Elon Musk’s DOGE Overhauls the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
The upheaval at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau offers a glimpse into the playbook that Elon Musk and other Trump allies seem to be writing in real time.Read More
New York Got $80 Million for Migrants. The White House Took It Back.
The New York City comptroller’s office, which first noticed the missing money, said that the Federal Emergency Management Agency had unilaterally taken the funds from the city’s accounts.Read More
Bondi Announces Lawsuit Against New York Over Immigration
The attorney general, citing a law allowing New Yorkers to get a driver’s license regardless of citizenship or legal status, accused the state of “prioritizing “illegal aliens over American citizens.”Read More
Will an Ambitious Prosecutor Do Trump’s Bidding and Drop Adams Case?
Danielle R. Sassoon, Manhattan’s interim U.S. attorney, has built a life on conservative values. The order to drop the corruption case against New York’s mayor presents her with a pivotal choice.Read More
Eric Adams Discussed Possible Republican Primary Run With G.O.P. Leader
The mayor discussed options to run for re-election in the Republican contest as recently as Monday. Asked for comment, he said he was running as a Democrat.Read More
Trump’s Resignation Program for Federal Workers Can Proceed, Judge Rules
The decision was a win for the Trump administration, which has been stymied by a series of other court rulings in recent days. The judge said the plaintiffs lacked standing.Read More
Many Groups Promised Federal Aid Still Have No Funds and No Answers
Judicial rulings have unfrozen some grants awaited by nonprofits, states and companies, but the reprieve has been uneven and many fear the relief is only temporary.Read More
Trump Deputy Attorney General Nominee Decries Treatment of His Client
Mr. Blanche made clear that his prior work as a personal lawyer for the president informed his approach to the job of deputy attorney general.Read More
Belarus Frees an American and 2 Others as It Tries to Thaw Relations
Aleksandr G. Lukashenko, Belarus’s autocratic president and Russia’s closest ally, has taken steps to soften his country’s isolation from the West.Read More
Trump Says Call With Putin Is Beginning of Ukraine Peace Negotiations
Among the topics the leaders discussed in their first confirmed conversation of President Trump’s second term was ending the war in Ukraine, he said.Read More