The case against Rahmanullah Lakanwal, an Afghan refugee accused of killing one Guard member and seriously injuring another, was transferred to D.C. District Court, where new firearms charges could bring capital punishment.
It is the latest twist in the marquee battle of the administration’s campaign to rein in colleges and universities it views as too liberal.
December 24, 2025
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.
December 24, 2025
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.
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.”
December 24, 2025
The coalition of states seeks to stop a Trump administration effort to cut off federal funding to hospitals that provide such care.
December 24, 2025
The Trump administration had sought to require states to account for population losses tied to deportations in order to receive emergency preparedness grants.
The ease of recovering information that was not properly redacted digitally suggests that at least some of the documents released by the Justice Department were hastily censored.
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.
One friend said Claudio Neves Valente appeared to live a detached life, upset that “he couldn’t be the genius he thought he should be.”
December 23, 2025
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.
Deputies responded to a report of an active shooter at the Division of Motor Vehicles office in Wilmington, Del., the authorities said. The gunman has also died, officials said.
December 23, 2025
A resident and an employee were killed after two explosions at the Bristol Health and Rehab Center resulted in a large fire and partial collapse of the building, officials said.
December 23, 2025
President Trump ordered state-based troops to Portland, Ore.; Los Angeles; Washington; and Chicago over the objections of state and local officials.
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 a third of the wall space with gold.
December 23, 2025
The instructor, a graduate student at the University of Oklahoma, gave a zero to a student who wrote an essay arguing in favor of traditional gender definitions based on biblical teachings.
December 23, 2025
The paper by Samantha Fulnecky, published earlier by The Oklahoman and also posted online, received a zero by the instructor and has stirred a debate about academic freedom.
December 23, 2025
The 2020 email laid out the criminal charges and investigative steps that prosecutors were mulling at the time.
Did DOGE really cut government spending? A New York Times analysis found that the group’s biggest claims were largely incorrect, and that its many smaller cuts added up to few savings. Our reporters David Fahrenthold and Margot Sanger-Katz explain.
In emails sent to Ghislaine Maxwell, a man at the British royal family’s summer residence in Scotland asks Ms. Maxwell for “new inappropriate friends,” then inquires about “girls” ahead of a trip to Peru.
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.”
In an unusual trial, the N.A.A.C.P. has sought to show a school board’s “racist intent” by proving that the names of Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson can’t be separated from white supremacy.
The list of co-conspirators included Leslie Wexner, the retail magnate behind The Limited and Victoria’s Secret stores.
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.
Mr. Sasse, a former senator from Nebraska, announced that he had received a diagnosis last week for Stage 4 pancreatic cancer.
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.
Copies of Jeffrey Epstein’s last will and testament show that the convicted sex offender and disgraced financier provide a real-time glimpse of the power players who were part of his life.
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 new documents — nearly 30,000 in all — contain hundreds of references to President Trump and include different versions of Jeffrey Epstein’s will.
For their heroics after a wave of bomb threats in New Jersey on Election Day, more than two dozen dogs were presented with an award from the state attorney general.
The measles outbreak in the United States is now in its 11th month, with almost 2,000 cases. The Timmons family were some of the first people to get sick.
December 23, 2025
The Justice Department said the law illegally regulates federal law enforcement by barring courthouse arrests and allowing residents to sue immigration agents.
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.
City officials have called for a hearing investigating Waymo after the company’s self-driving taxis suffered widespread problems during a power outage.
December 23, 2025
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 plane was carrying four civilians, including a child who was being flown to Texas to be treated for burns, and four crew members when it crashed into Galveston Bay, the authorities said.
December 23, 2025
The Department of Education is looking at whether security at Brown University, including its surveillance system, was up to standard. Brown said it would conduct its own investigation.
December 23, 2025
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 contest their initial removals another way.
December 22, 2025
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.
December 22, 2025
The rapper Nicki Minaj, who previously criticized President Trump’s policies, praised him and Vice President JD Vance during a surprise appearance at a Turning Point USA event on Sunday.
At a funeral in Alabama, the Brown University student was mourned as a gifted musician and protective sister who was committed to her faith.
December 22, 2025
An analysis of data on every ICE arrest, detention stay and deportation reveals the complexity and reach of President Trump’s immigration crackdown.
December 22, 2025
Mr. Landry, the governor of Louisiana, is a fierce supporter of the president. But his experience in international relations isn’t extensive.
December 22, 2025
Selected Times graphics, visualizations and multimedia stories published this year.
December 22, 2025
From January to June, more than 20,000 employees out of more than 110,000 left the agency, according to a report by the agency’s inspector general.
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.
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.
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.
A historical review shows lawmakers without certain familial records went unchallenged as citizens when the 14th Amendment was adopted. The finding appeared to undercut the president’s claims on birthright citizenship.
Two weeks of “atmospheric river” deluges took a toll on business in Leavenworth, Wash., and beyond, reminding the region that a warming planet has brought new uncertainty.
At least four of the 37 men whose sentences were commuted last year could face the death penalty at the state level after a push from the Trump administration.
December 22, 2025
As efforts to defund Planned Parenthood lead to the closure of some of its locations, Christian-based clinics that try to dissuade abortions are aiming to fill the gap in women‘s health care. Our reporter Caroline Kitchener describes how this change is playing out in Ames, Iowa.
About 50 Planned Parenthoods have shut down this year, largely a result of efforts by President Trump and Republicans to target the organization.
An image containing a photo of President Trump was removed from a Justice Department website that housed files related to the investigations of Jeffrey Epstein. The department said it reposted the image on Sunday after it was found to not feature Epstein’s victims.
Floodwaters swept Shasta County on Sunday, killing at least one person. Forecasters warned that Central California would receive heavy rain later in the week.
December 22, 2025
The vice president’s plea for a big-tent coalition at an annual conservative gathering belied the cracks in his party over antisemitism, racism and conspiracy theories.
She began working as a park ranger at age 85, educating visitors about the women and people of color who served on the home front in World War II, herself among them.
December 22, 2025
The self-driving cars came to a halt at intersections when the power outage knocked out traffic signals, causing tie-ups but no accidents or injuries.
December 22, 2025
A paraplegic engineer was part of a crew that made a suborbital journey on a spacecraft operated by Jeff Bezos’ private company, Blue Origin.
December 21, 2025
Heavy rains have prompted public health officials in Washington to warn residents about toilet rats, a rare plumbing nightmare that drives frantic calls to pest control experts.
December 21, 2025
The latest vessel to be targeted by the United States in its pressure campaign on Venezuela was sending distress signals as it headed northeast from the Caribbean into the Atlantic.
In an interview with NBC, the No. 2 official at the Justice Department denied that officials were protecting the president from what has been disclosed.
Michele Singer Reiner was the guiding force in the lives of her family, stressing the need to help and respect one another.
December 21, 2025
In his first year back in the White House, President Trump has greatly expanded executive power while embracing the trappings of royalty in ways not seen in the modern era.
An increasingly loud contingent supports the Trump administration’s efforts to deport illegal immigrants.
December 21, 2025
For two decades, Luis Martinez has fought wildfires for the U.S. government. Now he’s facing down cancer, debt and the threat of separation from his 11-year-old.
December 21, 2025
Hundreds of thousands of Americans in rural and urban areas alike could see their votes rejected if the court decides that ballots must arrive by Election Day.
Zohran Mamdani, New York’s mayor-elect, is among the latest politicians to be tagged with the term, raising the question: What did theater kids do to deserve such scorn?
