles, was being examined, as local officials sought to ensure evidence was preserved.
Mr. Vindman will run for the Democratic nomination to take on Senator Ashley Moody, a Republican. The race is an uphill fight for Democrats, but Mr. Vindman could be a strong fund-raiser.
The builders of the Gateway project, a critical rail tunnel between New York and New Jersey, are expected to warn that construction cannot continue without the withheld federal money.
Plus, Mamdani’s snowstorm recommendation.
Scenes from the violent unrest in Minneapolis played on a loop in many American households over the weekend, prompting reflection about where the nation is heading.
A Republican member of Congress argues that neither Biden nor Trump had the right solution on immigration.
But being a “hot” country does not make you a good country. Or a decent one.
The moment is ripe to deal a debilitating blow to Trumpism and the MAGA movement. But who can deliver it?
Farmers are critical to Iowa’s economy. They have been battered by President Trump’s tariffs and are not yet experiencing the “golden age” that the president promised.
The Federal Reserve is expected to hold interest rates steady on Wednesday, despite relentless attacks from President Trump over borrowing costs.
Watching the response to ICE in his hometown has the columnist Thomas L. Friedman navigating “a mixture of pride and anguish.”
With President Trump threatening to seize the territory, curious listeners have discovered its poppy rock group Nanook.
Why the competition for, and control of, energy resources is central to global politics.
A flurry of posts from the White House, Department of Labor and Department of Homeland Security have included images, slogans and even a song used by the white nationalist right.
Executives who donated to the president’s super PAC met privately with him and urged a repeal of the rule, which was intended to prevent neglect of patients.
Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada’s speech at Davos last week sent shock waves through the international community. The international-affairs scholar Henry Farrell explains why.
Europe’s nationalist leaders once saw President Trump as an ideological ally. Now, as he threatens European sovereignty, they are seeking distance — at least for the moment.
With 300,000 employees gone and collective-bargaining rights eliminated, the administration has hobbled organized labor. Did it also start a movement?
In “Hated by All the Right People,” the journalist Jason Zengerle looks at the conservative pundit’s many transformations.
Donde algunos republicanos ven un abandono de las normas y alianzas de posguerra, los seguidores de Trump alaban a un presidente que revive el espíritu de Theodore Roosevelt.
Más de 20 funcionarios, y exfuncionarios, expresaron su preocupación por la estrategia del gobierno de Trump de enviar agentes federales a Mineápolis y a otras ciudades en situaciones cada vez más peligrosas.
President Trump said Seoul was not moving fast enough to implement the agreement, which calls for South Korea to invest billions in the United States.
Prime Minister Keir Starmer hopes to boost his country’s lagging economy with a trip to Beijing. But he must carefully navigate between two superpowers.
The cost of borrowing is already choking crucial public spending in many developing economies. Now it’s raising broader alarms.
The meeting is a sign that the president is concerned about the fallout from the killing of Alex Pretti, who was shot by immigration agents.
Chris Madel, a defense lawyer, called the operation “simply a disaster.” His decision comes two days after a second fatal shooting by federal agents in Minneapolis.
The administration announced a $1.6 billion deal with USA Rare Earth. The firm also does business with Cantor Fitzgerald, which is run by the sons of President Trump’s commerce secretary.
Protests that erupted late last year shook elements of the Iranian government, according to the reports.
Republicans wrestle with Trump administration positions that seem to contradict their beliefs on gun rights, states’ rights and limited use of federal power.
President Trump threatened to increase tariffs on South Korean exports, including cars, citing the country’s slow ratification of a trade deal.
The announcement of a reorganization comes nearly a year after a midair collision killed 67 people and prompted a public outcry for enhancing the security of aviation travel.
A warmer atmosphere has the potential to hold more moisture, which can contribute to heavier precipitation in any season, scientists say.
Our reporter who spent time in the city weighed in on how the chaos is changing the political landscape.
Law enforcement experts say federal agents deviated from standard practice before and during the shooting of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis, based on videos.
Mark Rutte, the secretary general of the alliance, told members of the European Parliament that President Trump was “doing a lot of good stuff.”
