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

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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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 Promised Proof of Election Tampering. His Document Release Fell Far Short.

By: David E. Sanger and Dustin Volz
In the end, the documentary evidence that President Trump claimed would prove his case appeared bound to disappoint those who expected bombshell revelations.

President Donald Trump points to attendees after delivering an address to the nation from the East Room on Thursday night.

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Trump’s Fund Shows Blanche Choosing Loyalty Over Pushing Back

By: Glenn Thrush
Once seen by some as the most conventional of President Trump’s political appointees, Todd Blanche has taken off the gloves in his new role as acting attorney general.

Todd Blanche, the acting attorney general, during an appearance before the Senate appropriations subcommittee on Tuesday.

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Spirit Airlines Should Die. Why Is Trump Trying to Save It?

By: Steven Rattner
Steven Rattner argues that Trump’s effort to bail out the ailing carrier makes no sense.
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The 2025 Politics Yearbook: Most Likely to Be Extreme and Chaotic

By: Michelle Cottle
How much more chaotic could a second Trump term be? 2025 did not disappoint.

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Trump Unveils Presidential ‘Walk of Fame’ With Jabs at Biden and Obama

By: Chris Cameron
The White House unveiled plaques near the Oval Office that describe U.S. presidents with varying levels of accuracy, depending on President Trump’s opinion of them.

The presidential walk of fame, the latest addition to the White House, seen at the White House on Wednesday.

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Pete Hegseth, Trump and an Era of Military Impunity

By: Matthieu Aikins and Victor J. Blue
Pete Hegseth’s advocacy for service members accused of war crimes, and Trump’s pardons of them, have helped usher in an era of military aggression and disregard for the rule of law.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth at Fort Bragg in May.

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Trump’s Trade and Tax Policies Start to Stall U.S. Battery Boom

By: Rebecca F. Elliott
Battery companies are slowing construction or reconsidering big investments in the United States because of tariffs on China and the proposed rollback of tax credits.

Group14 Technologies, a start-up, slowed the construction of a battery materials factory in Moses Lake, Wash., after its customers in China balked at paying higher tariffs.

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Negotiation or Capitulation? How Columbia Got Off Trump’s Hot Seat.

By: Sharon Otterman
The university has largely complied with the administration’s demands, but has adjusted them in meaningful ways. One department offers a window into that effort.

Top academics in the Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies Department at Columbia University, including Professors Timothy Mitchell and Gil Hochberg, the department’s chair, say the school is committed to the program’s autonomy.

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Trump Pledges to Double Tariffs on Foreign Steel and Aluminum to 50%

President Trump made the announcement at a U.S. Steel factory outside Pittsburgh.

President Trump visiting a steel plant in West Mifflin, Pa., on Friday.

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Blow to Biden-era Program Plunges Migrants Into Further Uncertainty

By: Miriam Jordan and Jazmine Ulloa
A Supreme Court ruling on Friday ended temporary humanitarian protections for hundreds of thousands of people. But it is unclear how quickly many could be deported.

The Supreme Court ruling ended temporary protections for hundreds of thousands of migrants

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Biden Is ‘Optimistic’ About Cancer Treatment in First Remarks Since Diagnosis

By: Adeel Hassan
The former president said on Friday that he was taking a single pill daily to treat aggressive prostate cancer.

Former President Joseph R. Biden Jr. at a ceremony at Veterans Memorial Park in New Castle, Del., on Friday.

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‘Good Night, and Good Luck’ Remembers When TV Had a Conscience, and a Spine

By: James Poniewozik
A TV critic looks at George Clooney’s play about CBS News standing up to political pressure, even as its current ownership might succumb to it.

George Clooney as Edward R. Murrow in the stage production of “Good Night, and Good Luck.” The play, about CBS and political pressure in the 1950s, is running as the network faces it again.

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Why Trump’s Ultimatum to Columbia Could Upend Higher Education

By: Troy Closson
A demand for the university’s administration to place the Middle Eastern studies department under receivership could signal a broader crackdown across the United States.

College administrators throughout the country are closely watching whether Columbia responds to the White House with deference or defiance.

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Why Trump Can’t Quit Biden

By: Frank Bruni
Smearing his predecessor is inoculation from his own incompetence.
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Inside Trump’s War on the I.R.S.: Dropped Audits and a Skeleton Staff

By: Andrew Duehren
President Trump is planning to gut the work force while trying to turn the I.R.S. into a more political agency.

The Trump administration is preparing budget cuts and further layoffs that could ultimately force the Internal Revenue Service to shed as much as 50 percent of its work force.

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A Long Journey Home: After 50 Years, Back on the Reservation

By: David W. Chen and Tailyr Irvine
Leonard Peltier, the American Indian Movement activist, returned to North Dakota, where, under home confinement, he will serve the remainder of his life sentence for the murders of two F.B.I. agents.

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Janno Lieber, Congestion Pricing’s Biggest Booster, Prepares to Take on the White House

By: Stefanos Chen
Janno Lieber, head of the M.T.A., has helped steer the tolling program through lawsuits and a last-minute pause. He now will face off with President Trump.

Janno Lieber, the chief executive and chairman of the M.T.A., says that there is no Plan B if congestion pricing is killed by Washington.

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