Politics

Mr. Trump has repeatedly railed in public and in private against law enforcement agencies for targeting his associates; among those who have been convicted are his former national security adviser, his campaign chairman and his deputy, and his personal lawyer. “This is a horrible and very unfair situation,” Mr. Trump wrote on Twitter of the […]

Speaking to reporters later that day, Mr. Yang was asked if he would consider running for mayor of New York City. “I wouldn’t rule anything out,” he said. Early in his campaign — sometimes in front of audiences of a few dozen people or less — Mr. Yang, the Schenectady, N.Y.-born former head of a

Senator Michael Bennet of Colorado, who campaigned for president on a promise to fix a broken Washington, ended his bid for the Democratic nomination on Tuesday after a dismal showing in the New Hampshire primary. Mr. Bennet had staked all his hopes on New Hampshire, holding 50 town hall events there in the 10 weeks

When the audio of Michael Bloomberg defending his stop-and-frisk policies in 2015 began circulating online Tuesday, LaTosha Brown, a founder of Black Voters Matter Fund, chose not to listen. “I can’t get mad today, so I said I would watch this evening,” she said, only half-joking. “I’ve had enough racism in one day.” In the

UNIVERSAL CITY, Calif. — “The Hunt” is back on. Only this time Universal Pictures has designed a radically different marketing campaign for the violent film, which is ostensibly about liberal elites who kill conservative “rednecks” for sport. Before “The Hunt” was shelved last year in the face of criticism, Universal had started to market the

MANCHESTER, N.H. — In 2016, Donald J. Trump came within a few thousand votes of winning New Hampshire in the general election. This time around, fueled by a stockpile of donations, his campaign is looking at New Hampshire and its four electoral votes as a key target in its efforts to expand the map. There

MANCHESTER, N.H. — Senator Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota faced tough questions from a host of “The View,” Sunny Hostin, during an interview on Tuesday regarding her handling of the conviction of a black teenager when she was a county prosecutor. A report from The Associated Press last month revealed, among other things, that the police

If you’re on edge waiting for the results on Tuesday night from New Hampshire, worrying that all you’ll get is the mess we got in Iowa, we have good news for you: That’s extremely unlikely. The reason has nothing to do with the relative competence of the Iowa and New Hampshire Democratic Parties, and everything

This article was produced in partnership with the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting. GUANTÁNAMO BAY, Cuba — A long-serving capital defense lawyer for one of the five men accused of plotting the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks asked the judge on Tuesday to be excused from the case, citing his health and other issues, casting doubt

WASHINGTON — The Justice Department will back off its sentencing recommendation for Roger J. Stone Jr., President Trump’s former campaign adviser and longtime friend, a senior department official said Tuesday, with senior department officials intervening to overrule front-line prosecutors who tried the case. The move is highly unusual and is certain to generate allegations of