President Trump has left himself plenty of room for maximal intervention. But there are a host of potential wild cards, each with risks for the president.

Neel T. Kashkari, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, defended Jerome H. Powell, the Fed chair, in an interview. He also said interest rates should be held steady this month.

Félix Plasencia, an envoy of the interim government, will travel to the United States on the day the opposition leader María Corina Machado is to meet President Trump.

After securing strong recruits on a tough Senate map, the Democratic leader is not only predicting an upset 2026 victory, but also naming the states he thinks his party can flip.

Plus, the battle over taxing billionaires.

A White House spokesman said the president “gave an appropriate and unambiguous response.”

We look at how the actions of federal agents in Minneapolis are impacting life in the city.

Amid a near-total communications blackout, witness footage trickling out of Iran paints a picture of how the country’s largest uprising in decades spread — and turned deadly.

Hundreds of families are hoping their loved ones will be freed by the Venezuelan government, which has said little about who would be released or when.

The companies that turn oil into gasoline and diesel are likely to benefit more, right away, than the businesses that pump oil out of the ground.

Under Bill Pulte, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have pulled away from efforts to help low-income people buy homes.

The real story of how immigrant labor came to define the construction industry.

Its security forces have brutally defended the Islamic Republic, but the protests show that many Iranians consider it stagnant and ideologically hollow.

Erik Duran, who fatally struck the man, Eric Duprey, as he fled on a motorbike in 2023, faces charges of manslaughter, assault and criminally negligent homicide.

“Has anyone told him that they don’t have oil?” Colbert said of the president’s plan to send 1,000 more immigration officers to Minnesota.

Answers to this and other questions about the financial crisis in America’s biggest luxury department store.

China banned the burning of coal for heat around Beijing, but natural gas subsidies have run out, leaving many villagers vulnerable in dangerously cold weather.

Last year was Earth’s third hottest globally, but temperature is just one measure of climate change’s influence.

Mayor Jacob Frey, a Democrat, has clashed with his party’s activist wing. His response to ICE has won him new respect at home and new foes in Washington.

Have questions about the Trump administration’s deportation efforts? We will try to find answers.