A dance company withdrew from two performances next year, and the arts center’s website says two New Year’s Eve jazz concerts have been canceled.
Readers react to Mitt Romney’s call to raise taxes on the wealthy. Also: the moral bankruptcy revealed by the Epstein files.
The announcement will likely keep the United States as the biggest international aid donor next year, even as the Trump administration slashes funding for foreign assistance programs.
The U.S.-led negotiations have made some progress, but still face fundamental challenges, including over security guarantees to counter future Russian aggression.
Moscow said a Ukrainian drone attack targeted a residence of President Vladimir V. Putin, which Ukraine denied, accusing the Kremlin of fabricating an excuse not to make peace.
There is avid support, deep anger and for one person, regret over his choice last year.
Funcionarios estadounidenses afirmaron que el presidente se refería a una instalación dedicada al narcotráfico que fue destruida en Venezuela, pero no dieron más detalles.
Las maniobras pusieron fin a meses de relativa calma en el estrecho de Taiwán y se produjeron después de que el gobierno de Trump anunció la venta de armas a la isla.
President Trump said a peace deal was “maybe very close” after meeting with President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine. A joint U.S.-Ukraine proposal appeared to remain a work in progress as Russia rejected several ideas.
We look at the best graphics from The Times in 2025.
When his employer struck a deal to avert an executive order, Thomas Sipp decided to make a stand.
Plus, food trends coming in 2026.
Though discussions produced little tangible progress, President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine at least avoided the type of setbacks that have blighted earlier meetings.
The congresswoman discussed her break with President Trump and her journey from MAGA zealot to political isolation.
Savor the words that made sense of our world.
How the Georgia congresswoman went from the president’s loudest cheerleader to his loudest Republican critic.
The United States is expected to adopt the vaccine schedule used by Denmark, a much smaller country with universal health care.
Amid an astonishing wave of anti-Indian animus, Indian Americans are questioning their place in the country.
President Trump insists there are no more murders in Washington, D.C. “I wish that was true,” said Jamia Vaden, whose sister was gunned down in November.
Mr. Hassett’s evolution from conservative economist to defender of the president’s economic agenda has raised questions about how he would lead the central bank.
Wasn’t this supposed to be the golden era of free expression on college campuses?
Nuevos detalles revelan cómo agendas cruzadas dentro del gobierno de Trump condujeron a una confrontación cada vez más militarizada.
We should know better.
The exercises end months of relative calm across the Taiwan Strait and come after the Trump administration announced arms sales to the island.
The administration provided no details of what the president said was an attack last week linked to U.S. efforts to disrupt drug trafficking from Latin America.
The U.S. president said after a meeting at Mar-a-Lago that a deal was “maybe very close.” But a joint U.S.-Ukraine proposal appeared unfinished, as Russia rejected several ideas.
El presidente Gustavo Petro está enzarzado en una guerra de palabras con el presidente Donald Trump sobre el papel de Colombia en el tráfico mundial de drogas. El asunto es complicado.
President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine brings a revised 20-point peace proposal, as well as doubts about whether Russia is serious about pursuing peace.
After more than a decade of wars, from Syria to Gaza, the Middle East is exhausted by conflict. Is it ready to find another way?
The president has backed policies that allow the industry to grow unfettered. The mutually beneficial alliance is causing concern among some conservatives.
President Gustavo Petro is locked in a war of words with President Trump over Colombia’s major role in the global drug trade. The issue is complicated.
When the Trump administration slashed foreign aid, it gutted a program that had reduced malaria deaths world wide. In northern Cameroon, health workers scrambled to protect children in one last rainy season.
El presidente Trump ha llevado los cruces ilegales en la frontera a mínimos históricos, ha contribuido a lograr un precario alto al fuego en Gaza y ha trastocado el sistema de comercio mundial.
New details of deliberations show how aides with overlapping agendas drove the United States toward a militarized confrontation with Venezuela.
In attaching his name to buildings and programs while still president, Donald Trump is walking a path paved by conquerors and autocrats.
Steven Rattner recaps the year of Trump in charts.
A guest essay offered several possible explanations. Young and older readers offer their own.
Una crisis de hace más de un siglo involucró a un dictador aficionado a la fiesta, los objetivos estadounidenses de afirmar su supremacía militar, y fricciones entre las grandes potencias.
A crisis more than a century ago involved U.S. aims to assert military supremacy, a hard-partying dictator and frictions among the great powers.
The political polarization of battery-powered cars may have started when Toyota released its first hybrid model 25 years ago.