The hourslong outage affected nearly a third of the city and forced the closure of transit stations. Service was restored for most customers late Saturday.
December 21, 2025
At AmericaFest, conservative leaders insulted one another, revealing serious rifts over conspiracy theories, antisemitism and who belongs in America.
A total of 16 photos were taken down at some point on Saturday from the website that the Justice Department created. One featured an open drawer containing other photos, including at least one of President Trump.
The Justice Department, under pressure from Congress to comply with a law signed by President Trump, released more than 13,000 files on Friday arising from investigations into Jeffrey Epstein.
December 20, 2025
The transcripts and photos were part of Department of Justice files arising from investigations into the disgraced financier and his former girlfriend.
December 20, 2025
The Republican-led Justice Department’s release of photos of the former president with Jeffrey Epstein will introduce yet another generation to his flaws and controversies.
Kristi Noem, the homeland security secretary, said a vessel had been “apprehended.” It was the second action this month against a tanker carrying Venezuelan oil.
A conservative who has served in the Senate since 2021, Ms. Lummis attributed the decision to the “difficult, exhausting session” this fall on Capitol Hill.
A toxicology report found elevated levels of alcohol in Senator Faith Winter’s blood at the time of the November crash.
December 20, 2025
In immigration courts, U.S. lawyers have filed thousands of requests to dismiss asylum cases and force people to pursue asylum elsewhere.
December 20, 2025
Nuno Loureiro, 47, was killed by an old classmate who was on the run from a shooting at Brown University, the authorities said.
December 20, 2025
A video analysis of one early morning raid in Los Angeles revealed the vast web of consequences brought by new aggressive Border Patrol tactics.
December 20, 2025
The huge sum shows that while the Koch network may not hold significant power at high levels of the Republican Party, it remains a financial juggernaut.
Economists say that a typical middle-class family today is richer than one in the 1960s. Americans in their 20s and 30s don’t believe it.
A body in the woods. A girl who had a crush on a boy. And a confession that led to the arrest of two teenagers on murder charges.
December 20, 2025
A year of political pressure and partial disclosures preceded the release of long-sought records on Jeffrey Epstein.
The Justice Department came under scrutiny for its handling of the documents and deletions online of some material. It said it would not remove mentions of Donald Trump from the files as they are released.
Several victims said they were frustrated by the heavy redactions of photos and documents that the Justice Department released on Friday.
December 20, 2025
The proposal would have required recipients to get treatment for addiction or mental illness as a condition of receiving housing funds. The administration has said it will try again.
The leading Republican candidate for Ohio governor is calling out his party for rising intolerance, including against Indian American immigrants and their children, like him.
The institution has tried to work with the administration’s demands that it present a more uplifting view of American history.
The secretary of state held a marathon news conference, offering little news but more respect for reporters than most others in the Trump administration.
Republicans and Democrats who had been pressing for the disclosure accused officials of failing to comply with a law that requires all material to be released.
December 20, 2025
The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating the crash at a North Carolina airport, which killed seven people, including the driver Greg Biffle and his wife and children.
The G.O.P. congresswoman who ran as a moderate but became an “ultra MAGA” Trump acolyte ultimately found herself undermined by the president and politically adrift.
Newly released files show how Maria Farmer, who worked for Mr. Epstein in the 1990s, had urged the F.B.I. to investigate him. The case went nowhere for years.
December 19, 2025
The Trump administration had vowed to fight a judge’s decision to dismiss unrelated criminal charges against James Comey, the former F.B.I. director, and Letitia James, the attorney general of New York.
The files that The Times initially reviewed on Friday included only a handful of references to or images of Mr. Trump.
December 19, 2025
Lt. Gen. Francis L. Donovan, a Marine general with expansive experience in special operations and the Middle East, would take over after the abrupt departure of the previous commander.
The examination confirmed that the suspect had died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. His body was found late Thursday in a storage unit in New Hampshire.
December 19, 2025
The focus on a former president comes at a moment when Republicans have fought to shift public attention away from Mr. Epstein’s friendship with President Trump.
December 19, 2025
There will be much to dive into when On Politics returns in January, and a familiar voice will be taking the helm — at least for a little while.
The Kennedy Center installed President Trump’s name on the facade of the arts center, which had been designated as a living memorial to President John F. Kennedy.
December 19, 2025
American forces struck dozens of suspected ISIS sites, making good on President Trump’s vow to avenge two American soldiers and a civilian U.S. interpreter killed by the group last week.
Workers hauled up large letters spelling out Mr. Trump’s full name to add to the white marble face of the building on Friday morning.
The searchable database published by the Justice Department is broken into multiple categories.
December 19, 2025
Several reporters and editors have covered the case since 2019. Others report on the Justice Department, Congress, the White House and the federal court system.
December 19, 2025
The selection of Scott Beardsley by the G.O.P.-appointed board comes after the previous president resigned under pressure from the Trump administration. A new Democratic-appointed board could try to overturn the choice.
December 19, 2025
In a previously undisclosed partnership, the Transportation Security Administration and Immigration and Customs Enforcement are sharing data to identify passengers on upcoming flights whom ICE can arrest. Our reporter Hamed Aleaziz, who learned of this partnership, describes what to know about it and the ICE arrests that have followed.
December 19, 2025
December 19, 2025
Here is the complaint affidavit for Claudio Manuel Neves Valente, the man police believe killed two students at Brown University as well as a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
December 19, 2025
Here is the arrest warrant for the Brown University gunman, whom the authorities identified as Claudio Manuel Neves Valente. Mr. Valente was found dead Thursday in a storage unit in New Hampshire.
December 19, 2025
December 19, 2025
The case, brought by the union representing immigration judges, could have implications for other workplace claims brought by government officials.
Closely tied to Washington during much of the Cold War, Venezuela has gone through political upheavals over the years that now make it a major enemy in the eyes of the Trump administration.
After more than 20 years of fighting wildfires for the U.S. government, he’s facing cancer, staggering bills and the prospect of not being around for his 11-year-old.
December 19, 2025
The attack killed 5 people, the latest known fatalities since the attacks began in September. The Trump administration has accused those on the boats of ferrying narcotics but provided little proof.
Several members of Congress criticized the department’s No. 2, Todd Blanche, after he said more documents would be coming weeks late.
The early backing of Ms. Kirk, the widow of Charlie Kirk, is notable because she now leads the influential conservative group he founded, Turning Point USA.
The parents of the suspect in the Brown and M.I.T. killings had not seen or heard from him since he left Portugal to enroll at a graduate program at Brown more than two decades ago.
December 19, 2025
President Trump’s handpicked board of trustees announced that the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts would be renamed the Trump-Kennedy Center, a change that may need Congress’s approval.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said President Trump had ordered the program to be suspended after it emerged that the shooting suspect had used it to obtain a green card.
December 19, 2025
December 19, 2025
The distinction for the Lumbee Tribe in North Carolina, signed into law on Thursday, opens access to federal support and defies challenges from other tribes over their legitimacy.
Takeaways from an eventful 2025 election cycle.
They will be eligible for a one-time payment as well as college tuition for their children. The effort is part of a legislative push to address the dangers of working in toxic smoke.
December 19, 2025
A 17-year-old worker died at a pork producer in Nebraska run by the governor’s family. Two investigations later, the boy’s mother is still searching for answers.
December 19, 2025
An aged helicopter fleet and inexperienced pilots from nearby Fort Belvoir had raised “widespread concern” among local pilots before a midair collision killed 67 people.
John Koch, a radio reporter, witnesses every execution in Florida to keep close tabs on what he considers one of the most consequential actions the state takes.
