The picks to oversee public health have all pushed back against Covid policies or supported ideas that are outside the medical mainstream.President-elect Donald J. Trump has picked Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. to lead the Department of Health and Human Services.
Some in the party are considering alternative ways of assessing the federal budget as they prepare to extend temporary tax cuts passed in 2017.By conventional budget rules in Washington, extending the tax cuts for 10 years would reduce the revenue the government collects by roughly $4 trillion, acco
The hedge fund investor predicted last year that President-elect Donald J. Trump’s political fortunes were on the rise.Scott Bessent, a hedge fund manager, speaking at a campaign event in August for Donald J. Trump, now the president-elect.
The financing plan, which calls for $300 billion per year in support for developing nations, was immediately assailed as inadequate by a string of delegates.A demonstration at the summit on Saturday. Experts have estimated the additional financing needs of developing countries at $1.3 trillion per y
Israel was targeting a senior Hezbollah commander, but failed to kill him, one Israeli official said. Hezbollah officials said none of the group’s leaders were at the attack site.The site of an Israeli strike in Beirut’s Basta neighborhood on Saturday.
The Lebanese militant group captured an advanced Israeli anti-tank missile in the 2006 war, and its ally, Iran, reverse-engineered it, Israeli officials say.Hezbollah members in Bint Jbeil, Lebanon, in July. The group is firing the rebranded Israeli missiles at Israeli military bases, communication
Tit-for-tat moves this week included the use of American-made ballistic missiles to strike inside Russia, and new nuclear threats from Moscow. Neither appear to have influenced the war on the ground.Ukrainian soldiers at a frontline position near Toretsk, Ukraine, last month.
It was once a vacant, weedy lot next to a school. Now, it provides fresh produce and a twice-monthly meal to customers.
The Blackpink star strikes out on her own, away from the system that turned her into a global phenomenon.
Laila Soueif, the British-born mother of the Egyptian political prisoner Alaa Abd El Fattah, is demanding the U.K. do more to secure his release.Laila Soueif, the mother of the Egyptian political prisoner Alaa Abd El Fattah in 2022. She stopped eating on Sept. 29, after it became clear that her son
The country’s new leaders are trying to undo changes, like abortion restrictions and politicized courts, made by their hard-right predecessors. It “takes longer than you expect,” one minister said.The Supreme Court in Warsaw. The previous government, under the Law and Justice party, stacked Polish c
After he spent eight years in the Senate as a moderate Democrat, his views took a leftward turn toward “new populism” in a failed 1976 shot at the presidency.Senator Fred R. Harris, Democrat of Oklahoma, in Washington in 1968.
The storm, driven by the season’s first major atmospheric river, inundated the region, killing at least three people and causing widespread power outages.Drivers splash through floods in San Francisco on Friday.
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An unexciting campaign mirrors young Uruguayans’ lack of enthusiasm for democracy.Yamandú Orsi, one of the two candidates seeking Uruguay’s presidency in a runoff election on Sunday.
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The inquiry follows a New York Times report questioning the validity of more than $162,000 in matching funds given to Dao Yin, a Democrat of Queens.Although Dao Yin only garnered only 6 percent of the vote in a New York State Assembly primary, he still qualified for more than $162,000 in matching ca
David Braff was first accused of misconduct years ago but has since held a series of school jobs. The authorities are investigating the possibility of additional victims.
With a tactic known as “resort politics,” Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s party has been accused of using brute force to take over Indian state governments.Nitin Deshmukh, a lawmaker in the state of Maharashtra, India, said he was detained, including at a government hospital, and pressured to join re
With a controversial plan to allow doping in a major athletic competition, Aron D’Souza hopes to usher in an era of “superhumans.” There are several hurdles left to clear.
In his mission to document the earth’s food supply, George Steinmetz recovers the human element in aerial photography — and in farming. Ahead of his new book, he brings our critic into the field.
