The Senate on Tuesday voted 51 to 45 to confirm Howard Lutnick to be President Trump’s commerce secretary, putting in place one of the administration’s […]
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Pete Marocco Returns to Battle in Trump’s War on Foreign Aid
Pete Marocco has spent much of this month hunkered in an office suite on the seventh floor of the State Department overseeing the dismantling of […]
Trump Cuts Target Next Generation of Scientists and Public Health Leaders
The notices came all weekend, landing in the inboxes of federal scientists, doctors and public health professionals: Your work is no longer needed. At the […]
Top Social Security Official Leaves After Musk Team Seeks Data Access
The top official at the Social Security Administration stepped down this weekend after members of Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency sought access to […]
Dickson Despommier, Who Championed Farming in Skyscrapers, Dies at 84
Dickson Despommier, a microbiologist who proposed that cities should grow food in high-rises, popularizing the term “vertical farming” — an idea that crossed over from […]
C.I.A. Expands Secret Drone Flights Over Mexico
The United States has stepped up secret drone flights over Mexico to hunt for fentanyl labs, part of the Trump administration’s more aggressive campaign against […]
U.S.-Russia Talks in Saudi Arabia Set to Go Beyond Ukraine
The United States and Russia moved toward a head-spinning reset of their relationship on Tuesday, agreeing to work together on ending the Ukraine war, financial […]
170 Migrants Deported From U.S. Agree to Return to Home Countries, Panama Says
Nearly a week after the United States sent roughly 300 migrants from around the world to Panama on military deportation flights, officials in Panama said […]
Trump May Name Alice Johnson to Be ‘Pardon Czar’
President Trump’s advisers are considering Alice Marie Johnson, who was serving a life sentence for a drug conviction when the president commuted her sentence during […]
Under Trump’s Mass Deportation Plan, Some Migrants Are Being Sent to Panama
They arrived at the United States border from around the world, hoping to seek asylum. Instead, they were detained, shackled and flown by the U.S. […]