The president is pressing Republicans in the Senate to unite quickly behind sprawling legislation that carries his domestic agenda, but the measure’s opponents have a powerful new ally: Elon Musk.
Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky is part of a group of Republican senators agitating for deeper spending cuts in a bill carrying President Trump’s domestic agenda, noting that it is projected to balloon federal deficits.
In a divisive and far-reaching election pushed by the governing Morena party, Mexicans voted for thousands of judges at every level on Sunday, remaking the courts.
The chamber of the Supreme Court in Mexico City. After the court blocked some of the plans of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, he pushed to change the system to one in which voters elect judges at every level.
In response to a federal lawsuit, the Agriculture Department said it would refrain, for now, from demanding that states turn over the personal information of people receiving assistance.
With high casualty figures and the slow pace of Russia’s territorial gains, President Vladimir V. Putin could face years more of a grinding war of attrition in Ukraine.
Ukrainian volunteers identifying the remains of Russian soldiers in eastern Ukraine in February. Nearly one million Russian troops have been killed or wounded in the country’s war against Ukraine, according to a new study.
The bodies of the girls, ages 5, 8 and 9, were found at a campground in Chelan County on Monday. Their father is being sought on murder and kidnapping charges.
Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa and parts of Nebraska and Michigan were under air quality alerts on Tuesday, with advisories for more vulnerable groups to stay indoors or limit outdoor activity.
A customs agent at Detroit Metropolitan Airport found the baggies of fungus last summer. The Justice Department has accused Yunqing Jian and Zunyong Liu, both Chinese students, of trying to smuggle the fungus into the United States.
After months of political turmoil in South Korea, Lee Jae-myung has won the presidential election by a wide margin. Mr. Lee’s campaign has ridden a wave of anger against former President Yoon Suk Yeol after he tried to impose martial law in December.
An outline by the Trump administration would allow Iran to continue enriching uranium at low levels while a broader arrangement is worked out that would block the country’s path to a nuclear weapon.
The proposal is the first concrete indication since President Trump took office that the United States and Iran might be able to find a path to compromise.
Thousands of scientists, academics, physicians and researchers have responded to the administration’s executive order about “restoring a gold standard for science.”
Keeling flasks used to measure carbon dioxide in the atmosphere in a research laboratory at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in California in April.
Danilo Petranovich, director of the Abigail Adams Institute, says the institute is nonpartisan and that its donors have exercised “zero interference with any substantive programming.”
President Trump’s effort to punish Harvard over antisemitism is complicated by his extensive history of amplifying white supremacist figures and symbols.
Since reclaiming the White House, President Trump has brought into his orbit and his administration people with records of advancing antisemitic tropes.
“That first one on Feb. 15 was me and like 50 people,” said Joan Donovan, a sociology professor at Boston University who started the #TeslaTakedown hashtag. “It’s just grown.”
The mayor, Ras Baraka, is suing Alina Habba, the interim U.S. attorney for New Jersey, who dropped charges against him soon after his arrest near an immigration jail.
Sean Combs has been accused of using a brown bag filled with cash to buy surveillance video of him beating Casandra Ventura in a hotel hallway in 2016.
Multiple myeloma is considered incurable, but a third of patients in a Johnson & Johnson clinical trial have lived without detectable cancer for years after facing certain death.
An X-ray of the skull of a patient with multiple myeloma, showing its telltale bone lesions, in dark patches. “This is the first time we are really talking seriously about cure in one of the worst malignancies imaginable,” said one doctor.
At St. Paul Community Baptist Church in East New York, the congregation is divided between those who have won the affordable housing lottery and those debating whether to leave New York altogether.
The Kerch Strait Bridge, connecting the Russian mainland and Crimean peninsula, in 2023. Ukraine first attacked it the previous October, with a truck bomb.
President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia, seen here in an image released by Russian state media in May, has not yet publicly commented on Ukraine’s weekend operation.
“You’re saying that the Joe Biden who doesn’t even know where he is, is actually an incredibly advanced cloned robot? How much ketamine are you on?” Jon Stewart asked.
Jon Stewart joked that President Trump must be using the drug ketamine to believe a conspiracy theory about former President Biden being replaced by a clone or robot.
Israeli soldiers opened fire on Tuesday morning near crowds of Palestinians walking toward a new food distribution site in southern Gaza, the Israeli military said.
President Emmanuel Macron of France and Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni of Italy have regularly sniped, but they are meeting in Rome in pursuit of common goals.
Administration officials have either violated orders or used an array of obfuscations and delays to prevent federal judges from deciding whether violations took place.
The entrance to the Salvadoran prison where Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia is being held. The tensions between the court and the Trump administration over the case could soon come to a head.
Mathias Unberath, a computer scientist at Johns Hopkins University, has many students from abroad. “My whole team, including those who were eager to apply for more permanent positions in the U.S., have no more interest,” he said.
Michael Boren, nominated by President Trump, is accused of threatening trail workers with a helicopter, building an airstrip without a permit and putting a cabin on federal property.
Former Gov. Andrew Cuomo said he resigned because he didn’t want to be a distraction, but he asserted that the state had not gained much ground since he left.
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