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Today — 10 December 2025Main stream

Gov. Pritzker Signs Bill Imposing New Limits on Immigration Enforcement in Illinois

10 December 2025 at 00:28
The measure restricts immigration arrests around state courthouses. Republicans have criticized the law and suggested it would face legal challenges.

© Jamie Kelter Davis for The New York Times

Gov. JB Pritzker of Illinois appeared in Chicago in October at a protest against the Trump administration.
Yesterday — 9 December 2025Main stream

Supreme Court Struggles With How to Insulate the Federal Reserve From Politics

9 December 2025 at 18:04
The president seemed poised for a big Supreme Court win letting him remove officials without cause. But the justices appeared to struggle with how to insulate the Federal Reserve from politics.

© Caroline Gutman for The New York Times

President Trump has mused about trying to fire Jerome H. Powell, the Fed chair, but he has not followed through. Indeed, no president has sought to remove a member of the Fed board without cause.

A Key Question for the Supreme Court: What About the Fed?

9 December 2025 at 18:04
The president seemed poised for a big Supreme Court win letting him remove officials without cause. But the justices appeared to struggle with how to insulate the Federal Reserve from politics.

© Caroline Gutman for The New York Times

President Trump has mused about trying to fire Jerome H. Powell, the Fed chair, but he has not followed through. Indeed, no president has sought to remove a member of the Fed board without cause.

A Frustrated Congress Pushes the Pentagon to Produce Its Boat Strike Orders

9 December 2025 at 06:19
In a sign of bipartisan frustration with the Defense Department, the final defense policy bill aims to compel the Pentagon to share execute orders and video documentation.

© Doug Mills/The New York Times

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has posted edited footage of the strikes on social media, but has so far refused to share the full video with lawmakers.

Who Is Andrew Ferguson, the FTC Chairman Who Tilted the Agency to Trump?

9 December 2025 at 01:34
Andrew Ferguson has used the Federal Trade Commission’s consumer protection mandate to investigate issues important to President Trump and his base.

© Al Drago for The New York Times

Andrew Ferguson, the chairman of the Federal Trade Commission, during a House Appropriations Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government hearing in May.

Planes, Trade and Nuclear Energy: Supreme Court Weighs Fate of Independent Regulators

9 December 2025 at 03:11
The court heard arguments Monday in a case that could determine the independence of agencies like the National Transportation Safety Board and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

© Kenny Holston/The New York Times

The Supreme Court will consider whether President Trump has the power to fire a leader of the Federal Trade Commission, a decision that will have profound consequences for dozens of bipartisan commissions and boards created by Congress.
Before yesterdayMain stream

How Australia’s Social Media Ban for Children Will Work

7 December 2025 at 13:01
The country is barring children under 16 from social media, with a sweeping federal law that is one of the first attempts at a nationwide regulation.

© Matthew Abbott for The New York Times

James Tomlinson, 9, playing a game on a phone in Melbourne, Australia.

Savings Accounts for Disabled People Are Expanding. Do You Qualify?

5 December 2025 at 22:00
Starting next year, people who became disabled by age 46 will be eligible to open ABLE accounts. The accounts have been slow to catch on, partly because the current age limit is 26.

China’s National Security Office in Hong Kong Summons Foreign Journalists

6 December 2025 at 19:53
The authorities accused “some foreign media” of smearing the government’s response to a fire at a high-rise complex, saying: “Do not say you have not been warned.”

© Lam Yik Fei for The New York Times

Smoke rising from the Wang Fuk Court residential complex in Hong Kong last month. Beijing’s national security arm in Hong Kong said that some foreign news outlets had twisted facts and spread false information.

The Supreme Court, Once Wary of Partisan Gerrymandering, Goes All In

6 December 2025 at 06:25
The court’s conservative majority said that Texas’ asserted political motives justified letting the state use voting maps meant to disadvantage Democrats in the midterms.

© Brandon Bell/Getty Images

A map of Texas’ congressional districts during a hearing in Austin in August.
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