The agency had been one of Wall Street’s most feared regulators, with the power to issue rules on mortgages, credit cards, student loans and other areas affecting Americans’ financial lives.
In an interview with The New York Post, President Trump said that congestion pricing hurt New York City but indicated that he was still talking with Gov. Kathy Hochul.
Rutherford Chang unveiled his installation “We Buy White Albums” at the Recess gallery in Manhattan in 2013. “The more I got, the more I could see how different these once identical objects had become,” he said of his more than 3,400 copies of the Beatles’ “White Album.”
The order to shutter the agency’s headquarters follows another order issued Saturday by Mr. Vought, who also leads the Office of Management and Budget, telling agency employees to halt nearly all their work.
Russell Vought, the newly installed leader of the Office of Management and Budget, was appointed late Friday as the acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
Mr. Thondup’s influence in Tibet has been seen as second only to his younger brother, Tenzin Gyatso, the exiled head of Tibetan Buddhism, whom he spent decades trying to help return to their homeland.
The actress Mikey Madison and the director Sean Baker of “Anora.” More than a month after the movie lost at the Golden Globes, it took top honors at awards shows.
Rebels known as Naxalites have waged an insurgency that has ebbed and flowed over decades, but government operations have given them less space to maneuver.
With a compliant Congress and mostly quiet streets, the president’s opponents are turning to the judicial branch with a flurry of legal actions. But can the courts keep up?
President Trump’s first three weeks in office have yielded scores of executive orders to upend American foreign aid, domestic spending and social policy,
Released Israeli hostages from left: Naama Levy, Karina Ariev, Agam Berger, Liri Albag, and Daniella Gilboa during a musical performance in their honor in a hospital in central Israel this month.
Vivek Ramaswamy, who has never held public office in Ohio, is expected to announce his candidacy for governor there late this month, according to a spokesman.
The president’s expected attendance at Sunday’s Super Bowl highlights how his connection to the league has veered from aspirational to openly antagonistic.
President Trump, shaking hands with Herschel Walker in 1984, pushed for a lawsuit against the N.F.L. when he owned the New Jersey Generals of the fledgling U.S.F.L.
The European Court of Human Rights took Italy to task for not protecting citizens in an area where illegal dumping and burning of toxic waste has long been linked to cancers. Residents say it’s about time.
Illegally dumped waste scattered on the side of a road in Marcianise, part of an area known as “the land of fires,” north of Naples, Italy, last month.
Gov. Kathy Hochul has proposed to earmark $400 million to revitalize the capital of New York, where poverty rates are high and the downtown is moribund.
Lori Laird was defending a couple whose son shot 23 people at his school, while engaged in a desperate struggle with her own son’s mental illness. When are parents to blame?
After sweeping the Grammys on Sunday, Lamar’s ubiquitous Drake diss could be the centerpiece of the halftime show. That, it bears mentioning, is pretty strange.
The American president’s threat of tariffs is not in the interest of Europe’s nationalist parties, who are just as eager to put their own countries first.
Thais were, after Israelis, the nationality most affected by Hamas’s Oct. 7, 2023, attack, with nearly 40 farm workers killed and almost as many captured.
An executive order from President Trump on Friday put the weight of U.S. influence behind a hotly disputed claim in South Africa that Afrikaners were the “victims of unjust racial discrimination.”
Irrigation equipment on a farm near Krugersdorp in Gauteng Province, South Africa on Saturday. On Friday, President Trump ordered all aid to South Africa to be halted.
In an email to staff of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the agency’s acting director ordered workers to cease “all supervision and examination activity.”
As the self-exiled leader of the South-West Africa People’s Organization, he directed a guerrilla army in a 24-year war for independence from South African rule.
President Sam Nujoma of Namibia in 2003. Mr. Nujoma pursued twin tracks of diplomacy and insurgency in a decades-long quest for the liberation of his country.
A judge ruled Saturday that the activities of Elon Musk’s government cost-cutting effort risk “the disclosure of sensitive and confidential information” and render them “more vulnerable than before to hacking.”
Three ducks died of the disease at the Queens Zoo, while three more ducks and nine wild birds that died at the Bronx Zoo were being tested for the virus, according to the parks’ operator.
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