In his first few weeks, President Trump has frozen climate spending, shaken up staffing at agencies like the E.P.A. and set off a wave of legal challenges.
Danielle R. Sassoon, Manhattan’s interim U.S. attorney, built a life on conservative values and amassed a daunting resume. On Thursday, she took a stand against the Justice Department where she had made her career.
The president said his advisers would devise new tariff levels reflecting countries’ tariffs, taxes, subsidies and other policies affecting trade with the United States.
The vote capped a remarkable rise for Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who was confirmed by a Republican Senate in a chamber where his father and uncles once served as Democrats.
The new Trump foreign policy team has brought a dizzying message to European allies on A.I., Ukraine and more. It has already left many angered and chagrined.
No paper straws or local bike lanes. President Trump is increasingly trying to enforce his will on areas like the arts, sports, news, private companies and college campuses.
Ms. Rae said that she was canceling an upcoming appearance at the center because of an “infringement” on its values. Renée Fleming, Ben Folds and Shonda Rhimes all left posts there.
Trumpism is not a working-class revolt against the elites. All I see is one section of the educated elite going after another section of the educated elite.
One of President Trump’s first executive orders claims the power to fire, and hire, tens of thousands of career civil servants across the government. Astead W. Herndon, a national politics reporter and the host of the politics podcast “The Run-Up,” explains the order, which has drawn lawsuits from federal unions.
In his first trip abroad, the new U.S. defense secretary told Ukrainian and NATO officials that a durable peace could only come ‘with a realistic assessment of the battlefield.’
The U.S. president has repeatedly asked the two Mideast allies to take in two million Palestinians from Gaza. Both Egypt and Jordan have been trying to offer Mr. Trump help in other ways.