Politics

On the New York side of the Hudson River, lines outside some Department of Motor Vehicles offices stretched for blocks on Monday, as people sought to take advantage of a new state law allowing undocumented immigrants to obtain driver’s licenses. Lawmakers in neighboring New Jersey were expected to approve similar legislation on Monday, the same […]

In 2016, Ray Mabus, the secretary of the Navy, announced the ship would be named after Mr. Milk. “Naming this ship after Harvey Milk is a fitting tribute to a man who had been at the forefront of advocating for civil and human rights,” Mr. Mabus said at the time. The ship will have a

ROCHESTER, Mich. — The blowback began on Monday even before Representative Elissa Slotkin took the lectern to announce she would vote to impeach President Trump. Dozens of angry Trump supporters bearing “Impeach Slotkin, Keep Trump” signs shouted down Ms. Slotkin, a first-term congresswoman, at a packed town hall-style meeting in a university ballroom, chanting “Hey,

WASHINGTON — The House Judiciary Committee formally presented its case for impeaching President Trump in a 658-page report published online early Monday morning, arguing just days before a final vote in the House that he “betrayed the nation by abusing his high office.” The report, which echoes similar documents produced after the committee’s approval of

Nearly all of Representative Jeff Van Drew’s Washington staff resigned over the weekend as both Democrats and Republicans harshly criticized the moderate Democrat’s apparent decision to switch parties just as the House prepares to undertake its historic vote on articles of impeachment against President Trump. Mr. Van Drew, who hails from a conservative district that

Shadow transport secretary Andy McDonald has told BBC Radio 5 Live that Jeremy Corbyn was “demonised and vilified” during the election campaign. Mr McDonald, who retained his Middlesbrough seat in last week’s election, said the difference in this campaign was the treatment of the party by broadcast media, including the BBC. “We’ve always had the

FAIRFIELD, Iowa — Diane Chojnowski and Denyce Rusch were among the Iowans who braved light snowfall and temperatures in the teens to see Senator Bernie Sanders on Sunday afternoon, a few hours before Senator Elizabeth Warren was also due in this liberal pillar of eastern Iowa. But after Ms. Chojnowski and Ms. Rusch praised Ms.

WASHINGTON — James B. Comey, the former F.B.I. director, acknowledged on Sunday that he was wrong when he said there were no problems with the warrants used to approve surveillance for an adviser to President Trump’s 2016 campaign. The admission from Mr. Comey, who forcefully defended himself and the bureau against broader accusations of a

WASHINGTON — Democrats vowed on Sunday to push forward this week with the third impeachment of a sitting president in history, a move Republicans denounced as a grave and partisan misuse of the Constitution’s power to hold a president accountable. Democrats showed no sign of slowing down even as one of their few members to

United States military officials said they were investigating whether Army cadets and Navy midshipmen had flashed hand symbols associated with hate groups at their football game on Saturday. A broadcast showed cadets from the United States Military Academy and midshipmen from the Naval Academy in the stands displaying the sign at least five times behind