The temporary ruling by Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, blocking a lower court order to fully fund the aid, added to the uncertainty around the nation’s largest anti-hunger program.The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, also known as SNAP or food stamps, provides aid to about one in eight Ame
After weeks of stalemate, Senate Democrats said they were willing to reopen the government in exchange for a one-year extension of health care subsidies. Republicans ruled it out.“Democrats are ready to clear the way to quickly pass a government funding bill that includes health care affordability,”
With her temporary block expiring, Judge Karin Immergut said the Trump administration had failed to prove that protesters were hampering President Trump’s policies.Law enforcement officers guarding a federal immigration center in Portland, Ore., during protests last month.
The child was later reunited with her grandmother, but the episode alarmed immigrant rights groups. The father, a U.S. citizen, faces a gun possession charge.
Federal courts across the country have heard legal challenges to the mobilization of troops in Chicago, Portland, Ore., Los Angeles and other cities. Here’s how judges have ruled, so far.National Guard troops on the National Mall in Washington in late August.
The election of Zohran Mamdani as mayor has stoked speculation that President Trump might move to send forces into the city.Protesters chased federal officers after street raids on Canal Street in Lower Manhattan last month. Some city leaders fear that the raid was an example of actions to come.
Kim Davis, a Kentucky county clerk once jailed for refusing to issue same-sex marriage licenses, has asked the court to reconsider its landmark 2015 opinion.Kim Davis in Morehead, Ky., in 2015.
The justices are generally reluctant to take account of a president’s public statements. But extensive quotes from Mr. Trump in a key filing may change the legal calculus.President Donald J. Trump in the Oval Office on Thursday.
As Ms. Pelosi announced her retirement, she was celebrated for her long tenure in Washington. But back home, she was remembered for showing up at a terrifying moment when others turned away.Nancy Pelosi announcing her candidacy for Congress in 1987.
Representative Nancy Pelosi has held her House seat for nearly four decades.
Longevity labs, “immortality islands” and grapeseed pills are part of China’s national project to conquer aging, despite sometimes shaky science and extravagant claims.Attendees trying out a cryogenic therapy room at a longevity and anti-aging conference in Shanghai in September.
His decoding of the blueprint for life with Francis H.C. Crick made him one of the most important scientists of the 20th century. He wrote a celebrated memoir and later ignited an uproar with racist views.
“The laws of inheritance are quite unknown,” Charles Darwin acknowledged in 1859. The discovery of DNA’s shape altered how we conceived of life itself.The x-ray crystallography by Rosalind Franklin in 1952 that assisted James Watson and Francis Crick in their discovery of the structure of DNA.
The moves to fire or sideline generals and admirals are without precedent in recent decades and have rattled the top brass.
A policy that requires passports to display a person’s sex assigned at birth will come into play during renewals and first-time applications.
Few countries are excited about globalization anymore, but Vietnam is still into it — wholeheartedly. Do the reasons go beyond economic growth?Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, in October.
President Trump has made it easier for countries that are close to Russia and China to build ties with the United States. Those countries are embracing the opportunity.President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev of Kazakhstan, with leaders of other Central Asian countries, at the White House on Thursday.
President Trump and Prime Minister Viktor Orban of Hungary at a meeting in the Oval Office in 2019.
A.I. has set off industrywide soul-searching about its potential and pitfalls.The Denver Post newsroom in 1974. In the decades since, the digital revolution has remade the news business, and A.I. has the potential to transform it entirely.
One of two major American almanacs is ceasing publication after more than two centuries of predicting the weather and offering tidbits of wisdom.The Farmers’ Almanac editor Sandi Duncan and the publisher Peter Geiger in Auburn, Maine, in 2011.
The birds, exposed to the avian flu, were killed after Canada’s Supreme Court refused to hear an appeal and a rescue effort by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. fell short.Dave Bilinski, the co-owner of Universal Ostrich Farms in British Columbia, where hundreds of ostriches were ordered to be killed by the Can
Amending state constitutions seemed like a long shot, but Virginia’s move suggests more blue states may be willing to try, opening new possibilities.Gov. Gavin Newsom and Senator Alex Padilla helped win support for an amendment to allow partisan gerrymandering in California.
A fight brewing in Massachusetts could preview Democrats’ age battles.Senator Ed Markey and Representative Ayanna Pressley.
Ezra Klein and Aaron Retica discuss whether affordability is the Democrats’ winning message, Trump’s politics of cruelty and how liberalism can win right now.
