With President Donald Trump warning that his tariff policy may cause the price of toys to spike, a Barbie with swimsuit accessories that cost $10.49 on April 16 is now selling at Target for $14.99 — marking a 43% increase.

While it’s not clear if the higher price is directly linked to tariffs, toymaker Mattel reportedly confirmed its plans ...Read more

President Donald Trump’s international trade war may not be as popular as he might wish, but his approval rating hasn’t suffered as a consequence, new polling shows.

According to a Morning Consult survey of more than 2,200 registered voters, Trump’s approval rating has “stabilized” but remains underwater.

“Sentiment about Trump’s...Read more

Shortly after President Trump stunned Hollywood with his call for tariffs on films produced overseas, California Gov. Gavin Newsom waded into the debate with an unexpected offer.

Despite the public enmity between the two, Newsom reached out to the White House in hopes of working together on the creation of a $7.5-billion federal tax incentive ...Read more

BOSTON — President Donald Trump’s campaign-promised plan to send millions of immigrant residents back to their home countries and his administration’s proposals to sharply curtail the number of immigrants legally allowed to enter the U.S. will have severe economic impacts on Massachusetts, according to a pair of experts.

Academic work ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court has cleared the way for the Trump administration to remove thousands of active-duty members of the military because they are transgender.

The justices on Tuesday granted an appeal from President Donald Trump’s lawyers and set aside orders for now from judges who had blocked the new policy set by Defense ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court in a brief order Tuesday allowed the Trump administration to take actions to implement a ban on transgender members of the U.S. military, which could include discharges.

The unsigned order granted an application from the Trump administration to lift a preliminary injunction issued by a federal judge in ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Sen. Thom Tillis is opposing the nomination of Ed Martin as Washington’s top prosecutor.

This would be the first time Tillis, a Republican from North Carolina, splits from President Donald Trump on one of Trump’s nominees to help the president lead the country in his second term.

“At this point I’ve indicated to the ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Marco Rubio’s new role as national security adviser will place him closer to President Donald Trump at a higher frequency as the administration struggles to hatch a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine.

But the added responsibility will also test the bandwidth of the secretary of state, with experts expressing skepticism Rubio...Read more

Two months after Secretary of State Marco Rubio met with a half-dozen Caribbean leaders in his first official visit to the region, more heads of government will get a chance to air their concerns.

The prime ministers of six eastern Caribbean nations — Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica, Grenada, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia and Saint Vincent...Read more

President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice wants to dismiss a legal challenge against a common abortion medication brought by Missouri and Kansas, pitting top Republican officials in the two states against the Trump administration.

Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach and Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey, along with Idaho’s ...Read more

CHICAGO — Less than a day after long-serving U.S. Rep. Jan Schakowsky announced she was not running for reelection next year, Democratic state Sen. Laura Fine on Tuesday became the first elected official to join the race to become the next representative from Illinois' 9th Congressional District.

Fine, a longtime resident of Glenview, may end...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump remains deeply unpopular in California after his first 100 days in office, with conservatives and liberals alike expressing concern that U.S. courts can effectively serve as a check on his power, according to a new UC Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies poll co-sponsored by The Times.

Overall, the ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump first used the power of the White House against a law firm in February, ordering a review of Covington & Burling’s government contracts because a lawyer had assisted the special prosecutor who indicted him in Florida and the District of Columbia.

Security clearances should be suspended, Trump wrote, ...Read more

The captive National Endowment for the Humanities recently announced a call for proposals for statues to be assembled in the Trump administration’s “National Garden of American Heroes,” a project that takes obvious inspiration from the Foro Italico, which includes a stadium ringed with classical statues constructed in Rome under the ...Read more

I’m a college professor and a liberal Democrat. It won’t surprise you to learn that I also despise Donald J. Trump.

But let’s imagine, for a moment, that I wanted Trump and his MAGA acolytes to prosper and thrive in the 2026 midterm elections and forever thereafter.

I’d cancel Bill Maher and Saquon Barkley.

That’s what many of my ...Read more

Whatever you think of the National Endowment for the Arts, or federal funding of the arts more generally, surely reasonable Americans all can agree that government agencies should not claw back previously approved grants when struggling nonprofit organizations had already started their projects after being told they could count on that money.

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The United States of America is at a precarious moment. Our constitutional republic is hanging by a thread when the president himself seems uncertain about his obligation to uphold the Constitution — while those who do are being honored for their courage, as though fidelity to our founding principles were exceptional rather than fundamental. ...Read more

SEOUL, South Korea — As South Koreans prepare to elect a successor to ousted former president Yoon Suk Yeol, a court ruling against front-runner Lee Jae-myung has thrust the country — which has been under interim leadership for the last five months — into further uncertainty.

Yoon, who was impeached for declaring martial law in December, ...Read more

An ironic side-note to Donald Trump’s status as the most demonstrably dishonest president America has ever had (more than 30,000 verifiable lies during his first term, reports The Washington Post, with the pile now growing ever-larger in his second term) is his penchant for occasionally blurting the quiet part out loud.

That’s apparently ...Read more

The Trump administration is declaring Harvard University ineligible for new research grants from the federal government in the latest escalation between the White House and the Ivy League school.

Education Secretary Linda McMahon sent the university a letter warning that access to additional federal funding would not be possible until “they ...Read more