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The prime minister said the people of Scotland should decide their own future as he recalled the 2014 independence referendum result. SNP Westminster leader Ian Blackford asked Boris Johnson if it was up to the PM or Scottish people to make that decision to stop them being “dragged” out of the EU against their will. […]

WASHINGTON — Federal prosecutors recommended on Tuesday that President Trump’s former national security adviser Michael T. Flynn be sentenced to up to six months in prison for lying to investigators in the Russia inquiry, a reversal that came after he backed off his cooperation deal and began suggesting that he had not committed any crimes.

On Thursday, President Trump ordered a drone strike that killed Maj. Gen. Qassim Suleimani, the powerful Iranian military commander. By Monday, the Trump campaign was running ads on Facebook touting the general’s death. “Thanks to the swift actions of our commander in chief, Iranian General Qassem Soleimani is no longer a threat to the United

In the days after a United States drone strike killed Iran’s top intelligence and military operative, President Ashraf Ghani of Afghanistan scrambled to keep his country out of a cycle of escalation between the two powers. Now that Iranian missiles have come into play, some of the particular vulnerabilities of Afghanistan, which lies along Iran’s

What President Trump Said “By the way, in terms of the money, it got there two or three weeks ahead of schedule, long before it was supposed to be there.” False. President Trump was wrong in asserting that his decision last year to suspend military assistance to Ukraine — a key component in his impeachment

Hi. Welcome to On Politics, your guide to the day in national politics. I’m Nick Corasaniti, your host on Tuesdays for our coverage of all things media and messaging. It began as a post from an obscure Twitter account with a history of spreading conspiracy theories about Jeffrey Epstein. The post featured a deceptively edited

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 Senate Republican leaders said that they had the votes — including those of moderates like Susan Collins — to shape an impeachment trial on their own terms, allowing them

WASHINGTON — A California venture capitalist who was a major donor mostly to Democrats before abruptly shifting the bulk of his giving to Republicans after the 2016 election was charged on Tuesday by prosecutors in New York with obstructing a federal investigation into donations to President Trump’s inaugural committee. The donor, Imaad Zuberi, had pleaded

WASHINGTON — Things were on a clear course as far as President Trump’s re-election campaign was concerned. The impeachment proceedings unfolding on Capitol Hill had proved to be a boost for volunteer recruitment and small-dollar donations. The year ended with a blockbuster jobs report and the unemployment rate falling to 3.5 percent, its lowest level

WASHINGTON — Under increasing pressure to defend the killing of a top Iranian general in Iraq, senior Trump administration officials offered new justifications but little detail on Tuesday, citing threats to the American Embassy in Baghdad and intelligence suggesting other imminent attacks that helped prompt the strike. Democrats stepped up their criticism of intelligence that