Reporters tapped sources, combed through public records and scrutinized social media to penetrate the web of influence and money underlying the president’s clemency grants.
The move comes as President Trump is ratcheting up his rhetorical assault on Cuba’s leadership.
Jeffrey B. Clark oversaw the dismantlement of government restrictions on greenhouse gas emissions and water and air pollution. He had also faced a criminal probe in connection with the 2020 election.
Los recientes comentarios del presidente Trump reflejaron otro cambio en los objetivos de las acciones militares estadounidenses. El presidente añadió que esperaba que Cuba cayera pronto.
He hosted a home improvement radio show, fought in cage matches and inherited a plumbing business before becoming a “MAGA warrior” in Congress.
The executive director, Jean Davidson, said her departure reflects frustration at the turmoil that has engulfed the arts center.
President Trump’s comments on Friday reflected yet another shift in the goals of U.S. military actions.
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In opening a military campaign against Iran, President Trump is the first president in modern times to take the United States to war without the backing of the public.
La secretaria de Seguridad Nacional de EE. UU., quien fue despedida por el presidente Trump el jueves, ayudó a cumplir sus promesas fronterizas, pero también atrajo una atención negativa hacia su gobierno.
The president has said he plans to shut down the center for two years starting this summer for a “complete rebuilding.”
Funcionarios del Departamento de Justicia dijeron que las notas de estas entrevistas con el FBI en 2019 fueron retenidas por lo que los llamaron una determinación errónea de que eran duplicados.
The leaders of Japan and Canada are making a unified front on defense cooperation as President Trump raises the pressure over military spending.
The weaker-than-expected numbers quickly became a source of tension between the two parties ahead of the midterm elections.
El gobierno de Trump busca controlar las reservas de tierras raras, oro y minerales valiosos de Venezuela. Pero los yacimientos se encuentran en regiones selváticas y controlados por violentas redes criminales.
Prosecutors have offered up no evidence supporting a link that the president claimed between Iran and the attack in Yemen in 2000, defense lawyers say.
The president campaigned on lowering prices for Americans. That pledge has come under fire this week as the Iran war pushes up the cost of gasoline.
President Trump fired the homeland security secretary, who helped fulfill his border pledges but also drew negative attention to his administration.
On seeking clarity in the reasons for the military operation and restraint in foreign policy.
The repercussions of his reckless war in Iran are just beginning.
Colton Moore, who hopes to win a special election on Tuesday to replace Ms. Greene, has the same flair for the dramatic and the ultra-MAGA persona, but he lacks one thing: a Trump endorsement.
One inmate paid lobbyists and lawyers with ties to the president’s team and walked free. Others are following his blueprint, but it is not always clear who can deliver.
The average price of a gallon of gasoline jumped again on Friday, to $3.32 per gallon, hitting its highest level in a year and a half.
El cautiverio de Luckey-Lange terminó después de que el ejército de EE. UU. atacara Caracas, la capital de Venezuela, para capturar a su líder, Nicolás Maduro, y empezara a presionar al gobierno interino para que liberara a los detenidos estadounidenses.
The conflict in Iran may give Moscow a short-term boost economically and in Ukraine. But it has also shown the limits of Russia’s partnerships.
Jamil Jivani, a Conservative rookie member of Parliament, follows an American playbook to win over young men on college campuses.
A three-judge panel reversed the conviction of a man charged with possessing a 30-bullet magazine, saying it had constitutional protection.
Washington has rapidly warmed up ties with Venezuela — and applied major pressure on it — since capturing the country’s president, Nicolás Maduro, two months ago.
The pages had been withheld from the trove of documents related to the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein because of what officials called a mistaken determination that they were duplicates.
The homeland security secretary, who was fired by President Trump Thursday, helped fulfill his border pledges, but also drew negative attention to his administration.
It’s hard out there for a MAGA woman.
After launching a war in Iran, President Trump owes the American people a clear explanation of his objectives and possible endgame — something we have yet to receive, argues the Times Opinion writer W.J. Hennigan.
The strikes were the most intense bombardment since a cease-fire deal in late 2024.
Many veteran diplomats faulted the State Department for its response after the attacks in Iran began, and for its actions beforehand.
Venezuela is home to large reserves of rare earths, gold and other valuable minerals that the Trump administration wants to exert more control over.
President Trump fired Kristi Noem, his embattled homeland security secretary, on Thursday and announced his plans to replace her with Senator Markwayne Mullin of Oklahoma.
