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For weeks, the strangest courtroom drama in Washington turned on a simple question: was the president telling the truth about his own government’s plans, or were his own officials? President…
North Korea fired around a dozen short-range ballistic missiles toward the Sea of Japan on Thursday, the largest single salvo reported in weeks, in a launch that South Korean and…
Spain woke on Thursday to its second high-speed rail catastrophe in less than a year. On Wednesday morning, on the Madrid–Seville line near the town of Urda in Toledo province,…
The arithmetic of the House of Representatives is brutal in its simplicity: 435 seats, all of them on the ballot on November 3, and 218 needed to govern. Republicans currently…
Alaska’s senior senator has done it again. On Tuesday, Lisa Murkowski — a Republican who has built her political identity over more than two decades in the Senate around defying…
Five days before Election Day, one of the most reliably Republican states in the country is producing one of the closest Senate races in America. A New York Times/Siena College…
United States intelligence agencies concluded that a Chinese businesswoman who had cultivated a close relationship with Jensen Huang, the chief executive of Nvidia and arguably the most powerful figure in…
The offer could hardly be simpler, and President Donald Trump repeats it at nearly every campaign stop: if Republicans keep control of the House and the Senate in the November…
Katie Zacharia’s tenure as White House press secretary lasted five days, included a single briefing at the podium, and ended, by her own telling, in a blaze of online mockery…