December 19, 2025
Nuno F.G. Loureiro, the professor, and the man suspected in his killing attended the same physics program in Portugal during the 1990s.
December 19, 2025
Officials said the suspect in the Brown University shooting was found dead in a storage unit in New Hampshire. They believe the 48-year-old man also killed an M.I.T. professor.
December 19, 2025
A single suspect carried out the shooting at Brown University and the killing of an M.I.T. professor, and was later found dead in New Hampshire, authorities said.
December 19, 2025
A Reddit user provided information that helped identify Claudio Manuel Neves Valente as the suspect not only in the campus shooting but also in the murder of an M.I.T. professor.
December 19, 2025
Officials identified a man from Portugal as the suspect in the deadly shooting at Brown University and the killing of an M.I.T. professor. The police said he died from a self-inflicted gunshot.
December 19, 2025
Facing a deadline to appeal, the Justice Department told the courts late Thursday that it would try to overturn a judge’s ruling in favor of Harvard.
December 19, 2025
December 19, 2025
The authorities in Boston hold a press conference. Earlier, officials in Providence, R.I., announced that the body of a suspect in the Brown University shooting was found in New Hampshire.
December 19, 2025
The Wisconsin state judge, Hannah C. Dugan, was accused of ushering a man to a side door as federal agents waited outside a courtroom.
December 19, 2025
Federal prosecutors said they were now investigating fraud worth billions of dollars in 14 social services programs in the state.
December 19, 2025
The long-running case had been on hold for nearly a year because of higher court appeals and the retirement of the military judge.
During his 16 years in office, he earned national acclaim for his focus on education. But losing his bid for the Senate in 1984 cost him a shot at the presidency.
Lawmakers from a half-dozen states said Thursday they will use legislation next year to thwart the tactics of federal law enforcement carrying out immigration policies.
Many of President Trump’s supporters love his professional-wrestling style of leadership. But some of his recent attacks have sickened even some of his own political allies.
The president has a long record of making false or misleading statements. But the sheer density of them in his administration’s boat attacks and Venezuela pressure campaign is exceptional.
December 18, 2025
Marijuana was downgraded from a Schedule I drug to a Schedule III drug on Thursday. The reclassification does not legalize cannabis, but it does ease restrictions on the substance and allows for more research.
Five adults and two people were killed after a small passenger jet crashed at the Statesville Regional Airport in North Carolina, according to the local sheriff. The plane was registered to the NASCAR driver Greg Biffle.
December 18, 2025
The White House unveiled new plaques near the Oval Office mocking some of President Trump’s predecessors. The new display distorts history and aligns with Mr. Trump’s worldview.
The gang, which was the subject of charges brought in several states, is President Trump’s chosen nemesis. The defendant remains at large.
Hard to follow the dizzying array of developments out of Washington over the past year? Here are our answers to your pressing questions.
December 18, 2025
The top Democrat on the Oversight Committee, Representative Robert Garcia has brought aggressive tactics and reality-show flair to investigating Jeffrey Epstein’s ties to President Trump.
The Milwaukee judge was charged with obstructing federal immigration agents, who were trying to arrest a man who had appeared before her on a battery charge.
December 18, 2025
In newly obtained audio, President Trump reiterated his claims that he had won Georgia in 2020 in a phone call with the state’s House Speaker, David Ralston. Mr. Trump lost Georgia by more than 11,000 votes that year.
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December 18, 2025
The board for the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts announced that it would now be named the Trump-Kennedy Center, although a formal change may have to be approved by Congress.
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. proposed new rules on Thursday to stop gender-related care for minors across the nation. One of the rules threatened to pull federal funding from any hospital that provided gender treatments for minors. This would effectively shut down hospitals that failed to comply.
From St. Patrick’s Cathedral to the White House to Fox News, he comfortably inhabited many spheres of influence.
December 18, 2025
Marijuana’s classification as one of the most dangerous and habit-forming substances has long drawn criticism.
The authorities did not immediately release the names of the victims. The plane was registered to Greg Biffle, a NASCAR driver, the local sheriff said.
December 18, 2025
The inability to find a credible counter to the Affordable Care Act has long bedeviled Republicans and cost them at the polls. It’s threatening to do so again next year.
Lawmakers in the House and the Senate asked a government watchdog to determine if Howard Lutnick is following ethics guidelines in promoting data centers that benefit his family’s businesses.
Ken Martin, the Democratic National Committee chairman, ordered the autopsy months ago but is now said to believe that its release would be counterproductive for the party.
President Trump promised active duty troops a $1,776 check, citing increased revenue raised by tariffs, but the funding is coming from money for the military included in this year’s domestic spending law.
December 18, 2025
The Silicon Valley college town has changed drastically as Mark Zuckerberg, Larry Page and other tech founders have scooped up multiple properties.
December 18, 2025
The appointment of Bishop Ronald A. Hicks is expected to bring a markedly different leadership style to New York’s archdiocese.
December 18, 2025
Nick Reiner, charged with murdering his parents, Rob and Michele Singer Reiner, spent much of his life battling drug addiction, an affliction that millions of Americans face.
December 18, 2025
The president has tried to minimize their friendship, but documents and interviews reveal an intense and complicated relationship. Chasing women was a game of ego and dominance. Female bodies were currency.
December 18, 2025
The president gave a televised speech that featured repeated criticism of Democrats and his predecessor, Joseph R. Biden Jr., along with boasts about gains that many Americans have said they are not experiencing.
The move may reassure China hawks who are uncertain about the president’s commitment to the self-governing democracy.
In an 18-minute address, President Trump said the economy was booming despite the public’s consistent concerns about prices. Here are six takeaways from the speech.
The attack on Wednesday brings the total number killed to at least 99 since the Trump administration began bombing boats suspected of ferrying drugs in the Caribbean Sea and the Pacific Ocean.
The president cited misleading statistics to insist, wrongly, that prices were coming down.
New legislation will be drafted to target those who promote violence and to increase penalties for hate speech, the prime minister said Thursday.
December 18, 2025
The president sharply attacked his predecessor while insisting that his own record contained nothing but victories.
Mixing misleading claims with repeated attacks, President Trump promised relief for Americans but said he needed time to deliver it.
December 18, 2025
December 18, 2025
Neighbors said a pall had fallen over the wealthy Los Angeles area where Rob Reiner and his wife, Michele, were found stabbed to death.
December 18, 2025
A federal court filing says the Army crew piloting a Black Hawk helicopter could have avoided the nighttime accident in January if it had been able to see and avoid a commercial jet.
The Atlanta-area district attorney called President Trump and his allies “criminals” while being questioned by a Georgia Senate committee on Wednesday.
During much of the 12.5-minute call, President Trump reiterated his claims that he had won Georgia, a state he lost by more than 11,000 votes that year.
December 18, 2025
President Trump delivers an address to the nation on Wednesday evening.
The Pentagon has released plenty of video clips that show American missiles blowing boats suspected of carrying drugs out of the water. But the “double tap” strike on Sept. 2 is being kept under wraps.
The White House unveiled plaques near the Oval Office that describe U.S. presidents with varying levels of accuracy, depending on President Trump’s opinion of them.
President Trump will address the nation on Wednesday night at 9 p.m. Eastern time. The New York Times will provide live coverage and analysis.
The legislation restores restrictions on military aircraft flying near busy airports, implemented after a fatal collision near D.C. in January, that had been removed in the defense bill.
