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Dust Off the Impeachment Tables, a Senate Trial Is Underway

WASHINGTON — Twenty-one years ago, Capitol Hill carpenters custom-designed and built a pair of curved tables that could fit in the cramped Senate chamber and serve as workspace for the House managers and White House lawyers during the impeachment trial of President Bill Clinton. Now, after sitting in storage for more than two decades, preserved […]

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Why Mothers’ Choices About Work and Family Often Feel Like No Choice at All

In the mid-1980s, in a landmark employment discrimination case against Sears, Roebuck and Co., the company argued that women were not promoted because they did not choose high-paying or stressful jobs. Sears won, but in testimony, Alice Kessler-Harris, a labor historian, offered an alternate lens: “Choice can be understood only within the framework of available

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Trump Fans or Not, Business Owners Are Wary of Warren and Sanders

Beri Fox, president and chief executive of Marble King in Paden City, W.Va., possibly the last American manufacturer of toy marbles, said she had not yet focused on the candidates’ overall plans, just “bits and pieces.” Making sure American companies can compete with China is a priority for her, said Ms. Fox, who employs 28

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Senate Votes to Pass Revised NAFTA, Sending USMCA to Trump’s Desk

Robert Lighthizer, the United States trade representative, sat with members of his staff in the Senate gallery looking on as senators cast their votes. At least one senator, Republican Rob Portman of Ohio and a former trade representative, walked upstairs to chat with him during the vote. In 1993, NAFTA passed the Senate on a

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Virginia Capital on Edge as F.B.I. Arrests Suspected Neo-Nazis Before Gun Rally

RICHMOND, Va. — Alarming calls online for a race war. The arrest of three suspected neo-Nazis. Memories of the explosive clashes in Charlottesville, Va., three years ago. A sense of crisis enveloped the capital of Virginia on Thursday, with the police on heightened alert and Richmond bracing for possible violence ahead of a gun rally

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Evelyn Yang, Wife of Andrew Yang, Says She Was Assaulted by Her Gynecologist

Evelyn Yang, the wife of the Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang, said in an interview broadcast on Thursday that she was sexually assaulted by her gynecologist in 2012, when she was pregnant with her first child. In an interview with CNN, Ms. Yang said she blamed herself for the abuse and didn’t tell her husband.

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For the Senators Who Will Judge Trump, an Incomplete Story to Consider

WASHINGTON — By the time the Senate opened impeachment trials for Andrew Johnson and Bill Clinton, its members pretty well knew the facts of the accusations against the presidents. None of them needed to turn on “The Rachel Maddow Show” to learn things they did not already know. But as senators formally convened on Thursday

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