Politics

High-profile supporters of President-elect Donald Trump clashed online over a visa program intended to bring skilled tech workers to the US - a preview of possible tensions in the upcoming Trump White House.

At the end of 2024, we consider reader questions (and worries) about 2025.

More Americans were homeless this year compared to 2023, as families continued struggling to afford rent and other basic necessities, federal officials announced Friday. Across the U.S.

The crash of an Azerbaijan Airlines passenger jet over Kazakhstan on Wednesday that killed 38 people aboard was likely caused by an antiaircraft missile, some aviation experts say, although an investigation is still ongoing.

High housing costs, natural disasters and a spike in migration helped fuel the rise, officials said.

How the Assad regime collapsed slowly, then all at once.

In postelection Washington, the mood is calm—and the developments are disturbing. A very strange disjuncture has opened up in Washington between the serene mood and the alarming developments that are under way.

When Barack Obama won re-election in 2012, it seemed to mark the beginning of a new era of Democratic dominance, one propelled by the rise of a new generation of young, secular and nonwhite voters.

Bitter in-fighting has broken out between the tech billionaire Elon Musk and Donald Trump’s hardline Make America great again (Maga) base after the US president-elect chose an Indian-born entrepreneur to be his adviser on artificial intelligence.

NewsGuard, which prizes its nonpartisan criteria, has become a prime target of the GOP’s battle against disinformation watchdogs. When veteran newsmen L. Gordon Crovitz and Steven Brill started their news site rating company, they were prepared for the inevitable cries of bias from both sides.