The agreement prompted a backlash within the party, not only against the Democratic defectors who supported it, but against Senator Chuck Schumer, the leader who did not.Senators Catherine Cortez Masto, Maggie Hassan, Jeanne Shaheen, Angus King and Tim Kaine, who voted with Republicans to end the go
A restless Democratic base is seething at older leaders in Washington.Some of the Democratic senators who voted with Republicans to end the government shutdown.
President Ahmed al-Shara of Syria outside the White House on Monday.
Syrian President Ahmed al-Shara’s meeting with President Trump in Washington signifies a new turn for al-Shara, a former Islamist rebel leader who was once designated by the United States as a terrorist with a $10 million bounty on his head. Our reporter Christina Goldbaum describes the meeting.
Robert Harshbarger Jr. pleaded guilty in 2013 to health care fraud and distributing a misbranded drug. His wife, Diana Harshbarger, is a member of Congress.Representative Diana Harshbarger, Republican of Tennessee, was a corporate officer for American Inhalation Medication Specialists, the company t
A delay in SNAP benefits mixed with a decline in foot traffic has many stores, restaurants and food producers concerned about sales.Jimmy Wright, who owns Wright’s Market in Opelika, Ala., said his customers were “very much trying to stretch every dollar they have.”
The Supreme Court chose not to revisit a case involving same-sex marriage. The number of married same-sex couples has doubled in the last 10 years.Jim Obergefell was the named plaintiff in the case that established same-sex marriage as a national right.
The president said the assertions behind a judgment that he sexually abused and defamed the writer were “implausible” and “unsubstantiated.”The writer E. Jean Carroll, left, won a $5 million civil judgment against President Trump in 2023.
The justices agreed to hear a challenge to Mississippi’s law, a case that could upend similar measures in dozens of states before the 2026 election.Counting absentee ballots at the Hinds County Courthouse in Jackson, Miss., in 2023.
Lower courts condemned the treatment of Damon Landor, a Rastafarian, but found that a federal law protecting religious rights barred him from suing prison officials for money.Damon Landor outside the Supreme Court on Monday.
The British public service broadcaster apologized on Monday for a misleadingly edited documentary about President Trump. But the scandal had already claimed two of its top executives.The British Broadcasting Corporation’s current crisis is less about President Trump, than about the insoluble tension
The rags-to-riches tale had already made fans of Zadie Smith and Dua Lipa. Roddy Doyle, who chaired the judging panel, called the book “singular” and “extraordinary.”David Szalay, at right, accepts the Booker Prize trophy for his novel “Flesh” from last year’s winner, Samantha Harvey.
Two Cleveland pitchers were accused of colluding with bettors. The league and its gambling company partners have put a $200 limit on wagers on individual pitches.Rob Manfred, baseball’s commissioner, said, “we are always protecting the integrity of our game.”
Federal prosecutors say two pitchers for the Cleveland Guardians tipped off bettors about what pitches they would throw, setting up rigged “microbets.” M.L.B. moved to limit such bets.The ubiquity of gambling apps has made prop bets a profit center for companies.
The sports betting boom has drawn in millions of young men. Are recovery efforts for problem gamblers lagging behind?Zach Everett realized he had a gambling problem after moving to Colorado, which had legalized sports betting apps. But he struggled for years to find a path to recovery that worked.
The benefits of hormone replacement have been underappreciated, Dr. Marty Makary, the agency’s commissioner, said on Monday. Critics described evidence for the change as insufficient.Estrogen pills used to treat menopause symptoms. Many hormone treatments have carried prominent warnings since 2003,
Chi Ossé, a New York City councilman, has told allies he is preparing to challenge Representative Hakeem Jeffries, the Democratic leader of the House.Chi Ossé, 27, is ideologically aligned with Zohran Mamdani, but the mayor-elect has discouraged him from challenging Hakeem Jeffries.
Zohran Mamdani navigated a media landscape similar to the one that helped Trump win over young men.The Zohran Mamdani Interview with Throwing Fits podcast
The mayor-elect named Dean Fuleihan, a government veteran, to be his first deputy mayor. Elle Bisgaard-Church will serve as his chief of staff.Dean Fuleihan, center, previously served as first deputy mayor and budget director under Mayor Bill de Blasio. Elle Bisgaard-Church, who was Zohran Mamdani’s
The town’s unionized workers wanted to believe that there was something better than what private equity owners had offered.A former paper mill in Chillicothe, Ohio, will now produce sterile gloves for hospitals. A subsidiary of U.S. Medical Glove Company bought the facility.
Parents of campers and counselors who died in the July 4 Texas floods said the camp leadership did little before mounting “a hopeless ‘rescue’ effort from its self-created disaster.”A lawsuit claims that Dick Eastland, executive director of Camp Mystic, and his son Edward, a director, wasted valuabl
Neros, a company founded in 2023 by former teenage drone racers, won a coveted Army contract and is gaining popularity in the defense sector.Soren Monroe-Anderson, left, and Olaf Hichwa, the founders of Neros, a drone manufacturer, at the company’s offices in El Segundo, Calif.
A tech billionaire professes to hate identity politics, but they seem in some ways to consume him.
This is how the shutdown ends?
