In Speech to Justice Dept., Trump Airs Grievances Against His Enemies

The president, once the target of federal prosecution, says he wants to combat “weaponization” of the department, even as he uses its powers to punish enemies and reward allies.In an hourlong speech, President Trump veered from his prepared remarks to lash out at lawyers and former prosecutors by na

G Glenn Thrush, Zolan Kanno-Youngs and Tyler Pager

The Senate votes to avert a shutdown after Schumer relents.

After days of Democratic agonizing, the Senate voted to keep federal funds flowing through Sept. 30 just hours before a midnight deadline.The vote on the Republican stopgap spending bill laid bare an intraparty feud among Democrats about how to mount the most effective resistance to President Trump.

C Catie Edmondson and Carl Hulse

Left for Dead, the C.F.P.B. Inches Back to Life

Court orders have paused, and at times reversed, the Trump administration’s efforts to shut down the consumer watchdog agency.Protesters outside the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau building last month. The bureau has become a test case for the boundaries of President Trump’s power to hobble gov

S Stacy Cowley

Trump Orders Gutting of 7 Agencies, Including Voice of America’s Parent

The order targeting the agencies, largely obscure entities that address issues like labor mediation and homelessness prevention, appeared to test the bounds of the president’s power.The Voice of America building in Washington. President Trump is seeking to dismantle the federal agency that oversees

T Tyler Pager

Draft List for New Travel Ban Proposes Trump Target 43 Countries

A draft circulating inside the administration lists three tiers of countries whose citizens may face restrictions on entering the United States.The most stringent restriction level would flatly bar citizens from 11 countries from entering the United States.

C Charlie Savage, Ken Bensinger and Allison McCann

‘On the Tightrope’: Britain Tries to Bridge a Widening Trans-Atlantic Gap

Five years after Brexit, Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s intense diplomacy on Ukraine has put Britain back in a familiar role on the global stage.Prime Minister Keir Starmer with Volodymyr Zelensky and Emmanuel Macron, the presidents of Ukraine and France. Mr. Starmer’s diplomacy revives a role that B

M Mark Landler and Stephen Castle

Trump Tries to Use White South Africans as Cautionary Tale

The president and his allies accuse South Africa of discriminating against and killing white people, and warn that it could happen in America if attempts to promote diversity aren’t stopped.White South Africans rallying in support of President Trump outside the U.S. Embassy in Pretoria, South Africa

J John Eligon

As Trump Stirs Doubt, Europeans Debate Their Own Nuclear Deterrent

Talk of replacing the American nuclear umbrella over Europe with the small British and French nuclear armories is in the air, however vague and fanciful.Submarines docked at His Majesty’s Naval Base Clyde in Faslane, Scotland, this month. The base hosts Britain’s nuclear submarines, which are armed

S Steven Erlanger

The Frick Glows With a Poetic, $220 Million Renovation

The museum, based in Henry Clay Frick’s 1914 Fifth Avenue mansion, reopens with a deft expansion worthy of a New York treasure.The new limestone-clad addition, left, overlooking the garden, steps back for a row of hornbeams.

M Michael Kimmelman and Lila Barth

How New York’s Mayor, Eric Adams, Wooed Donald Trump

Mayor Eric Adams’s charm campaign involved phone calls to the Trumps and a meeting with Steve Bannon. Mr. Trump showed sympathy for the mayor, as his administration moved to drop charges against Mr. Adams.In the weeks before the presidential inauguration, Mayor Eric Adams of New York cozied up to Pr

M Maggie Haberman, Ben Protess, Jonah E. Bromwich, William K. Rashbaum and Dana Rubinstein

Russia Presses Offensive in Kursk Amid Cease-Fire Talks With U.S.

Moscow said it had retaken two villages outside the town of Sudzha in Russia’s Kursk region. Ukrainian officials did not immediately comment on the claim.Ukrainian soldiers repairing a vehicle near the border with Russia’s Kursk region in January.

P Paul Sonne and Maria Varenikova

Five Years On, Ghosts of a Pandemic We Didn’t Imagine Still Haunt Us

Time’s passage may have granted the illusion of distance, but we are living in a world that has yet to put the effects of Covid behind it.The old movie theater in Maplewood, N.J., closed in early 2020. Its marquee stands frozen in time, about the only visible trace of what we endured.

D Dan Barry

Science Amid Chaos: What Worked During the Pandemic? What Failed?

As the coronavirus spread, researchers worldwide scrambled to find ways to keep people safe. Some efforts were misguided. Others saved millions of lives.Workers made disposable face shields ordered by New York State for use as personal protective equipment during the early days of the pandemic.

A Apoorva Mandavilli

Public Health Survived the Pandemic. Now It Fights Politics.

Five years after the pandemic began, many local health officials say that the politicization of Covid has left them with fewer tools and fresh challenges.Since the Covid pandemic, trust in public health has dropped sharply and new laws in some states limit local officials’ authority to issue health

K Kate Zernike, Emily Cochrane and Isabelle Taft

Home Sellers and Buyers Accuse Realtors of Blocking Lower Fees

A year after a landmark settlement called for a disruption in how real estate agents are paid, people say they still feel forced to pay them excessive commissions.Mike Chambers wanted to prove he could sell his house without an agent. He made an Instagram account, @realtorshateme, to chronicle the p

D Debra Kamin

Social Distance

On the five-year anniversary of Covid, a look at the ways we vowed our lives and relationships would change afterward — and how they still might.

M Melissa Kirsch