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Trump Squeezes Immigrants by Cutting Them Off From Jobs, Health Care and Housing The methodically planned strategy is intended to pressure noncitizens, including many with legal status, to leave the United States. Read full article
Judge Reopens Trump’s Lawsuit Demanding $10 Billion From IRS The ruling was a blow to both President Trump, who had voluntarily dismissed the suit last week, and to the Justice Department, which used the suit to establish a fund likely intended for Trump allies. Read full article
In Strait of Hormuz Standoff, U.S. and Iran Deploy Economic Warfare The American blockade and Iran’s control of the Strait of Hormuz have created a stalemate that is neither peace nor raging conflict, with both sides attempting economic strangulation on the water. Read full ar...
Cornyn’s Defeat in Texas Runoff Underscores Trump's Grip on the G.O.P. Senator John Cornyn lost to his MAGA-aligned challenger, Ken Paxton, by 28 percentage points. It was a historically poor showing. Read full article
Democratic Incumbents Run Against Each Other After Republican Redistricting in Texas A Republican-led redistricting effort forced Representative Al Green, who has served 11 terms, and Christian Menefee, one of the newest members of Congress, into a battle for the same seat. Re...
Netanyahu Says Israel Plans to Intensify Attacks on Hezbollah in Lebanon After the prime minister made the announcement, the Israeli military said it had struck more than 70 Hezbollah sites in the past day. Read full article
To Get the Strait Open, Trump Had to Leave the Hardest Issues for Later President Trump is hailing is agreement with Iran as groundbreaking, even as he admits is “isn’t even fully negotiated.” But the nuclear stockpile, enrichment and missiles have not been discussed. Read ful...
Trump Is Setting His Sights on Restricting Legal Immigration After a year focused on immigrants here illegally, the Trump administration is now making it harder for legal migrants to stay in the country. It is a risky pivot. Read full article
Green Card Seekers Must Leave U.S. to Apply, Trump Administration Says The change is likely to affect hundreds of thousands of people. It could also lead to more family separations as spouses or relatives wait for application decisions, immigration lawyers said. Read full article
Inside the Senate G.O.P. Meltdown Over Trump’s Fund Todd Blanche, the acting attorney general, went to Capitol Hill to allay Republicans’ concerns over a fund to pay people who claim government mistreatment. It did not go well. Read full article
Trump’s $1.8 Billion Fund Tests Constitutional Limits The deal the president reached with his own subordinates relies on a mechanism created by Congress that legal experts had warned was subject to manipulation. Read full article
I.R.S. to Drop Audits of Trump and Family As part of the Justice Department’s compensation fund deal, officials vowed not to pursue any matters, including those involving President Trump’s tax returns, that are pending. Read full article
Abortion Pill Lawsuit Leaves Trump in a Political Bind Ahead of the Midterms Louisiana wants the Food and Drug Administration to curtail access to the medication. Doing so could cost Republicans at the polls. Read full article
The Iran War Is Crippling One of the World’s Wealthiest Nations Iranian attacks and the stoppage of seaborne transit have paralyzed Qatar’s vital gas exports, stalling the economic pivots intended to anchor the country’s growth. Read full article
Trump Calls Xi a ‘Friend.’ But He Left China Without Any Breakthroughs. The lack of concrete agreements with Beijing shows the risks of President Trump’s personality-driven foreign policy, which rests on the belief that he can defend U.S. interests through charm and force of w...
With Possible Raúl Castro Indictment, U.S. Eyes Venezuela Playbook Amid stepped-up surveillance flights, a visit of the C.I.A. director and an energy embargo, the White House is trying to increase pressure on Cuba. Read full article
Supreme Court Allows Abortion Pill Access by Mail to Continue A federal appeals court ruling against the Food and Drug Administration would have restricted access by mail to mifepristone. Read full article
Why Xi Doesn’t Need a Deal With Trump President Xi Jinping of China is buying time for Beijing and may see an opening with a U.S. president weakened by the war in Iran. Read full article
U.S. Intelligence Shows Iran Retains Substantial Missile Capabilities Secret new assessments say Iran has operational access to 30 of its 33 missile sites along the Strait of Hormuz, suggesting that its military remains far stronger than President Trump has asserted. Read full...
