U.S. Politics

Scientists who focused on other infectious diseases, like an Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo, also were let go.

By Apoorva Mandavilli

The former president, who was diagnosed with an aggressive form of prostate cancer in May, also had a cancerous lesion removed from his forehead recently.

By Reid J. Epstein

Millions of Americans depend on Obamacare. Here's where they live.

By Elena Shao and Margot Sanger-Katz

The Trump administration said over 4,000 workers would be laid off. Farmers trying to plan next year’s crops don’t have all the tools they need. Some medical services have been curtailed in Native communities.

By Eileen Sullivan

The effects of a shutdown tend to unfold in stages. As agencies, departments and federal employees figure out how to weather the storm, Karoun Demirjian, a Times reporter, explains what to know.

By Karoun Demirjian, Karen Hanley, June Kim, Gabriel Blanco and Whitney Shefte

More than 30 monuments to Christopher Columbus were toppled or taken down in 2020. Now some are being restored, and finding new, usually less-public homes.

By Julia Jacobs

The president’s move to fire federal workers and his threats to make others go without pay were aimed at pressuring Democrats to cut a deal to reopen the government. The tactics have fueled Democrats’ resolve.

By Catie Edmondson

Elon Musk’s team started a behind-the-scenes push for White House control over federal spending that is now an undercurrent of the government shutdown.

By Emily Badger, Alicia Parlapiano and Lucas Burtin

Dozens of sitting judges shared with The Times their concerns about risks to the courts’ legitimacy as the Supreme Court releases opaque orders about Trump administration policies.

By Mattathias Schwartz and Zach Montague

Attorney General Letitia James of New York purchased the $137,000 home for a grandniece who needed tranquillity. Prosecutors say it is an impermissible investment property.

By Jonah E. Bromwich, Kate Kelly and Stefanos Chen

“Disease detectives,” high-ranking scientists, the entire Washington office and the staff of a weekly public health journal were among those who learned late Friday that they would lose their jobs.

By Sheryl Gay Stolberg

The judge expressed frequent frustrations with the Trump administration, saying it had presented a “totally inconsistent” case to keep the Maryland man in immigration detention.

By Minho Kim

President Trump’s dueling personas were on display this week, providing endless ammunition to his allies and his enemies alike.

By Erica L. Green

The charges are an indication that Boston’s mayor and Police Department are telegraphing to President Trump that they’re going to come down hard on civil unrest.

By Jenna Russell

Over seven terms, she garnered millions in funds in helping to revitalize the city. But the political scandals of her son, an ex-mayor, came to shadow her career.

By Adam Nossiter

When he was running for office, Donald Trump said he’d be too busy as president to go after his enemies. He’s making time for it now.

By Shane Goldmacher

Two weeks after a federal task force began patrolling the western Tennessee city, National Guard troops from the state have now arrived.

By Emily Cochrane

Those in the dark included Attorney General Pam Bondi, people familiar with the matter said. The government shutdown, a rush to indict and internal divisions contributed to the lack of coordination.

By Devlin Barrett and Glenn Thrush

Letitia James, the New York attorney general, was the latest of President Trump’s perceived enemies to be indicted on charges she made false claims on loan documents.

By Ashley Ahn

Three years after one of the nation’s deadliest school shootings, a new campus in the city will welcome 600 new elementary students.

By Edgar Sandoval

The Trump administration’s “perceptions are not reliable,” a federal judge wrote, explaining why she has temporarily blocked the deployment of troops to the Chicago area.

By Mattathias Schwartz, Christina Morales and Robert Chiarito

Most Democrats left President Trump conspicuously unmentioned as they cheered a potential end to the conflict, reflecting the tricky politics around the war and their party’s deep hostility to Mr. Trump.

By Reid J. Epstein, Robert Jimison and Megan Mineiro

An indictment brought by a novice prosecutor and Trump loyalists against one of the president’s foes centers on a 2020 house purchase.

By Charlie Savage

The president and top health officials acknowledged using the leverage of tariff threats to forge an agreement. Other companies are still in negotiations with the White House.

By Rebecca Robbins and Margot Sanger-Katz

“President Putin and I have had an open line of communication regarding the welfare of these children,” the first lady announced.

