The government said gross domestic product grew at an annual rate of 0.7 percent in the first quarter, a three-year low, as consumer spending let up.
A measure approved on Friday will sustain government operations for a week, giving lawmakers more time to negotiate a long-term spending package.
Covering the Trump White House can be exhilarating, maddening, exhausting — but never boring. The Times’ White House correspondents recall vivid moments from their first 100 days on the beat.
The Standard & Poor’s 500-stock index is up about 5 percent since Mr. Trump’s inauguration, the best start for a president since the elder George Bush. On North Korea, on Nafta, on life in the White House: Highlights from Mr. Trump’s interview with Reuters on Thursday to mark his first 100 days in office.
It was the North’s first test since it launched a ballistic missile near its submarine base on North Korea’s east coast on April 16. That launch was also a failure. The White House has been sending different signals to Kim Jong-un, a master at keeping his adversaries unsettled.
The church’s highest court has ruled that the consecration of its first openly gay bishop violated church law, compounding a bitter rift over homosexuality.
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The anticipated shake-up comes at an inopportune time for the group, with several major pieces of conservative legislation on the agenda in Congress.
The National Security Agency program was one of the most disputed forms of surveillance.
The Times spent months with several Syrian refugee families as they navigated integration into Weimar, Germany. In 360, step inside the home of Sarah, a German, and Omar, a refugee, to see how they are adjusting. The pope warned against wrapping violence and terror in the language of religion and urged the Egyptian president toward progress on human rights.
During World War II, Mrs. Finch quietly undermined Japan when it occupied the Philippines, and was tortured for it. Then she quietly raised a family in the United States.
The mayor offered a familiar defense for Joseph Ponte’s use of a city-owned vehicle to travel beyond the five boroughs on 90 days last year: He was told it was O.K.
Joseph Ponte, hired to overhaul New York’s troubled jails, repeatedly took his city-owned vehicle to coastal Maine in violation of guidelines, a city report found.
A high-end event founded by Ja Rule and the entrepreneur Billy McFarland was supposed to feature shows and yachts. Attendees found chaos instead.
The district’s uncertainty was compounded when a judge declined to issue an injunction requested by the city that might have led to a desperately needed influx of cash.
The Pentagon is investigating the deaths of two Army Rangers during a raid targeting a leader of Islamic State militants in Afghanistan.
Jean-François Jalkh was forced to step down as interim leader of the far-right National Front, the party of the presidential candidate Marine Le Pen.
Some witnesses said a condemned man experienced “coughing, convulsing, lurching, jerking” after the state administered midazolam, a lethal injection drug.
Holding its draft in the home of the underdog, Philadelphia, the league is faced with an undercurrent of worrisome trends, including a startling decline in TV viewership.
Much has improved in Los Angeles since violence exploded over the beating of an unarmed black man, Rodney King, by the police. But lately, many say they believe more unrest is likely.
The results of their data analyses aren’t all that shocking. It turns out the president posts a lot, and people searched Google for information on immigration.
He supervised the officers who removed Dr. David Dao from a United flight, but his termination arose from an unrelated sexual harassment allegation.
Privacy experts said the specific answers posted in response to the meme could be used by marketers to target ads or by hackers to breach secure accounts.
This stage version of the 1950 film, which will be adapted and directed by Ivo van Hove, is planned for the West End in spring 2018.
In “The Outrun,” Amy Liptrot recalls her decade as a London party girl, followed by the spectacular solitude of Scotland.
The new series, on Starz, is based on a 2001 novel from Neil Gaiman and finds a range of deities in a bloody and fractured narrative.
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