G.O.P. leaders are pressuring fellow senators who supported the measure to change their vote on the bill to block President Trump’s military action in Venezuela without Congress’s consent.
Senator Josh Hawley, Republican of Missouri, has reversed himself on the war powers resolution, saying that Secretary of State Marco Rubio and President Trump convinced him that it was not needed.
The bill would allow lawmakers to keep their existing stock and continue to sell it if they provide seven to 14 days of notice. Democrats called it a “gift to insider traders.”
Four astronauts are leaving the outpost about a month earlier than scheduled because a crew member, who was not identified, has an undisclosed medical issue.
The International Space Station crew members in their Crew Dragon pressure suits on Jan. 9. Clockwise from bottom left: NASA astronaut Mike Fincke, Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Platonov, NASA astronaut Zena Cardman and JAXA astronaut Kimiya Yui.
Systems like OpenAI’s GPT-5 are accelerating research in math, biology and chemistry. But there is a debate over whether it can do that work on its own.
Lawyers for the state sought an immediate ruling, but the judge said she would give the Justice Department time to respond in writing to the state’s lawsuit.
The split-screen television images of mass demonstrations in Minneapolis and Tehran have highlighted the president’s disparate views of democracy and popular dissent.
The television images of mass protests in the streets of Minneapolis and Tehran in recent days have invariably highlighted the complications and contradictions of Donald J. Trump’s presidency.
Tony Dokoupil, the new anchor of “CBS Evening News,” interviewed President Trump in a factory near Detroit on Tuesday night. Dokoupil has been broadcasting from different cities since his debut last week.
The question in the case was not a mail-in ballot rule itself but whether political candidates have the right to challenge the rules governing the vote count in their election.
A vote-by-mail ballot drop box in Chicago. The Illinois case is one of several lawsuits brought by allies of President Trump challenging rules around mail-in ballots after his 2020 election loss.
In decades of correspondence, the author gave her friend, JoBeth McDaniel, a mix of opinions, advice on writing and insight into the impact of the Civil Rights movement.
Harper Lee in a photograph taken by her friend Truman Capote. Taken in 1960, it was used on the dust jacket of the first edition of her novel “To Kill a Mockingbird.”
After Jim Pantelas was diagnosed with lung cancer, he recalled friends and colleagues saying, “‘Well, you knew this was coming; you smoked a lot.’” It deepened his belief that he didn’t deserve care.
Rights groups and relatives said Iran planned to put an antigovernment protester to death for the first time during the latest wave of unrest in the country.
Nonessential personnel are being removed from Udeid Air Base in Qatar, the main U.S. air operations hub in the region, as President Trump weighs a military response to Iran’s crackdown on protests.
The fate of the world’s largest island has outsize importance for billions of people on the planet, because as the climate warms, Greenland is losing ice. That has consequences.
A frozen sea inlet outside Nuuk, Greenland, last year. In the 12 months ending on Aug. 31, 2025, Greenland lost 105 billion metric tons of ice, scientists say.
It is exceedingly rare, even in investigations of the unauthorized disclosure of classified information, for federal agents to search a reporter’s home.
President Trump has left himself plenty of room for maximal intervention. But there are a host of potential wild cards, each with risks for the president.
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