Texas officials had asked the court to allow the state to use the new maps in the midterm elections, part of a push by President Trump to gain a partisan advantage.State Representative Matt Morgan, a Republican, holds a map of the new proposed congressional districts in Texas in August.
Redistricting talks in Florida got off to a slow start on Thursday, as state lawmakers grapple with political and legal questions amid internal power struggles.Protesters outside the Florida Capitol building in Tallahassee. A House redistricting committee met for the first time on Thursday.
The president had clashed with the original designer and insisted on increasing the size and scope of the ballroom on a short timeline.The demolition of the East Wing of the White House in October.
Hearings that began Wednesday in Washington reflected anxiety over the future of the U.S.-Mexico-Canada trade pact and whether the president could end up scrapping it.Though President Trump negotiated and signed the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement, he said this year that he wanted to make it a “much be
President Trump pardoned the former Honduran president, who had been convicted for drug trafficking. Midence Oqueli Martinez Turcios, a former congressman, got nearly 22 years.Midence Oqueli Martinez Turcios led heavily armed teams as they transported cocaine from clandestine airstrips.
Gen. Dan Caine, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Adm. Frank M. Bradley, commander of the operation, met with members of Congress behind closed doors.Adm. Frank M. Bradley, left, and Gen. Dan Caine, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, at the Capitol on Thursday.
The inspector general concluded that the defense secretary violated the Pentagon’s instructions on using a private electronic device to share sensitive information.Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth in Washington this week. He declined to be interviewed by the inspector general’s office.
The Trump administration’s deportation agenda is reverberating beyond immigrant communities as agents begin fanning out around New Orleans.The agents, including several from the Border Patrol, had shown up and tried to detain the men, but they refused to get down from the roof.
The child and his father fled China earlier this year and the boy had just been enrolled in school. Federal officials have tried and failed to send them back.
Minnesota’s governor said the president’s xenophobic remarks were dangerous as the state continued to face fiscal questions about a fraud scandal.Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota during an appearance in Washington in June.
Many of the year’s best series seemed to be in conversation with one another, including “Severance,” “The Pitt,” “Andor,” “Pluribus,” “The Lowdown” and others.
The suspect was described as a 30-year-old man from Prince William County, Va. His arrest could ultimately provide an answer to one of the mysteries arising from the Jan. 6. attack.A photograph released by the F.B.I. shows the person suspected of placing two pipe bombs on Capitol Hill the night befo
The health secretary has walled himself off from government scientists and empowered fellow activists to pursue his vaccine agenda.Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the health secretary, conferring with Hannah Anderson, then one of his top advisers, during a hearing in May.
After heated disagreements, the committee members, appointed by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., delayed the vote until Friday morning. It was the third time the vote had been postponed.Members of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices may decide to end the recommendation that babie
Cornelia Foss, better known as a confidante to other artists than as an artist herself, has put aside landscape painting for something far more visceral.Cornelia Foss in the art studio of her Manhattan apartment.
Jacob Pritchett, 11, has been missing for months. A judge has said his mother must remain at Rikers Island until she reveals his whereabouts.Police Department investigators searched and sealed a Brooklyn apartment as part of the effort to find an 11-year-old boy.
The Netherlands and Slovenia also said they would not take part in next year’s contest, meant to be its celebratory 70th edition.Yuval Raphael, Israel’s 2025 Eurovision act, performing in May. The country has won the contest four times.
Meta plans to direct its investments to focus on wearables like its augmented reality glasses but does not plan to abandon building the metaverse.Meta’s virtual reality headset last year. The company’s augmented reality glasses have become a surprise hit.
As President Emmanuel Macron of France visited China, its leader, Xi Jinping, said his country would play a constructive role in ending the fighting.President Emmanuel Macron of France with Xi Jinping, China’s leader, in Beijing on Thursday. Mr. Macron was welcomed with a red carpet and honor guard.
The 2018 death of a British woman from exposure to a rare, military-grade nerve agent was the result of a botched assassination attempt on a former Russian spy, an official report said on Thursday.A police cordon around the residential area where Dawn Sturgess was exposed to the Novichok nerve agent
The Trump administration, which crippled Russia’s oil sales to India with sanctions, will be watching Mr. Putin’s talks with Prime Minister Narendra Modi.In this photo released by Russian state media, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi greets President Vladimir V. Putin in New Delhi, where he arriv
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Also, a man was arrested on charges of planting pipe bombs before Jan. 6. Here’s the latest at the end of Thursday.Adm. Frank M. Bradley, left, and Gen. Dan Caine, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
