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‘Ghost Guns’: Firearm Kits Bought Online Fuel Epidemic of Violence

Mr. Ely was among the victims of a flash of carnage that began, investigators say, when a man named Travis Sarreshteh, 32, walked up to a hotel parking attendant, Justice Boldin, and, without warning, shot him with a Polymer80 pistol. Mr. Boldin, 28, a former college baseball player, died almost instantly. Then Mr. Sarreshteh, who […]

In France, Kamala Harris Searches for Role on Global Stage

PARIS — Vice President Kamala Harris spent hours talking with Emmanuel Macron, the French president, managing to skirt a recent diplomatic rift between the two allies over an Australian submarine deal. She attended a conference on promoting democratic elections in Libya. And she secured a commitment for the United States to join a nonbinding international […]

How Loudoun Schools Got Caught in Virginia’s Political Maelstrom

LEESBURG, Va. — Long before the father was tackled by sheriff’s deputies at the school board meeting, before there was shouting to reopen classrooms and before “parents matter” became the central slogan of the most closely watched campaign in the post-Trump era, Loudoun County was just another American suburbia taking a hard look at its […]

Flooding and Nuclear Waste Eat Away at a Tribe’s Ancestral Home

For decades, chronic flooding and nuclear waste have encroached on the ancestral lands in southeastern Minnesota that the Prairie Island Indian Community calls home, whittling them to about a third of their original size. Two years after the tribe received federal recognition in 1936, the Army Corps of Engineers installed a lock-and-dam system just to […]

What’s in Chris Christie’s New Book?

What’s in Chris Christie’s New Book? Maggie Haberman📍Reporting on politics Caroline Brehman/EPA, via Shutterstock I recently interviewed Chris Christie, who has a book coming out that tells of his experience with former President Trump, the conspiracy theories taking hold in the Republican party and Christie’s own policy ideas. Here are the most interesting parts → […]

Chris Christie Wants the Post-Trump G.O.P. to Move Past Trump

Chris Christie wants to be very clear about something: The election of 2020 was not stolen. “An election for president was held on November 3, 2020. Joe Biden won. Donald Trump did not,” Mr. Christie writes in his new book, “Republican Rescue: Saving the Party From Truth Deniers, Conspiracy Theorists, and the Dangerous Policies of […]

Project Veritas Tells Judge It Was Assured Biden Diary Was Legally Obtained

Project Veritas, the conservative group under scrutiny in a Justice Department investigation of how a diary kept by President Biden’s daughter Ashley Biden was published days before the 2020 election, has told a federal judge that it received a diary from two people who said they had legally obtained it after she had abandoned it. […]

Appeals Court Extends Block on Biden’s Vaccine Mandate for Employers

WASHINGTON — A federal appeals court has kept its block in place against a federal mandate that all large employers require their workers to get vaccinated against the coronavirus or submit to weekly testing starting in January, declaring that the rule “grossly exceeds” the authority of the occupational safety agency that issued it. In a […]

Bannon Indicted on Contempt Charges Over House Investigation of Capitol Riot

Stephen K. Bannon, one of former President Donald J. Trump’s top aides early in his presidency, was indicted by a federal grand jury on Friday on two counts of contempt of Congress, the Justice Department said. Mr. Bannon, 67, had refused last month to comply with subpoenas for information issued by the House select committee […]