The proposed benefit, a top policy priority for Vice President JD Vance, would apply only to married couples and tap a fund intended to provide federal child care subsidies to working parents.About 80 percent of the 870,000 families that currently get child care subsidies from the Health and Human S
As Dr. Anthony Fauci has faced public scrutiny from congressional Republicans, the D.O.J. has pursued a quieter and more expansive effort against a wider circle of researchers.President Trump and Dr. Anthony S. Fauci were shown models of the coronavirus during a tour of the National Institutes of He
About 50 people were tested, an unparalleled inquiry that comes in the wake of news reports about the war with Iran and the U.S. military’s diminished stocks of munitions.U.S. government investigators are subjecting up to 50 members of the military’s Joint Staff to polygraph tests, according to offi
The U.S. military said it retaliated after Iran launched missiles at two warships. The strikes came days after the two sides exchanged some of their most intense fire in weeks.A screenshot of handout video footage released Saturday by the U.S. military, which said it showed American forces striking
First Lt. Tyler James Feehan, who was 25, had been deployed to an air base in Jordan when enemy missiles and drones lit up the sky. He is among the 18 Americans who have died since the war began.Stephen and Shari Feehan have stayed in close touch with their son’s fiancée, Claire Fletcher, whom he wa
President Vladimir V. Putin ordered a pause in strikes on Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv, ahead of the meeting with President Trump’s envoys: his son-in-law Jared Kushner and the businessman Steve Witkoff.In a photo that Russia’s presidential envoy, Kirill Dmitriev, shared on social media, Jared Kushner, c
As the fear of a possible mobilization becomes a fixture of daily life across Russia, many men are deciding whether to flee, hide or sit tight.Russian soldiers during military drills in Minsk, Belarus, last year.
Even as a jury failed to reach a verdict in Lindsay Clancy’s murder trial, her future is unlikely to include freedom, at least for a long time. But Americans have been divided over the goal of her confinement.Lindsay Clancy at her murder trial in Plymouth, Mass., on Friday.
After a mistrial, Timothy Cruz must decide whether to retry Lindsay Clancy on first-degree murder charges, downgrade the charges or drop the case.Timothy Cruz, the Plymouth County district attorney, at the conclusion of Lindsay Clancy’s murder trial at the Plymouth County Superior Court in Plymouth,
The governors of Texas and Florida have taken steps to curtail the use of license-plate readers, even as the police say they help with solving crime.Vehicles driving past a Flock license-plate reading camera in Farmers Branch, Texas, north of Dallas.
Data from Gallup shows that Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents have their largest advantage over Republicans since 2008.
Missouri’s Supreme Court said a map redrawn to help Republicans could not be used in November and said voters should decide on the new boundaries.The emergency request came after the Missouri Supreme Court said that the map used in last month’s primary election was invalid, and that voters should ha
At the U.S. Open she is playing a whole new style game.Naomi Osaka photographed at her childhood tennis court in Queens, N.Y., which she had refurbished a few years ago.
Even a very successful thriller writer fights self-doubt. His new tough-talking writing guide doubles as a memoir that explains why, and how to beat it.“I’m not a guy who looks back too often,” says Harlan Coben, the author of 38 novels.
Courting authoritarianism with a rapacious Trump.
Turning local traditions into public spectacle is a U.S. pastime.
Researchers want to explore the idea that microscopic particles shed by alien civilizations have accumulated on the lunar surface, making it an archive of extraterrestrial technology.Harrison H. Schmitt, an Apollo 17 astronaut, on his way to take samples on the lunar surface in 1972. Scientists prop
