In firing the head of the agency that collects employment statistics, the president underscored his tendency to suppress facts he doesn’t like and promote his own version of reality.On Friday, President Trump fired the Labor Department official in charge of compiling statistics on employment in Amer
Erika McEntarfer led the agency that produced key data on jobs and inflation. Then July’s report showed a weakening economy, and President Trump accused her of “rigging” the numbers.Erika McEntarfer was appointed as the commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics by President Biden in 2023 and co
The tariffs are a substantial new source of revenue for the federal government. The budget may start to depend on it.
The apparent shift in tone comes as cease-fire negotiations have hit a wall and pressure is mounting on Israel over the hunger crisis in Gaza. But Israel and Hamas remain far apart on the terms of any deal.Protesters in Tel Aviv demanding an immediate end to the war and the release of all hostages h
The Sykes-Picot Agreement was a secret treaty Britain and France signed more than a century ago. Many consider it to have seeded a legacy of strife in the Middle East.Speaking at the United Nations on Tuesday, Britain’s foreign secretary, David Lammy, evoked Britain’s role in the creation of Israel.
The E.P.A. said this week it would revoke its own ability to fight climate change. It’s the latest move in an extraordinary pivot away from science-based protections.A smoggy street in Los Angeles in 1954.
President Trump and Republicans in Congress are eliminating federal incentives to buy electric vehicles, but carmakers need to keep selling and investing in them.President Trump described federal incentives for battery-powered vehicles as a “mandate that forced everyone to buy electric cars that nob
Tatiana Andia knew Colombia would permit her a medically assisted death. She took her country with her on the journey to dying.Tatiana Andia, who was diagnosed in 2023 with terminal lung cancer, at home in Bogotá, Colombia, where physician-assisted death is legal. But as Ms. Andia was discovering, t
Even low-level government employees like elementary school teachers and nurses have been ordered to hand in their passports, to enforce “discipline.”Candidates lining up for a civil service exam in Nanjing, China, last year.
Over the past two years, Chinese immigrants have constituted one of the largest groups entering the United States. Some fear fines or even imprisonment if they are sent home.Han Lihua says fear has eclipsed his fragile new life, forcing difficult questions about whether the United States can offer a
The introduction of a state-approved messaging app has raised fears that Russia could be preparing to block WhatsApp and Telegram.A new state-sanctioned messenger service, MAX, will come preinstalled by law on all new smartphones sold in Russia starting in September.
The arrests came days after President Volodymyr Zelensky’s U-turn on an effort to neuter anticorruption agencies.A protest in Kyiv, Ukraine, last week against legislation stripping the independence of anti-corruption agencies.
Campus Reform was founded years ago to expose what it calls leftist bias on college campuses. The online site’s cause has gone from fringe to mainstream.Zachary Marschall is the editor of Campus Reform, a news site focused on finding evidence of left-leaning bias on campuses.
On a steamy Monday evening, no one inside the Manhattan office building noticed the dark BMW pull up outside. The driver entered the lobby with a rifle in his hand.The building’s entrance the morning after the shooting.
Leavenworth, Kan., was forged by the corrections industry, but residents are divided over plans for a privately operated immigration detention site in town.Leavenworth, Kan., has long been known for its corrections facilities, including an imposing federal penitentiary.
“Deporting immigrants is cruel,” some of the ads against Cuban Americans in Congress read. Michael B. Fernández wanted to “wake up” Miami’s conscience.Michael B. Fernández’s goal for the ad campaign is to help oust three Florida Republicans from Congress, who he says have failed to push back against
The Guardian Angels founder and Republican nominee for mayor has long been a New York curiosity. Can he become a serious contender?Mr. Sliwa tries to campaign in the subway system two hours a day. “It’s the only way,” he said.
Most children learn at some point that flipping the board doesn’t make them the winner.
Christianity has a branding problem — but influencers are helping, one vertical video at a time.Pope Leo with influencers.
Aware of its deeply unpopular national brand, the Democratic Party is turning to an unusually large crop of veterans to help it retake the House next year.Several Democrats pointed to JoAnna Mendoza as a promising candidate. A former Marine drill instructor running for the House in Arizona, she coul
The eruption of the Krasheninnikov volcano on Sunday in Russia’s Far East came after a series of seismic events this past week on the Kamchatka peninsula.An undated photograph of the Krasheninnikov volcano, which erupted on Sunday for the first time in “at least 400 years,” according to a statement
The epicenter of the 3.0-magnitude quake, which struck around 10:20 p.m. on Saturday, was near Teterboro Airport in New Jersey.
Four people were killed in the attack inside the Owl Bar in Anaconda, Mont. The authorities are still searching for the suspect, an Army veteran who lived nearby.Authorities identified Michael Brown, 45, as a suspect in a shooting that left four people dead at a bar in Montana on Friday morning.
