Jaime Cachua llegó de México a Georgia cuando era un bebé. Aunque es muy querido por su comunidad, la mayor parte de ella votó por las deportaciones masivas.
Donald Trump aún no ha tomado posesión de su cargo, pero el presidente electo y Elon Musk ya están influyendo en la política, poniendo al gobierno federal a horas de un cierre.
The Senate passed the measure, sending it to President Biden’s desk, shortly after the midnight deadline for funding to lapse.
A surprise congressional standoff remind us that big, discordant change could be coming.
President-elect Donald J. Trump is known for his tight grip on members of his party, but the rare rejection of his demand to suspend the debt limit reflected a disconnect that could plague his policy agenda.
The administration may extend protections for hundreds of thousands of immigrants whose legal status is set to expire near the start of the Trump administration.
A short lapse in funding would probably do only modest damage. But it could send a troubling signal about government dysfunction.
El presidente electo prometió “aranceles hasta el final” si Europa no compra más petróleo y gas estadounidenses. Los funcionarios europeos no tienen una estrategia clara para evitar una guerra comercial.
The decision to withdraw the regulations seemed to be an acknowledgment that they would go nowhere under the Trump administration.
The leader of the party that supported Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberal Party vowed to bring down the government, saying Mr. Trudeau had failed Canada.
It was a cushion for workers hurt by free trade. Why did Congress let it lapse?
“Parents have heard so much misinformation,” Kaye Hayes, a federal infectious disease official, said in a statement announcing the campaign. “Many of them are overwhelmed.”
Congress devised some positions to stay on during changes in administrations. But Donald Trump has declared his intent to replace at least three.
A partial government shutdown in Donald J. Trump’s first term was the longest in U.S. history.
The rebels are largely the most conservative lawmakers who are passionate about slashing spending and debt. They hail from deep-red districts where a primary challenge is less of a danger.
Readers discuss his role in the government shutdown negotiations. Also: Trump austerity; G.O.P.’s future; clean energy; guns and young people.
The president-elect was eager to evade responsibility for the consequences of a potential shutdown even as he blew up a bipartisan deal that would have kept the government open.
The chairmen of the Finance, Judiciary and Banking Committees demanded answers from a Trump lawyer accused of soliciting payments from potential administration nominees.
El presidente ruso, en una conferencia de prensa anual, dijo que aún no se había reunido con Bashar al Asad, el derrocado dirigente sirio que huyó a Moscú, pero que tenía previsto hacerlo.
Donald Trump has yet to take office but the president-elect and Elon Musk are already influencing policy, putting the federal government hours away from a shut down.
Watch or listen to our political round table about the aftermath of the 2024 election.
On this week’s round table, Michael Barbaro sits down with Maggie Haberman, Andrew Ross Sorkin and Catie Edmondson to discuss the latest news in Donald J. Trump’s transition to power.
Andrew Ross Sorkin sits down with Michael Barbaro to discuss raising the debt ceiling and Elon Musk’s political impact.
The Drone Age is already upon us and the skies are going to get a lot more crowded.
Opinion writers discuss potential legal issues and executive power in a second Trump term.
Politicians on both the left and the right have sought to change or limit what teachers can do inside classrooms. Teachers often ignore them.
The incoming president promised “tariffs all the way” unless Europe bought more U.S. oil and gas. European officials have no clear strategy for avoiding a trade war.
Con Alemania y Francia sumidas en la agitación política, el nuevo gobierno de Donald Trump comenzará en un momento de inestabilidad para el continente.
A regulatory filing showed that the president-elect transferred some 115 million shares of Trump Media to a trust controlled by his son Donald Trump Jr.
Thirty-eight Republican lawmakers resisted the president-elect’s command to support a spending and debt deal, showing that at least some of his followers are willing to buck his leadership in the right circumstances.
The veteran Labour lawmaker chosen by Prime Minister Keir Starmer has experience in trade policy and business and was once nicknamed “the Prince of Darkness” for his political tactics.
A Republican backlash to the speaker’s plan to temporarily fund the government has sparked new talk of ousting him, and highlighted the challenges he will face if he manages to keep his job.
Elon Musk, the chief executive of Tesla, and Jeff Bezos, the Amazon founder, ate with President-elect Donald J. Trump. Both have courted Mr. Trump.
In an interview, Mayor Eric Adams criticized the Biden administration and did not take aim at President-elect Donald J. Trump. He is not the only New York Democrat treading lightly.
The Food and Drug Administration released final rules on labeling foods as “healthy,” tightening limits for sugar, sodium and saturated fat.
