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Jul 31, 2026
Todd Blanche's approach has collided with the jury-of-two reality in the Senate that has, thus far, kept him from the prize he covets: the stability and status conferred by a Senate confirmation.
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Jul 31, 2026
An additional 250,000 commemorative passports, featuring a portrait of President Trump and intended to honor the nation's 250th anniversary, will be made available at in-person events.
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Jul 31, 2026
Iran sent military aid to Russia for its war against Ukraine. Now the question is whether that conflict and the U.S.-Israeli war against Iran are converging.
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Jul 31, 2026
The problems plaguing the case have not only hurt the government's chances, lawyers say, but have also undermined the bonds of trust that prosecutors have traditionally enjoyed in court.
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Jul 31, 2026
In a notable shift, Republican senators voted unanimously against a proposal to expand the military's coverage of fertility treatments.
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Jul 31, 2026
Proponents say the changes to the federal preservation rules are necessary, but critics argue they are alarming and would help expedite the president's redesign of Washington.
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Jul 31, 2026
The country's iconic carmakers are struggling with tariffs, the growth of electric vehicles and intense competition from Chinese companies.
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Jul 31, 2026
Ten U.S. states have legalized systems that can be plugged into standard wall outlets. The technology typically does not require permits or electricians.
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Jul 31, 2026
Once united in support of President Trump, right-wing influencers are embroiled in feuds and losing viewers, creating a problem for Republicans in the midterm elections.
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Jul 30, 2026
There was no immediate comment from Hamas or Israel, though the Board of Peace said Hamas had agreed to a "road map" to give up its weapons.
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Jul 30, 2026
In a three-hour Senate hearing this week, Dr. Fauci invoked his constitutional right to stay silent, leaving people confused about many of the issues raised.
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Jul 30, 2026
President Trump created the international organization, aimed at resolving the long-running war in Gaza and other conflicts.
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Jul 30, 2026
There was no immediate comment from Hamas or Israel, and officials gave few details on the plan.
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Jul 30, 2026
The decision to suspend tours indefinitely came after a volunteer tour guide was featured in a Times article detailing President Trump's dramatic revamp of the Kennedy Center.
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Jul 30, 2026
In standing in the way of Todd Blanche, President Trump's choice for attorney general, a liberated Senator John Cornyn is wielding his leverage.
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Jul 30, 2026
The rulings deepen a split across the judiciary, making it more likely that the Supreme Court will consider the legality of detaining undocumented immigrants indefinitely.
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Jul 30, 2026
President Trump's threat followed a day of fruitless negotiations with two Republican holdouts, Senators John Cornyn and Thom Tillis.
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Jul 30, 2026
In theory, the War Powers Act gives Congress the power to end a war. But our chief White House correspondent, Peter Baker, describes how President Trump is the latest president to find ways to engage in war without congressional approval.
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Jul 30, 2026
Trump officials have promised to "make visual arts great," with a museum exhibition that includes artwork by several people with personal connections to the planners.
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Jul 30, 2026
The bipartisan bill is a long way from becoming law, but it represents the strongest opposition yet from Congress to the administration's agenda.
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Jul 30, 2026
The statement by the nominee, Sarah B. Rogers, signaled a stark reversal of the president's earlier efforts to shutter Voice of America and other federally funded news groups.
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Jul 30, 2026
Nigeria, a coastal country in western Africa, was landlocked in the Sahara, among other errors. The department said it had been "hastily altered."
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Jul 30, 2026
Nigeria, a coastal country in western Africa, was landlocked in the Sahara, among other errors. The department said it had been "hastily altered."
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Jul 30, 2026
Even after winning approval of a measure calling on President Trump to end the war, they continue to call votes to force Republicans to answer for it.
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Jul 30, 2026
Elon Musk, a year after a huge blowup with President Trump and the Republican Party, is said to be planning to spend in at least eight states to help them in November.
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Jul 30, 2026
Dormant for 30 years, a little-known tribunal is hearing its first case.
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Jul 30, 2026
President Trump's threat followed a day of fruitless negotiations with two holdout Republicans, Senators John Cornyn and Thom Tillis.
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Jul 30, 2026
Kim Sajet left as director of the National Portrait Gallery when she found herself in the White House cross hairs. Now she's watching another Smithsonian chief go through it.
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Jul 30, 2026
The group of former health and national security officials warned that Americans will be more vulnerable to infectious disease threats.
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Jul 30, 2026
A vote to confirm Dr. Erica Schwartz, who has publicly supported childhood vaccines, will take place in the full Senate.
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Jul 30, 2026
A new round of tariff carve-outs has raised familiar questions about who should receive the lucrative exceptions, and why.
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Jul 30, 2026
A Times analysis of 16 years of available federal data shows federal agencies lag in processing requests for government records.
