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Brought on board were groups like the Orthodox Union Advocacy Center, which had long advocated such a measure, first in Congress and then with the White House. “The president and people in his administration are aggressively working to implement real policies confronting anti-Semitism, whether it is this in the education arena, or I’d say the […]

The D.N.C. has farmed out their qualifying criteria. No. 1, they’ve picked inferior criteria that does advantage billionaire candidates. But then they outsource it to people that actually weren’t going to do any polls between the time I was on the last debate stage going to this one. So we didn’t even get to see

“But I will be relentless in opposing Russian efforts to interfere in U.S. elections, to violate the sovereignty of Ukraine and Georgia, and to engage in the malign behavior that has reduced our relationship to such a low level of trust,” Mr. Sullivan said, according to his testimony. During his confirmation hearing, Mr. Sullivan also

WASHINGTON — Senior lawmakers announced on Thursday that they had reached a tentative bipartisan agreement on funding the government for the remainder of the fiscal year, offering a solution to avert a shutdown after weeks of haggling over money for President Trump’s border wall and other matters. Representative Nita M. Lowey, Democrat of New York, and

Moderators for the debates — a plum assignment that can be the subject of much internal jockeying at TV networks — have not yet been announced. The debate in Des Moines on Jan. 14 will be hosted by CNN and The Des Moines Register. NBC News, MSNBC and The Nevada Independent are hosting a Feb.

But Democrats said that, too, was fallacious, noting that Mr. Trump allowed the aid to be delivered only after he had been briefed about the whistle-blower complaint. The security assistance funds were released “because the president got caught,” said Representative Val Demings, Democrat of Florida. She insisted that lawmakers ought not to be persuaded by

A month before what would have been his son Noah’s 13th birthday, Lenny Pozner told a jury about the last time he saw him, when he dropped him off at school on Dec. 14, 2012. “It was cold, but he jumped out not wearing his jacket, and he had one arm in one sleeve and

Two things have long obsessed President Trump: Time’s person of the year and the 16-year-old climate activist Greta Thunberg. This week they collided when Time picked her for its annual cover. It was never in doubt that the president would tweet about it. The only question was when. Early Thursday, the answer arrived. “So ridiculous,”

WASHINGTON — The Office of Inspector General for the Department of Defense will investigate a $400 million contract for border wall construction awarded to a North Dakota company after President Trump privately pushed the deal. The chairman of the House Homeland Security committee, Representative Bennie Thompson of Mississippi, called for the inquiry into the decision

Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, who has ramped up her criticism of her presidential opponents after months of avoiding conflict, will issue another rebuke Thursday in New Hampshire, taking thinly veiled shots at former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. and Mayor Pete Buttigieg of South Bend, Ind., and calling out former New York City