For decades, Senator Lindsey Graham traveled the world with his friend John McCain, visiting war zones and meeting with foreign allies and adversaries, before returning home to promote the Republican gospel of an internationalist, hawkish foreign policy. But this week, after President Biden announced that troops would leave Afghanistan no later than Sept. 11, Mr. […]
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WASHINGTON — The Biden administration on Thursday announced tough new sanctions on Russia and formally blamed the country’s premier intelligence agency for the sophisticated hacking operation that breached American government agencies and the nation’s largest companies. In the broadest effort yet by President Biden to give more teeth to financial sanctions — which in recent […]
The Capitol Police must reorient its mission from that of a “traditional police force” to a focus on anticipating and preventing attacks, similar to the approach taken by the Secret Service and other federal “protective” agencies, the department’s internal watchdog plans to tell Congress on Thursday. Michael A. Bolton, the Capitol Police’s inspector general, has […]
As Democrats sought to strike a bipartisan deal to allow lawmakers to quickly pass legislation aimed at combating hate crimes directed at Asian-Americans, Senator Chuck Schumer of New York, the majority leader, urged Republicans to allow the bill to “go forward with a sense of urgency.” The Senate voted 92 to 6 on Wednesday to […]