Judge Jia M. Cobb wrote that two policies announced in June appeared to unlawfully bar members of Congress from making unannounced visits at immigration detention facilities.
Security camera footage from a gas station convenience store in Los Angeles shows Nick Reiner buying a sports drink. About an hour later, Mr. Reiner is arrested across the street. Mr. Reiner was charged with first-degree murder in the stabbing deaths of his parents, Rob and Michele Singer Reiner.
December 18, 2025
Officials said that they were working with physical evidence, including DNA, and that they were seeking a second man who appeared to have crossed paths with the possible suspect.
December 18, 2025
The measure had little chance of consideration in the Senate, where it would need bipartisan support to move, but it reflected the priorities of the Republican majority.
After finding the slain couple, investigators focused on their younger son, Nick, as a suspect. He was formally charged with murder on Tuesday and appeared in court on Wednesday.
December 17, 2025
The American Academy of Pediatrics had called the department’s policies “irresponsible and purposefully misleading” and joined a lawsuit against its vaccine policy.
The Pentagon said it was initiating a “command investigation” into the senator, another extraordinary step as the Trump administration seeks retribution against the president’s perceived foes.
The Democratic measure was defeated mostly along party lines, along with another resolution that would have halted the military’s escalating campaign of boat attacks.
In some ways, Trump’s broader flexing of power has achieved what he set out to do. But his attempts to push prosecutions of rivals have been far less successful.
The departure of Mr. Bongino had seemed inevitable since August, when the White House hired Missouri’s attorney general, Andrew Bailey, to share his job as deputy director.
Even adversaries of Jack Smith, the former special counsel, conceded that his tight-lipped, painstaking approach made tripping him up particularly difficult.
Morgan Geyser, who was convicted after she stabbed a friend in 2014 to please a fictional character, was arrested last month after she cut off a monitoring bracelet and fled from a group home.
December 17, 2025
An official with U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services said it would prioritize “those who’ve unlawfully obtained U.S. citizenship.”
The district attorney in Atlanta addressed a Republican-led committee created to investigate her conduct during her prosecution of President Trump last year.
December 17, 2025
Mr. Reiner was filmed entering a gas station’s store in South Los Angeles to buy a sports drink roughly an hour before he was arrested by the police across the street.
December 17, 2025
Surveillance footage from a gas station convenience store in Los Angeles shows Nick Reiner buying a sports drink. About an hour later, Mr. Reiner is arrested across the street.
December 17, 2025
The main dark-money group backing Kamala Harris and Joe Biden raised a staggering $613 million last year, while its pro-Trump counterpart brought in $275 million, new filings show.
After viewing video of a follow-up strike, Republicans largely had confidence in the Pentagon’s legal rationale while Democrats questioned its legality.
Pentagon officials, surprised by President Trump’s orders, scrambled to work out a plan to halt sanctioned tankers as Nicolás Maduro, Venezuela’s leader, vowed resistance.
The first lady is behind a movie that she has said will give a better idea of what it was like for her to move into the White House for a second time.
The lawyers, Habib Balian and Jonathan Chung, have managed complex homicide cases that attracted heavy attention from the media.
December 17, 2025
The daughter and a son of Rob and Michele Singer Reiner spoke publicly for the first time since their parents were found dead on Sunday and their brother was arrested. They asked for respect and privacy.
December 17, 2025
Nick Reiner, facing murder charges in the deaths of his parents, Rob and Michele Reiner, appeared at an arraignment that lasted just minutes before it was rescheduled for January. He has not entered a plea.
December 17, 2025
Cedric Lodge, and his wife, Denise Lodge, stole and sold donated human remains intended for medical research and teaching, prosecutors said.
December 17, 2025
President Trump’s immigration crackdown has at times resulted in arrests near schools, setting off concerns among parents, educators and students.
The scope of President Trump’s blockade against ships carrying oil from Venezuela was not clear on Wednesday.
The legislation authorizes $900 billion for the Pentagon, provides a pay raise for troops, and has some measures to reassert congressional oversight.
December 17, 2025
A three-judge panel voted unanimously to allow troops to stay in the capital for the duration of the appeal, citing the city’s unique legal status.
After the speaker denied them a vote on extending the subsidies, four Republicans from competitive districts joined Democrats’ bid to go around G.O.P. leaders and force action.
December 17, 2025
A group of prominent figures issued a statement memorializing Mr. Reiner and his wife, Michele Singer Reiner. “We were their friends, and we will miss them forever.”
December 17, 2025
Heavy rain and strong winds through early Wednesday could bring additional flooding to Washington State, forecasters warned.
December 17, 2025
It is rare for a gunman in a high-profile shooting to get away, and many are apprehended within days. The authorities shared grainy video and begged for tips as the search stretched into its fourth day.
December 17, 2025
For the students in the Brown University review session, concerns about grades and questions about economic concepts would be forgotten in an instant.
December 17, 2025
The person picked to replace Jerome H. Powell will be thrust into a credibility problem that will be difficult to escape.
With tariffs unpopular and prices still high, the White House has teased the promise of tariff rebates and large tax refunds next year.
A surge of ICE agents has led to 670 arrests and chaotic standoffs in subzero weather.
December 17, 2025
A man clung to a partially built roof for hours in frigid temperatures during a standoff with immigration agents in Chanhassen, Minn., a suburb of Minneapolis. The confrontation was part of the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown in the state to remove what it calls “vicious criminals.”
December 17, 2025
The students face discipline for recording Mr. Summers, the former Harvard president, discussing his ties to Jeffrey Epstein in a Harvard class.
December 17, 2025
A New York intellectual and onetime liberal stalwart, his Commentary magazine became his platform as his political and social views turned sharply rightward.
The two first-degree murder counts include a special circumstance, which increases the maximum punishment if he is convicted.
December 17, 2025
Los Angeles prosecutors charged Nick Reiner with two counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of his parents, the director Rob Reiner and Michele Singer Reiner.
December 17, 2025
A person close to the family provided a detailed account of what occurred in the Reiner house after a massage therapist received no response at the gate.
December 17, 2025
The move is an escalation of military operations and a pressure campaign against Nicolás Maduro, Venezuela’s leader. But its scope and economic impact are not clear.
A federal judge said he would order the Trump administration to submit plans for the building by the end of the month, but allowed minor construction to continue for now.
People from Syria, South Sudan and those with documents issued by the Palestinian Authority are included in the latest restrictions. More than 35 countries are now under U.S. travel restrictions.
Following classified hearings for all the members of the House and Senate, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth declined on Tuesday to release the unedited video of a boat attack in September that included a second strike to kill survivors.
Vice President JD Vance pleaded with everybody to just hang in there a little longer, saying the economy would improve.
The Providence Police Department in Providence, R.I., released enhanced security-camera footage of a suspect in the Brown University shooting walking through the neighborhood hours before the tragedy took place.
December 16, 2025
Prosecutors said that Mr. Reiner killed his parents, Rob and Michelle Reiner, using a knife. He has not yet entered a plea.
December 16, 2025
Three trustees have left since the think tank’s president backed the conservative podcaster’s friendly interview with Nick Fuentes.
The New York Times examined data from 18 of the nation’s top law schools and found that first-year Black enrollment had increased at only four, including at Harvard.
December 16, 2025
The speaker had planned to give moderate Republicans seeking an extension of the tax credits a vote on their proposal, but said on Tuesday it was simply “not to be.”
The defense secretary joined the secretary of state on Capitol Hill to deliver the first classified briefings to include all members of the House and Senate on the maritime attacks.
The lawyer, Alan Jackson, has represented the Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein and the actor Kevin Spacey.