The inquiry, initiated by the U.S. attorney’s office in Washington, appears to have stalled for lack of evidence.
At least so far, President Trump has managed to bring along even those conservative supporters who are skeptical of foreign interventions.
President Trump, facing growing criticism of the tactics of immigration agents in Minnesota, shifted from attacking the state’s governor to stressing cooperation.
El gobierno de EE. UU. debe a los estadounidenses una investigación exhaustiva y un informe veraz sobre las muertes a manos de agentes federales en Mineápolis.
The Justice Department has urged Minnesota to hand over voters’ private data. It is part of a national push that has raised concerns about the Trump administration’s motives.
Iran and its militia allies say they will respond aggressively in the region if attacked. A U.S. aircraft carrier and warships are approaching the region.
Incluso cuando la muerte de un segundo manifestante en Minnesota exigía asumir responsabilidades, el presidente, aislado de las voces discrepantes, se aferró a su patrón de culpar por reflejo a los oponentes.
“He has not been involved in that area, but knows and likes many of the people there,” President Trump wrote on Truth Social on Monday.
The term, long considered a slur for those with intellectual disabilities, is seeing a resurgence on social media and across the political right.
Some companies have begun to respond to the fatal shooting of Alex Jeffrey Pretti and the immigration crackdown. But others have stayed silent.
Ukrainian and Russian officials left rare direct talks last weekend in a somewhat optimistic mood. But Russia may be simply stalling for time, analysts said.
Plus, High January is the new Dry January.
La presidenta interina promete transparencia y responsabilidad, pero persiste la vigilancia y el control político, mientras crece la expectativa de un auge económico.
Current and former officials describe growing frustration and disillusionment with the Trump administration’s approach, even as they support the goal of immigration enforcement.
State and local prosecutions could produce deterrent effects that are so desperately needed now.
On immigration raids, the shooting death of Alex Pretti and where we go from here.
Concerns about the affordability of education, housing, health care, having a family and retirement are driving economic anxieties, a New York Times/Siena poll found.
Interim leader Delcy Rodríguez is liberalizing the economy without dismantling her predecessor’s repressive apparatus, raising questions about her aims.
Mineápolis lo ha dejado claro.
Mette Frederiksen, la primera ministra de Dinamarca, ha asumido grandes riesgos al enfrentarse a Trump. Puede que esté funcionando, por ahora.
The president’s approach is not just chaos or an updated version of 19th-century great-power competition.
Tension over Greenland has prompted worries that the Trump administration could turn the U.S. oil and gas industry into a way to pressure Europe.
Top administration officials had earlier, and without evidence, accused each of the shooting victims in Minneapolis of “domestic terrorism.”
Even as the second death of a protester in Minnesota brought demands for accountability, the president, insulated from dissenting voices, stuck to his pattern of reflexively blaming opponents.
The administration was in a race to control the narrative around the killing of Alex Pretti, even as videos emerged that contradicted the government’s account.
Jennifer Mnookin has led the flagship campus of the state university system since 2022.
People protested the death of Alex Jeffrey Pretti, whom federal agents fatally shot during demonstrations against a ramped-up immigration enforcement effort by the Trump administration. Federal officials said that Mr. Pretti had approached agents with a handgun and “wanted to do maximum damage.” But video from the scene shows Mr. Pretti was holding a phone, not a gun.
The Trump team has advanced one-sided narratives to justify each of the killings, even when bystander video shows something else entirely.
The Trump administration is once again engaged in a perversion of justice.
The Louisiana Republican, who is facing a primary opponent backed by President Trump, said there should be a joint state and federal inquiry into the shooting death of 37-year-old Minneapolis man.
When ICE and Hamas start looking the same, we are all in trouble.
The former U.S. secretary of state warns that, between the Greenland deal and Trump’s trashing of the world order, America is losing.
The area most U.S. Arctic strategists think needs the most immediate development is not Greenland but the Bering Sea, almost 3,000 miles away.
The president’s neediness is transforming our institutions.
It’s rarely been harder to disagree politically — but social science suggests ways to have constructive conversations across ideological divides.