La oposición del presidente electo Donald Trump al proyecto de ley bipartidista prácticamente ha enterrado ese acuerdo, a dos días de expirar la financiación del gobierno.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the president-elect’s pick for health secretary, has spent much of the week meeting with friendly Senate Republicans, including some who appear to be trying to institutionalize his influence in Congress.
The U.S. provides nearly half of the aid for global health, including childhood vaccination, H.I.V. treatment and disease surveillance.
For the 47th president, illusion is the new accountability.
President-elect Donald J. Trump was forced to negotiate with Democrats over the borrowing cap during his first term.
Dozens of right-wing Republicans joined Democrats in opposing a bill ordered up by President-elect Donald J. Trump to tie a government funding extension to a two-year deferral of the debt limit.
Readers discuss lawsuits against The Des Moines Register and ABC News. Also: Violence in school; a Mideast bridge; cash and the disabled; murder is wrong.
The world’s richest man led the charge to kill a bipartisan spending deal, in part by promoting false and misleading claims about it.
The panel overruled the trial judge, who had allowed Fani T. Willis to keep the case despite a romantic relationship that defendants said created a conflict of interest.
The Senate backed a bipartisan bill to add dozens of judges, but the House held off on voting until after Election Day. Now, Donald Trump would be assured at least 22 picks.
Known for her “gold standard” polls of Iowans, J. Ann Selzer is facing retribution from Donald Trump after her final 2024 survey showed a surprising, and ultimately wrong, winner.
But many European leaders say that with no sign that Russia is interested in peace, it is too early to discuss the presence of peacekeeping forces.
The President-elect takes office in a month, but his influence on policy is already being felt by investors and across Washington.
The Russian president, in a marathon annual news conference, said that he had not yet met with Bashar al-Assad, the ousted Syrian leader who fled to Moscow, but that he planned to.
We cover a lesson from the Democrats’ 2024 defeat.
How the cryptocurrency industry grew to where it is now, and how Donald Trump gave it a boost.
President-elect Donald J. Trump’s denunciation of a bipartisan spending bill all but buried that deal while leaving unclear what form a new agreement could take.
America’s economy is far outstripping its peers, but there are serious risks, including from the president-elect.
The columnist on why Trump’s biggest challenge will be weak states, not strong states.
Some couples have been speeding up plans to marry since the election, and wedding vendors have reached out with free or discounted services.
The promise of deeper emissions cuts will very likely be ignored by the Trump administration, but officials hoped it would send a signal to the world.
The Israeli prime minister remains in power.
With Germany and France both in political turmoil, the new administration of Donald J. Trump will begin at a time of instability for the continent.
Gov. Kathy Hochul said New York offered New Jersey “generous” incentives to settle its lawsuit against the tolling plan. A judge could soon determine the program’s fate.
Black women aren’t the only voters who are taking a moment.
The Trump administration is expected to revoke the program, setting up a legal clash between the state and federal government.
After Canada unveiled its plan to secure the border with the United States, Mr. Trump’s transition team attributed the action to the president elect.
The president-elect weighed in against the huge spending package after Elon Musk had spent the day warning Republicans not to support it. The blowup left the compromise on life support.
A group of Democratic lawmakers accused Georgia Pathways to Coverage, the only Medicaid work requirement program in the country, of spending little of its funding on health benefits.
President-elect Donald J. Trump has never been shy about his desire to see his enemies punished. But he often shows a measure of caution about taking credit for potential prosecutions himself.
As Ryan W. Routh fled the scene, a highway was shut down and a car crash ensued. In charging him with attempted felony murder, the state defied federal prosecutors.
Lawmakers agreed the report would come out after the House has completed legislative business for the year and once they have left Washington to return to their districts.
Trump hasn’t said whether he’ll move against imported foods, but the effects on oil producers and consumers are already being debated.
As Donald J. Trump prepares to take office in the United States, President Volodymyr Zelensky attended a meeting hosted by the NATO chief to plot the path forward in the war with Russia.
Federal agencies are reviewing whether the tech mogul and ally of Donald Trump complied with disclosure rules meant to protect state secrets.
Plus, a beefy new skin care trend.
President-elect Donald J. Trump’s proposals on tariffs, immigration, taxes and deregulation may have far-reaching and contradictory effects, adding uncertainty to forecasts.
What do Democrats need to do? Act like an opposition party.
Talks started and finished on the same day, after Disney decided that fighting the lawsuit could potentially hurt the company and protections for the press.
