dcjoltState officials are seeking to use a newly redrawn map for the 2026 midterms, part of a nationwide redistricting push by President Trump.
Read moredcjoltThe meeting between President Trump and the incoming mayor of New York City was strikingly warm for two men who had expressed deep concerns about each other’s leadership.
Read moredcjoltThanks to Newsom, Trump and redistricting, the deep-blue state is in the thick of national politics.
Read moredcjoltThe meeting with Trump was requested by Mamdani, whose victory over ex-New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo in NYC’s mayoral race put him at the center of U.S. politics.
Read moredcjoltThe fight over the ACA tax credits was at the center of the 43-day shutdown, which ended last week without a clear solution on health care.
Read moredcjoltUkrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he expects to speak with U.S. counterpart Donald Trump in the coming days.
Read moredcjoltA series of setbacks for the G.O.P. leaves an unlikely opening for Democrats to narrowly win this year’s redistricting wars.
Read moredcjoltOnce the symbol of the president’s immigration policies, the wall has been eclipsed by his deportation efforts, but with $46.5 billion from Congress, construction is ramping up on the Rio Grande.
Read moredcjoltThe lawsuit is the third filed by the Justice Department against the state in a week.
Read moredcjoltThe creator of the Kryptos panels, Jim Sanborn, sought to unburden himself of the puzzle, and then discovered before an auction he had archived its solution in the Smithsonian.
Read moredcjoltThe Yemeni prisoner spent nearly seven hours at the war court, displaying some of the defiance of his 2008 proceeding.
Read moredcjoltA new servicewide policy recasts swastikas and nooses as merely “politically divisive” and deletes protections for transgender troops.
Read moredcjoltMs. Velázquez, 72, a 16-term congresswoman, said it was time for a new generation of Democrats to step forward.
Read moredcjoltJudge Jia M. Cobb found that the presence of more than 2,000 National Guard troops, many from outside D.C., was most likely unlawful. She paused the order from taking effect until Dec. 11.
Read moredcjoltThe reorganization reflects the ongoing shift in the federal government’s energy priorities: less renewable energy, more fossil fuels.
Read moredcjoltChips sent to China as part of the alleged scheme included Nvidia’s A100 and H200 graphics processing units, an indictment says.
Read moredcjoltKaroline Leavitt, the White House press secretary, addressed for the first time a schoolyard insult that President Trump lobbed at a Bloomberg News reporter last week.
Read moredcjoltThe draft surfaced after President Donald Trump called for a single federal standard on AI “instead of a patchwork of 50 State Regulatory Regimes.”
Read moredcjoltAs the former vice president is honored at Washington National Cathedral on Thursday, many eyes will focus on who comes — and who does not.
Read moredcjoltStill the favorites, Republicans have grown nervous about a House special election that could show whether the political environment continues to shift leftward.
Read moredcjoltJonathan J. Pollard, who was convicted of espionage, said in an interview that the meeting, which was highly unusual for a U.S. diplomat to attend, had been friendly.
Read moredcjoltThe commerce secretary, Howard Lutnick, is involved in A.I. data center deals that overlap with work his family is doing. Our investigative reporter Eric Lipton describes what we know about these deals for massive data center projects, one of which includes a planned nuclear power plant to be named after…
Read moredcjoltHoward Lutnick is helping push data center projects. His family companies are profiting from them.
Read moredcjoltRep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick joined Congress in 2022 after winning a special election to fill the Florida seat of late Rep. Alcee Hastings.
Read moredcjoltZohran Mamdani said he plans to talk to President Donald Trump about the problem many New York City residents have with affording to live in the Big Apple.
Read moredcjoltTrump keeps showing he is not as isolationist as many supporters had hoped.
Read moredcjoltThe resurrected inquiry could finally get to the bottom of lingering questions such as: Did top Trump administration officials purposely ignore a court order?
Read moredcjoltFour proposed rules could make it easier to drill for oil or harvest timber in areas where endangered species live.
Read moredcjoltTrump has long pushed for Powell to sharply lower interest rates, but the latest Fed minutes show central bank officials are conflicted over further cuts.
Read moredcjoltThe former conservative lawyer built a social media following with his harsh criticism of President Trump, who was the boss of his wife at the time.
Read moredcjoltdcjoltTrump’s appearance at the Kennedy Center came a day after he hosted Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia at the White House.
Read moredcjoltSurveys were delayed and some cannot be collected at all, officials said, further complicating the Federal Reserve’s decision on interest rates next month.
Read moredcjoltThe Epstein files bill got overwhelming support in the House and Senate, with only one lawmaker, Republican Rep. Clay Higgins of Louisiana, voting against it.
