The president said that North Korea had released the American detainees in a good-will gesture as the two countries prepare for a meeting between their leaders.

The plan, meant to rattle President Biden, fits into his strategy for addressing record numbers of border crossings. The migrants said they were grateful for the chartered bus ride.

The Customs and Border Protection commissioner, Chris Magnus, has refused to step down, exposing conflicts at the Homeland Security Department over how to manage a high number of illegal border...

President Biden, who is under pressure to confront a surge in migration at the border, said he would visit El Paso on Sunday.

The Biden administration’s new rules have brought down a record number of border crossings, but critics say they expose the pitfalls of policies intended to manage an immediate problem.

President Biden has turned to increasingly restrictive measures as his administration prepares for the end of Title 42, which has allowed border authorities to swiftly expel migrants.

Numerous federal agencies agree that widely promoted falsehoods threaten the nation’s security. Doing something about them is another matter.

Interviews and a Times review showed a shelter system with wildly varying conditions, some of which are far below the standard that the Biden administration has promised.

The uptick has rekindled criticism that the Biden administration treats Black migrants differently than others, an allegation it denies.

The presence of asylum seekers in the United States is both a humanitarian challenge and a political flash point in a divided country.

For Deanne Criswell, a former firefighter and the face of the government’s response to Hurricane Ian, handling complex disasters has been a mainstay of her career.

A “hold-the-line” operation has created tensions with federal agents who warn it could lead to more drownings. Officers ordered to carry out the measures are raising alarms.

Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon is delaying a hearing until the administration answers questions about the response to last year’s unrest in Portland.

Artificial intelligence technology has drastically simplified the creation of images of children being exploited or abused, whether real or fake.

President Trump delivered his second formal State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress on Tuesday. Our correspondents offered live analysis and fact checks during the speech.

Now the attorney general must decide how much of the report — one of the most highly anticipated documents in Washington in a generation — to make public.

Prosecutors in Mr. Manafort’s bank and tax fraud trial say he was desperate for money. Why, then, did he volunteer to work unpaid in a top post in the Trump campaign?

A surge in illegal crossings from the United States has led to calls to shut down a rural road on the Canadian border.

Customs and Border Protection was set up after 9/11 amid the fight against terrorism. Its responsibilities have ballooned with the influx of asylum-seeking migrants crossing the southern border.

Under a $45 million settlement, Customs and Border Protection agreed to adjust its policy around pregnancy. Some women say the agency has instilled a culture of shame and perpetuated a fear of...

Crew and basic navigational errors were to blame for two collisions between Navy ships and commercial vessels in the Western Pacific, the Navy’s top officer said.

Fed policymakers are expected to increase the benchmark interest rate by a quarter-point and signal their view on whether the economy is overheating.

With 8,200 crossings daily, an informal pipeline of shelters and other way stations to house and feed migrants has become central to the government’s response plan.

The homeland security secretary has become the face of the intractable problem at the border, particularly for Republicans who see immigration attacks as a winning political strategy.

The president lashed out after more than 200 newspapers, including The New York Times, published editorials about the dangers of the Trump administration’s repeated attacks on the news media.

Great-great-grandchildren of Jefferson Davis, Stonewall Jackson and Robert E. Lee disagree with President Trump that moving Confederate monuments destroys American history and culture.

EDITOR'S NOTE: March 17, 2015Criminal charges against an accused rapist were dropped Tuesday due to concerns about the credibility of the victim as a witness...

Former President Donald J. Trump’s brand of populism has been widely viewed as an appeal to white voters. But similar grievances have resonated in the Rio Grande Valley in a profound way.

The president’s statements seem to contradict his earlier comments that he knew of no payments to the actress who says she had an affair with Mr. Trump.

Longtime field laborers in the Mississippi Delta said in a lawsuit that they were asked to train white guest workers from South Africa before losing their jobs to them.

The president said local politicians “wanted a number so ridiculously high” that he canceled a planned parade that the Pentagon had already postponed.