Politics

Michael R. Bloomberg, a multibillionaire who has flooded the country with more than $200 million in television and digital ads in his first two months as a presidential candidate, has requested and received an extension that will allow him to keep details of his vast personal fortune hidden until after millions of Americans vote in […]

WASHINGTON — President Trump’s plan to move the Secret Service from the Department of Homeland Security back to the Treasury Department risks unraveling the cabinet agency responsible for securing the United States, according to a report issued by a group of government officials formed to study the move. Since last year, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court agreed on Friday to decide whether the Trump administration may allow employers to limit women’s access to free birth control under the Affordable Care Act. The case returns the court to a key battleground in the culture wars, but one in which successive administrations have switched sides. In the Obama

This is the Impeachment Briefing, The Times’s newsletter about the impeachment investigation. Sign up here to get it in your inbox every weeknight. What happened today President Trump’s impeachment team is taking final shape. He tapped the former independent counsel Ken Starr, the celebrity lawyer Alan Dershowitz and several other prominent attorneys to join the

At the time, Mr. Trump and his advisers realized the potential political benefit in lobbing these kinds of accusations. Their campaign, which relied heavily on depressing Democratic turnout as a way to win battleground states like Florida and Michigan, stood to gain by fanning the flames of the rivalry between Mr. Sanders and Hillary Clinton

Mr. Giuliani and Mr. Parnas pressured Ukrainian officials to commit to investigating the arrangement, and some Senate Republicans are threatening to call Hunter Biden to testify in the Senate impeachment trial if Democrats press for their own witnesses. A spokesman for Mr. Nunes did not respond to a request for comment. Friday’s release also included

President Trump upbraided the health and human services secretary on Thursday over his administration’s ban on most flavored e-cigarettes, a proposal that Mr. Trump had vacillated over for months but ultimately endorsed, according to three people familiar with what took place. The call occurred during an evening meeting the president held in the Oval Office

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration moved on Friday to roll back school nutrition standards championed by Michelle Obama, an effort long sought by food manufacturers and some school districts that have chafed at the cost of Mrs. Obama’s prescriptions for fresh fruit and vegetables. The proposed rule by the Agriculture Department, coming on the former

WASHINGTON — One of the newest members of President Trump’s defense team, Robert W. Ray, has had pointed words about the highest office in the country: “No person is above the law, even the president of the United States.” But that was nearly 20 years ago when he succeeded Ken Starr as the independent counsel

In April 2018, President Trump moved quickly to beef up his legal team. Days earlier, the F.B.I. had searched the home and office of his personal lawyer, Michael D. Cohen, as part of an investigation into payments Mr. Cohen had made to silence a pornographic film star who claimed that she had had an affair