The price of gold set a record high on Friday, breaking above $3,000 per troy ounce for the first time as investors reckon with President Trump’s seesawing tariff policy, fears of an economic slowdown and a sinking stock market. Gold is often sought out by investors as a safe haven during times of turmoil, and…
Department of Homeland Security officials searched two dorm rooms at Columbia University, days after the immigration authorities arrested and moved to deport a pro-Palestinian activist and recent graduate of the university. Columbia’s interim president, Katrina Armstrong, said in a note to students and staff late Thursday that the officials had presented federal search warrants for…
When President Trump hawked some Teslas at the White House on Tuesday, it evoked a similar scene from Beijing’s main government compound years earlier, when a top Chinese leader was also photographed alongside Elon Musk examining one of the company’s electric vehicles. In January 2019, China’s No. 2 official at the time, Li Keqiang, met…
The Trump administration replaced the top lawyer at the Internal Revenue Service, according to three people familiar with the change, in a shake-up that came as administration officials sought to use the agency’s taxpayer data to help with deporting immigrants. William Paul, a civil servant who became the acting chief counsel at the I.R.S. in…
President Trump is planning to invoke an obscure wartime authority in the coming days to rapidly accelerate the deportation of immigrants from the United States, according to people familiar with the matter. Mr. Trump could invoke the law, the Alien Enemies Act of 1798, as soon as Friday, the same day he will deliver a…
Elon Musk met with the head of the National Security Agency and U.S. Cyber Command this week, an N.S.A. spokesman said on Thursday, a sign that the effort to shrink the size of the federal work force could soon turn to a critical arm of the intelligence community. Mr. Musk, who is leading efforts to…
A federal judge in Washington has ordered Elon Musk and operatives involved with his Department of Government Efficiency to hand over documents and answer questions about its role in directing mass firings and dismantling government programs. The judge, Tanya S. Chutkan of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, said on Wednesday that…
America’s largest federal employees’ union filed a lawsuit on Thursday against the Homeland Security Department and its leadership to stop the Trump administration from canceling a collective bargaining agreement for Transportation Security Administration workers. The lawsuit, filed in federal court in Seattle, is the latest example of how the union, the American Federation of Government…
Jewish and Muslim groups condemned President Trump for calling Senator Chuck Schumer “a Palestinian,” saying that the president used the term as a racial slur. Mr. Trump made the comments on Wednesday at a meeting in the Oval Office with Micheál Martin, the prime minister of Ireland. A reporter asked Mr. Trump about tax cuts,…
President Trump threatened to escalate a trade war with the European Union after the bloc announced 50 percent tariffs on U.S. whiskey and several other American products to kick in on April 1, in retaliation to a batch of U.S. tariffs that took effect this week. “If this tariff is not removed immediately, the U.S….