December 16, 2025
After determining that a man they had detained was not the killer, Rhode Island officials have searched for more evidence and released photos of a possible gunman.
December 16, 2025
President Trump praised his chief of staff as doing “a fantastic job,” and more than a dozen members of his cabinet have posted defenses of her on social media.
The transfer of nearly two dozen men this week restarted a Trump administration deportation operation on the base after a two-month hiatus.
The professor, Nuno F.G. Loureiro, was pronounced dead at a hospital on Tuesday morning. The authorities said they had opened a homicide investigation.
December 16, 2025
Some who worked on the semi-autobiographical “Being Charlie” saw challenges play out on the set.
December 16, 2025
An informal custom gives Senate Democrats leverage on federal prosecutors even as Republicans have sought to ease other confirmations. The president wants it eliminated.
The Trump administration looked to recast elements of a dour jobs report Tuesday as a sign of strength.
During 11 interviews with Vanity Fair over President Trump’s first year back in office, Ms. Wiles, his chief of staff, opened up about the president, the people around him and their internal fights.
The authorities released more video footage in an attempt to identify a suspect, and said they had no idea why the killer attacked a study session.
December 16, 2025
Michelle Obama said on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” that she and former President Barack Obama were longtime friends of the couple and called them “decent, courageous” people.
December 16, 2025
The lawsuit landed just hours before a once-a-decade review of the broadcaster’s royal charter, which governs its mission, purpose and funding.
In interviews with Vanity Fair, Susie Wiles, the White House chief of staff, said President Trump “has an alcoholic’s personality,” called JD Vance a “conspiracy theorist” and concluded that Pam Bondi “completely whiffed” the early handling of the Epstein files.
As a manhunt for a gunman who killed two and injured nine at Brown University stretched into a third day, residents and officials alike were growing weary.
December 16, 2025
The Ivy League school has faced a series of challenges related to protests and politics. Through it all, it has kept its gates open to the city and tried to heal divisions on campus.
December 16, 2025
In public, the White House says it is confronting Venezuela to curb drug trafficking. Behind the scenes, gaining access to the country’s vast oil reserves is a priority.
December 16, 2025
International patients can bring a hospital as much as $2 million for a transplant. In recent years, they have typically gotten organs faster than U.S. patients.
December 16, 2025
Nick Reiner was arrested and booked on suspicion of murder after his mother and father, the movie director Rob Reiner, were found dead in their home. The younger Reiner had been open about his struggles with drug abuse and homelessness.
December 16, 2025
The relationship between the president’s son and Ms. Anderson had been the subject of tabloid speculation during his previous engagement to Kimberly Guilfoyle.
December 16, 2025
The attacks brought the number killed since the Trump administration began the strikes on suspected drug smugglers to at least 95.
The announcement came just hours after prosecutors there charged four government officials with corruption in connection with the half-billion-dollar project.
Mia Tretta, a Brown student, survived a deadly shooting at her high school in 2019 and another attack on Saturday. As the authorities search for the gunman in the latest attack, she is coping with trauma again.
December 16, 2025
Rob Reiner and his son, Nick, had a dispute at a party hosted by Conan O’Brien the night before the director and his wife were found dead.
December 16, 2025
A judge ruled that at least two of three defendants would have to stand trial in a case stemming from a plan to deploy fake electors after Donald Trump lost the 2020 presidential election.
The wealthy enclave
December 16, 2025
The British broadcaster, which has expressed regret over the editing of video clips about the president, has rejected claims that the error was evidence of a fundamental bias in its news reporting.
The former speaker failed to appreciate the groundswell of support for banning the practice, refusing to give an inch amid G.O.P. accusations that she was corrupt.
Kash Patel’s impulse to publicize the work of the bureau under his leadership has revived questions about his competence and his future in the administration.
“There was no corrupt intent,” the judge’s lawyer said in an opening statement. Prosecutors said the judge’s political views made her “cross the line.”
December 15, 2025
Few industry players seem closer to Trump than the 44-year-old billionaire brothers. And they have gotten more than just invitations to the White House this year.
Nick Reiner, who struggled with drug addiction, wrote “Being Charlie” during a period of sobriety. His father directed the film.
December 15, 2025
December 15, 2025
Alan M. Garber was appointed after his predecessor resigned under pressure. He has been in the role as Harvard fended off challenges from the Trump administration.
December 15, 2025
Heng Guan fled to the United States and released rare video evidence of China’s clampdown. His supporters say that sending him to Uganda puts him at risk.
December 15, 2025
Police officers investigating the Brown University shooting released a man they called a “person of interest.” Officials defended the twist in the case as the normal course of policing.
December 15, 2025
The clips were captured on Saturday and show a man walking on sidewalks near the Brown campus after the shooting.
December 15, 2025
The authorities in Providence, R.I., released a second video from security camera footage of a possible suspect in the shooting on Saturday.
December 15, 2025
Administration officials said the case grew out of a presidential order declaring antifa to be a terrorist group.
The Hollywood star was an unusually hands-on activist and donor, whose deep understanding of politics set him apart from other celebrities.
The U.S. Tech Force is aiming to hire about 1,000 top-level technical employees and supervisors to join federal agencies and work on projects related to artificial intelligence and modernization.
The president attributed the killing to “Trump derangement syndrome,” but his disparaging comments drew backlash even from conservative allies who said they were inappropriate.
A gunman who killed two students at Brown University is still at large. There were no specific threats against other schools, but many are taking precautions.
December 15, 2025
Ella Cook, a 19-year-old sophomore from Mountain Brook, Ala., was a gifted pianist and spoke fluent French, a classmate said.
December 15, 2025
The shooting attack in Palmyra, Syria, on Saturday struck Iowa National Guard troops. Two were killed, along with an American civilian interpreter; three others were wounded.
December 15, 2025
MukhammadAziz Umurzokov, 18, was gentle and extroverted, his sisters and a friend said, and had dreams of becoming a neurosurgeon.
December 15, 2025
He and his father, the director Rob Reiner, also worked together on a film that was loosely inspired by the son’s early life.
December 15, 2025
The Los Angeles Police Department said a son of the director Rob Reiner and his wife, Michele, had been booked for murder in connection with the killing of the couple.
December 15, 2025
Stars of Mr. Reiner’s movies, as well as celebrities who simply admired his work, have posted heartfelt tributes to the director on social media.
December 15, 2025
Mr. Reiner’s falling for his wife of 36 years inspired the director to rework the ending of “When Harry Met Sally …” The couple would collaborate on movies and political causes.
December 15, 2025
Hours after announcing they had detained a person in connection with the deadly shooting at Brown University, officials appealed to the public for new leads.
December 15, 2025
The Milwaukee County judge faces federal charges, but she has maintained her innocence.
December 15, 2025
A program for deafblind children helped 3-year-old Annie Garner, born with poor vision and no ears, learn to communicate. The Trump administration cut the program’s funding over diversity goals.
December 15, 2025
Nick Reiner has been charged with two counts of first-degree murder in the killing of his parents.
December 15, 2025
December 15, 2025
December 15, 2025
Students at Brown University held a candlelight vigil following an overnight lockdown.
December 15, 2025
December 15, 2025
December 15, 2025
The deaths were confirmed by the Los Angeles mayor, Karen Bass. The Los Angeles Police Department said it is investigating “an apparent homicide” at their home.
December 15, 2025
The killing of two college students brought an unwelcome and unusual spotlight to the mayor of Providence, R.I., a place where many residents know each other.
