Privately, many Senate Democrats conceded that their leader was doing his job by protecting his members from a tough vote and making a politically painful decision. But the backlash from his party was intense.Senator Chuck Schumer broke with his party and backed a Republican bill to stop a governmen
Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez criticized Senator Chuck Schumer for siding with Republicans on a plan to avert a government shutdown. Her tough language drew talk of a primary challenge.Senator Chuck Schumer, the minority leader, defended his choice, saying that he hated the bill before him
The party’s split over supporting a spending extension to avert a lapse in government funding boiled down to a practical question of how much power the president has in a shutdown.Senator Chuck Schumer, the Democratic leader, at the Capitol on Thursday. Mr. Schumer and a handful of other Democrats v
The president, once the target of federal prosecution, says he wants to combat “weaponization” of the department, even as he uses its powers to punish enemies and reward allies.In an hourlong speech, President Trump veered from his prepared remarks to lash out at lawyers and former prosecutors by na
A draft circulating inside the administration lists three tiers of countries whose citizens may face restrictions on entering the United States.The most stringent restriction level would flatly bar citizens from 11 countries from entering the United States.
The order targeting the agencies, largely obscure entities that address issues like labor mediation and homelessness prevention, appeared to test the bounds of the president’s power.The Voice of America building in Washington. President Trump is seeking to dismantle the federal agency that oversees
The action came less than a week after Mahmoud Khalil, a recent Columbia graduate and a prominent figure in campus demonstrations, was arrested.Demonstrators rallied outside Columbia University’s main gates on Friday to demand the release of a pro-Palestinian activist who has been detained by the im
A vote by regents put the university among roughly 140 colleges that have adopted similar policies since the 2023 attack on Israel by Hamas.Protesters on the University of Minnesota campus in Minneapolis last April.
Emergency crews in both states were scrambling to keep up with all the blazes popping up across the map.
An intense storm system has brought damaging strong winds and tornadoes across the Midwest, and dust storms and wildfires to the Plains.
An editor from the heyday of glossy magazines dishes about Anna Wintour and recounts his long-running feud with Donald Trump.Mr. Carter, seen through a mirror in his apartment in Greenwich Village.
The former Vanity Fair editor reflects on an era’s power moves and expense-account adventures in a new memoir.Graydon Carter’s book “When the Going Was Good” is the story of an underdog who morphs into a crisply dressed and flamboyantly maned overdog.
The president and his allies accuse South Africa of discriminating against and killing white people, and warn that it could happen in America if antiracism laws aren’t stopped.White South Africans rallying in support of President Trump outside the U.S. Embassy in Pretoria, South Africa, last month.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio had lashed out on social media over comments critical of President Trump that the ambassador had made to a think tank in Johannesburg.South Africa’s ambassador to the United States, Ebrahim Rasool, in Washington in 2013.
Five years after Brexit, Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s intense diplomacy on Ukraine has put Britain back in a familiar role on the global stage.Prime Minister Keir Starmer and his top aides counseled President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine in phone calls and face-to-face meetings about how to mend f
The justices requested responses by early April from the states and groups who had challenged the executive order.If the justices side with the Trump administration, the policy could go into effect in the 28 states, plus territories, that have not been named as challengers to the order.
The authorities are investigating the discovery of cremation ovens, human remains, piles of shoes and other personal effects at an abandoned ranch outside Guadalajara.An abandoned ranch outside of Guadalajara in western Mexico, where cremation ovens and human remains were found by a local volunteer
After their flight was scrubbed on Wednesday, four astronauts successfully lifted off, which will allow two NASA astronauts to return to Earth after an unexpected extended stay in orbit.The Crew-10 mission lifted off on Friday night atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, with an approximately 28-hour journe
Democrats are desperate for leaders who will fight on their behalf, not flatter their enemies.
At least a dozen other mountains and ridges in the U.S. already carry the name McKinley.
Talks in Moscow with a U.S. special envoy indicated that Russia was keen to keep negotiating with the United States over Ukraine.At a news conference on Thursday, President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia said that he was open to the U.S.-backed cease-fire proposal but suggested that he would seek to ne
Mr. Walz, the governor of Minnesota and last year’s Democratic nominee for vice president, has been meeting with members of his party in recent weeks.Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota at an event in Des Moines on Friday.
The killing comes as the group has been reconstituting in Syria, carrying out more attacks than at any time since it lost control of its territory nearly six years ago.Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani, seen here at the Camp Taji military base in Iraq in January, called the Islamic State
The Oklahoma Board of Education recently approved a new, more conservative social studies agenda that has irked even some Republicans.The proposed standards ask Oklahoma students to examine factors such as “the sudden halting of ballot-counting in select cities in key battleground states” and “the s
