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Jeremy Corbyn told Boris Johnson that foreign secretary Dominic Raab misled the family of Harry Dunn and should be sacked in Thursday’s cabinet reshuffle. And the Labour leader asked if Anne Sacoolas, reportedly involved in a car accident which led to the death of British citizen Harry Dunn, was being “shielded from justice” as she […]

WASHINGTON — President Trump on Wednesday congratulated his attorney general for intervening to lower the Justice Department’s sentencing recommendation for the president’s longtime friend, Roger J. Stone Jr., and belittled the crime of lying to Congress. In November, Mr. Stone was convicted of obstructing a congressional inquiry by the House Intelligence Committee into Russian interference

“We first saw her in July, and we liked her very much, and around September, we were heavily leaning that way,” said Mark Hodgdon, 60, who lives in Epsom, N.H., but drove a half-hour to attend an afternoon event at state headquarters in Manchester on Tuesday. “She cares about all the liberal issues that I

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WASHINGTON — A Utah congressman has emerged as a top contender to be the next director of national intelligence in the weeks before the acting intelligence chief must by law give up the post, people briefed on the matter said on Tuesday. President Trump’s national security adviser, Robert C. O’Brien, is pushing him to nominate

Mr. Bloomberg’s record on stop-and-frisk has gotten limited attention since he began running for president in November. The three-term New York City mayor defended the aggressive policing tactic for years, even after a federal judge ruled that it had violated the constitutional rights of minority men in New York. He apologized for it only after

Michael R. Bloomberg, the mayor of New York City from 2002 to 2013 and now a Democratic presidential candidate, sought on Tuesday to explain comments he made in 2015 aggressively defending the policing tactic known as stop-and-frisk. Here’s a fact check of his statement. What Was Said: “I inherited the police practice of stop-and-frisk, and

The Palestinian Authority president, Mahmoud Abbas, delivered an angry rejection of President Trump’s plan for peace between Palestinians and Israelis at the United Nations on Tuesday, describing it as an illegitimate, one-sided proposal that rewarded Israel for decades of occupation and turned his people’s land into “Swiss cheese” riddled with Israeli settlements. In a speech

MANCHESTER, N.H. — The revolution has not come. Bernie Sanders is looking like the front-runner anyway. The more moderate, non-Sanders alternatives combined to far outpace the liberal Vermont senator’s vote share here on Tuesday night, with Pete Buttigieg, the former mayor of a small Indiana city, again holding him to a virtual draw. His predictions

New Hampshire voters, Mr. Buttigieg said, had concluded “a middle-class mayor and a veteran from the industrial Midwest was the right choice to take on this president, not in spite of that experience, but because of it.” Without naming Mr. Sanders, he urged voters to reject a political approach that demanded revolution or nothing. Mr.