A federal judge required the president to seek lawmakers’ input and pursue traditional approvals before proceeding with the $400 million replacement for the East Wing.A federal judge ordered on Tuesday that construction be halted of the White House ballroom.
Election experts and Democratic officials called the order legally invalid, and Arizona and Oregon pledged to immediately challenge it in court.
Officials at the department and the White House are in the middle of a messy and complicated debate over how to respond to President Trump’s lawsuit demanding $10 billion from the I.R.S.President Trump filed a lawsuit demanding at least $10 billion from the I.R.S.
For the second time in recent days, President Trump declared that one of the key objectives of the war had been accomplished.President Trump has narrowed his Iran war objectives in recent days.
President Trump and his aides have made contradictory statements on whether the United States and Israel have transformed the Iranian government through violence.Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said during his news conference on Tuesday that “this new regime, because regime change has occurred, shoul
Thousands of civilian sailors have been stranded for more than a month in waters surrounded by a conflict zone because of the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran.Almost 20,000 seafarers are stranded in the Persian Gulf, according to the International Maritime Organization, as Iran has effectively blocked the e
An emerging Republican plan to skirt a Democratic filibuster and fund an entire department without congressional appropriations would be the latest example of surrendering power to the White House.Border Patrol agents in Minneapolis in early January. Using the complex budget process known as reconci
At least 120,000 law enforcement officers who work for the agency have continued to collect paychecks throughout the funding lapse. But tens of thousands of workers have gone without pay.A T.S.A. agent checks passengers at the security checkpoint at Pittsburgh International Airport on Monday.
In the tiny town of Castlewood, S.D., where everyone knows the Noems, the prevailing sense was that people can’t help but feel bad for Bryon Noem after a tabloid photo leak.Castlewood is not far from the Noem family farm in South Dakota.
Gov. Gavin Newsom’s aides said that their online insults were meant to ridicule figures on the right. But some critics say they are homophobic.Gov. Gavin Newsom of California, a potential 2028 presidential candidate, is attracting criticism for social media posts taunting his opponents by suggesting
Conservatives had expected a victory in the case after the I.R.S. agreed to a settlement that allowed churches to voice support for candidates.A federal judge in Texas on Tuesday dismissed a lawsuit seeking to overturn the 70-year-old ban on political activity by churches.
A shortage of affordable housing in the coastal city in South Africa has forced many people to live far outside the city center, while tourists occupy prime real estate.
The state and more than 20 others restrict therapists from trying to change the gender identity or sexual orientation of clients under 18.Kaley Chiles, a licensed professional counselor, at her office in Colorado Springs in September. Mrs. Chiles filed suit in 2022 over Colorado’s ban on conversion
After lawmakers left Washington for a two-week spring break with the Department of Homeland Security shut down, the Hollywood tabloid began publishing photographs of them living it up around the country.
Decades-old prison buildings were designed to be secure from the ground but not the air. Experts say that makes a lucrative smuggling trade hard to tackle.
The Emancipation Proclamation and the 19th Amendment have been added to the Archives’s rotunda, the first permanent changes there in nearly 75 years.Visitors looked at the original copy of the 19th Amendment this week. The document was recently added to the permanent display in the rotunda at the Na
We owe it to American service members and their families to be truthful about the risks involved and why we are at war.
President Trump wants to take away a fundamental American promise.
The “Late Show” host joked that “Trump attacked Iran” after ABC scrapped the reality show’s latest season.
Six people, including a camp counselor, were thrown into the water on July 28 when their sailboat was struck by a barge that was being pushed by a tugboat, the authorities said.An aerial view of Biscayne Bay surrounding Hibiscus Island in Miami Beach, where a barge struck a sailboat in July, killing
Despite once being valued at $4 billion, the company that made sneakers from Merino wool struggled to capture a wide customer base and turn a profit.An Allbirds store in Manhattan in 2018. The brand has closed all of its U.S. stores.
A Russian-born director, he created a film about New Wave models and killer aliens in 1980s New York, helping to reshape independent filmmaking in America.
