A federal judge on Friday ordered the Trump administration to keep confidential a list of F.B.I. agents and employees who worked on investigations into rioters from the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol. The Trump administration had consented to the text of the temporary restraining order after negotiations with lawyers for two groups of … Read more
A federal judge in Boston heard arguments on Friday in a case brought by 18 states seeking to stop President Trump from ending the long practice of granting citizenship to children born in the United States to undocumented immigrants. Judge Leo T. Sorokin of U.S. District Court said he did not expect to issue an … Read more
Senator Lindsey Graham on Friday unveiled a budget plan that would increase spending for the military and border security measures, in a move aimed at expediting President Trump’s agenda as House Republicans remained divided over their own massive fiscal package. Mr. Graham, Republican of South Carolina and the chairman of the Budget Committee, has long … Read more
The Treasury Department installed an ally of Elon Musk in a key position overseeing the nation’s payment system, replacing a career civil servant who had resisted granting Mr. Musk’s cost-cutting team access to payments data. Tom Krause, a Silicon Valley software executive, is now the Treasury’s fiscal assistant secretary, according to the department’s website. He … Read more
At the end of his third week bulldozing through the federal government, Elon Musk sat down to give Vice President JD Vance a 90-minute briefing on his efforts to dismantle the bureaucracy. Mr. Musk was not alone. Invited to join him on Thursday morning in Mr. Vance’s stately ceremonial office suite in the Eisenhower Executive … Read more
Even if there weren’t Super Bowl banners hanging from lamp posts and signs plastered across recently erected security fences, it would still be obvious that New Orleans was gussying up for a reason. The pair of bridges that span the Mississippi River — and that will almost certainly feature prominently in the atmospheric shots of … Read more
You start to realize the difference between a house and a home when you’re watching it burn. We lived there for about seven years, and we were renting. It was a gray house with a white trim and was on Glen Avenue in Altadena. There were these two big windows in the living room, and … Read more
Vice President JD Vance on Friday morning called for the reinstatement of a Department of Government Efficiency staff member who had resigned after being linked to racist posts he made on X under a pseudonym. Mr. Vance’s declaration on X came after The Wall Street Journal linked a pseudonymous account on the social platform with … Read more
Vincent Vu helped found the Vietnamese-American Cadet Association at the United States Military Academy at West Point while he was a cadet, in 2015. West Point’s culture could be difficult for someone like him, who did not come from a military background, he recalled this week. And the academy’s affinity groups were far from discriminatory, … Read more
You start to realize the difference between a house and a home when you’re watching it burn. We lived there for about seven years, and we were renting. It was a gray house with a white trim and was on Glen Avenue in Altadena. There were these two big windows in the living room, and … Read more