Category: Politics

An American citizen has been released from Russian custody in a prisoner swap, officials from the United States and Russia said on Thursday, amid a broader effort by the two countries to mend relations. The American, Ksenia Karelina, was serving a 12-year sentence in Russia after being convicted of treason for donating about $50 to […]

For weeks, President Trump has repeatedly boasted that his administration had managed to bring egg prices down. But new data on Thursday showed that egg prices at the grocery store continued to climb in March. Egg prices rose 5.9 percent over the month, according to data released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. They climbed […]

Recent battlefield gains by an Islamist insurgency in Somalia have prompted some State Department officials to propose closing the U.S. embassy in Mogadishu and withdrawing most American personnel as a security precaution, according to officials familiar with internal deliberations. But other Trump administration officials, centered in the National Security Council, are worried that shutting the […]

Kamala Harris felt compelled to speak out about what President Trump was doing to the country. But not enough to attack him by name. Two days earlier, the law firm that hired her husband, Doug Emhoff, with a multimillion-dollar salary had struck a deal with the White House to avoid crippling sanctions — an agreement […]

George Hornedo, a liberal activist and Democratic Party strategist in Indianapolis, had already been weighing a primary challenge to the local congressman when he was confronted last month by a senior Indiana Democrat. Asked whether he was planning a run, Mr. Hornedo, 34, acknowledged he was considering it. The woman, he recalled, told him he […]

President Trump’s reversal on tariff’s dominated headlines on Wednesday, but he also found time to continue his long-running feud with low-flow shower heads. The president signed an executive order to loosen a restriction on water flow from shower heads, directing Energy Secretary Chris Wright to rescind a definition of shower heads first implemented by President […]

The roller coaster of on-again, off-again tariffs have focused attention on the people behind President Trump’s trade strategy. Rob Copeland, a New York Times finance reporter, takes us inside Trump’s tariff team. Source link

U.S. commanders planning for a possible conflict with China are increasingly concerned that the Pentagon will soon need to move long-range precision weapons from stockpiles in the Asia-Pacific region to the Middle East, congressional officials say. That is because of the large amount of munitions that the United States is using in a bombing campaign […]

As the breadth of the Trump revolution has spread across Washington in recent weeks, its most defining feature is a burn-it-down-first, figure-out-the-consequences-later recklessness. The costs of that approach are now becoming clear. Administration officials knew the markets would dive and other nations would retaliate when President Trump announced his long-promised “reciprocal” tariffs. But when pressed, […]

The National Counterintelligence and Security Center warned on Tuesday that China’s intelligence services were using deceptive efforts to recruit current and former U.S. government employees. The center, along with the F.B.I. and the Pentagon’s counterintelligence service, said in an advisory that foreign intelligence agencies were posing as consulting firms, corporate think tanks and other organizations […]