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It remains unclear how the Justice Department might proceed. The move would be a major escalation of the Trump administration's recent attacks against the news media.

Initiative 86, which bars the force-feeding of birds and the sale of foie gras, passed handily but restaurateurs and prominent chefs are preparing for a fight.

After last week's midterm losses, the Republican Party entered its most uncertain moment in years. Some Republicans called for moderation and cleaning house, but that will be difficult with President Trump still in the White House.

Midterm victories have created an opportunity, but obstacles like legal challenges would have to be surmounted.

As Americans absorb a stunning new political reality, they face a gap between the time they effectively decided to be done with the president and the time he is actually done.

The man in line to be the first Black speaker is a reserved moderate seen by activists on the left as too timid to take on President Trump. He says he's "strongly positioned" to get things done.

On social media, the president offered the now-vacant job of White House press secretary to Dana White, the organization's C.E.O., and told him to bring along fighters as aides.

Judge Ana C. Reyes wrote that she intended to pick a former U.S. attorney in Washington to investigate whether officials misled the court about changes to the East Potomac Golf Links.

The Justice Department's intervention in the Texas lawsuit could signal that the administration is ready to challenge newly elected Democrats in state offices.

The contest to replace António Guterres as U.N. secretary general has been jolted by last-minute entrants and deep divisions among members of the Security Council.