President Donald Trump and his advisers have called for dramatically shrinking the size and scope of the federal government, dispatching officials to agency after agency to block funding and slash ...

Investors may be fixated on Donald Trump’s attacks on the Federal Reserve, but the Bank of England also faces increasing ...

News about United States Politics and Government, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.

The high court has given the president immunity and protected him from nationwide injunctions. Congress is giving ground on ...

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U.S. District Judge Loren AliKhan said Trump's order unlawfully retaliated against Susman for cases it has taken and its efforts to promote racial diversity.

Despite Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs’ promise to veto it, the Republican-led Arizona House passed a continuation budget Tuesday night in an effort to avoid a government shutdown. With Monday’s ...