The debate over whether federal agents should be allowed to cover their faces with masks has become a flashpoint as the government heads for a partial shutdown.
Karrin Taylor Robson, a wealthy businesswoman, dropped out after trailing in polls to Representative Andy Biggs, who is more aligned with supporters of President Trump.
U.S. officials warn that cartel-operated drones on the border pose a major threat. Mexican officials are less certain. Analysts say the answer is likely in between.
European leaders are wondering if they can ever trust the U.S. again.
A Times correspondent talks about life in China as it outpaces the United States in developing clean energy technology, self-driving cars and other innovations.
The ruling was one of the most robust steps taken so far to force the Trump administration to give due process to the Venezuelan immigrants deported under the Alien Enemies Act.
Last minute announcements and abrupt changes by the Trump administration have caused confusion in an already strained U.S. aviation system.
Senate Democrats refused to move ahead with a spending bill needed to keep the Department of Homeland Security running because it lacked limits they have demanded on federal immigration agents.
The region has become a critical theater for global rivalries amid Israel’s recognition of breakaway Somaliland and Washington’s counterterrorism efforts.
The Trump administration has repealed the scientific determination that underpins the government’s legal authority to combat climate change.
The Environmental Protection Agency repealed the bedrock scientific finding that greenhouse gases threaten human life and well being. It means the agency can no longer regulate them.
Readers react to the attorney general’s appearance before the House Judiciary Committee. Also: “Freedom from fear”; the Melania Trump movie; humor that’s not funny.
Los oficiales apuntaron a lo que pensaban que era un dron de un cártel de la droga, pero resultó ser un globo de fiesta, dijeron personas familiarizadas con el episodio.
The justices put the case on a fast track at the administration’s urging. But they don’t seem in a rush to rule on the president’s signature economic program.
Research from the New York Fed confirms that U.S. companies and consumers are bearing tariff costs, despite the president’s assertions otherwise.
European leaders have been compelled to address the possibility of once-remote risks to the financial networks and technology that undergird their economies.
Activists and officials plan to re-raise the flag on Thursday, setting up a defiant response to the Trump administration’s assault on diversity initiatives.
El sondeo mensual se ha utilizado para medir el desempeño presidencial durante casi 90 años.
El gobierno de Trump achacó la interrupción de servicio a la incursión de un dron de un cártel, pero otros han rebatido esa explicación.
Anthropic is pouring millions of dollars into a political action committee that will most likely face off against OpenAI.
A very dangerous ruling in New Orleans.
Immigration enforcement agencies have received tens of millions in funding for body camera programs, which the Trump administration proposed cutting — until recently.
Even in a government full of conspiracists, Kurt Olsen stands out. He made a key referral in the Fulton County, Ga., election case.
In this installment of The Conversation, David Brooks says goodbye to The Times, and offers his parting thoughts.
Mr. Trump’s attempted election takeover is already underway.
The company, long focused on cars and trucks, plans to begin manufacturing large batteries used by utilities, data centers, other businesses and homeowners.
Ford Motor shut down a battery factory and laid off 1,600 workers after President Trump and Republicans gutted government support for electric vehicles.
El Secretario de Energía es uno de los funcionarios estadounidenses de más alto rango que visita Venezuela en casi 30 años, lo que supone un estrechamiento de los lazos entre Washington y Caracas.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi won a big reduction of sky-high tariffs, but critics say he undermined Indian sovereignty and undercut the nation’s farmers.
A judge ruled that the Trump administration’s plan to send the men to the nation’s harshest prison rendered their attempts to challenge the transfer a “sham” process.
Federal judges had appointed Donald Kinsella, a veteran litigator, as top prosecutor in the Northern District of New York after the Trump administration’s nominee was found to be serving unlawfully.
Even as he reversed course on excluding Democrats, the president repeatedly attacked a Republican governor who had planned to oversee the meeting.
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who focused heavily on vaccine policy in 2025, will spend this year talking up healthy eating.
Energy Secretary Chris Wright is one of the highest ranking American officials to visit Venezuela in nearly 30 years, marking warmer ties between Washington and Caracas.
The measure had no path forward in the Senate, where Democrats are all but certain to block it and Republicans have said they will not try to skirt filibuster rules to ram it through.
Can Democrats win back working-class voters? These candidates are trying.
Members in both chambers warned the failed attempt to prosecute the six lawmakers amounted to an existential threat to the legislative branch.
The monthly poll has been used to measure presidential performance for almost nine decades.
New disclosures underscore that the White House is enveloped in a culture of corruption with no precedent in American history.
