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Dec 13, 2018
Energy giants and conservative groups have been aggressively pushing Trump's rollback of fuel efficiency rules for automobiles, a Times investigation found.
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Dec 13, 2018
The Republican leader resisted a criminal justice debate for years, but he relented under an immense show of support for the legislation.
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Dec 13, 2018
Prosecutors took a big step in their inquiry into payouts made to two women ahead of the 2016 election, saying that The National Enquirer's parent company was cooperating.
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Dec 12, 2018
Prosecutors took a major step forward in their case that payouts to two women before the 2016 election violated campaign finance laws.
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Dec 12, 2018
The agreement, which if adopted by House Democrats would also bind the party's other two top leaders, almost certainly clears the way for Nancy Pelosi to be elected speaker next month.
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Dec 12, 2018
The agency that oversees Voice of America and other government broadcasting has endured a series of recent scandals. Soon, a Trump appointee will take over.
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Dec 12, 2018
Experts agreed that the president could order the government to drop charges against the Chinese telecom executive Meng Wanzhou, but, one said, "it takes the term ‘transactional' to a new level."
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Dec 12, 2018
Hobbled by a slowing economy, the Chinese government has opted for a measured response to the arrest of a Huawei executive.
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Dec 12, 2018
A planned stretch of wall in Texas may be the first to be built under President Trump. It's likely to be opposed by landowners, including a wildlife refuge — and possibly SpaceX.
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Dec 12, 2018
The next speaker will be elected on Jan. 3. To muster enough support, Nancy Pelosi is striking deals with members of her caucus. Here are some of those bargains.
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Dec 12, 2018
House and Senate negotiators, after months of talks, reached a deal to change and toughen the arcane rules governing sexual misconduct claims on Capitol Hill.
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Dec 12, 2018
The agreement, which would bind her to a four-term limit, most likely clears the way for Nancy Pelosi to reclaim the House speakership.
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Dec 12, 2018
Republicans in the state passed legislation that could allow them to choose a new candidate if a new election is held in the Ninth Congressional District.
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Dec 12, 2018
The deal was a major step for prosecutors building a case that payouts to two women before the 2016 election violated campaign finance laws.
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Dec 12, 2018
New allegations have arisen since The New York Times detailed physical and emotional abuse at T.M. Landry, a school celebrated for landing black students in elite colleges.
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Dec 12, 2018
It's the boldest piece of political outerwear since, you know, that other coat.
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Dec 12, 2018
The Democratic billionaire who has led a campaign for the impeachment of President Trump takes a novel approach to finding potential staff members.
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Dec 12, 2018
The former housing secretary in the Obama administration and the former mayor of San Antonio announced he was forming a presidential exploratory committee.
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Dec 12, 2018
Ye Jianming courted the Biden family and networked with former United States security officials. Today, his empire is crashing down in court.
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Dec 12, 2018
Ethics experts say Rudolph W. Giuliani risks blurring lines by seeking contracts with foreign governments even as he remains President Trump's personal lawyer.
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Dec 12, 2018
Michael Cohen, President Trump's former longtime lawyer, was sentenced to three years in prison for his role in a hush-money scandal.
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Dec 12, 2018
The corporate giant has hired well-connected lobbyists to convince lawmakers and residents of the benefits of its new hub in Long Island City.
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Dec 12, 2018
The agreement would most likely seal the votes Nancy Pelosi needs for the House gavel but limiting the power of her team.
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Dec 12, 2018
The two parties typically try to avoid getting blamed for a government shutdown. President Trump says he's happy to own one over a border wall
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Dec 12, 2018
As state officials look into suspicious voting in a general election House race, they are also examining this year's Republican primary for signs of fraud.
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Dec 12, 2018
Lawyers for immigrants have started to convince judges that state laws prohibit local law enforcement from cooperating with Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
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Dec 12, 2018
A planned executive order is the administration's latest attempt to turn a provision from the sweeping 2017 tax law into a major effort to combat poverty.
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Dec 12, 2018
In a combative appearance with Democratic congressional leaders, President Trump said that he would be "proud to shut down the government for border security."
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Dec 11, 2018
President Trump's former national security adviser will be sentenced next week after admitting he lied to the F.B.I. when he was questioned in the Russia investigation.
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Dec 11, 2018
The corporate giant has hired well-connected lobbyists to convince lawmakers and residents of the benefits of its new hub in Long Island City.
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Dec 11, 2018
The corporate giant has hired well-connected lobbyists to convince lawmakers and residents of the benefits of its new hub in Long Island City.
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Dec 11, 2018
The Trump administration is expected to indict hackers and roll out import restrictions out of concern that Beijing will not easily change its trade, cyber and economic practices.
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Dec 11, 2018
The extended timeline is the latest sign of how the president was surprised when his top candidate, Nick Ayers, would not agree to the terms of the job the president requested.
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Dec 11, 2018
The order is connected to a defamation suit Ms. Daniels filed against President Trump last spring. A judge dismissed it in October.
