New Year’s Day attacks on busy entertainment districts in New Orleans and Las Vegas not only struck symbolic American targets but also confirmed the gravity of official warnings that risks…
Read moreThe three Supreme Court decisions issued Friday alone would qualify as a history-making term. And the court is not yet done, with arguably the biggest case coming Monday.
Read moreThe FBI took an unprecedented step of searching a former president’s residence. To Trump supporters, it smacked of political retribution. To opponents, the search – which a judge signed off on – shows that no one is above the law.
Read moreIn Uvalde, familiar questions echo, as they had in Santa Fe, in El Paso, and in Sutherland Springs. How could something like this happen here, in this town? In our town?
Read moreTexas has filed a lawsuit aimed at invalidating several states’ presidential results. It could be classified as simply hardball politics. But many say that it is flatly anti-democratic.
Read moreThe mere act of adding a citizenship question to the U.S. census was not the main concern of a divided Supreme Court. What concerned the justices was motive.
Read moreEven as it became apparent that a bombmaker had exploited modern fondness for online shopping to invoke terror, US law enforcement used emerging social dynamics, including Americans’ growing comfort with surveillance cameras, to protect the public.
Read morePresident Trump’s abrupt firing of FBI Director James Comey, coming just days after he reportedly requested more funds, has raised concerns that the investigation could be slowed.
Read moreAcross South Carolina, churches rallied to support Emanuel A.M.E. Church in Charleston, where nine people were killed Wednesday.
Read moreAn armed man with a homophobic grudge shot and killed a 32-year-old gay man in Greenwich Village early Saturday morning, the city police commissioner said
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