Senators Cory Booker, Tim Scott and Raphael Warnock brought vastly different perspectives to proceedings that highlighted the Senate’s striking lack of diversity. Senators Tim Scott, left, and Cory Booker argued over the meaning of Jim Crow in the present day…
Senator Chuck Schumer, the majority leader, chose to plunge ahead because of the importance of the issue even after the outcome became preordained. Senator Chuck Schumer, behind the lectern, expressed pride in the way Democrats handled the fight. WASHINGTON —…
President Biden will retreat from fruitless negotiations with lawmakers and instead emphasize his power to govern, senior White House advisers said. President Biden arrived in the White House promising to draw on three decades in the Senate to enact history-making…
President Biden will retreat from fruitless negotiations with lawmakers and instead emphasize his power to govern, senior White House advisers said. President Biden arrived in the White House promising to draw on three decades in the Senate to enact history-making…
Democrats in Congress are ramping up pressure on cryptocurrency firms to show that Bitcoin is worth the wattage, amid concerns that minting digital money has become an environmental disaster. Scrutiny from lawmakers including Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and the leadership…
The Securities and Exchange Commission Thursday rejected Anthony Scaramucci’s proposal to launch a Bitcoin-based investment fund, saying it would be too risky for investors. The proposal by Scaramucci — a financier best known for his 10 days as former President…
The prosecutor, Fani T. Willis of Fulton County, Ga., is conducting a criminal investigation of election interference by the former president and his allies. The investigation concerns former President Donald J. Trump’s actions in the two months between his election…
In a letter to President Biden, dozens of Democrats in Congress raised grave concerns about “repeated civilian casualties arising from secretive and unaccountable lethal operations.” “We cannot ignore the terrible consequences of U.S. drone strikes over several administrations,” Senator Elizabeth…
The panel’s letter to Ms. Trump is the latest step it has taken to obtain information from the former president’s family about the Capitol riot. Ivanka Trump, the daughter of former President Donald J. Trump, served as one of his…
Is this the end of COVID – or at least of the restrictions? Or is it a misperception? Should we brace for a new variant, possibly the worst we could imagine? In the UK, the battered Prime Minister Boris Johnson…