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Dec 11, 2018
Amid reports that officials had leaked absentee vote totals days before the election, the state G.O.P. chairman said that a new election may be necessary.
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Dec 11, 2018
Lawmakers overwhelmingly approved an $867 billion bill that ditched new work requirements for food stamps that had been embraced by the House and president.
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Dec 11, 2018
The wall is the biggest sticking point between the president and Democrats. President Trump wants funding for it in spending bills that must pass to avert a government shutdown.
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Dec 11, 2018
Justin Muzinich, a former Wall Street banker, joins the top ranks of President Trump's economic team.
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Dec 11, 2018
Representative Nancy Pelosi, the House Democratic leader, pushed back against President Trump during an argument in front of reporters over his demand to build a border wall and threat to shut down the government.
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Dec 11, 2018
In the Oval Office, the likely new speaker takes on a president who is rarely challenged to his face in public, especially by a woman.
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Dec 11, 2018
Amid reports that officials had leaked absentee vote totals days before the election, the state G.O.P. chairman said that a new election may be necessary.
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Dec 11, 2018
In the Oval Office, the likely new speaker takes on a president who is rarely challenged to his face in public, especially by a woman.
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Dec 11, 2018
Some have been deemed unqualified by the American Bar Association, and others have proved racially divisive, but that hasn't necessarily stopped them from reaching the bench.
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Dec 11, 2018
While Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders would likely disavow super PACs, candidates from donor-rich states like New York and California would face a vexing choice and risk alienating liberals.
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Dec 11, 2018
After a combative news conference, Senator Chuck Schumer says Mr. Trump had a "temper tantrum" and made clear the president wanted a shutdown.
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Dec 11, 2018
What was billed as a photo opportunity quickly turned into a heated confrontation between President Trump and the Democratic leaders of Congress, Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer.
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Dec 11, 2018
The U.S. military is investigating whether a vehicle crash that killed a French soldier in Niger was the result of drunken driving. An American Green Beret was driving.
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Dec 11, 2018
The administration is preparing a weeklong campaign aimed at pressuring Beijing to change its economic policies.
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Dec 11, 2018
Moscow argues that it has much to offer, but analysts say it is short of cash. In any event, Washington is already planning an American-led lunar station.
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Dec 11, 2018
After a combative news conference, Senator Chuck Schumer says Mr. Trump had a "temper tantrum" and made clear he wanted a shutdown.
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Dec 11, 2018
After a combative news conference, Senator Chuck Schumer says Mr. Trump had a "temper tantrum" and made clear he wanted a shutdown.
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Dec 11, 2018
A telephone call between top negotiators comes despite concern over the arrest of an executive from the Chinese company Huawei.
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Dec 11, 2018
The honorees, called "the guardians of truth," included the staff of the Capital Gazette newspapers in Maryland, two Reuters journalists imprisoned in Myanmar, and a journalist in the Philippines.
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Dec 11, 2018
Senator Mitch McConnell said the Senate would vote on a bill rewriting prison and sentencing laws before the end of the year, a potential bipartisan policy achievement for President Trump.
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Dec 11, 2018
The wall is the biggest sticking point between the president and Democrats. Mr. Trump wants funding for it in spending bills that must pass to avert a government shutdown.
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Dec 11, 2018
President Trump said on Tuesday that he could build his border wall without Democratic support, suggesting he no longer wants a government shutdown.
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Dec 11, 2018
The honorees, called "the guardians of truth," included the staff of the Capital Gazette newspapers in Maryland, two Reuters journalists imprisoned in Myanmar, and a journalist in the Philippines.
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Dec 11, 2018
While Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders would likely disavow super PACs, candidates from donor-rich states like New York and California would face a vexing choice and risk alienating liberals.
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Dec 11, 2018
Republicans lost four key governorships in the Midwest. Now conservative lawmakers fear the new Democratic governors will alter their gerrymandered maps.
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Dec 10, 2018
Representing clients who face penalties from Washington is a lucrative new niche, especially for lobbyists who have links to the president or his administration.
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Dec 10, 2018
Ms. Butina will plead guilty to conspiring to act as a foreign agent. The case drew headlines with accusations that she used sex as spycraft as she tried to influence Republicans.
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Dec 10, 2018
After prosecutors essentially named President Trump an unindicted co-conspirator with Michael D. Cohen, Mr. Trump insisted that payments to two women were not election-related spending.
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Dec 10, 2018
Finding a replacement for the White House chief of staff, John F. Kelly, is in many ways just the latest staffing snare in a White House that has struggled to fill even low-ranking jobs.
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Dec 10, 2018
The proposed new rule would chip away at wetlands safeguards put in place during the administration of President George H.W. Bush.
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Dec 10, 2018
U.S. investment is guiding the fight to contain the violence in El Salvador, even as President Trump hurls insults and threatens to walk away.
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Dec 10, 2018
The plea deal closes a case that drew headlines with accusations that Maria Butina used sex as spycraft as she tried to influence prominent Republicans.
