The president issued a raft of clemency grants this week, including pardoning a woman he had given relief to once before and a man whose daughter had donated millions to a Trump super PAC.The pardons from President Trump continue a trend in which he has used the unfettered presidential clemency powe
Jerome H. Powell, the chair of the Federal Reserve, this week tapped a groundswell of support that has been years in the making.The overwhelming defense of Jerome H. Powell, the Federal Reserve chair, is the product of something President Trump may have underestimated: Mr. Powell’s popularity.
From Iraq to ICE, Jonathan Ross’s career reflects a 20-year government effort to reshape immigration enforcement with a military mind-set.
Newly available videos and existing footage synchronized and assessed by The Times provide a frame-by-frame look at how an ICE officer ended up shooting and killing a motorist in Minneapolis.
Officials denounced the Trump immigration crackdown in Minneapolis at an unofficial congressional hearing, while the president said he no longer saw a need to send in military forces.Three congressional representatives from Minnesota tried to inspect immigration facilities at a federal building in M
Temperatures are expected to plunge to around zero degrees this weekend. Minnesotans say they will be out in the street, using the weather to their advantage.Federal agents contend with icy sidewalks as they try to contain protests in a Minneapolis January.
The Venezuelan opposition leader’s efforts to share her award with the U.S. president have shaken some Norwegians’ faith in their signature soft-power tool.The Venezuelan opposition politician María Corina Machado outside the U.S. Capitol in Washington on Thursday.
The Trump Administration’s exhaustive examination of materials on the convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein is drawing resources from other cases.Prosecutors in the case of Nicolás Maduro, the ousted Venezuelan president, have been asked to focus on reviewing the vast amount of files connected to
The Soviet Union was Cuba’s benefactor for decades. Venezuela took up the slack, and Mexico has supplied “humanitarian aid.” But the world is changing rapidly, our columnist says.A street in Havana. Cuba is reported to have less than two months of imported oil on hand.
“There is massive disappointment and disillusionment,” one Tehran resident said. A human rights group acknowledged that demonstrations had been subdued since Sunday, with thousands of people detained.A burned bus at Sadeghieh Square in Tehran on Thursday, after the protests were largely subdued.
Understanding the factors that can topple regimes.Protesters in Tehran, Iran, last week.
Michael Saylor’s financial alchemy thrust an ordinary software company, Strategy, into the center of the crypto frenzy. It all worked spectacularly, until now.
After months of upheaval at the state’s flagship university, a new Democratic governor appeared ready to shake up the school’s leadership.Virginia’s governor-elect, Abigail Spanberger, will be sworn in on Saturday.
Seeking to calm tensions, Republicans and Democrats affirmed that they supported Denmark’s control of Greenland as President Trump vowed to buy it or take it over.Senator Chris Coons, Democrat of Delaware, led a delegation of American lawmakers on a visit to Denmark on Friday.
China will in turn cut its own tariffs on Canadian canola products, Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada said in Beijing on Friday.Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada meeting on Friday with Xi Jinping, China’s leader, at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing.
The definition is tricky, but the effects of poor metabolic health are clear — and can wreak havoc on the body.
Russia has targeted Ukraine’s energy infrastructure in past winters, but this year intensified its attacks as temperatures in Ukraine plunged well below freezing.A residential area during a power blackout this month in Kyiv.
The sale of the apartments, whose residents had complained of neglect by management, to a troubled firm is an early test of the new mayor’s ability to deliver for tenants.Mayor Zohran Mamdani, from a building owned by the Pinnacle Group, signed a series of executive orders to protect tenants on his
The New York City comptroller, Mark Levine, said that poor budgeting practices by the previous mayor, Eric Adams, had left the city with looming deficits.Mark Levine, who took office as New York City comptroller in January, warned that absent significant financial growth, city programs would need to
Several of the past year’s films center on confused, bumbling protagonists — surrounded by women who are anything but.
Documenting ICE is dangerous. This man wants you to do it anyway.
In the MAGA imagination, white women are supposed to be helpmeets, not harpies.
The case could affect thousands of claims that the widely used weedkiller causes cancer.Roundup, used widely on cropland, has faced controversy over its effects on human health.
Federal officials working on the new dietary guidelines had considered limiting men to one drink daily. The final advice was only that everyone should drink less.“There are a lot of reasons people drink alcohol,” said one epidemiologist who led an advisory panel on alcohol. “What we’re saying is hea
