The most telling moment during Wednesday’s arguments before the Supreme Court on President Donald Trump’s tariffs came when Justice Neil Gorsuch walked the attorney representing the administration into a corner.

Under the theory of executive branch power advanced by the White House, couldn’t the president “impose a 50 percent tariff on ...Read more

The White House just announced that AstraZeneca and Pfizer will start charging foreign health systems the same prices for all newly launched treatments as they charge here in America. Bristol-Meyers Squibb and AbbVie have similarly promised to charge the same price in the United Kingdom as in the United States for two soon-to-be-launched ...Read more

A lung just harvested for an organ transplant. A part critically needed to restart an assembly line. The hottest toy for Christmas.

Those are among the kinds of goods shipped by the country's complex air cargo system that could be significantly delayed following the Federal Aviation Administration's decision to reduce flight capacity at 40 ...Read more

WASHINGTON — U.S. officials warned that the number of flight cancellations may need to double if the government shutdown drags out and air-traffic controller staffing shortages worsen, potentially escalating travel disruptions as the country heads into one of its busiest travel seasons.

U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said Friday on...Read more

A federal judge ordered the U.S. Department of Education to halt the practice of inserting partisan language into automated out-of-office emails from accounts of furloughed employees that blames the government shutdown on Democratic lawmakers.

Commandeering employee out-of-office messages to fault “Democratic Senators” for causing the ...Read more

NEW YORK — The U.S. Justice Department urged a New York state appeals court to reverse Donald Trump’s felony conviction, an extraordinary intervention by federal officials as the president seeks to clear his criminal record.

Lawyers in the Justice Department filed a friend-of-the-court brief Friday, arguing that his conviction last year was...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Travelers got their first taste of what is expected to be worsening cuts in commercial air traffic due to the government shutdown, bringing delays, anxiety and confusion to airports across the nation.

By some measures, the level of chaos was less than some feared, but government officials warned that flight cancellations are set...Read more

WASHINGTON — A new Senate Democratic plan for ending the longest partial government shutdown in history met with a wall of Republican resistance late Friday, signaling another round of contentious negotiations that could stretch at least through the weekend.

After weeks of partisan stalemate, Democrats took to the Senate floor to call for a ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Republican lawmakers and the Trump administration are increasingly anxious that an ongoing standoff with Democrats over reopening the government may drag into Thanksgiving week, one of the country's busiest travel periods.

Already, hundreds of flights have been canceled since the Federal Aviation Administration issued an ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Airlines across the United States have canceled flights scheduled for the coming days, as the longest government shutdown in history snarls up air travel and forces thousands of passengers to change their travel plans.

With hundreds of services already trimmed and more on the way, the world’s busiest aviation market has become ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Travelers around the country faced major disruptions Friday after the Trump administration ordered airlines to cut back on flights at the nation’s major airports to maintain safety as the longest government shutdown in U.S. history drags on.

As of Friday morning, more than 1,200 of the day’s scheduled flights were canceled, ...Read more

Airlines across the U.S. began canceling flights scheduled for the coming days, as the longest government shutdown in history snarls up air travel and forces thousands of passengers to change their travel plans.

With hundreds of services already suspended by the four largest airlines, the world’s busiest aviation market has become a ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Sandra Pleites has been looking forward to visiting her sister for months, trading in the crisp New Jersey weather for a sun-soaked trip with her kids to San Diego.

Once a year, one side of the family hops on a flight and jets out to the other coast to spend some quality time together. Pleites booked an Airbnb for herself, her ...Read more

ATLANTA — Atlanta media mogul Tyler Perry has donated $1.4 million to various charities to help people who have lost government food benefits.

With delays this month to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, Perry has given money to Atlanta Community Food Bank, Baby2Baby, Meals on Wheels Atlanta, Caring for Others, All for Lunch, Ron ...Read more

The election Tuesday of the charismatic socialist Zoran Mamdani as mayor of New York sucked up a lot of media oxygen. Most pundits and editors live there and always exaggerate its importance. But when it comes to political foretelling, New York is merely the capital of New York.

Gotham City is its own peculiar beast with particular problems of ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Democrats’ hopes of securing control of the Senate next year begin with defending a freshman from a Southern swing state that Donald Trump narrowly carried in 2024.

And Republican efforts to maintain their Senate majority center on a longtime incumbent who has managed to hang on despite representing a state that leans blue.

A ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said he would look to diversify critical minerals purchases during a meeting with five central Asian countries on Thursday, as the U.S. seeks to address China’s dominance in rare earths critical to advanced technology manufacturing.

“One of the key items on our agenda is critical minerals,” Trump said...Read more

WASHINGTON — Eli Lilly & Co. and Novo Nordisk A/S secured deals with the Trump administration to slash prices for their blockbuster weight-loss drugs like Zepbound and Wegovy in exchange for tariff relief and wider Medicare access.

The deals, announced Thursday at a White House event with President Donald Trump, will make some of the most ...Read more

LEXINGTON, Ky. — When Kim Davis, then the Rowan County clerk, repeatedly refused to sign her name to marriage licenses for unions of gay couples in her Eastern Kentucky county in the summer of 2015, she set off a firestorm that’s still smoldering today.

“For me, this would be an act of disobedience to God,” she told reporters in ...Read more

SAN JOSE, Calif. — In announcing Thursday she won’t seek another term after nearly 40 years in Congress, Rep. Nancy Pelosi, the powerful former two-time House speaker who led passage of major Democratic legislation and proved a formidable adversary to President Donald Trump, said San Francisco must remain “a beacon of hope, justice and ...Read more