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This is the Impeachment Briefing, The Times’s newsletter about the impeachment investigation. Sign up here to get it in your inbox every weeknight. The House Judiciary Committee held a daylong impeachment hearing that was largely a summary of evidence that followers of the inquiry would be familiar with, as staff lawyers for the Intelligence Committee […]

Then what did the F.B.I. get wrong? There were serious errors in the applications for secret eavesdropping warrants. Mr. Horowitz found that F.B.I. officials appeared to discount evidence that did not support probable cause to wiretap Mr. Page while playing up information that seemed to justify one. “That so many basic and fundamental errors were

WASHINGTON — Attorney General William P. Barr sharply criticized on Monday the F.B.I.’s decision to open the Russia investigation, undercutting a major finding in a long-awaited watchdog report and at the same time showing his willingness to act as President Trump’s vocal defender. The report, by the Justice Department’s inspector general, Michael E. Horowitz, found

WASHINGTON — House Democrats delivered a scathing summation of their impeachment case against President Trump on Monday, arguing that the president’s conduct posed a “clear and present danger” to the 2020 election and national security. In a contentious hearing before the House Judiciary Committee, Democratic lawyers told lawmakers drafting impeachment articles that the evidence against

WASHINGTON — Mayor Pete Buttigieg will open his fund-raisers to reporters and reveal the names of people raising money for his presidential campaign, his campaign manager announced Monday, a significant concession for a leading candidate under increasing pressure to release more details about his personal employment history and campaign finances. The move from the mayor

John H. Durham, a federal prosecutor conducting a criminal investigation into the origins of the F.B.I.’s Russia probe, said Monday that he disagreed with a report released by the Justice Department’s inspector general, which said there was no basis for President Trump’s accusation that the bureau conspired against him during the 2016 presidential election. The

Boris Johnson has been criticised after initially refusing to look at a picture of a sick child who had to sleep on the floor of a Leeds hospital. The picture in the Daily Mirror of a four-year-old boy, who had suspected pneumonia, spurred complaints about NHS cuts. ITV reporter Joe Pike tried to show Mr

WASHINGTON — A long-awaited report by the Justice Department’s inspector general released on Monday sharply criticized the F.B.I.’s handling of a wiretap application used in the early stages of its Russia investigation but debunked President Trump’s accusations that former bureau leaders engaged in a politicized conspiracy to sabotage him. Investigators uncovered “no documentary or testimonial

SOUTH BEND, Ind. — Pete Buttigieg is rarely home these days as he scoots from South Carolina to New Hampshire to Iowa in pursuit of primary voters. But back in South Bend, a fierce fight is underway between his campaign and some of his top rivals over Mr. Buttigieg’s impact on black residents. With Mr.

But this tension, between rosy public statements and the reality on the ground, has been one of the key elements of the war in Afghanistan. Now, 18 years into the war, the American-led mission in Afghanistan has all but cut off outside access to United States troops on the ground in an attempt to execute