The end of Jerome Powell’s term as Fed chair will give President Trump his biggest opportunity yet to reshape the central bank.Naming a new Federal Reserve chair will be President Trump’s biggest opportunity yet to reshape the central bank.
Some Republicans in the Indiana Senate have resisted a new congressional map despite lobbying from the White House and threats of political consequences.The fight over redistricting has intensified in the Indiana legislature in recent weeks.
The arm of the party that focuses on statehouses is targeting hundreds of seats and more than 40 chambers, according to a strategy memo, reflecting Democrats’ new optimism.The Arizona State Capitol in Phoenix. The state is one of several with Republican-controlled legislatures that Democrats are try
Four of the additions are for districts where President Trump won handily, but Democrats are feeling emboldened by election outcomes this fall.The seat of Representative Darrell Issa, a Republican whose California district Democrats redrew to lean Democratic, is among those added to the Democratic C
Officials initially weighed sending survivors of U.S. attacks on boats suspected of drug smuggling to a notorious prison in El Salvador, to keep them away from American courts.Recent news reports on strike orders given by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth have raised questions of potential war crimes.
The United States’ history in the region includes several about-faces, contradictions and missteps.U.S. troops in Veracruz, Mexico, in April 1914, as part of a blockade of the city’s port.
María Corina Machado, the Venezuelan opposition leader, said she was on her way to Norway after living in hiding in her country, where officials have threatened her with arrest.Ana Corina Sosa, the daughter of the Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado, speaking at the Nobel Peace Prize c
A draft memo from the E.P.A. assumes a safe threshold exists for formaldehyde, upending earlier findings that there is no safe level of exposure to the carcinogen.Between one to five billion pounds of formaldehyde is produced in the United States each year for a wide range of industries and products
In the 1970s, she photographed Andy Warhol and Debbie Harry on wild nights at Studio 54. Now she’s chronicling a new generation.
The ruling could lead to the most expansive look yet at the federal investigation of the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.The ruling followed a similar decision in the case of Ghislaine Maxwell, who conspired with Jeffrey Epstein in his sex-trafficking scheme and is serving a 20-year prison se
The tug of war for Warner Bros. Discovery echoes an earlier clash of media titans.The contest between Paramount and Netflix for Warner Bros. Discovery is a mirror image of a struggle decades ago for control of Paramount.
President Trump’s unusual decision to involve himself in the government’s review of the deal puts his antitrust chief in an awkward position.Gail Slater is in charge of the Department of Justice’s antitrust division, which is expected to handle the government’s review of a Warner Bros. deal.
He replaces John Dickerson and Maurice DuBois in one of the most high-profile decisions of Bari Weiss’s early tenure as the network’s editor in chief.Tony Dokoupil is a veteran TV journalist who joined CBS as a correspondent in 2016.
The school has been brought to heel by conservative critics of higher education. It is part of a broader transformation at the state’s universities.A Republican lawyer, not an academic, now runs the University of Texas at Austin. Other changes are also underway.
Europeans find themselves stranded between hostile powers, Russia and the United States, with key decisions looming over the future of Ukraine.A convoy of U.S. military vehicles passed through Frankenberg, Germany, en route to Poland in 2024 for NATO exercises.
In the Ozarks, the growing college town of Fayetteville, Ark., is using clean energy to power city facilities and embracing nature-based solutions to climate threats.
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Writing under a pseudonym, Madeleine Wickham cultivated an international following for her series centered on a young woman addicted to shopping.The British author Madeleine Wickham in 2024. Under the pen name Sophie Kinsella, she wrote nine “Shopaholic” novels, which sold tens of millions of copies
Sophie Kinsella, the author of “Confessions of a Shopaholic,” packs love, laughter and a harrowing real-life health ordeal into a 133-page novella.At an event in London in June, Sophie Kinsella said, “I’m so overwhelmed, yet again, by my lovely readers and by the lovely response that I get to what I
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A Colorado museum cited state law while rejecting an artwork with unflattering depictions of politicians. Free speech groups called the decision censorship.
Lip-Bu Tan, who was appointed chief executive of Intel in March, is also a longtime venture capitalist. His dual roles have caused some consternation.Lip-Bu Tan, the chief executive of Intel, has led a venture capital firm since 1987.
An us-versus-them mentality has emerged between Meta’s top artificial intelligence team and longtime lieutenants to Mark Zuckerberg.