The war in Iran may have a lasting impact on the political careers of Trump’s closest allies. On “Interesting Times,” Curt Mills, the executive director of the American Conservative, shares his thoughts on how Trump’s interventionist policies might play out in the 2028 Republican primaries.
The decision to settle the court action is particularly striking because the defendant was accused of a serious violation of securities laws. He denied the charges.
The Oklahoma senator has been a staunch defender of the Trump administration’s mass deportation campaign.
As the war with Iran threatens to engulf more countries in the region, President Trump said he wanted to be involved in picking a new leader in Tehran.
A handful of Democrats joined Republicans to defeat an effort to force President Trump to go to Congress for approval to continue using force against Iran, while two G.O.P. lawmakers backed it.
Long delays in FEMA assistance brought bipartisan complaints, especially in North Carolina after Hurricane Helene in 2024.
“No permission was granted for the use of our intellectual property,” the company said. The Trump administration frequently promotes policies with content from video games.
En pocas palabras, lo que el presidente le está haciendo a la Casa Blanca tiene a mucha gente descontenta.
El presidente anunció la decisión en las redes sociales, junto con una nueva función, hasta ahora inexistente, para Noem: enviada especial para el Escudo de las Américas.
A draft assessment of the health of nature in the United States is grim but shot through with bright spots and possibility.
Our White House correspondent Zolan Kanno-Youngs looks into how Trump’s base is responding to the administration’s conflicting messages on the war with Iran.
The president’s comments were the most explicit he has been yet about his vision of an American role in creating a new government in Tehran.
For the third time, a bill to fund the Department of Homeland Security failed as Democrats refused to support the money without new restrictions on federal immigration agents.
The president tapped Markwayne Mullin as the new homeland security secretary after Kristi Noem was grilled by Republicans at a congressional hearing.
The lawsuit filed by two dozen attorneys general seeks to invalidate the president’s new, 10 percent global tax on imports.
The National Capital Planning Commission, led by Trump allies, moved the vote to next month. It has received about 32,000 comments on the project, more than 98 percent of them negative.
Readers discuss historical and legal aspects of the war. Also: Richard Nixon and a Watergate episode; America’s voting problem; scenes from “The Pitt.”
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced the commitments in Washington, even as some in the medical community questioned whether the government should try to influence curriculums.
Casi todos los republicanos votaron para bloquear una medida que exigiría que el presidente Trump obtuviera la autorización del Congreso de EE. UU. para continuar la ofensiva en Medio Oriente.
Cars have become so expensive that many Americans are putting off or not buying new cars, hurting the auto industry.
Mission? Hostilities? Don’t call it a war, say G.O.P. lawmakers grappling with the political and legal challenges of the operation in the Middle East.
Three-way peace talks are on hold, and Kyiv fears that U.S. air defense systems it needs to counter Russia could be diverted to the Iran conflict.
President Trump’s embrace of military action in Iran was spurred by an Israeli leader determined to end diplomatic negotiations.
How the antiwar right sees Trump’s foreign policy.
Well, that was a week.
Giving in to bullies has its own costs, not least because bullies are never satisfied with just a single capitulation.
The president’s unique attributes have combined with the ordinary pathologies of American foreign policy.
In an interview with The New York Times, President Cyril Ramaphosa opened up about the role of middle powers, relations with Washington and apartheid.
President Trump’s simple campaign promise, now reality, includes lots of fine print that is confounding taxpayers and companies this filing season.
Agency officials promise fast reviews of new treatments while vowing they will not be a “rubber stamp” for the industry. But patients with rare diseases view recent decisions as signs that the doors are closing on their options.
James Luckey-Lange, 28, wrote about kindness and shared humanity as he traveled. But he said he had been shackled, starved and beaten in Venezuela after being detained.
Senate Republicans voted against a Democratic bill that would have required President Trump to obtain congressional authorization to continue waging war against Iran.
China announced a 7 percent increase in military spending and a five-year plan to try to reduce its military and industry’s reliance on Western technology.
Camp East Montana in Texas has been under growing scrutiny over its living conditions and has been grappling with a measles outbreak.
Decisions come fast, even if contradictions and inconsistencies abound. But without much of a process, there is little preparation for how things can go wrong.
The Trump administration is likely to appeal the move, as it ramps up its attempt to slow or potentially block the repayment of billions in past duties.
The C.I.A. has given small weapons to Iranian Kurdish forces in Iraq in a covert program that began before the current war.
The biggest immediate one: What will Trump do?
A Texas writer assesses the Senate race.
Companies including Google, Microsoft and OpenAI committed to pay for the power plants and grid upgrades needed to run their data centers.
