President Trump poured cold water on the idea of serving a third term, an idea he has frequently teased but is prohibited by the Constitution, and instead floated Vice President JD Vance or Secretary of State Marco Rubio as possible successors in an interview aired on Sunday. Mr. Trump said in the interview, with NBC’s…
The head of the Justice Department’s civil rights division said on Saturday that she was investigating a new policy in Minnesota’s largest county to determine whether it illegally considers race as a factor in plea deals. Harmeet K. Dhillon, the assistant attorney general for civil rights, announced the investigation on social media Saturday night. A…
President Trump’s budget proposal would shrink the Education Department, which he has called on Congress to eliminate, by slashing its funding by 15 percent, or $12 billion. The most significant chunk of that reduction, about $4.5 billion, would come from the Title I budget for high-poverty schools, a cut of nearly 25 percent at a…
President Trump said on Friday that Harvard would lose its tax-exempt status, repeating his intent to enlist the Internal Revenue Service in his feud with the wealthy research university and upend the school’s finances. “We are going to be taking away Harvard’s Tax Exempt Status. It’s what they deserve!” Mr. Trump wrote on social media….
President Trump said Thursday that he would rename Veterans Day, on Nov. 11, as “Victory Day for World War I” and May 8, widely known as V-E Day, as “Victory Day for World War II,” so that the United States could celebrate its achievements in those conflicts. “We won both Wars, nobody was close to…
The Pentagon is creating a second expanded military zone at the southwestern border, to be patrolled by U.S. soldiers, in the Trump administration’s latest step to militarize the boundary with Mexico to help stem the flow of migrants. The military’s Northern Command said in a statement on Thursday evening that it was establishing a narrow…
Former Representative Mike Rogers, Republican of Michigan, announced on Monday that he would run for his state’s open U.S. Senate seat, his second bid for the chamber after losing to Senator Elissa Slotkin, a Democrat, by fewer than 20,000 votes last fall. The seat opened after Michigan’s senior senator, Gary Peters, a Democrat, said that…
Only three days after President Trump announced sweeping tariffs, including a 20 percent tariff on goods from the European Union, Elon Musk said on Saturday that he hoped that Europe and the United States moved “to a zero-tariff situation, effectively creating a free-trade zone.” Mr. Musk made the remarks during a videoconference appearance with Italy’s…
In his drive to seek higher office, the prosecutors’ filing said, Mr. Santos fabricated his past and engaged in deceitful schemes, including inflating his fund-raising numbers and stealing from donors. “He lied to his campaign staff, his supporters, his putative employer and congressional colleagues, and the American public,” the prosecutors wrote. “Santos’s conduct has made…
President Trump has criticized a portrait painted during his first term that is hanging in the Colorado State Capitol, and demanded that the state’s governor take it down. The portrait, painted in oil by the Colorado-based artist Sarah Boardman and unveiled in 2019, features the president in a dark suit and red tie. It hangs…
