Tired of winning. Photo: Cheriss May/NurPhoto via Getty Images On Monday in Kentucky, President Trump described his overhaul of the American health-care system as an irritating but necessary chore. “We want a very big tax cut. But we cannot do that until we keep our promise to repeal and replace the…

A week before Christmas 1996, Craig Hodges, who twice during his 10 NBA seasons was the league’s best three-point shooter, filed a federal lawsuit against the NBA. He charged that the league colluded to end his career four seasons earlier. Hodges contended the league was upset that he showed up at…

Representative Peter King, of New York. Credit PHOTOGRAPH BY MARK PETERSON / REDUX FOR THE NEW YORKER On Monday, when the House Intelligence Committee held its first public hearing about Russian involvement in the U.S. Presidential election, Republican members were almost completely focussed on…

Home News National Enquirer brands Flynn a “Russian spy” — Trump just threw Flynn under the bus. Why? National Enquirer brands Flynn a “Russian spy” — Trump just threw Flynn under the bus. Why? 3/24/17 10:46am by Before we begin, don’t tell me the National Enquirer isn’t reputable — that is not the…

In 1985, Donald Trump bought Hudson Yards, a huge real-estate parcel on the West Side of Manhattan. (Actually, it was his second try at the property, which he’d failed to develop in the 1970s.) Trump paid $115 million to buy the parcel, with huge plans to create a sparkling center on one of the few…

‘Trump isn’t the deal-making genius his ego tricked himself into believing he was.’Photograph: Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images B urning Obamacare to the ground was always a House Republican obsession that Trump, in the heat of the campaign, took up to spite the president while tossing a little red meat…

Money and health care in one single visual metaphor. Shutterstock One by one, Democrats are moving on from the Affordable Care Act. And increasingly, they're embracing a full transition to a single payer system as an answer. Bernie Sanders has been touting a Medicare-for-all plan for decades, of…

President Donald Trump, who loves to win, just suffered the biggest defeat of his still-nascent presidency. The American Health Care Act, the Republican bill to repeal and replace Obamacare, was so unpopular that House Speaker Paul Ryan canceled a vote on the bill at the last minute Friday. You…

The Freedom Caucus chairman, Mark Meadows of North Carolina, center, in the Capitol on Friday. Credit... J. Scott Applewhite/Associated Press WASHINGTON — At the end of the long day, the alliance of conservative ideologues who once shut down the government over President Barack Obama’s health care…

President Trump on Capitol Hill on Tuesday. Credit... Eric Thayer for The New York Times WASHINGTON — In an interview with Time magazine on Wednesday, President Trump cited The New York Times as evidence of his claim, made in a series of Twitter posts on March 4, that President Barack Obama had…

Getty Images Tim Alberta is national political reporter at Politico Magazine . Donald Trump had heard enough about policy and process. It was Thursday afternoon and members of the House Freedom Caucus were peppering the president with wonkish concerns about the American Health Care Act—the language…

transcript 0:00/2:23 -2:23 transcript Republicans Withdraw Their Health Bill President Trump faced stiff opposition from lawmakers in his own party to the measure he had endorsed, and it was withdrawn. President Trump campaigned on a promise to repeal and replace Obamacare. But the president hit a…

Annoyed that reporters were not asking questions on his chosen topic, Mayor Bill de Blasio walked out on his own news conference on Thursday. Credit... Sam Hodgson for The New York Times Mayor Bill de Blasio walked out on his own news conference on Thursday without answering any questions, irked…

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It’s like the campaign never ended. It’s the same all-Trump, all-the-time madness, only exponentially worse. Morning, February 24th, National Harbor, Maryland, the Conservative Political Action Conference. Chin up, eyes asquint, Donald Trump floats to the lectern on a sea of applause and adulation.…

Editorial Rep. Nunes Is a Lapdog in a Watchdog Role Credit... Dandy/John J. Custer Representative Devin Nunes looked uneasy. Mr. Nunes, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, was struggling on Monday to elicit details from James Comey, the F.B.I. director, about his explosive revelation…

SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images Donald Trump promised to be a different kind of president. He was a populist fighting on behalf of the “forgotten man,” taking on the GOP establishment, draining the Washington swamp, protecting Medicaid from cuts, vowing to cover everyone with health care and make the…

President Trump met with truckers and industry CEOs at the White House on Thursday regarding health care. Andrew Harnik/AP Throughout the campaign, President Trump billed himself as a master negotiator who would make the "best deals" for the American people. That reputation and the reach of the…

AP Photo Since sparking a political conflagration by tweeting , in the wee hours of March 4, that his phones at Trump Tower were wiretapped by Barack Obama prior to the 2016 election, President Donald Trump has insisted he'd eventually be vindicated. According to Trump and his supporters, that…

FBI Director James Comey. Photo: Zach Gibson/Getty Images The biggest questions looming over Monday’s congressional hearing on Russian interference in the election are ones we may never be able to answer: What exactly did Vladimir Putin think he was going to achieve by meddling in America’s…

