To avoid retribution, big firms agreed to provide free legal services for uncontroversial causes. To the White House, that could mean negotiating trade deals — or even defending the president and his allies.
President Trump has generally hinted that he sees the promises of nearly $1 billion in pro bono legal services that he has extracted from elite law firms as a legal war chest to be used as he wishes.
China seized mines and built factories. Japan took note and invested in Australia. But the United States did little despite concerns about control of supplies.
Song Zuokai, 81, peering at a rare earth mine in Baisha, in China’s Guangdong Province in 2010. China nationalized and consolidated the mines in the south into a single state-run company,
The move, which affects The Associated Press, Bloomberg News and Reuters, is another effort by the Trump administration to exert more control over the press corps that covers it.
The Trump administration is considering taking control of the seating in the White House press briefing room from the independent White House Correspondents’ Association. Ashley Wu, a graphics reporter for The New York Times, explains why this matters and notes how questions at the briefings have already started to change.
The highly addictive drug, manufactured almost exclusively by Mexican cartels, is more dangerous than ever. Its use has been surging across the country. Unlike fentanyl, there are no medicines that can swiftly reverse a meth overdose and none approved to treat meth addiction.
During a meeting with President Trump at the White House on Monday, President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador said he would not return a Maryland man who had been deported.
The United Nations warned that the humanitarian situation in Gaza was likely at its worst since the conflict began and that the population was again on the brink of famine.
The stakes are high as Giorgia Meloni, a conservative who shares some of Mr. Trump’s nationalist ideology, meets with him on Thursday as his trade war has frayed nerves worldwide.
The devastating stimulant has been hitting Portland, Maine hard, even competing with fentanyl as the street drug of choice. Although a fentanyl overdose can be reversed with Narcan, no medicine can reverse a meth overdose. Nor has any been approved to treat meth addiction.Unlike fentanyl, which sedates users, meth can make people anxious and violent. Its effects can overwhelm not just users but community residents and emergency responders.Here are voices from one troubled neighborhood.
The new U.C.L.A. survey found that many adults in Los Angeles County had lost jobs or incomes to the fires, or knew someone who had been personally affected by the disaster.
Andrei Kuznechyk, a journalist with the Belarus service of Radio Free Europe, this month. He was released in February after three years in a Belarus prison.
A Times investigation shows Therme, a European firm, exaggerated its track record in securing a deal with Ontario, and government auditors found that the process had been unfair and opaque.
Children playing soccer during a power outage in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, in 2023. Mexico relies heavily on natural gas imported from the United States to produce electricity.
“I don’t usually root for Harvard, because they’re Harvard. They’ve got everything. It’s like rooting for Jeff Bezos to win the lottery,” Ronny Chieng said on “The Daily Show.”
Nydia Velázquez and six other Democrats framed the endorsements of Adrienne Adams, Brad Lander and Zohran Mamdani as a way of electing a “steady hand” to lead New York City.
There are thousands of species of fungus in the city, with names like American dyeball, dingy twiglet and devil’s dipstick. Some even glow in the dark.
An arcane Senate tradition effectively gives senators veto power over nominees for U.S. attorney in their home states, providing Democrats a potential opening to stop President Trump’s picks.
Senator Chuck Schumer will be the first to challenge President Trump on his nominees, by refusing to return so-called blue slips consenting to consider them.
Britain’s Supreme Court ruled that the word “woman” refers to biological sex under the country’s anti-discrimination law, in a blow to trans rights activists.
The judge also said she planned to force Trump officials to reveal what they have done behind the scenes to seek the return of the man, Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia.
Jennifer Vasquez Sura, the wife of the man mistakenly deported to El Salvador, Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, speaking outside the courthouse in Greenbelt, Md., on Tuesday.
The Trump administration will freeze over $2 billion in federal funds because Harvard refused to comply with a list of demands. Harvard leaders believed saying no was worth the risk.
Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene at the Capitol last month. Several people were escorted out during a town hall in Acworth, Ga., with Ms. Greene on Tuesday. “If you want to shout and chant, we will have you removed,” she said at the event.
David Hogg, a young liberal activist and now a vice chair of the Democratic National Committee, is leading an effort to unseat the party’s older lawmakers in primaries.
David Hogg, who survived the 2018 school shooting in Parkland, Fla., is also the president of Leaders We Deserve, which is planning a $20 million campaign to elect younger Democrats in solidly blue districts.
The Iowa Republican was pressed on President Trump’s policies, including the case of a Salvadoran immigrant who his administration has admitted it mistakenly sent to a prison in El Salvador.
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