The agency is demanding certification that population counts, used to determine grant allocations, exclude people who have been recently removed from the country.

The out-of-office responses from the accounts of employees on furlough cast blame for the shutdown on Democrats.

The Trump administration forged ahead with plans to conduct mass layoffs, as the fiscal standoff appeared to intensify.

President Trump posted the video meme, which Representative Hakeem Jeffries called racist and bigoted. Vice President JD Vance said the president was “joking, and we’re having a good time.”

The Justice Department sued participants in a confrontation at a New Jersey synagogue that devolved into violence. An official said there might be more such cases to come.

Republicans have been falsely asserting that Democrats are shutting down the government to fund free health care for unauthorized immigrants.

President Trump has long maintained that liberal activists and organizations secretly fund political violence. Law enforcement officials say efforts like the antifascist movement are often disparate groups.

At the United Nations, world leaders got to see both sides of President Trump: bellicose in public and far more conciliatory in private.

The president is pushing up against the statute of limitations in his pursuit of charges against a former F.B.I. director, and also wants the attorney general of New York and a California senator prosecuted.

Since his death, the parents and grandparents of his original followers are discovering his work. They like what they see.