Biden Cements TSMC Grant Before Trump Takes Over
The White House is racing to finish grant agreements for chip manufacturers, but some of its biggest successes might be credited to the Trump administration.
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The White House is racing to finish grant agreements for chip manufacturers, but some of its biggest successes might be credited to the Trump administration.
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The Republican Party secured control of the House, giving the G.O.P. a governing trifecta in Washington to enact Mr. Trump’s legislative agenda. Mr. Trump also confirmed that Senator Marco Rubio was his choice to be secretary of state and said he had offered Tulsi Gabbard the job of director of national intelligence.
Negotiators at the summit in Azerbaijan fear that the return of Donald Trump will sap momentum for global climate action.
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“This is the last time I will stand here at Arlington as commander in chief,” President Biden said in remembering service members who have served the country.
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Biden and Environmental Groups Try to Protect Climate Policies from Trump
John Podesta, President Biden’s clean energy adviser, said agencies were racing to deliver money from the 2022 climate law before Donald Trump arrives.
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Biden and Trump to Meet at White House on Wednesday
President Biden extended the invitation to his former rival as part of a longstanding tradition to help ease the transition to a new administration.
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After G.O.P. Wins, Senate Democrats Eye Major Push to Confirm Biden Judges
The loss of the White House and the Senate majority will end Democrats’ ability to fill judicial vacancies come January. They say they want to confirm as many as possible in the coming weeks.
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Pelosi Laments Biden’s Late Exit and the Lack of an ‘Open Primary’
“Had the president gotten out sooner, there may have been other candidates in the race,” the former House speaker said in an interview with The New York Times, suggesting she had anticipated an “open primary.”
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Trump Win Shows Political Limits of Biden’s Industrial Policy Vision
Long-term economic investments in domestic manufacturing were overshadowed by real-time anxiety over rent and grocery prices.
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Nearly Half of California Voters Would Back Harris for Governor, Poll Shows
A late-October survey in Vice President Kamala Harris’s home state showed strong Democratic backing if she ran in the 2026 race for governor. She has not said what she plans to do next.
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Unions Bet Big on Harris. Now They’re Bracing for Consequences.
Government unions, service worker unions and industrial unions all face possible repercussions from Donald Trump’s victory, but not necessarily all the same kind.
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Harris Had a Wall Street-Approved Economic Pitch. It Fell Flat.
The vice president vacillated on how to talk about the economy, and ended up adopting marginal pro-business tweaks that both corporate and progressive allies agreed made for a muddled message.
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What’s Next for Kamala Harris? Here Are Six Options.
Her friends, aides and political allies say it’s too soon for her to even contemplate her next career move. But the speculation has already begun.
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Election Highlights: Signs of Change Under Trump Start to Emerge
Control of the House is still unclear, but President-elect Donald J. Trump and the Republican Party, which has already won a majority in the Senate, are expected to bring significant policy shifts to Congress and cases already before the Supreme Court.
Hoping for Allies Among Trump’s Health Picks, Pharma Faces Hostility
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and other candidates for top health posts are at odds with the drug industry, setting the stage for tense battles over regulatory changes.
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This Election Is Also a Choice Between Two Visions of the Federal Courts
Judges have vast influence over the biggest political questions. An analysis of President Biden and Donald J. Trump’s nominees found stark differences that could emerge again after November.
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Biden Mocks Trump’s ‘Concept of a Plan’ to Replace Obamacare
During a visit to New Hampshire to discuss the cost of prescription drugs, President Biden warned that a second Trump presidency could lead millions of people to lose health care.
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What Trump Has Said About Rates, and Why It Matters
He has suggested that presidents should “have a say” on interest rates, though he later walked the comment back.
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Kamala Harris Hires Top Obama Advisers, Building Out Campaign
David Plouffe, who managed Barack Obama’s first presidential bid, is among the new senior staff announced on Friday, along with veterans of both Obama campaigns as well as Hillary Clinton’s 2016 run.
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As Iran faces domestic and foreign challenges, its bellicose rhetoric on the United States and Israel has given way to signs that it wants less confrontation.
By Farnaz Fassihi
President João Lourenço of Angola has worked hard to strengthen his country’s partnership with the United States and says the recent election won’t derail that.
By John Eligon
Mientras el presidente Biden negocia un alto al fuego en Líbano, el presidente electo Donald Trump dirige su propia política exterior sin esperar a juramentarse en el cargo.
By Peter Baker
“Buckle up and pack a lunch, because it’s going to be four years of this,” the Democratic senator from Pennsylvania said.
By Jess Bidgood
The cease-fire between Israel and Hezbollah began on Wednesday, but much hardship and uncertainty lie ahead after a yearlong war that killed thousands and left widespread destruction in Lebanon.
By Euan Ward, Ben Hubbard, Aaron Boxerman and Richard Pérez-Peña
With a truce between Israel and Hezbollah taking hold, Gazans are losing hope that Israel’s war in the enclave will end anytime soon.
By Raja Abdulrahim, Iyad Abuheweila and Ameera Harouda
Hamas is unlikely to compromise in Gaza, despite the decision by its ally, Hezbollah, to stop fighting. A deal in Gaza would also be harder for Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister.
