About a fifth of the agency’s remaining staff was affected, including employees working on special education, funding for low-income students and civil rights enforcement.An estimated 466 workers at the Education Department have been fired since Friday, and the breadth and depth of those cuts appear
The president said his administration was “closing up Democrat programs that we disagree with, and they’re never going to open again.” He promised to release a list of programs by Friday.President Trump at the White House on Tuesday.
The cease-fire talks in Egypt showed that with pressure on Hamas and Israel, seemingly huge impediments could be overcome or set aside.President Trump and other leaders gathered on Monday in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, where mediators successfully pushed for a deal between Hamas and Israel the previous
President Trump’s threats to provide the missiles to Ukraine, whether he follows through on them or not, are a sign of his growing frustration with Moscow.A Tomahawk missile launches from the U.S.S. Barry in 2011.
In a social media post, the president said the people aboard a boat were suspected of smuggling drugs for an unspecified group his team had labeled terrorists.President Trump aboard Air Force One on Tuesday. The administration has not explained how a boat in the southern Caribbean Sea posed an immin
With the United States surging its military presence in the region and bombing boats, countries in the Caribbean are seeing more flights carrying illegal drugs.
President Trump presented the medal to Charlie Kirk’s widow, Erika, on what would have been his 32nd birthday.President Trump escorted Erika Kirk, the widow of Charlie Kirk, to a Presidential Medal of Freedom ceremony on Tuesday.
President Trump said the economic support is contingent on whether his political ally, President Javier Milei of Argentina, remains in power.President Trump appearing with President Javier Milei of Argentina outside the White House on Tuesday.
After hitting No. 1 with “Voodoo,” the genre-melding 2000 album that he promoted with a risqué music video, he vanished for more than a decade.
The video for “Untitled (How Does It Feel)” brought him new levels of fame, but not always the kind of attention he sought.
The soul singer, songwriter and producer, who died on Tuesday at 51, released three studio albums of meticulously constructed, vocally ambitious, genre-crossing music.D’Angelo onstage at Bonnaroo in 2012. He could be a one-man studio band in the mold of Prince and Stevie Wonder, or multitrack himsel
About 80,000 phones were stolen in the British capital last year. The police are finally discovering where many of them went.Police officers searching a secondhand phone shop in north London last month.
Videos surfaced last week showing the former congresswoman belittling a television reporter and berating an aide. Porter, who is running for California governor, pledged to do better.Katie Porter, a Democratic candidate for California governor, was seen cursing at one of her aides in a 2021 video an
A statistical analysis of an infamous indentation in a sidewalk suggested a 99 percent likelihood that another rodent made the mark.To put the rodent-shaped impression into context, a team of scientists measured mammal specimens in museum collections.
Her ex-husband says in his book that since the pop star’s conservatorship ended, “It’s become impossible to pretend everything’s OK.”
Once consumed mainly in small, formal tea ceremonies, matcha is now mixed into fruity lattes and preyed on by counterfeiters. Can it survive its own popularity?
An American bailout can carry the country only so far.
Message to Trump: As hard as Stage 1 was for Gaza peace, you have not even seen hard yet.
The visual artist Dread Scott, the playwright Lynn Nottage and others have organized a series of actions to unite the arts community against the Trump administration.Participants in the protests will include (from left, first row), Laura Raicovich and Jenny Polak; (second row) Kris Grey, Dread Scott
A pivotal political leader who helped usher in multiparty democracy, he ran unsuccessfully for the presidency five times.Raila Odinga, a former prime minister of Kenya, in 2022.
Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic front-runner in the New York City mayor’s race, appeared with Gov. Kathy Hochul for the first time since she endorsed him last month.Gov. Kathy Hochul appeared in Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani’s district for an event on Tuesday, where she vowed to fight President Trump’s
Experts said the levels were not high enough to cause immediate harm, but raised the risk of long-term health effects.