RFK Jr. Is Driving a Vast Inquiry Into Vaccines, Despite His Public Silence Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has toned down his public criticism of vaccines, under orders from the White House. But inside his department, a sprawling research effort is a top priority. Read...
After Virginia Redistricting Map Is Tossed, Democrats Search Desperately for a Response A conversation involving House members from Virginia and the top House Democrat reflected the fury and desperation that has gripped the party after Friday’s ruling in the state. Read full a...
Long Overlooked, Caspian Sea Provides Strategic Trade Route for Iran The landlocked body of water has taken on new significance, with Russia shipping military and commercial goods to bolster Tehran’s ability to withstand the U.S. assault. Read full article
Facing Pressure, Trump Officials Reject Claims They’re Softening on Immigration Immigration hard-liners have grown frustrated with the level of deportations and the Department of Homeland Security’s attempts, under its new secretary, to stay under the radar. Read full article
As Stockpiles Fall, U.S. Sells More Missiles Worth $17 Billion to Gulf Nations The United States and its partners have burned through an enormous amount of air defense missiles in the Iran war, and production is slow. Read full article
Trump’s Indiana Victory Shows His Enduring Grip on Core Republican Supporters Low approval ratings? MAGA divisions? The president was able to turn out party loyalists in an Indiana primary to help him oust Republican state lawmakers who had crossed him. Read full article
In Ohio, Indiana and Michigan’s Primary Elections, Trump’s Influence Faces a Test Indiana voters were deciding whether to support Republican state lawmakers who rejected the president’s push to redraw the state’s political map last year. Mr. Trump backed challengers. Read full...
White House Considers Vetting A.I. Models Before They Are Released The Trump administration, which took a noninterventionist approach to artificial intelligence, is now discussing imposing oversight on A.I. models before they are made publicly available. Read full article
A Long, Strange Trip: How the G.O.P. Came to Embrace Psychedelic Drugs For decades, conservatives were adamantly opposed to the use of drugs like psilocybin and LSD. Now, the Trump administration has made a sharp pivot. Read full article
Abortion Providers Forced to Adapt After Court Ruling Blocks Pill Access by Mail The Fifth Circuit court’s ruling, which is being appealed, reinstates a requirement that patients visit a health care provider in person to obtain mifepristone, upending abortion access in the Uni...
U.S. to Withdraw 5,000 Troops From Germany, Pentagon Says Officials announced the decision after President Trump expressed annoyance with the German chancellor’s remarks about the Iran war. Read full article
Supreme Court Voting Rights Ruling Could Fuel New Era of Redistricting Wars The expected flood of new congressional maps is likely to produce fewer competitive districts, fewer ways for voters to hold elected officials accountable and more polarized politics. Read full article
Supreme Court Grapples With Trump’s Plan to Revoke Deportation Protections The case deals with Temporary Protected Status for hundreds of thousands of Haitians and Syrians but could have implications for more than a million from troubled nations. Read full article
One Person Who Appears to Be Missing From King Charles’s U.S. Itinerary: Prince Harry On a state visit designed in part to repair U.S.-British relations, King Charles’s schedule does not include plans to see his younger son, who lives in the United States with his family. Read...
Charges Against Suspect in Trump Assassination Attempt Based on Shotgun Shell and a Screed The authorities say the California man stormed a black-tie gala on Saturday seeking to kill the president. Read full article
What Our Reporter Saw During the D.C. Shooting Our reporter was with President Trump at the White House correspondents’ dinner when a gunman breached security. He describes the frantic scenes that unfolded. Read full article
Trump Seeks to Abolish Iran’s Nuclear Stockpile, a Problem He Helped Create President Trump withdrew from the Obama-era nuclear accord in 2018, saying it was the worst deal ever. But Iran responded with an enrichment spree that haunts the negotiations to this day. Read full ar...
