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Justice Stephen G. Breyer, who said last week that he planned to retire, enlivened Supreme Court arguments with questions that could confuse and amuse. Justice Stephen G. Breyer’s habit of…
Shifts in polls of Republicans, disagreements on endorsements and jeers over vaccines hint at daylight between the former president and the right-wing movement he spawned. Former President Donald J. Trump…
The story of an uncle’s cocaine conviction formed only part of Judge Jackson’s understanding of the system’s complexities. She is now seen as a contender to be President Biden’s Supreme…
Brazenly partisan candidates who insist that Donald Trump won the 2020 election are transforming races for the once-obscure office of secretary of state. In Arizona, State Representative Mark Finchem is…
In a Texas speech, the former president also urged supporters to stage protests if prosecutors in Atlanta and New York take action against him. “If I run and I win,…
She had to quit the foreign service to marry. But she was reinstated 16 years later, when female employees challenged the department’s sexist traditions, and she thrived. Phyllis Oakley outside…
A California Democrat who for a time served as chairman of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, he dedicated himself to fighting poverty. Esteban Torres, right, with the Iowa Republican Jim Leach, chairman…
Prosecutors said Allison Fluke-Ekren, a former teacher from Kansas, provided military training to women and young girls in Syria. The F.B.I. flew Allison Fluke-Ekren to Virginia on Friday to face…
The boldest measures that President Biden is threatening to deter an invasion of Ukraine could roil the entire Russian economy — but also those of other nations. Sanctions could be…
A New York Times analysis reveals how the left outdid the right at raising and spending millions from undisclosed donors to defeat Donald Trump and win power in Washington. For…