Todd Blanche’s confirmation as attorney general has been held up over concerns about a planned $1.8 billion fund for Trump allies and the president’s immunity from tax scrutiny.Todd Blanche speaking at the Capitol last month.
Analysts and lawmakers are trying to divine whether Mr. Trump’s latest announcement means negotiations with Iran will truly get underway Monday or if the president is just working through unappealing options.President Donald Trump aboard Air Force One on Sunday. He said that talks with Iran would be
The president misleadingly blamed the Biden administration’s weapons transfers to Ukraine for current concerns over munitions stockpiles, among other claims about the Iran war.President Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth attending a dignified transfer last month for Army soldiers killed while
Moroccan migrants described their despair at their economic future, explaining what propelled them across the border with Spain.Migrants returning back to Morocco. Last week, between 50,000 and 60,000 people entered Ceuta, a small Spanish exclave in North Africa that shares a border with Morocco.
An unsecured police dashboard was a rare window into how the authorities track foreigners by collecting and aggregating vast amounts of private data.
To help prevent heat-related deaths, the French government has asked postal workers to check in on older people.Harmony Simon, a postal worker, visiting Martine Combe in Aix-les-Bains in July.
U.S. and Japanese officials confirmed that the Treasury Department had moved last week to prop up the currency, which had been trading near four-decade lows.President Trump confirmed that the Treasury Department had intervened to help stabilize the Japanese yen last week.
Paul Weiss was a progressive stalwart for decades and led the legal resistance against President Trump in his first term. Then it surrendered without a fight. This is the inside story of its transformation.
The law firm Paul Weiss led the legal resistance against President Trump. Then it led a sudden retreat across the legal industry. A Times investigation examined how it caved to White House pressure.Paul Weiss’s offices in Washington.
Senator Bernie Moreno, Republican of Ohio, broke his silence about allegations of domestic abuse his daughter has made against Representative Max Miller.Representative Max Miller of Ohio categorically denied the accusations against him in a roughly 20-minute livestream that he had previewed as a “sp
At a national meeting of the Democratic Socialists of America, nervous energy and a sprawling tableau of sometimes-competing interests were on display.Attendees listen as Katie Sims speaks during an afterparty at Maria’s Packaged Goods and Community Bar following the Democratic Socialists of America
Firefighters were hopeful that improving weather conditions in Washington state could help efforts to contain the blaze, which officials described as the largest natural disaster in the history of Spokane.All of Christine and Bryan Farris’s belongings burned in the Old Trail fire in Spokane, Wash.
An off-duty state trooper and private citizen returned fire and are credited with slowing the 24-year-old shooter.A still image taken from video showing the scene of a shooting at an In-N-Out Burger in Twin Falls, Idaho, on Saturday.
Gunfire brought panic to a shopping center in Twin Falls in what the authorities described as a chaotic scene. At least three people were killed.The In-N-Out Burger in Twin Falls, Idaho, on Saturday after the shooting. The location, the first in the city, had opened on July 24.
Ten U.S. states have legalized systems that can be plugged into standard wall outlets. The technology typically does not require permits or electricians.Alex Ottoboni with his balcony solar panel at his condo in the San Francisco Bay Area
You can now buy panels that plug into electrical outlets, but there are some important safety issues to consider when picking and installing a system.Plug-in solar panels are as large as windows, and in Germany they are often installed on balconies.
Jérôme Dupras is a member of one of Quebec’s most popular folk rock bands. Now, as the province’s chief scientist, he will help shape its environmental destiny.Jérôme Dupras, the bass player in Les Cowboys Fringants, one of Quebec’s most famous rock bands, was recently appointed as chief scientist o
Whatever is happening in Iran, it isn’t working.
The big trick of his “Odyssey” is smuggling the core of Judeo-Christian ethics into an ancient Greek epic.
More than a month after the earthquakes, the coastal region of La Guaira — once Venezuela’s main gateway — is completely unrecognizable.