By Patrick Kingsley
Even as President Biden brokers a cease-fire in Lebanon, President-elect Donald J. Trump is running his own foreign policy without waiting to be sworn in.
By Peter Baker
President-elect Donald J. Trump’s team will have some formal briefings with outgoing staff members, but it has so far refused to allow the F.B.I. to do security clearances for transition members.
By Michael D. Shear
President Biden said the 60-day truce, which the United States helped broker, would take effect early Wednesday, and was intended to become permanent, ending Lebanon’s deadliest war in decades.
By Aaron Boxerman, Adam Rasgon, Euan Ward and Michael Levenson
Can a truce lead to an enduring peace?
By Nicholas Kristof
President Biden praised the truce, which would stop the fighting between Israel and the Lebanese armed group Hezbollah.
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With a deal to end more than a year of fighting between Israel and Hezbollah, the president turns his attention back to stopping the war in Gaza before leaving office.
By Peter Baker
Top diplomats from the Group of 7 nations tried to project unity on Ukraine while discussing differences over Israel and anticipating the return of Donald J. Trump.
By Edward Wong and Emma Bubola
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Donald Trump will try to fill every judgeship that Democrats leave open.
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La promesa del presidente electo de usar aranceles para frenar el flujo de opioides desde China podría volverse en su contra si Pekín responde poniendo fin a la cooperación antinarcóticos.
By David Pierson
The president-elect’s pledge to use tariffs to stem the flow of opioids from China could backfire if Beijing responds by ending counternarcotics cooperation.
By David Pierson
The Silicon Valley company will receive less money from the CHIPS Act after winning a $3 billion military contract and changing some of its investment commitments.
By Ana Swanson and Tripp Mickle
Faiz Shakir makes a case for the Democratic Party to embrace economic populism.
By Ezra Klein
Three giant, shifting tectonic plates will have profound implications for the new administration.
By Thomas L. Friedman
The administration is pressing the World Anti-Doping Agency to allow an outside audit after it failed to suspend Chinese swimmers for positive tests.
By Michael S. Schmidt and Tariq Panja
President Biden, granting clemency to a pair of turkeys in an annual White House ceremony, expressed gratitude for serving as commander in chief.
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Setting aside politics, the president used the lighthearted ceremony to thank the nation one more time for the opportunity to serve.
By Zach Montague
Gov. Gavin Newsom said California would fill the void for residents if the Trump administration killed a $7,500 E.V. tax credit.
By Lisa Friedman, Soumya Karlamangla and Shawn Hubler
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The woman-president thing is more than just a check mark on the feminist to-do list.
By Gail Collins
Fewer people will be able to afford electric cars and trucks if President-elect Donald J. Trump and Republicans in Congress eliminate a $7,500 federal tax credit.
By Lawrence Ulrich
The Biden administration is reducing its award to the chip maker, partly to account for a multibillion-dollar military contract.
By Tripp Mickle and Ana Swanson
La promesa del presidente electo de llevar a cabo deportaciones masivas ha empujado a los inmigrantes a buscar medidas de protección y asesoramiento.
By Miriam Jordan
Many nations hope to reduce the half a billion tons of plastic made each year. But pushback from plastic and oil producers, and Donald Trump’s election, could scuttle an agreement.
By Hiroko Tabuchi
Donald Trump’s promise to carry out mass deportations has driven fearful immigrants to seek protections and advice.
By Miriam Jordan
Leaders of the big telecommunications companies were summoned to the White House to discuss strategies for overhauling the security of the nation’s telecommunications networks amid growing alarm at the scope of a Chinese hack.
By David E. Sanger, Julian E. Barnes, Devlin Barrett and Adam Goldman
El líder ruso advierte que Estados Unidos se arriesga a una guerra nuclear al ampliar su ayuda a Kiev.
By Anton Troianovski
The Russian leader ominously declares that America risks nuclear war as it expands its aid.
By Anton Troianovski
President Biden should cancel the Thanksgiving tradition of pardoning a turkey.
By Peter Singer
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As Donald J. Trump nominates staunch supporters of Israel to key positions, advocacy groups are taking aim at the departing administration's policies.
By Ephrat Livni
The transportation secretary, one of several ambitious Democrats jockeying for prominence, gave advice in a speech but was coy about his own plans: “I know that I will make myself useful again later.”
By Reid J. Epstein
The action could lead to sanctions against Tehran, which has barred international monitoring of its accelerated uranium enrichment efforts.
By Steven Erlanger
Trump has said he’ll repeal President Biden’s climate law, but one North Carolina district shows how hard unwinding multibillion-dollar projects could be.
By Austyn Gaffney
One question is whether the new administration and Europe will provide security guarantees to prevent Russia from taking more territory.
By Helene Cooper, Andrew E. Kramer, Eric Schmitt and Julian E. Barnes
Donald J. Trump promised to erase Biden tailpipe rules that are designed to get carmakers to produce E.V.s. But Detroit wants to keep them.