A pesar de que se ha liberado a decenas de presos políticos, al menos 66 personas detenidas por las autoridades del Estado siguen desaparecidas, según afirman sus familiares y organizaciones de derechos humanos.
What I saw, as federal agents stormed the city and residents banded together to protect themselves, was a dark, dystopian future becoming reality.
Residents also oppose a data center the size of 18 Walmarts that is set to be built in pristine woodland outside Bessemer, Ala. “All this will be gone,” one said.
Even as dozens of political prisoners have been freed, at least 66 people taken by state authorities and never heard from again remain missing, relatives and rights groups say.
Tras una cumbre de emergencia, la presidenta de la Comisión Europea declaró que “la firmeza, el acercamiento, la preparación y la unidad” habían sido eficaces al lidiar con Estados Unidos.
The prime minister sees Trump all too well.
I worry that for some of us, our antipathy to Trump has become part of who we are, and it can be something of a personal poison.
Mette Frederiksen, Denmark’s leader, has taken big risks standing up to Mr. Trump. It might just be working — for now.
The department had made an extraordinary request for the appeals court to force a judge to issue warrants for Mr. Lemon and four other people in connection with a church protest in Minneapolis.
Federal agents shot and killed a 37-year-old Minneapolis resident on Saturday, the city’s police chief said.
Syria’s government and Kurdish-led forces in the country’s northeast have clashed as President Ahmed al-Sharaa seeks to extend his authority across the entire country.
In a year, the president has altered 10 spaces in the White House.
President Trump said he would impose tariffs if Canada made “a deal with China,” though there is no sign that those countries are discussing a broad trade agreement.
Officials from Russia, Ukraine and the United States are meeting in the United Arab Emirates for rare three-way negotiations.
Our national mosaic, crushed beneath the ICE.
It might be worth considering the logic of the Carney doctrine.
The flurry of actions have pointed the country in a new direction.
Emily Bazelon, a lawyer and writer, thinks the courts have pushed back against Trump in important ways. But ultimately, as she explains on “The Opinions,” they can’t stop the broader expansion of presidential power on their own.
President Trump isn’t dumb, the columnist David French argues. He’s “diabolically shrewd,” especially in how he picks political targets that can be difficult to defend.
The Conversation convenes with Emily Bazelon, David French and Aaron Retica discussing the questions reshaping American politics right now, from immigration enforcement to whether the country can still claim to be “one nation, indivisible.”
At the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, the prime minister was praised for his blunt talk about the president’s irrevocable “rupture” in the world order.
We asked voters to describe their emotions about President Trump’s second term so far. Most spoke of happiness or hostility.
U.S. and European officials say they are unaware of any intelligence that shows China and Russia are endangering the island, which is protected by the NATO security umbrella.
Prime Minister Keir Starmer stood firm over Greenland. But his center-left government and the country as a whole have been buffeted by President Trump.
A new poll shows that voters who will decide control of Congress see a lack of presidential emphasis on critical domestic issues.
U.S. trade policy has devastated the Canadian auto industry and pushed the country to reach an agreement that will make it easier for Chinese companies to sell cars there.
Our publisher, executive editor and other leaders responded to your comments and questions about our First Amendment lawsuit.
The New York Times pasó la imagen por un sistema de detección de IA y concluyó que presentaba signos de manipulación.
Territorial integrity is a core tenet of Europe that is at risk from Russian and American imperialism. Brussels has fought back.
The ruling represents another setback in the Trump administration’s mass deportation campaign.
The detention this week of a 5-year-old boy in Minnesota animated protesters in New York City, who faced freezing temperatures.
El gobierno interino de Venezuela ha dado otra señal de sus esfuerzos de apaciguar al gobierno de Trump y está recibiendo más ciudadanos deportados. Esta semana han llegado tres vuelos.
The Department of Housing and Urban Development said it would punish public housing authorities that did not adequately verify tenants’ immigration status within 30 days.
The agency says that victims of an investment offering involving Gemini Trust got their money back, though after a regulatory action brought by the New York attorney general.
