The New York Times

The president seemed poised for a big Supreme Court win letting him remove officials without cause. But the justices appeared to struggle with how to insulate the Federal Reserve from politics.

The case centers on efforts by Republican officials to lift limits on how much money political parties can spend in coordination with candidates.

The president rolled out a $12 billion bailout for farmers as he makes the case that his policy is working — or will soon.

A long list of people could test that theory, though governors have struggled to make the leap to presidential nominations in recent years.

In a sign of bipartisan frustration with the Defense Department, the final defense policy bill aims to compel the Pentagon to share execute orders and video documentation.

The Senate is set to vote later this week on a three-year extension of Affordable Care Act subsidies that Republicans oppose. The G.O.P. has yet to coalesce around an alternative.

The president said he would defer to his defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, on whether to release a video showing a follow-up attack that killed survivors of a Sept. 2 strike on an alleged drug smuggling boat.

A five-year-old photo of agents kneeling at a D.C. protest after George Floyd’s killing led to the firing of about 16 agents.

Federal relief money comes after China boycotted American farm products in retaliation for U.S. tariffs.

At an annual event for Democratic governors, optimism about next year overshadowed the search for a long-term vision. As Gretchen Whitmer put it, adding an expletive: “Let’s go!”