Texas Senate Candidates Make Final Arguments Before Primary Elections

The Republicans John Cornyn and Ken Paxton — and the Democrats Jasmine Crockett and James Talarico — are battling in bitter and expensive races.Read More
U.S. Sends More Troops to the Mideast as Iran War Expands

Gen. Dan Caine, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, acknowledged the possibility of an extended campaign, as the military announced that six U.S. service members had been killed so far.Read More
Trump Embraces U.S. Military Power After Years of Caution

The wars in Afghanistan and Iraq offered a stark lesson in the limits of military force. The Iran attacks suggest an era of postwar wariness is over.Read More
Trump Says He Will End Boycott of White House Correspondents’ Dinner

The mentalist Oz Pearlman is this year’s speaker. “Hopefully, it will be something very Special,” the president wrote on Truth Social.Read More
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