The regulator is cutting staff and easing oversight in ways that critics say might make supervisors less equipped to spot a crisis in advance, risking deeper damage to the economy.
Faced with a mass defection on a bill to demand the release of the Epstein files, the president rushed to avoid an embarrassing loss, suggesting a slip in his iron grip on the G.O.P.
Demonstrators outside the Capitol last week. As Republicans gear up for midterm elections and some begin to plot a future after Mr. Trump, the Epstein episode is a rare instance in which he has lost control.
A polling station in Saint-Denis, outside Paris, in 2022. The French government faces the same debates over foreign malign influence that have taken place in the United States.
Russia and China abstained. The vote provides a legal mandate for the Trump administration’s vision of how to move past the cease-fire to rebuild the war-ravaged enclave after two years of war.
Prime Minister Keir Starmer of Britain walking out of 10 Downing Street on Monday. Some members of Mr. Starmer’s Labour Party object to Britain’s new restrictions on immigration.
Investigators work at the site of the fatal shooting of María Florinda Ríos Pérez de Velásquez, a house cleaner who went to the wrong address in Whitestown, Ind.
For President Trump, who served fast food sandwiches to the Clemson University football team during its 2019 visit to the White House, few meals hit closer to home than hamburgers.
Dancers are famous for buckling down and getting through it. But a new openness about mental health has companies and schools focusing on their well-being, both physical and emotional.
Sara Mearns of New York City Ballet has been frank on social media about her mental health struggles.
The magistrate judge raised the question of whether “government misconduct” in the case might require dismissing the charges against the former F.B.I. director, James B. Comey, altogether.
Lindsey Halligan, who had never worked on a criminal case until she was thrust into the Comey prosecution, has faced extensive scrutiny from the moment she took over the U.S. attorney’s office in the Eastern District of Virginia.
The department was deployed, in effect, as an arm of the president’s rapid-response operation to help him muscle through a damaging news cycle over Jeffrey Epstein, former and current officials said.
Attorney General Pam Bondi’s quick response to President Trump’s demand of an investigation into Democrats amounted to an about-face from when she formally declared that nothing in the Epstein files warranted further investigation.
Mr. Adams, whose tenure as mayor of New York City ends in six weeks, is using his second trip to Israel in three years to reinforce his staunch support of the country.
Mayor Eric Adams has used his trip to Israel to criticize Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani, suggesting that Jewish New Yorkers would be in danger under his leadership.
As South Asian and Muslim immigrants transform a small New Jersey town, the five-term mayor has managed to keep the peace. What happens when he’s gone?
Michael Gonnelli, the mayor of Secaucus, has run unopposed in four of the five elections he has won.
European policymakers are crafting changes to scale back and simplify landmark rules for A.I. and data privacy, in a shift from an aggressive regulatory period.
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