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Prime Minister Mark Carney was repeatedly the target of his opponents. President Trump’s threats on Canada loomed over the debate. Four of Canada’s political leaders gathered on Thursday for a debate in an election campaign during which President Trump’s potentially crippling tariffs and his calls for Canada’s annexation have loomed above all other issues. The…

A number of major cases challenging President Trump’s initial moves on immigration are making their way through the legal system. Mr. Trump has moved aggressively to detain and deport migrants, but a series of his moves have been challenged in court. In a number of those cases, federal judges have responded by ordering the Trump…

The threat of investigations into whether the administration violated the judges’ orders comes as President Trump and his advisers are increasingly butting heads with the courts. After the Trump administration rushed nearly 240 Central American immigrants onto charter planes last month and flew them — most without hearings — to a prison in El Salvador,…

Students on Thursday protested the president’s attacks on Harvard, but at town hall meetings, defiance mixed with uncertainty as faculty members examined the toll of the White House’s actions. For four days, Harvard University’s name had been in the headlines, heroic to some, villainous to others — after the nation’s oldest institution of higher learning…

The Trump administration said it would take $2.2 billion in research funds from the school. Some small donors are doing their best to make up for the shortfall. For two decades after graduating from Harvard, Samuel Graham-Felsen never donated to his alma mater. The 388-year-old university represented elitism, he said. Giving even more money to…

The close-knit world of liberal donors and the nonprofit groups they support has spent the last week in a state of fear and anxiety, worried that any day now, President Trump could go after their assets or their tax-exempt status. But it all seemed purely speculative — until Thursday. In an impromptu news conference in…

Senator Lisa Murkowski, the moderate Alaska Republican who has routinely broken with her party to criticize President Trump, has made a startling admission about the reality of serving in public office at a time when an unbound leader in the Oval Office is bent on retribution against his political foes. “We are all afraid,” Ms.…

The Supreme Court announced on Thursday that it would hear arguments in a few weeks over President Trump’s executive order ending birthright citizenship. The brief order by the justices was unsigned and gave no reasoning, as is typical in such emergency cases. But the unusual move is a sign that the justices consider the matter…

Choice laws have now passed in every major Republican state. Congress and President Trump are now aiming at blue states that have resisted vouchers for decades. With a big win for school vouchers in Texas in the early hours of Thursday morning, the private-school choice movement conquered the last major Republican-led state. Next up, the…

Canada’s federal election is on April 28. Here’s how it works. Canadians will vote on April 28 in an election that will determine which party will lead its government: the Liberal Party, which is currently in power under Prime Minister Mark Carney, or the Conservatives, led by Pierre Poilievre, who hope to return to power…