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Nov 07, 2025
For the 42 million people who rely on the country's largest anti-hunger program, it has been a chaotic, nerve-racking week. Here are some of their stories.
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Nov 07, 2025
Five weeks into the government shutdown, controllers across the country, forced to work without pay, are taking second jobs to stay afloat.
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Nov 07, 2025
Two city councilors won re-election on Tuesday, though their support for a pride flag at City Hall had sparked challenges from the right. Still, Idaho's deep embrace of President Trump has the city worried.
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Nov 07, 2025
Even those opposed to President Trump were encouraged by his announcement of a discount on I.V.F. drugs, a policy that followed months of complex negotiations.
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Nov 07, 2025
The environmental group gave up its singular focus on climate change for a broader agenda. The ensuing internal strife left it weakened as it takes on the Trump administration.
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Nov 07, 2025
The country's dairy farmers produced a bumper harvest of milk, but higher U.S. duties have forced them to consider ways to cut back, including slaughtering cows.
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Nov 06, 2025
Experts say the new policy, which ditches software that automatically captured text messages, opens ample room for both willful and unwitting noncompliance with federal records laws.
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Nov 06, 2025
Airlines did not wait for an announcement, notifying passengers and airports of expected changes before the Trump administration made official its list of affected airports.
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Nov 06, 2025
The move comes as the venerable conservative think tank is roiled by turmoil caused by its leader's defense of a Tucker Carlson interview with a white nationalist.
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Nov 06, 2025
The decision comes days before the Syrian president, Ahmed al-Shara, is expected in Washington for the first time since he came to power.
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Nov 06, 2025
The cuts to flights are expected to begin Friday and deepen over the weekend to reach a 10 percent reduction in air traffic by next Friday.
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Nov 06, 2025
The Central Asian country already has diplomatic relations with Israel, but the move appears to be a good-will gesture to President Trump.
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Nov 06, 2025
President Trump has called on Republicans to end the filibuster as both parties search for a path out of the shutdown.
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Nov 06, 2025
The G.O.P. teed up a vote on a new spending package, but Democrats were insisting on a deal that would address expiring health care subsidies.
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Nov 06, 2025
The move prolongs the dispute over the F.B.I.'s headquarters, an aging colossus veiled in netting to keep concrete from falling on passers-by.
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Nov 06, 2025
The Central Asian country already has diplomatic relations with Israel, but the move appears to be a good-will gesture to President Trump.
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Nov 06, 2025
All but two G.O.P. senators voted against a resolution to stop the president from expanding his military campaign against drug traffickers to include land targets inside Venezuela.
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Nov 06, 2025
Shareholders approved a plan to grant Mr. Musk shares worth nearly $1 trillion if he meets ambitious goals, including vastly expanding the company's stock market valuation.
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Nov 06, 2025
The G.O.P. teed up a vote on a new spending package, but Democrats were insisting on a deal that would address expiring health care subsidies.
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Nov 06, 2025
The investigation into Muriel E. Bowser, which is being handled by the U.S. attorney's office in Washington, could face significant hurdles because of the known facts of the case and recent turmoil inside the Justice Department.
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Nov 06, 2025
Shareholders approved a plan to grant Mr. Musk shares worth nearly $1 trillion if he meets ambitious goals, including vastly expanding the company's stock market valuation.
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Nov 06, 2025
The president's agreement with drug companies involves a range of prices, depending on dose, product and how you're paying.
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Nov 06, 2025
The president's agreement with drug companies involves a range of prices, depending on dose, product and how you're paying.
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Nov 06, 2025
Two Democrats have already announced their campaigns to replace Representative Nancy Pelosi in her San Francisco district, and others may join the race soon.
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Nov 06, 2025
A lower court judge had temporarily blocked the administration's policy requiring that passports reflect sex as found on an original birth certificate.
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Nov 06, 2025
As the government shutdown continues, more challenges await passengers as they deal with the newest announcement from the Trump administration: a 10 percent cut in flights at 40 U.S. airports.
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Nov 06, 2025
A federal judge rebuked the administration for the way it tried to fund only partial benefits to food stamp recipients.
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Nov 06, 2025
Searching for another liberal boogeyman, Republicans have zeroed in on Zohran Mamdani. Whether their strategy will work in the midterms is less clear.
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Nov 06, 2025
The verdict on a misdemeanor charge came after seven hours of deliberation, and after prosecutors had previously failed to secure a felony indictment.
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Nov 06, 2025
In arguments before the Supreme Court, the White House backed away from its claims that President Trump's tariffs were about raising revenue.
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Nov 06, 2025
The first and only woman to be speaker of the House also was the most powerful and prominent woman in Washington to effectively confront President Trump.
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Nov 06, 2025
He oversaw supplies for the war effort under Lyndon B. Johnson and later had a brief, rocky tenure as president of The Washington Post during the Pentagon Papers case.