By Shawn McCreesh

Marco Rubio was among eight Republican lawmakers who last year called the Venezuelan opposition leader “courageous and selfless” in a Nobel Prize nomination letter. Trump wanted the honor.

By Edward Wong

His firm’s $41 million settlement in representing Charles H. Keating Jr. raised questions about government overreach.

By Trip Gabriel

Scientists at the Environmental Protection Agency found that they could develop methods to identify traces of the medication if necessary — a practice long sought by the anti-abortion movement.

By Caroline Kitchener and Coral Davenport

The head of the White House budget office said on Friday that reductions in force had started.

By Tony Romm

The head of a conservative watchdog organization acknowledged that its report did not find evidence that the network of liberal billionaire George Soros had broken the law.

By David A. Fahrenthold and Andrew Duehren

The president made the threat after Beijing imposed new global restrictions on the use of rare earth minerals, which are vital supplies for U.S. makers of chips and batteries.

By Ana Swanson

It is a well-worn strategy to temporarily create a government benefit and hope that its eventual expiration will create a standoff like the shutdown fight.

By Andrew Duehren

Fani T. Willis, a district attorney who brought election interference charges against Mr. Trump, and Lisa Cook, who serves on the Federal Reserve Board, have also been investigated.

By Santul Nerkar

New York state’s chief legal officer, now a criminal defendant, runs an 800-lawyer agency that is at the center of state government.

By Hurubie Meko

President Trump and his administration are amplifying the voices of pro-White House podcasters and streamers eager to ratify the president’s description of Oregon’s largest city as a “hellscape.”

By Anna Griffin and Aaron West

Thousands took part in a biannual hike to a South Dakota mountaintop, where a sculpture of the Lakota chief is in its 77th year of construction.

By Will Higginbotham and Vincent Alban

David Yaffe-Bellany, a technology reporter who has covered the cryptocurrency industry since 2022, has come to embrace learning on the fly.

By Sarah Bahr

The federal magistrate judge, Zia M. Faruqui, accused prosecutors of relying on a “facially invalid” indictment to charge a man with felony gun possession.

By Zach Montague

New York’s attorney general has joined colleagues nearly 40 times to confront the administration over myriad issues as the president pressures Democratic states.

By Benjamin Weiser

Ms. James, New York’s attorney general, has said that her decision to seek the office was “about that man in the White House.”

By Hurubie Meko

The animosity between New York’s attorney general and the U.S. president dates back years.

By Taylor Robinson

New York’s attorney general is accused of falsely listing a rental property in Virginia as her secondary residence to get favorable loan terms. She has called the charges “baseless.”

By Jonah E. Bromwich

President Trump has coveted the prize for years. The winner will be unveiled 48 hours after President Trump announced a breakthrough in the Israel-Hamas war.

By Erica L. Green

The attorney general of New York, Letitia James, was charged with one count of bank fraud and one count of making false statements to a financial institution related to her purchase of a property in Norfolk, Va.

The case being pursued cameMr. Trump forced out the top federal prosecutor there, who had told superiors that there was insufficient evidence to justify criminal charges

By Devlin Barrett, Glenn Thrush and Jonah E. Bromwich

The United States finalized a $20 billion lifeline for Argentina that will benefit Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s allies.

By Alan Rappeport and Maria Abi-Habib

County officials in Wyoming fired Terri Lesley, a library director, after she refused to purge children and young adult books that contained sexual content and L.G.B.T.Q. themes.

By Adeel Hassan

Trained in New York City real estate, the president’s son-in-law had a single goal: Get to a yes first, and hash out the details later. “It’s just different being deal guys — just a different sport,” he said.

By Katie Rogers and Tyler Pager

The election machine manufacturer was bought by a little-known company whose founder is a former Republican election official.

By Nick Corasaniti and Jim Rutenberg

A judge ordered Jones to pay as a result of a defamation lawsuit that he is now asking the Supreme Court to review.

By Ann E. Marimow

The threat of rising Obamacare premiums has been Democrats’ main focus in the public debate, but the president’s defiance of laws, norms and congressional constraints has helped hold them together in opposition.

By Carl Hulse

Gov. Kevin Stitt, the current chairman of the National Governors Association, broke with Texas, saying, “Oklahomans would lose their mind” if Illinois sent troops to their red state.

