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WASHINGTON — Rod J. Rosenstein, the deputy attorney general, said Monday that he would leave the Justice Department in mid-May, bringing to a close a turbulent two-year tenure that was overshadowed by the special counsel’s investigation into Russia’s efforts to sway the 2016 election in favor of President Trump. “As I submit my resignation effective […]

“There’s a reason that we give people work permits while they are waiting for asylum, so that they can support themselves and don’t have to be depending on government assistance during that time,” said Michelle Brané, the director of migrant rights and justice at the Women’s Refugee Commission. Fewer migrants try to cross the border

• The House Judiciary Committee will vote on whether to allow Republican and Democratic lawyers to question Attorney General William P. Barr, signaling that Democrats are not backing down. • The White House is reviewing past writings by Stephen Moore, the conservative commentator whom Mr. Trump plans to nominate to the Federal Reserve Board, amid

Capital One representatives did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The suit provides a glimpse into some of the details that the congressional committees hoped to glean about Mr. Trump’s finances, as well as their strategy to blur the lines between Mr. Trump as president and as private citizen. Among the entities that

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This year, the University of Virginia, the men’s N.C.A.A. champions, turned down a visit, citing scheduling conflicts. Charlottesville, where the university is located, was the site of a white nationalist rally two years ago, and the president has not walked away from heavily criticized comment at the time that there were “very fine people on

“He connects, his voice resonates and they know he’s got a track record of performance on their behalf,” said Harold Schaitberger, the president of the national Firefighters union, which offered its endorsement of Mr. Biden on Monday. Asked what Mr. Biden brings to the primary, Mr. Schaitberger swept out his hand to a few hundred

In 2014, Mr. Moore wrote a column for National Review, in which he said women earning more than men “could be disruptive to family stability.” Asked about that column on Sunday, Mr. Moore did not apologize, but said that strong economic growth under Mr. Trump was helping women and was the best way to reduce

Akron, about an hour west, is faring better economically. Mayor Daniel Horrigan won’t confirm or deny it, but Amazon is believed to be the company he has recruited to move into Akron’s Rolling Acres Mall, a once-thriving shopping center that closed in 2008, becoming a symbol of both the recession and the retail disruption caused

NEWTOWN, Conn. — Six years ago this month, Mark Barden and Nicole Hockley watched from the gallery, counting the yeas, as the Senate voted on expanding background checks. Four months had passed since his son, Daniel, and her son, Dylan, were killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School, and at no point in that time had