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Dec 06, 2025
The white descendants of Europeans who colonized the country are getting greater access to American officials this year, both in Washington and in Pretoria.
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Dec 05, 2025
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. may be only beginning to put his stamp on American immunization policy.
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Dec 05, 2025
Judge Sparkle L. Sooknanan stopped short of ordering the shuttering of the detention operation. But a lawyer for the challengers said they would soon seek a closure order.
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Dec 05, 2025
Top Republicans have said they want to produce a proposal in short order to counter Democrats pressing for an extension of health care subsidies. They have not gotten far.
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Dec 05, 2025
President Trump's new National Security Strategy describes a country that is focused on doing business and reducing migration while avoiding passing judgment on authoritarians.
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Dec 05, 2025
The court's conservative majority said that Texas' asserted political motives justified letting the state use voting maps meant to disadvantage Democrats in the midterms.
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Dec 05, 2025
Some activists have lashed out, in a reprise of the backlash over the unsuccessful effort by Trump appointees to shut down the Epstein investigation.
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Dec 05, 2025
As head of the Environmental Protection Agency, Lee Zeldin has weakened protections against toxic chemicals, critics say. The E.P.A. said that Mr. Zeldin has acted to protect public health.
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Dec 05, 2025
A federal judge in Florida ordered the release of previously sealed testimony, after legislation passed last month authorizing the disclosure.
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Dec 05, 2025
The Institute of Museum and Library Services restored the funding after a federal court ruled that moves to dismantle the agency were unlawful.
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Dec 05, 2025
The administration asked the justices to uphold an executive order ending birthright citizenship after lower courts ruled it violated the Constitution.
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Dec 05, 2025
Col. Johnathan H. Vaughn, who joined the corps before 9/11, was selected as judges return to Guantánamo Bay.
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Dec 05, 2025
The South American country increasingly at odds with the Trump administration has the world's largest oil reserves.
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Dec 05, 2025
Gianni Infantino, head of soccer's governing body, has been ingratiating himself with the president to help ensure a successful 2026 World Cup.
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Dec 05, 2025
The Justice Department has seized on a lack of explicit instruction from a federal judge to keep Lindsey Halligan in place for now.
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Dec 05, 2025
A Trump-aligned political group is quietly spending millions to help state Republicans have a friendlier House map in 2028 — not in 2026, as with all of his other redistricting efforts.
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Dec 05, 2025
The new detail further complicates the military's explanations for its actions during the Sept. 2 strike in the Caribbean Sea.
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Dec 05, 2025
Gianni Infantino, head of soccer's governing body, has been ingratiating himself with the president to help ensure a successful 2026 World Cup.
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Dec 05, 2025
The arrest came after years of false leads and speculation over who planted the bombs near the Capitol before the Jan. 6 riot.
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Dec 05, 2025
In the wake of the National Guard shooting, the Trump administration has temporarily frozen major pathways for many migrants to obtain legal status in the United States.
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Dec 05, 2025
The shift, while small, is notable after months of stability in President Trump's approval rating.
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Dec 05, 2025
Gianni Infantino, head of soccer's governing body, has been ingratiating himself with the president to help ensure a successful 2026 World Cup.
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Dec 04, 2025
Congress is focusing on two deaths in one strike. But nine other people died in that same attack, and the United States has killed 83 in all. Were any of those killings legal?
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Dec 04, 2025
President Trump presided over a Congo-Rwanda peace deal on the same day his administration was being questioned about potential war crimes.
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Dec 04, 2025
Texas officials had asked the court to allow the state to use the new maps in the midterm elections, part of a push by President Trump to gain a partisan advantage.
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Dec 04, 2025
The president trumpeted a peace pact in a meeting with the two countries' leaders that includes incentives for U.S. access to minerals. Fighting in eastern Congo has continued in the months since an earlier agreement.
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Dec 04, 2025
The president had clashed with the original designer and insisted on increasing the size and scope of the ballroom on a short timeline.
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Dec 04, 2025
Texas officials had asked the court to allow the state to use the new maps in the midterm elections, part of a push by President Trump to gain a partisan advantage.
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Dec 04, 2025
The move was the latest in an intensifying crackdown on legal immigration after an Afghan national was charged with shooting two National Guard members.
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Dec 04, 2025
After a judge dismissed the Trump administration's first attempt to indict the attorney general of New York State, a new grand jury effort failed, according to people familiar with the matter.
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Dec 04, 2025
The updated Dietary Guidelines for Americans will not come until the new year, a government official said.
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Dec 04, 2025
His plans for the library have been slow to take shape, but he has invited potential donors to a holiday reception in Washington this month.
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Dec 04, 2025
A week after the president surged more members of the National Guard to Washington, an appeals court halted an order that would have required the Guard to pull out after Dec. 11.
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Dec 04, 2025
The inspector general concluded that the defense secretary violated the Pentagon's instructions on using a private electronic device to share sensitive information.
