The world’s richest man is boasting about destroying the United States Agency for International Development, which saves the lives of the world’s poorest children, saying he shoved it “into the wood chipper.” By my calculations, Elon Musk probably has a net worth greater than that of the poorest billion people on Earth. Just since Donald…

I never wanted to be a writer. I was an information designer. Becoming a columnist, like so many things in my career, was a bit of a fluke. As I end this column, I’d like to share the strange way that it began. After many years in The Times’s newsroom as a graphics editor and…

President Trump signed an executive order on Wednesday aimed at prohibiting transgender women and girls from competing in women’s sports, directing agencies to withdraw federal funding for any schools that refused to comply. “From now on, women’s sports will be only for women,” he said in the East Room of the White House before signing…

The Trump administration is holding 10 migrants with suspected gang affiliations in the same prison in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, that has housed men accused of being members of Al Qaeda, U.S. defense officials said on Wednesday. The Pentagon made the disclosure as U.S. forces are preparing a tent city for migrants, in compliance with an…

As he sat next to President Trump on Tuesday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel had a grin on his face that he rarely had during the last administration. And why not? He got most everything he came to Washington for. Put aside the president’s far-fetched notion of a U.S. takeover of Gaza. Mr. Trump…

President Trump has described his proposal to seize control of Gaza and displace the Palestinian population as a humanitarian imperative, a gesture that would allow people living in what he called a “hellhole” to finally find peace somewhere else. But beneath his astonishing plan were echoes of forced displacement that have shaped Palestinian society since…

President Trump’s administration deepened its pressure campaign on government employees to resign before a Thursday deadline, rattling and angering a civil service steeling itself for a prolonged battle with Elon Musk and his ongoing foray into the federal bureaucracy. With hours dwindling for workers to decide whether or not to quit, agency officials held last-minute…

Thousands of people on Wednesday turned out across the U.S. to protest President Trump’s flurry of early actions, denouncing his plans for mass deportations, his attacks on diversity initiatives and his efforts to restrict transgender rights. The demonstrations, which popped up in major cities and state capitals in more than a dozen states, appear to…

An autopsy has found that the death of a New York State prison inmate who was handcuffed and shackled while corrections officers attacked him was a homicide, Gov. Kathy Hochul said on Wednesday. Ms. Hochul said the determination should prompt the swift filing of criminal charges against those involved in the death of the man,…

The new leadership of the Justice Department moved swiftly on multiple fronts Wednesday to assert control over the F.B.I. and marshal the power of federal law enforcement to investigate those who had investigated President Trump. Pam Bondi, who was sworn in as attorney general in an Oval Office ceremony, signed a memo creating a working…