The President has kept the upper hand so far, partly because of his bully pulpit, and partly because he has remained relatively understated.https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/the-sublime-spectacle-of-donald-trump-and-elon-musks-social-media-slap-fight
An international reruitment program provided thousands of desperately needed caregivers, but cases of fraud and exploitation have made it a target for closure.https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/06/06/britain-caregivers-elderly-immigrants/
Officials offered to mediate and even asylum for Elon Musk as many commented how a leader falling out with a top businessman was familiar to Russia.https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/06/06/russia-musk-trump-rift-asylum-mediation/
For better or worse, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s much-anticipated visit to the White House became a backdrop to the Trump-Musk meltdown.https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/06/06/friedrich-merz-trump-germany-visit-musk/
As Elon Musk leaves Washington, the team he formed to ferret out waste and abuse won dual victories in the Supreme Court.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/06/us/politics/supreme-court-doge-social-security.html
The warm welcome for a technology executive whose purchases of the president’s digital coin won him a White House tour illustrates inconsistencies in the administration’s views toward visitors from China.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/06/us/politics/trump-crypto-dinner-china-he-tianying.html
Advance episodes of “Art of the Surge” offer a rare behind-the-scenes look at the adulatory environment in which Mr. Trump has moved since regaining power.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/06/us/politics/trump-documentary-series.html
The top Democrat on the Judiciary Committee said Vice President JD Vance had set a precedent for derailing U.S. attorney candidates during his time in the Senate.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/06/us/politics/democrats-trump-vance-prosecutors.html
President Trump’s decision to pull a close associate of Elon Musk’s out of the running to lead NASA helped doom an extraordinary partnership.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/06/us/politics/trump-musk-split-nasa.html
President Trump is locked in a showdown with the world’s richest man, who is far from a typical opponent.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/06/us/politics/trump-musk.html
The grid operators that draw power from the plants said they never asked for them to remain open, and consumers may have to absorb extra costs.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/06/climate/trump-coal-gas-plants-energy-emergency.html
Environmental groups had opposed expanding a Montana mine previously caught up in allegations of cocaine trafficking and the faked kidnapping of an executive.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/06/climate/bull-mountain-coal-mine-trump.html
Washington is hosting WorldPride, a global celebration of the L.G.B.T.Q. community, but the event has been made more difficult by shifts in U.S. policy.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/06/us/worldpride-parade-dc-trump.html
The Trump administration wants transgender troops out of the military, and set a June 6 deadline to go voluntarily. Some have accepted; others vowed to stay and contest the ban.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/06/us/transgender-troops-ban-discharge-deadline.html
Employers added 139,000 jobs last month, continuing a steady run of hiring. The unemployment rate was unchanged at 4.2 percent.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/06/business/jobs-report-may.html
Once a seemingly offhand remark at a campaign rally, President Trump’s pledge to not tax overtime could become federal law.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/06/us/politics/trump-no-tax-overtime.html
Current and former employees at the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Census Bureau and other agencies say they have confidence in the numbers.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/06/business/jobs-report-reliability-trump.html
JNCO Jeans, big hair, “Sex and the City” and recession pop: Peak Millennial is back and the era’s trends are taking on a new life.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/06/arts/millennial-trends-tiktok-big-hair-recession-pop.html
Much of the lawsuit sought to re-litigate legal questions that sided against the group during a lengthy pretrial period and a multiweek trial in Federal District Court in Washington.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/06/us/politics/proud-boys-jan-6-lawsuit.html
Using a pseudonym in court, the woman described long “hotel nights” with escorts and said Mr. Combs told her to continue one sexual encounter after vomiting.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/06/arts/music/sean-combs-diddy-trial-jane.html