Category: Politics

Senate Democrats blocked a Republican-written bill on Wednesday that could subject some doctors who perform abortions to criminal penalties, thwarting the G.O.P.’s first attempt to […]

President Trump selected a conservative activist and media critic to head the U.S. Agency for Global Media, making a move likely to fuel concerns that […]

Andrew F. Puzder, the former chief executive of the corporation that owns the Hardee’s and Carl’s Jr. fast-food chains, is President Trump’s pick to be […]

President Trump on Wednesday issued full and unconditional pardons to two Washington, D.C., police officers convicted after a chase that killed a young Black man […]

When the career staff of the National Security Council popped onto a video call at 11:30 on Wednesday morning, a sense of dread had already […]

William McKinley hasn’t had a starring role on the American political stage like this in 124 years. There he was, lauded in President Trump’s inauguration […]

President Trump has picked Sean Curran, who led Mr. Trump’s personal security detail during the campaign and rushed to shield him during an assassination attempt, […]

The Trump administration on Wednesday threatened federal employees with “adverse consequences” if they fail to report on colleagues who defy orders to purge diversity, equity […]

The Justice Department has ordered an immediate halt to all new civil rights cases or investigations — and signaled that it might back out of […]

It has been less than three days since President Trump took office, but the immigration transformation he ordered has already begun. The Pentagon deployed 1,500 […]