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Lisa Blunt Rochester, the handpicked successor to retiring Senator Thomas R. Carper, would be the third Black woman in history to win a Senate seat....Read More

Democrats will try to bring to the floor a set of bills intended to protect women’s health and reproductive freedom, knowing they will be blocked by Republicans....Read More

Hunter Biden’s plea agreement put him in the cross-hairs of President Biden’s adversaries once again....Read More

The attorney general has confronted an unrelenting succession of politically sensitive investigations, underlining the intensely polarized environment he is operating in....Read More

The judge, Aileen M. Cannon, set an aggressive schedule for moving the case forward, though the proceedings are likely to be delayed by pretrial clashes....Read More

Details of the former president’s agreement to work with a Saudi firm to develop a hotel and golf complex overlooking the Gulf of Oman highlight the ways his business and political roles intersect....Read More

The historic Dobbs ruling has hurt the party electorally, but G.O.P. lawmakers are still moving to pass more restrictive laws. These two realities represent the defining political fallout of the end of Roe v. Wade....Read More

The approach known as Housing First has long enjoyed bipartisan support. But conservatives are pushing efforts to replace it with programs that put more emphasis on sobriety and employment....Read More

Xi Jinping and nationalistic Chinese see recent U.S. actions as an effort to contain another superpower rather than compete with it — and they’re pushing back....Read More

Prosecutors and defense lawyers appear to be preparing for a pretrial fight over showing sensitive evidence to the jury and the public....Read More