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Trump Escalates Tensions With Senate Republicans
Also, the U.S. shares details of the preliminary Iran deal. Here’s the latest at the end of Wednesday.
New York Times Top StoriesNew York Times Top StoriesTrump Defends Deal to End the War With Iran as Details Emerge
President Trump lashed out at critics who say the agreement achieves less than the one President Barack Obama signed in 2015, and he threatened to bomb Iran again if it violated the deal.
New York Times Top StoriesTrump Administration to Pay $765 Million to Cancel 4 More Wind Projects
It’s the third such deal the Interior Department has struck to pay firms to abandon plans for offshore turbines, spending roughly $2.5 billion to get companies to abandon their wind projects.
New York Times Top StoriesTrump Criticized Obama’s Iran Deal, but New Deal Would Also Offer Tehran Relief
The agreement outlines a $300 billion plan to rebuild Iran, and says sanctions would be lifted in the future.
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New York Times Top StoriesBill Pulte, a Bulldog for Trump, Prepares to Take Reins at Spy Agency
Democrats and some Republicans excoriated President Trump’s pick for a top national security job. The president pushed ahead anyway.
New York Times Top StoriesWhat Young Men Thought of Trump’s U.F.C. Fight
The spectacle seemed targeted to the young male voters drifting away from the president. Some were skeptical.
New York Times Top StoriesTrump Feuds With Thune and G.O.P., Stoking Election-Year Rift
The president upended the majority leader’s plans by yanking his intelligence nominee from a confirmation hearing and insisting on an end to the filibuster.
New York Times Top StoriesNew Plan Scales Back C.D.C.’s Work on Diseases Abroad
The State Department is taking over much of the control of global health initiatives, for which critics say the department does not have the expertise.
New York Times Top StoriesWhat to Know if You’re Going to the Knicks Parade
Thousands of New Yorkers will descend on Lower Manhattan on Thursday morning to celebrate the Knicks. Here’s what you should know if you are one of them.
New York Times Top StoriesStocks Decline on Fed Decision, and Oil Is Muted Amid Peace Deal Talks
Traders are waiting for U.S. and Iranian officials to meet in Switzerland on Friday, when they are expected to sign an initial agreement and begin a 60-day cease-fire.
New York Times Top StoriesTrump Rescinds Endorsement of Right-Wing Pastor After Texting Scandal
The pastor, Jackson Lahmeyer, dropped out of the race for a House seat in Oklahoma as President Trump backed Mr. Lahmeyer’s Republican rival in a runoff election.
New York Times Top StoriesN.Y.P.D. Will Assign Largest Number of Officers Ever to Knicks Parade
The department announced that it would deploy more than 10,000 of its ranks and put stringent security measures in place for the celebration of the Knicks’ N.B.A. championship on Thursday.
New York Times Top StoriesSusan Collins Laments Roe’s Fall but Doesn’t ‘Regret’ Confirming Kavanaugh
Ms. Collins, a Republican in Maine facing a tough re-election battle, defended her vote to confirm Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh as Democrats look to capitalize on it politically.
New York Times Top StoriesThe Democrats Need Better Candidates. This Guy Knows How to Find Them.
The 2024 election showed that the party is simply not large enough to command a majority of the country.
New York Times Top Stories‘Mistakes Are Made,’ Trump Says About Deadly U.S. Strikes on Iranian School
More than 100 days after U.S. airstrikes demolished an elementary school in the southern Iranian city of Minab, the president said the episode was still under investigation.
New York Times Top StoriesSee how the first Fed statement under Warsh evolved.
Interest rates didn’t change, but the language in Fed’s policy statement, which it released alongside its rate decision today, certainly did.
New York Times Top StoriesTrump Upends G7 Summit With Statements on Iran Deal and Ukraine
At the Group of 7 gathering in France, President Trump’s oscillations on his Iran deal and Ukraine left European leaders racing to catch up.
New York Times Top StoriesTrump’s Threats Show His Complicated History With a Surveillance Law
The administration argues that FISA Section 702 must be renewed to preserve national security, but the president himself has threatened to veto it.
New York Times Top StoriesEight Victims Named in Deadly B-52 Crash in California
All eight crew members died when the bomber crashed during a routine test mission at a military base in California on Monday.
New York Times Top StoriesGeorgia Republicans Shelve Redistricting for Now
The leaders of the Georgia House of Representatives said they would not redraw U.S. House districts held by Black Democrats just hours before a special session was to begin.
New York Times Top StoriesU.S.-Iran Agreement Includes Strait of Hormuz, Lebanon and More: See Full Text of the Deal
A senior U.S. official, speaking on condition of anonymity, disclosed what the official said was the full text of the deal between the two countries.
New York Times Top StoriesTrump’s FEMA Nominee Calls Staff Cuts a ‘Challenge’ for Disaster Agency
Cameron Hamilton, who briefly led the agency on an acting basis last year but was fired for contradicting the president, also said he would get money out to states faster.
New York Times Top StoriesUnder Trump, National Intelligence Agency Has Broadened Focus on Elections
Bill Pulte, who has shown that he has a keen sense of what the president wants and a desire to please him, is poised to take over the job from Tulsi Gabbard on an acting basis.
New York Times Top StoriesElon Musk’s Next Move May Be a Mega-Merger of SpaceX and Tesla
Some shareholders might object, but there is little they could do, legal experts say.
New York Times Top StoriesGilgo Beach Serial Killer Receives Life Sentence After Guilty Plea
The decision on Wednesday will bring to an end an infamous case that took investigators more than a decade to solve.
New York Times Top StoriesShane Hennen, the One Man Linking 3 Gambling Scandals, Is Ready to Talk
The N.B.A. and the N.C.A.A. have been rocked by indictments accusing players and others of fixing bets and playing in rigged poker games. Shane Hennen is named in each one.
New York Times Top StoriesIntelligence Officials Have Welcomed Pulte and Then Clayton
The two, whom President Trump nominated as acting director and director of national intelligence, have both prepared to take over the office.
New York Times Top StoriesStars of Israel’s TV Channel for Bibi Fans Turn on Trump
Leading figures from Channel 14, a right-wing broadcaster that supports Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, are openly attacking the U.S. president over his Iran deal.
New York Times Top StoriesA Deadly Outbreak of Plague, Nearly 5,000 Years Before the Black Death
The oldest known cases, discovered among hunter-gatherers in Siberian graves, contradict the theory that the disease once was mild.