Humanities Endowment Funds Trump’s Priorities After Ending Old Grants
The $34.8 million allocated by the National Endowment for the Humanities leans toward presidents, statesmen and the Declaration of Independence’s 250th anniversary.Read More
Why the G.O.P. Isn’t Doing Many Town Halls
The booing started in seconds at Representative Mike Flood’s town hall in Lincoln, Neb. Annie Karni, a congressional correspondent for The New York Times, reports from the auditorium after the Republican congressman’s town hall, which she said was one of the most raucous political events she’s ever witnessed.Read More
ICE Offers, Then Quickly Withdraws, Cash Bonuses for Swiftly Deporting Immigrants
The short-lived effort underscores the mounting pressure on ICE to meet President Trump’s aggressive deportation targets.Read More
California Democrats Look to Redraw House Map Amid Texas Redistricting War
It was unclear how the agency would respond. Democratic lawmakers left the state to stop Republicans from redrawing district maps to their advantage.Read More
F.B.I. Is Asked to Arrest Texas Democrats in Battle Over House Seats
It was unclear how the agency would respond. Democratic lawmakers left the state to stop Republicans from redrawing district maps to their advantage.Read More
Ghislaine Maxwell Opposes Request to Unseal Epstein Grand Jury Papers
The disgraced financier’s former companion said disclosure would harm her legal rights. “Jeffrey Epstein is dead,” her lawyers wrote. “Ghislaine Maxwell is not.”Read More
Does Japan Want American Cars? Trump’s Push to Open Foreign Markets Faces Test.
President Trump is celebrating deals that lower trade barriers on American staples like cars. Experts question how much of an effect this will have.Read More
House Oversight Committee Issues Subpoenas for Epstein Files
The committee’s Republican chairman requested that the documents from the Justice Department and former government officials be delivered by Aug. 19.Read More
Columbia and Brown to Disclose Admissions and Race Data in Trump Deal
A widely overlooked part of a settlement with the two universities could profoundly alter how elite schools determine who gets accepted.Read More
How Tech Firms Like Google and Meta Are Embracing the Military
In a major shift, Google, OpenAI, Meta and venture capitalists — many of whom had once forsworn involvement in war — have embraced the military industrial complex.Read More