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WASHINGTON — More than 1,100 former federal prosecutors and Justice Department officials called on Attorney General William P. Barr on Sunday to step down after he intervened last week to lower the Justice Department’s sentencing recommendation for President Trump’s longtime friend Roger J. Stone Jr. They also urged current government employees to report any signs […]

WASHINGTON — In an email a few days ago to the 270 lawyers he oversees, Nicola T. Hanna, the United States attorney in Los Angeles, offered a message of reassurance: I am proud of the work you do, he wrote. Other U.S. attorneys in the Justice Department’s far-flung 93 field offices relayed similar messages of

LAS VEGAS — Early voting for Nevada’s Democratic caucuses began on Saturday, with several leading candidates rallying supporters amid lingering concerns about whether Nevada would be able to avoid a repeat of the caucus fiasco in Iowa. So, for example, when Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont addressed a crowd in a high school cafeteria on

“The Chinese Communist Party is heading even faster and further in the wrong direction — more internal repression, more predatory economic practices, more heavy-handedness, and most concerning for me, a more aggressive military posture,” he said. That has become a bipartisan view: His assessment was echoed by Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, a Democrat.

John A. Farrell, a Nixon biographer, said most other presidents managed to contain or disguise their paranoid elements, but it drove Johnson and Nixon to extremes that were ultimately self-destructive. Mr. Trump, he said, sees no need to hide it. “He has responded to criticism, opposition and other curbs on his power with a vulgar

In a divided Democratic field, Michael R. Bloomberg has emerged as a last-minute candidate with an unusual strategy. He is leaning on his record as mayor of New York but also on the good he has done as a philanthropist, betting more than anything that his fortune will enable him to run a national campaign.

Well, that was exhausting. One and a half states down, 48.5 to go. Let’s catch you up on what happened during one of the most eventful stretches of the 2020 race so far. New Hampshire is done That was not great news for Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, who placed fourth with less than 10

The policy agenda was to be focused on tightening background checks; more radical ideas like banning assault weapons were off the table. “There were people who were very, very troubled by that,” Ms. Rubin said. “I became very pragmatic.” More confrontational tactics were also rejected. After the mass shooting last year at a Walmart in

WASHINGTON — American democracy has been thoroughly eulogized in recent years, written of with grief and nostalgia in numerous best-selling books. Law professor Ganesh Sitaraman has also taken up the subject, but his has a more aspirational title: “The Great Democracy.” “I’m particularly excited to talk about this book because I’ve been thinking about it

In the compressed and crucial weeks between the New Hampshire primary and Super Tuesday, Pete Buttigieg is moving aggressively to replenish his campaign coffers with an ambitious schedule of 10 fund-raisers held across six states in a 14-day period. The money chase for Mr. Buttigieg began in Indianapolis on Thursday at the 16,000-square foot home