Instead of battling over tariffs, Washington and Beijing have turned to a potentially far more harmful strategy: flexing their control over global supply chains.

Republican factions united to pass most but not all of their conservative priorities in this year’s legislative session, illustrating the limits of right-wing governance.

The sprawling legislation carrying President Trump’s domestic agenda squeaked through the House with one vote to spare, but some Republicans now say they didn’t realize what they voted for.

The former prime minister, who led New Zealand through the pandemic, has published a memoir arguing for more empathy in politics.

The president is pressing Republicans in the Senate to unite quickly behind sprawling legislation that carries his domestic agenda, but the measure’s opponents have a powerful new ally: Elon Musk.

The back-and-forth over a potential Trump cryptocurrency wallet on Tuesday exposed rifts among the family’s web of digital currency ventures.

An outline by the Trump administration would allow Iran to continue enriching uranium at low levels while a broader arrangement is worked out that would block the country’s path to a nuclear weapon.

The Bureau of Prisons must provide hormone treatment for inmates with gender dysphoria while a lawsuit proceeds, despite an executive order to the contrary, a federal judge ordered.

The Bureau of Prisons must provide hormone treatment for inmates with gender dysphoria while a lawsuit proceeds, despite an executive order to the contrary, a federal judge ordered.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered a review of ship names honoring Mr. Milk, a gay rights pioneer, and other leaders. In Mr. Milk’s case, the move is intended as a rebuke of Pride Month.

The bodies of the girls, ages 5, 8 and 9, were found near a campground in Washington State on Monday. They had apparently been asphyxiated, and each was found with a plastic bag over her head, the police said.

At issue is how to interpret a federal law barring hospitals from turning away poor or uninsured patients.

The department’s move is one of many recent actions taken to dismiss criminal and civil actions against Trump allies such as Mr. Navarro, the president’s trade adviser.

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said the agency would be investigating whether Mohamed Sabry Soliman’s family had information about his alleged plot.

The Trump administration asked Congress for roughly $11 billion more in annual spending for the federal agency that oversees nuclear weapon activities.

President Trump’s effort to punish Harvard over antisemitism is complicated by his extensive history of amplifying white supremacist figures and symbols.

A letter from the assistant attorney general for civil rights, Harmeet K. Dhillon, said that allowing trans athletes to compete in high school sports was unconstitutional.

In response to a federal lawsuit, the Agriculture Department said it would refrain, for now, from demanding that states turn over the personal information of people receiving assistance.

The activists behind the Tesla Takedown campaign say they intend to expand beyond protests at the company’s showrooms.

With high casualty figures and the slow pace of Russia’s territorial gains, President Vladimir V. Putin could face years more of a grinding war of attrition in Ukraine.