Democrats are campaigning to fix an issue that is already starting to resolve itself for many teachers and other public servants.

Democrats are campaigning to fix an issue that is already starting to resolve itself for many teachers and other public servants.

A top aide to Robert S. Mueller III, Aaron Zebley, will sit next to Mr. Mueller during back-to-back hearings on Wednesday, and will be sworn in as a witness before the House Intelligence Committee.

The former special prosecutor has vowed to stick to his report, making it unlikely he will serve as the dramatic accuser Trump critics yearn to see.

President Trump is pushing Boris Johnson, the incoming prime minister of Britain, toward a hard break with the European Union. But Mr. Johnson could be constrained.

The 398-to-17 vote brushed aside voices of dissent within the Democratic Party, including two freshman representatives who are the House’s most vocal backers of the movement.

The day kicks off at 8:30 a.m. Eastern. The New York Times will stream his testimony, and our reporters will provide live context and analysis.

Earlier today Donald Trump gave a speech at the Turning Point conference where he said, “I have an Article II where I have the right to do whatever I want as president.” But what was this all about? What was the context? It turns out that Trump was freewheeling about the Mueller report, telling the […]

The president appeared to favor negotiations, instead of imposing mandatory sanctions on Turkey for purchasing the Russian-made weapons.

‘Shake the table.’ ‘Break things.’ These are the metaphors of a new generation of political candidates.

The influential group of lawmakers is calling for net-zero emissions in the United States by 2050. Supporters of the Green New Deal say that's not enough.

The attorney general, reopening the conversation on security vs. privacy, said that encryption and other measures effectively turned devices into “law-free zones.”

After two years of silence and one brief public statement, the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, will finally sit for prolonged questioning at two House hearings on Wednesday.

Robert S. Mueller III, the special counsel who investigated whether the Trump campaign coordinated with Russia, will testify before Congress on Wednesday.

“Something happened to the brain” of diplomats who reported odd ailments, brain-imaging study suggests. But the cause is still unclear.

This is your periodic reminder that national health care is free. Here’s what I mean. This year we’ll spend about $3.8 trillion on health care. Of that, about half comes from the government in the form of Medicare, Medicaid, CHIP, the VA, etc. The other half is mostly paid by consumers, either directly or via […]

The department’s internal ethics watchdog is examining whether top Trump appointees violated open-record laws by withholding or delaying the release of public files.

The former special counsel's testimony will likely move more Democrats to support removing Trump. Will that change Pelosi's strategy?

President Trump’s inflammatory appeals to white working-class voters have not been matched by legislative accomplishments aimed at their financial well-being.

Under a rule proposed by the Agriculture Department, more than three million people would no longer be eligible for food stamps.

I am loath to write a defense of Al Franken because—well, because I’m a coward. I know that doing this will produce nothing except a tsunami of criticism from people who think I’m just another apologist for rape culture who refuses to believe women who say they’ve been harassed. But hell. What’s the worst that […]

“There is no prize for someone who tries to hold accountable a powerful man who is good at his day job,” Ms. Gillibrand said after Mr. Franken spoke out about his resignation.

Congress gave final approval to legislation that would extend lifetime compensation to emergency workers who became ill after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.

At a Tuesday press conference to explain the department of agriculture’s latest plan to cut eligibility for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, formerly known as food stamps, USDA secretary Sonny Perdue pointed to a case in Minnesota. There, he said, “a millionaire recently enrolled in the program, simply to highlight the waste of taxpayer money.”  […]

President Trump also said that Representative Rashida Tlaib acted like a “crazed lunatic” while protesting at a 2016 Trump campaign event.

The ruling could reverberate against Mr. Flynn, President Trump’s first national security adviser, who had agreed to testify in the case before backing out.

My post this morning about nuclear power touched off a considerable Twitter conversation, most of it based on misconceptions about modern nuclear reactor designs. I don’t want to get into a long defense of nuclear here, but I thought it might be worthwhile to at least provide a brief primer for people who haven’t really […]