President Trump has driven illegal crossings at the border to record lows, helped bring about an uneasy cease-fire in Gaza and upended the global trading system.
California sued after the Trump administration cut grants for the long-planned project. The state says it will seek private investors instead.
Workers at facilities that stock shipped goods say customs officers who inspect merchandise are helping immigration agents arrest migrants.
The assault began at around 1:30 a.m. local time and was continuing into the morning.
The musician Chuck Redd called off the annual Christmas Eve performances after the Kennedy Center board added President Trump’s name to the performing arts center.
The White House press secretary announced on Instagram that she was pregnant with a daughter who is due in May. She and her husband have a 1-year-old son.
Aunque las autoridades nigerianas han rebatido las afirmaciones de Trump sobre un “genocidio” cristiano, han optado por responder a sus amenazas cooperando con su gobierno.
The president is planning to meet with the leader of Ukraine in Florida just as the lawmakers are applying some pressure.
An Afrikaner flew to the United States expecting protection. Instead, he has spent months locked up in Georgia alongside hundreds of other immigrants.
Maduro está más aislado que nunca. Pero es poco probable que las demostraciones de fuerza por sí solas lo convenzan del inevitable fin de su régimen ilegítimo.
President Trump said the targets of airstrikes in Nigeria were Islamic State terrorists responsible for killing Christians, but experts question his framing.
Images of the congresswoman have appeared in The New York Times throughout the decades. Here are a few noteworthy examples and others from our archives.
Test your knowledge of current events with the latest — though not the last — Gail Collins quiz.
Here are the best nonfiction essays of the year, according to me.
Anyone who wants to live in a safe, fair and free country should be alarmed.
It’s become easier to imagine the moment when Trump’s mystique finally evaporates.
The president exempted a copper smelter in Arizona from air-quality rules. An E.P.A. official guided the company that sought the exemption, emails show.
For the past decade, every administration in Washington has said Venezuela represents an extraordinary threat to the United States.
The attack comes after President Trump ordered the Defense Department last month to prepare to intervene militarily in Nigeria to protect Christians from Islamic militants.
Here are some of the most consequential, illuminating or just plain remarkable moments from Donald Trump’s first year back in the White House.
Luego de que las autoridades declararan ganador de la contienda a Nasry Asfura, su rival respaldado por Trump, Salvador Nasralla cuestionó el resultado y expresó fastidio por el papel desempeñado de Estados Unidos.
Chosen by a British TV station to give an “alternative” to the king’s speech, Jimmy Kimmel said it had been a great year for the U.S. “from a fascism perspective.”
After officials called the presidential race for Nasry Asfura, his rival, Salvador Nasralla, disputed the result and expressed ire over the U.S. role.
Durante las festividades, un gran número de venezolanos de la diáspora suele regresar a casa. Pero este año, después de que las líneas aéreas internacionales interrumpieran casi todos sus servicios, muchas personas están solas y con los nervios de punta.
Many Americans can take advantage of President Trump’s deduction on auto loan interest, but the tax break will provide only modest savings.
The Baltic nation’s congressional liaison is using candy, an American flag outfit and “Die Hard” jokes to make friends in Congress as the Trump administration turns against Europe.
Readers reflect on a column by David French on religious belief. Also, A Trump order bullies states on A.I.
The holidays usually bring home huge numbers from the Venezuelan diaspora. But this year, after international airlines halted almost all service, many people are spending Christmas alone and on edge.
After a fatal shooting, the Trump administration froze a visa program for Afghans that Republicans in Congress had championed. The G.O.P. has not objected.
El grupo de Elon Musk no cumplió su promesa: reducir el gasto federal en 1 billón de dólares antes de octubre. Bajo la supervisión del departamento, el gasto federal de EE. UU. no se redujo.
Mientras busca poner fin a la ciudadanía por derecho de nacimiento, el gobierno de Trump sostiene que los migrantes traen problemas que se prolongan durante generaciones. Los datos muestran lo contrario.
En Nápoles, los artesanos llevan generaciones construyendo escenas del nacimiento de Jesús, y a veces incluyen figuras de celebridades. Este año, Trump es una de las más populares.
The first draft essentially called for Ukraine’s surrender. The revised version includes the security guarantees Kyiv wants to prevent future Russian aggression.
Chuck Redd, a jazz musician, said he canceled his annual concert after President Trump’s name was affixed to the Washington building’s facade.
Nasry Asfura, exalcalde de Tegucigalpa, fue declarado el presidente electo del país centroamericano tras un recuento de votos prolongado después de una contienda reñida.
