Politics

Traditionally, politics are not for the dinner table. Or the crafting circle. But on Sunday, Ravelry, a popular website for knitters and crocheters, took a political stand when it announced that it was banning content that supports President Trump, in what it said was a resolution against white supremacy. “We cannot provide a space that […]

WASHINGTON — Congress is trying to rush $4.5 billion in emergency humanitarian aid to the southwestern border while placing new restrictions on President Trump’s immigration crackdown, spurred on by disturbing images of suffering migrant families and of children living in squalor in overcrowded detention facilities. But with a House vote on the package planned for

Jan Meyers, the first Republican woman elected to Congress from Kansas, died on Friday at a hospital in Merriam, Kan. She was 90. Her daughter, Valerie J. Meyers, said the cause was complications of heart disease. Ms. Meyers, who was from Overland Park, represented Kansas’ Third Congressional District, an area in the eastern part of

“My mother would break into the conversation and explain to whomever I was talking to, ‘But she doesn’t want to be an old-maid schoolteacher,’” Ms. Warren wrote. “Then she would turn to me, pause, and narrow her eyes. ‘Right, Betsy?’” Ms. Warren eventually won the argument. Her debating skills earned her a full scholarship to

Boris Johnson “missed an opportunity” at the first Conservative Party leadership hustings to explain a row with his partner, Defence Secretary Penny Mordaunt has said. But Ms Mordaunt, who is backing Jeremy Hunt for the top job, went on to tell the BBC: “It is not something I’m going to be pursuing him (Mr Johnson)

Brigadier Gen. Amir Ali Hajizadeh, the head of the aerospace force of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, which shot down the American drone, said last week that the Iranians could have shot down a P-8 Poseidon maritime surveillance plane carrying Americans, but refrained from doing so. Mr. Trump himself has drawn a distinction between an

WASHINGTON — The House Judiciary Committee reached a deal with a key source of information for Robert S. Mueller III’s obstruction of justice investigation that will allow her to delay public testimony that had been scheduled for Monday but require her to answer written questions as the committee waits. Democrats who control the committee said

North of Dimondale, Clinton County offers another example. Mr. Trump won the county, but it has experienced a loss of more than a quarter of its manufacturing jobs. In Pennsylvania, the losses were not as steep but two counties that Mr. Trump won easily, Wyoming and Warren, had the highest percentage declines in the state.

As for those farther on the edges of the debate stage, a few are edging toward establishing their own points of difference, though they haven’t entirely followed through on the commitment. There is John Hickenlooper, the former Colorado governor, with his Western hip folksiness and affinity for Mr. Rogers-esque V-neck sweaters; Jay Inslee, the governor

WASHINGTON — President Trump is expected to announce on Monday that he is imposing new sanctions on Iran, after saying for days that he preferred tightening the pressure on a crippled Iranian economy to launching an immediate military strike in retaliation for what American officials have said are recent aggressive acts by Tehran. The Trump