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Jul 30, 2026
Investigators cautioned that the assessment was preliminary. There were no indications that any water supply had been rendered unsafe to drink.
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Jul 30, 2026
How the politics of raised a's and disappearing g's briefly came to dominate the Michigan Senate race.
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Jul 30, 2026
More people who lost coverage after congressional Republicans ended enhanced federal subsidies are now seeking care in emergency rooms and unable to pay bills.
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Jul 30, 2026
Some people revere the "liberal arts" while others call them useless. They're probably talking about different things.
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Jul 29, 2026
John Cornyn and Thom Tillis accused the nominee for attorney general of refusing to put on paper his promise to kill aspects of the deal he cut to settle President Trump's suit against the agency.
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Jul 29, 2026
A gathering of South Carolina's political elite paid tribute to the late senator's career against a backdrop of a highly competitive race to replace him.
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Jul 29, 2026
A Times analysis of 16 years of available federal data shows federal agencies lag in processing requests for government records.
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Jul 29, 2026
A Times analysis of 16 years of available federal data shows federal agencies lag in processing requests for government records.
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Jul 29, 2026
The president took in a staggering $2.2 billion last year while in office. Democrats are hoping to make it a campaign issue in the midterm elections.
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Jul 29, 2026
The project would make the airport easier to navigate and include a new United lounge, officials said. It's part of the president's plans to remake the Washington area.
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Jul 29, 2026
Senators John Cornyn and Thom Tillis accused the attorney general nominee of refusing to put on paper his promise to kill aspects of the deal he cut to settle President Trump's suit against the agency.
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Jul 29, 2026
Senators John Cornyn and Thom Tillis accused the attorney general nominee of refusing to put on paper his promise to kill aspects of the deal he cut to settle President Trump's suit against the agency.
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Jul 29, 2026
The former president is trying to help Josh Turek net a Senate seat in Iowa, which Democrats see as one of their best pickup opportunities of the midterms.
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Jul 29, 2026
The peculiar dynamic is playing out in Texas, where the fate of the Republican nominee, Ken Paxton, will help decide which party controls the U.S. Senate.
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Jul 29, 2026
A seven-figure settlement is announced two days before a scheduled Senate committee vote on Todd Blanche's nomination to be attorney general.
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Jul 29, 2026
The panel's chairman, Rand Paul, has long accused Dr. Fauci of funding research that triggered the Covid pandemic and lying about it to Congress — charges Dr. Fauci denies.
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Jul 29, 2026
A bipartisan bill in the Senate would allow President Trump to impose tariffs on the biggest importers of Russian energy.
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Jul 29, 2026
Republicans have argued that the pre-emptive pardon Dr. Fauci received from former President Biden ought to preclude him from invoking the Fifth Amendment. But the pardon applies only to what happened before it was issued.
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Jul 29, 2026
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson's appearance on the former first lady's podcast was a rare meeting of the two powerful, popular Black women.
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Jul 29, 2026
The State Department under Secretary of State Marco Rubio has deported Cubans to Africa. Now it's negotiating with a South American country.
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Jul 29, 2026
One of America's most competitive Senate races features a surprising dynamic: No Republicans are spending money yet.
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Jul 29, 2026
The panel's chairman, Rand Paul, has long accused Dr. Fauci of funding research that triggered the Covid pandemic and lying about it to Congress — charges Dr. Fauci denies.
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Jul 28, 2026
Mr. Clayton, who shed Democratic support after he refused to clearly say Joseph R. Biden Jr. won the 2020 election, will take over the Office of the Director of National Intelligence from Bill Pulte.
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Jul 28, 2026
As Washington remembered Senator Lindsey Graham, his colleagues cleared away a hurdle to passage of his long-stalled bill to penalize Moscow.
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Jul 28, 2026
Dr. Anthony S. Fauci seemed to be the life of the party, even in the midst of a deadly pandemic.
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Jul 28, 2026
Millions of older Americans could pay more for their prescription drug coverage next year.
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Jul 28, 2026
President Trump paid E. Jean Carroll more than $5 million from a 2023 lawsuit, but he is now asking the court to overturn a much larger award that a jury ordered him to pay in 2024 for defaming her.
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Jul 28, 2026
Representative Max Miller, a Republican, is facing accusations of abuse from his ex-wife in a bitter family feud that might put his otherwise safe seat in play.
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Jul 28, 2026
The political evolution of Lindsey Graham, the South Carolina senator, both captivated and confused many of his old friends but reflected the changing order in the nation's capital.
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Jul 28, 2026
Gov. Andy Beshear called on Senator McConnell, who has been hospitalized since June, to prove his capacity to serve, or resign.
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Jul 28, 2026
A flurry of diplomacy has eased tensions, officials said, after an incident risked triggering a wider war.
