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We examined the president’s recent statements.

After indefinitely postponing a modest student exhibit about the Russian equivalent to the Bauhaus, the school received protests from 750 academics. On Monday, it reinstated the show.

The homeland security secretary has become the face of the intractable problem at the border, particularly for Republicans who see immigration attacks as a winning political strategy.

Aides describe a process in which the president spends weeks reading drafts aloud, rejecting anything that smacks of Washington-speak.

The gap between what the United States imports and what it exports hit a record as more foreign goods came into the country.

Michael Weinstock, a Democrat who once ran for Mr. Santos’s district, said he wanted to raise attention to health issues of 9/11 rescue workers like himself.

In his first State of the Union address since the G.O.P. took the lower chamber, the president will call for higher taxes on the wealthy and more social aid to the needy.

Some earlier incidents had been classified as unexplained phenomena and handed over to a Pentagon task force charged with investigating U.F.O.s.

Many consumers want control over their personal details. But few understand how online tracking works, says a new report from the University of Pennsylvania.

The Trump administration called detainee art U.S. government property and halted most releases. Lawyers never mounted an intellectual property case.

Democrats have a good chance of winning a majority in the chamber after a month in which three vacancies have paralyzed it.

The anti-tax group has invited six possible presidential candidates to its donor retreat in Florida, and a notable name was left off the guest list.

The vice president said private companies had pledged almost $1 billion to support communities in Central America.

The charges came as experts have warned that the energy grid and electrical substations in particular have become popular targets for far-right extremists.

The chances of obtaining a coveted clerkship, a new study found, increase sharply with undergraduate degrees from Harvard, Yale or Princeton.

He drew headlines in 2006 when he was struck by birdshot from a shotgun fired by Vice President Dick Cheney in a hunting accident — then apologized himself for the incident.

Donald Trump and possible rivals, like Gov. Ron DeSantis, are making appeals to conservative voters on race and gender issues, but such messages had a mixed record in November’s midterm elections.

Ms. Harris is struggling to carve out a lane for herself in what may be one of the most consequential periods in the vice presidency.

While the Biden administration has accelerated processing after Trump-era restrictions and a pandemic slowdown, visa backlogs remain large.

The Chinese balloon saga is reminiscent of the U-2 spy plane incident that provoked a tense confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union.