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.On orders from President Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, the U.S. military has attacked 21 boats in the Caribbean Sea and eastern Pacific Oc
Bipartisan congressional oversight is underway, but for now is focusing on narrow details about one missile instead of broader legal issues.Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s orders regarding a lethal Sept. 2 attack on a boat in the Caribbean Sea are under scrutiny.
The lawsuit said the Defense Department’s new set of rules for journalists “violates the Constitution’s guarantees of due process, freedom of speech and freedom of the press.”A new set of press restrictions at the Pentagon took effect in October.
Plus, the race to save music history.Advisers to Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. appear poised to make consequential changes to the childhood vaccination schedule.
The health secretary has walled himself off from government scientists and empowered fellow activists to pursue his vaccine agenda.Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the health secretary, conferring with Hannah Anderson, then one of his top advisers, during a hearing in May.
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.
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.Supporters gathered at the election night party for Matt Van Epps ahead of his victory in a special election for the House on Tuesday in Tenness
More than a year before the Trump administration granted asylum to the Afghan immigrant, the volunteer’s emails raised concerns that he was unraveling.Two National Guard troops were shot near the White House on the day before Thanksgiving.
Afghan immigrants in the United States believed they were safe. A deadly shooting that authorities say was carried out by an Afghan has thrown their futures into doubt.Obaidullah Durani and his daughter, Hela, at the Arizona Refugee Center in Mesa, Ariz. Mr. Durani, a fighter pilot, arrived from Afg
As Trump steps up his crackdown, our reporters explain what’s happening.Border Patrol vehicles near the U.S.-Mexico border in January in Sunland Park, N.M.
Many of the year’s best series seemed to be in conversation with one another, including “Severance,” “The Pitt,” “Andor,” “Pluribus,” “The Lowdown” and others.
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.The Trump administration will hold a signing ceremony for the peace agreement’s next phase at the U.S. Institute of Peace, which it recently renamed “the
Workers installed the president’s name on the Washington institute, thrusting it back into the spotlight as it is set to host the signing of a peace deal between Rwanda and Congo.The United States Institute of Peace on Wednesday, after President Trump’s name was added to the facade.
The Trump administration, which crippled Russia’s oil sales to India with sanctions, will be watching Mr. Putin’s talks with Prime Minister Narendra Modi.President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia and Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India greeting each other before a meeting in New Delhi in 2021.
As President Emmanuel Macron of France visited China, its leader, Xi Jinping, said his country would play a constructive role in ending the fighting.President Emmanuel Macron of France with Xi Jinping, China’s leader, in Beijing on Thursday. Mr. Macron was welcomed with a red carpet and honor guard.
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.“It does take two to tango,” President Trump said after his envoys left a meeting in Moscow with no major breakthroughs in t
President William Ruto faces pressure after a Times investigation showed that his government downplayed or ignored the mistreatment of women working in Saudi Arabia.Pauline Muthoni Kariuki said her Saudi employer and his friend raped her in 2020. She became pregnant and sought help at the embassy. T
Gov. Kathy Hochul received nearly $250,000 for her re-election campaign from donors eager to have her sign a bill that would regulate the A.I. field in New York.Gov. Kathy Hochul of New York faces a contested re-election bid next year, both in the primary and in the general election.
Antonio Reynoso’s bid to replace Representative Nydia M. Velázquez will most likely be contested by a candidate backed by the Democratic Socialists of America.Antonio Reynoso said he wants to push the Democratic Party to the left, but some in the party, including Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani, may pref
Shop owners say the thieves who took 990 pounds of snails must have been escargot cognoscenti.A snail farm in Souligné-sous-Ballon, in western France.
Having “real estate deal guys” as America’s negotiators on the war in Ukraine is a liability, not an advantage. You want a statesman.
The lawyer and activist Chase Strangio on cultural divisions and common ground.
We explain how Afghan refugees in America are experiencing the fallout from a D.C. shooting.Mirwais Daudzai
The president who says he’s killing traffickers “pardoned a man who smuggled in enough cocaine to give every American resting Kash Patel face,” Josh Johnson said.
