Trump Again Escalates Power Grabs in Bid to Fire Fed Member
President Trump claimed he has cause to remove a member of the independent board who has not obeyed his demands to vote for lower interest rates.
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Housing Official’s Push on Mortgage Fraud Gives Trump a Political Weapon
The director of Federal Housing Finance Agency could win the president an opening on the Federal Reserve board.
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Judge Dismisses Trump Administration Suit Against Federal Bench in Maryland
The judge used the ruling to take President Trump and some of his top aides to task for having repeatedly attacked other judges who have dared to rule against the White House.
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Purging ‘Equity’ Programs, G.O.P. Defunded Its Own Roads
When Republicans repealed a Biden-era “access and equity” grant program for transportation, they canceled funding for projects in some of their own districts.
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DOGE Put Critical Social Security Data at Risk, Whistle-Blower Says
DOGE team members uploaded a database with the personal information of hundreds of millions of Americans to a vulnerable cloud server, according to the agency’s chief data officer.
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Jack Smith’s Legal Team Fires Back Against Ethics Complaint
For months, the former special counsel has remained silent as the president and his advisers have publicly attacked him.
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Jokey Names for Detention Centers Face Criticism for Insensitivity
The use of such names is part of a broader strategy that President Trump and his allies are leaning into in his second term.
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A Teen Was Suicidal. ChatGPT Was the Friend He Confided In.
More people are turning to general-purpose chatbots for emotional support. At first, Adam Raine, 16, used ChatGPT for schoolwork, but then he started discussing plans to end his life.
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Donald Trump’s Big Gay Government
On the town with the A-Gays of Washington, who have never been happier to be out, proud and Republican.
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How the N.Y.P.D.’s Facial Recognition Tool Landed the Wrong Man in Jail
Trevis Williams is eight inches taller than a man accused of flashing a woman in Union Square in February. The police arrested him anyway.
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Macron, in Letter to Netanyahu, Defends Call for Palestinian Statehood
President Emmanuel Macron of France also pushed back against accusations by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that he had not done enough to protect French Jews from antisemitic attacks.
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The Deadly Risks of Reporting in Gaza
Journalists endure the same harrowing reality as other Gazans: hunger and the constant threat of death. Those challenges risk further stifling what the world hears about the war.
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Israel Says It Attacked Gaza Hospital to Destroy Camera Placed by Hamas
The Israeli military said, without providing evidence, that its initial inquiry found that militants had placed an observation camera in the area. It said the attack killed six militants.
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U.S. Envoy Talks Peace in Lebanon, but Stirs Anger With ‘Act Civilized’ Remark
At a delicate moment in Lebanese politics, the envoy, Thomas J. Barrack Jr., provoked outrage by warning journalists at a news conference there not to be “animalistic.”
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Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce Announce Their Engagement
The news was announced on Instagram: “Your English teacher and your gym teacher are getting married.”
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The Big Moments From Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s Love Story
Bogie and Bacall, Marilyn and Joe DiMaggio, Beyoncé and Jay-Z: The new celebrity power couple might overshadow them all.
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Democratic Party Scraps Resolutions on Israel and Gaza After Fraught Debate
The measures were almost entirely symbolic, yet laid bare the broader fault lines dividing and shaping the party nearly two years after the war began.
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Gates Foundation Quietly Cuts Ties With Firm Linked to Democrats
Officials made no mention of politics in cutting ties with a network of nonprofit funds, but Bill Gates has made other moves to insulate the charity from political pressures.
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What the Bloom After L.A.’s Wildfires Reveals About Our Ecological Future
Many of Southern California’s plants and animals evolved with fire as part of their life cycles. Can they weather the worsening fires to come?
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Farage Promises Mass Deportations if Elected U.K. Prime Minister
The plans announced by the leader of Reform U.K., which is leading opinion polls in Britain, illustrated how he is driving a hardening of the debate around immigration.
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Two Restaurants Are Making Minneapolis the American Capital of Hmong Food
The chefs at Diane’s Place and Vinai serve as guardians and interpreters of their foodways.
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Where’s Your Evidence, Mr. President?
If the courts allow Trump to get away with firing Lisa Cook, the Fed will be stripped of its insulation from political pressure.
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Donald Trump’s Assault on Capitalism
Trump’s personalized control of growing swaths of the economy will harm American economic freedom and competitiveness.
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Fired Fed governor vows to sue Trump
Also, a Social Security whistleblower. Here’s the latest at the end of Tuesday.
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SpaceX Set to Attempt Critical Test Launch of Mars Rocket Again
After two consecutive scrubs, the Starship vehicle is due for its 10th test flight as Elon Musk’s company aims to overcome earlier setbacks.
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Human Case of Flesh-Eating Screwworm Reported in Maryland
The patient had traveled to Central America, where an outbreak of myiasis, an infection by screwworm larvae, has been ravaging livestock.
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Donald McPherson, Naval Fighter Ace in World War II, Dies at 103
One of the last surviving combat aces from the war, he took down five Japanese aircraft and helped save a destroyer during the Battle of Okinawa.
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