December 15, 2025
A former director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and a former chief medical officer of the agency will advise the state on public health issues.
December 15, 2025
The committee cited interviews with police commanders in an effort to buttress President Trump’s federal takeover of law enforcement and the National Guard deployment in the capital city.
Students sheltered in place in classrooms and basements, waiting for the all clear.
December 14, 2025
Bill and Hillary Clinton have repeatedly offered to provide sworn statements, but Representative James R. Comer has threatened to hold them in contempt of Congress if they fail to appear.
Bill and Hillary Clinton’s lawyer writes a letter on Oct. 6 to the House Oversight Committee opposing their live testimony regarding the Jeffrey Epstein investigation.
Bill and Hillary Clinton’s lawyer writes a letter on Nov. 3 to the House Oversight Committee opposing their live testimony regarding the Jeffrey Epstein investigation.
December 14, 2025
Bill and Hillary Clinton’s lawyer writes a letter on Dec. 10 to the House Oversight Committee opposing their live testimony regarding the Jeffrey Epstein investigation.
Officials provide an update on the shooting that happened at Brown University on Saturday.
December 14, 2025
The term, scheduled to end on Friday, has been cut short, and school officials said students could go home immediately.
December 14, 2025
A gunman killed two students and injured nine more in an attack at Brown University on Saturday.
December 14, 2025
The student, in his first year at Brown, described helping others who were more seriously injured than he was as they hid in their classroom.
December 14, 2025
December 14, 2025
The Treasury Department unveiled new coins celebrating America’s 250th anniversary. They failed to include planned designs featuring abolition, women’s suffrage and the civil rights movement.
December 14, 2025
The Palisadian-Post was published for 97 years, but the twice-monthly community newspaper couldn’t survive the Los Angeles wildfires.
December 14, 2025
After heavy rains swelled rivers and flooded neighborhoods in northern Washington, residents returned to soggy homes caked in mud. Many tried to salvage what they could.
December 14, 2025
The New York Times set out to understand — and quantify — just how much things had changed within the agency after President Trump resumed office.
An investigation by The Times found the administration’s change in enforcement benefited the industry, including companies that had ties to the president.
Rural departments have long relied on cheap software solutions to keep their operations running. But fire chiefs report sharp price increases as investors have entered the market.
December 14, 2025
For more than a century, this Black soldier from Virginia was remembered by nearly no one. Then this year, someone at the Pentagon found a use for him.
Joseph Oduro, 21, said he was leading an economics study session for about 60 students when a masked man entered the room and started shooting.
December 14, 2025
Both women said the shooting on Saturday had damaged a sense of security they had cultivated for years based on the notion that they were unlikely to witness two school shootings in one lifetime.
December 14, 2025
A typical Saturday night on the Ivy League campus was shaken by the killing of two people and the wounding of 9 others.
December 14, 2025
The authorities are still searching for the gunman who killed two people on the Rhode Island campus.
December 14, 2025
Here’s what to know about the Rhode Island university, where a shooting on Saturday killed two people and injured eight others.
December 14, 2025
Students remained locked in their dorms and classrooms as the police searched for the shooter, who was described as a man wearing black. At least two people are dead, and eight are in critical condition.
December 14, 2025
On and around Brown’s campus in Providence, terrified students rushed to safety as word of a gunman on campus spread.
December 14, 2025
While the decision did not remove the National Guard troops from the president’s control, it blocked him from using them in the nation’s second-largest city.
December 13, 2025
December 13, 2025
The university sent an alert late Saturday afternoon warning students to hide. A suspect was not in custody, university officials said, correcting an earlier posting.
December 13, 2025
Type designers weigh in on the recent decision to replace Calibri with Times New Roman in official documents.
December 13, 2025
United Airlines Flight 803, which was headed to Tokyo, safely landed at Washington Dulles International Airport on Saturday, officials said.
December 13, 2025
The authorities said the woman, who was making a delivery for DoorDash, was captured on a doorbell camera spraying an unknown aerosol.
December 13, 2025
The claims last year by a conservative publication against Darryll J. Pines prompted a yearlong investigation and an extensive review of his published works.
She was one of the Clinton 12, Black students who broke a race barrier by entering a Tennessee high school in 1956 in the face of harassment by white segregationists.
December 13, 2025
In South Carolina, parents struggle to deal with infections that have brought quarantines and remote learning. Health care workers are bracing for an increase in cases.
December 13, 2025
The president’s stated intention to pardon Tina Peters, jailed for tampering with election machines in 2020, has set off a legal fight over the extent of Mr. Trump’s pardon powers.
His library foundation has told the I.R.S. that by the end of 2027 it expects to bring in just $11.3 million — not nearly enough for a traditional presidential library.
California and New York are among the states arguing that the Trump administration’s decision to charge that fee for skilled foreign workers is illegal.
Justice Department officials have been considering whether to bring new charges against James B. Comey, the former F.B.I. director, after a different judge dismissed the original case against him.
A three-judge panel threw out a lower court’s order, allowing the Trump administration to continue defunding the group and other major abortion providers.
The seizure last month came amid fears of a renewed conflict between Iran and Israel.
The legislation, expected to come to a vote next week, would make changes that could eventually affect health care costs but are unlikely to immediately curb rising premiums.
The federal government and earthquake experts blamed a technical glitch for the alert that sent warnings hundreds of miles away last week.
December 13, 2025
An American firm with experience in special operations spirited María Corina Machado, the recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, out of the country in a secretive land, sea and air operation.
Staff Sgt. Andrew Wolfe, who suffered a head wound in the shooting near the White House last month, has moved from acute care to rehabilitation.
December 13, 2025
Too old? Tough economy? The presidents change, but the troubles are familiar.
The Justice Department escalated an effort to seize and inspect old ballots in Fulton County, where President Trump was booked in his criminal election interference case.
The prospect of soaring health care costs could exacerbate Americans’ feelings about affordability, an issue that President Trump has tried to downplay. But Democrats plan to keep the issue front and center.
The hearing was the first concrete step toward repealing some of the state’s vaccine requirements. Rolling back others would require legislative action.
December 12, 2025
President Trump’s secretary of state and national security adviser has long sought to cripple or topple Cuba’s government, which has close security and economic ties to Venezuela.
More than 100,000 residents were told to leave their homes across Washington State this week as rivers overflowed.
December 12, 2025
The Interior Department said that the review of retail items would ensure gift shops at national parks did not “promote specific viewpoints.”
The Transportation Security Administration is flagging passengers for Immigration and Customs Enforcement to identify and detain travelers subject to deportation orders.
This week demonstrated an emerging reality for President Trump: Commanding the Justice Department is not the same as controlling the justice system.
The center at the university’s public health school was also a focus of the Trump administration after having been examined in a Harvard antisemitism report earlier this year.
December 12, 2025
The Trump administration gave New York 30 days to pause issuing all non-domiciled commercial driver’s licenses, among other demands, or risk losing $73 million in highway funds.
The decision from the three-judge panel served to grant the Trump administration a reprieve from having one of its top immigration lawyers have to take the witness stand next week.
The admiral had abruptly announced that he would step down as the head of the U.S. Southern Command. His departure leaves several issues about the strikes unanswered.
The lawsuit seeks to force President Trump to submit his ballroom plans for public review and input.
Corporate tax revenue has quickly dipped since Republicans passed tax cuts this summer. But economists think these tax breaks might be worth it.
Gov. Bob Ferguson and other state officials cautioned that more rainfall was expected after rivers hit record flood levels across the region, while residents worried about the long-term future.
