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Through more than two dozen books and two organizations he helped start, he had a profound impact on the intellectual and political life of Jewish congregations in the United States.

By Joseph Berger

Ms. Harris, in an interview with the BBC, gave her strongest indication yet that she was thinking about making another bid for the Oval Office.

By Lisa Lerer

Timothy Mellon is a billionaire and a major financial backer of President Trump.

By Tyler Pager

Here’s what we know about Mr. Trump’s plans to remodel the torn-down East Wing.

By Marco Hernandez, Junho Lee and Ashley Wu

President Trump has been reprogramming funds to pay workers during the shutdown who are essential to his political agenda. Tony Romm, a New York Times reporter covering economic policy, explains the moves, and the questions they’ve raised.

By Tony Romm, Alexandra Ostasiewicz, June Kim and Pierre Kattar

The speaker’s decision to hold the House in an indefinite hiatus during the shutdown is his latest move to diminish the role of the legislative branch — and his own post.

By Annie Karni

South Florida will feel some of the most intense reverberations if Congress allows the extra insurance subsidies it approved during the pandemic to expire.

By Patricia Mazzei

Vice President JD Vance has found himself defending or promoting positions that he once opposed, even as recently as the campaign.

By Zolan Kanno-Youngs and Dylan Freedman

The preliminary plan stems from frustration over the pace of the deportations, which are lagging behind President Trump’s demands.

By Hamed Aleaziz and Tyler Pager

Federal agents detained a man on the city’s North Side on Friday, and residents emerged from their homes, yelling and blowing whistles.

By Julie Bosman

Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani spoke about the impact of Islamophobia on his family during a campaign event in the Bronx. At a mayoral debate earlier this week, his opponent Curtis Sliwa had accused him of supporting “global jihad.”

By Jorge Mitssunaga

The Trump administration said that monitors will watch polling in two states, led by Democrats, where key races or issues are on the ballot.

By Shawn Hubler and Laurel Rosenhall

President Trump is embarking on a six-day diplomatic tour of Asia, testing his role as a statesman and negotiator as he pursues a trade deal with Beijing.

By Katie Rogers and Erica L. Green

The claim comes after months of President Trump toying with the idea, insisting that he is “not joking” about defying a constitutionally-mandated term limit.

By Chris Cameron

Gregory Bovino, a senior Border Patrol official, threw a tear gas canister at a large group of Chicago residents on Thursday. Tensions escalated after officials arrested a security guard in a mall parking lot.

By Meg Felling

During a hearing on Friday, lawyers told a judge that National Guard troops sent from Republican-led states had been conducting conduct law enforcement work.

By Zach Montague

The Agriculture Department said that it would not use the funds to cover benefits in November, imperiling a program 42 million people use to pay for groceries.

By Linda Qiu and Tony Romm

Now that he is back in the White House, he has made some of them more powerful than ever.

By Jess Bidgood, Nick Corasaniti and Alexandra Berzon

An ad, bought by the province of Ontario, sent an anti-tariff message using sound bites from an address President Ronald Reagan made decades ago. President Trump claimed the ad was “fraud” and terminated trade talks with Canada.

By McKinnon de Kuyper

A G.O.P. fund-raiser, he was the Navy chief under Gerald R. Ford and held ambassadorships in the 1970s and ’80s. He gained notice for his classical music compositions.

By Robert D. McFadden

The Pentagon is sending the Ford Carrier Strike Group, with several warships and thousands of sailors, to the region as the Trump administration ramps up attacks on boats it claims are carrying drugs.

By John Ismay

Erie Moore, a retired millworker and father of three, died in 2015, a month after guards slammed him headfirst to the floor at the Richwood Correctional Center, lawyers for his family said.

By Michael Levenson

A small company that has been manufacturing motors domestically for only a few weeks and has Donald Trump Jr. as an adviser won a parts order from the Army.

By Eric Lipton

Anthony Boyd was the eighth person executed by nitrogen gas since Alabama began using the method last year. His execution came over the strenuous objection of three liberal Supreme Court justices.

By Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs

In the Washington region, the Capital Area Food Bank is providing food distribution specifically for federal workers and contractors who are going without pay.

By Eileen Sullivan

It is not clear how far the gift will go toward covering the salaries of the nation’s 1.3 million troops.

By Greg Jaffe

The administration announced its trade investigation on Friday, ahead of a summit between U.S. and Chinese leaders.

By Ana Swanson

President Trump said on Thursday that he had called off the deployment in San Francisco. Two federal officials said on Friday that the action applied across the region.

By Hamed Aleaziz and Soumya Karlamangla

The proposal was the latest twist in a byzantine saga that has transformed the Salvadoran migrant into one of the best-known symbols of President Trump’s aggressive deportation agenda.

By Alan Feuer

From the first day of his second term, President Trump has taken an ends-justify-the-means approach to his presidency.

By David E. Sanger

The president said he wouldn’t seek congressional approval for his expanding military offensive against cartels, but some in his party believe Congress should weigh in.

By Robert Jimison and Megan Mineiro

Coast Guard police fired rounds at a moving van that accelerated toward the base in reverse and did not follow commands to stop, the authorities say.

By Soumya Karlamangla

Shootings have long plagued the city of Montgomery, Ala., where poverty levels are high and good jobs are scarce. That’s My Dog Jr. offers teenagers a moneymaking opportunity — and $3.99 hot dogs.

By Eduardo Medina

The Trump administration has acknowledged 10 strikes on suspected drug-smuggling boats from South America, which have killed 43 people.

By Charlie Savage and Eric Schmitt

The anti-tariff ad, which President Trump pointed to in cutting off trade talks with Canada, uses several sound bites from an April 1987 speech, though not in the order President Ronald Reagan said them.

By Lynsey Chutel and Ana Swanson

Deputy U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche told top California leaders that they would be prosecuted if they arrested federal agents performing immigration raids.

By John Yoon

Thousands missed their first paychecks this week, with no end in sight to the government shutdown that began on Oct. 1.

By Eileen Sullivan

The New York attorney general, indicted by President Trump’s handpicked prosecutor in the Eastern District of Virginia, appeared in federal court on Friday.

By Jonah E. Bromwich and Devlin Barrett

As President Trump deploys ICE, Border Patrol, the National Guard and other forces to U.S. cities, here’s how to tell them apart — and what their powers are.

By Bora Erden

Daniel Lurie, the San Francisco mayor, relied on powerful tech executives and his own low-key approach to help his liberal city escape a rush of federal agents.

By Heather Knight and Kellen Browning