A federal judge in Manhattan ruled on Wednesday that President Trump’s practice of blocking Twitter users who criticize him was unconstitutional.
Mr. Kushner’s F.B.I. background check had dragged on, fueling questions about whether the special counsel had found evidence that made him a security risk.
Cases seek a verdict on “post-truth” culture and on Mr. Jones, a Trump ally who reaps millions peddling bogus claims about an American tragedy
If Robert S. Mueller III, the special counsel, finds evidence that Mr. Trump broke the law, he will have decisions to make about how to proceed. We explain them.
The president departed from his previous language about the possibility the government deployed a spy inside his campaign. Instead, he stated it as fact before slightly backing off the accusations.
How the politics of normalcy are boosting Republicans.
President Trump tweeted on Wednesday that Mr. Clapper, the former director of national intelligence, said he “should be happy that the F.B.I. was spying on his campaign.” Mr. Clapper did not say that.
Concerned evangelicals staged a revival in Liberty University’s backyard to challenge Jerry Falwell Jr. and his alliance with President Trump.
Research shows that it’s not the far right or far left that is the least supportive of democracy and the most supportive of authoritarianism. It’s the center.
Research shows that it’s not the far right or far left that is the least supportive of democracy and the most supportive of authoritarianism. It’s the center.
Commissioner Roger Goodell and the owners say they stand with the players and their values. Then they create new rules about the anthem without them.
The Pentagon said Beijing’s buildup on disputed islands in the South Island Seas is not consistent with the security exercise among allies this summer.
Mr. Ryan’s fractious conference is a management problem for him, but now he is caught between conservatives and moderates on immigration, the special counsel and more.
A reader writes that denuclearization is at the center of the talks between the Koreas and the United States.
Flacks in this White House press office are getting enormous exposure — but potentially at a long-term cost to their credibility.
Just four years ago, an epidemic taught the need for speed and global cooperation. The Trump administration is ignoring that lesson.
The president hailed the proposal — a top priority of social conservatives who have been among his staunchest supporters — at a gala for an anti-abortion organization.
Collusion, collusion, collusion. Does Donald Trump’s fate hang on only that?
A business partner of Michael Cohen, President Trump’s personal lawyer, pleaded guilty to tax evasion and is said to be working with law enforcement.
The bipartisan legislation will now head to President Trump, leaving fewer than 10 big banks subject to stricter post-crisis oversight.
“A constitutional crisis technically requires that one branch of the government push back against another branch,” Colbert said of the move to investigate the Russia inquiry.
The sitcom’s revival was a topical hit, but the political pot-stirring — onscreen and off — overshadowed the show’s strengths.
When I heard that President Trump would be speaking in North Side Middle School’s gymnasium, where I used to run laps in gym class, I wasn’t about to miss such a surreal reporting opportunity.
The White House said on Thursday that it had organized a meeting for top law enforcement officials and Republican lawmakers. But the details remained fuzzy.
“Drain the swamp” jabs were abundant on Twitter, but joking aside, the phrase has some geological merit. There is a “legitimate swamp” around the White House, an expert said.
Just four years ago, an epidemic taught the need for speed and global cooperation. The Trump administration is ignoring that lesson.
The House passed a bill that would, in effect, allow patients to bypass the Food and Drug Administration and obtain an “investigational drug.” The Senate approved the same bill in August.
The rocky tenure of the E.P.A. chief Scott Pruitt continues. The Associated Press reports that its correspondent was “shoved out of the building by a security guard.”
The agency’s secretary, Kirstjen Nielsen, appeared to counter conclusions by the intelligence community that Moscow sought to give President Trump an edge in the 2016 election.
“Newsrooms are the most beautiful, deeply flawed places,” Mr. Baquet said.“We make mistakes. When we catch them, we own up to them.”
Republican officials from Utah understand the importance of protecting Muslims’ rights.
The moves are likely to change little for the auto industry, though Chinese factories and German firms could benefit from slashing tariffs on parts.
The president’s hint of flexibility came after North Korea declared last week that it would never agree to unilaterally surrender its weapons and threatened to cancel a June summit meeting.
Changes to the framework to protect against another financial crisis won’t help big banks directly, but are part of a larger deregulation effort.
North Korean denuclearization is off the table, at least in the short term. But there are other outcomes from the planned summit talks that President Trump might accept.
