Trump Pardoned Tax Cheat After Mother Attended $1 Million Dinner

Paul Walczak’s pardon application cited his mother’s support for the president, including raising millions of dollars and a connection to a plot to publicize a Biden family diary.

Chaos Mars Opening of Israeli-Backed Aid Distribution Site in Gaza

Starvation looming, desperate Palestinians surged toward an aid center that Israel says was designed to circumvent Hamas.

U.S. Will No Longer Recommend Covid Shots for Children and Pregnant Women

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. upended decades of standard protocol in announcing that the vaccine would be dropped from the immunization schedule for healthy children.

U.S. and China Agree to Temporarily Slash Tariffs in Bid to Defuse Trade War

The White House backed off from the steepest levies, as the costs of an all-out trade war with China threatened global economic growth.

White South Africans Granted Refugee Status by Trump Arrive in the U.S.

President Trump had halted essentially refugee admissions on his first day in office before creating a pathway for Afrikaners, a white ethnic minority that ruled during apartheid.

Trump, Pressed on Qatari Jet, Says Only ‘Stupid’ People Reject Gifts

The president grew angry when questioned about the ethical implications of accepting a luxury jetliner from a foreign government.

Trump Seeks to Strip Away Legal Tool Key to Civil Rights Enforcement

President Trump has ordered federal agencies to halt their use of “disparate-impact liability,” which has been used to assess whether policies discriminate against different groups.

Pope’s Childhood in a Changing Chicago Tells a Story of Catholic America

The pope grew up in a Catholic enclave on Chicago’s South Side. That community is gone now.

Leo Lived Here: The Price Goes Up for the Pope’s Childhood Home

After Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost was selected to become the leader of the Roman Catholic Church, offers began flooding in to buy this modest house outside Chicago, the real estate broker said.

India and Pakistan Announce Cease-Fire but Clashes Persist

President Trump also announced the truce, saying it had been mediated by the United States, although only Pakistan quickly acknowledged an American role.