Politics

BOSTON — Faced with questions about her viability in a general election and ceding ground to opponents in the primary, Senator Elizabeth Warren is abandoning her above-the-fray approach and delivering her most forceful and direct criticism yet of her Democratic opponents. That is one of a series of adjustments Ms. Warren is implementing as she […]

A mother has told Victoria Derbyshire she waited six hours in hospital for her nine-month-old daughter to be seen by a paediatrician. Louise Webb said she was then told there were no beds available on the children’s ward at the Countess of Chester Hospital. It comes a day after an image of a four-year-old boy

The statement, issued by a spokesman for Ms. Verma, also pointed out that she commutes to Washington every week from her home in Indiana, “which is why she was traveling with her personal collection of jewelry.” Representative Joseph P. Kennedy III, Democrat of Massachusetts, who questioned Ms. Verma at a hearing in October on the

What happens when two people from across the political divide are brought together for dinner? To find out, the BBC’s Victoria Derbyshire programme has organised a series of ‘election blind dates’ for the general election campaign. Owen Jones is a Guardian columnist and vocal supporter of the Labour Party. Nimco Ali is an anti-FGM campaigner.

The source, who is not identified, “raised doubts about the reliability of Mr. Steele’s descriptions of information in his election reports,” saying Mr. Steele had “misstated or exaggerated” what he had been told, the report said. Though Mr. Steele’s report on Mr. Trump’s supposed 2013 encounter with Russian prostitutes said it had been “confirmed” by

WASHINGTON — Two minutes into Monday’s historic House Judiciary Committee hearing into the impeachment of President Trump — even before Representative Jerrold Nadler, the chairman, issued the customary call for decorum — a protester, screaming that Mr. Nadler was committing treason, was dragged out of the grand columned hearing room by the Capitol Police. It

WASHINGTON — President Trump and his allies spent months promising that a report on the origins of the F.B.I.’s Russia investigation would be a kind of Rosetta Stone for Trump-era conspiracy enthusiasts — the key to unlocking the secrets of a government plot to keep Mr. Trump from being elected in 2016. On that point,

One comes from a political dynasty that has had its differences with President Trump, and the other is intertwined with the president. Now, both are seeking to fill a Republican power vacuum in open-seat congressional races in Texas. Pierce Bush, the grandson of former President George H.W. Bush, and Ronny L. Jackson, the former White

WASHINGTON — Mayor Pete Buttigieg will disclose his management consulting clients, open his fund-raisers to reporters and reveal the names of people raising money for his presidential campaign, his campaign announced Monday, a series of significant concessions toward transparency for a candidate under increasing pressure to release more details about his personal employment history and

WASHINGTON — The last time President Trump met in the Oval Office with Sergey V. Lavrov, the Russian foreign minister, it did not go so well. Mr. Trump had just fired James B. Comey, the F.B.I. director, and exulted about the move to Russia’s top diplomat. Then he told Mr. Lavrov and Sergey I. Kislyak,