The White House was criticized over commemorative coins to honor the planned meeting between President Trump and Kim Jong-un.
Readers discuss Rod Rosenstein’s “Hobson’s choice” and accuse the president of acting for his personal benefit, not the public’s.
Ceaseless infighting and jockeying for influence on the White House’s trade team helped deprive the president of a quick victory on his most cherished policy issue.
“They have now decided that they need to be more proactive, more aggressive and more anticipatory,” says Alan Dershowitz, the Harvard Law School professor emeritus.
It’s a big idea from a bygone era: guaranteed employment. But for Democrats veering to the left, it’s only the latest in an aggressive stance toward governance.
As the country heads for a time when no group makes up a majority, the change may affect white attitudes in far more than racial and economic matters.
Intelligence and law enforcement officials had said the information was highly delicate and that it was not appropriate to turn over unredacted material to Congress.
President Trump’s negotiating playbook is by now pretty obvious: Make big demands, thump your chest and claim victory. But some of his talk on China has a whiff of desperation.
The president escalated his campaign to undermine the Justice Department’s traditional independence from White House interference.
South Korea moved to confront growing doubts about whether the meeting between President Trump and Kim Jong-un would actually take place.
Congress passed legislation that frees banks from a variety of regulations that were imposed after the financial crisis of 2008.
His criticism goes beyond just denouncing the special counsel to describing the people around his former employers as unprincipled schemers, the way the Republicans he once opposed used to do.
After President Trump asked the Justice Department to open an inquiry into its own Russia investigation, it granted the White House access to classified information. What’s behind the decision?
President Trump and his enablers in Congress and the right-wing media are engaged in a dangerous campaign to undermine the foundations of American justice.
A group of mainly Latin American nations said the vote had not “met with the international standards of a democratic, free, just and transparent electoral process.”
A discredited elite and dark forces rising. Sound familiar?
President Trump has repeatedly pointed to the findings of a House Intelligence Committee report to insist his campaign did not collude with Russia. But that same report concludes that the inquiry began with a diplomat’s tip about a Trump campaign ...
Rudolph Giuliani’s assertion would mean the president must testify.
The Korean summit meeting is a mess. Just like everything else.
The new secretary of state is engaging in wishful thinking after President Trump renounced the nuclear deal.
Rod J. Rosenstein, the deputy attorney general, responded to the demand for an inquiry into the F.B.I.’s use of an informant by referring the request to the department’s inspector general.
The penalties, which bar U.S. companies and citizens from buying debt from the Venezuelan government, were devised to keep President Nicolás Maduro from selling off government debt to enrich himself.
President Trump threatened tariffs on $150 billion in goods, then tried conciliation. Beijing’s response either way: Rebuff the offers and avoid specific pledges.
Sunday’s vote giving Nicolás Maduro another term was flawed by low turnout and rampant corruption. Venezuela’s Latin neighbors must unite to isolate and force him from office.
The president praised his approach, and criticized Democrats, in a series of tweets on Monday following a three-day negotiation session that ended with little clarity.
The president’s praise of the agency came amid his assault on what he perceives as the intelligence community’s improper actions as part of the investigations into his campaign.
President Trump was surprised and angered by a statement issued by the North’s chief nuclear negotiator, who declared that the country would not swap its nuclear weapons capability for economic aid.
Mr. Giuliani sought to make the case that a longer timeline for that aspect of the Russia investigation would hurt Republicans in the midterm elections.
Also: One crime, one man, six trials.
After John R. Bolton, the U.S. national security adviser, said that talks with North Korea should follow “the Libya model,” the North threatened to call them off.
What Congress could learn from Donald Trump’s moment of empathy on criminal justice.
A Mississippi prosecutor seems to have a vendetta against Curtis Flowers, as a new podcast documents.
Legal experts said President Trump’s promise of intervention had little precedent, and could force a clash between the sitting president and his Justice Department.
A temporary cease-fire has calmed fears of a trade war, but the Trump administration now faces criticism it is backing down from striking a tough deal.
The opening of the U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem marks the increasing importance of conservative Christians to Israel, at the risk of upsetting American Jews.
The Trump Tower meeting and follow-ups are the first indication that countries beyond Russia may have offered help to the Trump campaign.
Convenient amnesia about one’s origins is an all-American trait.
We should set aside for a minute our demand that it disarm before any other negotiation.
The Legislature needs to approve a proposal to limit enhanced double jeopardy protections, so those pardoned by the president can face state charges.
