The family arrived at the ornately carved temple in western India bearing a special sweet of dried milk and clarified butter. It was a desperate offering for their son’s safety: He had just crossed into the United States, only days before President Trump took office promising a fierce crackdown on illegal immigration. In their village […]
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The Santa Ana winds that have fueled wildfires for weeks in Southern California finally stopped blowing on Friday, and an unusually long period of dry weather was on track to end in Los Angeles County as a cold storm approached on Saturday. The system was expected to deliver light to moderate rain that will fall […]
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President Trump was supposed to cap his first week since returning to the White House with a speech on Saturday in Las Vegas about an economic plan that he suggested was crucial to his election win. But despite the massive sign by the stage stating “NO TAX ON TIPS,” any details on how he would […]
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During his Inaugural Address on Monday, President Trump made a point of telling the country that he had learned “a lot” over the past eight years. The four and a half days since have revealed what he meant. Gone are the Washington outsiders who took the reins of government in 2017 and struggled to get […]
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Hamas on Saturday released four female Israeli soldiers held hostage in the Gaza Strip, in a choreographed ceremony that was the latest sign of the group’s effort to project power despite Israel’s 470-day military campaign to dislodge them. It was the second release of hostages as part of a cease-fire deal that went into effect […]
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The Senate voted on Saturday to confirm Kristi Noem as homeland security secretary, putting a former South Dakota governor in charge of the department at the heart of President Trump’s agenda to crack down on immigration. The vote was 59 to 34. Ms. Noem, a longtime ally of Mr. Trump who was once seen as […]
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President Trump is stocking the Environmental Protection Agency with officials who have served as lawyers and lobbyists for the oil and chemical industries, many of whom worked in his first administration to weaken climate and pollution protections. Lee Zeldin, Mr. Trump’s choice to lead the E.P.A., has little experience with environmental policy. He will be […]
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OK, we heard you — at least a vocal portion of you — who want a little bit of a stepped up trivia challenge as we head into the AFC and NFC title games on Sunday. Plenty were stoked about last week’s quiz on Josh Allen and Lamar Jackson, yet some of you wanted the […]
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Mike Hynson, who epitomized the image of the bronzed surf god as a star of the hit 1966 surfing documentary “The Endless Summer” and, with his outlaw instincts, embodied the rebel ethos of the sport on his way to being hailed a colossus of the curl, died on Jan. 10 in Encinitas, Calif. He was […]
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Everybody wants to cover sports media, but maybe everyone shouldn’t. Mike Florio, “Pro Football Talk” aggregator/insider/gadfly extraordinaire, is on the most watched pregame show, NBC’s “Football Night in America,” every Sunday night, but he fashions himself a little bit of the league’s and media’s police. Some of the stuff he does can be pretty good. […]
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