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WASHINGTON — House Democrats are scrutinizing whether President Trump has improperly interfered at the Justice Department for political reasons, a prominent committee chairman said Friday, requesting documents and interviews with more than a dozen U.S. attorneys related to the cases of three Trump associates and a review of the F.B.I.’s Russia inquiry. The requests are […]

His fingers and forearms were paint stained, blacks and reds deep under his nails, flecks on his jeans and boots, something his wife, Melissa Cohen, whom he married in May after a weeklong courtship, can’t stand. “I always get my pants dirty,” he said. “I don’t even notice it, but Melissa hates it.” Ms. Cohen,

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“If this decision is not reversed,” Ms. Collins wrote, “the department risks denying thousands of students living in rural Maine the chance to reach their full potentials.” Senator Jon Tester, Democrat of Montana, wrote that 220 of his state’s most remote, impoverished school districts would take a $400,000 cut from the change. “The department should

Mr. Richmond added that it was “hypocrisy” for Mr. Bloomberg and Mr. Sanders to run ads saying they were “BFFs” with Mr. Obama “after refusing to help out Obama when he needed them.” A Biden adviser, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss campaign strategy, said the campaign’s view was that the attacks on Mr.

WASHINGTON — The United States and Iran may have pulled back from the brink of war, but they have refused to stand down since the American drone strike in January that killed Maj. Gen. Qassim Suleimani, commander of Tehran’s elite Quds Force. Instead, the two adversaries have needled each other with increasing pressure. The Trump

“Isn’t it amazing that women feel they have to do that,” Ms. Gonzalez said. “We’ve been made to feel that a little anger isn’t acceptable, that we have to tone it down or somehow take a breather.” Ms. Warren’s approach obviously doesn’t resonate for all women, even progressives who want a woman to win the

Two weeks after endorsing Bernie Sanders for president, Mayor Bill de Blasio has wasted no time and few gibes going to work as his surrogate. He urged Pete Buttigieg on Twitter to “not be so smug when you just got your ass kicked” in the Nevada caucuses. He told Joseph R. Biden Jr. to “wake

WILDWOOD, N.J. — The president asked for nothing less than everything they had. “If you want your children to inherit the blessings that generations of Americans have fought and died for to secure,” President Trump told a crowd of supporters in Wildwood at one of a string of campaign rallies he has held this winter,

WASHINGTON — Education Secretary Betsy DeVos announced Thursday an agreement with the University of Southern California that requires the school to overhaul its processes for responding to sexual assaults after the department found “systemic failures” in its response to abuse allegations against a former gynecologist, George Tyndall. The agreement requires the university to review the