Trump’s Social Security Promise Under Strain as DOGE Cuts Take Toll
President Trump promised not to touch Social Security, but as Elon Musk’s team trims staff and plans cuts to phone services, the system is groaning under the pressure.
President Trump promised not to touch Social Security, but as Elon Musk’s team trims staff and plans cuts to phone services, the system is groaning under the pressure.
President Trump’s tariff polices have sent oil prices falling, which may push energy companies to reconsider their plans to drill.
In a series of narrow and technical rulings, the justices have seemed to take pains to avoid a showdown with a president who has challenged the judiciary’s legitimacy.
Under Trump, we are becoming unrecognizable to our former selves.
A federal judge in California had ordered the Trump administration to rehire government employees fired as part of its efforts to slash the federal work force.
The moves include loosening environmental rules, but it is unclear how much they can help reverse the sharp decline in coal power over the last two decades.
Nicholas J. Roske, 29, of California, faces a maximum sentence of life in prison. He was arrested near the justice’s home in 2022, with a pistol, a knife and other weapons.
Firefighters found a 32-year-old man who weighed 68 pounds. The police say his stepmother locked him away when he was 12.
The feud between two of President Trump’s top advisers is playing out as the administration’s new tariffs have caused huge losses across global financial markets.
A few carmakers have closed factories, laid off workers or shifted production in response to the auto tariffs that took effect last week.
The agreement is a major departure from the Internal Revenue Service’s efforts to gain the trust of migrants and encourage them to file their taxes.
The Ukrainian president did not suggest that they had been sent by Beijing’s military, but he pointed to their presence as further evidence that Moscow was not truly interested in peace.
A case involving a Venezuelan migrant, Daniel Zacarias Matos, could explore the question of whether President Trump has used the Alien Enemies Act in a lawful manner.
A case involving a Venezuelan migrant, Daniel Zacarias Matos, could explore the question of whether President Trump has used the Alien Enemies Act in a lawful manner.
The Biden plan to increase tax revenue through more enforcement is being reversed.
The pilots’ conversation with air traffic controllers, revealed in a partial transcript, could offer clues to what caused the disaster in South Korea, which killed 179 people.
A court case by the Belgian king’s younger brother argued that he was entitled to a state pension to keep his wife and adult children financially safe.
In an interview, the Republican governor of Virginia spoke at length about his views on diversity efforts, among other subjects.
Not long before he became Virginia’s governor, Mr. Youngkin helped lead, and spoke approvingly of, efforts to improve racial and gender diversity at his private equity firm.
Billionaire investors are in an unfamiliar position, watching and cringing as tariffs roll on and the stock market reels.
The nominees for the translated fiction award “don’t shut down debate, they generate it,” said the author Max Porter, who leads the judging panel.
Many Israelis were surprised when President Trump announced that the United States would engage in “direct” negotiations with Iran in an effort to rein in the country’s nuclear program.
The authorities said search and rescue operations were continuing at the Jet Set nightclub in Santo Domingo, the capital.
Expected talks between Iran and the United States would be a late, and perhaps last, opportunity to control Tehran’s nuclear ambitions and avoid war.
It was an idyllic pocket of Los Angeles where people knew their neighbors — and homes sold for $5 million. The fire ignited competing visions for its future.
Plus, a new push to clone ancient animals.
We explore the stock market panic over tariffs.
On the war, President Trump is more aligned than his predecessor with the aims of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel and his right-wing coalition.
Ms. Truss, Britain’s prime minister for 44 days, was forced out after her radical policies caused a market meltdown. But there are some key differences with President Trump.
The hearing on the move opened with unruly scenes, as hecklers forced judges to pause the proceedings before resuming them without a public audience.