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Just after midnight, President Trump asked a question on Twitter: “Why didn’t John Bolton complain about this ‘nonsense’ a long time ago, when he was very publicly terminated. He said, not that it matters, NOTHING!” Mr. Trump was referring to one of his former national security advisers, John R. Bolton, who has drawn the spotlight […]

What we’re expecting to see:House managers and White House lawyers will take turns fielding questions from senators. The questions are submitted in writing to Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., who will read them aloud. When we’re likely to see it:The proceedings are set to begin at 1 p.m. Eastern, and the questioning phase could

The four Democratic candidates at the top of the polls heading into the Iowa caucuses have been paired by pundits into what they like to call lanes. It’s a highway analogy, as in “stay in your lane.” One, seen as more progressive and liberal, contains Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren. The other, consisting of Joe

DES MOINES — It has become political lore, repeated on cable airwaves and by Democratic campaign consultants, even presidential candidates. In 2007, as the story goes, black voters were uncertain about Barack Obama’s presidential candidacy until he won the Iowa caucuses, after which they rallied around him over the onetime front-runner, Hillary Clinton. Some Democrats

WASHINGTON — House Democrats on Wednesday plan to unveil a five-year, $760 billion framework for rebuilding the nation’s highways, airports and other infrastructure, laying out an election-year package with little chance of enactment after bipartisan talks with the White House on the issue failed to gain traction. The outline, billed as the “Moving Forward Framework,”

Senator Mitch McConnell at the Capitol on Tuesday.Credit…Pete Marovich for The New York Times Senator Mitch McConnell, the majority leader, told a closed-door meeting of Republicans that he did not currently have the votes to block Democrats from calling witnesses at the trial because some Republicans remained uncommitted, according to people familiar with the meeting.

WASHINGTON — Not long ago, they called him “too extreme,” “aggressively and dangerously wrong” and “downright dangerous.” They called him “nutty,” “reckless” and “far outside the mainstream.” Now they would like to call him their star witness. Suddenly, John R. Bolton, the conservative war hawk and favorite villain of the left, is the toast of

WILDWOOD, N.J. — President Trump told his supporters at a raucous rally on Tuesday evening that Representative Jeff Van Drew of New Jersey, who recently left the Democratic Party, was a symbol of the future. Without evidence, he said that an increasing number of Americans were “disgusted” by congressional Democrats who, he said, are “obsessed

Aides to former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. are discussing the possibility of seeking an alliance with Senator Amy Klobuchar in next week’s Iowa caucuses, a plan that would involve a pledge to help each other in precincts where one of them does not have enough support to win delegates. Three staff members for

WASHINGTON — After six days of carefully choreographed oral arguments, President Trump’s impeachment trial is about to enter a volatile phase as senators are allowed to ask whatever they want of House prosecutors and White House lawyers. It is a moment of opportunity — and peril — for both parties, as 100 senators question the