Faced with a mass defection on a bill to demand the release of the Epstein files, the president rushed to avoid an embarrassing loss, suggesting a slip in his iron grip on the G.O.P.Demonstrators outside the Capitol last week. As Republicans gear up for midterm elections and some begin to plot a fut
New emails showed that Lawrence H. Summers, a former Harvard president, had stayed in touch with Jeffrey Epstein for years after Mr. Epstein faced sex trafficking charges.Mr. Summers, a former treasury secretary, had sought money from Mr. Epstein for a poetry foundation led by his wife, Elisa New, a
Ahead of what was likely to be a unanimous House vote that Republican leaders had toiled to avoid, G.O.P. lawmakers embraced the Epstein transparency bill.Representative Steve Scalise of Louisiana, the No. 2 House Republican, center, at the Capitol last week. “It’s going to be an important vote to c
The president has reversed himself and encouraged lawmakers to vote for compelling the Justice Department to turn over investigation documents, but he never really needed their approval.President Trump said on Monday that he would sign a bill related to the release of the full Epstein files should i
U.S. and Israeli soldiers, foreign diplomats and aid workers are congregated in a warehouse in central Israel to talk about the future of Gaza. One key group is missing: Palestinians.U.S. military personnel and other officials monitor screens displaying imagery of the Gaza Strip during a media tour
Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is to visit the White House on Tuesday for the first time since 2018, when the killing of a journalist by Saudi agents made him a pariah.President Trump and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia in Riyadh, the capital, in May in Mr. Trump’s first major tri
The movie ratings board has pulled back the curtain on how it approaches hot-button topics, including nudity, marijuana and guns.
The regulator is cutting staff and easing oversight in ways that critics say might make supervisors less equipped to spot a crisis in advance, risking deeper damage to the economy.Michelle W. Bowman has vowed to overhaul the division she was tapped by President Trump to lead.
The effort would invoke the War Powers Act, which expedites action on measures limiting the president’s war-making authority. It faces long odds in the G.O.P.-led House.Representative Gregory Meeks of New York, the top Democrat on the Foreign Affairs Committee, is leading the effort in the House.
Decades ago, a Chinese village became an official symbol of revolutionary “self-reliance.” The slogan hasn’t changed, but nearly everything else has.Jia Tianlian tending his tiny plot of land in Dazhai, a village in northern China that Mao Zedong once hailed as a model for the nation. In the backgro
Beijing has used loans to developing nations to expand its influence, but a new study says no country has received more Chinese financing than the United States.An Amazon Web Services data center in Ashburn, Va. Some of China’s financing in the United States has been in the form of lines of credit t
The company that won a huge verdict against Greenpeace earlier this year has asked a North Dakota court to block a countersuit in the Netherlands.Protesting the Dakota Access Pipeline project near Cannonball, N.D., in September 2016. Earlier this year a court found Greenpeace liable for its role in
Recent oil and gas deals in Europe suggest that the growing demand for energy may be leading companies to adopt a more pragmatic approach.TotalEnergies uses facilities like gas-fired power plants and this battery farm on the site of a closed refinery near Dunkirk, France, to balance the power grid.
Paramount, Comcast and Netflix are preparing bids to buy all or part of Warner Bros. Discovery, a crown jewel of the industry.Thursday is the deadline for initial bids for Warner Bros. Discovery, which owns the Warner Bros. studio, above.
Republicans created a special $50 billion fund to help rural hospitals stay afloat, but the biggest impacts may be in cities.Martin Luther King Jr. Community Hospital in South Los Angeles serves more Medicaid patients in its emergency department than any other hospital in California.
Solvej Balle in her garden in Denmark.
Suisun City has tried to revive its fortunes for years. The latest idea: Annex land for California Forever, a tech-billionaire-funded new city plan north of San Francisco.Suisun City, Calif., has ping-ponged between the threat of insolvency and revitalization plans that tend to fizzle out.
Scientists and Indigenous sailors in the Marshall Islands are studying seafaring and the human brain.
Ro Khanna argues that even though there is a risk in releasing the documents, it still needs to happen.
My sister and I went on a joint diet. She stopped and I didn’t.
Post-election violence has tarnished the country’s reputation for stability, and the crackdown may have backfired on the government, as officials in Washington call for a re-examination of U.S. ties.Protesters help an injured demonstrator near burning barricades amid clashes in Dar es Salaam on Oct.
A suite of products promise smoother skin, bigger muscles and longer life. But what are peptides? And do they work?
If the outbreaks cannot be extinguished by January, the anniversary of the first cases in Texas, the United States will lose what is known as “elimination status” as determined by the World Health Organization.As of Nov. 13th, the C.D.C. had confirmed 1,723 measles cases nationwide.