December 12, 2025
America is becoming a second home for Hindi comedy.
December 12, 2025
The images, released without context by Democrats on the House Oversight Committee, revealed little new about the deceased sex offender’s ties to prominent men in politics, entertainment and finance.
Troops who play a part in deadly missions that they see as wrong or unjustified may suffer deep psychological harm as a result, research has shown.
December 12, 2025
For more than a decade, the Supreme Court’s conservative majority has chipped away at Congress’s power to insulate independent agencies from politics. Now, the court has signaled its willingness to expand presidential power once again.
December 12, 2025
When teachers do assign whole books, they often choose from a stagnant list of classics.
December 12, 2025
The Department of Housing and Urban Development is investigating whether the city’s focus on affordable housing for people of color violated federal law.
Trump signed an executive order on Thursday that would limit individual states in regulating the artificial intelligence industry.
The report concerns a video in which Senator Mark Kelly, a retired Navy captain, and five other Democratic lawmakers reminded military members of their obligation to refuse illegal orders.
Tina Peters was sentenced for a Colorado state crime that the president has no ability to pardon. President Trump has no legal power to free her from prison.
Some Democratic lawmakers pressed Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem on the Trump administration’s aggressive immigration enforcement tactics during a hearing on Thursday.
Austin Dirks used a Garmin satellite device to reach emergency responders, who rescued him in a remote canyon in Arches National Park.
December 12, 2025
Austin Dirks was on a solo hike in Arches National Park when he got stuck in quicksand. Emergency responders rescued him after he sent an SOS message using a satellite device.
December 12, 2025
President Trump’s failure to ram through a Republican-friendly House map was a new sign that his iron grip on the party has slipped, and was likely to reverberate nationally.
The speaker has repeatedly lost his grip on the House floor thanks to a once rare parliamentary maneuver that G.O.P. members are increasingly using to force action on legislation.
The United States is escalating its pressure campaign on Venezuela’s leader, Nicolás Maduro, after seizing an oil tanker off the coast.
A home security camera recorded the moment a building across the street exploded after a construction crew damaged multiple gas lines in Hayward, Calif.
December 11, 2025
A gas line explosion in Hayward, Calif., sent multiple victims to the hospital and led to a fire that burned several houses.
December 11, 2025
Tyler Robinson faces murder charges in Utah in the Sept. 10 assassination of Mr. Kirk, the political activist and ally of President Trump.
December 11, 2025
The tanker was headed eastward and had recently carried Iranian oil. The seizure is an escalation in President Trump’s military pressure campaign against Venezuela’s leader, Nicolás Maduro.
It was a striking rejection of the administration’s retribution campaign.
The Treasury Secretary unveiled changes to the Financial Stability Oversight Council to ease “overregulation.”
Some disciplinary measures have been imposed on the lecturer, including being monitored as she teaches a class on diversity and social justice.
December 11, 2025
View the location of the quake’s epicenter and shake area.
December 11, 2025
He is a close ally of President Trump and has been a leading proponent of the election denial movement, which falsely claims that voting machines are often rigged.
The judge said it was “troubling” that the Trump administration had kept Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia in custody for nearly four months without following through on its pledge to re-expel him.
As head of the editorial page, he encouraged The Tribune’s support of Barack Obama, resulting in the paper’s first endorsement of a Democrat running for the White House.
Republicans blocked Democrats’ effort to extend the expiring subsidies while Democrats thwarted a G.O.P. proposal to replace them with direct payments for basic health coverage.
Kristi Noem, the homeland security secretary, has overseen President Trump’s immigration policy, including efforts to detain more immigrants and pause visa applications.
The typeface, the target of the State Department’s typographical about-face, has been entangled in politics before.
December 11, 2025
The president continues to brush off an issue that he said he would solve in his first months in office. Some Democrats say he is making the same mistake as his predecessor.
Republicans hold an overwhelming majority in the Indiana Senate, but more than a dozen of them defied the president’s wishes, voting against a map aimed at adding Republicans in Congress.
December 11, 2025
The response to an information request contradicted the administration’s public testimony and raised concerns that it may be trying to evade oversight.
Federal agents outside an ICE detention facility in Eugene, Ore., had sought to enforce a new rule that prohibits “creating a loud or unusual noise” outside federal property.
The chair of the National Transportation Safety Board warned that a provision in the new defense bill would worsen the risk of midair collisions near the Washington-area airport where a deadly crash in January killed 67 people.
The ship has frequently carried oil from countries under U.S. sanctions, and its tracking data shows multiple recent trips to Iran and Venezuela.
After nearly 11 months in office, the president’s tendency to talk about his predecessor is more pronounced than ever.
The legislation codifies President Trump’s agenda but includes a few measures challenging his policies and insisting on more consultation with Congress.
As 2028 takes shape, Democrats will face a version of the same dilemma.
President Trump announced that the United States had seized an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela on Wednesday.
President Trump has framed the program as a way for the government to raise billions of dollars and prioritize the admission of successful entrepreneurs and investors.
Several Democrats who fought to steer federal money to their states and districts have boasted about their success even after voting against the bill that provided the funds.
Democratic lawmakers said in a report that shifting Defense Department funding to support the Trump administration’s immigration agenda has hurt military readiness.
One of the president’s appeals-court nominees, a former lawyer for the president, was in the crowd at a raucous event in Mt. Pocono, Pa.
The seizure comes as the United States builds up its forces in the Caribbean as part of a campaign against President Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela.
Andrew Tate and his brother, Tristan, were prohibited from leaving Romania for years after they were accused of trafficking dozens of women for a porn business. Our investigative reporter Megan Twohey reveals how the Tates courted powerful figures on the American right in order to gain their freedom to travel to the United States.
December 10, 2025
Members of Congress expressed concerns that the Army dismissed complaints about the doctor, who was accused of secretly recording patients at Fort Hood in Texas.
December 10, 2025
Barred from leaving Romania, Andrew Tate courted powerful figures on the American right, from Tucker Carlson to Barron Trump. Then an extraordinary order let him go.
December 10, 2025
It’s a symbol of the city. But is it art?
December 10, 2025
Patty Scanlon bought a box of snapshots for $20 at a flea market and was stunned to find family photos of Ms. Lake, whose house burned down in January.
December 10, 2025
The actor, 60, was struck by a vehicle in Midtown Manhattan late on Monday, her agent and the police said.
December 10, 2025
Six more states have been approved for waivers that ban the purchase of some sugary foods and beverages using food stamps.
Republicans redid their voting map so they could flip five seats to help keep control of the U.S. House. But achieving that goal is far from guaranteed.
December 10, 2025
The Office of Government Ethics told senators that Bryan Bedford, the F.A.A. administrator, did not divest from the airline he previously ran as he had agreed.
FEMA rejected requests for federal assistance, twice, after devastating floods in western Maryland, part of a larger pattern of making communities pay for their own disaster recovery.
December 10, 2025
A federal judge ruled that the Trump administration had illegally kept troops in Los Angeles after emergency conditions had ended. The administration is expected to appeal.
The move by Representative Haley Stevens, a Michigan Democrat who is running for Senate, does not have the support of her party’s leaders and is all but certain to fail.
Four of the additions are for districts where President Trump won handily, but Democrats are feeling emboldened by election outcomes this fall.
The case involves an Alabama man who challenged his death sentence after a murder conviction because of his varying results in a series of I.Q. tests.
The arm of the party that focuses on statehouses is targeting hundreds of seats and more than 40 chambers, according to a strategy memo, reflecting Democrats’ new optimism.
