U.S. forces launched a broad attack against Iran’s military and affiliated militias in Iraq and Syria on Friday, delivering a blow to armed groups that Washington has blamed for killing American troops in Jordan and a toxic surge of violence across the Middle East. U.S. Central Command said that American forces, using long-range bombers flown […]Read More

The Supreme Court on Friday refused to immediately force the U.S. Military Academy at West Point to change its race-conscious admissions policies, less than a year after the court’s conservative majority rejected similar programs at other colleges and universities. West Point’s policy was challenged in September by Students for Fair Admissions, the same group that […]Read More

House Republicans have threatened impeachments of many Biden administration officials. But only two processes have been formalized: the ones against President Biden himself and Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. It looks increasingly as though Biden might not be impeached after all. And despite House Speaker Mike Johnson’s (R-La.) assurance that Mayorkas “is going to be […]Read More

Former president Donald Trump’s March 4 trial date on charges of plotting to overturn the results of the 2020 election in D.C. has been taken off the calendar, a formal acknowledgment of what has long been anticipated — that his claim of presidential immunity from criminal prosecution would delay his trial while it remains on […]Read More

Of the four criminal cases former president Donald Trump is facing, charges filed in New York over 2016 hush money payments have long been considered by legal experts to be the weakest of the bunch. But it is increasingly likely that case will be his first to go to trial, perhaps as soon as next […]Read More

Fani T. Willis, the Atlanta-area district attorney prosecuting Donald Trump for alleged election interference, has acknowledged having a “personal relationship” with the outside lawyer she appointed to lead the case — potentially imperiling it. Here’s what’s going on and what could happen. One of Trump’s co-defendants, Mike Roman, accused Willis of having a relationship with […]Read More

There is an assumption, probably particularly among those who cover the news and those who read it, that Donald Trump’s legal travails are common knowledge. We talk about things like the potential effects of a Trump conviction on the 2024 presidential election with the assumption that this would be an event that rose to the […]Read More

The government of Ukraine has informed the White House that President Volodymyr Zelensky has decided to fire his top military commander, Gen. Valery Zaluzhny, in what would be the most consequential personnel shake-up of the war, said two people familiar with the discussion. White House officials did not support or object to the high-stakes decision, […]Read More

They were five men from five different states who’d never met each other. But on Jan. 6, 2021, they found themselves together at the front of the angry push by rioters toward the U.S. Capitol. And together, video showed, they lifted a line of five linked barriers and heaved them into a group of five […]Read More

Even at the time, the dynamic in the 2020 presidential contest was obvious and uncomplicated. Voters liked Joe Biden well enough, but they really didn’t like President Donald Trump. So Republicans mostly turned out to keep Trump in office, while Democrats mostly turned out to send him packing. This isn’t an uncommon phenomenon, but the […]Read More