Mr. Mueller, the former special counsel, agreed to testify on July 17, two House panels said Tuesday night after issuing subpoenas to compel his appearance.
Presidents, premiers and potentates around the globe are trying to calculate whether they can essentially wait out President Trump or whether they will have to deal with him for years to come.
House Democrats savaged the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown before the vote on a $4.5 billion humanitarian aid bill.
The Justice Department criticized the ruling, which allows evidence gathering to begin on Friday. An appeal is likely.
Four years after Donald J. Trump blew up the expectations for how a candidate is expected to behave in a debate, he will loom over the 20 Democrats who take the stage in Miami this week.
One of the hallmarks of President Trump’s 2016 campaign was his norm-breaking debate style. These were the techniques he used.
Millions of Americans start paying attention once the candidates start sparring on national TV, which puts a spotlight on both cringe-worthy gaffes and successful zingers.
He’s imposed pain. Now, if he only had defined plans and goals.
Readers express dismay and discuss whether the term “concentration camp” is apt.
Chip makers’ deals underscore how difficult it is to clamp down on companies that the administration considers a national security threat.
As director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Mr. Morgan pushed for nationwide raids to deport undocumented families.
Mark Morgan, Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s acting director, will lead Customs and Border Protection, administration officials said Tuesday.
House Democrats pressed toward a vote on $4.5 billion in humanitarian aid to address the plight of migrants at the southern border, as leaders moved to quell a revolt.
House Democrats pushed through $4.5 billion in humanitarian aid to address the plight of migrants at the southern border, after leaders quelled a revolt.
Two readers are skeptical of the president’s denials. Plus: Scooters in our cities; online cults.
Fed Chairman Jerome H. Powell underlined the central bank’s insulation from politics and kept the door open for interest rate cuts as uncertainties loom.
Mr. Powell underlined the Fed’s insulation from politics and kept the door open for interest rate cuts at a time of trade uncertainty.
Ms. Grisham joined the Trump campaign in 2015 and is one of the last remaining aides from Mr. Trump’s campaign still serving in the White House.
A conference organized by the White House was meant to show the economic benefits of its peace plan to Palestinians and Israelis. But major players were absent.
He didn’t come for the food. He wanted to know about our climate research.
A cautionary tale for the census case before the Supreme Court.
We talked to a congresswoman who has been in the Capitol for two presidential impeachment proceedings about the possibility of a third.
President Hassan Rouhani vowed that Tehran would not be intimidated. His words drew a blistering warning from the White House.
The project’s reversal of fortunes has angered environmentalists and focused attention on an unusual connection between a Chilean billionaire and President Trump’s family.
Baffled by the president’s reversal on Iran, Meyers predicts “we’re going to find him in the parking lot outside the White House” beating himself up.
Both chambers have put forward their own versions of legislation that would allocate $4.6 billion and fulfill the Trump administration’s request for funds.
Congress is trying to rush billions of dollars to the border to alleviate the suffering of detained migrants, but Democrats fear the funds will advance President Trump’s immigration policies.
Mr. Flynn appeared in court for the first time since hiring a lawyer who has pushed conspiracies about the Mueller investigation.
Red America’s homemade rural health crisis.
E. Jean Carroll, a columnist for Elle magazine, said in a CNN interview on Monday that she fought back when Donald Trump sexually assaulted her in a Bergdorf Goodman fitting room.
The site’s move set off a firestorm about the role of politics in the crafting world.
Mr. Miller called Representative Jerrold Nadler, the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, “fat and nasty” for his treatment of Hope Hicks, the former White House communications director, during a closed-door hearing last week.
From Lyndon Johnson to Richard Nixon, presidents have long had fraught relationships with Fed chairs.
Dean Baquet, our executive editor, says “we were overly cautious” in our handling of a prominent writer’s allegations against the president.
The House Judiciary Committee reached an agreement with a former Trump White House lawyer, Annie Donaldson, to delay her testimony but get written answers soon.
The review, which will take 10 months, will be part of a broader audit of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing.
Readers discuss the role of Tucker Carlson, Munchausen syndrome by proxy and the president’s reliance on gut instinct.
Donald J. Trump carried several key states on a vow to end manufacturing job losses. That has not happened.
President Trump’s central bank criticism comes in defiance of record stock prices and what is poised to be America’s longest period of economic growth.
For pennies a meal, the federal government can incentivize better environmental services.
A strong dollar makes America strong. Any campaign to devalue it is likely to backfire.
Increased enforcement along the border with Guatemala, which began in recent days, has made crossing into Mexico harder. This has dissuaded migrants from traveling north.
Increased enforcement along the border with Guatemala, which began in recent days, has made crossing into Mexico harder. This has dissuaded migrants from traveling north.
The president has said he wants to tighten sanctions in the hopes of driving Tehran into negotiations on a deal to place additional limits on its nuclear activity and curb its aggression.
The sanctions are meant to prevent some top Iranian officials from using the international banking system, but the move is largely symbolic.
The president calls it “a giant step towards a heath care system that is really fantastic.” Experts are less sure.
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The cruelty of immigrant family separations must not be tolerated.
