NY Times – Politics

Earlier this year, President Trump suggested he wanted to shutter the agency. Now, he says his aides “fixed it up in no time.” [...]

A New York Times investigative reporter explains how a problem he encountered while reporting reveals something important about the second Trump era. [...]

Senator Chuck Schumer urged the health secretary to declare an emergency to keep other regions from experiencing the “nightmare” seen in Texas. [...]

After serving in the government, he became a prominent political commentator. “Centrism doesn’t mean splitting the difference,” he said. [...]

Nearly 3,000 people have been arrested since the beginning of June, more than three times the number in previous months this year. [...]

The plea came at a vulnerable moment for the Sinaloa drug cartel, the organization Ovidio Guzmán López’s father helped found. [...]