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Dec 04, 2025
Democrats won an agreement for a floor showdown after the shutdown, but consensus still eludes the Senate. Will Republicans pay a political price?
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Dec 04, 2025
As a 19-year-old medic, he won a Silver Star for his service during D-Day. Later, in the Korean War, he earned a Bronze Star.
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Dec 04, 2025
Republicans and Democrats released a two-year plan to scale back and extend expiring Affordable Care Act subsidies, but it faces long odds in the G.O.P.-led House.
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Dec 04, 2025
Hearings that began Wednesday in Washington reflected anxiety over the future of the U.S.-Mexico-Canada trade pact and whether the president could end up scrapping it.
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Dec 04, 2025
Gen. Dan Caine, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Adm. Frank M. Bradley, commander of the operation, met with members of Congress behind closed doors.
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Dec 04, 2025
The person's identity remained unclear for the moment, but the arrest could ultimately provide an answer to one of the mysteries arising from the Jan. 6. attack.
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Dec 04, 2025
Yuri Ralchenko led one of the oldest teams at the National Institute for Standards and Technology. The fate of some experiments hangs in the air.
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Dec 04, 2025
About half of people covered under the Affordable Care Act say that if their health costs spike, it will have a "major impact" on how they vote in the 2026 midterm elections, a survey found.
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Dec 04, 2025
The president will meet with the leaders of Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo to advance a deal meant to end a long war in eastern Congo.
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Dec 04, 2025
Bipartisan congressional oversight is underway, but for now is focusing on narrow details about one missile instead of broader legal issues.
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Dec 04, 2025
The health secretary has walled himself off from government scientists and empowered fellow activists to pursue his vaccine agenda.
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Dec 04, 2025
The health secretary has walled himself off from government scientists and empowered fellow activists to pursue his vaccine agenda.
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Dec 03, 2025
This summer, Trump administration officials had lauded the indictment of Timothy J. Leiweke as an effort to root out corruption and unfair business practices.
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Dec 03, 2025
Brad Parscale advised the campaign of Nasry Asfura, a right-wing candidate who was endorsed by the U.S. president.
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Dec 03, 2025
Workers installed Mr. Trump's name to a Washington building on Wednesday, thrusting the institute back into the spotlight as it is set to host the signing of a peace deal between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo.
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Dec 03, 2025
The president wanted Moscow and Kyiv to come to terms by Thanksgiving. Negotiations are now stalled, leaving the White House to decide if an agreement is possible anytime soon.
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Dec 03, 2025
As Trump steps up his crackdown, our reporters explain what's happening.
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Dec 03, 2025
The details could raise questions about who was responsible for a follow-up strike on Sept. 2 — the commander who ordered it or the defense secretary.
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Dec 03, 2025
The president used the latest pardon announcement to attack his predecessor, Joseph R. Biden Jr.
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Dec 03, 2025
The flights with Venezuelans who had been living in the United States arrived at a time of airspace safety concerns as the U.S. military pressures Venezuela's leader.
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Dec 03, 2025
A small group of G.O.P. women have been among the most vocal in raising what their colleagues say is a broader frustration with the speaker.
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Dec 03, 2025
An inspector general report to be released on Thursday examined the defense secretary's use of a private messaging app to discuss airstrikes in Yemen.
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Dec 03, 2025
An inspector general report to be released on Thursday examined the defense secretary's use of a private messaging app to discuss airstrikes in Yemen.
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Dec 03, 2025
The president said he would weaken Biden-era mileage standards, which were designed to increase electric-vehicle sales, calling them a "scam."
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Dec 03, 2025
Lawmakers requested a closed-door interview with Mr. Smith, who had asked to testify publicly to give Americans a chance to hear from him directly.
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Dec 03, 2025
The president withdrew Jared Isaacman's nomination to lead the space agency in June, but senators of both parties appeared willing to give him a second shot at confirmation.
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Dec 03, 2025
The Treasury secretary said that import levies were not fueling inflation.
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Dec 03, 2025
Republican candidates face the problem that President Trump alone gets out the vote that they need. And he alone gets out the vote that Democrats need, too.
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Dec 03, 2025
In publicizing the photos and videos, Democrats in Congress appeared to be intensifying pressure on the Justice Department to release its files on the Epstein case.
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Dec 03, 2025
The president used the latest pardon announcement to attack his predecessor, Joseph R. Biden Jr.
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Dec 03, 2025
Arrested after violating an ordinance on demonstrations outside an amphitheater in Brandon, Miss., Gabriel Olivier wants to block future enforcement of the law.
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Dec 03, 2025
In publicizing the photos and videos, Democrats in Congress appeared to be intensifying pressure on the Justice Department to release its files on the Epstein case.
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Dec 03, 2025
The tiny town of Churchill has two of Canada's largest pieces of Arctic infrastructure, but years of neglect have left them in poor shape amid growing superpower rivalry in the region.
