Trump’s Funding Freeze Raises a New Question: Is the Government’s Word Good?

Companies that get federal grants or loans usually sign a legally binding agreement and depend on getting reimbursed. The new administration has upended that expectation.Read More
Eric Adams Highlights Coordination With Trump’s Border Czar on Fox News

Mayor Eric Adams, appearing alongside the border czar, Tom Homan, said he would work with the Trump administration on immigration as he faces calls to resign over his cooperation.Read More
Russian Drone Hits Chernobyl Nuclear Radiation Shield, Ukraine Says

President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine called the damage “significant” but said there were no signs of radiation leaks. A Kremlin spokesman denied that Russia had carried out the strike.Read More
What Happens to Global Trade If ‘the W.T.O. Is Toast’?

President Trump, who disabled the World Trade Organization during his first term, is going after international free trade rules in place since the 1940s.Read More
Whiskey Offers Window Into the Pain of a Trade War

Liquor is leverage as the world careens toward another trade dispute. European tariffs on American whiskey snap back after March 31 unless an extension is granted.Read More
Trump Pushes Tariff Threats on Global Scale

With less than a month in office, the president has pursued trade actions that could shatter the global trading system and dwarf the trade measures he took over his entire first term.Read More
Ukrainians Fear Peace May Strand Them Forever From Lost Homes

Bitterness has greeted suggestions that occupied territory will have to be ceded to Russia: “It’s like ripping off a man’s arm or leg and then saying, ‘Let it be as it is.’”Read More
Mass Government Layoffs Begin, and New Abortion Fight Takes Shape

Plus, why crafters are in mourning.Read More
Trump Official’s Demand in Adams Case Forces Justice Dept. Showdown

A crisis at the department over the Eric Adams case is an early test of the criminal justice system’s resilience against a retribution-minded president and his appointees.Read More
Trump Officials Escalate Layoffs, Targeting Most of 200,000 Workers on Probation

Workers across the federal government were terminated on Thursday after the federal government’s human resources division advised agencies to lay off most probationary employees.Read More