On a video that went viral, the worker, who is white, can be seen calling two Black customers an epithet. The campaign to give her money echoes the reaction to a similar incident this year.
December 10, 2025
Some Republicans in the Indiana Senate have resisted a new congressional map despite lobbying from the White House and threats of political consequences.
December 10, 2025
The school has been brought to heel by conservative critics of higher education. It is part of a broader transformation at the state’s universities.
December 10, 2025
Crypto casinos, websites where people use cryptocurrencies in online games, are leaving some teenagers thousands of dollars in debt. Neil Bedi, a reporter on our Visual Investigations team, looks at this multibillion-dollar industry.
December 10, 2025
During a speech in Pennsylvania focused on the economy, President Trump criticized the Fed chair, Jerome Powell, and four other members. The attack came as the Fed prepares to reveal new interest rates.
The first Black person to hold that cabinet position, he resigned amid discord over George W. Bush’s major legislative effort to improve public education nationwide.
President Trump vacillated between demonizing immigrants and assuring a crowd of his supporters that life was better than ever under his administration.
The abrupt decision to revise the plan added new uncertainty and possible delays into the government’s distribution of $3.9 billion in homelessness relief.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth briefed congressional leaders on Tuesday about the monthslong military campaign targeting people suspected of being drug traffickers at sea.
Without evidence, the president claimed that some Fed governors might have been appointed using an autopen.
Officials initially weighed sending survivors of U.S. attacks on boats suspected of drug smuggling to a notorious prison in El Salvador, to keep them away from American courts.
President Trump criticized his European counterparts over their defense and Ukraine policies during an interview with Politico. The president also suggested that it was time for President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine to compromise in the cease-fire talks.
Eileen Higgins, a former Miami-Dade County commissioner, will also be the city’s first female mayor and the first non-Hispanic mayor since the 1990s.
December 10, 2025
President Trump’s speech in Pennsylvania was meant to alleviate concerns about affordability. But he kept wandering off script and dwelling on his favorite targets, like immigration.
The footage shows officers confronting Luigi Mangione at a McDonald’s in Altoona, Pa. Lawyers for Mr. Mangione, who is accused of killing the former C.E.O. of UnitedHealthcare, argued that the evidence recovered at his arrest should not be admitted into trial, as it was obtained without a warrant.
December 10, 2025
President Trump’s decision to allow Nvidia to sell its chips to China has raised questions about whether he is prioritizing short-term economic gain over long-term American security interests.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio called the Biden-era move to the sans serif typeface “wasteful,” casting the return to Times New Roman as part of a push to stamp out diversity efforts.
The birds lingered for days at a Catholic school near Cincinnati as agencies haggled over who was responsible for removing them. Officials said the public health risk was low.
December 9, 2025
Mr. Miller, one of President Trump’s top advisers, sold shares in the mining company MP Materials following a lucrative deal between the company and the government.
Senate Republicans plan to offer a proposal that would create a new payment for people with bare-bones health coverage, clashing with Democrats who are pressing for an extension of existing tax credits.
President Trump threatened 5 percent tariffs on Mexican imports over a water dispute. Mexico’s president, Claudia Sheinbaum, wants an agreement instead.
Body camera footage presented at the State Supreme Court in Manhattan shows two officers entering a McDonald’s in Altoona, Pa., and asking for identification from Luigi Mangione.
December 9, 2025
The move comes as the Supreme Court also appears poised to put antitrust enforcement by the Federal Trade Commission under his control.
Using exploitative marketing strategies, the illicit gambling websites have profited and lured in a young generation of gamblers.
December 9, 2025
The suspect was arrested after the shooting in Frankfort, Ky., the police said, which left a second student critically injured.
December 9, 2025
In Minnesota, Somali Americans have been in fear since President Trump called them “garbage.” ICE raids across the state have led to over a dozen arrests, prompting many to carry their U.S. passports to protect against wrongful arrests.
December 9, 2025
The United States’ history in the region includes several about-faces, contradictions and missteps.
The battle preceded the department’s looming decision over whether — and how — to bring new charges against James B. Comey.
The measure restricts immigration arrests around state courthouses. Republicans have criticized the law and suggested it would face legal challenges.
December 9, 2025
Lindsey Halligan’s indictments against James B. Comey, the former F.B.I. director, and Letitia James, the attorney general of New York, were dismissed last month over Ms. Halligan’s appointment.
President Trump’s comments deepened his rift with mainstream European leaders over defense and Ukraine policy.
The president seemed poised for a big Supreme Court win letting him remove officials without cause. But the justices appeared to struggle with how to insulate the Federal Reserve from politics.
The state divide over abortions has only deepened since the Supreme Court decision. But research shows the number of abortions has climbed.
December 9, 2025
The dispute before the court involved a Republican effort to lift limits on how much money political parties can spend in coordination with candidates.
She was seen for two decades as a future face of the Democratic Party. Is she now suddenly a figure of its past?
A landlord crowded tenants into his house and yard without running water or power. One, determined to find an alternative, was up against the city’s housing crisis.
December 9, 2025
The Christmas display, which replaces Jesus, Mary and Joseph with a sign saying “ICE Was Here,” has drawn criticism from Catholic leaders and immigration officials.
December 9, 2025
The executive order from the Florida governor came after another Republican governor, Greg Abbott of Texas, issued a similar declaration last month.
December 9, 2025
The threat is the latest aggressive action that President Trump has taken against America’s biggest trading partners.
The president rolled out a $12 billion bailout for farmers as he makes the case that his policy is working — or will soon.
President Trump promised struggling farmers billions in federal aid during a round-table meeting on Monday. This comes after China boycotted American farm products in retaliation for U.S. tariffs.
A long list of people could test that theory, though governors have struggled to make the leap to presidential nominations in recent years.
In a sign of bipartisan frustration with the Defense Department, the final defense policy bill aims to compel the Pentagon to share execute orders and video documentation.
The Senate is set to vote later this week on a three-year extension of Affordable Care Act subsidies that Republicans oppose. The G.O.P. has yet to coalesce around an alternative.
The president said he would defer to his defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, on whether to release a video showing a follow-up attack that killed survivors of a Sept. 2 strike on an alleged drug smuggling boat.
Becky Hill helped manage the 2023 trial in which Alex Murdaugh was convicted of murdering his wife and younger son.
December 8, 2025
The protest was over the removal of another instructor, who gave a failing grade on a paper about gender that relied on the Bible as its main source.
December 8, 2025
With a group called Women Strike for Peace, she helped organize demonstrations against the Vietnam War and nuclear weapons. “We managed to get things done,” she said.
A five-year-old photo of agents kneeling at a D.C. protest after George Floyd’s killing led to the firing of about 16 agents.
View the location of the quake’s epicenter and shake area.
December 8, 2025
The federal aid comes after China boycotted American farm products in retaliation for U.S. tariffs.
At an annual event for Democratic governors, optimism about next year overshadowed the search for a long-term vision. As Gretchen Whitmer put it, adding an expletive: “Let’s go!”
Several conservative justices have indicated their willingness to strengthen the president’s power to fire independent agency leaders.
In a Truth Social post, the president said he would sign an order that would eliminate a patchwork of state laws that have emerged in recent years.
The justices have indicated that they will try to find a way to protect the independence of the Fed, even as they let presidents remove leaders of other agencies.
Caleb E. Nelson, a leading originalist law professor, challenged the conventional wisdom of the “unitary executive theory” in an article that was debated in the parties’ briefs ahead of Monday’s arguments.