About 50 people were tested, an unparalleled inquiry that comes in the wake of news reports about the war with Iran and the U.S. military’s diminished stocks of munitions.U.S. government investigators are subjecting up to 50 members of the military’s Joint Staff to polygraph tests, according to offi
The plan to create a fund that could have funneled taxpayer money to the president’s allies drew repeated scrutiny, including a rare rebuke from Senate Republicans.President Trump supports compensating people like the rioters who were prosecuted for attacking the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
The president issued pardons or commutations to 30 people on Thursday, continuing his unorthodox and unpredictable use of clemency power.President Trump issued a clemency grant on Thursday to Emory Clash Jones, an executive who served a decade in prison for selling crack.
The president intends to travel to Ireland on the plane, the first time he will have used it overseas since questions were raised about its defensive capabilities.President Trump deplaning from Air Force One in Las Vegas last month. He said weeks ago that the Boeing luxury jet donated by Qatar would
Hung juries are not common, but the murder trial of Lindsay Clancy was emotionally wrenching and uniquely complicated.Judge William Sullivan addressing the jury during deliberations on Friday in Lindsay Clancy’s murder trial in Plymouth, Mass.
Ms. Clancy still faces murder charges for killing her three children. She is likely to remain in a hospital, and prosecutors may decide to retry her.Kevin Reddington, Ms. Clancy’s lawyer, said that he expected the district attorney to try her for first-degree murder again.
Republican groups had asked the court to clear the way for political parties to pay the same low-cost ad rates as candidates, a move that could undercut a Democratic advantage in the midterms.National Republican groups had filed an emergency application to the Supreme Court asking the justices to st
The ruling arrived before the Supreme Court could decide whether to intervene but appeared certain to set off yet another round of appeals.Sorting mail-in ballots in Largo, Fla., last month.
New intelligence reports have assessed that Iran now has a far better understanding of its capabilities and the limits of U.S. power.A crowd mourning Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who was killed at the start of the war. U.S. intelligence reports, some current and former officials said, suggest that any ag
Sandra Bullock, Nicole Kidman, Joey King and Maisie Williams on the unlikely sequel, embracing their witchiness and their hopes for a third film.
Sunday’s vote in the state of Saxony-Anhalt could produce the strongest showing in the history of the Alternative for Germany party, and potentially a far-right government in the statehouse.Ulrich Siegmund, the Alternative for Germany party’s main candidate in Saxony-Anhalt. Surveys suggest the far-
The feminist icon thought many women would carry on her legacy. But at an unsteady time for feminism, how will the movement carry on?Gloria Steinem hosting a discussion at her home last year, focused on women’s health.
During the 2016 presidential campaign, Gloria Steinem was asked about the young women supporting Bernie Sanders over Hillary Clinton. Her answer created a brief hullabaloo.Gloria Steinem’s remarks in the 2016 campaign caused a brief, nearly forgotten kerfuffle.
The ruling casts doubt on statements from the federal health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who speculated that measles deaths reported by the state may have been “fabricated.”
The agency’s weekly update escalates a political fight after Pennsylvania said two deaths had been caused by the virus.The headquarters of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta. The C.D.C.’s weekly update to measles tallies adds to the dispute over two deaths in Pennsylvania this
In a legal deposition, the doctor, Theresa Long, compared immunizing service members against Covid to Nazi doctors experimenting on concentration camp prisoners.More than 96 percent of service members were vaccinated against Covid before a mandate that they receive them was rescinded.
Doctors were hopeful the drug, which was being tested in a large clinical trial by Novartis, was going to be a powerful new tool to fight heart disease.An illustration of lipoprotein(a), a low-density lipoprotein. Every study short of a randomized clinical trial had indicated that the drug would low
Postpartum psychosis is misunderstood and a poor fit for the justice system.
The government is seemingly incapable of stopping the far right.
Thousands are missing, and some families have lost hope of recovering their bodies. To carry out his sacred duty, a son lights the funeral pyre for a straw effigy of his father.Darshan Bhattarai, center left, and Kamala Bhattarai, center right, at a cremation ceremony for Pushpa Raj Bhattarai at Pas
