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The order issued by a federal judge in Boston also directs officials to reinstate thousands of fired employees.

President Trump’s efforts to downsize the government threaten essential functions that Americans have come to rely on before, during and after natural disasters.

The money would be invested on children’s behalf in the financial markets for them to use once they had grown up.

President Trump publicly dressed down the president of South Africa based on a fringe conspiracy theory, providing a vivid distillation of his views on race.

A Maryland man’s deportation to El Salvador set off a fierce debate among officials in three cabinet agencies, despite agreement there had been a mistake.

During a meeting with South Africa’s president, President Trump played the video as evidence of racial persecution. A Times analysis found he misrepresented the contents of the video.

Lawyers for some of the eight migrants deported Tuesday said they were told they were being sent to South Sudan. People familiar with the flight said it had landed for the time being in Djibouti.

A judge ordered the Trump administration to let Mr. Khalil meet with his wife and infant son before a hearing on his immigration case. It was unclear whether they would be separated by plexiglass.

Prosecutors have long spoken only through court filings, to investigate crimes, not people. That’s changing as President Trump demands his administration target enemies, with little evidence of criminality.

Administration officials have suggested suspending a legal principle that protects against unlawful detention, and struggled to accurately define it.

The right allows people to legally challenge their detentions by the government and is guaranteed in the Constitution.

An assessment contradicted a presidential proclamation. A political appointee demanded a redo, then pushed for changes to the new analysis, too.

Qatar had been trying to sell off a luxury jet for years, with no luck. Then President Trump’s team set its sights on it.

Agency leaders said there was evidence to justify approval only for older people and those with medical conditions. Many others may not be able to get the shots.

After killing a criminal case against Mayor Eric Adams, the Trump administration has begun investigating his chief rival in the New York City mayoral race over his testimony about the pandemic.

Britain, France and Canada called the Israeli plans for escalation “disproportionate” and “egregious” at a time when the U.N. is warning the population is at risk of famine.

Imelda Collins is raffling her house rather than sell it on the conventional market. Anyone in the world can enter.

Even before President Trump was re-elected, the Heritage Foundation, best known for Project 2025, set out to destroy pro-Palestinian activism in the United States.

The Department of Justice also announced it was dropping a trespass charge against the city’s mayor stemming from the same episode.

A plan for a hefty new tax on university endowments was crafted to target “woke” schools, lawmakers said. But a small Kansas college and a Texas medical school might also be hit.

Investors burned by President Trump’s trade fight now have to contend with a spending megabill that risks swelling the federal deficit.