Politics

Sheriff’s deputies in Lake County, Fla., on Monday arrested a notorious tormentor of the parents of Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting victims, charging him with the unlawful possession of personal identification. Wolfgang Halbig, a former contributor to Infowars, the online and radio show hosted by the far-right provocateur Alex Jones, has spread false claims for […]

Democrats have been pushing the Republican-led Senate to allow new witnesses, and others could include Mick Mulvaney, the acting White House chief of staff who played a key role in the Ukraine pressure campaign. A handful of Republican senators had indicated they would be open to hearing new witnesses, but by the end of last

Conservative MP Tom Tugendhat has urged the government not to let Chinese firm Huawei supply equipment for the UK’s 5G digital infrastructure. He was speaking in the Commons the day before a decision is due on the issue. Mr Tugendhat said he hoped ministers understood “the concern that this whole House feels [about] the idea

For years, John R. Bolton has been a conservative Republican stalwart: foreign policy hawk, ambassador to the United Nations under President George W. Bush, fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, commentator on Fox News and national security adviser to President Trump. On Monday, Mr. Bolton, who left Mr. Trump’s White House last summer, appeared on

Boris Johnson said the government will “come up with a solution” when it comes to Huawei. There has been controversy about whether the UK should approve using the firm’s kit in its future 5G mobile networks. But Mr Johnson said: “There is no reason why we shouldn’t have technological progress here in the UK, allow

WASHINGTON — In another time, in another Washington, this might be the moment that changed the trajectory of the presidency. A former national security adviser confirms that the president, despite his denials, conditioned security aid to a war-torn ally on its cooperation against his domestic rivals, the issue at the heart of his ongoing impeachment

The Irish Taoiseach has warned MPs there will have to be checks between Northern Ireland and Great Britain after Brexit. UK PM Boris Johnson has repeatedly said checks will not be needed, but Leo Varadkar said some in Westminster don’t “know much” about Ireland. He also said the EU was in a stronger position than

DES MOINES — With the Iowa caucuses a week away and senators briefly sprung from their impeachment-induced confinement on Capitol Hill, the Democratic presidential candidates and their surrogates spilled out across Iowa on Sunday. They gave their stump speeches. They took photos and shook hands. They tried mightily to address the elephant in the room

With one week to go until the Iowa caucuses, Joe Biden finds himself in a seemingly unimaginable position: needing to mobilize older voters who are usually the most consistent voters. This helps explain why recent polls diverge so much on Mr. Biden’s standing in Iowa. He trailed in the New York Times/Siena College poll of

PITTSBURGH — Though they are both Democrats, John Fetterman, Pennsylvania’s lieutenant governor, and Bill Peduto, this city’s mayor, have their differences on the environment. Mr. Fetterman, who toppled an incumbent Democrat in 2018 from the left, nevertheless calls Pennsylvania “the Saudi Arabia of natural gas” and sees extracting and taxing gas as critical to the