The president of China may have the upper hand after a visit to Pyongyang.
President Trump’s process of ordering and then canceling military strikes was a mess. But he now has an opening to restart talks on Iran’s nuclear program.
American officials are working on clandestine plans to counter Iranian aggression, pushed by the White House to develop options that would not escalate tensions into a full-out conventional war.
The move intensified global doubts about the president’s judgment and the power wielded by the United States. But some analysts also praised Mr. Trump’s restraint.
The public response of Western politicians has been largely cautious, sometimes confused. But some analysts also praised Mr. Trump’s restraint.
Mr. Sestak entered the presidential race later than the 23 other candidates because his daughter had been battling brain cancer.
In an NBC interview, Mr. Trump also said he was “not looking for war” with Iran and lashed out at his Federal Reserve chairman.
It’s not about nuclear weapons, leverage with President Trump or the trade war.
The letter was revealed shortly after a trip by the Chinese president, Xi Jinping, to Pyongyang, where he was seen as trying to use Mr. Kim as leverage in his trade standoff with President Trump.
President Trump said he had “no idea” who Ms. Carroll was in comments to reporters outside the White House on Saturday.
The operation went forward because it was intended to be below the threshold of armed conflict — using the same shadow tactics that Iran has used.
The 38-page plan sets ambitious goals, but there are no concrete dollar commitments from the United States.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has expanded his power during a vacuum in the Pentagon, but his hard-line policies on Iran are running into President Trump’s isolationist instincts.
Immigration agents had planned to sweep into immigrant communities on Sunday in coordinated raids in 10 major cities.
Immigration agents had been planning to sweep into several immigrant communities on Sunday in coordinated raids in 10 major cities.
Trump holds off his hawks — for now.
The president, like his opposition, may be underestimating his ability to win.
I have written almost 450 postcards to politicians. As Margaret Atwood said, “A word after a word after a word is power.”
President Trump’s new energy plan aims to save coal-burning power plants and miners’ jobs. It won’t do either.
Were they sending a message to their absent pal, President Trump?
Some leaders of the Revolutionary Guards force saw the shooting down of the drone as a vindication. They resented that Americans had belittled their prowess.
His betrayal of us is his betrayal of all of America.
Plus, tensions with Iran reach a boiling point and Trump’s meeting with China’s president.
The administration is relying first on economic sanctions to change Tehran’s behavior. But it continues to weigh military or cyberattacks.
The United States and Iran remain on a collision path. Here’s what President Trump should do.
The president goes to Orlando, the former vice president invokes two segregationist senators and Elizabeth Warren says she’ll ban private prisons.
The immediate comparison was to Barack Obama’s decision not to attack Syria. But the closer one might be to a last-minute choice by Bill Clinton over a missile strike on Iraq.
Unsealed private messages reveal that the Fox News host expressed support for, but also sought information from, President Trump’s former campaign chairman.
Meetings and memos aside, the president trusted his instincts more than institutions and was willing to defy a roomful of advisers.
Given a clearly flawed decision-making process, President Trump was right to buy himself time on Iran.
The operation will focus on undocumented migrants in at least 10 major cities across the country and who had their cases expedited and were served deportation orders.
In her forthcoming book “What Do We Need Men For?,” the Elle advice columnist says the president assaulted her in the 1990s.
The rift has rekindled debate over lawmakers’ roles in matters of war and peace and pointed up deep concerns among some Republicans, who are normally loath to criticize the president over national security.
The devastating impact of American sanctions has left many Iranians feeling they are already at war.
House Democrats want to hear from Mr. Sater about his pursuit of a real estate deal in Moscow with a Trump Organization lawyer during the 2016 campaign.
Readers caution against going to war and react to the president’s concern for casualties with praise and skepticism.
As diplomats try to ratchet down tensions, some of them worry that hard-liners in Iran could be emboldened to further test President Trump’s resolve.
As diplomats try to ratchet down tensions, some of them worry that hard-liners in Iran could be emboldened to further test President Trump’s resolve.
The last-minute calling-off of military action is the first wise decision on Iran the president has taken.
A reader says the president’s refusal to backtrack on the Central Park Five signals that he won’t change course if he errs on national issues.
The presidents of the St. Louis and Minneapolis branches of the Federal Reserve want rates cut now, and even the central bank’s vice chair says uncertainty is growing.
Mr. Weissmann appears to be the first prosecutor on the special counsel’s team to agree to write a book, though it is not clear how much he will reveal.
An antinuclear advocate calls on Congress to stop the Trump administration’s undermining of our nuclear treaties.
If confirmed, Mr. Esper, who fought in the gulf war before becoming a lobbyist for Raytheon, would join a national security team with his West Point classmate, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.
President Trump approved and then canceled an attack on Iran with just minutes to spare.
President Trump approved and then canceled an attack on Iran with just minutes to spare. Here’s a guide to the crisis, with links to further reading.
The president said he stopped because 150 people would probably die in an attack as retaliation for Iranians shooting down an unmanned American drone.
Democrats and Republicans agree: Corruption ails the country.
On the surface, all seemed warm as Kim Jong-un played host to Xi Jinping this week. So why didn’t the Chinese leader stay longer?
