In 2024, a jury found that Donald J. Trump approved a scheme to falsify business records to conceal a hush-money payment to a porn star. He became the first felon president.
Within days, tens of millions of low-income Americans may lose assistance for food, child care and utilities if the federal government remains shut down.
President Javier Milei emerged from the election with an even tighter bond with the United States and a bigger mandate to pass transformative economic plans.
Gov. Kathy Hochul received a tepid response from a stadium filled with Zohran Mamdani supporters, whose chants of “Tax the rich” interrupted her speech.
The Harvard Salient, a conservative outlet, used a phrase that was similar to a speech given by Hitler. Its independent board paused its operations over material it called “reprehensible, abusive and demeaning.”
The American Federation of Government Employees, in a shift, called on Congress to immediately reopen the government without the health care measures sought by Democratic lawmakers.