Politics

WASHINGTON — Senator Lisa Murkowski of Alaska expressed unease in an interview broadcast on Tuesday with the Senate majority leader’s vow of “total coordination” with the White House on impeachment proceedings against President Trump, a potentially significant crack in Republican unity. Ms. Murkowski, a moderate with an independent streak, told Anchorage’s NBC affiliate KTUU she […]

Michael R. Bloomberg said on Tuesday that his presidential campaign would no longer work with a vendor after learning of a subcontractor that had been involved in using prison workers to make phone calls on behalf of his candidacy. Details of the campaign’s connection to prison labor were first reported by The Intercept on Tuesday

“Before she dropped out, Bernie Sanders was smart enough to come to me, talk to me personally,” Mr. Jones-Sawyer said at the Venice Beach rally, where he delivered one of the warm-up speeches for Ms. Ocasio-Cortez and Mr. Sanders. “Then, all of a sudden, it happened. She wasn’t in. And then, I reread his criminal

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — President Trump spent Christmas Eve morning complaining that Democrats had treated him unfairly during the impeachment inquiry and insisting that Republican leaders in the Senate should run a trial however they see fit. “It’s up to Mitch McConnell, and we have the majority and now they want McConnell to do

WASHINGTON — The high costs of health care are a driving force animating House Democrats in the swing districts that will decide control of Congress next year, with the electoral consequences of their votes to impeach President Trump unclear and a court ruling that left the fate of the Affordable Care Act in limbo. From

WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Mark T. Esper is weighing proposals for a major reduction — or even a complete pullout — of American forces from West Africa as the first phase of reviewing global deployments that could reshuffle thousands of troops around the world, according to officials familiar with internal deliberations. The discussions of a

Rudolph W. Giuliani, who was raised as a Roman Catholic, said in an interview with New York Magazine published on Monday that he is “more of a Jew” than George Soros, a liberal billionaire and Holocaust survivor. Mr. Soros was born into a Jewish family in Hungary during the Nazi occupation, surviving as a child

In 2014, Mr. Shea co-founded the Coalition of Western States, a group of conservative state lawmakers, sheriffs and others formed to counter what its advocates said was a “war on rural America” waged by an overreaching federal government. More recently, Mr. Shea has advanced a political campaign to cleave Washington State in half, hoping to

WASHINGTON — House Democrats demanded documents from the Department of Homeland Security on Monday to investigate a “troubling pattern of abuse and poor treatment” of migrants, after the death of a 16-year-old Guatemalan detainee and other new revelations. In letters sent to immigration and homeland security officials, the House Oversight and Reform Committee demanded to

Washington editors, who once weren’t even allowed to speak, now beam in on a giant TV screen, as do editors based overseas. In these meetings, it is routine to hear from sections that rarely have front-page candidates. Nowadays they are looking for “home page” time — an ever-evolving 24-hour formula that allows far more stories