By J. David Goodman

Lawyers for Robert Roberson questioned evidence about whether he shook his 2-year-old daughter to death. The state’s highest criminal court ordered a new look.

By J. David Goodman

The president said he had made flag burning a crime punishable by a year in prison. But such a claim contradicts both Supreme Court precedent and the text of an executive order he signed.

By Charlie Savage

Energy costs have become a central issue in the governor’s race between Jack Ciattarelli, the Republican, and Representative Mikie Sherrill, the Democrat.

By Ivan Penn and Tracey Tully

Mordechi Rosenfeld, known as Modi, already has the synagogue crowd. Now he wants the “Goyim, gays and theys,” too.

By Lisa Lerer

Judge Karin Immergut blocked President Trump from sending National Guardsmen to defend against a “rebellion.” Now three judges will hear the government’s appeal.

By Mattathias Schwartz

In a wide-ranging interview, John C. Williams discussed the outlook for interest rates, his concerns about the labor market and the importance of the Fed’s independence. Here is a full transcript.

By Colby Smith

The basic political conflict in America has changed to something very different than the one putting health care to the fore.

By Nate Cohn

University leaders are wary of a new proposal from the Trump administration to impose far-reaching changes in higher education.

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

Republicans in the Senate blocked a measure that would terminate the president’s legally disputed campaign targeting alleged drug runners.

By Robert Jimison

The agents were identified in documents obtained by a Republican senator as having worked with Jack Smith, the special counsel who led the federal inquiries into Donald J. Trump.

By Glenn Thrush and Alan Feuer

The Pentagon has deployed 10,000 U.S. troops to the region, most of them to bases in Puerto Rico, a senior military official said.

By Edward Wong, Eric Schmitt and Julie Turkewitz

The roughly five-minute confrontation, initiated by Representative Mike Lawler of New York, was intended to draw attention to Democrats’ role in the government shutdown.

By Michael Gold

Mason Peck, an aerospace engineer at Cornell, was trying to test innovative designs in spacecraft when a stop-work order hit.

By Katrina Miller

Trump wants Republicans to draw more safe seats. In Utah, they might lose some instead.

By Kellen Browning

A lawyer for the former F.B.I. director said he would accuse the Justice Department of malicious and selective prosecution and contend that a U.S. attorney was illegally appointed.

By Charlie Savage

State leaders have prided themselves on finding bipartisan consensus, but President Trump’s deployment of National Guard troops from Texas to Illinois has ripped the veneer off that image.

By J. David Goodman

For President Trump, success in brokering a cease-fire is the ultimate test of his self-described goal as a deal maker and a peacemaker.

By David E. Sanger

Union leaders representing hundreds of thousands of federal workers urged both parties to negotiate as their members prepared to receive their last paychecks until the standoff is resolved.

By Eileen Sullivan

A pair of Democratic senators confronted the Republican speaker of the House over his refusal to swear in a colleague during the shutdown.

By Annie Karni

As the federal closure slides into a second week, Republicans are working to peel off five more Democratic senators to join them in voting to reopen the government.

By Megan Mineiro

The Illinois governor, a potential presidential candidate, is fighting the presence of National Guard troops and the activities of ICE agents in Chicago.

By Reid J. Epstein and Lisa Lerer

Separately, in the administration’s first 200 days, only two of 98 Senate-confirmed appointees to the most senior jobs in government were Black.

By Elisabeth Bumiller and Erica L. Green

Oregon officials say the atmosphere outside an ICE building that has drawn daily demonstrations since June has grown worse since the president’s threats.

By Hamed Aleaziz, Adam Goldman and Anna Griffin

An Israeli American student said he was assaulted during a protest. Two years later, Republicans continue to raise the episode in their campaign to force schools to punish the student protesters.

By Stephanie Saul

Public corruption experts said the Justice Department had options for recovering money used in a sting operation. But that may not happen for years.

By Zach Montague

As President Trump looks to deploy the military on the streets of American cities, he is lashing out at political foes.

By Luke Broadwater

Mr. Pearson, a member of the Tennessee General Assembly, was briefly expelled in 2023 after leading a gun control protest from the chamber floor.

By Emily Cochrane

In a rare interview, the justice bemoaned vulgarity in public life, discussed his family’s ties to President Trump and reflected on his own history and legacy.

By Adam Liptak