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At least 1,000 fighters from Russia’s Wagner Group are expected to focus on the Kremlin’s goal of seizing eastern Ukraine. Send any friend a story As a subscriber, you have

The ruling, in which the judge said Democrats had drawn an “extreme gerrymander,” was the first time this redistricting cycle that the party’s congressional maps had been rejected in court. Send any friend a story As a subscriber, you have…

Two of Donald Trump’s most prominent Senate endorsements have already backfired. Now the month of May looms large to measure his pull on the party. Send any friend a story As a subscriber, you have

March 16, 2022, 1:24 p.m. ETMarch 16, 2022, 1:24 p.m. ET Michael D. Shear Video President Biden said the United States would send an additional $800 million in military assistance to help Ukraine fight Russia.Credit WASHINGTON — President Biden said…

Nikki Haley, the former United Nations ambassador, used a well-timed endorsement of Representative Nancy Mace to get on the opposite side of the former president. Nikki Haley, South Carolina’s former governor, endorsed Representative Nancy Mace before Donald J. Trump could…

After complaints about disenfranchisement and logistical snafus, the party is reconsidering Iowa and New Hampshire’s coveted spots in the presidential nominating process. The deliberations threaten to upend 50 years of tradition, as the Iowa caucuses and New Hampshire presidential primary…

He helped revive the Reagan presidency in its last years and became a respected lobbyist in Washington. Ken Duberstein, center, with President Ronald Reagan, left, and James A. Baker III, second from right, in an undated photo.  WASHINGTON — Ken…

Guy Reffitt’s 19-year-old son took the stand against him in federal court in a remarkable tableau that captured how one family was split by the attack on the Capitol. Prosecutors presented evidence of Guy Wesley Reffitt’s role in the mob…

The invading forces have faced stiff resistance, but President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia could quickly send in more troops, Pentagon officials said. A residential building was hit by missiles in southern Kyiv, Ukraine’s capital, on Friday. WASHINGTON — For…

On January 3, the United States announced the elimination of Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi, the leader of the so-called Islamic State (IS) during a counterterrorism raid in Atmeh, a town in Syria’s Idlib province close to the Turkish border. In an…

The vote sets up a fight with the Senate, which has different recommendations for how the United States should bolster its technology industry to take on China. Workers at a semiconductor factory in Beijing in 2020. The renewed push for…

What to know about the death-penalty prosecution of a Saudi prisoner accused of plotting the attack on a Navy destroyer off Yemen in 2000 that killed 17 sailors. The U.S.S. Cole was attacked by suicide bombers during a routine refueling…