Trump administration officials are getting a second chance to try to sever ties with China by starting a trade war, imposing export controls and revoking student visas.

His meteoric rise to become New York City’s chief law enforcement officer was later tarnished after he pleaded guilty to federal corruption and tax crimes.

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy plans to headline a fundraiser for a challenger to the establishment pick in Michigan's Senate race.

Foreign-born workers on New York’s fruit and dairy farms have sequestered themselves to avoid the administration’s deportation net.

President Trump will send off the world’s richest man in a news conference on Friday at the White House.

President Trump will send off the world’s richest man in a news conference on Friday at the White House.

A wealthy widow built a library and opera house on the border between Quebec and Vermont, a symbol of binational friendship. Now U.S. officials are restricting access to Canadians.

Floyd Brown said his dismissal happened about two hours after CNN contacted him for comment on his past statements on homosexuality and marriage.

Plus, a Friday news quiz.

To hear people in the anti-abortion movement tell it, the idea that human life, and personhood, begin at fertilization is as old as the Bible. But as abortion historian Mary Ziegler writes in her latest book, Personhood: The New Civil War Over Reproduction, the legal movement for fetal personhood only dates from the 1960s, when […]

An increase in deferred pay-later loans has raised alarms, as the Trump administration seeks to gut the agency tasked with policing the sector.

The president picked Paul Ingrassia, the current White House liaison to the Department of Homeland Security, to lead the Office of Special Counsel, which examines public corruption.

On May 16, the Supreme Court handed down a significant order in one of the many swirling cases over the Trump administration’s efforts to seize immigrants and deport them to foreign prisons. In an unsigned opinion, seven of the court’s nine justices reaffirmed that immigrants needed a reasonable amount of time to challenge their deportations. […]

This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Toxic pesticide levels have been found in tampons at levels 40 times higher than the legal limit for drinking water. Traces of glyphosate, a pesticide linked to cancer, has been found at very high levels in […]

A TV critic looks at George Clooney’s play about CBS News standing up to political pressure, even as its current ownership might succumb to it.

A TV critic looks at George Clooney’s play about CBS News standing up to political pressure, even as its current ownership might succumb to it.

Aid began to trickle into the territory this week. But there is never enough.

The unemployment rate for recent college graduates has jumped as companies try to replace entry-level workers with artificial intelligence.

Down in initial polls of the race, Senator John Cornyn of Texas said he would make charges of corruption against his challenger, the state’s attorney general, stick.

Thousands of white South Africans are jockeying to get on the next flight to the United States as refugees. They say the backlash against their community is unfair.

A new DOGE tally claims that erasing rules on credit card fees, appliance standards and health insurance “saves the American people” money. Data show the opposite.

A new DOGE tally claims that erasing rules on credit card fees, appliance standards and health insurance “saves the American people” money. Data show the opposite.

The question is how to fix Google’s monopoly. Is an order to force it to share data the solution?

Margaryta Karpova, 12, escaped her village in eastern Ukraine just before Russian troops overran it. But her fight was only beginning.

Every week political cartoonists throughout the country and across the political spectrum apply their ink-stained skills to capture the foibles, memes, hypocrisies and other head-slapping events in the world of politics. The fruits of these labors are hundreds of cartoons that entertain and enrage readers of all political stripes. Here's an offering of the best of this week's crop, picked fresh off the Toonosphere. Edited by Matt Wuerker.

Beijing has intervened significantly in Myanmar’s civil war to protect its substantial investments in the country, handing a setback to resistance forces.

Earlier administrations investigated whether Native American school mascots were discriminatory. The Trump administration defends them, reflecting a broader shift.

Qian Xuesen was a Chinese rocket scientist whose work was central to American military power. His exile had world-altering effects.

The plight of temporary workers like Kim Hyoung-su, who’s been protesting for months at the top of a tower, has become an issue in Tuesday’s presidential election.

A planned merger of the Japanese and American giants, announced in 2023, has traveled through an election, two presidents and strong union opposition.