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It’s the latest setback to the president’s efforts to wield government power to punish law firms. A federal judge called it “a shocking abuse of power.”

Harvard has rejected an effort by the White House to exert more control over its programs. Federal law prohibits the president from telling the I.R.S. to conduct specific tax investigations.

Scholars say that the Trump administration is now flirting with lawless defiance of court orders, a path with an uncertain end.

A video from the San Diego Zoo Safari Park taken during an earthquake put complex elephant herd dynamics on display.

The I.R.S. had about 100,000 employees before President Trump took office. Between resignations and layoffs, the I.R.S. is on track to lose about a third of its staff this year.

Mohsen Mahdawi, a legal permanent resident, has lived in the United States for 10 years and was arrested in Vermont. He has not been charged with a crime.

People who once found right-wing ideas scintillating are having second thoughts as they watch Trump put those ideas into practice.

The Times Opinion columnist discusses what he thinks Trump — and American policymakers — misunderstand about China in the escalating trade war.

The Georgia congresswoman purchased at least tens of thousands of dollars in stock the day before and the day of President Trump’s pause of a sweeping set of tariffs that sent the market soaring.

President Trump’s aides abruptly said the man, Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, had been lawfully sent to a prison in El Salvador, contradicting what officials themselves have said in court filings.

A manuscript discovered in the Judean desert contains trial notes on an intricate tax-evasion scheme that involved forgery, fiscal fraud and the false sale of slaves.

A man was charged with setting fire to the residence, forcing Gov. Josh Shapiro and his family to flee. Investigators said they found beer bottles with gasoline inside the house.

The midmorning strike hit as Ukrainians were celebrating Palm Sunday, officials said. It appeared to be the deadliest attack on civilians this year and came as the Trump administration pushes for a cease-fire.

Buoyed by the interests of the family behind Walmart, Bentonville has become an unexpected hub for cycling.

Beijing has suspended exports of certain rare earth minerals and magnets that are crucial for the world’s car, semiconductor and aerospace industries.

With diagnoses at a record high, some experts have begun to question our assumptions about the condition — and how to treat it.

The Trump administration is in a standoff with the Chinese government as trade tensions escalate, leaving U.S. businesses in the cross hairs

Scientists who study the condition are wrestling with some fundamental questions about the way we define and treat it.

Jesus’ procession was a parody of imperial power — a deliberate mockery of Roman spectacle and a prophetic enactment of a kingdom not built on violence but on justice.

The health secretary has chipped away at the idea that immunizing children against measles and other diseases is a public health good.

For beekeepers, the problem isn’t just climate change and extreme weather: It’s also DOGE, the trade war and the immigration crackdown.