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“It seems like anytime Donald Trump feels threatened by a strong woman, he lashes out with this gross, weird attack,” her communications director, Lily Adams, wrote the next day. “It’s the kind of sexism that makes me want to run my head through a wall. But instead of doing that, let’s do something productive. I […]

A Conservative peer who fainted at the despatch box has thanked those who came to her aid. Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford was discussing the hospital listeria outbreak on 17 June when she collapsed. The 39-year-old suffers from the rare genetic condition Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome, which causes heart problems, migraines, and severe joint and muscle pain.

The mining giant controlled by the Luksic family, Antofagasta, took full control of the project in 2015, and its executives have called it the company’s “most advanced international opportunity.” Antofagasta, which is publicly traded in London, is poised to benefit from the growing use of copper in renewable-energy technologies like wind and solar. It lists

SOUTH BEND, Ind. — As a town hall forum teetered on the edge of chaos and a moderator pleaded for calm, Pete Buttigieg went deep into his quiet place. It was a highly emotional moment for a city in turmoil over the recent fatal police shooting of a black resident here. But South Bend’s two-term

WASHINGTON — A lawyer Michael T. Flynn recently hired said on Monday that she would most likely need a security clearance to review classified materials that were separate from the documents that prosecutors for the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, had already handed over in the case. The lawyer, Sidney Powell, made the unusual

This article was produced in partnership with the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting. GUANTÁNAMO BAY, Cuba — During the more than three years he spent in C.I.A. prisons before being sent to Guantánamo Bay, Majid Khan says he was hung from his wrists, naked and hooded, for two straight days, causing wild hallucinations. Mr. Khan,

• Senator Bernie Sanders, along with Representatives Ilhan Omar and Pramila Jayapal, introduced legislation that would cancel all student debt and eliminate tuition at public and community colleges. • Pete Buttigieg is a technocrat trained in performance management. But the presidential candidate’s response to a fatal police shooting in South Bend, Ind., where he is

Agencies and federal officials at the southwestern border need emergency humanitarian aid to help manage the flow of Central American immigrants. That is one of the few things Congress can agree on. But both the Senate and the House have put forward their own versions of legislation that would allocate $4.5 billion to the border,

WASHINGTON — The White House is directing Kellyanne Conway, the president’s counselor, to reject a request to testify before a House committee about her repeated violations of a federal ethics law that bars government officials from engaging in political activities at work, further escalating a standoff between Congress and the Trump administration over oversight requests.

WASHINGTON — President Trump on Monday again denied assaulting a columnist for Elle magazine in the dressing room of a high-end clothing store more than 20 years ago, asserting just hours after she aired her explosive accusation on television that he would not have assaulted her because “she’s not my type.” Mr. Trump said that