As tensions rapidly escalate, both the United States and Iran are pointing fingers. We look at what each country wants.
One year ago, Trump outlawed family separation. It hasn’t stopped.
As diplomats try to ratchet down tensions, global airlines are broadly rerouting flights around Iran and nearby waterways.
As diplomats try to ratchet down tensions, global airlines are broadly rerouting flights around Iran and nearby waterways.
China’s leader made a rare visit to North Korea this week, a two-day trip full of pomp and propaganda.
Whether to trust Iran or the U.S. government “is a question that used to be really easy to answer,” the “Late Show” host said.
The shooting down of an American spy drone will test the president’s conflicting impulses between employing bellicose language and avoiding foreign wars.
Pressuring the Fed to juice the economy as he seeks re-election, the president is toying with an unprecedented challenge to its independence.
Like it or not, its next move will be political.
The Trump administration’s campaign of maximum pressure and minimal diplomacy is bringing the two countries ever closer to blows. Lawmakers must weigh in.
A reader says the savvy and crafty leaders of Iran, North Korea and Iran regard the president as “a dilettante, nothing more.”
The former chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court may want a rematch with Doug Jones, who defeated him in a special election in 2017. Many Republicans are hostile to the idea.
The former chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court wants a rematch with Doug Jones, who defeated him in a special election in 2017. Many Republicans are hostile to his plans.
The vote illustrated the deep divide between lawmakers and the administration over Saudi Arabia and the president’s attempts to circumvent Congress on national security decisions.
The two countries disagree about where the drone was shot down: over international waters or in Iranian airspace.
The two countries disagree about where the drone was shot down: over international waters or in Iranian airspace.
A corporate security officer and former Marine, charged with espionage in Russia, called on President Trump and other leaders to free him from a “political kidnapping.”
The Turkish president, holding a rare meeting with international journalists, also said that he would accept the results of Istanbul’s mayoral election.
The Turkish president, holding a rare meeting with international journalists, also said that he would accept the results of Istanbul’s mayoral election.
But what is the endgame?
Iran is resorting to rogue state tactics as part of a strategy to induce other countries to counter what it sees as an existential American threat.
Iran is resorting to rogue state tactics as part of a strategy to induce other countries to counter what it sees as an existential American threat.
But they have to work a lot harder and they have to do it now.
A rising budget deficit may make sense in a major war or recession but not now, when the economy is strong, the economist N. Gregory Mankiw says.
A country’s survival during a crisis depends on the credibility of its government.
The Trump administration is pushing an immigration policy that could profoundly change how asylum works in the United States.
The court has passed on contentious cases about abortion and the rights of same-sex couples. Will it now drop the census case?
The court has passed on contentious cases about abortion and the rights of same-sex couples. Will it now drop the census case?
And have conservatives given up on liberal democracy?
The burst of productivity stood in stark contrast to the tenor of the wider negotiations, which are hung up over how much to increase domestic spending.
They’ve behaved recklessly and given themselves no face-saving escapes.
Their motives for getting together are deeply divergent, but the interests of the leaders of North Korea, China and the United States occasionally harmonize.
The acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement said the focus would be on 2,000 family members who already have deportation orders.
Somebody seems to miss Hillary Clinton.
A state visit between the leaders of China and North Korea comes as each is locked in a dispute with the United States, and both are looking for leverage over President Trump.
At her confirmation hearing, Kelly Knight Craft suggested that she would be tougher than President Trump on Saudi Arabia and that climate change is a threat.
Federal authorities are focused on whether the bank complied with anti-money-laundering laws, including in its review of transactions linked to Jared Kushner.
Talk of purported Iran-Qaeda ties is raising questions about whether the Trump administration is laying the groundwork to claim that it needs no new legal authority to take military action.
The European Central Bank is just using Trumpian tactics, says a reader.
Delayed designs of the note continue to raise questions of political interference.
A reader is perplexed that Trump supporters cite anti-elitism as a reason for voting for him.
President Trump’s fund-raising haul for his re-election kickoff was more than five leading Democrats raised in their first 24 hours — combined.
To hear the president tell it, the battle for the apocalypse has been joined.
The House speaker still does not want to start an impeachment inquiry, but she ruled out censure as insufficient.
The new measure will very likely prompt a flurry of legal challenges. If upheld in court, it could tie the hands of future presidents on global warming.
In his re-election kickoff rally, the reality-show president tries a different (but similar) genre: the TV reboot.
Talking about compromise is smart.
In reaction to his provocations, many white Democrats are seeing race relations in a new light.
The president opened his 2020 bid in Florida with a familiar message. We look at what the rally signals about the campaign ahead.
Behind closed doors, lawmakers on the House Judiciary Committee pressed Ms. Hicks, one of Mr. Trump’s closest former aides, for nearly seven hours on Wednesday.
The Federal Reserve left interest rates unchanged but opened the door to a future rate cut if risks to economic growth intensify.
As President Trump deploys tariffs as weapons in international disputes, he has ceded the American role as champion of global trade.
We asked the candidates whether they think President Trump committed crimes in office.