The fate of the annual defense bill was in doubt on Friday, after Republicans loaded the legislation with a raft of conservative social policy restrictions limiting access to abortions, gender transition procedures and diversity training for military personnel, alienating Democrats whose votes G.O.P. leaders had seen as crucial to passing the legislation. Democrats pledged to…
As the sun rose on Friday morning, Antonio, 51, was gathering his things and saying his goodbyes at a large migrant shelter on the outskirts of Tijuana, Mexico. Since 2020, Title 42, a public health measure implemented during the pandemic, has allowed border authorities to swiftly expel migrants who crossed into the United States illegally.…
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court agreed on Monday to hear a case that could hobble the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and advance a key project of the conservative legal movement: to limit the power of independent agencies. A ruling against the bureau, created as part of the 2010 Dodd-Frank Act after the financial crisis, could…
The court’s conservative supermajority may be skeptical of admissions programs at Harvard and U.N.C. that take account of race to foster educational diversity.