Politics

WASHINGTON — Before he began his presidential campaign, Mayor Pete Buttigieg called his political following the “Happy Warrior Movement,” a label intended to convey an upbeat and collaborative striving for ambitious goals. That call for unity became a signature part of Mr. Buttigieg’s bid for the White House. In the September debate, Mr. Buttigieg, the […]

Health Secretary Matt Hancock has clashed with BBC Breakfast’s Dan Walker over the government’s pledge to increase the number of NHS nurses by 50,000. The presenter told Mr Hancock the promise was “not clear”, but the minister insisted it was “totally crystal clear”. Mr Hancock said: “It doesn’t matter to a patient, particularly, whether the

In a closed-door meeting with the Democratic caucus on Tuesday morning, three lawmakers stood up to describe their concerns with the package: Representatives Joaquin Castro of Texas, the chairman of the Hispanic Caucus, Pramila Jayapal of Washington, a co-chairwoman of the Progressive Caucus, and Ruben Gallego of Arizona. The Hispanic Caucus, fueled by two-thirds of

Randall G. Schriver, an assistant secretary of defense for Indo-Pacific security affairs, said the United States and India had made great strides over the last two years, syncing lines of communications, holding annual amphibious military exercises and increasing arms sales to India. “Defense trade has been a very positive area of our relationship,” Mr. Schriver

WASHINGTON — William B. Taylor Jr., the top American diplomat in Ukraine who described for Congress and the public what he saw as President Trump’s efforts to pressure Kyiv to go after political rivals, said on Tuesday that he was stepping down from his post. In a brief email to The New York Times, Mr.

The House of Representatives plans to open debate on Wednesday over whether to impeach the president for the third time in American history as Democrats bring forward two articles of impeachment charging President Trump with abuse of power and obstruction of Congress. The debate will fall sharply along party lines, with Democrats asserting that Mr.

Although most lawmakers who have written legislation on the issue endorsed the proposal, a few did not. The bipartisan leaders of the House Ways and Means Committee said last week that they hoped to introduce a competing bill in the future, and released a one-page paper last week describing a framework that is more aligned

The video, it turned out, was a parody by the comedian Nick Ciarelli, but it even confused some journalists. While a harmless joke, it showed just how easy it is for content to be spread and amplified in the modern political arena — without anyone checking the source. My colleague Davey Alba, who covers the

WASHINGTON — The letter read like a Twitter tirade published on White House stationery. The words ran together with the cadence of a Trump rally script, just before the president veers from the teleprompter. The accusations, untruths and wayward exclamation points piled up by the paragraph. “You have cheapened the importance of the very ugly

From Boston Common to the French Quarter in New Orleans, a series of protests reverberated across the country on Tuesday evening to call for President Trump’s removal from office, a prelude to momentous impeachment votes set for Wednesday in the House of Representatives. In Center City Philadelphia, a group of demonstrators held up signs with