A federal judge on Wednesday ordered the immediate release of Badar Khan Suri, a postdoctoral fellow at Georgetown University who was arrested in March, after two months of detention in an immigration facility in Texas.Ruling from the bench,...
A federal judge overseeing New York City’s jails took Rikers Island out of the city’s control on Tuesday, ordering that an outside official be appointed to make major decisions regarding the troubled and violent jail complex.The judge, Laura...
President Trump on Monday signed an executive order asking drugmakers to voluntarily reduce the prices of key medicines in the United States.But the order cites no obvious legal authority to mandate lower prices. The order said the administration...
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said on Sunday that the United States had made “substantial progress” in talks with China after a weekend of meetings in Geneva, and that additional details would be announced on Monday.Any indication of a...
Top economic officials from the United States and China concluded their first day of meetings in Geneva on Saturday evening, setting up a second day of high-stakes negotiations on Sunday that could determine the fate of a global...
The primary transit system in the San Francisco Bay Area was forced to shut down all trains for several hours on Friday morning because of a computer problem, sending commuters scrambling to find alternatives before service resumed shortly...
Cameron Hamilton, the acting head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, was pushed out of the job on Thursday, according to several people familiar with his departure. His ouster came a day after he told members of Congress...
Douthat: Does a safe pair of hands mean an Italian? A member of the curia? Cardinal Parolin?Dougherty: I have nothing against Italians, but I hope not. It’s hard not to dread Cardinal Parolin because he seems comfortable with...
The Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday that the Trump administration may start enforcing a ban on transgender troops serving in the military that had been blocked by lower courts.The ruling was brief, unsigned and gave no reasons, which...
The Met Gala has outdone itself, even before it’s begun.The annual gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art — the flashy fashion extravaganza that highlights the city’s social scene every May — raised a record $31 million this...
