Politics

The announcement Friday said that an investigation by the Department of Commerce had found that imports of automobiles and certain automobile parts threatened to impair the national security of the United States. “United States defense and military superiority depend on the competitiveness of our automobile industry and the research and development that industry generates,” the […]

Brexitcast hosts Laura Kuenssberg and Katya Adler can’t stop laughing when they discuss where a Danish politician is advertising his election campaign online. Joachim B Olsen advertised on the PornHub site, urging people to vote for him when they were finished using the website. Denmark’s election is on 5 June. The former athlete had hundreds

[What you need to know to start the day: Get New York Today in your inbox.] In the video announcing his presidential run, Bill de Blasio, the mayor of New York City, described his hometown as “legendarily tough and big and complicated.” Soon after, New Yorkers proved just how apt that was. As Mr. de

Theresa May has promised to set a timetable for the election of her successor after the next Brexit vote in the first week of June. Boris Johnson has announced he will run for the Conservative Party leadership after the prime minister stands down. Radio 5 Live’s Tony Livesey broke the news of Boris’s announcement to

WASHINGTON — Richard Land, a prominent evangelical Christian leader, said he could pinpoint the moment that Donald J. Trump secured his election. It was in the third presidential debate with Hillary Clinton, and the question was about abortion. “If you go with what Hillary is saying in the ninth month, you can take the baby

Tory MP Bob Stewart has used his own experiences in the Army to criticise the government’s approach to military prosecutions. During an urgent question on the topic in the Commons, he told MPs how he had completed seven tours in Northern Ireland, losing “many men”, and said he had been investigated, along with other soldiers,

Julián Castro, the former housing secretary, based his essay on the premise that “housing policy is criminal justice reform,” noting that the harsh policing of communities of color is partly a consequence of segregation. He also called on Congress to amend the Fair Housing Act to formalize Obama-era guidance, which the Trump administration is trying

WASHINGTON — The office of the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, was shrouded in secrecy. But details are seeping out now that the investigation is over, and more were revealed on Tuesday in dozens of pages of calendars and a few text messages from one of Mr. Mueller’s top prosecutors, Andrew Weissmann. The conservative

• The White House rejected another round of document requests from the House, expanding on its assertions that Democrats in Congress lacked a legitimate legislative purpose for the demands and were inappropriately replicating the work of the special counsel. • The president issued an order to ban American telecommunications firms from installing foreign-made equipment that

Mr. Lugar built a résumé that seemed preordained for politics. An Eagle Scout, he was the co-president of his class at Denison University in Ohio (his soon-to-be wife, Charlene, was the other president), then became a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford. While in Britain, he enlisted in the Navy and after returning to the United States,