At Trump’s Direction, Federal Agencies Are Abandoning Discrimination Cases

President Trump has tried to scale back anti-discrimination regulations that date back decades. Federal agencies have heeded his call.Kenni Miller joined a class-action lawsuit by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, but the case was later dropped by the Trump administration.

E Erica L. Green and Niko Gallogly

Trump Administration Rolls Back Dozens of Gun Regulations

Critics say the administration is weakening public safety. Proponents say regulations would be where they were before President Joseph R. Biden took office.A gun show in Phoenix last January. New rules include ending the so-called gun show loophole, which required background checks for guns shows an

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Nearly a Million Investors Lost a Total of $3.8 Billion on Trump Crypto Coin

A report from a cryptocurrency analytics firm details how those who bought the Trump memecoin have fared, with most retail investors having lost money while sophisticated traders did better.Protesters outside Trump National Golf Club in Sterling, Va., ahead of a private dinner for investors in Presi

E Eric Lipton and David Yaffe-Bellany

America Marks Its 250th Birthday With Storms, Sweat and Fire

Independence Day celebrations were canceled nationwide and the Brooklyn Bridge briefly caught fire. Yet Americans still found countless ways to celebrate.Fireworks erupt over the National Mall in Washington to cap off the day’s events — and extend into the next.

C Campbell Robertson

In Fourth of July Speech, Trump Celebrates America and Derides Foes

A centerpiece address for the nation’s 250th anniversary celebration devoted time to American history, but had all the hallmarks of a Trump rally.President Trump shared the stage with flags that he described with historical stories during his speech on the National Mall.

S Shawn McCreesh

OPEC Plus Pledges to Pump More Even as Oil Prices Fall

The cartel’s decision comes as U.S.-Iran talks to end the war have eased pressure on oil supplies, even as broader market and political volatility persists.An oil refinery in Ras Tanura, Saudi Arabia, in 2018. The country has been actively ramping up oil shipments since the United States and Iran si

L Lisa Friedman

Mexico’s Secret 12th Man in the World Cup: Baby Jesus

The tradition of dressing up a baby Jesus statue began in a Mexico City church nearly 60 years ago. It moved to the cathedral for this World Cup and Mexico hasn’t lost yet.Baby Jesus’s soccer uniform is size 0.

J James Wagner

The Art of Summitry

The performance is meant to imply that the world is an orderly place, or at least a place on which reasonable people are determined to impose some order.

S Serge Schmemann and Jan Staiger

Far From Kyiv and Moscow, Soldiers Stalk Ruins and Evade Drones on the Front

Ukraine’s military has denied a Kremlin claim to have taken a city in the eastern Donetsk region, saying its troops are holding out against infiltrating Russians.A Ukrainian serviceman between the frontline towns of Druzhkivka and Kostiantynivka, in Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region, last month.

C Carlotta Gall and Stanislav Kozliuk