Nearly every Republican voted to block a measure that would require that President Trump win authorization from Congress to continue the offensive in the Middle East.
The California governor, seen as a likely presidential candidate, made comments that reflect a shift in the Democratic Party.
See how much his East Wing ballroom design will upend the White House symmetry.
The battle to lower costs has reached the State Capitol, where concerns have emerged about the fate of a 2019 climate law and its ambitious goals to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Prosecutors in the U.S. attorney’s office in Washington were unable to build a case, underscoring the department’s increasing inability to follow through on the president’s desire to indict his rivals.
Hungary. Cuba. Afghanistan. Iraq. Now Iran?
Pressured by President Trump, Gov. Jared Polis said he is considering the release of Tina Peters, the last high-profile 2020 election meddler still imprisoned. His fellow Democrats are outraged.
The president said on Truth Social that he will call for the candidate who does not receive his endorsement to drop out of the race, which is heading to a runoff.
The White House has floated a new plan to try to ease voter concerns over the A.I. boom’s effect on electric bills. But it won’t be easy to put into practice.
Maggie Gyllenhaal talks about women in Hollywood and says that Donald Trump’s victory in 2016 influenced her decision to become a movie director. She spoke with “The Interview” host Lulu Garcia-Navarro about her career, her new film, “The Bride!,” her family and more.
The veteran Texas senator faces what promises to be a bruising runoff with the state attorney general challenging him from the right. But he had a stronger showing than expected.
El presidente del gobierno español ha arremetido contra los ataques de EE. UU. e Israel, y se ha negado a participar incluso después de que Trump amenazara a Madrid con represalias económicas.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said responsibility for a strike on an Iranian girls’ school was under investigation.
Friedrich Merz ha pedido una mayor unidad europea, pero no se opuso públicamente a que el presidente reprendiera a España y al Reino Unido durante una reunión en el Despacho Oval.
The Pentagon provided few details, but the Trump administration has said that Iran’s efforts to kill U.S. officials is one reason the United States launched its bombing campaign.
The two nations, as well as Greece, said they would send assets to the region. The Netherlands was weighing a request to join them.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent also predicted that overall tariff rates, which fell after a Supreme Court ruling last month, would be back to previous levels within five months.
The U.S.-Israeli war with Iran has paralyzed the strait, a vital shipping lane for energy and commerce, putting global investors on edge.
Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has lashed out at the American-Israeli strikes, underlining his refusal to participate even after President Trump threatened Madrid with economic retaliation.
La decisión del gobierno Trump de detener el ingreso de petroleo extranjero está hundiendo el turismo en la isla, un sector vital para la economía cubana en medio de una crisis cada vez más profunda.
President Trump is beginning to consider what sort of Iranian government might come next, as the U.S.-Israeli assault continues.
JD Vance long championed opposition to conflicts abroad. With President Trump all-in on war with Iran, the vice president is staying loyal even as allies make his qualms known.
Soccer’s global governing body is grappling with a World Cup first: a tournament host going to war with a participating nation.
The state needs intelligent and responsible political leadership, but will it get it?
Higher energy prices, political instability and a potential new wave of refugees: The escalating regional conflict in the Middle East could have far-reaching effects.
The Trump administration’s decision to cut off foreign oil to the island is devastating its tourism industry, a key source of income for a government being pushed to the edge.
“Please, give the people what they want for once,” the talk show host appealed to President Trump. “This is our destiny together, you and me. Think about it.”
En Springfield, Ohio, algunos estadounidenses han convertido sus sótanos y habitaciones libres en refugios para familias migrantes que podrían ser objeto de redadas.
El Comando Sur de EE. UU. dijo que la operación conjunta con Ecuador era un esfuerzo para “combatir la lacra del narcoterrorismo”, pero no aportó otros detalles sobre la operación.
In attacking Iran and Venezuela, Trump appears to believe he can decapitate regimes without events spinning out of control. What if he’s wrong? The contributing Opinion writer Ben Rhodes and the columnist Ezra Klein discuss what Trump underestimates about war on “The Ezra Klein Show.”
Bruce Blakeman, the Republican candidate for governor of New York, formed a band of special deputies. A lawsuit calls the unit’s members unqualified and says that some appear to have arrest records.
U.S. Special Forces soldiers are advising and supporting Ecuadorian commandos on raids across the country against suspected drug shipment facilities and other drug-related sites.
The administration’s shifting justifications for the military operation alarmed Democrats, who said no clear rationale had been given. Republicans struggled to echo the evolving explanations.
