new video loaded: Carter’s Coffin Transferred to Washington transcript Back transcript Carter’s Coffin Transferred to Washington Former President Jimmy Carter’s body was moved on Tuesday from his home state of Georgia to Washington, where it will

The U.S. government asked a federal appeals court on Tuesday to stop Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the man accused of planning the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, from pleading guilty on Friday at the war court at Guantánamo

President-elect Donald J. Trump’s suggestion on Tuesday that the United States might reclaim the Panama Canal — including by force — unsettled Panamanians, who used to live with the presence of the U.S. military in the

The ceremonial swearing-in of new senators is normally a perfunctory part of the start of a new Congress, a ritual orchestrated to showcase courtesy and camaraderie as even political rivals smile together for family photos. That’s

Three senior Trump administration officials violated Justice Department rules just before the 2020 election by divulging details of an investigation into coronavirus deaths at nursing homes in New York and other Democratic-run states, according to an

Two federal prisoners whose death sentences were recently commuted by President Biden have asked a judge to block the reduction in their sentences, arguing that it could jeopardize their appeals. The prisoners, Len Davis and Shannon

During a news conference at Mar-a-Lago on Tuesday, President-elect Donald J. Trump refused to rule out using military force to retake the Panama Canal. Source link

The federal judge who handled President-elect Donald J. Trump’s classified documents case temporarily barred the special counsel, Jack Smith, on Tuesday from releasing his final report on the investigation to the public. In a brief ruling,

President-elect Donald J. Trump said Tuesday that he would not rule out the use of military or economic coercion to force Panama to give up control of the canal America built more than a century ago

The Saudi-backed LIV Golf league announced Tuesday that it would return to the Trump family’s Doral resort in April, the clearest sign yet that Trump family business deals using Saudi government financing will continue into the

The first special elections since President-elect Donald J. Trump won a second term are arriving on Tuesday in Virginia, where voters in three races will determine the majorities in the state’s legislature. At first glance, the

Former President Jimmy Carter is set to arrive in Washington on Tuesday to be honored in death as the city never truly honored him in life. That he will end his long story with a pomp-and-circumstance

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau moved on Tuesday to ban medical debt from appearing on credit reports, potentially lifting the credit scores of about 15 million Americans and making it easier for them to obtain loans.

Former President Jimmy Carter, who disavowed the trappings of the imperial presidency and never gave up his humble Georgia roots, will nonetheless be given an elaborate national send-off starting on Tuesday when he is brought to

new video loaded: Harris Announces Trump’s Win in the 2024 Election transcript Back transcript Harris Announces Trump’s Win in the 2024 Election Vice President Kamala Harris presided over the certification of her own presidential election loss.

Defense lawyers asked both the Justice Department and a federal judge on Monday night to stop the special counsel, Jack Smith, from publicly releasing a report detailing his investigation into President-elect Donald J. Trump’s mishandling of

The Defense Department has reached a sweeping settlement with tens of thousands of people who were dismissed from military service because of their sexual identity, potentially paving the way for veterans to upgrade their discharge status

A loudspeaker in the Senate press gallery crackled with a dire warning on the afternoon of Jan. 6, 2021, and a voice announced a lockdown as I sat at my desk in the Capitol. “External security

The photograph was an immediate symbol of Jan. 6, 2021: a man in bluejeans and a thick plaid overshirt reclining in the chambers of then-Speaker Nancy Pelosi, with a smile on his face and his boot

A joint session of Congress on Monday certified President-elect Donald J. Trump’s victory in the 2024 election, peacefully performing a basic ritual of democracy that was brutally disrupted four years ago by a violent pro-Trump mob

The U.S. military sent 11 Yemeni prisoners at Guantánamo Bay to Oman to restart their lives, the Pentagon said on Monday, leaving just 15 men in the prison in a bold push at end of the

President-elect Donald J. Trump was at Mar-a-Lago, his members-only club and home in Florida, nearly 1,000 miles away from the Capitol as a joint session of Congress certified his Electoral College victory on Monday. He spent

Michael Barr will step down from his role as the Federal Reserve’s vice chair for supervision by Feb. 28, or sooner if President-elect Donald J. Trump appoints a successor, the Fed said on Monday. Mr. Barr

President-elect Donald J. Trump said on Monday that he plans to replace the head of the National Archives, the agency whose leaders’ concerns about Mr. Trump’s decision to hang on to boxes of documents after he

Memories of the chaos and violence that disrupted the electoral count in Congress four years ago are still fresh for many on Capitol Hill, but a new law enacted in 2022 has overhauled the process to

The vice presidency comes with plenty of indignities, but probably none greater than the one Kamala Harris will endure on Monday when she presides over the certification of her defeat. Under the Constitution, the vice president

U.S. Steel and Japan’s Nippon Steel sued the United States government on Monday in a last-ditch attempt to revive their attempted merger after President Biden blocked it last week on the basis that the transaction posed

President Biden warned Americans not to forget the violent attack that took place at the Capitol four years ago, and he accused President-elect Donald J. Trump and his supporters of trying “to rewrite — even erase

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken and the foreign minister of South Korea, Cho Tae-yul, both acknowledged the challenges to democracy in their nations on Monday while asserting that the alliance between the countries remained strong

A joint session of Congress is set to convene on Monday to certify President-elect Donald J. Trump’s victory in the 2024 election, once a largely ceremonial and uneventful ritual that was disrupted four years ago by

In the past four years, nearly 1,600 people have been prosecuted in connection with the storming of the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Some were accused of felonies like assault or seditious conspiracy and are still

Amazon said on Sunday that its Prime Video streaming service will release a “behind-the-scenes” documentary about Melania Trump’s life. The film will head to movie theaters and stream on Amazon Prime in the second half of

As President-elect Donald J. Trump prepares for his inauguration, some of the legal cases that spilled out of Mr. Trump’s first presidency will follow him into the second. Mr. Trump has signaled he plans to fight

In two weeks, Donald J. Trump is to emerge from an arched portal of the United States Capitol to once again take the presidential oath of office. As the Inauguration Day ritual conveying the peaceful transfer

To hear President-elect Donald J. Trump tell it, he is about to take over a nation ravaged by crisis, a desolate hellscape of crime, chaos and economic hardship. “Our Country is a disaster, a laughing stock

Days before Republicans take full control of Washington, the Democratic National Committee is mired in an intramural fight that is less about how the party found itself locked out of power than about disputes over donor

With 16 days left in a political career that spanned a half-century, President Biden on Saturday conferred one of the nation’s highest honors on core members of the political, financial and celebrity establishment of which he

Since his victory in November, President-elect Donald J. Trump’s allies have raised well over $200 million for a constellation of groups that will fund his inauguration, his political operation and eventually his presidential library, according to