The Justice Department said that it would abandon efforts to overhaul local policing in Minneapolis and other cities with histories of civil rights violations.
Officials in Minneapolis said that they would go ahead with promised policy changes whether or not the agreement with the Department of Justice was finalized.
A large tax cut, as well as more money for defense and immigration enforcement, would be financed by slashing health, nutrition, education and clean energy programs.
A key committee met after midnight on Wednesday and worked through dawn as Republican leaders finalized changes aimed at winning over holdouts in hopes of bringing the bill to the floor in short order.
The inquiry into Andrew M. Cuomo was opened in recent weeks by the U.S. attorney’s office in Washington based on a criminal referral it received from House Republicans.
Three days after Israel said it would ease its blockade of humanitarian aid to Gaza, little, if any, of the desperately needed food, fuel and medicine appeared to have reached Palestinians.
At the T.H. Chan School of Public Health, which relies heavily on federal support, a crisis response is underway and a reshaping of the institution feels inevitable.
“We’re going to have to take you out of U.S.A.,” the “Daily Show” host said after the homeland security chief couldn’t correctly define habeas corpus and suggested a game show for citizenship.
Russia’s intelligence services turned Brazil into an assembly line for deep-cover operatives. A team of federal agents from the South American country has been quietly dismantling it.
The headquarters of Russia’s foreign intelligence service, or S.V.R., outside Moscow. The service often unites its deep-cover operatives in marriage early in their careers, sending them into the world as partners in espionage and life.
A inteligência russa transformou o Brasil em uma linha de montagem de espiões. Mas policiais federais brasileiros trabalham, discretamente, para desmontá-la.
In a White House meeting, the U.S. president is expected to point to alleged discrimination against white South Africans, a week after welcoming a group of them as refugees.
Newly arrived South Africans listening to the deputy secretary of state, Christopher Landau, and the Homeland Security deputy secretary, Troy Edgar, on May 12 as they delivered welcome statements, near Washington Dulles International Airport.
Republicans have readied a plan to overturn California’s law phasing out gas-powered vehicles, using a statute aimed at striking down federal regulations. Democrats say it’s an end run around Senate rules.
The start-up Every centered its business model on artificial intelligence, and has raised $2 million from backers including Reid Hoffman, the founder of LinkedIn.
Military strikes in Yemen and sanctions targeting the Iran-backed militia have compounded a humanitarian crisis in the poorest country in the Middle East, officials say.
A building in Sana, Yemen, damaged by U.S. airstrikes in April. Aid agencies say that the bombing campaigns have caused more harm to civilians than the Houthis.
The Rev. Sally J. French, who leads the Episcopal Diocese of New Jersey, said razing the church would also endanger more than 20 programs, including 12-step addiction meetings and a weekly food pantry.
Removing marijuana from the government’s most restrictive class of drugs had rare bipartisan support last year. But the D.E.A. slowed the effort and legal challenges followed.
Catrin Einhorn, a reporter covering biodiversity, climate and the environment for The New York Times, explains how McCormick Place, a convention center in Chicago, went from being a killer of migratory birds to a success story. This story is part of The New York Times’s “50 States, 50 Fixes” package that highlights one environmental solution that’s working in each state.
At the T.H. Chan School of Public Health, which relies heavily on federal support, a crisis response is underway and a reshaping of the institution feels inevitable.
About 25 percent of corporate donors to New York Pride have canceled or scaled back their support, citing economic uncertainty and fear of retribution from the Trump administration.
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