Politics

The president has long attacked the media as “fake news,” but the White House has created a new crop of

Dozens of sitting judges shared with The Times their concerns about risks to the courts’ legitimacy as the Supreme Court

It represents a dramatic shift in the use of the military, which has been focused for most of American history

Elon Musk’s team started a behind-the-scenes push for White House control over federal spending that is now an undercurrent of

The president’s move to fire federal workers and his threats to make others go without pay were aimed at pressuring

Voting began this week for a statewide special election that would drastically alter California’s congressional map. Proposition 50, or Prop

The effects of a shutdown tend to unfold in stages. As agencies, departments and federal employees figure out how to

Abigail Spanberger, the Democratic candidate for Virginia governor, declined to call on her party’s attorney general hopeful, Jay Jones, to

More than 30 monuments to Christopher Columbus were toppled or taken down in 2020. Now some are being restored, and

As the government shutdown slogs into a third week and service members and federal workers are set to begin missing