The F.D.A.’s refusal to examine the company’s mRNA shot drew widespread criticism from doctors and was divisive within the agency.
Twenty four states are now considering legislation to allow small, plug-in solar power systems that connect directly into a wall socket.
Lawmakers say the Trump administration’s secrecy around the funds parked in an overseas bank could lead to corruption, and that the arrangement skirts congressional oversight and the law.
Readers describe the agency’s disturbing effects on children and detained immigrants.
The Iranian government has commemorated the anniversary of the revolution that brought the current regime into power with a show of defiance during precarious nuclear negotiations with Washington.
Republican leaders have blocked challenges to President Trump’s trade war for a year, but dissent in their own ranks will force a vote.
A hiring slowdown and fears about artificial intelligence have investors on edge, and some in the Trump administration on the defensive.
Para superar los obstáculos que impiden una estabilidad duradera en Gaza, hay un primer paso crucial: el desarme de Hamás.
The new government website is aimed at helping patients use their own money to buy prescriptions. Will it help them pay less?
It will be the sixth visit by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel to the United States to meet with President Trump since the president began his second term.
At a House Judiciary Committee hearing on Wednesday, Attorney General Pam Bondi could face bipartisan skepticism over her handling of the documents.
President Trump is focused on Iran’s nuclear program, but Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sees a more immediate threat from Tehran’s rapid rebuilding of its ability to launch missiles at Israel.
J.P. Cooney, a former top deputy to the special counsel Jack Smith, who led two prosecutions of President Trump, plans to seek election to a newly drawn district in Northern and Central Virginia.
As Russia displays military might in the Arctic Circle, the Western alliance is preparing a mission to increase its presence in that area.
The rare gathering focused on the Western Hemisphere underscored potential implications of the Trump administration’s “Donroe Doctrine.”
Economists have noticed that betting markets like Kalshi and Polymarket are pretty good at predicting not just political events but economic data, too.
A young aide behind social posts that echoed white supremacist messaging will help run social media for the much larger Homeland Security Department.
The employment report due this week is expected to show that job growth was much weaker for 2024 and 2025 than thought.
Matthew Goldstein, a reporter for The New York Times who has focused on the financialization of the housing market, looks at a new executive order on housing by President Trump.
The president is returning to an ancient world, before morality mattered and when human actions were governed only by power.
A collection of former civil servants are waging first-time campaigns this year. Some said that President Trump’s attacks on the work force motivated them to run.
With more ICE agents and fewer judges and asylum officers, the balance of the federal immigration apparatus has shifted.
President Trump’s recently announced executive order that would bar big investors from acquiring single-family homes includes an exemption that allows them to build homes for rent.
El programa, de casi 30 años de antigüedad, permitió a Guatemala cubrir necesidades críticas con personal de salud cubano, al tiempo que Cuba cosechaba ingresos.
Bruce Blakeman, the Republican nominee against Gov. Kathy Hochul, has shown he can win in the suburbs. But political winds are blowing in his face.
“A million times? There’s not even that many references to Hamlet in the play ‘Hamlet,’” Jordan Klepper said on “The Daily Show.”
A Border Patrol agent shot Marimar Martinez five times, claiming that she tried to run him over. Newly released videos and text messages reveal fresh details about what happened.
Es poco probable que Israel retire sus soldados del enclave antes de que Hamás y otros grupos militantes depongan las armas.
A French logistics behemoth promised $20 billion for the United States, but a year into President Trump’s second term, only a fraction of the money has arrived.
The program, nearly 30 years old, had allowed Cuban medical workers to fill critical needs in Guatemala, while reaping income for Cuba.
The rejection was a remarkable rebuke, suggesting that ordinary citizens did not believe that the lawmakers had committed any crimes.
Michael Reiter, exjefe de policía de Palm Beach, relató al FBI una conversación que tuvo con Donald Trump en 2006, de acuerdo con un documento recién divulgado.
In their first sit-down interview, Michael and Susan Pretti avoided recriminations and recalled the son that Michael called “an exceptionally kind, caring man.”
The troops will help train Nigerians to fight militants, but will not be involved in combat. U.S. forces have been assisting local soldiers with identifying potential terrorist targets.
The vaccine maker’s shots involve the successful Covid vaccines’ RNA technology. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has broadly rejected it, canceling millions of dollars in research projects.
A Detroit billionaire met with Howard Lutnick, the commerce secretary, hours before President Trump said he would block the opening of a new bridge connecting Detroit to Canada, officials said.
