What Courts Have Said in Challenges to Trump’s National Guard Deployments
Federal courts across the country have heard legal challenges to the mobilization of troops in Los Angeles, Washington, Portland, Ore., and Chicago. Here’s how some judges have ruled.Read More
Venezuela Is Ready for Change. Maduro Must Allow It.
It is clear Venezuelans have chosen to oust President Maduro. Whether that will happen remains in question.Read More
Machado’s Peace Prize Is Latest Nobel Honor for Female Democracy Campaigners
Women in Iran, Liberia, Yemen and Myanmar have been recognized for their activism, occasionally while they were in prison and faced serious personal risk.Read More
How Trump Got Israel and Hamas to a Truce
Israel approved an agreement brokered by President Trump that paves the way for a cease-fire in the war in Gaza and the return of all remaining hostages.Read More
How Letitia James, Now Indicted, Will Stay as New York’s Attorney General
New York state’s chief legal officer, now a criminal defendant, runs an 800-lawyer agency that is at the center of state government.Read More
Who Is María Corina Machado, the Winner of the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize?
Ms. Machado built one of Venezuela’s most important political movements, and lives in hiding from President Nicolás Maduro’s authoritarian government.Read More
Federal Judge Temporarily Blocks Trump’s National Guard Deployment in Chicago Area
Judge April M. Perry said the Trump administration had not established that sending in troops over the governor’s objection was legally justified. An appeal is likely.Read More
How Right-Wing Influencers Are Shaping the Guard Fight in Portland
President Trump and his administration are amplifying the voices of pro-White House podcasters and streamers eager to ratify the president’s description of Oregon’s largest city as a “hellscape.”Read More
James Indictment Mirrors Her Civil Case Against Trump in Miniature
The president and New York’s attorney general accused each other of real estate fraud. But the sum involved in her case is $18,933, while millions were at stake in his.Read More
Trump’s Retribution Lands on Latest Target, and U.S. Troops Head to Israel
Plus, your Friday news quiz.Read More