Politics

How do you keep a TV serial going past its fourth season? You reinvent, or you repeat. You find a new story, or you bring back old reliable villains who seemed to have been written off. The Donald J. Trump re-election kickoff rally Tuesday, at the Amway Center in Orlando, was an attempt to recreate […]

The talks are proceeding months after a 35-day shutdown over the winter instigated by Mr. Trump, who had refused to sign any spending measure that did not fund a border wall. The latest round of negotiations has been complicated by an apparent disconnect among Republicans both inside the White House and on Capitol Hill about

Among the 2,000 undocumented immigrants being targeted now are those whose court cases were expedited, having typically missed a court date and been ordered deported from the country in absentia. They were sent letters in February demanding they report to an immigrations and customs office to leave the country, Mr. Morgan said. While Mr. Morgan

WASHINGTON — President Trump bestowed the nation’s highest civilian honor on the conservative economist Arthur Laffer on Wednesday, praising him for policies that he said brought “greater opportunity for all Americans.” Mr. Laffer is the father of so-called supply-side economics and the namesake of the Laffer Curve, which posits that reducing certain tax rates can

Senator Chuck Schumer of New York, the Democratic leader, asked the Treasury Department’s inspector general on Wednesday to open an investigation into delayed design concepts of a new $20 note featuring the image of Harriet Tubman that were set to be unveiled next year. The Trump administration has faced backlash after Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin

SOUTH BEND, Ind. — Mayor Pete Buttigieg took a third day off from the campaign trail on Wednesday to confront a crisis over the fatal police shooting of a black resident of South Bend, Ind. Mr. Buttigieg said he was “extremely frustrated” that the white officer’s body camera was switched off at the time. The

ABOUT THE PROJECT The New York Times reached out to 22 Democratic presidential candidates to ask them the same set of 18 questions on video. Twenty-one accepted the invitation. Joseph R. Biden Jr. declined to participate despite repeated requests since late April. THE QUESTIONS 1. In an ideal world, would anyone own handguns? 2. Would

WASHINGTON — The House waded into the decades-old debate over reparations for African-Americans on Wednesday, convening its first hearing on legislation introduced 30 years ago that would create a commission to develop proposals to address the lingering effects of slavery and consider a “national apology” for the harm it has caused. Hundreds of spectators, mostly

Rory Stewart says some Conservative MPs “don’t seem to be ready” for warnings he has made about the effect of a no-deal Brexit. The freshly eliminated leadership contender said some of his warnings “probably proved to be truths that people weren’t quite ready to hear”. Mr Stewart, who was knocked out of the race after

WASHINGTON — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Wednesday ruled out censuring President Trump as an alternative to starting an impeachment proceeding against him, and said that if Democrats conclude he should be charged under the Constitution for misconduct, impeachment was the only option. “Censure is a way out — if you’re going to go, you’ve