Trump Says He Dislikes Prediction Markets. His Family Invests in Them. The White House has warned staff not to wager on government decisions, but his family’s involvement with these firms undermines the president’s message. Read full article
Trump’s Dreams for a Battleship Led to His Navy Secretary’s Ouster The Navy secretary, John Phelan, was supposed to deliver the first of the president’s ships by 2028. The timeline was nearly impossible. Read full article
Iran Again Tightens Its Grip on Shipping in the Strait of Hormuz Traffic in the strait has all but halted as Iran renews its attacks, striking two vessels on Wednesday. More than 300 ships linked to Iran have passed through the strait since the war began. Read full article
Election Day Turnout for Virginia Redistricting Measure Shows Significant Decline In-person turnout on Tuesday is trailing far behind that of last year’s governor’s race, which set a state record in a nonpresidential election. Read full article
The Touska, the Iranian-Flagged Ship Seized by U.S. Forces, Was Under Sanctions Marines are searching thousands of containers aboard the Touska, an Iranian cargo ship that the Navy disabled and seized on Sunday. Read full article
Energy Secretary Says Gas Prices May Stay Above $3 Until 2027 Secretary of Energy Chris Wright’s acknowledgment in a TV interview undercut President Trump’s earlier claim that price increases would be “short-term.” Read full article
For Iran, Flexing Control Over Waterway Is New Deterrent Iran’s government could emerge from the conflict with a blueprint to keep adversaries at bay, regardless of any restrictions on its nuclear program. Read full article
Trump Is Urged to Act on Iranian Site Feared Impervious to Airstrikes Little is known about Pickaxe Mountain, but some experts say it illustrates the impossibility of relying on force alone to prevent Iran from acquiring a nuclear bomb. Read full article
Israel and Lebanon Agree to a Cease-Fire Deal Also, Utah is now the epicenter of U.S. measles cases. Here’s the latest at the end of Thursday. Read full article
S&P 500 Hits Record High as Stock Market Looks Beyond Iran War Investors appear to be treating an end to the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran as a foregone conclusion, as the S&P 500 closes above 7,000. Read full article
A Divided America Processes a War With Iran As the war in Iran extends into its seventh week and a truce feels increasingly shaky, many Americans expressed bewilderment about a conflict that came with little warning. Read full article
Iran Blockade Sets Up a Test of Which Side Can Endure More Pain President Trump is trying to choke off the country’s lifeline with a blockade of the Strait of Hormuz. But the Iranians are betting that his tolerance for political pain is limited. Read full article
Hungary Election Results: Viktor Orban Concedes Defeat and Congratulates Peter Magyar Prime Minister Viktor Orban, who has inspired populist movements globally, could not overcome the growing dissatisfaction of his own citizens. Read full article
U.S. Intelligence Shows China Taking a More Active Role in Iran War China may have shipped missiles to Iran, and Beijing is allowing some companies to sell Tehran supplies that can be used in military production, American officials said. Read full article
See Photos From All 10 Days of NASA’s Artemis II Moon Mission Over 10 days, the astronauts of NASA’s lunar flyby mission have achieved the near impossible. Read full article
Amid Trump’s Threats, NATO Labors to Survive the Iran War President Trump is citing the unwillingness of European nations to back the United States in the conflict as another reason to scale back or abandon the alliance. And he still wants Greenland. Read full article
What Is In Iran’s 10-Point Proposal, and How Does It Compare to U.S. Demands? The plan, which reasserts Iran’s control of the Strait of Hormuz and maintains the country’s right to nuclear enrichment, is not the same as the one President Trump said was a “workable basis” for ne...
