Divided Over Money and Policy, House G.O.P. Punts on Spending Bill
House Republicans abandoned efforts to pass a spending bill to fund the Agriculture Department and the F.D.A. on Thursday before heading home for summer break,...
Prosecutors Charge Mar-a-Lago Worker in Trump Documents Case
Federal prosecutors investigating former President Donald J. Trump on charges of illegally handling classified documents unsealed charges on Thursday against a new defendant — a...
DeSantis Reboots Struggling 2024 Campaign With Iowa Bus Tour
Gov. Ron DeSantis’s reboot of his struggling presidential campaign began in the spartan basement of a hotel in a rural Iowa town. No spacious event...
Mitch McConnell’s Senate Future Is in Doubt After Health Episode
It has been decades since there was any real uncertainty at the top of the Republican Party in the Senate. But Senator Mitch McConnell’s alarming...
Justice Dept. to Investigate Memphis Police for Civil Rights Abuses
The Justice Department said on Thursday that it had begun a sweeping civil rights investigation into policing in Memphis, examining allegations of pervasive problems with...
DeSantis’s Campaign Reboot Faces Donor Skepticism and Deepening Divisions
But Mr. DeSantis himself has yet to adopt his campaign’s newfound frugality. On Tuesday, he flew multiple trips on private planes to fund-raisers around Tennessee....
Are You a Legacy Alum?
After the Supreme Court’s rejection of affirmative action at American colleges and universities, another admissions practice has come under scrutiny: preferences for relatives of alumni....
Supreme Court Clears the Way for Mountain Valley Pipeline as Appeal Moves Forward
The Supreme Court on Thursday temporarily cleared the way for construction of a 300-mile pipeline capable of carrying two billion cubic feet of natural gas...
Trump’s Lawyers Meet With Prosecutors as Election Interference Charges Loom
Lawyers for former President Donald J. Trump were expected to meet on Thursday with officials in the office of the special counsel, Jack Smith, as...
118 Million in U.S. Expected to Be in Heat Index ‘Danger’ Zone
Dangerous heat that has scorched other parts of the country for more than a month spread to the nation’s most populous region on Thursday, with...
Busloads of Migrants Keep Arriving in L.A. From Texas
Something many people have criticized as a political stunt playing out elsewhere in the country arrived in Southern California starting in mid-June. A busload of...
The U.S. Government Wants Your Dead Butterflies
Got any dead butterflies lying around? Consider sending them to the U.S. government. Officials with the United States Geological Survey, an agency that conducts research...
Labor Department Decries Surge in Exploited Migrant Children
The Labor Department on Thursday decried a national surge in child labor, saying that the agency’s inspectors had found thousands of violations and were investigating...
Michigan Judge to Weigh Whether Oxford High School Shooter Could Ever Leave Prison
If Ethan Crumbley had been a few years older when he killed four students at his Michigan high school and pleaded guilty to first-degree murder,...