An atheist helps David French understand how religion supports America’s political ideals.
A movement by some Democratic voters to investigate the results of the 2024 presidential election mirrors a push by Republicans in 2020. But it’s struggling.
Once, eating whole foods and avoiding toxins was associated with a lefty worldview. Now, being a “crunchy mom” is more often about “health freedom.”
The president-elect tapped the former football star for the job two years after a failed run for a Senate seat in Georgia.
Senior officials discussed U.S. plans to announce additional support for Ukraine, and spoke about casualties among North Korean troops sent to help Russia.
There’s plenty to dislike and fear about Trump, but Never Trumpers overstated our case, defeating our purpose.
The president-elect’s most recent attempt to overturn his Manhattan conviction was rebuffed by the judge overseeing the case, who said it was based on “mere hearsay and conjecture.”
The long-awaited study was criticized by the oil and gas industry and could help environmental groups that want to stop new export terminals.
President-elect Donald J. Trump has said he would use his power to punish people he claims have wronged him. Those goals are now coming into focus.
Lawyers for Mayor Eric Adams of New York had asked for the bribery charge to be thrown out, but the judge was not persuaded.
The detainee was approved for transfer from Guantánamo Bay three years ago as the Biden administration tried to empty the wartime prison.
Reality has set in on Capitol Hill that with President-elect Donald J. Trump poised to take office, the era of U.S. military support for Ukraine is coming to an end.
The pace of peace talks has picked up, pushed by multiple factors, including wars in Lebanon and Syria that have seriously weakened Hamas’s allies and the election victory of Donald J. Trump.
The British politician shared an image on social media that showed him at Donald Trump’s Florida resort with the tech billionaire.
President-elect Donald Trump’s choice for health secretary has suggested that the polio vaccine cost more lives than it saved and that the vaccine did not wipe out the disease in the U.S.
Responses to a guest essay by Sarah Isgur, who is on Kash Patel’s enemies list. Also: A strategy intended to prevent suicides; a renewal of hope.
El presidente electo hizo una valoración no solicitada de la diferencia entre su transición a la Casa Blanca hace ocho años y ahora.
The loan, the biggest-ever commitment from the Loan Programs Office, is intended to fund the California utility’s grid and climate resiliency projects.
Silicon Valley hopes that tech giants like Elon Musk could help to push the incoming Trump administration toward offering more visas to highly skilled foreign workers.
En una reunión televisada de una hora de duración con sus altos mandos militares, Vladimir Putin dejó claro que ganar en Ucrania era su máxima prioridad.
Surveys taken since Donald Trump’s win show a resurgent faith among the president-elect’s supporters, and little Democratic appetite for conspiracy theories.
The biggest benefits often emerge outside the countries engaged in a trade war.
Investors and executives are often emphasizing what they like in the president-elect’s agenda, while dismissing what they don’t as mere posturing.
The legal scholars Gillian Metzger and Kate Shaw discuss how recent Supreme Court decisions could enable Trump in his second term.
He is about to regain control of the country’s nuclear arsenal at one of the most volatile times in history.
Eric Adams loses his closest aide and is denied access to public matching funds. But Donald Trump said he would consider pardoning him.
Donald J. Trump is speaking sympathetically about Mayor Eric Adams, but Republicans in New York still view the mayor with skepticism.
Las vacunas actuales son más eficaces y contienen muchos menos estimulantes del sistema inmunitario que las que se utilizaban hace décadas.
Powerful Americans have lost the will to resist Trump.
The Commerce Department is banning the few remaining operations of China Telecom in the United States, a move that appears unlikely to deter Beijing from conducting sophisticated cyberoperations.
Justice Juan M. Merchan thwarted one of several attempts by Donald J. Trump to clear his record of 34 felonies before returning to the White House.
Reflecting on how much has changed, and hasn’t, for Donald Trump since he first became president.
“The first term, everybody was fighting me,” the president-elect said. “In this term, everybody wants to be my friend.”
Jennifer Granholm said a new analysis showed that the continued pace of exports was “neither sustainable nor advisable.”
The president-elect made inaccurate claims about a small-business survey, the federal budget, autism rates and pesticide use, among other claims.
The company and its Chinese parent invoked the First Amendment in urging the justices to step in before a Jan. 19 deadline to sell or be shut down.
The technology company plans to invest $100 billion in U.S. projects, echoing the multibillion-dollar pledge it made after Donald J. Trump’s first election victory in 2016.
President-elect Donald J. Trump announced a $100 billion investment from SoftBank, a Japanese company, then jumped from one topic to another in his first news conference since the election.
