Politics

Welcome to Poll Watch, our weekly look at polling data and survey research on the candidates, voters and issues that will shape the 2020 election. As a presidential candidate, Donald J. Trump pledged that he would maintain the United States’ leverage abroad by committing to an approach of “unpredictability.” As president, he has been nothing […]

You’re reading this week’s At War newsletter. Sign up here to get it delivered to your inbox every Friday. Email us at atwar@nytimes.com. This report was produced in partnership with the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting. In the 20 years I have been covering the United States Navy base at Guantánamo Bay in Cuba, I

DES MOINES — Every four years, Iowa is the top prize in politics, the first and perhaps most important jewel in the crown. Ahead of every presidential election, candidates sprint across the first-in-the-nation nominating state to pitch themselves to voters as the best person to lead their party. But the 2020 Democratic primary, with its

Labour leadership contender Clive Lewis has suggested holding a referendum on the future of the Royal Family. “I completely respect the right of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle to do what they’ve done,” he said, adding that Ms Markle had received racism in the British media. “I think a lot of people would like to

In interviews with a dozen activists and people with disabilities this week, only one criticism of Ms. Warren’s plan was raised: its lack of an explicit commitment to inclusive education, in which children with disabilities are taught in regular classrooms with accommodations, not in separate special-education rooms. Several studies have shown that children do better

The Labor Department will release initial hiring and unemployment figures for December at 8:30 a.m. Eastern time. Here’s what to watch for: The unemployment rate is expected to be unchanged at 3.5 percent. Average hourly earnings are predicted to rise by 0.3 percent, after moving up 0.2 percent in November. That would bring the year-over-year

A New York judge has rebuffed President Trump’s bid to throw out a lawsuit filed against him by the writer E. Jean Carroll, who accuses him of hurting her career and reputation in denying her claim that he raped her in a Manhattan department store in the 1990s. In a ruling made public on Thursday,

This is the Impeachment Briefing, The Times’s newsletter about the impeachment investigation. Sign up here to get it in your inbox every weeknight. What happened today Speaker Nancy Pelosi said she would “soon” call for a vote to send articles of impeachment against President Trump to the Senate. Though she didn’t specify a time frame,

For his part, Mr. Trump has already warned North Korea against “interference,” though he appeared to be referring to missile launches meant to embarrass him. The president has shown far less concern about Russian interference. He has repeatedly questioned the idea that Moscow meddled in the 2016 election, viewing such talk as a challenge to

At another point, the president began riffing about the various Democrats running against him before lamenting that they were boring. Watching them, he said, “is like watching death.” Which might explain why he spent time recycling some of his favorite attacks on former Representative Beto O’Rourke of Texas, who is no longer even in the