Category: Politics

Elon Musk’s money can buy him love from Republicans, but not, it turns out, a Wisconsin Supreme Court election. A campaign awash in more than $25 million in spending by the world’s richest man and groups tied to him ended up much like the other elections of the first months of President Trump’s second term: […]

President Trump intends to nominate T. Elliot Gaiser, the conservative solicitor general of Ohio, to be the assistant attorney general leading the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel, according to a Justice Department official. That position has traditionally often had the final say on legal debates within the executive branch. The Office of Legal Counsel […]

Susan Crawford, the liberal candidate for a pivotal seat on the Wisconsin Supreme Court, overcame $25 million in spending from Elon Musk and defeated her conservative opponent, The Associated Press reported, in a totemic contest that became a critical test of the nation’s prevailing political winds. Judge Crawford, who serves in Dane County, handily defeated […]

A federal judge in Maryland on Tuesday ordered the Trump administration to stop firing probationary employees who live or work in 19 states and the District of Columbia while a legal challenge to the mass terminations makes its way through the courts. In his order, Judge James K. Bredar, of the Federal District Court in […]

It was a discussion of a kind rarely, if ever, seen in the California State Capitol. For hours on Tuesday, Republicans repeatedly invoked the views of Gov. Gavin Newsom, while the governor’s fellow Democrats took pains to avoid saying his name. At issue were two Republican bills that would have banned transgender athletes from female […]

President Trump cannot run for a third term as president, barring changes to the Constitution. But that has not stopped him from openly flirting with the idea. He has floated it publicly and privately, and on Sunday, he said he was “not joking” about it. In an interview with NBC News, he insisted there were […]

President Trump last week commuted the lengthy fraud sentence of a former business associate of Hunter Biden’s who assisted a Republican investigation into the Biden family. Jason Galanis was sentenced in 2020 to 189 months in prison and ordered to pay nearly $162 million in forfeiture and restitution after pleading guilty to his role in […]

President Trump referred to three people who were arrested on suspicion of vandalizing his Trump Turnberry golf resort in Scotland with pro-Palestinian messages as “terrorists.” Mr. Trump said he had been informed of the arrests by Prime Minister Keir Starmer of Britain. “They did serious damage,” the president said on Monday in a post on […]

President Trump has said that his aim in imposing tariffs is to force companies to move production back to the United States. If manufacturers make their goods in America, he argues, they won’t have to pay the tariffs. But the latest revenue projections proffered by his administration call into question what Mr. Trump wants to […]

President Trump’s tariffs could drive up prices. His efforts to reduce the federal work force could increase unemployment. But ask economists which of the administration’s policies they are most concerned about and many point to cuts to federal support for scientific research. The Trump administration in recent weeks has canceled or frozen billions of dollars […]