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Scott Bessent, the billionaire hedge fund manager whom President-elect Donald J. Trump picked to be his Treasury secretary, plans to divest from dozens of funds, trusts and investments in preparation …

As fires raged around Los Angeles, Gov. Gavin Newsom, Democrat of California, arrived at a Santa Monica fire station on Wednesday to meet with President Biden carrying a printout of …

A big economic package, mass deportations, maybe even some invasions of other countries. Oh, and one more item. “I’ll do my little thing tomorrow,” a busy President-elect Donald J. Trump …

The inauguration of Mayor Daniel Lurie of San Francisco on Wednesday in the plaza outside City Hall had it all: prominent speakers, a packed audience, and performers ranging from Chinese …

Mark Zuckerberg kept the circle of people who knew his thinking small. Last month, Mr. Zuckerberg, the chief executive of Meta, tapped a handful of top policy and communications executives …

Constellation Energy, the nation’s largest nuclear power plant operator, has agreed to buy another electricity producer, Calpine, for $16.4 billion, a deal that shows how fast-rising demand for power, partly …

A federal appeals court on Thursday said that it would not block the Justice Department from releasing a report by the special counsel Jack Smith about the two now-closed investigations …

Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. received a call on his cellphone Tuesday. It was President-elect Donald J. Trump, calling from Florida. Hours later, Mr. Trump’s legal team would ask Justice …

The Senate on Thursday pushed forward toward passing legislation that would mandate the detention and deportation of undocumented immigrants charged with minor crimes, as the vast majority of Democrats joined …

Just weeks after Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, Ukrainian troops began running out of ammunition for their aging Soviet-era artillery. The United States was soon scouring foreign arsenals around …