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Nov 06, 2025
President Trump announced a deal with Eli Lilly and Novo Nordisk to lower prices on hugely popular weight-loss drugs for Medicare, Medicaid and American patients who pay with their own money.
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Nov 06, 2025
The cuts to flights are expected to begin Friday and deepen over the weekend to reach a 10 percent reduction in air traffic.
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Nov 06, 2025
President Trump announced a deal with Eli Lilly and Novo Nordisk to lower prices on hugely popular weight-loss drugs for Medicare, Medicaid and American patients who pay with their own money.
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Nov 06, 2025
Representative Nancy Pelosi, the only female House speaker, said she will not run for re-election. She wielded immense power and became a Democratic icon, while she was demonized by conservatives.
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Nov 06, 2025
The Roman Catholic prelates cited detainees' lack of access to religious sacraments like communion.
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Nov 06, 2025
It wasn't just about superior turnout. Party switchers played a significant role in Virginia and New Jersey.
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Nov 06, 2025
"This is a type of science that has an impact that most people could see in their homes," said Erin Hecht, a canine researcher at Harvard. "Now there's just no money."
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Nov 06, 2025
Representative Nancy Pelosi, the only female House speaker, said she will not run for re-election. She wielded immense power and became a Democratic icon, while she was demonized by conservatives.
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Nov 06, 2025
It wasn't just about superior turnout. Party switchers played a significant role in Virginia and New Jersey.
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Nov 06, 2025
President Trump has used his sweeping global tariffs as an economic tool and a political cudgel. A decision invalidating them could hamper his power.
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Nov 06, 2025
After Mr. Fuentes's interview with Tucker Carlson, Republicans are considering just how far his views are from the nationalism embraced by President Trump's followers.
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Nov 06, 2025
The Republican leaders of the Senate and House Judiciary Committees told Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. that anonymous judges who responded to a Times questionnaire may have violated ethics rules.
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Nov 05, 2025
The classified meeting did not relieve mounting unease among lawmakers over President Trump's expanding campaign of lethal strikes against drug cartels.
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Nov 05, 2025
The plan, which officials said was intended to help air traffic controllers, would force the cancellation of thousands of flights as the administration seeks to pressure Democrats to end the shutdown.
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Nov 05, 2025
President Trump has berated Zohran Mamdani, the mayor-elect of New York City, in public. But privately, Mr. Trump describes him as slick and a good talker.
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Nov 05, 2025
Off-year elections might hold more lessons for Republicans than Democrats.
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Nov 05, 2025
Representatives Ken Calvert and Young Kim will vie for the same district, underscoring the dilemma faced by state Republicans as their territory dwindles after the passage of Proposition 50.
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Nov 05, 2025
The Supreme Court is considering whether the president acted legally when he used a 1977 emergency statute to impose tariffs on scores of countries.
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Nov 05, 2025
The Supreme Court justices grappled with the legality of President Trump's tariffs in an oral argument that stretched for almost three hours.
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Nov 05, 2025
Casting around for culprits, leaders in the party blamed their candidates, the government shutdown and a weak economic message.
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Nov 05, 2025
Pointing to "the plain nastiness" of politics and threats he has faced, Representative Jared Golden of Maine will retire instead of trying to keep the reddest House seat held by a Democrat.
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Nov 05, 2025
The program was first authorized for South Sudanese nationals in 2011. The Department of Homeland Security said that "renewed peace in South Sudan" and "improved diplomatic relations" justified the move.
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Nov 05, 2025
Tuesday's special election was forced by a court-ordered redistricting to offer Black voters a chance for more representation in the State Capital.
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Nov 05, 2025
President Trump's declaration that the closure had hurt his party on Tuesday appeared to have stiffened Democrats' resolve and put at least a temporary damper on talks to end the crisis.
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Nov 05, 2025
Many financiers are vowing to play nice with Zohran Mamdani, but some are already thinking about how they will blunt the mayor-elect's most liberal initiatives.
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Nov 05, 2025
First, Texas redistricted. Other states followed, and now California. Some legal experts say it's a crisis: "The wheels are coming off the car right now."
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Nov 05, 2025
The flashpoint was the Justice Department's failure to turn over seized communications from a confidant of Mr. Comey's, Daniel C. Richman, a law professor at Columbia University.
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Nov 05, 2025
American forces are unlikely to be able to end a decades-long insurgency in Africa's most populous country, despite President Trump's order, officials said.
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Nov 05, 2025
The agency had been planning to eliminate more than 2,000 positions before the lapse in federal funding, but a federal judge blocked the move.
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Nov 05, 2025
Dick Cheney was once the face of hard-line conservatism. Then hard-line conservatism changed.
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Nov 05, 2025
Millions of low-income Americans will see staggering cuts and delays to their food stamps this month due to the government shutdown. Tony Romm, an economic policy reporter at The New York Times, walks us through the last several weeks of chaos around SNAP benefits.
