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WASHINGTON — Officials with the Trump administration abruptly replaced the acting head of the National Counterterrorism Center this week amid planned cutbacks by the acting director of national intelligence, Richard Grenell, that have prompted fears among career officials of potential political retribution and a widespread loss of expertise. The acting head of the counterterrorism center,

Episode 30: ‘Open Arms’ Producer/Director Alyse Shorland U.S. defense contractors used the promise of new jobs to persuade the government to approve billions of dollars’ worth of arms sales to foreign allies with little regard for how the American-made bombs, jets and other weapons are used. The Trump administration has repeatedly cleared the way for

As the Intelligence Committee chairman, Mr. Burr receives regular briefings on threats to the United States, including the coronavirus. He is also a member of the Senate health committee, which in January hosted a briefing with top Trump administration officials open to all senators. It is apparently not the first time Mr. Burr has acted

WASHINGTON — The Group of 7 summit will not be held as scheduled at Camp David in June but will instead be convened by teleconference because of the coronavirus outbreak, a White House official said on Thursday. A White House spokesman, Judd Deere, said in a statement that President Trump would host the leaders “via

“We kept kind of joking about it, like, ‘Oh, this is crazy! This is not going to affect us, why is everyone so wigged out about it?’ And then it did,” she said. Reading about Mr. Frilot, she added, put it into perspective for her. On Facebook, Kathy Perilloux shared a similar conversion. Before March

WASHINGTON — Senate Republicans on Thursday unveiled an economic relief package in response to the coronavirus pandemic that would send checks of up to $1,200 to taxpayers who earn less than $99,000 a year, loans for small businesses and large tax cuts for big corporations. Senators were on a tight deadline to introduce the measure

In normal times, there is always an element of national competition to the development of drugs. In the months before the coronavirus began breaking out in Wuhan, the F.B.I. began an effort to root out scientists they believed were stealing biomedical research from the United States, mostly focused on scientists of Chinese descent, including naturalized

Mitt Romney cut his campaign’s list of about 80 potential running mates to 20 in early April 2012. By late July, the list had been narrowed to five men, after the one woman under serious consideration, former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, declined the campaign’s invitation to be vetted. (Mr. Romney eventually chose Representative Paul

WASHINGTON — Under pressure to upend centuries of tradition to respond to a growing pandemic, congressional leaders reluctantly agreed on Thursday to at least study the feasibility of allowing lawmakers to vote from home, after two House members tested positive for the coronavirus and a dozen others were quarantined. Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who was staunchly