He served a New York clientele with names like Kennedy, Kissinger, Fonda, Bacall and Trump by making sure Chappy, Buzzy, Spike and other cherished pets stayed healthy.
Nasry Asfura was endorsed by President Trump in a contentious election. His opponent, Salvador Nasralla, said he would not accept the results.
Democratic lawmakers, who had criticized the Justice Department’s release of the material, accused the Trump administration of violating the law mandating the release of the files.
Trump has begun to recede from the movement he created.
El USS Ford lleva seis meses desplegado, ahora en el Caribe, como parte de la campaña de presión del presidente Trump sobre Venezuela.
Accepting an argument from a law professor that no party to the case had made, the Supreme Court handed the Trump administration a stinging loss that could lead to more aggressive tactics.
El proyecto abarca una amplia gama de cuestiones, como el territorio, las garantías de seguridad y la reconstrucción de posguerra. Pero Rusia ha mostrado poca disposición a poner fin al conflicto.
Recent U.S. actions against ships near Venezuela may embolden other countries to seize or detain ships, legal experts said.
The U.S.S. Ford has been deployed for six months, now in the Caribbean as part of President Trump’s pressure campaign on Venezuela. Maintenance woes and strains on sailors will likely mount.
Our photojournalists and others have captured images of how major changes from Washington and elsewhere rippled across the world.
Today we take a look at President Trump’s interior design.
The blueprint covers a broad range of issues, including territory, security guarantees and postwar reconstruction. But Russia has indicated little willingness to end the war.
Voters keep resolving to change our country and yet we are increasingly disappointed in those we elect.
The administration has downplayed concerns — from mass job losses, to a potential financial bubble — as President Trump cheers soaring stock prices and faster growth.
After Mayor Andrew Ginther of Columbus said that its policy prohibited local cooperation on immigration enforcement, Elon Musk called him a “traitor.”
Standing together on behalf of those who flee oppression is a very Christmas thing to do.
Hacked communications and a social media analysis reveal how former regime leaders are trying to arm fighters and exert influence as far away as Washington.
As the much-derided agency loses billions, postal workers quietly, and sometimes heroically, serve their communities.
The offer was the closest Mr. Zelensky has come to addressing the thorny territorial disputes in Donetsk that have repeatedly derailed peace talks.
The Trump administration had sought to require states to account for population losses tied to deportations in order to receive emergency preparedness grants.
Representative LaMonica McIver, a Democrat, called on immigration officials to close Delaney Hall in Newark, calling detainees’ food and medical care inadequate.
A último momento, CBS News detuvo un segmento sobre hombres venezolanos deportados por el gobierno de Donald Trump a una prisión en El Salvador. Aun así, el reportaje terminó apareciendo en línea.
Los puertos de Venezuela se están llenando de petroleros, ya que las autoridades temen sacarlos en aguas internacionales y ponerlos en el punto de mira de Estados Unidos.
Over the past week, C-17 heavy-lift cargo planes, which usually transport troops and equipment, flew to Puerto Rico at least 16 times, according to flight tracking data reviewed by The New York Times.
The troops will join an existing wave of Border Patrol agents, months after Gov. Jeff Landry first suggested that the National Guard could help tamp down on crime in Louisiana.
Oil exports, the country’s financial lifeblood, have plummeted after the United States took action against three ships that have been used to carry its crude.
The Trump administration has aggressively pulled America away from its global role in climate and environmental research, diplomacy, regulation and investment.
President Trump ordered state-based troops to Portland, Ore.; Los Angeles; Washington; and Chicago over the objections of state and local officials.
At the last minute, CBS News held a segment about Venezuelan men who were deported by the Trump administration to a prison in El Salvador. It surfaced online anyway.
Their silence contrasted with the uproar made over the weekend when the Justice Department’s first release focused on former President Bill Clinton.
Take a 3-D tour of the president’s office, where he covered more than a third of wall space with gold.
Starting the week of Jan. 7, the Dept. of Education will begin sending notices about paycheck deductions to about 1,000 of five million borrowers in default.
As it seeks to end birthright citizenship, the Trump administration is arguing that immigrants bring problems that extend for generations. The data shows otherwise.
The Justice Department initially removed, then restored, a photograph that included an image of President Trump, and issued a statement calling mentions of him “untrue and sensationalist claims.”
An investigation ruled that China’s inroads into the chip industry had hurt the United States. The administration delayed tariffs until 2027 amid a fragile truce between the countries.
A 2020 email noted that Donald Trump was listed as a passenger on Jeffrey Epstein’s jet at least eight times from 1993 to 1996.
