Trump, asked if he has to ‘uphold the Constitution,’ says, 'I don't know'  —  Trump said on NBC News' “Meet the Press” that he's following lawyers' advice as he tries to execute rapid deportations, arguing that giving immigrants due process is time-consuming.

Trump says he will not drop tariffs to get China to negotiating table  —  President Donald Trump said he will not drop tariffs on China to get Beijing to come to the negotiating table.  —  The president discussed his stance on the tariffs, which he defended, in an interview with NBC's …

Trump Administration Slashes Research Into L.G.B.T.Q. Health  —  More than $800 million in N.I.H. grants canceled as of early May — nearly half of those terminated to date — covered the health of sexual and gender minority groups, The Times found.  —  The Trump administration has scrapped …

Trump's 48-hour scramble to fly migrants to a Salvadoran prison  —  The administration rounded up some of the Venezuelans two days before the flights took off, pressing forward even as Venezuela agreed to accept deportees.  —  The message from Secretary of State Marco Rubio …

Catholic leaders criticize Trump for posting apparent AI photo of himself as the pope  —  Some Catholic leaders and at least one U.S. Catholic group are criticizing President Trump after he posted on social media what appears to be an artificial intelligence-generated image of himself dressed as the pope.

Justice Department lawyers face skeptical judges upset by ‘shoddy work’  —  As they defend against more than 200 lawsuits challenging President Donald Trump's initiatives, some government lawyers are getting scolded from the bench.  —  Justice Department lawyers defending …

Biden Aides Decided Against a Cognitive Test in Early 2024, Book Says  —  His White House advisers considered giving him such a test to prove his fitness for a second term, but they worried it would draw new attention to his age, according to a forthcoming book.

Rebuke.  —  They thought they could export the chaos.  They thought nationalism was a currency that could be traded across borders, that autocratic rhetoric could be franchised like a fast-food chain, and that the world would follow their script.  But instead of ushering in a new global rightwing order …

‘Everyone knew it but him’: Tiffany Trump's father-in-law has seen role diminished since the transition  —  Massad Boulos' struggle to gain influence is a case study in Trump power politics.  —  Massad Boulos arrived at Joint Base Andrews in early April as the Trump administration's newest official …

Eight arrested in two separate anti-terror operations  —  Eight men, including seven Iranian nationals, have been arrested in two separate counter-terrorism police investigations.  —  Five were arrested at various locations around England on Saturday as part of a “pre-planned” …