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LAS VEGAS — Senator Elizabeth Warren was raring to go. The first question of the Democratic debate had gone to Senator Bernie Sanders and it was about Michael R. Bloomberg, the billionaire former mayor who is upending the race. As Mr. Sanders wrapped up his minute-long answer, Ms. Warren strained to weigh in. “So I’d […]

LAS VEGAS — The simmering Midwestern feud between Senator Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota and Pete Buttigieg erupted on Wednesday night, as the two rivals increasingly turned their cannons on each other in a manner that was by turns caustic and personal. The fracas ignited in response to a question at the Democratic presidential debate about

Mr. Biden, whom Mr. Buttigieg attacked relentlessly in Iowa, is no longer seen as a serious threat. “The reason Pete has been so frustrating for people to understand is because he’s bringing new people into the system that weren’t there last time,” said Jon Soltz, the co-founder of VoteVets, whose super PAC is backing Mr.

LONDON — For years, Russia has tormented neighboring countries with targeted cyberattacks, including blackouts in Ukraine and broad online assaults on Estonian institutions. The United States has rarely publicly attributed blame, though experts found the fingerprints of the Kremlin on those intrusions abroad. In a break from past practice, the State Department said publicly on

WASHINGTON — President Trump likes to claim credit for the number of Americans who have stopped receiving food stamps since he entered office. In July 2018, he said 3.5 million had fallen from the rolls; the next spring, 5 million had. In his State of the Union speech this month, the number had grown to

LAS VEGAS — As six leading presidential candidates brawled onstage in a debate Wednesday night on the Las Vegas Strip, a handful of Nevadans supporting a man who didn’t make the cut were around seven miles away, puzzling over their evening plans. “Oh, he’s not?” asked an incredulous Cindy Yeargan, 71, when informed that the

In 1947, he founded the literary review Caliban, adopted the pen name Jean Daniel and was the editor until 1951. In 1948, with permission, he republished essays by Sartre, Camus and other intellectuals that had first appeared in the polemical journal Esprit. Camus wrote an introduction to Mr. Daniel’s first novel, “L’Erreur” (1953). Mr. Daniel

Twitter can’t tell us whether, or how, Wednesday’s debate might change voters’ minds. But it can give us the perspectives of some of the people with expertise on primary races: veteran campaign strategists, consultants and analysts. Their consensus was great for Elizabeth Warren. For Michael R. Bloomberg, well, not so much. Here is a sampling

Robert White, a government and politics teacher at a high school in Lincoln, Neb., was part of a pilot program for the curriculum and has taught it for the last three semesters. He says it works. “Most students believed what they saw on a news site, any news site,” Mr. White said. “By the end

A Baltimore native, Judge Jackson writes music, sings, dances and is gifted at mimicry. One of her virtues, she once said, is that she does not take herself too seriously. Appointed by Mr. Obama in 2011, she took a somewhat unusual path to the federal bench. After graduating from Harvard Law School, she worked for