Once seen by some as the most conventional of President Trump’s political appointees, Todd Blanche has taken off the gloves in his new role as acting attorney general.Todd Blanche, the acting attorney general, during an appearance before the Senate appropriations subcommittee on Tuesday.
The fund that could offer payouts to Trump allies who accuse the government of mistreatment is not only highly unusual but also appears to violate the administration’s own policies.On Pam Bondi’s first day as attorney general in February 2025, she signed a directive that appeared to prohibit the kin
No president has ever used the federal government to advance his own personal interests and those of his family and allies as expansively and openly as Mr. Trump has.President Trump seems even less inhibited by the rules, written or unwritten, that governed his predecessors.
Plus, Stephen Colbert’s last show.The indictment of Raúl Castro, the former president of Cuba, comes as the country’s oil supplies for domestic use and power plants have been exhausted.
Democratic voters are in a combative, anti-establishment mood, unhappy with their party and disagreeing about its best path forward, a New York Times/Siena poll found.
With two swing districts, the region from Scranton to Allentown could decide control of the House, and voters are expressing profound economic distress.The Lehigh Valley in Pennsylvania includes midsize cities like Allentown that are growing increasingly diverse.
Republican senators are angry the president is working to unseat their colleagues. But he is also creating more free agents in his own party in Congress willing to defy him.After losing his primary race to a Trump-backed challenger, Senator Bill Cassidy, Republican of Louisiana, voted with Democrats
The Colorado State Democratic Party, reflecting the anger of rank-and-file Democratic voters, rebuked Gov. Jared Polis on Wednesday over his decision to release Tina Peters from prison.“The man is wildly out of touch with the party he effectively leads.” Gov. Jared Polis of Colorado, a Democrat, inf
While many Cubans were divided over the legitimacy of the U.S. charging Raul Castro with murder, the hope for developments that might ease their suffering is widespread. “This has to change.”A furniture workshop in Havana carries reminders that the Castro family has been part of Cuba’s ruling elite
The indictment was an extraordinary escalation of the Trump administration’s multifaceted pressure campaign against Cuba’s Communist government.The indictment of Raúl Castro, the former president of Cuba, comes as the country’s oil supplies for domestic use and power plants has been exhausted.
The carrier arrived in the southern Caribbean on the same day that the Justice Department announced charges against Raúl Castro.The aircraft carrier U.S.S. Nimitz in Guanabara Bay in Rio de Janeiro, earlier this month.
People who got the injection, retatrutide, lost 28 percent of their body weight on average after 80 weeks, Eli Lilly said.Eli Lilly’s headquarters in Indianapolis.
Stephen Colbert’s “Colbert Report” satirized politics. Then his “Late Show” confronted a moment when politics became self-satirizing.
The biggest episodes of the past have altered the course of human events, according to researchers. An emerging one is drawing historic comparisons.An illustration published in 1877 depicted a scene in southern India. Millions died from a famine that coincided with an El Niño that year.
Across Wall Street, bankers have been clamoring to lead what is expected to be the biggest-ever initial public offering.A SpaceX rocket in 2024. The company, led by Elon Musk, chose Goldman Sachs to be the lead bank for its initial public offering.
The U.S. tech giant’s powerful H200 chip seemed poised to boost Beijing’s A.I. ambitions, but not a single one has been purchased in China.Jensen Huang, the chief executive of Nvidia, said he did not bring up the chip with Chinese officials in Beijing last week.
SpaceX, OpenAI, and Anthropic, giants of the artificial intelligence sector, are rushing to test investor appetite in the stock markets.SpaceX, Elon Musk’s rocket and A.I. company, is seeking to get the jump on rivals with an I.P.O. that could land as soon as next month.
Reynolds American’s contribution to MAGA Inc. came about one week before the Trump administration announced a new policy on e-cigarettes the company had sought.The F.D.A. has issued new guidance that could pave the way for major tobacco companies including Reynolds American to begin selling flavored
Decision making in Iran is guided by a small group of men associated with the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps.A billboard in Tehran showing the three supreme leaders, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomenei, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and his son, Mojtaba Khamenei.
The State Department said it would fund up to 50 clinics in Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo. “I don’t know the ones they are talking about,” a top Ugandan official said.Checking a traveler’s temperature at a border crossing between Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo in Bundibugy
An Air France plane was sent to Montreal because a passenger from the Democratic Republic of Congo was on board. The U.S. has closed its borders to recent visitors to the African country.
Property prices in Shanghai, in particular, are rebounding, but the national market still faces an enormous overhang — 90 million empty or unfinished apartments.Many families in China poured their savings into apartments once seen as a safe path to wealth, only to watch values unravel.
Mayor Mamdani’s executive budget was met with hero worship online. What did the social media chatter miss about the messy reality of municipal policymaking?Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s executive budget release earlier this month was given the star treatment by some of his followers on social media.
“I feel like we have given him to the world,” the filmmaker said in a conversation with The New York Times. Her next movie is about one of India’s greatest artists.Mira Nair, the acclaimed film director and mother of Zohran Mamdani, in Amritsar, India, in March.