Persuading Hamas to give up its weapons is the “linchpin of everything” in the president’s plan.
Four Trump allies have been a driving force behind the administration’s efforts to rollback a key climate regulation.
Dozens of measures sprinkled throughout the recently enacted spending package seek to tie the Trump administration’s hands on funding, an act of quiet bipartisan resistance to efforts to trample congressional power.
The commerce secretary, Howard Lutnick, acknowledged at a Senate hearing that he and his family visited Jeffrey Epstein on his private island.
A newly unsealed affidavit showed that a criminal investigation into the 2020 election in Fulton County, Ga., relied heavily on claims about ballots that have been widely debunked.
The ruling from a Trump-appointed federal judge is the third in recent weeks to reject the administration’s demand for voters’ personal data from nearly every state.
President Trump’s threat to block the opening of the new crossing is the latest in a long string of challenges for the project.
Israel is unlikely to withdraw its troops from the enclave before Hamas and other militant groups lay down their arms.
Michael Reiter, a former Palm Beach police chief, described a 2006 conversation with Donald Trump to the F.B.I. years later, according to a newly released document.
Should two major transportation hubs be renamed for the president? Also: When children watch TV; a hope for long life.
El puente internacional Gordie Howe, cuya inauguración está prevista para principios de este año, fue construido por Canadá para facilitar el transporte de mercancías entre Detroit y Windsor, Ontario.
“Donald Trump has 99 problems going into the midterms,” one Democratic strategist said. “But money ain’t one.”
The move shows that European countries are taking more responsibility for conventional war planning, a change that President Trump has long pushed for.
Las duras medidas del gobierno de Trump contra los envíos de petróleo a Cuba están empezando a causar estragos en el sector turístico de la isla caribeña.
The Maine Republican is one of her party’s most vulnerable senators, and her seat is crucial to Democratic hopes of retaking control of the chamber.
Plus, Olympic medals are falling apart — again.
We got hundreds of suggestions.
The president wants to change the public landscape to honor himself. It’s not the worst thing he’s done, but it will require fixing.
Republican politicians and strategists in Texas are amping up anti-Muslim rhetoric as a way to energize Republican voters after several elections when the border was the animating force.
No estábamos preparadas para la montaña rusa emocional en la que nos metió Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio.
Correos y documentos del caso Epstein detallan la red de obsequios y oportunidades que utilizaba para atraer a figuras influyentes; un juego de estatus y lealtades transaccionales.
Cuando los agentes federales aparecieron en un hipódromo a las afueras de Wilder, un publeo en Idaho, destrozaron la creencia de que su ubicación apartada y su tendencia republicana lo salvarían de los operativos migratorios que ocurrían en otras partes de Estados Unidos.
A small group of conservative activists has worked for 16 years to stop all government efforts to fight climate change. Their efforts seem poised to pay off.
The strike in the eastern Pacific, the third on suspected drug trafficking boats this year, was the second authorized by Gen. Francis L. Donovan, the new head of the Southern Command.
The Gordie Howe International Bridge, expected to open early this year, was built by Canada to ease cargo transport between Detroit and Windsor, Ontario.
A state judge dismissed a case after the Justice Department’s seizure of ballots from the 2020 presidential election in Fulton County, which has raised fears that they could be manipulated.
The longtime Trump ally served four months in prison on contempt of Congress charges for refusing to testify to the House committee that investigated the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol.
Tulsi Gabbard has focused on attacking the so-called deep state after an uneven first year as the director of national intelligence.
It remains to be seen whether the three big nuclear powers are headed into a new arms race, or whether President Trump is trying to spur negotiations on a new accord now that a last Cold War treaty has expired.
We weren’t prepared for the emotional roller coaster Bad Bunny Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio, took us on.
Signs of fractures on the right, often fueled by the Trump administration’s actions, keep stacking up.
The states, all led by Democrats, used the grants to support a wide variety of functions, including H.I.V. prevention and surveillance.
The Trump administration’s crackdown on oil shipments to Cuba is beginning to wreak havoc on the Caribbean island’s travel industry.
As immigrants become increasingly afraid to leave their homes for fear of being detained, access to food, including free school lunches, is being cut off.
Readers find the president’s posting of a racist video shameful and in keeping with his previous appeals to white supremacy. Also: Bad Bunny; Trump vs. Harvard; medical A.I.
Ghislaine Maxwell, the longtime companion of the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, invoked her right against self-incrimination in an Oversight Committee deposition.
The organizers of the Munich Security Conference, Europe’s main defense-related forum, said in a report that President Trump is helping destroy the postwar international order.
