Fed Is Expected to Pare Investment Holdings, Officials Signal

Janet L. Yellen, the Fed’s chairwoman, at a news conference in Washington in March. By BINYAMIN APPELBAUM April 5, 2017 WASHINGTON — Most Federal Reserve officials expect the Fed to begin reducing its huge investment holdings later this year, an...

Civil Rights Act Protects Gay Workers, Court Rules

By MATTHEW HAAG and NIRAJ CHOKSHI April 4, 2017 In a significant victory for gay rights, a federal appeals court in Chicago ruled Tuesday that the 1964 Civil Rights Act protects gay workers from job discrimination, expanding workplace protections...

Fist or Glove: California Democrats Debate Response to Trump

By ADAM NAGOURNEY April 4, 2017 LOS ANGELES — After greeting the election of Donald J. Trump with a defiant stream of attacks, California Democrats are now divided over how best to deal with an administration whose policies on immigration, health care...

Fist or Glove: California Democrats Debate Response to Trump

By ADAM NAGOURNEY April 4, 2017 LOS ANGELES — After greeting the election of Donald J. Trump with a defiant stream of attacks, California Democrats are now divided over how best to deal with an administration whose policies on immigration, health care...

Plan to Cut Funding for Biomedical Research Hits Opposition in Congress

By ROBERT PEAR April 3, 2017 WASHINGTON — A proposal by President Trump to cut federal spending for biomedical research by 18 percent — just months after Congress approved bipartisan legislation to increase such spending — has run into a...

Tribes That Live Off Coal Hold Tight to Trump’s Promises

By JULIE TURKEWITZ April 1, 2017 CROW AGENCY, Mont. — The pale yellow halls of the Crow government building here are nearly empty these days, with 1,000 of this tribe’s 1,300 employees recently laid off. Across the way, Rebecca Ten Bear Reed and...