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Aides insist the president is just as focused on policy issues, like the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement, as he is on impeachment, but he is so engaged in the televised messaging effort that a weekly meeting to staff the Sunday shows takes place every Wednesday. The participants range from Kellyanne Conway, the White House counselor whom […]

In the Judiciary Committee, though, Ms. Lofgren is viewed with some suspicion by allies of Mr. Nadler, whom she challenged for the chairmanship after Democrats took the majority this year. In the interview, she said she was “not dissatisfied with the outcome” and that Mr. Nadler had her support. But she demurred when asked if

Will Sunderland and Newcastle City councils do it again or will they get a new challenger? The two have been known to top the UK in returning election results within the shortest time possible. Since 1992, Sunderland has dominated the race by declaring winners of the contest within an hour after polls close, but in

This is the Impeachment Briefing, The Times’s newsletter about the impeachment investigation. Sign up here to get it in your inbox every weeknight. What happened today The House Judiciary Committee met at 7 p.m. Eastern for a somewhat unusual evening gathering, during which each of the 41 members of the committee got a chance to

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WASHINGTON — The Justice Department’s inspector general on Wednesday painted a bleak portrait of the F.B.I. as a dysfunctional agency that severely mishandled its surveillance powers in the Russia investigation, but told lawmakers he had no evidence that the mistakes were intentional or undertaken out of political bias rather than “gross incompetence and negligence.” While

WASHINGTON — Arrests and deportations of undocumented immigrants away from the U.S. border dropped this past year, according to government data released on Wednesday, a sharp contrast to the “millions” of deportations that President Trump promised this summer. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrested about 143,000 immigrants in the country’s interior between Oct. 2018 and

Betsy DeVos, the education secretary, has condemned “boycott Israel” activists as “bullies,” and this year, she called the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions — or B.D.S. — movement “one of the most pernicious threats” on campuses. But she has also prided herself on interpreting existing laws narrowly. The department has rescinded a number of Obama-era guidance

WASHINGTON — A key House panel was set to begin the formal debate Wednesday evening over two articles of impeachment against President Trump, taking the Democratic-led House’s first steps toward formally charging him with abuse of power and obstruction of Congress. The House Judiciary Committee planned to convene at 7 p.m. Eastern to start what

WASHINGTON — Joseph R. Biden Jr. on Wednesday released an immigration plan that calls for undoing President Trump’s policies and acknowledges “pain” caused by deportations that occurred during his time as vice president, but does not endorse the decriminalization of unauthorized border crossings, a contrast with more progressive rivals such as Senators Bernie Sanders and