The announcement applied to 160,000 federal loan borrowers and brings the total debt canceled by the administration to $167 billion.
House Republicans are pushing legislation to crack down on voting by noncitizens, which is allowed in some local elections but illegal — and exceedingly rare —...
The bills under consideration in the House have virtually no chance of becoming law, but Republicans are using them to amplify former President Donald J. Trump’s...
The City Council speaker, Adrienne Adams, was expected to set in motion a plan to weaken Mayor Eric Adams’s authority. The mayor quickly fought back.
On Tuesday morning, five weeks after the first jurors were seated for the criminal trial of Donald J. Trump, the defense rested, with closing arguments and...
Senator Robert Menendez’s wife never signed a loan document before a man also charged in the bribery case arranged to pay her mortgage, a witness testified.
Prosecutors vehemently denied the accusations in newly unsealed motions that show how the former president’s defense team has used often-baseless assertions to undercut the indictment.
Donald J. Trump’s lawyers mounted a minimal defense after prosecutors called 20 witnesses. Closing arguments in the first prosecution of an American president will take place...
Robert F. Kennedy Jr’s sister has become the face of the Kennedy family effort to block his candidacy and re-elect President Biden. She has more at...
The Christian community in Ocean Grove, N.J., is challenging a state order that has compelled it to let its beach be used on Sunday mornings.