The two countries said they had reached an agreement to increase American exports, but the White House noted that specifics would be agreed upon at a later date.
President Trump is dealing a serious blow to family planning services, all so he can say he “defunded” Planned Parenthood.
Donald Trump’s attacks on us are shameless. Let’s not abet them.
A proposal that the administration presents as a matter of transparency has raised a torrent of questions from consumers, doctors, drugmakers and advertising professionals.
An essay saying liberals are “not as smart, or as persuasive, as they think” not surprisingly got a flood of responses, from both the left and the right.
The informant made contact in the summer of 2016 with Trump campaign advisers who were already under scrutiny for ties to Russia.
Four days into Mrs. Trump’s unusually long recovery period after a kidney procedure, virtually all that has been said is that the first lady is “doing great.”
The Trump administration’s proposal to bar certain federal funds from abortion providers has raised complicated questions about reproductive health care.
To call MS-13 ‘animals’ is unfair to animals.
On Friday, the fighting centered on the question of whether Michael Avenatti, Stormy Daniels’ lawyer, could formally enter the case.
Responses to another school massacre, this time in Santa Fe, Tex.
A rebellion from conservative lawmakers sank a vast farm-policy bill on the House floor Friday amid a fight over how to proceed on immigration.
Japan is considering filing a complaint with the W.T.O. against the United States for tariffs on steel and aluminum imports, a sign it could be readying for a trade war.
President Trump had called for gun control measures after the February school shooting in Parkland, Fla., but did not press for action, and Congress has not followed through.
President Trump’s previous choice to run the Department of Veterans Affairs, Ronny L. Jackson, withdrew his name from consideration last month.
By raising the prospect of a spy in his 2016 campaign, the president weighed into a simmering battle between federal law enforcement officials and his allies on Capitol Hill.
Moon Jae-in, the South Korean leader, is to meet President Trump at the White House next week to discuss possible incentives for Pyongyang to denuclearize.
Economists agree on one thing: Politicians shouldn’t attack specific companies based on their own whims or preferences
The change would bar the staff of reproductive health groups from providing abortions or referring patients to abortion clinics or risk losing federal family planning funds.
The president’s comment referred to M-13 gang members, a reader notes, chastising the media.
Forty-four years after Richard Nixon resigned, critics of President Trump see an even worse scandal. Mr. Trump says the real outrage is the investigation.
The idea of impeachment raises the stakes for control of Congress this November and potentially puts the idea front and center in the midterm elections.
The danger illustrates the unforeseen consequences of impetuous American actions.
One day after he prompted criticism for describing dangerous criminals crossing the border as “animals,” President Trump reiterated that the term fits for gang members.
Squeezing the two oil producers could increase demand for Russian crude and offer China and Russia a chance to deepen their ties to the Iranians.
White House lawyers have claimed that the special counsel will not indict the president, regardless of his findings. If that’s true, then what’s the purpose of his inquiry?
An armed man ranting against President Trump opened fire on officers early Friday in South Florida before he was wounded and apprehended, the police said.
After President Trump noted that the Russia probe had entered its second year, Corden imagined the first lady’s reaction: “Oh, so you are capable of remembering anniversaries?’”
An about-face on punishing a Chinese company came as a Chinese state-owned firm announced an investment in a project tied to the Trump Organization.
The Trump administration appears to be making it a policy to separate children from their family members when they cross the border.
The senior adviser heard ‘Laurel.’ The press secretary heard ‘Yanny.’ And the president heard something else altogether.
The Trump administration had hoped a revised deal would reach the current Congress, in which Republicans control both chambers. Now, those prospects are diminishing by the day.
The Trump administration is exploring a “safe third country” agreement with Mexico, which would force asylum seekers to file their petitions in Mexico.
Despite leaked remarks in which the team’s owner called the Trump presidency “disastrous,” the Super Bowl champions will visit the White House on June 5.
A meeting between the top economic adviser to China and administration officials is expected to focus heavily on reducing the gap between what America exports to China and what it imports.
Ms. Haspel, a career clandestine officer, will take the helm as the agency’s first female director at a time of shifting alliances and intelligence threats from countries including Russia and Iran.
The president’s irritation with his staff reached a new level last week after the leak of a morbid joke a junior aide made about Senator John McCain having brain cancer.
Some regulation helps markets and the economy, some hurts. Guess which type is being slashed?
