President Trump will speak to a legislative body that has ceded much of its power to him but has recently pushed back gently, and where partisan divides are deeper than ever ahead of the midterm elections.Congress remains highly divided over several of President Trump’s policy priorities ahead of hi
Democratic lawmakers invited victims of Jeffrey Epstein and of President Trump’s aggressive immigration crackdown.Sky Roberts and Amanda Roberts, his wife, are among the guests invited to attend the president’s annual speech to Congress. His sister Virginia Giuffre publicly accused Jeffrey Epstein o
The bill would have required aircraft to carry advanced location-tracking technology that officials said might have prevented a midair collision near Washington last year.The bill’s failure upends the debate around how to respond to last year’s fatal crash between a military helicopter and a commerc
The legislation’s advocates say a close call between two private planes near Teterboro, N.J., on Feb. 13 underscored how collision prevention technology could save lives.A Learjet corporate aircraft carrying eight people to Teterboro Airport in New Jersey was forced to to descend quickly to avoid a
President Trump has demanded President Claudia Sheinbaum confront the cartels. The killing of El Mencho suggests it might be working — but could come at a cost.President Trump and President Claudia Sheinbaum of Mexico in Washington in December. Mr. Trump has been loudly and repeatedly demanding that
Other criminal groups in Mexico may try to take advantage of the death of Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, also known as El Mencho, who ran the Jalisco New Generation Cartel.Offerings of flowers, candles, photos and dollar bills at a shrine to Jesús Malverde — a “narco-saint,” in Culiacán, Sinaloa state,
A wave of unrest after the killing of a cartel leader has rattled tourists in Mexico, prompting travelers to reconsider their plans. Here’s what to know.Americans traveling in Guadalajara, Mexico, were still advised to “shelter in place” as of late Monday.
Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch said officers had been attacked at Washington Square Park. Mayor Zohran Mamdani said the episode looked like a snowball fight, not a crime.
A day after the city got a record-breaking amount of snow, some residents clung to the magic. Others were gearing up for endless shoveling.Work crews shovel snow from the steps of the Rhode Island State Capitol on Tuesday in Providence, R.I.
The worst of the storm had passed by Tuesday, but more than 200,000 customers in Massachusetts were still without electricity.Snow was piled high on Tuesday morning along a side street in Providence, R.I.
The Trump administration accused the university’s Los Angeles campus of not doing enough to curb antisemitism, months after the government tried to cut research money and demanded more than $1 billion.The campus of the University of California, Los Angeles.
Critics are questioning the legality of the provision President Trump has used to replace his previous slate of tariffs, raising the prospect of yet another legal battle.As the president takes steps to resurrect his tariffs, his chief legal foes are mulling their own options.
Tariffs unaffected by President Trump’s Supreme Court loss are adding costs for many U.S. manufacturers that use steel, limiting exports and jeopardizing jobs.News that the Granite City Steel factory in Granite City, Ill., was rehiring laid-off steel workers was hailed as a sign of industrial reviva
Federal officials are subjecting some states to higher scrutiny in an antifraud campaign, as the president rails against California and states led by Democrats.President Trump’s efforts to make broad changes to unemployment insurance have raised concerns among groups that support the aid.
For more than two decades, the convicted sex offender developed a network at the tech giant, making him privy to succession discussions and other business.
Paramount Pictures in Hollywood.
Camp Mystic has been the foundation of an invisible network of status and power in Texas. Now that social web is beginning to fray.On the night of July 4, heavy rains turned the Guadalupe River and a creek that ran through Camp Mystic into a raging waterway that swept people out of cabins.
About half of the country’s federal budget goes toward the fight in Ukraine, money that does little to support its long-term development.A Russian Army recruitment poster in Moscow in June. The war in Ukraine has killed or wounded as many as 1.2 million Russians.
Russia has lost as many as 325,000 troops, according to some estimates, with more than 200,000 deaths verified by researchers.Ukrainians carrying the body of a Russian soldier near a destroyed Russian border post in 2024.
If China invades Taiwan and cuts off its chip exports to American companies, the tech industry and the U.S. economy would be crippled.
The multibillion-dollar deal is AMD’s latest move to catch up to Nvidia in the lucrative world of selling artificial intelligence chips.Lisa Su, AMD’s chief executive, has been trying to break into a market for A.I. chips that has been dominated by Nvidia.
Around 100 senior officers have been sidelined or vanished since 2022, hollowing out the top ranks and raising questions about the army’s capabilities.Gen. Zhang Youxia, who was vice chairman of the Central Military Commission at the time, waving at the Western Pacific Naval Symposium in Qingdao, Ch
Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s trip will test his ability to address tensions between the countries, at a time of strain between Europe and Washington.Chancellor Friedrich Merz of Germany arriving at a meeting at the White House last year. Mr. Merz will visit China for the first time since he became ch
Joseph Lynskey was determined to overcome his fear and reclaim his life as a New Yorker who enjoys the city in full. On Tuesday, he filed a lawsuit against the city and the M.T.A.Joseph Lynskey recently returned to the 18th Street subway station in Manhattan, where he had been shoved in front of an
