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The judge was assigned to the case June 3. Since then, he said, he had “wondered” whether the United States Constitution applies to military commissions, and was hoping prosecutors and defense lawyers would help him “make the right decision.” Mr. Harrington replied, “Welcome to the sewer, judge.” The last judge, Col. Keith Parrella of the […]

Boris Johnson, Jeremy Hunt and Michael Gove were voted through to the final round of the Tory leadership contest, with Sajid Javid eliminated in Thursday’s lunchtime ballot. One more candidate will leave the contest on Thursday evening, with the final two names then put to Tory members across the UK in a postal ballot, with

A hotel union in New York is readying one of the first outside spending campaigns of the Democratic primary for president, promising to commit hundreds of thousands of dollars in the coming weeks to boost the prospects of Mayor Bill de Blasio. Mr. de Blasio has polled between zero percent and 1 percent in early

“The War on Drugs has been a war on people, tearing families apart, ruining lives, and disproportionately affecting people of color and low-income individuals — all without making us safer,” Mr. Booker said in a statement. “Granting clemency won’t repair all the damage that has been done by the War on Drugs and our broken

ST. CLOUD, Minn. — John Palmer, a former university professor, has always had a cause. For decades he urged Minnesota officials to face the dangers of drunken driving and embrace seatbelts. Now he has a new goal: curbing the resettlement of Somali refugees in St. Cloud, after a few thousand moved into this small city

Joseph R. Biden Jr. on Wednesday lashed out at his Democratic rivals who had condemned his fond recollections of working relationships with segregationists in the Senate, declining to apologize and defending his record on civil rights. The angry exchange shattered, at least for now, the relative comity that had marked the Democratic presidential primary. Until

Climate change is “eating” the glaciers of the Himalayas, posing a grave threat to hundreds of millions of people who live downstream, a study based on 40 years of satellite data has shown. The study, published Wednesday in the journal Science Advances, concluded that the glaciers have lost a foot and a half of ice

Fragments recovered from one of two tankers crippled by explosions in the Gulf of Oman last week bear a “striking resemblance” to limpet mines that Iran has previously displayed, United States Navy officials told reporters on Wednesday in the United Arab Emirates. A Navy commander also said during the briefing that fingerprints and other information

Want climate news in your inbox? Sign up here for Climate Fwd:, our email newsletter. The countries of Europe, which together represent the world’s third-largest industrial emitter, are set to decide on Thursday whether they can leap to a future largely free of fossil fuels within the next 30 years. Leaders from all 28 countries

Mr. Xi, analysts said, will scarcely relish his visit to North Korea. He is staying barely two days and avoided scheduling the trip on dates that would have had greater historic resonance, like June 25, the date in 1950 that North Korea invaded the South, or Oct. 19, the date in 1950 when China entered