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European carmakers are urging Brussels to ease regulations to help them avoid buying carbon credits from rivals at increasingly high prices. As European automakers brace for a possible trade war waged by President Trump, they are working to ward off another threat on their home turf: the prospect of paying hundreds of millions of dollars…

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President Trump’s nominee for health secretary, vigorously defended his views on vaccines, and a key senator still has clear doubts. Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President Trump’s choice for health secretary, plowed through his second day of confirmation hearings on Thursday, delivering a vigorous defense of his views on vaccination during a…

Top officials have been told to retire or be fired in the coming days, fueling fear within an agency that has been a target of President Trump and Kash Patel, his nominee to be F.B.I. director. A handful of senior F.B.I. employees have been told to resign in a matter of days or be fired,…

The ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit applied the Supreme Court’s “historical tradition” test. A conservative appeals court ruled Thursday that a longstanding federal ban on handgun sales to people between the ages of 18 and 20 violates the Second Amendment, pushing the question of age limits for handguns one…

new video loaded: How a New Law Makes Deportations Easier By Zolan Kanno-Youngs, Christina Thornell and David Jouppi•January 30, 2025 The Laken Riley Act is the first law President Trump has signed since coming into office. Zolan Kanno-Youngs, a New York Times White House correspondent, explains how it will make deportations easier. Recent episodes in…

A settlement, if reached, would be an extraordinary concession by a major U.S. media company to a sitting president. When Donald J. Trump sued CBS for $10 billion days before the 2024 election, accusing the company of deceptively editing a “60 Minutes” interview with Vice President Kamala Harris, many legal experts dismissed the litigation as…

The former governor of North Dakota is promoting President Trump’s “energy dominance” agenda and wants more oil, gas and mining on public lands. Doug Burgum, a promoter of oil and gas, was confirmed by the Senate on Thursday to lead the Interior Department, a role in which he will oversee drilling and mining policies on…

← Unconfirmable Should Gabbard be confirmed? Confirmable → 012345678910 Of President Trump’s cabinet picks, Tulsi Gabbard, a former representative from Hawaii, could have the hardest time making it through the confirmation process. On Thursday, with several key senators still undecided, she appeared before the Senate Intelligence Committee for an all-important hearing as senators grilled her…

In a briefing that recalled his most extreme first term remarks, President Trump said without any evidence that diversity initiatives caused the midair collision. On the morning after a devastating midair collision of an American Airlines plane and an Army helicopter that sent 67 people, not one of whom survived, into the icy waters of…