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How Trump Is Using the Paxton-Cornyn Race to Squeeze the Senate Over the SAVE Act
The president has yet to make an endorsement in the contest between John Cornyn and Ken Paxton as he tries to push the Senate to pass a bill requiring voters to show identification at the polls.
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Charlie Kirk’s Group Expands Into High Schools. G.O.P. States Are Signing On.
Turning Point USA, the right-wing campus group, is partnering with Arkansas and Indiana, the latest of several states to have similar arrangements.
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Food Stamp Recipients Sue Over Bans on Sugary Drinks
In suing to halt restrictions in five states, the plaintiffs argued that the Trump administration violated laws authorizing SNAP and governing changes in policies.
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Is a Private-Island Paradise in Turks and Caicos Worth the Price? I Went to Find Out.
What it’s like to stay on a private island so luxurious that there are no price tags and so quiet that “even the wind feels guilty for making noise.”
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Slowly, Slowly, ‘Darwin’s Finches of the Snail World’ Return From Near Extinction
Partula snails all but vanished from Polynesia after the arrival of a carnivorous foreign snail. But a global alliance of zoos has worked to bring them back.
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Microsoft Takes a Stand Against the Trump Administration in Anthropic Fight
The technology giant’s siding with Anthropic in its fight against the Pentagon stands out in an era when big companies have tended to keep quiet.
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A Trump-Xi Summit Nears, but China Doesn’t Know What Trump Wants
Trump’s agenda for the high-stakes meeting remains unclear to Beijing, Chinese analysts say, while American executives say they haven’t been invited along.
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What to know ahead of the latest inflation report.
Consumer price data set for release Wednesday was collected before the Iran war, a conflict that has stoked fresh uncertainty about the economic outlook. .
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Since February, rising gas prices have added to inflation.
Gas prices don’t move in lock step with crude, usually trailing increases or drops by a few days.
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Trump Directs Iran War Keeping Markets Top of Mind
President Trump again demonstrated his desire to keep the stock markets aloft when he suggested U.S. attacks on Iran could end soon.