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Sex Harassment Laws Toughened in New York: ‘Finally, This Is Happening’

[What you need to know to start the day: Get New York Today in your inbox.] ALBANY — For decades, sexual harassment was the State Capitol’s worst-kept secret. Even as women climbed the ranks of political power and won legal promises of gender equality, legislators avoided the topic of harassment. Female aides and even lawmakers who […]

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Joe Biden Calls Cory Booker to Smooth Over Tensions After Segregationist Remarks

WASHINGTON — Former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. called a rival in the 2020 presidential campaign, Senator Cory Booker, to try to smooth over tensions late Wednesday night after Mr. Booker said that the former vice president should apologize for his warm comments about segregationist senators. Mr. Biden made the call after Mr. Booker

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Climate protesters interrupt Hammond’s Mansion House speech

Climate change protesters have disrupted the beginning of the Chancellor Philip Hammond’s Mansion House Speech. The protesters were removed from the City of London event for the financial services industry, and Mr Hammond was able to continue a few minutes later. “The irony of course, is that this is the government that has just led

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Roy Moore, Polarizing Republican, Will Again Run for Senate in Alabama

“If you think about just the data from the past cycle, he’s a few thousand votes from being a United States senator,” said Mayor Walt Maddox of Tuscaloosa, the Democratic nominee for governor last year. Mr. Moore’s rivals in the primary include Representative Bradley Byrne, whose 2010 campaign for governor fizzled out in a bruising

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Senate Votes to Block Trump’s Arms Sales to Gulf Nations in Bipartisan Rebuke

WASHINGTON — The Senate voted to block the sale of billions of dollars of munitions to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates on Thursday, in a sharp and bipartisan rebuke of the Trump administration’s attempt to circumvent Congress to allow the exports by declaring an emergency over Iran. In three back-to-back votes, Republicans joined

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New N.R.A. Lawsuit Implicates Group’s Second-in-Command

The genesis of the dispute between the N.R.A. and Mr. North is a related legal battle between the N.R.A. and its most prominent contractor, the Oklahoma-based advertising firm Ackerman McQueen, which employed Mr. North. The N.R.A. has sued Ackerman, claiming it withheld documents and records from the gun group, and some officials have suggested the

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Erdogan Says He Will Meet With Trump to Resolve Weapons Disagreement

ISTANBUL — President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey, holding a rare meeting with international journalists, said on Thursday that he expected to resolve disagreements with the United States, particularly his purchase of the Russian S-400 missile system, in a one-on-one meeting with President Trump at the end of the month. The two leaders are expected

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