The group’s biggest claims were largely incorrect, a New York Times analysis found. And its many smaller cuts added up to few savings.
The Justice Department released another batch of documents from the Jeffrey Epstein investigation — a wide mix of emails, tips and records from his death.
A Times investigation revealed the truth of how Mr. Epstein, a college dropout, clawed his way to the pinnacle of American finance and society.
Plus, the biggest lottery jackpots ever.
The MAHA pipe dream is going to hurt MAGA the most.
Trump’s deal preserves many of the ties to China that the law was designed to sever.
In exchange for the land in Texas, the rocket and satellite company would give the government some of its own property nearby, documents show.
Joe Weisenthal and Tracy Alloway, the hosts of the economics podcast “Odd Lots,” walk through how Trump’s tariffs, A.I. and the vibecession are making for a strange close to the year.
For generations, Italian craftspeople have built scenes depicting Jesus’ birth, sometimes including figures of celebrities. This year, some are adding statuettes of President Trump.
Small businesses across Canada have lost out on sales because of the trade war, and many worry about their future.
Two Times journalists interviewed more than 60 attorneys to understand the department’s tumultuous transformation, and the sweeping implications.
The irony of our secular age is that theology is more powerful than ever.
The Justice Department said the law illegally regulates federal law enforcement by barring courthouse arrests and allowing residents to sue immigration agents.
President Trump should press Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to ease military pressure on Gaza, Lebanon and Syria for the sake of his own policy.
President Trump announced on Monday the construction of new warships for the U.S. Navy he called a “golden fleet.” Navy officials said the vessels would notionally have the ability to launch hypersonic and nuclear-armed cruise missiles.
A union representing career diplomats said such a mass recall had never happened in the history of the U.S. Foreign Service.
Senator Richard Blumenthal is requesting information from an architect hired to oversee the ballroom design and people invited to a donor dinner with the president.
The president said development of the vessels would help maintain military superiority and improve the industrial base, but analysts suggested they were the wrong approach to current threats.
Representative Joyce Beatty, Democrat of Ohio, argues that only Congress is authorized to rename the D.C. performing arts institution.
The Justice Department challenged laws aimed at popular rifles including the AR-15 in the nation’s capital.
Representative Joyce Beatty, Democrat of Ohio, sued President Trump on Monday seeking to force the removal of his name from the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.
The judge said the administration had to decide by Jan. 5 whether it wanted to “facilitate” the men’s return to the United States or let them challenge their initial removals in the federal courts.
Americans won’t be able to buy new models from DJI, the Chinese maker of most of the world’s drones. But U.S. pilots can keep the drones they have.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said the ship seizures were meant to force Venezuela’s president Nicolás Maduro from power.
Hace un año no dejábamos de oír que Trump ahora era “cool”. ¿Alguien lo dice ahora?
An analysis of data on every ICE arrest, detention stay and deportation reveals the complexity and reach of President Trump’s immigration crackdown.
Mark Wiseman has held high-profile roles in law, business consulting and finance, and will lead Canada’s efforts to reboot diplomatic relation with Washington at a critical moment.
Un buque que navegaba hacia Venezuela huyó tras rechazar un intento de la Guardia Costera de detenerlo, el giro más reciente en la escalada de la campaña de presión estadounidense contra el gobierno de Maduro.
El buque más reciente en la mira de Estados Unidos en su campaña de presión sobre Venezuela enviaba señales de socorro mientras se dirigía al noreste desde el Caribe hacia el Atlántico.
The request, addressed to the top federal judge in Miami, sought to block a U.S. attorney from pursuing a politically charged inquiry before Judge Aileen Cannon, who has repeatedly decided in President Trump’s favor.
America’s ability to make precision-guided missiles was threatened during Trump’s tariff war. But experienced players have rescued the supply chain, for now.
The sweeping changes have affected everything from coal plant retirements to international diplomacy over shipping emissions.
Representative Ilhan Omar, Democrat of Minnesota, has long been a target of racist insults by the president. Now her whole community faces an immigration crackdown.
The Interior Department said the projects posed national security risks, without providing details. The decision imperils billions of dollars of investments.
Well into his second term, the president and his allies have continued aggressively raising money. Many donors have interests before his administration, The Times found.
A Venezuela-bound vessel fled after rebuffing an attempt by the Coast Guard to seize it, the latest twist in the escalating U.S. pressure campaign against the Maduro government.
En su primer año de regreso a la Casa Blanca, el presidente Trump ha ampliado enormemente el poder ejecutivo, al tiempo que ha adoptado los atavíos de la realeza de un modo nunca visto en la era moderna.