In her fourth State of the State address, Gov. Kathy Hochul of New York laid the foundation for her re-election message, hoping to connect with disaffected Democrats who voted against the party in the last presidential election and to woo them back as she stares down a tough fight for a second term. During a…
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Speaker Orders Capitol Hill Flags Raised for Inauguration
Speaker Mike Johnson on Tuesday announced that American flags at the Capitol would be temporarily raised on Monday for President-elect Donald J. Trump’s inauguration, effectively defying a presidential order put in place last month to mourn the death of former President Jimmy Carter. The move came after Mr. Trump complained that flags were scheduled to…
Pete Hegseth to Face Democratic Questioning in Confirmation Hearing
Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald J. Trump’s pick to head the Pentagon, is scheduled to appear before the Senate Armed Services Committee on Tuesday to answer questions on a range of issues, including a sexual assault allegation, his lack of management experience and his comments against women serving in combat. Mr. Hegseth, a former Fox News…
Special Counsel Report Says Trump Would Have Been Convicted in Election Case
Jack Smith, the special counsel who indicted President-elect Donald J. Trump on charges of seeking to cling to power after losing the 2020 election, said in a final report released early Tuesday morning that he believed the evidence was sufficient to convict Mr. Trump in a trial if his success in the 2024 election had…
Why Trump Turned to Manifest Destiny
President-elect Donald Trump is still a week away from taking office, but his musings about coercing Canada to join the United States while acquiring Greenland and the Panama Canal — declining at one point to rule out the use of military force in those two particular cases — have made for a surreal prologue to…
Biden Will Deliver Final Foreign Policy Speech on Monday
President Biden kicks off his final week in office on Monday with a robust defense of his foreign policy, arguing in a speech to be delivered in the afternoon that America has become stronger on his watch. With just seven days left until he hands over the White House to President-elect Donald J. Trump, Mr….
RFK Jr. Would ‘Significantly Undermine’ Public Health, a Group of Experts Says
A new national coalition of health professionals and scientists, mobilizing to oppose Senate confirmation of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to be the United States’ next health secretary, released a public letter on Monday warning that his “unfounded, fringe beliefs could significantly undermine public health practices across the country and around the world.” The coalition, calling…
Federal Court Blocks Transfer of Guantánamo Convict to Prison in Iraq
A federal judge on Saturday temporarily prevented the U.S. government from transferring a disabled prisoner to Iraq from the prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, while the judge considered the prisoner’s claim that he would be at risk for abuse and inadequate health care there. The prisoner, Abd al-Hadi al-Iraqi, 63, is the oldest of the…
Top Senators on Armed Services Panel Briefed on F.B.I. Probe of Hegseth
The top members of the Senate Armed Services Committee were briefed late Friday afternoon on the findings from the F.B.I.’s background check of Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald J. Trump’s pick to serve as defense secretary, according to two people aware of the briefings. Senator Roger Wicker, Republican of Mississippi and the chairman of the armed…
Trump Discusses Tax Cuts for New Yorkers With G.O.P. Lawmakers
President-elect Donald J. Trump reiterated his support for undoing a major provision of his 2017 tax law on Saturday when he told more than a dozen House Republicans at his Florida estate to come up with a plan for increasing the state and local tax deduction, according to four lawmakers who attended. Republicans put a…