The Treasury secretary urged Congress to protect the full faith and credit of the United States by raising the debt limit.
Having deferred to the president for months, G.O.P. lawmakers missed crucial milestones to try to limit his war powers. That has tied their hands in seeking parameters and exit criteria....
Representative Thomas Massie, the incumbent, has opposed President Trump’s military strikes on Iran. He is now facing the biggest challenge of his career....
Watch an exchange between the two men in which the Chinese leader sought to signal exclusivity and name-dropped Russia’s president....
Hopes for an end to the war in Iran faded after President Trump failed to secure a commitment from China to help persuade Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz....
Suits her, sir....
Mykhailo Fedorov, Ukraine’s 35-year-old defense minister, sees futuristic military technology as crucial to his country’s survival....
Jerome H. Powell is passing the chair’s baton to Kevin M. Warsh at the Federal Reserve, an institution that President Trump’s pick says needs an overhaul....
Authoritarians go after data. The president has already started....
But two vulnerable Republicans joined Democrats in the effort to force President Trump to win authorization from Congress, in the latest sign of G.O.P. jitters over the war....
Adm. Brad Cooper said a strike on an Iranian school may have been the only civilian casualty incident of the war....
The Gulf Arab states have been grappling with how to deter Iran after the war made clear the limits of American security guarantees....
Higher fuel prices are a burden on low-income families....
A pledge for more Chinese investment could face backlash given longstanding national security concerns in the United States....
He has minimized soaring gas prices, rising inflation and the American economy’s need for the Strait of Hormuz....
President Xi Jinping of China is buying time for Beijing and may see an opening with a U.S. president weakened by the war in Iran....
Gov. Henry McMaster, a Republican, appears prepared to thrust the state into the nation’s redistricting wars....
Asked if he was motivated by Americans’ financial woes to make a deal to end the war with Iran, he responded, “Not even a little bit.”...
Also, Kevin Warsh is confirmed as the next Fed chair. Here’s the latest at the end of Wednesday....
Senator Lisa Murkowski of Alaska became the latest Republican to switch her vote to halt the conflict and require President Trump to win congressional approval to continue it....
The visit to meet with the Emirati leader, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed, was another sign of how Israel and the Emirates have drawn closer together....
President Trump’s pick to replace Jerome H. Powell takes the helm at a highly uncertain moment for the economy and with heightened concern about the Federal Reserve’s ability to operate independently....
The president’s top military adviser is walking a tightrope as he leads the military through a divisive and unpopular war....
Some wild animals, eating fermented or rotten fruits, “may exhibit completely unpredictable behavior,” the police warned drivers in Saône-et-Loire, a rural region in central-eastern France....
Dozens of long-shot bets on Polymarket, from the war with Iran to the cryptocurrency market, have defied the odds, according to a New York Times examination....
The Producer Price Index rose in April at its fastest pace in four years, government data showed, a day after consumer prices showed inflation was surging....
Politicians are fighting viciously for power, said Shane Massey, leader of the State Senate. “To what end?” he asked, warning of eroding fundamental American values. “I’m voting no.”...
The balance of power between the United States and China had shifted in Beijing’s favor even before the war in Iran began in February....
As the U.S. tries to rebuild its weapons stockpiles drained in the Iran war, it will need access to rare-earth minerals, an industry China dominates....
Representative Kevin Kiley, independent of California, became the 218th signature on a petition to force action on an aid bill to Ukraine. The vote could come as soon as the end of May....
Before leaving Washington on Tuesday, the president reiterated threats to decimate Iran if it doesn’t agree to a deal to resolve the conflict....
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New York Times
