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2 weeks ago | 
macon.com | Lynsey Chutel |NYT Washington
EDITORS NOTE: EDS: SUBS for a complete writethru; UPDATES related stories list.) ; (With: TRUMP-SAFRICA, TRUMP-FARM-SEIZURES, SAFRICA-REFUGEES-EXPLAINERTwo of South Africa's most famous golfers were drawn into a tense Oval Office discussion about race in their country Wednesday, after President Donald Trump ambushed his South African counterpart, Cyril Ramaphosa, with videos intended to support his false claim of mass killings of Afrikaners.
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2 weeks ago | 
miamiherald.com | Tim Balk |NYT Washington
President Donald Trump said Monday that he was surprised that Joe Biden’s cancer diagnosis was not made public a “long time ago,” seeming to suggest without evidence that the former president’s cancer was not newly discovered and had been covered up. “There are things going on that the public wasn’t informed, and I think somebody is going to have to speak to his doctor,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office.
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4 weeks ago | 
miamiherald.com | Hamed Aleaziz |NYT Washington
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump ordered the Department of Homeland Security on Friday to increase the deportation force of the United States by 20,000 officers, a move that would lead to an enormous expansion of immigration enforcement if realized.
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4 weeks ago | 
miamiherald.com | Andy Duehren |NYT Washington
House Republicans on Friday night rolled out the first pieces of a roughly $4 trillion tax cut they hope to pass in the coming weeks, sketching out plans that would keep key planks of President Donald Trump’s 2017 tax cut in place while offering even more generous tax breaks for just the next few years.
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1 month ago | 
sanluisobispo.com | Charlie Savage |Julian Barnes |NYT Washington
FILE -- President Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela during a ceremony to swear in new members of the Bolivarian militia at the Miraflores Palace in Caracas, Jan. 7, 2025. A newly declassified memo released on Monday, May 5, 2025, confirms that U.S. intelligence agencies have rejected a key claim President Trump put forth to justify invoking a wartime statute to summarily deport Venezuelans to a prison in El Salvador.
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1 month ago | 
miamiherald.com | Benjamin Mueller |NYT Washington
The Trump administration has replaced the government’s main portal for information about COVID-19 with a website arguing that the virus leaked from a lab, throwing its weight behind a theory of the virus’s origins that is so far not backed by direct evidence and that many scientists consider less likely than the idea that it emerged at a wild-animal market.
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1 month ago | 
myrtlebeachonline.com | Andrew Duehren |Eileen Sullivan |NYT Washington
WASHINGTON -- About 22,000 employees at the IRS have signed up for the Trump administration’s latest resignation offer, according to four people familiar with the matter, an exodus that could weaken the agency’s ability to collect taxes. The IRS had about 100,000 employees before President Donald Trump took office. Roughly 5,000 employees have resigned since January, and an additional 7,000 probationary employees were laid off, though those firings have been contested in court.
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1 month ago | 
mahoningmatters.com | Edward Wong |Karoun Demirjian |NYT Washington
The Trump administration could cut nearly 50% of the State Department’s funding next fiscal year, according to an internal memo laying out a downsizing plan being given serious consideration by department leaders, said two U.S. officials. The plan was drawn up as the White House pressures agencies to make significant budget cuts.
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1 month ago | 
mahoningmatters.com | Andy Duehren |NYT Washington
WASHINGTON -- As Republicans prepare to cut trillions of dollars in taxes, they are grasping for ways to keep down costs. There are the typical conservative ideas for doing so, like cuts to health care programs, and the inventive ones, like changing how the budget is measured in the first place. And then there is an unorthodox option Republicans on Capitol Hill and in the Trump administration are quietly considering: a tax increase on the rich.
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1 month ago | 
miamiherald.com | David Fahrenthold |Jeremy Singer-Vine |NYT Washington
Last week, Elon Musk indicated for the first time that his Department of Government Efficiency was falling short of its goal. He previously said his powerful budget-cutting team could reduce the next fiscal year’s federal budget by $1 trillion, and do it by Sept. 30, the end of the current fiscal year. Instead, in a Cabinet meeting Thursday, Musk said that he anticipated the group would save about $150 billion, 85% less than its objective.
