Live: Hurricane Harvey Churns Toward Texas Coast

By THE NEW YORK TIMES August 25, 2017 • Hurricane Harvey, powered by the Gulf of Mexico’s warm waters and poised to strike the United States as a major hurricane, swept toward Texas on Friday. High winds and dozens of inches of rain were...

The GOP tax bill: Here’s the fundamental question that needs to be resolved

Congress and the Trump administration are said to be hard at work creating a tax bill, aiming for a signature economic policy achievement in the months ahead. As they do so, there is a fundamental tension they will have to resolve: Is this tax legislation about the...