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WASHINGTON — The United States on Tuesday imposed tough economic sanctions against a Russian oil giant that is keeping Venezuela’s ruling government afloat, gambling that the newest penalties against President Nicolás Maduro will not roil global oil prices. The broad sanctions were levied against Rosneft Trading, a subsidiary of the Russian state-controlled Rosneft Oil Company, […]

He quickly expanded into the exploration and production of natural gas, then invested in drilling his own oil wells and building pipelines throughout Texas. By the early 1980s, he was one of the state’s wealthiest independent oilmen. In 2017 he sold his company, Clayton Williams Energy, to Noble Energy for $2.7 billion. An entrepreneur and

LAS VEGAS — Pete Buttigieg liked the line so much, he used it twice. Asked at back-to-back rallies on Monday what would happen if President Trump claimed election fraud and refused to vacate the White House for him, Mr. Buttigieg said, “If he really doesn’t want to leave, we could work something out, but he’d

WASHINGTON — Former Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg of New York has qualified for the next two Democratic debates, including one on Wednesday in Las Vegas. It will be his first appearance onstage alongside his presidential rivals. A national poll from NPR, PBS NewsHour and Marist released on Tuesday showed Mr. Bloomberg with 19 percent support

So the question confronting the judge, in the short term, is whether to order Mr. Harrington to return to the court next month for scheduled pretrial testimony, which Mr. Harrington said he was not fit to do. Mr. bin al-Shibh has been the most difficult of the Sept. 11 defendants — he was ejected from

When a rebellion rose against the Qaddafi government in 2011, prompting the intervention of the United States and NATO, Mr. Hifter returned to Libya, building up a powerful faction. In 2014, with an interim government in place after Colonel Qaddafi’s death, Mr. Hifter and his forces launched a broad offensive in Benghazi, Libya, called Operation

This has occasionally led to some humorous viewing. In 2014, the campaign of Senator Mitch McConnell dropped nearly two and a half minutes of footage of the senator signing papers, sitting on a couch with his wife, and giving awkward smirks at the camera (which spawned a meme known as #McConnelling). In 2016, the presidential

By pardoning Michael R. Milken, a potent symbol of the “greed is good” 1980s and arguably the most significant white-collar criminal of his generation, President Trump has sent two powerful messages: When it comes to justice, money counts. And white-collar crime doesn’t really matter. So much for the rule of law, already under siege by

The attorney general then had lunch with Pat A. Cipollone, the White House counsel and a longtime friend and colleague, in what officials said was a previously scheduled get-together. While Mr. Barr has been incredibly frustrated and has a limit to what he will put up with, people who know him said they doubted he

The Iowa Democratic Party announced on Tuesday that it had completed its partial recanvass, changing results in 29 precincts but shifting no national delegates. But the Epic of Iowa still isn’t over. The recanvass drastically narrowed Pete Buttigieg’s small lead over Senator Bernie Sanders in state delegate equivalents: Mr. Buttigieg now has 563.207 to Mr.