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Nov 05, 2025
The Supreme Court is considering whether the president acted legally when he used a 1977 emergency statute to impose tariffs on scores of countries.
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Nov 05, 2025
Anti-hunger groups and state officials have warned that the administration's plans to make partial payments are onerous and could still result in severe harm.
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Nov 05, 2025
Democrats harnessed worries about the cost of living, with polls showing that Republicans' longtime advantage on the economy has evaporated.
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Nov 05, 2025
The groups challenging the president's tariffs assert that the measures overstep the principle that Congress cannot cede its legislative powers to other branches of government.
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Nov 05, 2025
The president pressed his party to abolish the 60-vote threshold for moving legislation through the Senate, as Republicans and Democrats remained divided over how to end the shutdown.
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Nov 05, 2025
Many financiers are vowing to play nice with Zohran Mamdani, but some are already thinking about how they will blunt the mayor-elect's most liberal initiatives.
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Nov 05, 2025
Victories in New York City, New Jersey, Virginia and elsewhere were decisive, but new political tests loom for a party still rebuilding its brand.
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Nov 05, 2025
A redistricting arms race, started by President Trump's push to redraw Texas maps in Republicans' favor, continues, but it may be reaching its limits.
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Nov 05, 2025
The Supreme Court used the doctrine, which requires Congress to speak clearly to confer vast economic power, to strike down several Biden administration programs.
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Nov 05, 2025
As Donald Trump's personal lawyer, D. John Sauer laid out an expansive vision of presidential power. Now the solicitor general, he will offer a new broad view of the president's authority.
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Nov 05, 2025
Neal Katyal, who has argued over 50 cases before the court, represents a group of businesses. Benjamin Gutman, Oregon's solicitor general, represents a coalition of states and is making his first appearance.
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Nov 05, 2025
Many of the president's tariffs rest on the legal claim that the gap between what America imports and exports is a national emergency, an idea that remains contentious.
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Nov 05, 2025
The seat, long held by Black Houston leaders, has been vacant since March. The winner is likely to face Representative Al Green in a district altered by Republican gerrymandering.
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Nov 05, 2025
The president's tariff-driven trade war is opposed by a coalition that includes prominent conservative and libertarian lawyers, scholars and former officials.
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Nov 05, 2025
The Supreme Court is set to consider the legality of tariffs the president has invoked emergency powers to place on many trading partners.
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Nov 05, 2025
The Supreme Court will hear arguments about presidential power to impose tariffs. But what are they?
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Nov 05, 2025
Republicans and Democrats remain divided even as the pain of the shutdown intensifies and lawmakers in both parties say a breakthrough could come soon.
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Nov 05, 2025
"Dhoom Machale," a popular Hindi film song played at the end of Zohran Mamdani's first speech as New York City's mayor-elect, nodded to his Indian roots.
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Nov 05, 2025
Justices will hear arguments on Wednesday over whether the president acted legally when he used a 1977 emergency statute to unilaterally impose tariffs.
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Nov 05, 2025
Many financiers are vowing to play nice with Zohran Mamdani, but some are already thinking about how they will blunt the mayor-elect's most liberal initiatives.
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Nov 05, 2025
The partisan divisions in Washington are as deep as ever, but some voters in both parties have grown weary of the standoff and want it to end.
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Nov 05, 2025
Zohran Mamdani shattered a barrier that seemed insurmountable since the Sept. 11 attacks changed what it meant to be Muslim in the city.
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Nov 05, 2025
The Trump administration says it has plenty of other options to impose tariffs, if the court rules against the president.
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Nov 05, 2025
At the Brooklyn Paramount, die-hard fans of Zohran Mamdani, New York City's mayor-elect, enthusiastically ushered out the old guard as they celebrated his victory.
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Nov 05, 2025
Victories across the country show promise for the party's chances next year, but some bigger issues remain.
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Nov 05, 2025
Victories across the country show promise for the party's chances next year, but some bigger issues remain.
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Nov 05, 2025
The aggressive gerrymander could help Democrats flip as many as five House seats next year. While that could neutralize new maps in Texas, Republicans are redrawing more district lines elsewhere.
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Nov 05, 2025
Representative Mikie Sherrill, who was elected governor, made her opposition to President Trump the centerpiece of her campaign. He gave her a political gift by "terminating" the Gateway tunnel project.
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Nov 05, 2025
Five districts held by Republicans become potential Democratic pickups, but some remain highly competitive. And a number of incumbent lawmakers have easier pathways to re-election.
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Nov 05, 2025
In Virginia, New Jersey and beyond, Democratic voters powered their candidates to victory and sent a warning sign to President Trump and his Republican Party.
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Nov 05, 2025
Victories in New York City, New Jersey, Virginia and elsewhere were decisive, but new political tests loom for a party still rebuilding its brand.
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Nov 05, 2025
President Trump and administration officials indicated the fallout could intensify in the coming days, even as he has kept himself at a remove from the crisis.
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