The Justice Department's interior courtyard. Credit... Andrew Moore for The New York Times Skip to contentSkip to site index Feature Stephen Bannon and Jeff Sessions, the new attorney general, have long shared a vision for remaking America. Now the nation’s top law-enforcement agency can serve as a…

State of the Art President Trump has taken up semipermanent residence on every media outlet of any kind, political or not. Credit... Doug Chayka Leer en español I spent last week ignoring President Trump. Although I am ordinarily a politics junkie, I didn’t read, watch or listen to a single story…

The push includes random phone checks overseen by White House lawyers. Press secretary Sean Spicer is cracking down on leaks coming out of the West Wing, with increased security measures that include random phone checks of White House staffers, overseen by White House attorneys. The push to snuff…

Politico reporter Alex Isenstadt paid a certain price for his Sunday scoop about White House press secretary Sean Spicer’s treatment of his underlings in the White House communications office. Under the headline “Sean Spicer targets own staff in leak crackdown,” Isenstadt and colleague Annie Karni…

On Monday night, this photo began making the rounds on the Internet: The photo, taken Monday, shows White House counselor Kellyanne Conway perched on a couch in the Oval Office as President Trump stands behind his desk and representatives of a number of historically black colleges and universities…

President Trump’s team got into another fight with the New York Times over the weekend. Trump attacked the newspaper again Sunday, apparently after learning that it was running an ad during the Oscars. For first time the failing @nytimes will take an ad (a bad one) to help save its failing…

White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer holds the daily briefing on February 23. (Photo by Aaron P. Bernstein/Getty Images) Since George E. Akerson became the first official White House Press Secretary in 1929, under Herbert Hoover, the nation’s media has had a direct line to Office of the…

Photo credit: Wikimedia Commons Colleen McCain Nelson attended her share of presidential press briefings about tragic shootings as a White House reporter for The Wall Street Journal . So it struck her as odd that President Trump offered no statement for several days following an apparently…

Mike Isaac speaks on CNBC about Uber's tool, "Greyball." SAN FRANCISCO — Uber has for years engaged in a worldwide program to deceive the authorities in markets where its low-cost ride-hailing service was resisted by law enforcement or, in some instances, had been banned. The program, involving a…

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The High End A rendering of a light-filled unit at the Hub, the 600-unit luxury rental complex at 333 Schermerhorn Street in Brooklyn. Credit... Steiner NYC As rents in Brooklyn slip but inventory continues to mount, landlords are locked in a fight to fill their apartments. After lavishing their…

President Trump spent the weekend at “the winter White House,” Mar-a-Lago, the secluded Florida castle where he is king. The sun sparkles off the glistening lawn and warms the russet clay Spanish tiles, and the steaks are cooked just how he likes them (well done). His daughter Ivanka and son-in-law…

White House press secretary Sean Spicer and the press shop is increasingly turning to off-camera “gaggles” that shield the embattled press secretary from scrutiny. | Getty After two flayings on Saturday Night Live, sustained mockings on late-night shows, and a series of televised confrontations with…

During a conversation with one associate on Friday, President Donald Trump expressed concern that Sessions recusing himself "made it seem like he'd done something wrong." | Getty The president vented to aides that he believed the attorney general's recusal was handled poorly. President Donald Trump,…

“Reince, fairly or not, is likely to take the blame and take the fault for that," said one senior administration official. | AP Photo As the White House struggles to gain its footing almost two months into Donald Trump’s presidency, administration officials increasingly put the blame on one person:…

President Trump, returning to the White House Sunday after spending the weekend in Florida. Erik S. Lesser-Pool/Getty The Trump administration continued to leak like a sieve over the weekend, with well-sourced White House reporters unearthing enlightening new information about the president’s…

Donald Trump’s presidency has veered onto a road with no centerlines or guardrails. The president’s accusation Saturday that his predecessor, Barack Obama, had tapped his phone “during the very sacred election process” escalated on Sunday into the White House’s call for a congressional investigation…

Story highlights Trump made the allegations Saturday without offering evidence Graham hosted a packed town hall at Clemson University (CNN) Sen. Lindsey Graham promised South Carolina residents Saturday that he would "get to the bottom" of President Donald Trump's unverified accusation earlier in…

Two days after the presidential election, a Russian official speaking to a reporter in Moscow offered a surprising acknowledgment: The Kremlin had been in contact with Donald Trump’s campaign. The claim, coming amid allegations that Russia had interfered with the election, was met with an immediate…

Donald Trump salutes as he disembarks Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House last night. He returned from a weekend at his Palm Beach club. (Erik S. Lesser/EPA) With Breanne Deppisch THE BIG IDEA: It is easy to pooh-pooh Donald Trump’s predawn Saturday tweetstorm — accusing Barack Obama of…