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To give just three examples: First, when agents initially sought permission for the wiretap, F.B.I. officials scoured information from confidential informants and selectively presented portions that supported their suspicions that Mr. Page might be a conduit between Russia and the Trump campaign’s onetime chairman, Paul Manafort. But officials did not disclose information that undercut that […]

WASHINGTON — Federal prosecutors said in a court filing on Tuesday that despite his long litany of crimes, the former Trump campaign aide Rick Gates deserved leniency because he provided incriminating information against powerful figures amid intense pressure, including promises of payments if he refused to cooperate with investigators. Mr. Gates, 47, pleaded guilty in

WASHINGTON — The Coast Guard has fostered a poor environment for women and minority cadets and has failed to fairly investigate harassment by senior officers and to prevent retaliation against people who report bullying, a House committee said Wednesday. The report, by the House Oversight and Reform and Homeland Security Committees, accused the service of

When the Democratic primaries start in less than two months, they will lead off as usual with four familiar early states. What follows next is different. It’s not so different as to be unrecognizable, but enough to upend conventional wisdom about the path to the nomination. The changes make the 2020 Democratic calendar more like

But the introduction of hundreds of Turkish-backed forces quickly strained this longstanding system, as shown by the accidental Turkish shelling close to an American outpost near the Turkey-Syria border in early October. In one of the military documents obtained by The Times, American officials wrote after that attack that they “cannot rule out” that Turkish

The Justice Department inspector general, Michael E. Horowitz, will appear on Capitol Hill on Wednesday to discuss his new report, which harshly criticized F.B.I. investigators over serious errors in the Russia investigation but concluded that they acted without political bias. Attorney General William P. Barr immediately challenged Mr. Horowitz’s finding that F.B.I. officials had adequate

Ahead of polling day, there are still some undecided voters in a marginal Scottish seat. Politics Live reporter Ellie Price found some in Argyll and Bute are conflicted about party lines on Brexit and Scottish independence and their own priorities. The west coast seat was held by the Liberal Democrats in 2010, the SNP in

SOMEWHERE ON U.S. HWY 63, Iowa — Senator Cory Booker sat in the front seat of an S.U.V. grinning and, clutching his iPhone 11 Pro as he quickly took stock of the past 36 hours in Iowa. It had been less than two days since Senator Kamala Harris announced she was leaving the 2020 race.

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Abby Cumming-Vukovic is going to be a state representative. You can quote her on that. She is 16, yes. She is a high school sophomore, yes. But she already has more than a decade of political engagement behind her, if you start with the 2008 canvassing trip she took in a wagon

The entrepreneur Andrew Yang has qualified for next week’s Democratic debate, bringing the lineup to seven and ensuring that the candidates onstage will not all be white, though the lineup still does not include any black or Latino candidates. A national Quinnipiac poll released Tuesday showed Mr. Yang at 4 percent. He needed to reach