Read moredcjoltCameron Kasky is a Parkland school shooting survivor; Mathew Shurka helped form a group to pressure Congress to ban conversion therapy.
Read moredcjoltJames B. Comey’s lawyers are expected to argue that the Justice Department effectively allowed itself to be taken captive by the president’s desire for political revenge.
Read moredcjoltLawmakers and narcotics experts say that the Trump administration’s efforts to tie Venezuela to the U.S. fentanyl crisis are misleading.
Read moredcjoltThe clash is about strong personalities, an exacting homeowners’ association and a partisan divide that has reached the hyperlocal level.
Read moredcjoltWe asked our journalists who write about religion nationwide about how they navigate debates about what Christianity is and isn’t.
Read moredcjoltPresident Donald Trump, a former Epstein friend who fell out with him, recently dropped his opposition to the bipartisan bill to release the files.
Read moredcjoltPresident Trump is being held captive to a news cycle he can’t avoid or defeat when it comes to the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
Read moredcjoltThe House has voted to tell the Justice Department to release the Epstein files, after President Trump caved to pressure from fellow Republicans. Our congressional correspondent Annie Karni describes how Trump’s inability to head off the vote is a sign that his movement is fraying.
Read moredcjoltThe White House touted Saudi Arabia’s commitment to investing $600 billion in the United States, which was announced earlier this year.
Read moredcjoltTrump insulted ABC News reporter Mary Bruce days after telling a female reporter to be “quiet, piggy,” when she asked about Jeffrey Epstein.
Read moredcjoltA federal court in Texas Tuesday blocked Texas from using a new congressional map intended to flip several Democratic-held U.S. House of Representatives seats.
Read moredcjoltOn Tuesday, the former vice president made her first campaign appearance for another Democrat since leaving office.
Read moredcjoltThe president grew frustrated with Mary Bruce of ABC News and threatened to revoke her network’s broadcast license.
Read moredcjoltThe measure rebuked the retiring Democratic representative Jesús García of Illinois for maneuvering to ensure his top aide would be the only one running to succeed him.
Read moredcjoltAhead of what was likely to be a unanimous House vote that Republican leaders had toiled to avoid, G.O.P. lawmakers embraced the Epstein transparency bill.
Read moredcjoltThe effort would invoke the War Powers Act, which expedites action on measures limiting the president’s war-making authority. It faces long odds in the G.O.P.-led House.
Read moredcjoltThe president is offering the crown prince fighter jets, a nuclear agreement and other deals as part of his efforts to collect investment and push forward on Middle East peace.
Read moredcjoltRepublicans created a special $50 billion fund to help rural hospitals stay afloat, but the biggest impacts may be in cities.
Read moredcjoltThe trip follows Trump’s visit to Saudi Arabia in May in which the kingdom made a $600 billion trade and investment commitment to the U.S.
Read moredcjoltSpeaking at a gathering of McDonald’s franchise owners and operators, the president boasted that he had “normalized” inflation.
Read moredcjoltEmails between Jeffrey Epstein and former Harvard President Larry Summers were among thousands of documents released by a House committee last week.
Read moredcjoltThe president told reporters in the Oval Office on Monday that he planned to sell the advanced fighter jets to Riyadh.
Read moredcjoltRussia and China abstained. The vote provides a legal mandate for the Trump administration’s vision of how to move past the cease-fire to rebuild the war-ravaged enclave after two years of war.
Read moredcjoltFaced with a mass defection on a bill to demand the release of the Epstein files, the president rushed to avoid an embarrassing loss, suggesting a slip in his iron grip on the G.O.P.
Read moredcjoltThe federal government shut down for more than six week because of Democrats’ insistence that a funding plan extend enhanced ACA subsidies past December
Read moredcjoltThe French government is trying to make the case that governments can call out foreign malign influence campaigns and protect speech.
Read moredcjoltDavid Richardson, a former Marine Corps officer, is the second FEMA head to leave or be fired since May.
Read moredcjoltPresident Donald Trump urged Attorney General Pam Bondi to criminally charge former FBI Director James Comey shortly before he was indicted in Virginia.
Read moredcjoltTreasury Secretary Scott Bessent said migrants were bringing sick cows across the border, snarling beef supply chains.
Read moredcjoltThe AI-friendly Trump administration was reportedly frustrated with the super PAC, Leading the Future, over its affiliation with Democratic operatives.
Read moredcjoltTrump for months has called the controversy over the DOJ’s refusal to release the Jeffrey Epstein files a Democratic “hoax.” But some Republicans want them.
Read moredcjoltPresident Trump reversed himself as he faced the prospect that dozens of Republicans could vote this week to compel his administration to release files related to Jeffrey Epstein.
