Charlie Savage

To invoke wartime deportation powers, President Trump asserted that Venezuela’s government controls a gang. U.S. intelligence analysts think that is not true.

The litigation unleashed by President Trump’s second term, combined with his distortions and lies, is testing the judicial system’s practice of deferring to the executive branch’s determinations about what is true.

A draft circulating inside the administration lists three tiers of countries whose citizens may face restrictions on entering the United States.

President Trump’s first-term policy grew out of his 2015 campaign call to bar Muslims from entering the country and evolved amid court battles.

The Justice Department and F.B.I. are investigating $20 billion in climate funds, despite a top prosecutor’s decision that there was not sufficient evidence of wrongdoing.

The president has rescinded a Biden-era system that required high-level approval for certain drone strikes and commando raids, reverting to a more permissive system.

At the Justice Department and the Pentagon, the administration is curtailing the ability of lawyers to raise internal objections to the president’s use of power.

The case joins a rising number of legal challenges to President Trump’s firing spree that has violated limits on his power.

Lawsuits are challenging President Trump’s abrupt decision to send men awaiting deportation to the American military base in Cuba.

Trump Order Seeks More Power Over Agencies Congress Made Independent