U.S. Politics

The president-elect has long been critical of Mr. Zuckerberg’s social media platforms, saying they censor conservative viewpoints.

By Mike Isaac, Jonathan Swan, Maggie Haberman and Theodore Schleifer

The discussion between President Claudia Sheinbaum of Mexico and the president-elect came after Mr. Trump threatened tariffs unless Mexican authorities stopped migrants and drugs from coming across the border.

By Simon Romero

President-elect Donald J. Trump’s selections to run the nation’s health agencies are alarming infectious disease experts.

By Sheryl Gay Stolberg

“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

Derek Tran, a consumer rights lawyer and Army veteran, defeated Representative Michelle Steel, a Republican two-term incumbent, flipping a seat in Orange County, Calif.

By Amy Qin

The retired Army lieutenant general could play a key role in any negotiations to end the yearslong war between the countries.

By Michael Crowley

The so-called Department of Government Efficiency, with Elon Musk as co-leader, has advantages that past budget-cutters did not, but laws and court challenges can still make change slow and difficult.

By David A. Fahrenthold, Alan Rappeport, Theodore Schleifer and Annie Karni

A Trump transition team spokeswoman said law enforcement officials had “acted quickly to ensure the safety of those who were targeted.”

By Devlin Barrett and Maggie Haberman

The suit was brought by Ray Epps, who was falsely characterized by Tucker Carlson and others as being a government agent who instigated the violence at the Capitol.

By Alan Feuer

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.

By Rebecca Robbins, Christina Jewett and Kate Kelly

The agriculture and nutrition measure was last updated in 2018 and originally expired two years ago. Farmers fear the Trump administration’s priorities will eclipse theirs next year.

By Maya C. Miller

The party’s donor class is still wrestling with Donald Trump’s victory, worried about retribution and sluggish liberal energy. Some rich Democrats are even pondering leaving the country.

By Theodore Schleifer

The Americans were freed in exchange for a Chinese intelligence officer who was serving a 20-year sentence in the United States, officials said.

By Adam Goldman, Mara Hvistendahl, Edward Wong and Zolan Kanno-Youngs

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

The weapon used for the first time against Ukraine last week is capable of carrying nuclear weapons.

By Lara Jakes

When it comes to weeding out corporate influence, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s ideas often align best with some of Trump’s loudest critics.

By Emily Baumgaertner

As the director of the National Institutes of Health, Dr. Jay Bhattacharya would oversee the world’s premier medical research agency, with a $48 billion budget and 27 separate institutes and centers.

By Sheryl Gay Stolberg

Mr. Hassett defended Donald Trump’s tax cuts and trade policies in his first administration but has also acknowledged that tariffs can weaken economic growth.

By Jonathan Swan, Maggie Haberman, Alan Rappeport and Ana Swanson

The lawyer Jamieson Greer is set to be the top U.S. trade negotiator, a crucial position given the president-elect’s threats to impose tariffs on imports from other countries.

By Ana Swanson

The president-elect’s opening salvo in trade and border talks with the United States’ neighbors is casting a harsh light on the North American alliance.

By Matina Stevis-Gridneff and Simon Romero

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

The special counsel will leave behind a complex legacy, having amassed considerable evidence against Donald J. Trump but having lost key legal battles that could constrain future investigators.

By Devlin Barrett, Glenn Thrush and Alan Feuer

Many of the prime minister’s political opponents were as critical of him as about the president-elect’s plan, which would adversely affect Canada’s economy.

By Ian Austen

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

The president-elect’s threat to hit Canada, Mexico and China with new tariffs is already rocking business and diplomatic relationships and could topple the trade pacts he signed in his first term.

By Ana Swanson

Migrants often gather in groups in southern Mexico as a means of protection from criminal groups. But they almost never make it anywhere near the U.S.-Mexico border.

By James Wagner

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

Lt. Gen. Christopher T. Donahue was recently selected to lead the U.S. Army’s Europe Command as the war in Ukraine heads into its fourth year.

By Helene Cooper, Thomas Gibbons-Neff and Eric Schmitt

Minutes from a Nov. 6-7 meeting showed that Federal Reserve policymakers favored lowering rates “gradually.”

By Jeanna Smialek

Automakers and parts suppliers would struggle if President-elect Donald J. Trump followed through on his threat to impose 25 percent tariffs on imports from Canada and Mexico.

By Jack Ewing and Neal E. Boudette

Republicans have a supermajority in the state’s legislature and may move to override Gov. Roy Cooper’s veto, which would set off a new fight over state power and hurricane aid.

By Nick Corasaniti

President Claudia Sheinbaum responded to President-elect Trump’s threat to impose high tariffs, saying such a move would inflict damage on both countries.

By Simon Romero

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

Facing diminishing public support, some activists say all-or-nothing tactics are not working. “We have to make it OK for someone to change their minds.”