Read moredcjoltThe storm and the government shutdown halted court sessions and deportation operations at the outpost in Cuba for weeks.
Read moredcjoltThe Trump administration on Sunday placed an aircraft carrier in the Caribbean and announced it would designate a Venezuelan group as a foreign terrorist organization.
Read moredcjoltThe U.K. finance minister faces a dilemma as voters, investors and members of her own party have conflicting priorities.
Read moredcjoltU.S. President Donald Trump has called on Congressional Republicans to vote to release files related to deceased convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
Read moredcjoltAs President Trump has championed crypto and the industry has gone mainstream, funds from scammers and other criminal groups have flowed onto major crypto exchanges.
Read moredcjoltThe Financial Times cited a White House memo that alleged Alibaba was providing tech support to Chinese military ‘operations’ against targets in the U.S.
Read moredcjoltPresident Trump defended Mr. Carlson’s friendly interview with an openly antisemitic white supremacist that prompted denunciations from some on the right.
Read moredcjoltThe United States has carried out at least 21 strikes on boats the Trump administration accuses of smuggling drugs, killing at least 83 people.
Read moredcjoltThe Georgia Republican, long a loyal Trump ally, had come under attack by the president after showing independence, notably on the government’s investigation of Jeffrey Epstein.
Read moredcjoltThe move comes amid court battles and objections by state and local leaders to President Trump’s deployment orders.
Read moredcjoltThe disgraced financier’s recently released documents are steeped in a clubby world that is all but gone.
Read moredcjoltMore than a dozen Italian pasta makers, accused of dumping their product in the United States, face tariffs of over 100 percent.
Read moredcjoltThe Department of Homeland Security was established to keep Americans safe. Under President Trump, it has so shifted its focus to illegal immigration that other aspects of its mission are suffering.
Read moredcjoltThe variety of federal forces deployed to support President Trump’s mass deportation campaign and anticrime efforts continues to expand. Often, it can be difficult for the public to tell them apart, or to understand what powers each agency has.
Read moredcjoltFederal officials confirmed a surge of immigration enforcement in North Carolina’s largest city has begun.
Read moredcjoltTrump bought at least $82 million in corporate and municipal bonds from late August to early October, financial disclosures made public on Saturday showed.
Read moredcjoltDaniel Edwin Wilson and Suzanne Kaye had been convicted of crimes indirectly connected to the 2021 attack on the Capitol.
Read moredcjoltAt a health care town hall in his swing state, Senator Ruben Gallego, Democrat of Arizona, test-drove his party’s new political pitch to an audience disappointed in the outcome of the shutdown.
Read moredcjoltThe Federal Reserve’s internal watchdog was notified earlier this year about stock trades from 2024 disclosed by then-Gov Adriana Kugler.
Read moredcjoltPresident Donald Trump has called it quits with one of his most stalwart MAGA-world supporters, calling Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene “‘Wacky’ Marjorie.”
Read moredcjoltThe New Jersey governor’s race was the first significant sign that President Trump’s success with Hispanic voters in 2024 may have been only a temporary shift.
Read moredcjoltU.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday he would likely sue the BBC next week for as much as $5 billion.
Read moredcjoltThe conservative commentator has further fractured the right with his anti-Israel rhetoric and sympathy for a white nationalist. He’s not in the mood to apologize.
Read moredcjoltSome Democrats and supporters of the National Endowment for the Humanities are questioning what they see as gutted procedures and a tilt toward handpicked projects.
Read moredcjoltThe rupture exposed the divides within President Trump’s MAGA base over the Epstein files and more.
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Read moredcjoltThe leaders of the Federal Aviation Administration and the Department of Transportation said they would continue monitoring air traffic controller staffing, which has been improving since the shutdown ended.
Read moredcjoltPresident Trump’s announcement came after the nominee, Donald L. Korb, came under fire from the far-right activist Laura Loomer on social media.
Read moredcjoltSummer Worden faces a possible maximum sentence of five years in prison in the case, which involves false allegations she made against astronaut Anne McClain.
Read moredcjoltA Biden-era rule, now halted, would have forced airlines to pay passengers up to $775 in cash for significant flight disruptions.
Read moredcjoltPresident Trump himself is a former longtime friend of sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, who killed himself in a federal jail during Trump’s first term.
Read moredcjoltThe policy change is a major expansion of the administration’s push to crack down on immigration from countries that it says lack sufficient screening and vetting abilities.
Read moredcjoltIn an extraordinary 12-page letter, James E. Ryan described the pressure campaign leading to his resignation as akin to a “hostage situation.”
Read moredcjoltSwitzerland has been subject to one of the highest tariff rates levied on an individual country by the Trump administration.
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