Trump’s Intelligence Pick Renews Debate: Is the Director of National Intelligence Needed?
The director of national intelligence’s office was created in the aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks. Now some lawmakers want to shrink it.
The director of national intelligence’s office was created in the aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks. Now some lawmakers want to shrink it.
An 18-year-old was ejected after a carriage horse bolted on Wednesday as the driver took a photograph. It was unclear how long the voluntary shutdown might last.
The vice president said the United States had leverage to dictate the outcome of the next round of negotiations. But he claimed incorrectly that Iran got no new benefit from the lifting of oil sanctions.
The case, which resulted in a short jail sentence despite years of alleged abuse, has drawn outcry in Texas. So have the attempts to politicize it.
The story of one progressive activist arrested in Minnesota in January shows what critics say is the aggressive nature of the Trump administration’s response to those who have protested its immigration crackdown.
The first lady and the mayor showed up for the celebration in style.
Also, Ukraine launches a major assault on Moscow. Here’s the latest at the end of Thursday.
The White House insists that private donations are paying for a new ballroom, but the administration is using taxpayer money for a series of security upgrades.
If you lived with your parents for nine months or more after graduation, please tell us how you came to the decision and whether the job market influenced your thinking.
Celebrity guests paid winking homage to President Obama’s notorious tan suit.
Mr. Kean has missed three months of votes in Washington and been absent from the campaign trail in his New Jersey district because of an unexplained health condition.
New York City found a reason to party on Thursday, cheering, crying and climbing around Broadway to celebrate the Knicks’ N.B.A. championship.
America and Israel have snatched defeat from victory.
The Obamas each took to the microphone, delivering speeches before a crowd of dignitaries, elected officials and Democratic supporters.
Two members of Gov. Jared Polis’s board that reviews commutation requests came forward to say the secretive panel had twice rejected the release of Tina Peters, convicted of election tampering.
After the Knicks promoted Gavin Snider’s watercolor painting in the wake of their N.B.A. title, one of the most famous artists on social media posted an uncannily similar work.
President Trump’s grip on the capital loomed over the race, and he threatened to tighten it if Councilwoman Janeese Lewis George is elected. She almost certainly will be.
The defense secretary described the vaccine requirement, which he lifted in April, as an “absurd, overreaching” mandate.
Low fertility rates are a lagging indicator, the final outcome of a string of social shifts.
The book by Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan of The New York Times, “Regime Change,” reveals a host of details and surprising exchanges as President Trump pushed to drastically expand his power.
In “Regime Change,” two New York Times journalists offer a riveting chronicle of the weird fusion of reality and show business in the White House.
The department, citing high default rates, is reducing interest rates on federal student loans by up to 1 percentage point for two years.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement plans to sell or give away most of the 11 warehouses it bought to detain migrants, reversing course on a signature initiative.
British archaeologists may have found the remains of a site where people celebrated the solstice thousands of years ago, a few miles from the famed stone circle.
I emigrated from the Soviet Union decades ago, and recently toured Thomas Jefferson’s home with my American-born history-buff son.
The Major Oak in the Sherwood Forest was between 800 and 1,200 years old. It succumbed to a combination of over-tourism, climate change and misguided efforts to save it.
Europe and the larger world will be watching carefully to see if talks produce a lasting agreement on Iran’s nuclear program and the Strait of Hormuz.
While fans watched their team, José A. Alvarado Jr. watched the crowd.
The reversal comes after the Senate passed a bipartisan bill on Wednesday to block the removal of deep-sea monitoring instruments.
Artificial intelligence is expensive to use, many companies discovered. That has led to a new era of saving costs.