The arrest of the British former envoy to Washington, long a key figure in the Labour Party, deepened a scandal that has led to calls for Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s resignation.
Peter Mandelson, left, with Prime Minister Keir Starmer in Washington last year. Mr. Starmer fired Mr. Mandelson after learning of Mr. Mandelson’s friendship with the sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
“For the last five months, I watched ICE dismantle the training program,” Ryan Schwank, a former Immigration and Customs Enforcement official, told congressional Democrats on Monday.
A year after the Trump administration blocked money that had been awarded by Congress for clean energy projects, the legal fight over the funds rages on.
Last year, Lee Zeldin, E.P.A. administrator, sought to cancel $20 billion in clean energy grants that were awarded to eight nonprofits under the Biden administration.
Gustavo Dudamel, who is leaving the Los Angeles Philharmonic this summer and taking over as the music and artistic director of the New York Philharmonic in September.
As the president prepares to speak to the nation, Northeastern Pennsylvania is showing discontent on the edges of the Trump coalition and an energized Democratic opposition.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani said on Monday that his administration had taken lessons from the city’s last storm, when at least 20 people died after exposure to the cold.
A homeless encampment in Queens. Mayor Zohran Mamdani said on Monday that so far, no outdoor deaths had been reported in New York City during the blizzard.
President Trump does not like to practice reading the speech out loud, but he spent time mimicking the setup of the House chamber, officials familiar with his plans said.
Students of the National Defense Academy of Japan during a parade in Yokosuka in 2023. The academy is one of 20 Japanese entities targeted by China’s new export ban.
“Wow, a court composed mostly of his own party’s appointees has struck down the constitutionality of Trump’s go-it-alone tariff regime,” Jon Stewart said. “That’s bound to cause him some introspection.”
Four years into the war, a major sticking point in talks is control of the eastern Donetsk region. Residents could face an agonizing choice if Ukraine gives up the territory.
The U.S. and its allies have spilled blood and treasure to kill drug lords and defeat cartels, but the drugs keep coming and the new groups are more violent than ever.
After many of its staff decided they wanted to work, the bakery Welcome Home in Bedford-Stuyvesant decided to open for businesses on Monday and sold out within hours.
The former official appeared with congressional Democrats, who also released documents indicating significant reductions in instructional hours for recruits.
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