The House committee investigating the assault on the Capitol and what led to it is employing techniques more common in criminal cases than in congressional inquiries. The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 assault on the Capitol has hired two…
A political stunt it may have been, but Paul Givan’s decision to resign as Northern Ireland’s First Minister over the Northern Ireland protocol still looks like an effective tactic. Givan resigned on Thursday, stating that the protocol – which had…
The president’s opposition to sending U.S. troops into Ukraine reflects the mood of a war-wary Washington, as well as concerns about Russia’s nuclear arsenal. The United States is deploying troops to NATO countries in Eastern Europe, but not to Ukraine, which…
In the most sensitive government operations, the public can be beholden to the official narrative — which sometimes turns out to be wrong. Yet officials can be defensive about skepticism from the news media. The White House press secretary, Jen…
The request to have the former president testify faces an uphill fight, but it illustrates efforts by defendants to place him at the center of their cases. If the judge were to approve a subpoena, it is almost certain that…
A parole-like board for prisoners at Guantánamo Bay recommended repatriating the Saudi man, whom the military tortured and so could not be put on trial. Mohammed al-Qahtani was brutally interrogated by the U.S. military at Camp X-Ray, a detention facility…
The speaker of the Republican-controlled Arizona House — who supported Donald J. Trump in 2020
Former Vice President Mike Pence said in a speech on Friday that he had no right to overturn the 2020
A flurry of diplomatic activity in the first weeks of 2022 has so far failed to produce any breakthroughs in the latest confrontation between Russia and the West. Instead, we enter February with the threat of a major war still…
The suicide bombing killed as many as 170