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U.S. and Japan Coordinated to Help Stabilize the Yen

By: Joe Rennison and Kiuko Notoya —
U.S. and Japanese officials confirmed that the Treasury Department had moved last week to prop up the currency, which had been trading near four-decade lows.

President Trump confirmed that the Treasury Department had intervened to help stabilize the Japanese yen last week.

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Blanche Gives G.O.P. Senators Written Assurances on Trump’s I.R.S. Deal

By: Michael Gold， Andrew Duehren and Hari Raj —
Todd Blanche’s confirmation as attorney general has been held up over concerns about a planned $1.8 billion fund for Trump allies and the president’s immunity from tax scrutiny.

Todd Blanche speaking at the Capitol last month.

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‘Do You Think if I Had a Job I Would Have Gone?’

By: Ben Hubbard， Aida Alami and Sergey Ponomarev —
Moroccan migrants described their despair at their economic future, explaining what propelled them across the border with Spain.

Migrants returning back to Morocco. Last week, between 50,000 and 60,000 people entered Ceuta, a small Spanish exclave in North Africa that shares a border with Morocco.

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New Round of Trump Threats and Pullbacks Raises Uncertainty in Mideast

By: Katie Rogers —
Analysts and lawmakers are trying to divine whether Mr. Trump’s latest announcement means negotiations with Iran will truly get underway Monday or if the president is just working through unappealing options.

President Donald Trump aboard Air Force One on Sunday. He said that talks with Iran would begin on Monday and that there could be a deal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz.

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The War That Could Swallow the World

By: David French —
Whatever is happening in Iran, it isn’t working.

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How a Top Law Firm Went From Standing Up to Trump to Bending the Knee

By: Michael S. Schmidt and Jessica Silver-Greenberg —
Paul Weiss was a progressive stalwart for decades and led the legal resistance against President Trump in his first term. Then it surrendered without a fight. This is the inside story of its transformation.

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Trump, Paul Weiss and the Capitulation of Big Law: 5 Takeaways

By: Michael S. Schmidt and Jessica Silver-Greenberg —
The law firm Paul Weiss led the legal resistance against President Trump. Then it led a sudden retreat across the legal industry. A Times investigation examined how it caved to White House pressure.

Paul Weiss’s offices in Washington.

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Fact-Checking Trump’s Claims About the Effect of the Iran War on Oil Prices, Munitions and More

By: Linda Qiu —
The president misleadingly blamed the Biden administration’s weapons transfers to Ukraine for current concerns over munitions stockpiles, among other claims about the Iran war.

President Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth attending a dignified transfer last month for Army soldiers killed while deployed to Jordan last month.

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How Ukraine Is Making Inroads With MAGA and a Trump Ally, Laura Loomer

By: Anton Troianovski， Ken Bensinger and Constant Méheut —
Ukraine and its supporters have invested years in trying to undo the skepticism of the country’s war effort harbored by President Trump’s MAGA movement and the president himself.

President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine with President Trump during the NATO summit in Ankara last month.

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In Iran, the U.S. Appears Headed for a Strategic Defeat, Allies Fear

By: Steven Erlanger —
With none of President Trump’s aims accomplished and the Strait of Hormuz closed, U.S. allies see dysfunction and vulnerability from the war.

A banner in Tehran’s Grand Bazaar featuring the supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who was killed in an airstrike at the start of the U.S.-Iran war.

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Trump Administration Is Undoing Plans to Boost Workplace Heat Protections

By: Scott Dance —
The Biden administration took steps to shield workers from extreme temperatures. The Trump administration is taking a gentler approach with employers.

A delivery in Wilmington, N.C., this month. Heat is linked to hundreds of workplace deaths each year, but labor groups say the true toll is unknown because heat-related illnesses are not properly tracked or reported.

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Trump’s Fixation on Arctic Ships Led to Billions in No-Bid Contracts

By: Christopher Flavelle， Andrea Fuller and Nicholas Nehamas —
The president decided to buy 11 polar icebreakers after a game of golf with Finland’s president. Experts say it’s far from clear the United States needs so many.

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Trump Backs Away From Deal to Let Ukraine Build Patriot Missiles

By: Chris Cameron —
The president of Ukraine had warned that the country was running out of Patriot interceptors, the most reliable weapon it has to shoot down Russian ballistic missiles.

President Trump holding a cabinet meeting on Friday at Camp David in Maryland.

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Trump Escalates Feud With Senate Over Blanche

By: Michael Gold —
The president’s comments threw the confirmation of Todd Blanche, his pick to be attorney general, further into doubt.

Todd Blanche, the acting attorney general, during a cabinet meeting at Camp David on Friday.

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Charges Dropped Against Ex-Olympian David Hearn Accused of Damaging Reflecting Pool

By: Madaleine Rubin and David A. Fahrenthold —
A former Olympian will not face trial after federal prosecutors acknowledged that the Trump administration’s claims of vandalism were false.

David Hearn, center, pleaded not guilty this month to a felony charge of vandalism. Prosecutors had accused him of ripping the Reflecting Pool’s lining.

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Vivek Ramaswamy Wants to Be the Future. First He Has to Win.

By: Lydia Polgreen —
Vivek Ramaswamy’s brand of post-Trump fusionism faces a test in Ohio.

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Trump to Appeal Judge’s Ruling Denouncing I.R.S. Lawsuit as Exercise in Self-Dealing

By: Alan Feuer and Andrew Duehren —
It was the latest sign that the president was doubling down on his fight for aspects of a deal that brings him vast benefits, even though they have jeopardized the confirmation of his pick for attorney general.

President Trump reiterated his support for the so-called anti-weaponization fund in a social media post on Friday.

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Trump and Netanyahu May Be at Odds Again Over Gaza Plan

By: Michael Crowley —
President Trump’s announcement came at a difficult point in his relationship with the Israeli leader over their war against Iran.

President Trump dismissed concerns about a plan for disarming Hamas proposed by the Board of Peace yet also tempered expectations.

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Todd Blanche’s Loyalty to Trump Is Putting His Attorney General Confirmation at Risk

By: Glenn Thrush —
Todd Blanche’s approach has collided with the jury-of-two reality in the Senate that has, thus far, kept him from the prize he covets: the stability and status conferred by a Senate confirmation.

Todd Blanche, according to current and former officials, understands that coping with President Trump’s demands, rages and U-turns is the price to pay for rising in his orbit.

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