By Jeremy W. Peters

Scientists study the flight of hummingbirds to design robots for drone warfare.

By Jim Robbins

President-elect Donald J. Trump ordered the investigation by his legal team into Boris Epshteyn, a powerful figure in the transition. Mr. Epshteyn denies the allegations.

By Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan

The president-elect said that he would impose the across-the-board tariffs on Day 1 and that they would stay in place until Canada, Mexico and China halted the flow of drugs and migrants.

By Ana Swanson, Matina Stevis-Gridneff and Simon Romero

Donald J. Trump is set to regain office without clarity on the scope of presidential immunity and with a lingering cloud over whether outside special counsels can investigate high-level wrongdoing.

By Charlie Savage

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

Incumbent vice presidents running for president face unique challenges — and have a poor track record in elections.

By Ian Prasad Philbrick

President Biden, granting clemency to a pair of turkeys in an annual White House ceremony, expressed gratitude for serving as commander in chief.

By The New York Times

Matt Gaetz, who was Donald Trump’s former pick for attorney general, will wish you a happy birthday. For $500.

By Joseph Bernstein

The special counsel effectively brought to a close the Justice Department efforts to hold Donald J. Trump accountable in the election and classified documents cases.

By Alan Feuer, Charlie Savage and Devlin Barrett

Setting aside politics, the president used the lighthearted ceremony to thank the nation one more time for the opportunity to serve.

By Zach Montague

The longest-serving Senate leader is relinquishing his post in the next Congress and planning to use his influence in ways that could put him at odds with President-elect Donald J. Trump.

By Catie Edmondson

Natalie Harp, a 33-year-old former anchor on a right-wing cable show, is poised to become the gatekeeper for information to and from the president.

By Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan

With critical races in Georgia and North Carolina just two years away, the party is soul-searching on a time crunch.

By Maya King

Steve Witkoff’s involvement with two sovereign wealth funds as he bought and then sold Manhattan’s Park Lane Hotel demonstrates the potential conflicts his new role will present.

By Eric Lipton

The president-elect has named wealthy financiers for key economic positions, raising questions about how much they will follow through on promises to help the working class.

By Alan Rappeport and Ana Swanson

Donald Trump’s populist pitch bumped Democrats off their traditional place in American politics.

By Nate Cohn

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

One faction of prospective nominees appears focused on revenge, another on calming markets and a third on relentlessly — perhaps hopelessly — cutting people and budgets.

By David E. Sanger

A Texas native, Ms. Rollins worked in the first Trump White House and has also led two influential conservative think tanks.

By Linda Qiu

Breaking with past practice, President-elect Donald J. Trump has not agreed to disclose the donors paying for his planning effort or to limit their contributions.

By Ken Bensinger and David A. Fahrenthold

After eight years in the Senate as a moderate Democrat, he took a leftward turn toward “new populism” in a failed shot at the presidency in 1976.

By Robert D. McFadden

Ms. Rollins is the chief executive of the America First Policy Institute, a think tank created to promote President-elect Donald J. Trump’s agenda.

By Linda Qiu

The hedge fund investor predicted last year that President-elect Donald J. Trump’s political fortunes were on the rise.

By Alan Rappeport

The city tolerated Donald J. Trump, and then it loathed him. Now, some New Yorkers have begun to embrace him. The Kid from Queens couldn’t be happier.

By Shawn McCreesh

Two weeks after the election, a gathering in Gettysburg commemorated Lincoln’s address, 272 words that have come to epitomize what it means to be presidential.

By Dan Barry and Todd Heisler

Some in the party are considering alternative ways of assessing the federal budget as they prepare to extend temporary tax cuts passed in 2017.

By Andrew Duehren

President-elect Donald Trump is filling key cabinet positions with controversial picks at a breakneck speed. Jonathan Swan, senior political correspondent at The Times, explains why these choices are significant, even if they don’t all make it into office.

By Jonathan Swan, Alexandra Ostasiewicz, James Surdam and Whitney Shefte

The forecasts, like those from Decision Desk HQ, Nate Silver and 538, are now ubiquitous, but their accuracy is hard to measure.

By Kaleigh Rogers

Some private citizens are hunting for potential cases of fraud tied to small-business loans. They have earned big payouts — in some cases, more than $1 million.

By Madeleine Ngo

Donald Trump has a record of pardoning favored companies from tariffs. Companies are once again lining up to try to influence him.

By Ana Swanson

Dr. Janette Nesheiwat is a medical director for a chain of urgent care clinics. Her sister served as an adviser in the first Trump administration.

By Joseph Goldstein

The country’s new leaders are trying to undo changes, like abortion restrictions and politicized courts, made by their hard-right predecessors. It “takes longer than you expect,” one minister said.

By Andrew Higgins

The housing agency plays a central role in addressing the growing national affordability crisis.

