As economists pointed to some of the president’s policies to explain the latest Labor Department data, White House aides sought to make the case for optimism in the new year.
The unemployment rate fell in December, but job growth across 2025 was the lowest in five years.
The vote to open a war powers debate, a pair of attempted veto overrides and a split on health care suggested a greater appetite among Republicans to challenge the president.
Venezuela’s interim government said it would release an “important number” of imprisoned people, but only nine have been confirmed freed.
The agreement represents a push for deeper global cooperation, in contrast to the United States’ turning to coercion in its dealings with other countries.
Large marches against the government occurred despite an internet blackout and threats of a severe crackdown.
Protests have rocked Iran in recent weeks, and the country’s supreme leader has threatened to escalate a crackdown on demonstrators. Erika Solomon, our bureau chief for Iran and Iraq, discusses what’s fueling the protests with our senior writer Katrin Bennhold.
Galloping inflation, a currency crisis and anger at the regime have fueled demonstrations across the country.
The opera, which has performed at the arts center since 1971, was concerned about declines in attendance and donations during President Trump’s second term.
The president continued to advance an imperialist vision of American foreign policy, where the U.S. can dominate neighboring countries “whether they like it or not.”
Even as the selection of a career agent, Christopher G. Raia, leaves an unusual three-person leadership structure in place, it returns a career agent to the No. 2 post.
Doug Mills, winner of three Pulitzers, sits, crawls and hoists cameras high in the air to bring viewers fresh perspectives. He was at it again this week during our marathon interview with President Trump.
The shooting during a traffic stop, a day after the killing of a woman in Minneapolis by an ICE agent, generated angry denunciations by local officials.
Federal authorities, who have launched an immigration enforcement blitz in Minnesota, said they will re-examine thousands of refugee cases in the state.
The review comes as the federal government escalates its immigration enforcement in the state.
Mario Miralles spent decades acquiring the spruce and maple for string instruments worthy of Yo-Yo Ma and Gustavo Dudamel. Then he was forced to evacuate.
A nuclear-capable missile fired into Ukraine near Poland sent a message to Europe days after its leaders agreed to postwar security guarantees, Russian analysts said.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani did not call the shootings justified, but said New York Police officers were placed in “incredibly difficult and dangerous circumstances.”
Pro-Palestinian and pro-Israel demonstrators hurled threats at each other outside an event promoting real estate sales in Jerusalem. The mayor said those actions had “no place in our city.”
Summit Properties USA won an auction on Friday to buy more than 5,000 apartments out of bankruptcy from the Pinnacle Group despite City Hall’s efforts to intervene.
Without her parents’ knowledge, her portrait was entered as a prank in a contest in 1935 to represent the ideal Aryan infant — and she won.
Any attempt to seize Greenland from Denmark would fatally undermine the world’s most successful military alliance.
The president is claiming borderless license to turn on his perceived enemies, both foreign and domestic.
Also, protests spread across Iran. Here’s the latest at the end of Friday.
Only once in the modern era have the justices taken this long to issue their first decision — and when it came, it wasn’t the hotly anticipated case on President Trump’s tariffs.
The outbreak has now spread to more than 300 people, most of them children.
A delegation from the Southern Transitional Council in Riyadh announced its dissolution, but members abroad rejected the news amid fears it was not voluntary.
The request came after hours of questioning of the bar’s co-owners. Some 40 people died in the fire that broke out during a New Year’s celebration.