The authorities confirmed that people had died as a result of the flooding along the Guadalupe River, and urged those living near the river to seek higher ground immediately.
The product of years of Republican effort, the American tax code now blends traditional supply-side economics with President Trump’s populist 2024 campaign promises.
Even as President Trump has pointed the Republican party’s tax agenda in a more populist direction, the new law is in many ways the apotheosis of a traditionally conservative, supply-side philosophy.
The administration announced plans in June to eliminate federal protections across millions of acres of Alaskan wilderness, including Tongass National Forest in Sitka, Alaska.
A fire at a fireworks warehouse on Tuesday evening in Esparto, Calif., triggered an enormous pyrotechnics display in a largely rural area about 30 miles northwest of Sacramento.
School officials have demanded answers from federal agencies. It was the latest example of how locals have scrutinized the actions of immigration agents.
President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia in Moscow on Wednesday. He discussed Ukraine and Iran with President Trump by phone on Thursday, the Kremlin said.
Layoffs and departures after pressure from the Trump administration have left sites struggling, with the remaining employees each doing the work of two or three people.
A National Park Service custodian cleaning a bathroom in Yosemite National Park in February. At another national park, in Colorado, all the custodial staff have been fired and the other staff members have had to take on their duties.
Congressional Republicans just passed President Trump’s sprawling domestic policy bill that extends and expands tax cuts and spending on defense and deportations, while slashing Medicaid, food benefits and clean energy initiatives. Margot Sanger-Katz, a health care policy reporter for The New York Times, gives an overview.
Social work majors might struggle to get student loans. University endowments would be more heavily taxed. But students in some training programs would become eligible for Pell Grants.
Attorney General Pam Bondi wrote in letters to technology companies that President Trump had decided that shutting down TikTok would interfere with his “constitutional duties to take care of the national security and foreign affairs of the United States.”
The United States has held eight migrants at a military base in Djibouti while court cases played out. But an official said the Trump administration would now promptly send the men to South Sudan.
The United States has held eight migrants at a military base in Djibouti while court cases played out. The federal government sought to deport them to South Sudan.
Dr. Marites Buenafe was last seen on security footage while leaving a building at the top stop of a tramway in Juneau. Her body was found on Thursday morning.
The man faces federal and state murder charges over shootings that killed a state lawmaker and her husband and wounded another couple. He told a judge he was “looking forward to court.”
Many Republicans had harshly criticized President Trump’s marquee bill extending tax cuts and slashing social safety net programs — almost right up until the moment they voted for it.
The ruling cited a Supreme Court decision in May that allowed President Trump to sideline Democratic appointees from several other nonpartisan agencies.
Noah Lamb, 24, was accused of playing a “central role” in a white supremacist group’s creation of a list of assassination targets, including a U.S. senator and a federal judge.
Noah Lamb suggested people to include on a hit list, prosecutors said, and found personal information about them that was distributed to members of a white supremacist group on Telegram, the messaging app.
Top party officials consider the president’s sweeping domestic policy bill to be cruel and fiscally ruinous — and they’re betting the American public will, too.
Some communities in the Los Angeles region canceled events over fears of immigration raids, as Latinos grapple with how, and whether, to celebrate Independence Day.
The justices’ decision to hear the cases involving student athletes signals that they are willing to delve back into the culture war over transgender rights.
Representative Hakeem Jeffries, the New York Democrat and minority leader, delayed a final House vote with an impassioned speech that lasted nearly nine hours.
President Trump has spent days cajoling Republicans to support his spending bill. He will also have to sell it to a skeptical public as Democrats focus on all the ways it helps the wealthy.
Adelita Grijalva remains heavily favored to win the House seat of her late father, Raúl Grijalva, but youthful challengers and tired voters are asking why change is so hard for Democrats.
After a tumultuous day, an overnight cliffhanger of a vote and a record-breaking speech, Republicans managed to wear down internal resistance and muscle their domestic policy bill through the House.
Sean Combs, the hip-hop mogul who built a business empire around his personal brand, was convicted on Wednesday of transporting prostitutes to participate in his drug-fueled sex marathons, but acquitted of racketeering and sex trafficking, the most serious charges against him. Julia Jacobs, a New York Times culture reporter, explains the verdict.
In a 103-page opinion, Judge William G. Young chronicled an “unmistakable pattern of discrimination” by the Trump administration in its termination of federal science funding.
President Trump worked the phones and welcomed Republicans to the White House to cajole them into supporting his megabill. They left with signed merchandise and photos of the Oval Office.
Officials in Dolton, Ill., called the purchase a rare opportunity. But some residents questioned whether the village, grappling with a deficit and potholes, could afford it.
Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia was made to kneel overnight, denied bathroom access and confined in an overcrowded cell with bright lights and no windows, his lawyers say.
A poster showing Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia during a news conference with his wife, Jennifer Vasquez Sura, outside the U.S. District Court in Greenbelt, Md., in April.
The appraisal that Iran’s nuclear hopes had been set back 1 to 2 years by U.S. and Israeli bombings was the latest in a shifting series of pronouncements.
A billboard showing a variety of missiles in Tehran last year. The Pentagon’s chief spokesman said on Thursday that Iran’s nuclear program had likely been degraded by one to two years by U.S. and Israeli bombing.
Border Patrol agents made just over 6,000 arrests in June, according to government figures, a sign that President Trump’s hard-line immigration policies are working to keep people out.
President Trump’s decision to pause the delivery of some air defense interceptors and precision-guided munitions to Ukraine is part of a broader effort.
Pentagon officials said on Wednesday that President Trump could ultimately order all or some of the paused munitions to be sent to Ukraine, depending on the results of the department’s review.
If members of the House demand changes to the legislation the Senate has passed, the two chambers will have to work out their differences in what could be a prolonged negotiation, potentially killing the effort.
Senator Lisa Murkowski of Alaska has pushed for a conference committee, in which a panel of lawmakers from both the House and Senate work together to negotiate a version of the bill that will satisfy each chamber.
Supporters hope the law will deter young people from bullying. Critics questioned whether it would actually make teenagers think twice about their behavior.
Under a state law that went into effect on Tuesday, teenage drives in Tennessee could have their driver’s licenses suspended for a year if they are convicted of bullying or cyberbullying.
Fiscal hawks have repeatedly threatened to bring down their party’s agenda out of debt fears, only to back down after pressure from party leaders and President Trump.
Representative Chip Roy, Republican of Texas, has said the Senate failed to improve a House bill that he described as a “mediocre but passable product.”
“Every single House Democrat will vote ‘hell no’ against this one big ugly bill,” Representative Hakeem Jeffries of New York, the House Democratic leader, said on the steps of the Capitol during a news conference attended by a sizable portion of the Democratic caucus.
President Trump has floated ideas about helping certain industries that rely on immigrant labor, but the White House has yet to release a concrete plan about what’s in store.
President Trump in South Florida on Tuesday. His attempt to carve out exceptions to his crackdown on immigration has led to confusion among immigrants and business leaders.
The judge wrote that neither the Constitution nor federal immigration law gave the president the authority to “adopt an alternative immigration system.”
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