The orders come after the Supreme Court ruled June 30 that President Trump’s previous efforts to end birthright citizenship were unconstitutional.President Trump with the advisers Will Scharf and Stephen Miller, at left, and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, right. The president spoke to the news m
While administration officials say the changes will save money by lifting onerous requirements, advocates fear the anti-poverty program will be gutted.Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the health secretary, has led the push to deregulate Head Start, the anti-poverty program that an uncle, Sargent Shriver, help
The penalty, imposed by a state judge, is on top of a $375 million fine ordered by a jury that found Meta misled users about the safety of its platforms.A New Mexico judge ordered Meta to pay $567 million and make changes to the way young people can use its platform
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The Kentucky Republican has been absent from Congress for nearly two months after a health episode. He said he would continue recovering from home.Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky on Capitol Hill earlier this year. Mr. McConnell was hospitalized in June after falling unconscious in his home.
Two Republican lawmakers have endorsed a primary opponent of Representative Cory Mills, who has been accused of assault and is under investigation by the House Ethics Committee.Two House Republicans from Florida took the rare step this week of endorsing a primary opponent of their colleague, Represe
Canada’s prime minister laughed off Trump’s description of Canada but suggested that trade talks between the two countries are acrimonious.Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada in Toronto, on Wednesday.
The administration will impose a minimum import price for polysilicon, a key component for semiconductors and solar panels, as well as tariffs for products made with the material.A worker inspected solar panels at a factory in Dalton, Ga., in 2023.
Scientists trained artificial intelligence on libraries of DNA and then asked the model to create recipes for viral genomes. Sixteen of them were viable, yielding new viruses.
Dr. Anthony Fauci had refused to answer questions at a hearing last week, invoking the Fifth Amendment. Republicans argued he wasn’t entitled to that protection because he had a presidential pardon.The vote once again exposed the sharp partisan divisions around Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, who served for n
The constitutional right against self-incrimination has been invoked on several occasions during high-profile — and contentious — hearings.Michael T. Flynn, who was President Trump’s first national security adviser during his first term, twice pleaded guilty to lying to the F.B.I. He received a pard
For an audience that grew to more than a million followers, she challenged assumptions about how people with serious illnesses should look and live.Sydney Towle in 2025. Diagnosed with cholangiocarcinoma, a rare cancer of the bile ducts, she turned her new life as a young woman with cancer into cont
Sydney Towle’s videos have drawn an enormous audience on TikTok, where her followers praise and support her. On Reddit, an army of skeptics was determined to paint her as a fraud.Sydney Towle at a cancer fund-raiser in Manhattan in March, with friends from college.
The Trump administration is sending back record numbers of Vietnamese, Laotians and Hmong. Many came to the United States as young war refugees and later committed crimes.
New Jersey improperly added as many as 6,600 noncitizens to its voter rolls. Those people could now be forced out of the country.New Jersey continues to deal with the fallout of thousands of noncitizens — as many as 6,600, according to the governor — having been added to its voter rolls.
After deadly tremors a decade ago, Kumamoto built earthquake-resistant buildings and even trained locals in search and rescue.Collapsed houses after the earthquake in Yatsushiro City, Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan, last week.
Americans have been taken with scams for years. Now, the word is being used for any system that ends with somebody profiting at their expense.
The success of his chairmanship may rest on an issue that sits outside the traditional purview of monetary policy: the nation’s ongoing fiscal deficits.
The U.S. is bolstering the yen, as it did with the Argentine peso. The reasons are not solely economic.
A student opened fire at a high school near Bangkok, according to local news media.Students evacuated from Debsirin Nonthaburi School, northwest of Bangkok, on Friday.
