In 1962, not long after President John Kennedy created U.S.A.I.D., the federal agency tasked with administering foreign assistance, he welcomed its first mission directors to the White House. He noted the difficult politics of sustaining foreign assistance but...
Follow today’s live coverage of the Trump administration. President Trump’s statement on Friday that he had directed Elon Musk to turn his budget-slashing initiative on the Pentagon underscored Mr. Musk’s rapidly expanding role in their charge to shrink...
After one winter storm moved out of the Northeast on Thursday, leaving behind a glimmer of ice and snow and more than a few canceled school days, the next in line was smashing into the West Coast on...
The biggest impediment to a successful second term for President Trump may be Trump himself.For all the early energy of his presidency — the flurry of executive orders, confirmations and firings — Trump has looked less disciplined this...
The authorities in Ohio were searching on Wednesday morning for a gunman who killed one person and injured five others Tuesday night at a cosmetics warehouse in suburban Columbus, the police said.The gunman, whom the police identified as...
President Trump will welcome Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel to the White House on Tuesday for his first in-person meeting with another world leader since returning to power two weeks ago.The two are expected to discuss negotiations...
Salvage crews began lifting the wreckage of American Airlines Flight 5342 from the Potomac River in Washington on Monday morning, the start of an operation that was expected to take three days.Just after 10 a.m. Eastern, the first...
High above the millions of Hindu pilgrims walking the grounds of the Maha Kumbh Mela, Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India beams down from giant billboards and posters as far as the eye can see. Elsewhere, there are...
A small medical plane carrying six people crashed near a shopping center in Northeast Philadelphia on Friday night, killing all on board, injuring many on the ground and sending a large fireball into the air that engulfed homes...
After TWA Flight 800 crashed in New York in 1996, President Bill Clinton asked “every American not to jump to conclusions” about what brought it down and declared it time “to pull together and work together.”And then there...
