The ruling was a victory for the university in its battle with President Trump, but the judge’s decision may not be the final word.The campus of Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass.
The defense secretary and President Trump said a small boat was carrying drugs but offered little evidence and few details.The U.S. guided-missile destroyer Sampson in Panama City on Tuesday. The Pentagon has been amassing a small armada of warships in the southern Caribbean.
The Trump administration says Venezuela is sending vast amounts of cocaine to the United States. Venezuela’s role in the drug trade is overstated, experts say.The U.S. Navy warship USS Sampson in Panama City on Tuesday.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio met with President Claudia Sheinbaum, after she pressed the Trump administration not to take unilateral action in Mexico.Secretary of State Marco Rubio meeting with President Claudia Sheinbaum of Mexico in Mexico City on Wednesday.
The funicular line, one of three in Lisbon, is a popular tourist attraction.Emergency teams working at the site where the Elevador da Glória funicular derailed in Lisbon on Wednesday, killing more than a dozen people.
California, Oregon and Washington said they would work together to review scientific data, saying the C.D.C. could no longer be trusted. But Florida said it would abolish all vaccine mandates.Federal policies on vaccines have been changing rapidly since Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a vaccine skeptic, beca
The state would be the first to scrap requirements that children be vaccinated to attend school, among other rules.Dr. Joseph Ladapo, the state’s surgeon general, has long opposed vaccine mandates.
The agency’s staff scientists pointed out how Covid was still unpredictable and posed a threat to toddlers, but the official decided to restrict shots only to children with risk factors.Dr. Vinay Prasad disagreed with staff at the F.D.A., wanting to narrow Covid vaccination approvals to people young
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Senator Mark Warner’s visit was classified and not intended to be publicized. It was to include a meeting with the head of the agency and a briefing on the agency’s use of artificial intelligence.Laura Loomer has questioned the loyalty of various intelligence officers, and helped oust the National S
Jeffrey Epstein’s accusers went to the Capitol to ask Congress to get behind their calls for more disclosures, but momentum for a bill demanding it appeared to stall.Women who said they were victimized by Jeffrey Epstein recounted their experiences at a news conference with lawmakers outside the Cap
In a letter to the White House, the Smithsonian asserted its “authority over our programming and content,” but said a team would review what information it would turn over.Among the Smithsonian’s 21 museums are the American Art Museum and National Portrait Gallery in Washington.
President Trump’s extraordinary summit with President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia last month has yet to yield any concrete results on the war in Ukraine.President Donald Trump holds a bilateral meeting with President of Poland Karol Nawrocki in the Oval Office at the White House on Wednesday.
Medical advances and geopolitics collide for two septuagenarian leaders who have suggested that their time in office is far from over.
The conversations have also involved finding a place for Curtis Sliwa with the goal of giving Andrew Cuomo a better chance of defeating Zohran Mamdani in November.Polls have shown Mayor Eric Adams in fourth place, often polling in the single digits.
Ahn Hak-sop was captured during the Korean War by the South and imprisoned for more than 40 years. Now 95, he wants to return to the North to die.Ahn Hak-sop at his home in Gimpo, South Korea.
Attorney General Ken Paxton is waging “legal war” against Beto O’Rourke, a possible Democratic rival, threatening jail and an investigation that could bankrupt his organization.The clash between the politicians started last month as an offshoot of President Trump’s push to have Republicans redraw co
Total spending could top $200 million in a November contest that could help determine control of the House next year.Gov. Gavin Newsom of California is asking wealthy donors to back his redistricting ballot measure. His advisers have privately said they want to raise more than $100 million for his N
The effort involves several agencies that typically have little to do with wind power, including the Health and Human Services Department.A damaged turbine at Vineyard Wind, the country’s second large-scale offshore wind farm off the coast of Massachusetts, prompted the closure of several beaches to
The smaller outlet in conservative TV news argued in a lawsuit that Fox News had essentially created a monopoly. Fox said the case had no merit.Christopher Ruddy, the owner of Newsmax. Newsmax argued that Fox News and its parent company, Fox Corporation, had in effect created a financial penalty for
City data actually suggest that rat sightings are declining. But horror stories are everywhere, and a single rat in a stroller is enough to set off a panic.A rat at the Diana Ross Playground in Central Park. Rats have proliferated in several Upper West Side playgrounds.
A federal judge ordered steps in the search monopoly case that will restrain Google but not break it up, signaling a cautious antitrust approach by courts.The Google search case is one of five pending antitrust suits by the Justice Department or the F.T.C. against big tech companies: Amazon, Apple,
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America’s withdrawal from the global order is forcing former allies to rethink their identities.