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Dec 03, 2025
Charles Booker is running again for the chamber as Democrats take chances even in heavily Republican states like Kentucky, where Senator Mitch McConnell is retiring.
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Dec 03, 2025
Almost every election night this year has gone poorly for Republicans — a familiar position for the party that occupies the White House.
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Dec 03, 2025
The three being targeted are Senators John Fetterman, Maggie Hassan and Angus King, an independent who caucuses with Democrats. None are up for re-election next year.
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Dec 03, 2025
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, who is leading the search for the next Federal Reserve chair, could face President Trump's wrath if the person chosen does not quickly lower interest rates.
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Dec 03, 2025
President Trump promised a deal last summer. Other universities have agreed to pay millions to settle with the federal government since then, but Harvard, which was asked to pay much more, has not.
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Dec 03, 2025
Arrested after violating an ordinance on demonstrations outside an amphitheater in Brandon, Miss., Gabriel Olivier wants to block future enforcement of the law.
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Dec 03, 2025
William Hendrix wanted a life in politics. He found it, with the Young Republicans.
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Dec 03, 2025
The judge found that immigration agents were likely acting illegally when making arrests without a warrant.
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Dec 03, 2025
Almost every election night this year has gone poorly for the Republicans — a familiar position for the party that occupies the White House.
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Dec 02, 2025
In recent elections, the pendulum has kept swinging, with Republicans now in its path.
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Dec 02, 2025
Matt Van Epps fended off a Democrat to protect Republicans' slim House majority, but the relatively close margin in a red district sent the party a warning shot before the 2026 midterms.
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Dec 02, 2025
The push to close the offices appears to contradict a federal judge's order from April, which required Trump officials to resume operations at V.O.A.
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Dec 02, 2025
Zolan Kanno-Youngs, a White House correspondent, describes how President Trump's latest immigration restrictions, after the shooting of two National Guard members by a man whom the authorities described as an Afghan national, affect a community that traditionally has been considered an exceptional case.
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Dec 02, 2025
President Trump began the meeting by criticizing media coverage about him showing signs of fatigue. Last month, he appeared to doze off during a meeting in the Oval Office.
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Dec 02, 2025
A new survey found that 98 percent of Foreign Service officers felt lower morale. Only 1 percent reported an increased ability to carry out U.S. foreign policy.
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Dec 02, 2025
Adm. Frank M. Bradley will soon face questions from lawmakers, as Republicans and Democrats express concerns about a Sept. 2 attack on a boat in the Caribbean.
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Dec 02, 2025
The pause, which will halt green card and U.S. citizenship processing for broad swaths of people, deepens a remarkable crackdown on legal immigration pathways in recent days.
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Dec 02, 2025
The latest threat to SNAP funding came after weeks of confusion over the status of benefits during the government shutdown.
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Dec 02, 2025
President Trump is growing frustrated as Americans struggle with higher prices and pessimism over the state of the economy.
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Dec 02, 2025
The stepped-up enforcement comes as the Trump administration has also moved to reassess the vetting of Afghans who came to the country under the Biden administration.
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Dec 02, 2025
The defense secretary supported the admiral he said called for the second strike on Sept. 2 against a boat the administration says was smuggling drugs.
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Dec 02, 2025
The president delivered xenophobic comments during a publicly broadcast cabinet meeting.
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Dec 02, 2025
Ms. Pressley, a prominent progressive, will instead run for re-election to the House. Her move is expected to help Senator Ed Markey, though he still faces one well-known Democratic primary challenger.
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Dec 02, 2025
A majority of the justices appeared supportive of arguments by a crisis pregnancy center that it should be able to challenge a subpoena from the state's attorney general in federal court.
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Dec 02, 2025
The philanthropy has become one of America's biggest, but most of its giving went to charities closely tied to the world's richest man.
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Dec 02, 2025
The move comes as President Trump has attacked Somalis with increasingly inflammatory rhetoric in recent days.
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Dec 02, 2025
The flight's approval illustrates how the United States and Venezuela are still communicating, after a declaration from President Trump that Venezuelan airspace was "closed in its entirety."
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Dec 02, 2025
The retail giant is seeking to recover money it has paid this year, should the Supreme Court rule that President Trump's implementation of tariffs was unlawful.
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Dec 02, 2025
Juan Orlando Hernández was accused of flooding the United States with cocaine and had been sentenced to 45 years in prison.
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Dec 02, 2025
The former lieutenant governor is the best-known candidate in a crowded field, but some state Democrats have cooled on him since he lost a Senate bid in 2022.
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Dec 02, 2025
A special election for a House seat in Tennessee was supposed to be an easy Republican victory. But national spending and Democratic enthusiasm have made it an unusually high-profile race.
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Dec 02, 2025
Tennessee's Seventh District was created to be safely Republican, but in recent special elections across the country Democrats have done significantly better than they did in 2024.
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Dec 02, 2025
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