James Dolan said he was “very proud” to bring his championship team to Washington. It would be the first N.B.A. team to visit the White House with Trump as president.

New York Times reporters annotated the agreement, which a senior official disclosed on Wednesday.

After the driver stepped out to take a photo of the passengers, the horse bolted, and a tourist from India fell from the driverless carriage. “We were yelling, ‘Help me, help me!’” said his father.

The Federal Reserve’s new chairman held a press conference where he bantered with reporters and laid out a vision for change at the central bank.

While the Iranians suffered substantial losses in the war, they emerged from a confrontation with the world’s most powerful military having proved they can use economic chaos as a weapon.

The president upended the majority leader’s plans by yanking his intelligence nominee from a confirmation hearing and insisting on an end to the filibuster.

The leaders of the Georgia legislature pulled the plug on gerrymandering away U.S. House seats held by Black Democrats just hours before a special session was to begin.

New Yorkers will descend on Lower Manhattan on Thursday morning to celebrate the Knicks. Here’s what you should know if you are one of them.

Heavy rain and flash flooding are expected across the region through Friday.

The pastor, Jackson Lahmeyer, dropped out of the race for a House seat in Oklahoma as President Trump backed Mr. Lahmeyer’s Republican rival in a runoff election.

Officials at the Federal Reserve were split between no cuts this year and one or more rate increases as they braced for higher inflation, according to a new set of projections.

It’s the third such deal the Interior Department has struck to pay firms to abandon plans for offshore turbines, spending roughly $2.5 billion to get companies to abandon their wind projects.

The department announced that it would deploy more than 10,000 of its ranks and put stringent security measures in place for the celebration of the Knicks’ N.B.A. championship on Thursday.

Democrats and some Republicans excoriated President Trump’s pick for a top national security job. The president pushed ahead anyway.

The spectacle seemed targeted to the young male voters drifting away from the president. Some were skeptical.

The State Department is taking over much of the control of global health initiatives, for which critics say the department does not have the expertise.

Ms. Collins, a Republican in Maine facing a tough re-election battle, defended her vote to confirm Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh as Democrats look to capitalize on it politically.

The Silicon Valley company’s ambitions to roll out autonomous cars nationwide have hit political roadblocks in some of the country’s biggest markets.

At the Group of 7 gathering in France, President Trump’s oscillations on his Iran deal and Ukraine left European leaders racing to catch up.

Extended-range electric vehicles promise to reduce costs and appeal to America’s appetite for adventure. And they’re coming to showrooms soon.