To Boost Military Budget, Trump Targets Popular Programs at Home Amid the war with Iran, the president has proposed to scale back some of the very programs meant to ease families’ financial burdens. Read full article
6 Takeaways From Trump’s News Conference on Iran President Trump described the risky mission to rescue an Air Force colonel whose fighter jet had been shot down, but he offered no clear path out of the war. Read full article
A Harrowing Race Against Time to Find a Downed U.S. Airman in Iran For the Iranians, the Air Force colonel whose fighter jet had been shot down was possible leverage. For the U.S. military, finding him was a moral imperative. Read full article
U.S. Fighter Jet Downed Over Iran Was Probably Based at R.A.F. Lakenheath, U.K. Airfield A military analyst identified markings consistent with a squadron based at R.A.F. Lakenheath, one of two British bases that host the largest U.S. fighter jet operation in Europe. Read full...
What We Know About the F-15E Strike Eagle Shot Down by Iran An F-15E Strike Eagle was lost to enemy fire and an A-10 Warthog crashed in the Persian Gulf region on Friday, officials said. A rescue helicopter was also fired upon. Read full article
Rival Nations Seize On Choke Points to Counter Trump From Iran to China, President Trump’s global aggression has encouraged other countries to search for new ways to pressure the U.S. economy. Read full article
How NASA Is Keeping the Astronauts Safe During the Artemis II Mission Years of testing, emergency systems and sensors have gone into protecting the astronauts set to head to the moon. Read full article
Judge Approves Trump Effort to Obtain List of Jews From University of Pennsylvania The government’s effort to collect the names and phone numbers of Jewish people on campus as it investigates antisemitism has upset some people who worry about how the information will be used. ...
Iran’s Fractured Leadership Is Struggling to Coordinate, Officials Say As leaders are killed and replaced, Iranian negotiators may not know what their government is willing to concede in any negotiations. Read full article
U.S. to Allow Russian Oil Tanker to Reach Cuba, Breaking Blockade The tanker full of crude oil could reach its expected destination by Tuesday, providing a lifeline to the island amid intense U.S. pressure. Read full article
Yemen’s Houthis Fire at Israel and Vow Further Attacks There has long been concern that the Houthis, an Iran-backed militia, could disrupt shipping in the Red Sea if they entered the broader war. Read full article
Florida’s Immigration Crackdown, Led by DeSantis, Is Showing Cracks Some conservative sheriffs have raised concerns about the aggressive enforcement tactics that Gov. Ron DeSantis, a Republican, has embraced. Read full article
U.S. Stocks Have Their Biggest Drop Since Start of Iran War The S&P 500 tumbled 1.7 percent on Thursday and oil prices continued rising as investors fret about when the war would end. Read full article
Meta and YouTube Found Negligent in Landmark Social Media Addiction Trial A jury found the companies harmed a young user with design features that were addictive and led to her mental health distress. Read full article
Air Canada Pilots Killed in LaGuardia Crash Were Early in Flying Careers The pilots were identified as Antoine Forest, 30, and Mackenzie Gunther. They were the only two fatalities in the plane’s collision with a fire truck at New York’s LaGuardia Airport. Read full article
Trump Delays Energy Strikes, but Iran’s Infrastructure Is Already Battered U.S. and Israeli attacks on power plants and other civilian infrastructure risk escalating the conflict across the region, and angering Iranians who oppose the government. Read full article
Israel Thought It Could Spur Rebellion Inside Iran. That Hasn’t Happened. President Trump’s hopes that an Israeli plan to ignite an internal uprising against Iran’s theocratic government could bring the war to a swift end have so far been dashed. Read full article
Trump Is Finally Eyeing an Exit From Iran. But Will He Take It? President Trump says he is considering “winding down” operations in Iran. But many of his original war goals remain unaccomplished. Read full article
Judge Rules Pentagon Restrictions on Press Are Unconstitutional A federal judge tossed parts of the Pentagon’s restrictions on news outlets, saying they violated the First Amendment, in a lawsuit brought by The New York Times. Read full article
Trump Says He Won’t Send Troops to Iran But Leaves Wiggle Room The president was cagey about his plans for Iran. He confirmed the Pentagon was seeking $200 billion to support a protracted war effort while also claiming it would be over soon. Read full article
What’s a Threat? Gabbard Says It’s Up to Trump, on Iran and Elsewhere. Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence, was left to square the president’s comments about an imminent nuclear threat from Iran with a letter from one of her trusted aides. Read full article
Israel Keeps Killing Key Iranian Leaders. Will It Work? Israeli officials trumpeted airstrikes that killed Iran’s de facto leader and the commanders of a militia notorious for violently suppressing protests. But “decapitation has its limits,” an analyst warns. Read full article
Judge Strikes Down RFK Jr.’s Vaccine Policies in Blow to Trump’s Health Agenda Ruling on a lawsuit brought by several prominent medical organizations, a district court said the federal government had not based its decisions on science in limiting Covid shots and revising the c...
