Texas Attorney General Moves to Oust Democrats From Office Over Walkout
Democratic lawmakers maintained their walkout to thwart a Republican gerrymander, prompting Ken Paxton to ask the state’s supreme court to remove 13 of them from their seats.Read More
Appeals Court Blocks Judge Boasberg’s Contempt Inquiry of Trump Officials
The case involves deportation flights to El Salvador and whether the administration ignored the judge’s order that they return to the United States.Read More
Trump Wants U.C.L.A. to Pay $1 Billion to Restore Its Research Funding
The Trump administration has ended about $500 million for the Los Angeles-based university. The president said he wanted nearly double that to restart the flow of funds.Read More
Trump Is Replacing Billy Long as I.R.S. Commissioner
The change comes just two months into the former Republican congressman’s tenure leading the tax agency.Read More
India’s Modi Left Soul-Searching After Failed Courtships of Xi and Trump
The collapse of the prime minister’s high-stakes efforts to transform ties with the world’s two superpowers has exposed the limits of India’s leverage.Read More
Putin Briefs Leaders of China and India on Talks With U.S. on Ukraine
President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia may be seeking to build support among countries that have backed Moscow or remained neutral in the conflict.Read More
Possible Planet Spotted Around Alpha Centauri A by NASA’s James Webb Telescope
Astronomers found strong evidence that a gassy Jupiter-size world is orbiting Alpha Centauri A, one of three stars in the solar system closest to our own.Read More
‘Alligator Alcatraz’ in the Florida Everglades Is Testing Environmental Law
Officials building a Florida detention center appear to be skipping environmental reviews made mandatory decades ago after a fight over an airport at the very same spot.Read More
Chatbots Can Go Into a Delusional Spiral. Here’s How It Happens.
Over 21 days of talking with ChatGPT, an otherwise perfectly sane man became convinced that he was a real-life superhero. We analyzed the conversation.Read More
Mexico’s President Says U.S. Forces Are Unwelcome in Her Country
The Mexican government thought it had turned a corner in cooperating with the Trump administration on combating the cartels, having launched an aggressive crackdown of its own.Read More