Politics

Trump Largely Ignores Impeachment as He Rallies Young Conservatives

Senator Chuck Schumer, Democrat of New York and the minority leader, has said senators should hear from senior administration officials who refused to testify during the House impeachment investigation. Those include Mick Mulvaney, the acting White House chief of staff, and John R. Bolton, the former national security adviser who, according to his lawyer, knows

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Pentagon Aid to Ukraine Was Frozen Right After Trump Spoke With Country’s Leader

WASHINGTON — About 90 minutes after President Trump held a controversial telephone call with President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine in July, the White House budget office ordered the Pentagon to suspend all military aid that Congress had allocated to Ukraine, according to emails released by the Pentagon late Friday. A budget official, Michael Duffey, also

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Fear and Loyalty: How Donald Trump Took Over the Republican Party

“Trump is emotionally, intellectually and psychologically unfit for office, and I’m sure a lot of Republicans feel the same way,” Mr. Trott said. “But if they say that, the social media barrage will be overwhelming.” He added that he would be open to the presidential candidacy of former Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg of New York.

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Colleges Agree to Allow Increased Competition for Applicants

WASHINGTON — The financial aid stranglehold on students who commit to colleges may be broken. In a proposed agreement announced this month to answer Justice Department antitrust accusations, the National Association for College Admission Counseling said it would allow its member college and university counselors to recruit students even after they have committed to another

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Russia, Backed by China, Casts 14th U.N. Veto on Syria to Block Cross-Border Aid

UNITED NATIONS — Russia, backed by China, on Friday cast its 14th U.N. Security Council veto since the start of the Syrian conflict in 2011 to block cross-border aid deliveries from Turkey and Iraq to millions of Syrian civilians. The resolution, drafted by Belgium, Kuwait and Germany, would have allowed cross-border humanitarian deliveries for a

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Columbia Inquiry Found Plagiarism in Monica Crowley’s Dissertation

WASHINGTON — Monica Crowley, the Treasury Department’s assistant secretary for public affairs, committed “localized instances of plagiarism” in her 2000 Ph.D. dissertation, Columbia University found in an investigation that ultimately concluded she did not commit research misconduct. As part of the university’s review of Ms. Crowley’s work, she was required to make extensive revisions to

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Surveillance Court Orders Review of Actions by Ex-F.B.I. Lawyer

WASHINGTON — A secretive court that oversees national security surveillance has taken a step toward addressing dysfunction in the system detailed in a recent inspector general report, ordering the Justice Department to identify all cases that an F.B.I. lawyer heavily criticized in the report has worked on, according to an order made public on Friday.

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