Justice Alito Defends Private Jet Travel to Luxury Fishing Trip
Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. took the unusual step late Tuesday of responding to questions about his travel with a billionaire who frequently has cases...
Russia Sought to Assassinate an Informant in the U.S.
Mr. Fuentes and his wife were told to leave, but security cameras captured the incident. Two days later, he tried to fly to Mexico, but...
Senate Democrats Seek to Highlight G.O.P. Opposition to Abortion Rights
Senate Democrats on Wednesday forced consideration of measures intended to protect women’s health and reproductive freedom, using the upcoming anniversary of the Supreme Court’s decision...
Representative Lisa Blunt Rochester Enters Delaware Senate Race
Representative Lisa Blunt Rochester, a Democrat, announced her campaign on Wednesday for the Delaware Senate seat being vacated by Senator Thomas R. Carper, beginning as...
In Hosting Modi, Biden Downsizes Democracy Concerns With India
President Biden has declared “the battle between democracy and autocracy” to be the defining struggle of his time. But when he rolls out the red...
Few of Trump’s G.O.P. Rivals Defend Justice Dept. Independence
Donald J. Trump has promised that if he wins back the presidency he will appoint a special prosecutor to “go after” President Biden and his...
Biden Calls Xi a ‘Dictator’ Who Was Kept in the Dark About Spy Balloon
President Biden on Tuesday night called President Xi Jinping of China a “dictator” who had been kept in the dark by his own government about...
Garland’s Distance From Hunter Biden Inquiry Fails to Quell Critics
Attorney General Merrick B. Garland was 4,000 miles away from Delaware on Tuesday when federal prosecutors announced a deal for Hunter Biden on tax and...
Biden Administration Engages in Long-Shot Attempt for Saudi-Israel Deal
Shortly after his plane took off earlier this month from Riyadh, where he had held a lengthy meeting with Saudi Arabia’s crown prince, Secretary of State...
Hunter Biden’s Troubles Bring Personal and Political Pain for the President
After more than a half-century in politics, no subject may be more personally painful nor politically problematic for President Biden than his troubled son, Hunter....
Ron DeSantis Is Young, Has Little Kids and Wants America to Know It
As top-tier presidential candidates go, Ron DeSantis is something of a rarity these days. He was born after the Vietnam War, he came of age...
How Trump Has Tried to Use Hunter Biden to Attack the President
Former President Donald J. Trump has been among the most insistent of Republican voices seeking to use Hunter Biden as a way to discredit his...
A Year After Dobbs, Advocates Push in the States for a Right to Birth Control
One year after Justice Clarence Thomas said the Supreme Court should reconsider whether the Constitution affords Americans a right to birth control, Democrats and reproductive...
Elton John Warns of ‘Growing Swell of Anger and Homophobia’ in U.S.
The British pop superstar Elton John lamented the “growing swell of anger and homophobia” in the United States and described several laws recently passed in...