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Stephen Miller Cited ‘Plenary Authority,’ Then Paused. Conspiracies Started Flying.
Online skeptics wondered if Mr. Miller had caught himself saying something he did not mean to. CNN says there was a technical glitch.
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Mixed Economic Signals Stoke Divisions at Fed, Minutes Show
A few officials appeared reluctant to support the central bank’s interest rate cut last month, underscoring the tough task ahead for Chair Jerome H. Powell to forge a consensus.
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Broadway Could Face a Strike This Fall. Here’s What to Know.
The Broadway League and unions representing actors, stage managers and musicians are trying to negotiate new contracts, but workers are increasingly frustrated.
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Kash Patel Fires Two F.B.I. Agents Who Worked on Trump Investigation
The agents were identified in documents obtained by a Republican senator as having worked with Jack Smith, the special counsel who led the federal inquiries into Donald J. Trump.
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Qatar Pushes U.S.-Venezuela Diplomacy as Trump Focuses on Military Action
The Pentagon has deployed 10,000 U.S. troops to the region, most of them to bases in Puerto Rico, a senior military official said.
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Lawler Confronts Jeffries in Showy Exchange in a Tense Capitol
The roughly five-minute confrontation, initiated by Representative Mike Lawler of New York, was intended to draw attention to Democrats’ role in the government shutdown.
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His Lab Tested Cutting-Edge Spacecraft
Mason Peck, an aerospace engineer at Cornell, was trying to test innovative designs in spacecraft when a stop-work order hit.
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The Redistricting Fight You Haven’t Heard About
Trump wants Republicans to draw more safe seats. In Utah, they might lose some instead.
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Napa on the Aegean: A Turkish Wine Region Re-emerges
Urla, a lush district in western Turkey, is bursting with promise, with easy access to beaches, an up-and-coming gastronomy scene and a well-marked vineyard route.
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Nobel Prize in Chemistry Awarded to Architects of Metal-Organic Frameworks
The prize was awarded to Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar Yaghi for the development of a new type of molecular architecture.