Newsom Says Trump Is Destroying U.S. Democracy in Speech on L.A. Protests
Gov. Gavin Newsom made the case in a televised address Tuesday evening that President Trump’s decisions to send military forces to immigration protests in Los Angeles have put the nation…
Appeals Court Pauses Order to Give Deported Venezuelans Due Process
A federal appeals court on Tuesday said the Trump administration did not have to comply for now with a judge’s order to give due process to scores of Venezuelan immigrants…
U.S. and China Agree to Walk Back Trade Tensions
The United States and China have agreed to a “framework” that is intended to ease economic tension and extend a trade truce that the world’s two largest economies reached last…
Los Angeles Protests Amplified by Influencers and Online Creators
As protests in Los Angeles against the Trump administration stretched into their fifth day on Tuesday, social media creators have at times outnumbered the traditional press corps at rallies and…
After 2020, Report Urged Caution in Deploying National Guard in L.A.
During the volatile early days of the racial justice protests in 2020, city officials in Los Angeles at first resisted calling for National Guard assistance before deciding that troops were…
Democrats Grill N.I.H. Leader on Cuts: Who Is Calling the Shots?
As the Trump administration clamped down on the country’s medical research funding apparatus in recent months, scientists and administrators at the National Institutes of Health often privately wondered how much…
Reagan Invoked the ‘Welfare Queen.’ The New G.O.P. Target Is a Lazy Gamer.
Ronald Reagan and his fellow Republicans once invoked what they referred to as “welfare queens” as they made the case for reining in social spending in the 1970s and 1980s,…
15 Police Officers Injured in Ballymena, Northern Ireland, After Riot Over Alleged Sexual Assault
The police in Northern Ireland have condemned an outbreak of disorder in the town of Ballymena on Monday night in which 15 officers were injured and houses and shops were…
Document Shows E.P.A. Plans to Loosen Limits on Mercury From Power Plants
The Environmental Protection Agency plans to weaken a Biden-era regulation that required power plants to slash pollutants, including the emissions of mercury, a neurotoxin that impairs brain development, according to…
Yale’s Endowment Selling Private Equity Stakes as Trump Targets Ivies
Yale University’s famed endowment has been trying to offload one of the largest portfolios of private equity investments ever in a single sale, a move that reflects the pressures on…