The frenetic speed and scale of leadership changes that the Trump administration has made at the Justice Department in its first eight days indicate the degree to which it intends to remake not just the political direction of the department, but also the makeup of its senior career ranks. Senior officials handling national security and […]
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President Trump on Monday fired the three Democratic-selected members of an independent civil liberties watchdog agency, leaving it paralyzed as Mr. Trump’s administration starts to put its stamp on the F.B.I. and intelligence community. Last week, the day after Mr. Trump’s inauguration, Mr. Morse sent emails to the agency, the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight […]
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Litigation has long been one of President Trump’s favorite weapons against media outlets whose coverage he objects to. But in at least one case, he is encountering an unforeseen obstacle: his previous arguments in court. On Monday, the board that awards the Pulitzer Prizes — which Mr. Trump sued in Florida in 2022 for defamation […]
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. — When the clock struck 10 Saturday night at the hotel where football’s greatest winners gather before home games, the most important man in the ballroom had a hood over his head and a glazed, impenetrable look in his eyes. In less than 20 hours, Patrick Mahomes would do what he always […]
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For six years, Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida could count on Republican state lawmakers bending to his will, giving swift approval to his ambitious legislative priorities with hardly a whiff of protest. Those days appear to be over. On Monday, in a remarkable sequence of events at the State Capitol in Tallahassee, Republican legislative leaders […]
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Tech stocks tumbled. Giant companies like Meta and Nvidia faced a barrage of questions about their future. And tech executives took to social media to proclaim their fears. And it was all because of a little-known Chinese artificial intelligence start-up called DeepSeek. DeepSeek caused waves all over the world on Monday as one of its […]
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PHILADELPHIA — Nick Sirianni never has understood — and doubts that he ever will — the measuring stick the public uses to evaluate his quarterback, Jalen Hurts. All season long, the Philadelphia Eagles coach has had a front-row seat to the scrutiny Hurts has received while directing one of the NFL’s most productive offenses. The […]
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Deborah F. Rutter will step down as president of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington at the end of the year, the center announced on Monday, in the latest sign of uncertainty at the institution as it navigates President Trump’s second term. The Kennedy Center had planned to welcome a […]
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In the end it took only about 12 hours for President Trump’s first head-to-head confrontation with one of the United States’ closest allies in Latin America, a blowup over Colombia’s rejection of U.S. military flights to return illegal immigrants, to result in a complete retreat by the target of Mr. Trump’s threats. It wasn’t much […]
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Nvidia, which soared to the top of the stock market by selling the computer chips fueling the world’s artificial intelligence boom, has been dealt a tough reality check by a small Chinese company that showed it could do more with less of what Nvidia makes. On Monday, shares of Nvidia plunged more than 16 percent […]
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