President Trump boarding Marine One this week. On Friday, the president announced another American attack on a boat in the Caribbean Sea that he said was “trafficking illicit narcotics.” He also posted a one-minute surveillance video showing a speedboat being blown up.
It remained unclear why the president believed negative news coverage, which all of his predecessors have faced and is protected by the Constitution, would be against the law.
In an interview ahead of her new book’s release, former Vice President Kamala Harris warned that President Trump would only grow more emboldened in crushing dissent.
“I fear that every signal that he is receiving, including Jimmy Kimmel, is rewarding him for what he does and the way he does it,” former Vice President Kamala Harris said in an interview this week at her home in Los Angeles.
President Trump, the late-night host Jimmy Kimmel and Kash Patel, the director of the F.B.I. Events involving the three men factored heavily in what has been a politically charged week after Charlie Kirk’s assassination.
Conservatives have pressed for consequences for those who make negative comments about Charlie Kirk. But a few on the right say they worry about limits on speech.
Conservatives have pressed for consequences for those who make negative comments about Charlie Kirk. But a few on the right say they worry about limits on speech.
The Republican senator warned that retaliating against media outlets over coverage that conservatives view as negative would set a “dangerous” precedent.
In the 1990s, he compromised with Democrats, backed abortion rights, increased spending for schools and used an income-tax hike to help tame a huge budget deficit.
Jim Edgar, the former Illinois governor, outside the State Capitol building in Springfield in 2014. He was a rare Republican public official who openly criticized President Trump.
Members of Venezuelan community organizations held a news conference denouncing a Trump administration move to end Temporary Protected Status for Venezuelan migrants in Doral, Fla., in February.
The former national security adviser came under fire for inadvertently inviting a journalist to a Signal chat in which he and other top officials discussed war plans.
Michael Waltz was confirmed to serve as the top United States diplomat to the United Nations on a 47-to-43 vote. All but two Democrats opposed Mr. Waltz’s nomination.
Law enforcement officers searching last month for Travis Decker near Leavenworth, Wash. Remains believed to be his have been found, they said Thursday.
Claudine Gay has rarely spoken out since she was forced to resign, but she recently said that Harvard should not cave to Trump administration demands, including a $500 million payment.
Tensions have been rising in the Chicago area for the last two weeks, since ICE agents have been conducting a higher number of immigration arrests in the region than usual.
Tensions have been rising in the Chicago area for the last two weeks, since ICE agents have been conducting a higher number of immigration arrests in the region than usual.
Lawmakers have said that President Trump has not provided sufficient evidence about the threat posed by the vessels or the legal basis to use force against them.
Tensions have been rising in the Chicago area for the last two weeks, since ICE agents have been conducting a higher number of immigration arrests in the region than usual.
The push to remove Erik S. Siebert, a highly regarded career prosecutor, came as a shock in an office that handles some of the nation’s most sensitive national security investigations.
Trump officials told Erik S. Siebert that he was likely to be fired. He had hit roadblocks investigating New York’s attorney general, Letitia James, and the former F.B.I. director James B. Comey.
The push to remove Erik S. Siebert, a highly regarded career prosecutor, came as a shock in an office that handles some of the nation’s most sensitive national security investigations.
The administration asked the justices to lift a lower court block on a policy requiring passports to reflect only the holder’s sex on an original birth certificate.
The administration’s latest attack on the nation’s oldest university comes as negotiations stall for a settlement to restore billions in frozen federal research funds.
The “Jimmy Kimmel Live” studio in Los Angeles this week. It is not clear whether or how Mr. Kimmel’s suspension might lead to a First Amendment case against the government.
After House Republicans pushed through a measure to avert a shutdown, Democrats blocked it in the Senate, demanding more than $1 trillion for health programs.
Senator John Thune, the majority leader, said he would call up the Republican proposal for another vote when senators return to Washington on Sept. 29, after a week spent working in their home districts.
Devon Archer, Trevor Milton and Carlos Watson were convicted in fraud schemes totaling hundreds of millions of dollars. Now, they will not be required by the government to pay back victims.
He had written hits for Carrie Underwood, Kenny Chesney and other country stars. Two other people on the plane were also killed when it crashed into a field in Franklin, N.C., officials said.
Lawmakers have said that President Trump has not provided sufficient evidence about the threat posed by the vessels or the legal basis to use force against them.
Gov. Gavin Newsom of California has cast the ballot measure as a way for Democrats to push back on Texas’ recent remapping and counter President Trump’s efforts to squeeze more Republican districts out of red states.
Erika Kirk said her husband aspired to “revive the American family.” Conservative activists wonder if Charlie Kirk’s legacy will lend new urgency to White House policy discussions.
Erika Kirk and her husband, Charlie, with one of their children in a photo that Mrs. Kirk posted on Instagram. Mr. Kirk embraced traditional gender roles with a directness that even some movement leaders described as a “shock to the system.”
In 2023, Chance Comanche was playing some of the best basketball of his life. His teammates thought he was on his way to the N.B.A. Instead, he was accused of murder.
The president’s suggestion that broadcasters should lose their licenses because of criticism of him indicated that his assault on critics’ language is driven in part by personal animus.
President Trump and Melania Trump boarding Air Force One and departing London on Thursday. “I would think maybe their license should be taken away,” the president said of broadcast networks.
The university had been roiled after a student filmed herself arguing with the instructor of a children’s literature course that recognized more than two genders.
The Federal Communications Commission gives out licenses to TV stations to broadcast over radio frequencies and approves major telecom and media deals.
Long rumored to be on the floor of the lake but never seen, the schooner had eluded divers and taunted storytellers for generations. It was miles off the Door Peninsula in Wisconsin.
Britain Pool, 32, died after falling from a steep mountain trail above Juneau, the authorities said. He and a companion, who survived the fall, were cruise ship passengers.
In the wake of Charlie Kirk’s assassination, the president’s pledges to guarantee free speech have been replaced by efforts to suppress — and even criminalize — what their critics have to say.
President Trump speaking to members of the media this week. In his inauguration speech, he vowed to “immediately stop all government censorship and bring back free speech to America.”
The president made the same declaration in 2020, but nothing came of it. His new declaration came amid broader threats against liberals after the Charlie Kirk killing.
Sen. Mark Warner, Democrat of Virginia, said cuts and firings inside the nation’s intelligence agencies were “dismantling trust in institutions that took generations to build.”
Senator Mark Warner, Democrat of Virginia, during a television interview at the Capitol earlier this year. Mr. Warner on Thursday accused the Trump administration of politicizing the nation’s intelligence agencies.
Three police officers were killed and two others were injured in York County after encountering a man who was suspected of stalking a former girlfriend.
In her book, coming out next week, she revisited her breakneck campaign, explaining her choices and outlining missteps — of hers and others. She hinted at a return to politics.
A group of House and Senate Democrats said they would introduce a measure that would bolster legal protections for people targeted by the government for speaking freely.
Senator Christopher S. Murphy, Democrat of Connecticut, said on Thursday that Democrats would introduce a bill outlining legal protections for people targeted for political speech.
Judge Timothy J. Kelly, a Trump appointee, wrote that the government had given dubious justifications for removing the children that “crumbled like a house of cards.”
A relative of an unaccompanied minor deported from the United States reviewed the list of those deported outside La Aurora International Airport in Guatemala City last month.
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