Entering War’s Third Week, Trump Faces Stark Choices As the conflict with Iran expands and intensifies, President Trump’s options — to fight on, or to move toward declaring victory and pulling back — both carry deeply problematic consequences. Read full article
Why Little Was Done to Head Off Oil’s Strait of Hormuz Problem Geography and regional rivalries have prevented Gulf countries from finding a true alternative to the strait, which the war with Iran has effectively shut down. Read full article
Judge Quashes Justice Dept.’s Subpoenas of Fed, Crippling Its Pursuit of Trump’s Rivals Judge James E. Boasberg derided the U.S. attorney’s office in Washington for pursuing a case against Jerome H. Powell that appeared to be motivated by President Trump’s desire for vengeance...
Fallout From Iran War and Oil Shock Deliver Another Blow to World Economy Countries already walloped by a breakdown of the international trading order, war in Ukraine and chaotic U.S. policymaking are facing potentially lasting economic damage. Read full article
U.S. at Fault in Strike on School in Iran, Preliminary Inquiry Says Outdated targeting data may have resulted in a mistaken missile strike, according to the ongoing military investigation, which undercuts President Trump’s assertion that Iran could be to blame. Read full article
Iranian Military Shows It Knows How to Adapt, U.S. Officials Say Iran appears to be targeting what it views as American vulnerabilities, including air defenses meant to guard troops and assets in the region. Read full article
Oil Prices Will Remain High as Iran War Continues While officials look for ways to ease oil shocks, experts say higher prices will likely persist until traffic through the Strait of Hormuz returns. Read full article
Mojtaba Khamenei, Son of Iran’s Slain Supreme Leader, Is a Mysterious Figure The succession of the slain leader’s son is seen as a signal of the Islamic republic’s defiance of Israel and the United States, and of continuity during crisis. Read full article
In War’s First Week, a Punishing Military Campaign With No Coherent Endgame The U.S. and Israel have pounded Iran’s leadership and undercut its defense capabilities, but President Trump has offered wildly different explanations for what he hopes to achieve. Read full article
Trump Demands ‘Unconditional Surrender’ by Iran President Trump’s comments on Friday reflected yet another shift in the goals of U.S. military actions. Read full article
FEMA Delays Under Kristi Noem Angered Republicans Long delays in FEMA assistance brought bipartisan complaints, especially in North Carolina after Hurricane Helene in 2024. Read full article
Senate Thwarts Bid to Curb Trump’s War Powers on Iran Nearly every Republican voted to block a measure that would require that President Trump win authorization from Congress to continue the offensive in the Middle East. Read full article
Iran’s Strategy: Expand the War, Increase the Cost, Outlast Trump The Islamic Republic is aiming to draw out the conflict and broaden the fighting. That would force President Trump to risk more casualties and more political capital. Read full article
How Trump Decided to Go to War With Iran President Trump’s embrace of military action in Iran was spurred by an Israeli leader determined to end diplomatic negotiations. Few of the president’s advisers voiced opposition. Read full article
U.S. and Israeli War With Iran Will Likely Send Oil Prices Soaring How long prices remain high will depend on what the United States, Israel and Iran do next. Read full article
What to Know About the U.S. Attacks on Iran The United States and Israel launched a major assault that reportedly has killed Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Read full article
Trump Orders U.S. Agencies to Stop Using Anthropic AI Tech After Pentagon Standoff The company had clashed with the military over how officials wanted to use its cutting-edge A.I. model. The order could vastly complicate intelligence analysis and defense work. Read full article