By Glenn Thrush

In a statement, Donald J. Trump lauded the firebrand conservative commentator as a “tireless advocate” for his agenda. There was no mention that Mr. Gorka had been forced out of the Trump administration in 2017.

By Chris Cameron

In selecting a doctor who is skeptical of vaccine safety, the president-elect is emphasizing his commitment to reforming the role of federal health agencies in radical ways.

By Emily Baumgaertner and Teddy Rosenbluth

A moderate from a swing district, she received endorsements from several unions but narrowly lost her bid for a second House term.

By Michael M. Grynbaum and Danielle Kaye

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

The recommendation followed similar pushes from Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Donald J. Trump’s pick to lead the Department of Health and Human Services.

By Chris Cameron

A frequent Fox News commentator, Dr. Makary has a penchant for challenging the medical establishment, and stirred pandemic concerns with his views on Covid immunity and vaccine mandates.

By Christina Jewett

Russell Vought, who would lead the Office of Management and Budget, has spent years building plans to rework the American structure of government in ways that would enhance presidential power.

By Charlie Savage, Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan

While Ms. Bondi, President-elect Donald J. Trump’s pick for attorney general, served as attorney general of Florida, her office declined to investigate allegations of fraud against his for-profit school.

By Eric Lipton

The former representative from Florida said he had become a “distraction.” Perhaps that was the point.

By Jess Bidgood

The second Trump administration appears likely to inherit broader powers to force American service providers to help a warrantless wiretapping program.

By Charlie Savage

Nitrogen oxides, a group of gases from the burning of fossil fuels, is linked to a range of health effects.

By Austyn Gaffney

President-elect Donald J. Trump is set to nominate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to lead the Health and Human Services Department, where he would have limited power over drugs.

By Gina Kolata

The judge in the case confirmed that the former and future president, who was convicted on 34 felony counts, would not receive his punishment next week.

By Ben Protess

The world’s richest person, not known for his humility, is still learning the cutthroat courtier politics of Donald Trump’s inner circle — and his ultimate influence remains an open question.

By Theodore Schleifer

She was lieutenant governor when her boss, Gov. John G. Rowland, resigned in a corruption scandal. The second woman to lead the state, she was later elected in her own right.

By Sam Roberts

The Senate majority leader is staying out of Republican turmoil over the more contentious picks for strategic reasons.

By Carl Hulse

The new book by former Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany also aims to justify decisions she made that are still affecting her country and the rest of Europe.

By Christopher F. Schuetze and Steven Erlanger

The latest vote count shows that Donald J. Trump won the popular vote by one of the smallest margins since the 19th century. But Mr. Trump claims a “powerful mandate.”

By Peter Baker

JD Vance and others on the “new right” say limiting immigration will raise wages and give jobs to sidelined Americans. Many studies suggest otherwise.

By Lydia DePillis

No matter whether they prefer a trial or swift resolution, relatives of victims of the attacks consider the on-again, off-again plea deal to be cruel.

By Carol Rosenberg

Florida’s first female state attorney general, she became a member of Donald Trump’s impeachment defense team and backed his false claims of election fraud in 2020.

By Glenn Thrush

The chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee said hackers listened to phone calls and read texts by exploiting aging equipment and seams in the networks that connect systems.

By David E. Sanger and Julian E. Barnes

President-elect Donald J. Trump’s new choice to be attorney general joined a powerhouse Republican firm after her second term as Florida’s attorney general.

By Kenneth P. Vogel

The rise of the Republican representative from Georgia signals the ascendancy of the MAGA wing of the G.O.P. in Congress.

By Annie Karni

In Ms. Bondi, who served on his legal team during his first impeachment, the president-elect turned to a loyal ally to put his stamp on a Justice Department that he sees as hostile to him.

By Devlin Barrett, Maggie Haberman, Eric Lipton and Kenneth P. Vogel

Linda McMahon, who ran World Wrestling Entertainment for decades, was accused in the lawsuit of not preventing one of the organization’s employees from victimizing children who helped set up wrestling rings.

By Sharon Otterman and Zach Montague

Mr. McCormick, a Republican former hedge-fund executive, toppled Mr. Casey, a three-term Democrat, in one of the nation’s top Senate races and biggest 2024 upsets.

By Katie Glueck

The state’s attorney general, Chris Carr, a Republican, is the first person in either major party to declare his candidacy for statewide office in Georgia.

By Maya King

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

Matt Gaetz, President-elect Donald J. Trump’s choice for attorney general, faced what appeared to be long odds of securing the votes needed for confirmation in the Republican-controlled Senate.

By Tim Balk and Maya C. Miller

Since 1906, new members of Congress have drawn lots to choose their new homes on Capitol Hill. Staff and lawmakers often scout and strategize far in advance to find the best spaces.

By Maya C. Miller

He was a prominent behind-the-scenes figure in Washington whose career was derailed when he was charged with leaking government secrets. The case was later dropped.

By Trip Gabriel