The prime minister criticized Israel and the U.S. for not consulting other nations or the U.N. before their attack on Iran.
The signs are familiar: an unpopular Republican president, well-funded Democrats and anecdotes of disaffected G.O.P. and independent voters.
A huge number of Indians split their lives across the Arabian Sea — remitting $125 billion a year, supporting their families and the Indian economy.
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Many of President Trump’s allies have urged him and his Make America Great Again movement to shift away from their close ties to Israel and military entanglements in the Middle East.
President Trump is backing numerous candidates running for re-election but has stayed quiet on a few key races.
President Trump’s embrace of military action in Iran was set off by the determination of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel to end diplomatic negotiations. Our investigative reporter Mark Mazzetti describes how few of Mr. Trump’s advisers voiced opposition.
With the future of Iran deeply uncertain, President Trump acknowledged that it could end up with a ruler “as bad” as Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
Has the president’s unerring instinct for vulnerability finally failed him?
The vast majority of deaths reported so far have been in Iran, but the human toll is being felt around the world.
The National Capital Planning Commission received about 32,000 messages during its public comment period. Suffice it to say: Many people are not happy with the president’s ballroom plans.
The president told lawmakers that the objective of the assault was to “neutralize Iran’s malign activities,” but did not present evidence of immediate plans by Tehran to attack the United States.
A day earlier, the secretary of state had said that the decision to attack Iran was based on knowledge that Israel was going to strike, and an assumption that Iran would target U.S. forces as a result.
Shipping companies are not sending oil and gas through the Strait of Hormuz because they fear their ships might be attacked.
The Commerce Secretary, who misrepresented his relationship with the convicted sex offender, has volunteered to appear, the House Oversight Committee’s leader said.
“Most of the people we had in mind are dead,” President Trump says.
During a bilateral meeting with Chancellor Friedrich Merz of Germany, President Trump said that the likely candidates to lead Iran were killed in the U.S.-Israeli bombing campaign.
The Pentagon and Middle Eastern countries say that most of the drones have been intercepted. But some have slipped through and caused damage.
Polymarket users placed hundreds of bets of at least $1,000 predicting an imminent American strike, raising concerns about insider trading.
In Springfield, Ohio, some Americans have converted their basements and spare bedrooms into shelters for immigrant families who could be targeted in raids.
Friedrich Merz has called for greater European unity, but he did not object to the president rebuking Spain and Britain in an Oval Office meeting.
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The victory removes a major threat to the New York City tolling program, which still faces other lawsuits.
Al tomar la decisión de lanzar ataques contra Irán, el presidente se arriesga a ocasionar más muertes e inestabilidad en la región más volátil del mundo y a perder su propia posición política.
The administration told a court on Monday that it was abandoning its defense of executive orders targeting the firms. But on Tuesday, the Justice Department abruptly changed its position.
El médico del presidente de EE. UU. no esclareció en qué consistía su afección cutánea ni qué medicación estaba utilizando para tratarla.
The Islamic Republic is aiming to draw out the conflict and broaden the fighting. That would force President Trump to risk more casualties and more political capital.
Energy prices continued to rise on Tuesday as attacks by the United States and Israel on Iran intensified, along with the country’s response.
Se aconsejó a los estadounidenses en Riad y otras ciudades que se refugiaran en un lugar seguro de inmediato.
President Trump has signaled that he is open to the idea of a prolonged military conflict with Iran. Investors are spooked by that scenario.
Irán está ampliando el conflicto para presionar a Estados Unidos y sus aliados.
Donald Trump’s foreign policy vision is imperialism
Chocolate makers and fig-paste importers are facing a tangle of unknowns, including whether to seek refunds for tariffs invalidated by the Supreme Court.
The vice president’s political transformation from Trump skeptic to MAGA superstar has many roots.
The four law firms that fought Trump’s executive orders have forced him to retreat.
General Motors, Ford and other established automakers risk becoming relics if they don’t catch up to Chinese carmakers and technology companies in electric vehicles and self-driving cars.
Kristi Noem, the homeland security secretary, is also likely to face questions about how her department’s shutdown is affecting counterterrorism work after the U.S. assault on Iran.
So far, the energy price shocks have been relatively contained. But a prolonged conflict in the Middle East carries enormous economic risks.
Beijing has condemned the U.S.-backed strikes on Iran, a close partner. Yet with trade talks looming, it is unlikely to risk a rupture with Washington.
La decisión estadounidense de atacar Irán fue una victoria para Netanyahu, quien llevaba meses presionando a Trump sobre la necesidad de golpear lo que, según él, era un régimen debilitado.