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Dec 10, 2018
Republican efforts to constrain incoming Democrats could hurt the party's image with moderates in a region President Trump considers crucial for his re-election effort.
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Dec 10, 2018
In the On Politics newsletter, why it's hard to give away the most coveted job in Washington these days; plus, a look at how much money was spent on the midterms.
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Dec 10, 2018
The appointment of Mark Calabria, who is Vice President Mike Pence's chief economist, to run the Federal Housing Finance Agency would come at a sensitive moment for the United States housing market.
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Dec 10, 2018
From Nixon's White House to Obama's, these books highlight presidential right-hand men and their outsize power.
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Dec 10, 2018
The number of asylum seekers citing a credible fear of being targeted because of their race, religion, nationality, political opinions or social group rose by nearly 70 percent from 2017.
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Dec 10, 2018
U.S. investment is guiding the fight to contain the violence in El Salvador, even as President Trump hurls insults and threatens to walk away.
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Dec 10, 2018
While the official United States stance brought scorn from environmentalists, there are signs that the administration is picking up some powerful allies.
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Dec 10, 2018
The party, which lost four key governorships in the Midwest, depends on its gerrymandered districts in the region for a trove of seats in Congress and legislatures.
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Dec 10, 2018
Republicans are joining Democrats in a vigorous examination of Department of Veterans Affairs failings, a rare area of bipartisan oversight on Capitol Hill.
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Dec 10, 2018
Three conservatives said the court was wrong to duck cases with "some tenuous connection to a politically fraught issue."
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Dec 10, 2018
A plea deal would close a case that drew headlines with allegations that Maria Butina used sex as spycraft as she tried to influence prominent Republicans.
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Dec 10, 2018
For 150 years, the justices have sat, not always happily, for an extraordinary series of group portraits
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Dec 10, 2018
Women ran and won in record numbers this year, but the ultimate goal, activists say, is to achieve parity with men in Congress.
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Dec 10, 2018
The deepest impasse between President Trump and congressional leaders is over his demand for a border wall, which Democrats have refused to accept.
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Dec 09, 2018
The largest impasse in a must-pass spending package is funding for President Trump's wall, but lawmakers are looking at rolling in an array of other legislation.
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Dec 09, 2018
A special committee has recommended a $50,000 raise by 2021, coupled with a cap on outside income.
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Dec 09, 2018
In taking on Michael Cohen, federal prosecutors find unexpected meaning in the scandals involving Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal.
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Dec 09, 2018
A special committee has recommended a $50,000 raise by 2021, coupled with a cap on outside income.
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Dec 09, 2018
Daily life in Tijuana, Mexico, is defined less by the border wall as an impenetrable obstacle than by the ebb and flow of movement across it.
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Dec 09, 2018
A transcript of the remarks of James B. Comey, the former F.B.I. director, before two House committees on Friday was released. We break it down.
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Dec 09, 2018
The decision leaves it unclear who will take the top West Wing job as President Trump confronts the fight of his political life, with Democrats newly empowered and the special counsel moving closer to him.
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Dec 09, 2018
Instead of trying to renegotiate the I.N.F. treaty to embrace countries like China that now have the weapons covered by the accord, the United States wants to build up its forces to counter Beijing.
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Dec 09, 2018
A special committee has recommended a $50,000 raise by 2021, coupled with a cap on outside income.
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Dec 09, 2018
Advisers to prospective Democratic candidates say Mr. O'Rourke would be a threat, given his success with small donors, his charismatic message and his popularity with parts of the Obama coalition.
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Dec 09, 2018
Daily life in Tijuana, Mexico, is defined less by the border wall as an impenetrable obstacle than by the ebb and flow of movement across it.
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Dec 09, 2018
President Trump's lawyer minimized the importance of any potential campaign finance violations, but Democrats said they could potentially lead to impeachment.
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Dec 08, 2018
President Trump's lawyer minimized the importance of any potential campaign finance violations, but Democrats said they could potentially lead to impeachment.
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Dec 08, 2018
The departure of John F. Kelly leaves the president with an ever-shrinking team of close advisers as he begins to navigate the new power structure on Capitol Hill.
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Dec 08, 2018
"He's the best friend New Hampshire Democrats had in 2018," the chairman of the state Democratic Party said of Mr. Booker, the New Jersey senator who helped raise money for candidates there.
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Dec 08, 2018
President Trump appointed more generals to senior positions than any other modern president. But with John Kelly's resignation, only one general remains. Here's what happened.
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Dec 08, 2018
L. McCrae Dowless ran an operation that, despite his checkered past, drew little scrutiny — until he ended up in the middle of an election marred by fraud charges
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Dec 08, 2018
The departure of John F. Kelly leaves the president with an ever-shrinking team of close advisers as he begins to navigate the new power structure on Capitol Hill.
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Dec 08, 2018
The crown prince of Saudi Arabia cultivated Mr. Kushner's friendship. The benefits to the U.S. are uncertain but it has paid off well for the Saudis.
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Dec 08, 2018
It's been a busy week in American politics. Here are some of the stories you might have missed.
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