Durante mucho tiempo se ha acusado a los presidentes de EE. UU. de conspirar para controlar el crudo extranjero. Pero el presidente Trump ha afirmado que su país tiene derecho a él.
A tentative agreement was reached between the New York State Nurses Association and the Mount Sinai Health System and Montefiore Medical Center.
Michael Gold, a reporter for The New York Times, describes the fight in Congress over funding the Department of Homeland Security, as Democrats push for restrictions on federal immigration agents.
Bad Bunny, the Puerto Rican superstar who has denounced ICE, celebrated Latino heritage in his largely Spanish-language performance.
Thom Tillis vs. the Trump administration.
Wilder, Idaho, prided itself on comity. Then federal agents stormed a racetrack outside of town in October, and the reverberations are still shaking the community.
Instead of a winner-takes-all approach to power, it’s time to consider working toward a system where there is much less power for the winner to take.
Given the growing harms from marijuana use, American lawmakers should do more to regulate it.
A year after a rebel takeover, residents of Goma, in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, carry violent memories and signs of hope.
Billie Joe Armstrong instó a los agentes del ICE a dejar su trabajo, advirtiéndoles que el gobierno de Trump los abandonaría.
The band’s frontman, Billie Joe Armstrong, urged Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to quit their jobs, warning that the Trump administration would inevitably abandon them.
Democrats’ demands include that immigration officers be required to show visible identification and have judicial warrants when they enter private property to make arrests.
Opposition to President Trump’s policies has followed the U.S. team to Italy, and athletes, coaches and American fans are facing the backlash.
Mientras la economía de Cuba está en caída libre, su red eléctrica falla, y millones de sus ciudadanos se han marchado, el gobierno de la isla se enfrenta a lo que quizás sea su enemigo más amenazante: el presidente Donald Trump.
A new organization blessed by the president is raising money for events and projects that will put a Trumpian spin on the nation’s semiquincentennial.
The Trump administration, which has tightened the U.S. chokehold on Cuba by cutting off foreign oil, is betting that this is the Cuban communist revolution’s last year.
A record number of senators running for governor reflects deep frustrations with the upper chamber.
U.S. presidents have long been accused of plotting to control foreign oil. But President Trump has asserted a U.S. right to take it.
Plans to confine migrants in retrofitted buildings have ignited bipartisan dissent as the country has grown more critical of immigration officials.
The brutality of U.S.A.I.D.’s closure and the disregard for the human toll betrayed a vision of a crueler, meaner, more insular world.
With the midterm elections nearing, President Trump has found himself in the uncomfortable position of backtracking, even if only by degrees, at key moments.
Federal officials had warned that the new product from the online provider of weight loss drugs might be illegal.
The group, which has prompted skepticism from some U.S. allies, is scheduled to meet on Feb. 19, according to the officials.
Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence, moved to lock down an intelligence intercept that referred to someone close to President Trump, the report said.
The post appeared to describe the president’s rationale for deleting a racist video about the Obamas that he had shared.
The birther of a nation.
Iran is skilled at prolonging negotiations over its nuclear program, and seems to be hoping President Trump is out for a quick win, rather than a prolonged regional war.
The president shows, once again, that he shouldn’t be anywhere near the Oval.
From joining an F.B.I. search of an election center to allegedly suppressing a whistleblower complaint, Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence, is eroding the independence of our intelligence community, argues Times Opinion’s editor, Kathleen Kingsbury.
The round table convenes to debate whether we need to worry about the midterms being free and fair.
On “The Opinions,” the columnist David French explains how federal immunity makes it nearly impossible to sue over civil rights violations — and why a simple change to the law could finally hold agencies like ICE accountable.
We obsess over what Trump and MAGA want, the columnist Jamelle Bouie says, but why do we assume they’re the only forces with agency? He discusses with Michelle Cottle and David French on “The Opinions.”
The decline of traditional political parties is the precondition for our hyperpolitical age.
The round table convenes to debate whether we need to worry about the midterms being free and fair.
Beating America has always felt good, especially on the ice. Since President Trump began issuing tariffs and threats against Canada, sports feels extra personal.
The president has escalated his language as his administration takes steps to involve itself more in election matters.
Ties between the exchange and the president’s company, World Liberty Financial, have only strengthened since the president pardoned Binance’s founder, Changpeng Zhao.
Federal prosecutors had a warrant to collect evidence from Ms. Good’s vehicle, but Trump administration leaders said to drop it. About a dozen prosecutors have departed, leaving the Minnesota U.S. attorney’s office in turmoil.