Mr. Trump tweeted that a confidential informant embedded in his presidential campaign would be a scandal bigger than Watergate, inviting comparisons.
Chinese antitrust officials allowed the Japanese company to sell a majority stake in its chip unit to an American-led group, a prelude to an easing of tensions between Washington and Beijing.
The French president’s warm embrace of President Trump, replete with hand holding, hugs and dandruff dusting, has opened him to public criticism.
For President Moon Jae-in, North Korea’s threat to derail talks has made clear the difficulties of playing matchmaker between Kim Jong-un and President Trump.
A reader says we should focus on the president’s destructive policies, not his comments.
The Trump administration is going full throttle to allow mining in northern Minnesota next to one of the nation’s most popular nature areas.
A reader asks, “Where were these principled notions when Mr. Tillerson was secretary of state?”
The ex-secretary of state, who didn’t mention the president by name in a commencement speech at the Virginia Military Institute, said efforts to hide the truth amounted to going “wobbly on America.”
Officials said they believed the meeting between President Trump and Kim Jong-un would still happen, but the threats brought a diplomatic high-wire act temporarily back to earth.
Signs are positive for a major realignment in Washington.
The special counsel’s office has told the president’s lawyers that prosecutors will follow existing guidelines that say that sitting presidents cannot be indicted.
The president unspooled a lengthy diatribe before TV cameras, warning that dangerous people were clamoring to breach the United States’ borders and castigating Mexico.
The decision by Chinese antitrust officials could be a significant peace offering to the Trump administration as the two countries seek to solve a trade dispute.
Rex Tillerson’s indirect criticism now isn’t nearly sufficient.
Senator Richard M. Burr of North Carolina, the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said he saw “no reason to dispute” the findings of the United States’ spy agencies.
The Senate is entering a new phase of judicial battles as Republicans push aside Democrats’ objections.
A Senate panel released more than 2,000 pages of documents related to the Trump Tower meeting with a Russian lawyer. “You lost me at 2,000 pages,” Fallon imagined the president saying.
Complete disengagement is impossible, but both Washington and Beijing envision a day when they don’t need each other as much to power their economies.
Mr. Trump’s financial disclosure included a payment made to his personal attorney, Michael D. Cohen, who has said he paid a porn star who claimed an affair with Mr. Trump.
Mr. Trump has described the investigation as a politically motivated effort to undermine his presidency. But time and again, agents took steps that ultimately benefited him.
The special counsel is investigating events that span years and cross international borders.
A Senate committee released thousands of documents related to a 2016 meeting with Trump campaign officials and a Russian lawyer. Here are five key findings.
The records, part of the Senate Judiciary Committee’s inquiry into contacts between the Trump campaign and Russians, produced few major revelations.
The F.B.I. investigation into Russian election meddling and possible ties to Trump associates was originally called Crossfire Hurricane.
The terrorist organization understands that death captured on camera is a potent weapon of war.
The Swiss pharmaceutical giant said Felix R. Ehrat would retire, after the company said this month it had made payments to President Trump’s personal lawyer.
Readers react to the possibility that the summit meeting between the U.S. and North Korea will be canceled.
I must, however, make a confession: I usually end up hangry.
The federal government has slowed the flow of displaced people into the U.S. to a trickle, achieving by bureaucracy what it couldn’t by executive order.
A reader writes, “The Trump administration invites new language to capture its true character.”
Pyongyang’s threat to cancel the summit meeting with President Trump fits a pattern by the unpredictable regime.
The aide said he remembered getting an email about Russian dirt on Hillary Clinton well before compromising Democratic emails were released. No one can find the message he mentioned.
Donald Tusk, the leader of the E.U.’s heads of government, used 280 characters to blast the U.S. president and reaffirm the bloc’s commitment to its policy agenda.
Aides said Wednesday’s meeting was an effort to begin a new era of partnership with Uzbekistan, a country that is making its first fitful turns away from authoritarianism.
From Italy to Hungary, the European crisis pits nations against a soft imperium, not just illiberals against liberals.
Here’s an official translation of the statement the North’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs released on Wednesday threatening to call off a summit meeting with President Trump.
Colbert pointed out that the Chinese government had approved a Trump-related project just days before the president tweeted in support of a Chinese telecom.
The E.P.A. administrator made his third congressional appearance in less than a month and appeared unable to deflect some tough questions.