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This article was produced in partnership with the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting. WASHINGTON — The military judge presiding in the Sept. 11 death penalty trial at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, has scheduled his retirement for later this year, in the latest blow to efforts to start the long-running trial in 2021. The judge, Col. W. […]

WASHINGTON — Restaurants and retailers will get a tweak to federal tax law they have been seeking for more than a year that could save them $15 billion. Community banks are being granted their long-held wish of being freed to reduce the amount of capital they have to hold in reserve. And for-profit colleges will

A day after Senator Bernie Sanders’s campaign indicated that he would participate in a presidential debate next month if one is held, Joseph R. Biden Jr. expressed impatience with the idea, saying that “we’ve had enough debates” and adding that his focus was on combating the coronavirus crisis. Mr. Biden, the former vice president, has

WASHINGTON — The British government must withhold key evidence from the United States for the trial of two Islamic State detainees because the Trump administration has not provided assurances that the men will not be executed, the British Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday. The detainees were half of a cell of four ISIS Britons who

At prime minister’s questions, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn quoted from a leaked email to ask why the government has been slow to start buying machines for coronavirus tests. The prime minister testing was “vital to our success in beating the coronavirus”. Boris Johnson said testing has risen from 5,000 to 25,000 a day, and he

WASHINGTON — Trump administration officials and top Democrats finalized an agreement early Wednesday morning on a roughly $2 trillion rescue package to confront the coronavirus pandemic, the largest economic stimulus measure in modern history. After days of partisan bickering and closed-door haggling, negotiators emerged from their final huddle and announced that they had struck a

Jeremy Corbyn has faced Boris Johnson for the final time at Prime Minister’s Questions as Labour leader. In an extended session, Mr Corbyn asked 12 questions instead of his usual six, and the exchanges between the two men were dominated by the coronavirus pandemic. Mr Corbyn said “no-one is an island, no-one is self-made”, and

In the last few weeks, the women said, they had been inundated with questions from readers about how to help their community as the number of coronavirus cases in the state began to grow. The blog largely depends on advertising to stay afloat, but in this moment, “We absolutely didn’t want to try and take

Jeremy Corbyn has assured the prime minister that he will carry on campaigning and “demanding justice” when he steps down as Labour leader. Boris Johnson paid tribute to Mr Corbyn’s service to his party and country over the last five years, saying that although they have had heir differences “no-one could doubt his sincerity or

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