The Trump administration threatened on Tuesday to withhold federal funding from New York’s mass transit network if the Metropolitan Transportation Authority did not respond to a series of demands about efforts to prevent crime on the city’s subway and buses. Sean Duffy, the transportation secretary, said in a letter that the M.T.A. must provide a…
President Trump said he would speak with President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia on Tuesday, as he continued to express optimism that Russia would agree to a proposal to halt fighting in Ukraine for 30 days. “We want to see if we can bring that war to an end,” Mr. Trump told reporters aboard Air…
The Trump administration has sent hundreds of Venezuelans accused of being gang members to a prison in El Salvador, pushing the limits of U.S. immigration law seemingly after a federal judge ordered that the deportation flights not proceed. President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador posted a three-minute video on social media on Sunday of men…
President Trump on Saturday signed the government funding bill passed by the Senate on Friday. The bill was passed just hours before a midnight deadline to avoid a lapse in funding, which would have shut down the government. The signing of the bill ended a week of drama of Capitol Hill. On Tuesday, the House…
The federal government took aim on Friday at a small project that helps students seeking business school degrees, along with 45 graduate programs across the country involved with it, as part of a Trump administration promise to dismantle diversity programs. The target is a program called the Ph.D. Project, and its stated mission is to…
A federal appeals court on Friday allowed the Trump administration’s crackdown on diversity, equity and inclusion programs across the federal government to go forward by pausing a lower-court ruling in Maryland that had blocked enforcement of a series of President Trump’s executive orders. However, the concurring opinions provided by the three judges revealed a sharp…
As he flew back from the Group of 7 allies meeting in Canada on Friday, Secretary of State Marco Rubio made an announcement that essentially expelled South Africa’s ambassador to the United States, Ebrahim Rasool. Mr. Rubio wrote on social media that the ambassador was a “race-baiting politician who hates America” and President Trump. He…
All week, residents of Washington, D.C., watched the shutdown debate in Congress with anxiety and anger, as one section of the continuing resolution keeping the government open would force on the city an immediate $1.1 billion budget cut. But on Friday afternoon, shortly after the resolution was passed, the crisis for the District of Columbia…
Stocks on Wall Street rallied on Friday to their biggest daily jump since President Trump’s election, bouncing off a drop that had left the market in a correction after weeks of selling. But the gains weren’t enough to overcome the steep losses from earlier in the week, and the S&P 500 remained in negative territory…
The Supreme Court on Friday afternoon requested responses from states and groups that have challenged the constitutionality of the president’s order ending birthright citizenship for the children of undocumented immigrants and foreign residents. The move is a signal that the justices will consider a request by the Trump administration asking the court to lift a…
