Supreme Court to Weigh Trump’s Bid to Fire Lisa Cook

The Supreme Court is hearing oral arguments on Wednesday in the case of Lisa Cook, the Federal Reserve governor whom President Trump is trying to fire. Our reporter Colby Smith describes the importance of Cook’s case for the independence of the central bank.

C Colby Smith, Sutton Raphael, Gabriel Blanco, James Surdam, June Kim and Nikolay Nikolov

California Republicans Ask Supreme Court to Block New Congressional Map

Republicans asked the justices to step in after a federal court rejected their claims that the state’s new congressional map violated the Constitution.Gov. Gavin Newsom of California speaking in Sacramento in November after voters approved an amendment assenting to the new map.

A Abbie VanSickle and Laurel Rosenhall

What’s a Human Life Worth? The E.P.A. Says Zero Dollars.

The Environmental Protection Agency has stopped estimating the dollar value of lives saved in the cost-benefit analyses for new pollution rules.Los Angeles smog in 1979. For decades, government agencies have used a theoretical value of human life when calculating the costs and benefits of new regula

M Maxine Joselow

Inside Trump’s Campaign to Tame Higher Education

Donald J. Trump has unleashed the power of the presidency against American colleges, with mixed results.The president managed to chisel away at the independence of the nation’s top universities by pairing investigations with pre-emptive strikes on federal funding for schools.

M Michael C. Bender, Alan Blinder and Michael S. Schmidt

Halligan Leaves as U.S. Attorney After Mounting Pressure From Judges

For weeks, judges have pressed Ms. Halligan to explain why she continues to identify herself in court filings as the U.S. attorney, despite a ruling in November that she was unlawfully appointed to the job.Judges took the extraordinary step of publicly appealing for applicants to replace Lindsey Hal

D Devlin Barrett and Glenn Thrush

Cubans in Florida Are Being Deported in Record Numbers

Cubans had long benefited from legal privileges unavailable to immigrants from other countries. President Trump has changed that.Some Floridians worry that these deportations could stain the state’s proud Cuban identity.

P Patricia Mazzei

ChongLy Scott Thao, Hmong Immigrant and U.S. Citizen, Arrested by ICE

A Hmong immigrant, who is a U.S. citizen, was released after being questioned for an hour. Federal officials said they had been seeking sex offenders.ChongLy Scott Thao, a Hmong immigrant and naturalized U.S. citizen, looked out the window of his home as several vehicles with federal agents idled in

M Maia Coleman

Taiwan’s $40 Billion Military Spending Plan Stalled by Political Impasse

Taiwan’s domestic gridlock is revealing a deep-seated fracture over how the island should defend itself and how much it can depend on the United States.President Lai Ching-te of Taiwan inspecting an F-16 fighter jet cockpit during his visit to an air base in Taitung, Taiwan, in 2025. Mr. Lai’s propo

C Chris Buckley and Amy Chang Chien

House Foreign Affairs Members Call for Machado to Govern Venezuela

The Venezuelan opposition leader stressed the need for free elections in her latest bipartisan meeting with lawmakers.María Corina Machado, the Venezuelan opposition leader, on Capitol Hill on Tuesday, meeting with members of the House Foreign Affairs Committee.

M Megan Mineiro

Uber Faces Growing Pressure Over Sexual Assault Record

From the ballot box in California to the halls of Congress and Wall Street, several new initiatives would require more oversight of how the company protects its passengers.A billboard in Century City, Los Angeles.

E Emily Steel

You Can’t Denaturalize Me

Is purging America of immigrants so crucial that in the process you must unmake America itself?

C Carlos Lozada

Trump 2.0

We look at the first year of the president’s second term.

S Sam Sifton