Edward Snowden Emerges as Biggest Flashpoint in Gabbard Hearing Tulsi Gabbard, the nominee for director of national intelligence, repeatedly avoided joining senators in calling Mr. Snowden a traitor.

Fact-Checking Health Claims in RFK Jr.’s 2nd Day of Confirmation Hearings Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the nominee to lead the Department of Health and Human Services, made disputed claims before the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions.

Patel Has Promised Drastic Changes at the F.B.I. Some of the shifts, including gutting the bureau’s headquarters, are already underway.

Kash Patel Repeatedly Dodges Answering Whether Biden Won the 2020 Election Under three minutes of questioning from Senator Peter Welch, a Vermont Democrat, Kash Patel conceded only that Joe Biden was “certified” as the president.

Here’s How Government Funding Works Congress has the power to appropriate federal dollars, and the executive branch’s job is to spend it as lawmakers direct. But there are ways for presidents to challenge the will of Congress, within limits.

States Plan to Sue to Block Trump’s Federal Grants Freeze Democratic attorneys general from states including New York, California, Illinois, New Jersey, Rhode Island and Massachusetts are moving to keep funds flowing to state governments and cities.

Does Trump Have the Power to Block Spending That Congress Has Authorized? The White House’s temporary pause on trillions in federal spending could set up a court fight over executive authority and Congress’s control of the purse.

Steve Witkoff, Trump’s Envoy to the Middle East, to Meet Netanyahu in Israel Steve Witkoff played an important role in brokering the cease-fire deal between Israel and Hamas.

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Senator Gary Peters, Michigan Democrat, Says He Won’t Run Again in 2026 His decision makes the already tough Senate map for Democrats even tougher: They will need to defend an open seat in a battleground state that President Trump carried in 2024.

Trump Fires National Labor Relations Board Prosecutor Jennifer Abruzzo Jennifer Abruzzo was removed as general counsel of the National Labor Relations Board. She was widely seen as having taken an aggressive approach in enforcing workers’ rights.

Kash Patel’s Loyalty to Trump Raises Doubts Over F.B.I.’s Independence During President Trump’s first term, demanding personal loyalty didn’t always work; stocking top jobs with loyalists is the tack now. At the F.B.I., this entails bucking its institutional history.

Johnson Joins the Trump Entourage, Shrinking the Role of House Speaker In positioning himself as a junior partner to the president and doing his bidding on matters large and small, the Louisiana Republican is diminishing a job that involves leading a coequal branch of government.

G.M. Has Plans Ready for Trump’s Canada and Mexico Tariffs General Motors, the largest producer of cars in Mexico, won’t provide details on how it would react if President Trump imposes 25 percent tariffs from the two countries.

White House Budget Office Orders Pause in All Federal Loans and Grants The full extent of the order was not immediately clear, but the directive sent to government agencies on Monday threatened to paralyze a vast swath of federal programs.

Trump Administration Fires Prosecutors Who Aided Jack Smith Investigations The termination of more than a dozen lawyers who worked with the special counsel, Jack Smith, came hours after the department’s most senior career official was reassigned.

Trump’s Careful Abortion Calculus His opening moves on abortion weren’t exactly “shock and awe.” Democrats see an opening.

Senate Confirms Scott Bessent as Treasury Secretary Bessent, a hedge fund manager, becomes the nation’s 79th Treasury secretary. He will lead President Trump’s economic agenda.

Man Pardoned in Jan. 6 Riot Is Fatally Shot by Sheriff’s Deputy During Traffic Stop The police said that Matthew W. Huttle, 42, of Hobart, Ind., who was sentenced to six months for his role in the riot at the U.S. Capitol in 2021, resisted arrest after he was stopped in Indiana on Sunday.

World Bank Warns Colombian Staff Against U.S. Travel After Trump Visa Edict Several Colombians whose visas were revoked were World Bank employees traveling in the United States at the time. They were deported.