The memo signaled the most significant first step in deploying the levers of government to carry out President Trump’s repeated suggestions that he will pursue those he perceives to be his enemies.

The department’s current No. 2 official, Emil Bove, escalated his growing conflict with the interim leadership of the F.B.I.

James E. Dennehy, the highly respected leader of the largest and most important field office in the bureau, said in an email ...

Those informed of their dismissals had been hired to investigate the Jan. 6 riot as the office struggled to manage what ...

The prosecutor firings and a move to scrutinize thousands of F.B.I. agents were a powerful indication that the president has ...

The decision, signed by Judge John J. McConnell Jr., is a temporary but significant victory for the Democratic attorneys ...

Officials for the agency were notified of the planned cuts on the same day they learned that about 800 awards and contracts ...

The authorities could allow the country’s currency, the peso, to weaken against the dollar, effectively making its exports ...

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent gave Mr. Musk’s representatives at the so-called Department of Government Efficiency a ...

The president signed executive orders placing tariffs on Canada, Mexico and China that were set to take effect on Tuesday, a ...

Tariff retaliation: Mexico and Canada immediately vowed to impose tariffs of their own. The Canadian prime minister, Justin ...