Month: June 2024

Up to a point. But even male politicians do not want voters to see them as approaching their expiration date, and Washington’s dermatologists and plastic surgeons do a roaring business keeping political V.I.P.s tucked, tweaked and tightened. And perhaps no one better appreciates the challenge of aging skin than the makeup artists for the political […]

President Biden was peeved. What was Chuck Schumer thinking? The Democrats had just temporarily averted a national default with Republican aid but still needed a broader deal to resolve a debt ceiling clash. Yet there was Mr. Schumer, the Senate Democratic leader, on the floor bashing Republicans for playing “a dangerous and risky partisan game.” […]

After several cash-flush pandemic years, school districts across the country are facing budget shortfalls, with pressure closing in on multiple fronts. A flow of federal dollars — $122 billion meant to help schools recover from the pandemic — is running dry in September, leaving schools with less money for tutors, summer school and other supports […]

President Biden on Wednesday pardoned American veterans who were convicted of engaging in gay sex under a military code that outlawed the behavior for more than 60 years. Mr. Biden’s proclamation grants clemency to some 2,000 people who were charged between 1951 and 2013, addressing a “historic wrong,” the president said in a statement. “Today, […]

In the race for the White House, former President Donald J. Trump has attacked President Biden’s policies to expand renewable energy as a “plan to make China rich” because America’s greatest economic rival also controls many of the parts needed for electric-vehicle batteries, solar panels and other green technology. But eliminating Mr. Biden’s climate policies […]

In the race for the White House, former President Donald J. Trump has attacked President Biden’s policies to expand renewable energy as a “plan to make China rich” because America’s greatest economic rival also controls many of the parts needed for electric-vehicle batteries, solar panels and other green technology. But eliminating Mr. Biden’s climate policies […]

In his nearly 15 months in Moscow’s infamous Lefortovo prison, Evan Gershkovich has plowed through Russian literary classics like “War and Peace,” and played slow-moving chess by mail with his father in the United States. He tries to keep himself in shape during the hourlong exercise period he is permitted each day. Friends who correspond […]

In a sudden reversal, President William Ruto of Kenya said on Wednesday that he would not sign the finance bill that he had long said was necessary to stabilize the country’s economy, a response to the devastating protests that gripped the nation on Tuesday. “Listening keenly to the people of Kenya who have said loudly […]

The Supreme Court handed the Biden administration a major practical victory on Wednesday, rejecting a challenge to its contacts with social media platforms to combat what administration officials said was misinformation. The court ruled that the states and users who had challenged the contacts had not suffered the sort of direct injury that gave them […]

The immediate trigger for the raging protest that gripped Kenya’s capital city on Tuesday was a raft of proposed tax increases — additional shillings that ordinary citizens would owe their government. The underlying cause, though, are the billions of dollars their government owes its creditors. Kenya has the fastest growing economy in Africa and a […]