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WASHINGTON — President Trump attacked a leading House Democrat on Tuesday over upcoming classified intelligence briefings by members of his own administration on the issue of election interference, suggesting his political opponents were exaggerating the threat from Russia. Mr. Trump has previously issued derogatory statements about his intelligence chiefs after congressional hearings, but even before […]

ST. LOUIS — To Senator Bernie Sanders, there is plenty of blame to go around when it comes to his recent reversal of fortune. For everyone but him and his campaign. The “corporate media” didn’t pay attention to his agenda. The Democratic Party establishment aligned to block him from winning its presidential nomination. And the

WASHINGTON — The House has a right to see secret grand-jury evidence gathered in the Russia investigation, an appeals court ruled on Tuesday in a victory for Congress’s power to gather information for an impeachment inquiry. In a 2-to-1 decision, a panel on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit

A New York man who threatened to kill Representative Ilhan Omar in a hate-filled call to her office was sentenced to a year and a day in prison, the authorities said. The man, Patrick W. Carlineo Jr., 56, of Addison, N.Y., pleaded guilty last November to threatening to assault and murder a U.S. official, and

Kyle is interested in becoming a politician, but wonders why there are so few Chinese MPs in Parliament. After interviewing his family, he spoke to Alan Mak, the first person of Chinese and East Asian origin to be elected to the House of Commons, on Five Live Breakfast. The Conservative MP told Kyle that there

Mr. Biden has had a remarkable two-week stretch: He entered the South Carolina primary confronting grave uncertainty about his future in the race, and concluded the night with an extraordinary jolt of momentum that propelled him to victory in 10 of the 14 states that voted three days later on Super Tuesday. Now he faces

Sir Mark Sedwill, the head of the Civil Service, has said he found Sir Philip Rutnam’s resignation “regrettable”. He said did not believe additional legislation should be brought forward to clarify the relationships between ministers and the civil service, as “the vast majority of cases are conducted professionally”. He did admit in the civil service

Good morning and welcome to On Politics, a daily political analysis of the 2020 elections based on reporting by New York Times journalists. Sign up here to get On Politics in your inbox every weekday. Where things stand in the race The presidential primary race is a game of dominoes, and they may start falling

The government must “learn the lesson” to fund public services properly after the outbreak of coronavirus, according to Labour’s John McDonnell. Speaking ahead of Wednesday’s Budget statement, the shadow chancellor called for No 10 to “throw all the resources we possibly can” at tackling the issue. But, he said: “Tackling this crisis is not helped

The phrase “Spanish flu” is itself a misnomer: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention say experts are still not sure where the disease originated. More recent examples include the severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS, outbreak in 2003, which was first detected in the Chinese province of Guangdong and led to widespread discrimination against