The president’s Middle East visit produced multibillion-dollar technology investments by the Saudis and Emiratis. But they face political pushback at home.
Humanitarian support has collapsed in the enclave, which has been under total Israeli blockade for more than two months. Aid groups warn that the territory is on the brink of famine.
The U.S.-Mexico border. The Defense Department is reviewing a request for more than 20,000 National Guard members to help with an immigration crackdown.
A military parade marking the anniversary of the Army’s founding will be held on the president’s birthday. “He wants overwhelming force,” Stephen Colbert said.
Once drawn to American universities as havens, some students from abroad are finding the United States is not the bedrock of free speech they had expected.
KAJ, representing Sweden with an ode to the sauna, is the bookmakers’ favorite, but singers from France, Austria, the Netherlands and Finland are also causing a stir.
A Latvian security agency tells people to note radio gear and provocative questions, but some signs of espionage that it cites — like fit, unkempt backpackers — could apply to hikers and tourists.
Justice Department lawyers are scheduled to appear in Federal District Court in Maryland to defend their latest effort to avoid disclosing details about several key aspects of the proceeding.
The federal courthouse in Greenbelt, Md. The Justice Department has argued that many of details of the deportation case involving Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia should not be made public because they amount to state secrets.
Paula Kerger, the chief executive of PBS, is used to fights over the public broadcaster’s funding. But to her, the latest threats feel like “all-out effort to take us out.”
The Justice Department dismissed a desegregation order in Plaquemines Parish, La., which had been kept open by mistake. State officials hope others may be lifted.
The checks, at a cost of $2 billion, are a political move that the state cannot afford, some lawmakers say. They will be distributed to millions of New Yorkers this fall.
“Ceasefire” will be the low-key public affairs channel’s first new weekly show in two decades. The question is whether Republicans and Democrats will show up.
The opposition of a pair of right-wing lawmakers who are pressing for deeper spending cuts appeared to be enough, at least for now, to block the bill from advancing past its next hurdle and to the House floor.
Representative Chip Roy, Republican of Texas, at the Capitol on Wednesday. An influential anti-spending conservative, Mr. Roy declared that he planned to vote against approving the tax and budget legislation.
Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation nations, staring down U.S. tariffs, jockeyed for time with U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer at a gathering in South Korea.
Students and teachers hold Pakistan’s national flags as they shout anti-India slogans during a rally to express their solidarity with the country’s armed forces in Karachi on Thursday.
Saou Ichikawa is the country’s first severely disabled author to win a top literary prize. Her novel “Hunchback” is an angry cry against “ableist machismo.”
The layoffs amounted to over a third of the media organization’s staff, and came as the Trump administration put up for sale the federal building in Washington that houses the network.
An audit of deaths in Maryland found that in cases of people who died after being restrained by the police, medical examiners often classified the deaths as natural or accidental.
A search for Tiffany Slaton, 28, covered roughly 600 square miles of mountainous terrain in California. She was found at a cabin, where she waited out a blizzard.
The Iranian capital, Tehran, this month. President Trump suggested on Thursday that his administration was “getting close to maybe doing a deal” with Iran.
Errol Langton and eight members of his family were among the first group of white South Africans to arrive in the United States this week after President Trump created an expedited path to citizenship.
“Everybody still doesn’t believe that we’re actually standing here,” Errol Langton said in an interview, about 40 hours after landing at Birmingham-Shuttlesworth International Airport.
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