Coast Guard Softens Stance on Hate and Hazing
A new servicewide policy recasts swastikas and nooses as merely “politically divisive” and deletes protections for transgender troops.Read More
U.S. Manufacturers to Benefit as GE Appliances Shifts Production
The company, now owned by a Chinese conglomerate, is investing $150 million in 19 American suppliers across 10 states.Read More
Job Gains Disguise Weakness Beyond Service Industries
The unemployment rate rose in September as more people looked for jobs, according to data delayed by the government shutdown.Read More
The A.I. Boom Has Found Another Gear. Why Can’t People Shake Their Worries?
It is a time of superlatives in the tech industry, with historic profits, stock prices and deal prices. It’s enough to make some people very nervous.Read More
Judge Temporarily Blocks Deployment of National Guard in Washington
Judge Jia M. Cobb found that the presence of more than 2,000 National Guard troops, many from out of state, was most likely unlawful. She paused the order from taking effect until Dec. 11.Read More
Trump Calling Reporter ‘Piggy’ Was ‘Frankness,’ White House Says
Karoline Leavitt, the White House press secretary, addressed for the first time a schoolyard insult that President Trump lobbed at a Bloomberg News reporter last week.Read More
Local Officials Say Border Patrol Has Ended Its Operation in Charlotte, N.C.
The operation, which led to more than 370 arrests, had put a purple state firmly at the center of one of the Trump administration’s most visible immigration strategies.Read More
Appeals Court Blocks Release of Hundreds of Chicago-Area Immigration Detainees
The order temporarily halts a federal judge’s call to release several hundred people arrested during the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown in Illinois.Read More
Officials Move to Drop Case Against Drivers in Chicago Immigration Clash
Two motorists had been charged with crimes in connection to an incident in Chicago in October. Federal authorities had shot and injured one of the drivers.Read More
Senate Democrats Investigate Kennedy Center Deals With Trump Allies
Under Richard Grenell, the performing arts center has given steep discounts to CPAC and FIFA, signed contracts with administration associates and spent lavishly on friends.Read More