President Trump met this week with the PGA Tour commissioner, the tour said on Thursday, as the Justice Department considers whether to approve a venture between the United States’ premier golf circuit and one backed by Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund. The meeting at the White House on Tuesday was an unusual foray for an … Read more
President Trump on Thursday said he would speak with members of Congress about legislation that would revamp the nation’s aging aviation safety infrastructure used by air traffic controllers. During the National Prayer Breakfast, Mr. Trump highlighted the deadly midair crash last week near Ronald Reagan National Airport between an Army Black Hawk helicopter and an … Read more
President Trump on Thursday said he would speak with members of Congress about legislation that would revamp the nation’s aging aviation safety infrastructure used by air traffic controllers. During the National Prayer Breakfast, Mr. Trump highlighted the deadly midair crash last week near Ronald Reagan National Airport between an Army Black Hawk helicopter and an … Read more
Of all the many forms Donald J. Trump can take, maybe the most perplexing one is Pious Trump. It is a shape he shifted into shortly after 8 o’clock on Thursday morning to deliver a sermon of sorts on Capitol Hill for the annual National Prayer Breakfast. In the grand amphitheater of National Statuary Hall, … Read more
A federal judge in Massachusetts barred the Trump administration on Thursday from imposing a midnight deadline on federal workers who were offered the chance to take a deferred resignation, pausing the initiative until a hearing on Monday afternoon. The offer, which had been set to expire at 11:59 p.m. on Thursday, is part of a … Read more
The Navy’s elite TOPGUN pilot school quietly undertook an effort called Project Odin’s Eye in the fall of 2024 to try to detect and treat brain injuries in fighter crew members, and leaders kept it so confidential that not even the broader Navy knew about it. Now, the powerful House Committee on Oversight and Government … Read more
A day after President Trump ordered federal agencies to coordinate in an effort to keep transgender women and girls from competing in women’s sports, the Education Department followed up on Thursday by wading into several of the most publicized and politically charged cases involving transgender athletes. The department announced that it would investigate the University … Read more
Only athletes who were assigned female at birth will be eligible to play women’s sports at N.C.A.A.-member colleges and universities, the organization announced on Thursday. That decision, effective immediately, came a day after President Trump signed an executive order barring transgender girls and women from playing sports in the women’s category at federally funded educational … Read more
Technology that would have allowed air traffic controllers to better track the movement of an Army helicopter before it collided with a passenger jet over the Potomac River last week was turned off at the time of the crash, Senator Ted Cruz, Republican of Texas, said in an interview on Thursday. Members of the Senate … Read more
The Justice Department’s newly formed “Weaponization Working Group,” announced in a memo this week by Attorney General Pam Bondi, was purportedly intended to root out “abuses of the criminal justice process” by local and federal law enforcement officers. But a literal reading of its name suggests that the investigative body was also an example of … Read more