By Coral Davenport and Jack Ewing
A political autopsy. A focus group. A return to Herndon family hospitality.
By Astead W. Herndon, Anna Foley, Elisa Gutierrez and Akilah Townsend
The legislation failed resoundingly but highlighted a growing Democratic divide over whether the United States should withhold some weapons to register its disapproval of Israel’s war tactics.
By Karoun Demirjian
The move by Gov. Greg Abbott, flouting a federal challenge, signaled that Texas expects to have a freer hand on the border under President-elect Donald J. Trump.
By J. David Goodman
Israel’s failure to tamp down the short-range rocket threat has put pressure on its government to embrace a cease-fire.
By Eric Schmitt, Julian E. Barnes and Isabel Kershner
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Public health advocates worry that Donald Trump could unravel federal clean water efforts, including restrictions on lead pipes and chemicals known as PFAS.
By Hiroko Tabuchi
A second Trump administration could alter the lives of all sorts of animals, whether they live in laboratories, zoos, fields or forests.
By Emily Anthes and Catrin Einhorn
The return to power of President-elect Donald J. Trump, who has vowed to confront China on tariffs, has created deep uncertainty about the U.S. role in avoiding global conflicts.
By Michael D. Shear and Chris Buckley
“Esta es mi última cumbre del G20”, dijo el mandatario el lunes en la cumbre del Grupo de los 20 en Brasil. Los líderes mundiales parecían estar dispuestos a seguir adelante sin él.
By Zolan Kanno-Youngs
El decreto firmado por el líder ruso se produjo días después de que el presidente Joe Biden autorizara el uso por parte de Ucrania de misiles suministrados por EE. UU. para ataques dentro de Rusia.
By Anton Troianovski
As he made his final appearance at global gatherings, including at the Group of 20 summit in Brazil, President Biden lobbied for his foreign policy goals even as leaders shifted attention away from him.
By Zolan Kanno-Youngs
The attack came just days after President Biden gave Ukraine permission to use the weapons to strike targets inside Russia.
By Marc Santora and Eric Schmitt
A decree signed by the Russian leader, though long planned, came days after President Biden authorized the use of U.S.-supplied missiles by Ukraine for strikes inside Russia.
By Anton Troianovski
Plus, the man who opened travel to the masses.
By Tracy Mumford, Vivian Yee, Robert Jimison, Ian Stewart and Jessica Metzger
Why it can’t fix our messy politics.
By Nate Silver
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The president said the aid was “urgently needed” as emergency programs face funding shortfalls amid the devastation after Hurricanes Helene and Milton and a string of other natural disasters.
By Erica L. Green and Catie Edmondson
La decisión sobre armar a Ucrania con ATACMS ha sido un tema delicado desde la invasión a gran escala de Ucrania por parte de Rusia en febrero de 2022.
By John Ismay and Ephrat Livni
La medida supone un cambio importante en la política estadounidense y ha dividido a los asesores presidenciales a dos meses de la toma de posesión del presidente electo, que ha prometido limitar el apoyo a Ucrania.
By Adam Entous, Eric Schmitt and Julian Barnes
Senior ministers are arriving in an effort to break a deadlock over the summit’s main goal: funding to help lower-income countries hit hard by global warming.
By David Gelles and Brad Plumer
Plus, the 50-yard field goal phenomenon.
By Tracy Mumford, Adam Entous, Robert Jimison, Ian Stewart and Jessica Metzger
President Biden has granted permission for Kyiv to carry out long-range strikes, but looming over Ukraine’s newfound latitude is the ascent of President-elect Trump.
By Andrew E. Kramer, Marc Santora and Anatoly Kurmanaev
The president approved Ukraine’s use of long-range missiles inside Russia, but that decision, among others, may soon be reversed.
By Zolan Kanno-Youngs
Democrats hoped to lose by less in blue-collar areas that had drifted toward Donald Trump. In many places, they may have lost by more.
By Katie Glueck
All eyes on Trump and his cabinet picks.
By Gail Collins and Bret Stephens
La búsqueda de una solución a la crisis se hace más urgente a medida que las pandillas ganan territorio y miles de personas más huyen de sus hogares.
By Frances Robles
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El presidente recorrió la selva tropical y prometió a Brasil fondos para iniciativas medioambientales, a pesar de que el gobierno de Trump parece dispuesto a hacerlas retroceder.
By Ana Ionova and Michael D. Shear
In a major policy shift, the Biden administration has authorized Ukraine to use the ballistic missiles within Russia.
By John Ismay and Ephrat Livni
President Biden pledged financial help to protect the Amazon during a visit to Brazil, making one final push to combat climate change before the end of his term.
The president toured the rainforest and promised Brazil funds for environmental initiatives, even as the incoming Trump administration appears poised to roll them back.
By Ana Ionova and Michael D. Shear
With two months left in office, the president for the first time authorized the Ukrainian military to use the system known as ATACMS to help defend its forces in the Kursk region of Russia.
By Adam Entous, Eric Schmitt and Julian E. Barnes
A search for a solution to the crisis in Haiti is growing more urgent as gangs gain territory and thousands more flee their homes.
By Frances Robles
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