Smoke from Canadian wildfires created unhealthy air quality from the upper Midwest to New York City.

He was the pied piper of a loose community of DIY artists homesteading on New York City’s waterways, which he used as his canvas and stage.

At a wonky gathering in Washington, centrist Democrats argued that they were the majority-makers the party needed to take control of Congress in 2026 and beyond.

The Trump administration obeyed the instructions of the judge in the case, a significant departure from the defiant stance it has staked out in other immigration matters.

The cutbacks would have “minimal impact,” the government said, but economists warned of reduced confidence in inflation data produced by a struggling statistical system.

Their bodies were found near the summit of Mount Katahdin, at the end of the Appalachian Trail, officials said, after a search that began on Monday.

The judge also said the men, expelled under the Alien Enemies Act, were likely to prevail in their claims that they had been treated unfairly, deported with no chance to contest their removals.

Surveillance video captured a 16-year-old being repeatedly punched, kicked and stomped by juveniles while probation officers watched.

The Trump administration argues that the Texas Dream Act of 2001 illegally benefits undocumented students. It is unclear whether the state will defend it.

A proposed restructuring would leave only 18 employees at the federally funded news agency, which was founded in 1942 to combat Nazi propaganda.

A dust plume that has been traveling across the Atlantic may later spread as far as Texas and Georgia as a weather system breaks it apart.

President Trump and his allies have united around a new foe: the economists and budget experts who have warned about the costs of Republicans’ tax ambitions.

The Security Council resolution also sought the release of all the hostages and the resumption of full-scale aid deliveries.

Lawyers for the wife and children of the man charged with attacking an event supporting hostages in Gaza filed a lawsuit on Wednesday seeking their release.

Also, Trump said that Putin would retaliate against Ukraine. Here’s the latest at the end of Wednesday.

Bryana Bongolan, a friend of the mogul’s former girlfriend Casandra Ventura, said she was traumatized by the incident. His lawyers pressed her on details of the account.

The administration notified the university’s accrediting body that federal agencies had found that the school violated Jewish students’ civil rights.

The state’s rail authority said California intends to keep the project moving forward.

A menacing new frontier of presidential power.

An internal Justice Department clash over safety and free speech rights centered on vandalism directed at Columbia University’s interim president.