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On Feb. 7, as rumors spread through the ranks of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau that Elon Musk’s team had entered their building, federal workers took out their phones. On …

Kash Patel is an unconventional pick to run the F.B.I. Devlin Barrett, a reporter for The New York Times, explains why President Trump wants Patel to lead the organization.

A brief, fiery showdown between the president of the United States and the president of Colombia ended by Sunday night — when the Colombian government agreed to accept all deportation …

One of Silicon Valley’s star investment bankers is expected to take a senior job at the Commerce Department, becoming the latest person from the tech sector to join the Trump …

President Trump on Monday moved toward pushing openly transgender people out of the military, directed the Pentagon to end diversity programs and ordered the reinstatement of many service members dismissed …

In his first week in office, President Trump tried to browbeat governments across the world into ending the flow of drugs into America, accepting planes full of deported migrants, halting …

The speaker of the House has for centuries played a singular role among political leaders in the United States, as the only partisan figure in Congress who is also explicitly …

President Trump on Monday fired the three Democratic-selected members of an independent civil liberties watchdog agency, leaving it paralyzed as Mr. Trump’s administration starts to put its stamp on the …

President Trump’s new U.S. attorney in Washington has opened an internal investigation into the use of an obstruction statute brought against scores of people charged with taking part in the …

In a wide-ranging interview on Sunday, Vice President JD Vance defended a variety of plans set in motion by President Trump during the first week of his term, including the …