Politics

Representative Adam B. Schiff, the lead House manager, for the first time took head-on the Republican criticism that he mocked President Trump during a hearing by pretending the president’s call with his Ukrainian counterpart was a mob shakedown. At a hearing in late September, Mr. Schiff portrayed “the essence” of the real call by pretending […]

CLEVELAND — Next month, Cuyahoga County, Ohio’s second largest, will begin sending letters and fliers, making phone calls and hosting information fairs to alert struggling citizens of a change about to befall them: Come April, able-bodied adults without children may lose their food stamps if they do not find work fast. A Trump administration rule

The defense, like the House managers, was allotted 24 hours over as many as three days to present its side. Mr. Cipollone opened the arguments with a promise: “We’re going to be very respectful of your time,” he told the senators, vowing to take “about two to three hours at most, and to be out

WASHINGTON — President Trump’s legal defense team mounted an aggressive offense on Saturday as it opened its side in the Senate impeachment trial by attacking his Democratic accusers as partisan witch-hunters trying to remove him because they could not beat him at the ballot box. After three days of arguments by the House managers prosecuting

WASHINGTON — The ghost of Howard H. Baker Jr., the Republican senator from Tennessee who turned against Richard M. Nixon during Watergate, is hovering over Senator Lamar Alexander. Mr. Alexander, a third-term Republican from Tennessee who is retiring at the end of this year, has said that no one outside his family has had more

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, apparently angered by a reporter’s questions about the Trump administration’s firing of the United States ambassador to Ukraine, lashed out at her after the interview, cursing and challenging her to find Ukraine on a map, according to the reporter. Mr. Pompeo, who is known for his bombast, occasional thin skin

The company’s owner, Annie Bailey, is well known locally because she cooked for Stedman Graham, Oprah Winfrey’s longtime partner, when he appeared here. “They were very specific that they wanted sweet tea, lemonade and water,” Ms. Bailey said as her crew cleaned up after Mr. Steyer’s appearance at the Jerusalem Baptist Church. Ms. Bailey said

But first is Iowa, where the race remains up for grabs to an unusual degree so late in the race: In the Times poll, nearly 40 percent of voters said they could still be persuaded to caucus for a different candidate. Mr. Sanders, however, has some of the most committed supporters in the race and,

In 2018, Mr. Trump hired her and her husband, Marty Raskin, after the F.B.I. searched the home and office of Michael D. Cohen, then Mr. Trump’s personal lawyer, as part of an investigation into payments Mr. Cohen had made to silence a pornographic film star who claimed that she had had an affair with Mr.

MANCHESTER, N.H. — Representative Cindy Axne of Iowa is endorsing former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., giving him another prominent backer with just over a week until the state’s caucuses. Ms. Axne, a freshman Democrat who unseated a Republican incumbent, hails from the kind of swing district that was key to the party’s takeover