Politics

The prices of strollers and car seats are skyrocketing as companies race to adjust to President Trump’s tariff policies. Federal support for a major campaign to promote safe infant sleep habits appears to have been cut. Measles outbreaks are terrifying parents of young children, even as the nation’s health secretary undermines vaccines. The Trump administration’s

Mr. Luers doubled the museum’s endowment, modernized its financial systems, enlarged its staff to 1,800 full-time employees, secured the $1 billion Walter Annenberg collection of French Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings for the museum, and oversaw the construction of new galleries, wings, exhibitions and public programs. When he stepped down, the museum had a $116 million

The families of some of the victims killed in the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks who worked for the bond trading company of Howard Lutnick, now the commerce secretary, are urging him to help extradite a Saudi Arabian national potentially involved in the attacks as he prepares to engage in economic talks with the kingdom. In

The Trump administration plans to accept a luxury Boeing 747-8 plane as a donation from the Qatari royal family that will be upgraded to serve as Air Force One, which would make it one of the biggest foreign gifts ever received by the U.S. government, several American officials with knowledge of the matter said. The

House Republicans released a plan late on Sunday that would cause millions of poor Americans to lose Medicaid health coverage and millions more to pay higher fees when they go to the doctor, but that stopped short of an overhaul that would make the deepest cuts to the program. The proposal, which is one piece

Willkie Farr & Gallagher last week became the latest law firm to strike a deal with the White House and escape President Trump’s wrath. But the firm, which pledged $100 million in legal services to causes that the Trump administration supports, traded one problem for another. Willkie has faced a backlash to the deal in

U.S. oil prices bounced back to around $62 a barrel on Wednesday afternoon, more than erasing earlier losses after President Trump said he would pause his reciprocal tariffs for most countries for 90 days. The commodity price, an indicator of economic confidence, has swung wildly over the past week, trading as high as $72 a

Representative Eric Burlison, a two-term congressman from Missouri’s Ozarks, is unequivocal about his support for President Trump. “I love the president,” he said this week as he walked through the Capitol. But Mr. Burlison is also one of about a dozen hard-line conservative Republicans who have said they cannot back their party’s budget blueprint to

Two federal judges issued separate orders on Wednesday placing road blocks in the Trump administration’s continuing efforts to use a powerful wartime statute to deport Venezuelan migrants accused of being gang members to El Salvador. The twin rulings, in New York and Texas, were in direct response to a Supreme Court decision handed down on

Privacy advocates say that all this data could enable the government to punish its political opponents by weaponizing information about an individual’s personal life (bankruptcies, criminal histories, medical claims) or halting the benefits they receive (housing vouchers, retirement checks, food assistance). “They have not demonstrated a single case in which fraud detection has required some

The Justice Department is once again criticizing a federal judge for taking steps to block one of the Trump administration’s policies, this time an executive order against a big law firm. Attorney General Pam Bondi, in a memo sent recently to federal agencies, said an “unelected federal judge” had overstepped his authority in temporarily blocking