Netflix Backs Out of Bid for Warner Bros., Paving Way for Paramount Takeover The move was a stunning development in the long-running corporate battle for the storied media giant. Read full article
Casey Means, Surgeon General Nominee, Sidesteps Questions on Vaccines at Senate Hearing Dr. Casey Means, a wellness influencer, author and supporter of Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., said that “anti-vaccine rhetoric has never been part” of her message. Read full article
Guest List for State of the Union Includes Epstein Victims, Erika Kirk and U.S. Olympic Hockey Players Democratic lawmakers invited victims of Jeffrey Epstein and of President Trump’s aggressive immigration crackdown. Read full article
Trump Administration Scrambles to Pick Up the Pieces of Broken Tariffs President Trump is already working to piece his tariff program back together, after a Supreme Court ruling ruptured a centerpiece of his economic agenda. Read full article
Trump Considers Targeted Strike Against Iran, Followed by Larger Attack The top negotiators plan to meet in Geneva on Thursday for last-ditch talks, debating a new proposal that could create an off-ramp as two carrier groups massed within striking distance of Iran. Read full a...
Trump Says He Will Raise Global Tariff to 15 Percent The move signaled that the president would press ahead with steep global import taxes despite the legal setback from the Supreme Court. Read full article
The Supreme Court’s Declaration of Independence The court’s rejection of President Trump’s tariffs program is the latest in a series of clashes between him and Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. Read full article
Epstein Built Ties to U.S. Customs Officers, Prompting Criminal Investigation Jeffrey Epstein cultivated friendly relationships with several customs officers in the U.S. Virgin Islands, offering food, advice and even musical gigs. Read full article
Administration Targets Noncitizen Voting, Despite Finding It Rare The intensified push is part of an extraordinary all-fronts effort to insert federal law enforcement into the machinery of American elections ahead of the midterms. Read full article
With Witkoff and Kushner, Trump Bets on Diplomacy Without Diplomats President Trump’s most trusted envoys are at the center of the Iran and Ukraine negotiations, an approach that has sidelined the State Department and the National Security Council. Read full article
Vaccine Makers Curtail Research and Cut Jobs Federal policies under Robert F. Kennedy Jr. that are hostile to vaccines have “sent a chill through the entire industry,” one scientist said. Read full article
Trump’s Relentless Self-Promotion Fosters an American Cult of Personality President Trump has engaged in a spree of self-aggrandizement unlike any of his predecessors, fostering a mythologized superhuman persona and making himself the inescapable force at home and around the w...
In Munich, Europe Says It Is ‘De-risking’ From the U.S. Amid Trump’s Unpredictability In Munich, European leaders were also talking about “de-risking” from the United States, citing President Trump’s unpredictability. Read full article
RFK Jr. Allies Target States to Overturn Vaccine Mandates for Schools Proponents of vaccines warn that the efforts will further dismantle the immunization infrastructure and lead to more outbreaks of disease. Read full article
Trump Repeals Key Greenhouse Gas Finding, Erasing EPA’s Power to Fight Climate Change The Environmental Protection Agency repealed the bedrock scientific finding that greenhouse gases threaten human life and well being. It means the agency can no longer regulate them. Read ful...
Military’s Use of Anti-Drone Technology Said to Cause El Paso Airspace Closure Federal Aviation Administration officials said privately that the agency did not have enough time or information to assess the technology’s risk to commercial aircraft, according to people briefed o...
Former Palm Beach Police Chief Said Trump Told Him ‘Everyone’ Knew About Epstein in 2006 Michael Reiter, a former Palm Beach police chief, described a 2006 conversation with Donald Trump to the F.B.I. years later, according to a newly released document. Read full article