Philadelphia sued the Trump administration after it directed the Park Service to rip out a memorial to slavery. Elsewhere, materials about climate change and labor history were being removed.
Top military leaders from 34 countries plan to discuss improving efforts in the Western Hemisphere to fight drug trafficking and transnational criminal organizations.
Polls, careful remarks from JD Vance and chats with voters all point to some wariness.
Following a directive from President Trump, the National Park Service removed a Philadelphia exhibit memorializing nine people enslaved by George Washington. The administration ordered the removal of materials that promote “corrosive ideology” in favor of those highlighting American “greatness.”
The resignation of the agent, Tracee Mergen, was only the latest shock wave to have emerged from the Justice Department’s handling of the shooting of Renee Good.
The columnist Jamelle Bouie argues that the Trump administration’s immigration policy has more in common with ethnic cleansing than actual immigration enforcement.
Stephen Miller’s public endorsement of aggressive ICE tactics marks a new chapter in American immigration enforcement, says Caitlin Dickerson, a journalist, on “The Ezra Klein Show.”
Caitlin Dickerson, a journalist, explores the unrestrained power and perils of Trump’s immigration enforcement on “The Ezra Klein Show.”
Estamos ante el declive del orden internacional de posguerra, el de la tranquilidad en EE. UU. debido al ICE, el del orden democrático y el de la mente de Trump.
The trip by Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen to the Danish territory came amid pressure from President Trump and appeared to have been meant as reassurance to Greenlanders.
Kaz Daughtry, a former deputy mayor under Eric Adams, was a key contact for federal administration officials involved in the White House’s immigration crackdown.
Venezuela’s interim government, in another sign of its willingness to placate the Trump administration, is receiving more deportation flights. Three flights arrived this week.
President Trump’s faith in his ability to wring concessions by taking maximalist positions was on full display this week. So were the costs, as he splintered NATO and then undercut his credibility by climbing down from his threats.
It will be the latest in at least half a dozen events that the breakaway league has held at Trump Organization resorts in the past four years.
Our national security correspondent David Sanger describes how President Trump’s escalations with Europe over Greenland seem to have led to him backing down.
If the United States under President Trump starts acting as if it’s Russia, where does that leave President Vladimir V. Putin?
Con estrictas restricciones comerciales aún en vigor, a las empresas les puede resultar difícil incluso evaluar qué oportunidades existen para ellas en la nación sudamericana.
“This is not the direction that we were hoping for,” the president of a leading anti-abortion group said ahead of the March for Life.
La medida pareció ser una respuesta a las duras declaraciones del primer ministro de Canadá, Mark Carney, en las que rechazaba los esfuerzos de Trump por desmantelar el orden internacional.
Readers respond to an editorial about President Trump, justice and vengeance. Also: Ordinary Americans who protest; open-ended questions.
The U.S. once maintained more than a dozen. Now it has one. President Trump wants more.
With tight business restrictions still in place, companies may find it challenging to even assess what opportunities exist for them in the South American nation.
Dr. Kirk Milhoan, a pediatric cardiologist who leads the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, said a person’s right to refuse a vaccine outweighed concerns about illness or death from infectious diseases.
Senator Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, a physician, reluctantly voted to confirm Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as health secretary. It didn’t appease President Trump.
Muchos comercios cerrarán sus puertas como parte de una huelga general contra las medidas represivas del gobierno de Trump en materia de migración.
President Trump on Thursday rescinded his invitation to Canada to join his “Board of Peace,” an organization he founded to oversee the Gaza peace deal, after Prime Minister Mark Carney made comments critical of the United States.
President Trump said the United States was “watching Iran” and sending a naval force there, despite also saying this week that his threats had halted executions.
The president’s legal efforts against the Wall Street giant and Jamie Dimon, its chief executive, have put Corporate America on edge.
President Trump said that NATO soldiers stayed “a little off the front lines” during the conflict. In Britain, which lost 457 soldiers in the war, the response was swift.
The president also said he was prone to bruising because of the high dose of aspirin he has taken daily for three decades.
President Trump linked a noticeable dark bruise on his hand to “clipping a table” while taking aspirin.