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The government has announced it will use emergency legislation to end the automatic release of terror offenders half way through their prison sentences. The move follows two attacks by men convicted of terror offences in recent months, in Streatham on Sunday and at London Bridge in November. Justice Secretary Robert Buckland told MPs the country […]

For those who wonder whether the world really needs the election needle, we realize the actual results will emerge soon enough. But we also think that the millions of people who follow election night results online ought to have the context to understand them as well as experts do. Is it harder in Iowa? The

As House impeachment managers and President Trump’s lawyers prepared for their closing arguments late Monday morning and a final vote on Wednesday, some Democratic senators had already shifted their focus from the trial to defeating Mr. Trump in the general election. On CNN on Monday, Senator Mazie Hirono, Democrat of Hawaii, acknowledged that some of

Good morning and welcome to On Politics, a daily political analysis of the 2020 elections based on reporting by New York Times journalists. Sign up here to get On Politics in your inbox every weekday. CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa — On the morning after Hillary Clinton lost in November 2016, I stood wedged between television cameras,

On many levels, President Trump’s weekend — full of golf, catered salmon and plenty of patriotic-themed evening wear — could have been devised to offer relief and a sense of triumph to a president who spent the first month of an election year watching from the sidelines as the Senate debated his future. With his

A unique balloting system, a muddled race DES MOINES — After more than a year of campaigning, the Democratic presidential primary gets underway Monday night in Iowa — and the race is nearly as muddled as when it began. With many voters split along ideological and generational lines, and others still undecided because they were

Both sides hinted on Sunday at what could be part of their closing arguments. Representative Adam B. Schiff, Democrat of California and the lead House impeachment manager, rejected the argument made by Republican senators that Mr. Trump’s political fate should be decided in the 2020 election, stressing that the president has been charged with soliciting

The Iowa caucuses could be messy. On Monday night, for the first time, there will be four sets of results, and there is no guarantee that the same candidate will win them all. Four different candidates could even declare victory, with the right combination of votes, turnout, geography and luck. Credit…Andrew Harnik/Associated Press We’ve decided

Times Insider explains who we are and what we do, and delivers behind-the-scenes insights into how our journalism comes together. DES MOINES — I was in a tree. It was November and I had been in Iowa for less than a month, living there to be The New York Times’s eyes and ears on the

DES MOINES — The line outside the Trump rally on Thursday night was perhaps not the safest space to try to conduct a Socratic dialogue about the nature of truth. But Joe Walsh — former Tea Party congressman, former right-wing radio host, current Trump opponent — leaned right in. “I’m a Republican and a conservative