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WASHINGTON — On New Year’s Day in 1999, Representative Jim Sensenbrenner, Republican of Wisconsin, sat on the floor of his Capitol Hill office, surrounded by piles of documents and legal notes, drafting his opening argument in President Bill Clinton’s impeachment trial in the Senate. With the sound of the University of Wisconsin Badgers facing off […]

SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea said on Saturday that President Trump had sent birthday greetings to its leader, Kim Jong-un, but added that the rapport between the two leaders would not help resolve their countries’ nuclear standoff. Ever since his first summit meeting with Mr. Kim, in Ju​ne 2018, Mr. Trump has repeatedly flaunted

Welcome to On Politics on this Saturday morning. It’s about to get real, dear readers. The Iowa caucuses are just over three weeks away, and the New Hampshire primary is in a month. The Democratic field — 13 candidates, still one of the largest groups ever — could soon be drastically winnowed. Here’s a look

“Even in the statement of Iran there is a hint that our crew was acting independently, or that it could act differently,” the airline’s director, Yevhenii Dykhne,said. “Unfortunately, we have to acknowledge that our plane was in the wrong place at the wrong time. This could have been any plane.” The crew received had no

Of course there will be those who simply follow the president’s lead, he noted. “But I think most people probably have a wait-and-see attitude, which is, ‘Well, he’s got to prove to me that he’s really Republican now, and this just wasn’t done opportunistically,’ which I don’t think he’s going to be able to prove,

Iran says it accidentally shot down Flight 752. After maintaining for days that there was no evidence that one of its missiles had struck a Boeing 737-800 minutes after it took off from Tehran on Wednesday with 176 people on board, Iran admitted early on Saturday that it had accidentally shot down the passenger jet.

WASHINGTON — President Trump said on Friday that Iran had planned to attack multiple embassies across the Middle East, including the American Embassy in Baghdad, after first asserting that he did not believe anyone had a right to more details on the intelligence that prompted the killing of an Iranian general. “I can reveal that

As for barring Mr. McConnell, the short answer is no. The thing to remember is that Chief Justice Roberts is the presiding officer in the same way that a vice president is, and a vice president can’t tell the Senate what a senator should do. The Senate itself could conceivably disqualify a senator, but that

BAGHDAD — The walls of the American Embassy in Baghdad were still on fire and members of pro-Iranian armed groups were chanting threats outside, when Iraq’s prime minister tried to explain the situation to President Trump. “Iraq is between friends who are 5,000 miles away from us and a neighbor we’ve had for 5,000 years,”

WASHINGTON — A chastened F.B.I. told a secretive court on Friday that it was increasing training and oversight for officials who work on national security wiretap applications in response to problems uncovered by a scathing inspector general report last month about botched surveillance targeting a former Trump campaign adviser. In a rare unclassified and public