Wiser about the use of power, the newly sworn-in president suggests that this time he will not take no for an answer, whether in enacting an ambitious domestic agenda or in his expansionist worldview.In his inaugural address, President Trump spoke with a tone of aggression intended to be heard at ho
President Trump made major policy moves immediately after taking office, withdrawing from major international agreements, promising steep tariffs and pardoning nearly all of the Jan. 6 rioters.President Trump on Monday pardoned members of the attack the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, and signed dozens of
Plus, an Olympic medal fail.President Trump made major policy moves immediately after taking office, withdrawing from major international agreements, promising steep tariffs and pardoning nearly all of the Jan. 6 rioters.
The extraordinary pardons and commutations extended to those who committed both violent and nonviolent crimes on Jan. 6, including assaulting police officers and seditious conspiracy.Supporters of President Trump climbing the walls of the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
On his first day back in office, President Trump pardoned all of the nearly 1,600 people charged in connection with the attack on the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Maggie Haberman, White House correspondent for The New York Times, describes what’s behind those pardons.
President Trump’s grant of clemency to those who assaulted the Capitol in his name four years ago clashed with his predecessor’s decision to shield from retribution those who had sought to hold him to account.A broken window at the entrance to the Capitol Rotunda in 2021, after it was attacked by pr
There were Proud Boys, billionaires, stiletto heels, cowboy hats, Village People, icy cold and happy Canadians at President Trump’s inaugural.“Now we can get stuff done like never before!” Donald Trump Jr. said.
More than 30 hostages are set to be released during the cease-fire in Gaza. But many Israelis have mixed feelings about the deal because they feel it came at a high price.A mourner outside the cemetery in Poria Illit, Israel, during the funeral Monday of Oron Shaul, whose body was retrieved from Gaz
Amid rising tensions, Israeli troops embarked on what Israel described as a counterterrorism operation. That came hours after Jewish extremists attacked several Palestinian villages.A Palestinian man inspecting the damage to his shop on Tuesday after it was burned in overnight Israeli settler attack
“So many of you have never seen an event like this,” Louisiana’s state climatologist warned, with New Orleans facing possibly the most snow it has ever seen.A man selling firewood out of his pickup truck in Houston ahead of a winter storm on Monday.
The city’s traditional cafes and bistros are staking out their cultural territory in an emerging duel against highly caffeinated upstarts serving up latte art.With their carefully curated aesthetic, artisanal fare and rapid growth, specialty coffee shops, some say, have been putting the squeeze on P
Amazon, JPMorgan and others have been telling their employees that remote work is over. Now federal employees have been ordered to come to work in person, too.JPMorgan told its employees they would have to return to the office five days a week.
Waldo Mejia’s psyche had been showing cracks, a longtime friend said. Now he is charged with killing 14-year-old Caleb Rijos at random.Caleb Rijos staggered and fell between two cars after he was fatally stabbed.
Industrial growth, the stock market and the rupee are sinking, and most consumers earn too little to buoy them, stymieing India’s drive to become a developed economy.Workers at a factory in Karad, India, last year. Slowing economic growth has raised worries about India’s vulnerabilities.
Han Kang’s latest novel, about a South Korean massacre, delves into why atrocities must be remembered. “It’s pain and it is blood, but it’s the current of life,” she said.Han Kang in 2016. Ms. Kang, who received the Nobel Prize in Literature last year, has written books about two of South Korea’s da
While the wages of success in the region will be enormous, the consequences of failure will be utterly hellish.
To open his term with such an act of contempt toward the legal system is audacious, even for Mr. Trump.
The “Tonight Show” host donned his own version of the first lady’s inaugural hat, which seemed to prevent the president from kissing her.
Axel Rudakubana, who killed three young girls in the Southport attack, appeared to have no particular ideology but was obsessed by death and genocide, investigators said.Outside the courthouse in Liverpool, England, where Axel Rudakubana pleaded guilty to murder on Monday.
Officials said the agent was shot on Interstate 91, which was closed for several hours near the border with Canada.A U.S. Border Patrol unit is posted along the concrete blocks that mark the boundary between Vermont and the Canadian province of Quebec.
In exchange, the Biden administration released an Afghan man convicted on narcotics charges in 2008.The Taliban flag at the site of the former American embassy grounds in Kabul in 2022.
With the Nordic Soundscapes Festival, Thomas Sondergard puts his stamp on the Minnesota Orchestra (and its interior spaces).Thomas Sondergard, outside of Orchestra Hall in Minneapolis, is in his second season as the Minnesota Orchestra’s music director.
