Trump Administration Abandons Efforts to Impose Executive Orders on Law Firms

The move amounts to a surrender in a clash that has led many law firms to submit to the president rather than face the threat of his executive orders.Read More
Supreme Court Sides With Religious Parents, Blocking California’s Trans Student Policy

Christian teachers and parents challenged the state’s policies, which they say require schools to hide students’ transgender status from their parents.Read More
N.Y. Attorney General Orders Hospital to Resume Youth Transgender Care

NYU Langone Health had stopped providing puberty-blocking medication and hormone treatments after the federal government threatened to pull its funding.Read More
In Republican Win, Supreme Court Retains G.O.P. District in New York

A Republican congresswoman had asked the justices to preserve her New York City district, despite a lower-court ruling that it illegally diluted the power of minority voters.Read More
What Is Trump’s Neck Rash? His Doctor Declines to Explain.

President Trump’s physician did not explain what the skin condition was or what medication he was using to treat it.Read More
They’re Hiring at U.S.A.I.D. Just Not Anyone Who Worked There.

The Trump administration said in a memo it wanted to “avoid the risk of impaired objectivity” by hiring former staff members to wind down operations at the U.S. Agency for International Development.Read More
How Religion Is Playing in the Senate Democratic Primary in Texas

James Talarico is talking up his beliefs and his status as a seminary student. Jasmine Crockett, his opponent, is the daughter of a pastor and is steeped in the Black church.Read More
As Maduro and Khamenei Learned, It’s Harder Than Ever for Leaders to Hide

A surge in sensors and cameras, combined with artificial intelligence, has transformed U.S. intelligence’s ability to locate foreign heads of state. Add to that an American president willing to capture or kill them.Read More
U.S. Military Death Toll in Iran War Rises to 6

The number of U.S. service members killed in the first three days of the war grew as officials said the remains of two more troops had been recovered.Read More
Texas Senate Primary Becomes Most Expensive in History

The primary race for Senate in Texas has become the most expensive on record, with John Cornyn and James Talarico heavily outspending their rivals. But Mr. Cornyn seems to be in trouble.Read More