California’s wealthiest residents are maneuvering to reduce their net worth in case a billionaire tax becomes law. Some may even try to drop below $1 billion on paper.
Lawyers and wealth advisers in California are already drawing up plans to exempt assets from a proposed tax on billionaires, even though it may never become law.
The DHS is flooding social media companies with administrative subpoenas to identify accounts that are protesting ICE. Social media companies have pushed back but are largely complying. Our tech reporter, Sheera Frenkel, explains.
An upcoming Senate primary contest in Illinois, which is likely to pick the state’s next senator, has centered on Democrats’ future approach to federal immigration policy.
Representatives Raja Krishnamoorthi and Robin Kelly and Lt. Gov. Juliana Stratton have found themselves at the center of the argument about the best way to combat President Trump’s deportation agenda as they compete for a Senate nomination in Illinois.
Nancy Guthrie, 84, the “Today” show anchor’s mother, vanished from her Arizona home on Feb. 1. In the time since, very little new information has come to light.
People protesting the Iranian government gathered near the security conference in Munich, as well as in other cities. More U.S.-Iran talks are expected Tuesday.
As the United States prepares to turn 250, the Trump administration is turning the celebration into a pay-to-play spectacle where even a speaking role on the National Mall is up for sale.
This image from a video provided by the U.S. military shows what it says was a kinetic strike on a suspected drug trafficking vessel in the Caribbean Sea.
The toxin was found in the body of the Russian dissident Aleksei A. Navalny, who died in prison two years ago, five governments said, challenging Russia’s official account.
Aleksei A. Navalny in his office in Moscow in 2014. He was President Vladimir V. Putin’s most prominent political opponent when he died in a Russian prison in 2024.
Mr. Klein, who led an education technology company after running the New York City school system, met with Jeffrey Epstein over a period of several months in 2013.
Peter Biar Ajak after returning to the United States in 2020. A federal court in Arizona sentenced him to prison last week after he pleaded guilty to conspiring to violate U.S. weapons export laws.
The collapse of the Trump administration’s version of events in the case was only the most recent instance in which officials gave an account of a shooting that was later contradicted.
The F.A.A., citing “a grave risk of fatalities” from a new technology being used on the Mexican border, got caught in a stalemate with the Pentagon, which deemed the weapon “necessary.”
The shutdown is especially hard for T.S.A. employees this time around, because many are just recovering from the financial strain they suffered during last year’s 43-day shutdown.
Ms. Stellato-Dudek poses in the Oscar de la Renta skating dress she expects to wear for her long program. Each of its more than 200,000 glass beads was triple-knotted by hand.