“Not affecting me at all, to be honest,” a White House aide tells WIRED.https://www.wired.com/story/white-house-staffers-east-wing-demolition/
It is not clear how far the gift will go toward covering the salaries of the nation’s 1.3 million troops.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/24/us/politics/trump-military-pay-donation.html
The Trump administration has acknowledged 10 strikes on suspected drug-smuggling boats from South America, which have killed 43 people.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/24/us/politics/caribbean-sea-boat-strike-us-venezuela.html
The president said he wouldn’t seek congressional approval for his expanding military offensive against cartels, but some in his party believe Congress should weigh in.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/24/us/politics/republicans-trump-drug-war.html
The United States Treasury Department accused President Gustavo Petro of allowing drug trafficking to flourish.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/24/world/americas/us-sanctions-colombia-president-petro-drugs.html
President Trump is embarking on a six-day diplomatic tour of Asia, testing his role as a statesman and negotiator as he pursues a trade deal with Beijing.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/24/us/politics/trump-china-trade-deal.html
President Trump’s visit shows how the United States and China are vying for influence in Asia over trade, technology and the fate of Taiwan.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/25/world/asia/trump-china-trade-deal-xi.html
From Kuala Lumpur to Gyeongju, President Trump is casting himself as a deal-maker and peace negotiator, while a wary region looks for tariff relief and steadier ties.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/25/world/asia/trump-japan-korea-china.html
The Trump administration said that monitors will watch polling in two states, led by Democrats, where key races or issues are on the ballot.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/24/us/politics/doj-election-monitors-california-new-jersey.html
The claim comes after months of President Trump toying with the idea, insisting that he is “not joking” about defying a constitutionally-mandated term limit.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/24/us/politics/president-trump-2028-steve-bannon.html
The preliminary plan stems from frustration over the pace of the deportations, which are lagging behind President Trump’s demands.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/24/us/politics/trump-deportations-ice.html
Federal agents detained a man on the city’s North Side on Friday, and residents emerged from their homes, yelling and blowing whistles.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/24/us/trump-immigration-crackdown-chicago-lakeview.html
From the first day of his second term, President Trump has taken an ends-justify-the-means approach to his presidency.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/24/us/politics/east-wing-trump-power.html
Nixon watched “Patton” there. Obama hosted the “Lincoln” cast. Built in 1942, the White House’s private movie theater offered refuge and entertainment.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/24/movies/white-house-movie-theater.html
A Manhattan apartment was at the center of a Mafia-run ring that used former N.B.A. players as bait and technology to read cards, prosecutors say.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/24/nyregion/nba-mafia-rigged-poker-games.html
One of America’s favorite fall drinks shows up in Brussels and Antwerp, but rarely in Paris and Rome. It has yet to reach the ubiquity — or the sugar content — of its stateside counterpart.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/25/world/europe/pumpkin-spice-latte-coffee-europe.html
A small company that has been manufacturing motors domestically for only a few weeks and has Donald Trump Jr. as an adviser won a parts order from the Army.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/24/us/politics/trump-drones-pentagon.html
Doug Ford has built a reputation for picking fights with President Trump and getting under his skin with publicity-grabbing moves as U.S. tariffs have harmed Ontario’s economy.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/24/world/canada/doug-ford-trump-reagan-ad.html
The anti-tariff ad, which President Trump pointed to in cutting off trade talks with Canada, uses several sound bites from an April 1987 speech, though not in the order President Ronald Reagan said them.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/24/us/politics/trump-tariffs-canada-reagan-tv-ad-video.html
Zohran Mamdani’s opponents, Andrew Cuomo and Curtis Sliwa, denied accusations that they are stoking Islamophobia with their rhetoric and actions.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/24/nyregion/mamdani-cuomo-muslim-mayor.html