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Jul 28, 2026
The visits by the leaders of Israel and Ukraine underscored just how deeply President Trump was enmeshed in conflicts he had promised — and failed — to end quickly.
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Jul 28, 2026
Mr. Douthat, an opinion columnist at The New York Times, will join the CBS News program, along with several other journalists.
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Jul 28, 2026
Democratic Party officials have approved a new calendar that puts South Carolina at the head of the line. Black and Latino voters will gain new clout.
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Jul 28, 2026
Senators announced a breakthrough on the long-stalled measure as Senator Lindsey Graham, its main champion, was memorialized.
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Jul 28, 2026
Bill Pulte, the acting director of national intelligence, said he has terminated nearly a third of the officials in his office, but others doubt the figures are accurate.
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Jul 28, 2026
Senator Lindsey Graham helped to coordinate a group of lawmakers to rebuke the I.C.C., which was investigating Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel.
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Jul 28, 2026
After exhausting their gerrymandering options in 2026, the party is hoping to redraw more congressional maps ahead of the next election cycle.
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Jul 28, 2026
Recordings from 2016 and 2017 show that Joseph R. Biden Jr. knew he had retained classified materials but reveal little that was not already documented in a special counsel's report.
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Jul 28, 2026
The South Carolinian relished serving as a "bridge" between the institution he revered and the president, but now that bridge is gone.
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Jul 28, 2026
Senator Darline Graham, who was appointed to serve out Lindsey Graham's term after his unexpected death, appeared somber and stoic.
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Jul 28, 2026
Claude Mythos Preview discovered new attacks in testing against weakened cryptographic algorithms, which protect online financial transactions, private communications and more.
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Jul 28, 2026
Lee Saunders has led the country's top union for local public workers at a time of growing public support and official opposition.
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Jul 28, 2026
The senator is being remembered on Tuesday in Washington and on Wednesday in South Carolina.
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Jul 28, 2026
Iran denied President Trump's claim that it wants to talk, and gave no sign that it would make concessions or speak directly with U.S. officials.
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Jul 28, 2026
Closed ceremonies for the Republican senator, a stalwart ally of President Trump, will be held in Washington on Tuesday before a procession and public funeral in South Carolina the next day.
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Jul 28, 2026
Days before a committee vote on Todd Blanche's nomination to be attorney general, Democrats demanded answers about the since-withdrawn subpoenas.
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Jul 28, 2026
The bastion of American conservatism best known for Project 2025 has been consumed by an ideological — and generational — civil war.
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Jul 27, 2026
Private entries, released by a Republican senator, have reignited a furious debate over whether Covid-19 leaked from a lab.
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Jul 27, 2026
At the final debate before next week's Democratic primary for Senate, Dr. Abdul El-Sayed and Representative Haley Stevens showcased their wildly different ideological stances and political styles.
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Jul 27, 2026
Iran denied President Trump's claim that it wants to talk, and gave no sign that it would make concessions or speak directly with U.S. officials.
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Jul 27, 2026
The president also assured supporters that negotiations over ending the war in Iran, a conflict that has sent fuel and energy prices soaring, are continuing in a "friendly" fashion.
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Jul 27, 2026
The president also assured supporters that negotiations over ending the war in Iran, a conflict that has sent fuel and energy prices soaring, are continuing in a "friendly" fashion.
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Jul 27, 2026
The Trump administration asks justices to intervene after an appeals court blocked key parts of a mail-in voting executive order.
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Jul 27, 2026
Troy Jackson, a former logger, faces the tall task of taking down Susan Collins.
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Jul 27, 2026
Here is a rundown of the major events of the war, as both sides consider their next moves.
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Jul 27, 2026
The filing focused on the question of whether a photograph of seashells arranged to read "86 47" constituted a true threat under federal law.
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Jul 27, 2026
A new statement said the senator was not "medically cleared" to leave a rehabilitation facility and would miss a Kentucky political event.
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Jul 27, 2026
The first U.S. attempt at reopening a shuttered reactor has been held back by run-down equipment and a lack of planning.
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Jul 27, 2026
"It's hard to look at the last year and see anything other than a deliberate slowdown of these grants."
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Jul 27, 2026
Michigan's Aug. 4 primary is a critical front in the fight between Democrats' progressive and moderate flanks and a preview of the 2028 presidential primary.
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Jul 27, 2026
Representative Hakeem Jeffries, the New York Democrat and minority leader, focused relentlessly on affordability in a swing district.
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Jul 27, 2026
In a dogged demonstration of love for a Washington institution, Sandy Weiswasser is among a few dozen volunteers still showing dwindling visitors a hollowed-out building.
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Jul 27, 2026
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel is set to meet President Trump on Tuesday, with one eye on Iran and another on the coming elections back home.
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