President-elect Donald J. Trump’s comment reflects an unusual relationship that Mr. Adams, the New York mayor, has encouraged as his federal corruption trial nears.
Responses to an essay by Andrew Witty, the C.E.O. of UnitedHealth Group. Also: Threats to democracy, in Hungary and America; a check on Trump; avoiding taxes.
Chrystia Freeland, the deputy prime minister and finance minister, had been helping lead Canada’s response to the incoming Trump administration.
Some Republicans have said that a constitutional convention is overdue. Many Democratic-led states have rescinded their long-ago calls for one, and California will soon consider whether to do the same.
World leaders and C.E.O.s are struggling to convince President-elect Donald Trump to shift his position on imposing new levies against America’s trade partners and its rivals.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel said he told President-elect Donald J. Trump that the country had delivered “a tough blow” against Hamas and Hezbollah.
We cover the people who will surround Donald Trump in his second term.
President-elect Donald J. Trump and his supporters exerted intense political pressure to salvage his pick for the Department of Defense.
Plus, a troubling trend in American schools.
The president-elect and the president are in transition.
The Kurds helped the United States contain the Islamic State. Now they fear a resurgent Turkey that has long considered them an adversary. Here’s a guide.
He should fuse these two impulses into a single governing ideology.
Rates may not come down as much or as quickly as had been expected, just as Trump — a self-declared “low-rate guy” — returns to the White House.
President Yoon Suk Yeol shifted his country closer to Washington and stood up to Beijing. But that foreign policy could be recalibrated in the future.
A new toll on drivers hopes to reduce traffic in one of the world’s most congested cities. How would it work?
Senator Lindsey Graham said that Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump’s defense secretary pick, promised to release his accuser from a settlement that his lawyer has said was already breached.
The small flurry of threatened defamation suits is the latest sign that the incoming Trump administration appears poised to do what it can to crack down on unfavorable media coverage.
Readers worry about cuts to the National Institutes of Health. Also: Maternity wards; overdose deaths; vetting presidential candidates; tech tycoons in charge.
Yes, people want justice — as long as justice costs them nothing or very little.
His friends and family members in Rome, Ga., voted to support mass deportation. Now he’s scrambling to stay in the country.
Los funcionarios ucranianos, incluyendo el presidente Volodímir Zelenski, están haciendo todo lo posible para atraer al presidente electo Donald Trump a su bando.
A combative loyalist and the president-elect’s former ambassador to Germany, Mr. Grenell had hoped to be secretary of state.
As chair of the House Intelligence Committee, he attacked the Russia inquiry and Donald J. Trump’s first impeachment. Now, Mr. Nunes runs Mr. Trump’s social media company.
President-elect Donald J. Trump said on social media that the time change is “inconvenient” and that the Republican Party would try to put an end to it.
President-elect Donald J. Trump made a public show of support for his choice to lead the Defense Department.
The outcome of the lawsuit marks an unusual victory for President-elect Donald J. Trump in his ongoing legal campaign against national news organizations.
How Trump might cut short his political honeymoon.
Readers respond to an essay by a couples therapist.
It was a week of frenzied activity, as Silicon Valley billionaires and their companies brandished checks and compliments for the President-elect.
At his Mar-a-Lago club in Florida, the president-elect has been hosting diplomatic dinners, announcing cabinet picks and firing off texts to his aides — all after the sun goes down.
Using diplomacy, flattery and the occasional shot in the dark, Ukraine is doing everything it can to win over President-elect Donald J. Trump to its side.
President-elect Donald J. Trump is supporting the International Longshoremen’s Association, which could strike soon if it doesn’t reach a deal on automation with employers.
Vaccines today are more efficient and contain far fewer stimulants to the immune system than some used decades ago.
TV has fixated on one person, as news, comedy material and dramatic subtext, since 2015. Can it do another four years?
Las autoridades fronterizas estudiaron la posibilidad de utilizar barreras flotantes desde Texas hasta California en 2022. El esfuerzo podría ayudar a allanar el camino para su despliegue bajo el mandato del presidente electo Donald Trump.
California and 11 other states want to halt the sale of new gas-powered cars by 2035. President-elect Donald Trump is expected to try to stop them.
TikTok had sought to temporarily freeze a law that requires its Chinese parent to sell the app or face a U.S. ban next month. The case may now head to the Supreme Court.
“We can’t bring a policy book to a gunfight,” said Representative Greg Casar of Texas, the incoming chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus.