The ruling followed a similar decision in the case of Ghislaine Maxwell, who conspired with Jeffrey Epstein in his sex-trafficking scheme and is serving a 20-year prison sentence.
The British author Madeleine Wickham, who wrote under the name Sophie Kinsella, became a force in commercial fiction upon the 2000 release of “Confessions of a Shopaholic.”
The move by Representative Haley Stevens, a Michigan Democrat who is running for Senate, does not have the support of her party’s leaders and is all but certain to fail.
Caught between Beijing and the Trump administration, the International Monetary Fund offered mild criticism of China for relying too heavily on exports.
The seat of Representative Darrell Issa, a Republican whose California district Democrats redrew to lean Democratic, is among those added to the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee’s list of “districts in play.”
Australia’s social media ban for people under 16 is one of the most sweeping efforts in the world to safeguard children from the harms of social platforms.
Two decades ago, the Supreme Court barred the execution of people with mental disabilities as a violation of the Constitution’s Eighth Amendment ban on cruel and unusual punishment. But the court’s composition has changed since then.
As three immigrants claim Nobel Prizes in science for the United States this year, experts warn that immigration crackdowns could undo American innovation.
The arm of the party that focuses on statehouses is targeting hundreds of seats and more than 40 chambers, according to a strategy memo, reflecting Democrats’ new optimism.
Brad Lander, the New York City comptroller, will run for a House seat in Brooklyn and Manhattan, challenging Representative Daniel Goldman in a Democratic primary.
Jerome H. Powell, the Federal Reserve chair, has been able corral his colleagues to move as a cohesive group under complex economic conditions, but this meeting could be especially challenging.
On a video that went viral, the worker, who is white, can be seen calling two Black customers an epithet. The campaign to give her money echoes the reaction to a similar incident this year.
Some Republicans in the Indiana Senate have resisted a new congressional map despite lobbying from the White House and threats of political consequences.
The director on what he’s thinking of post-“Sinners,” how the loss of Chadwick Boseman affected him and why he turned down the invitation to join the academy.
Coogler said he couldn’t engage with his work “as the kid whose dreams were to come to Hollywood and make movies. I have to engage with it as a professional shepherd of the story.”
A prolonged slowdown in traffic enforcement by New Jersey troopers coincided with an uptick in fatal crashes. The pattern remains under investigation as Mikie Sherrill prepares to take office.
María Corina Machado, the Venezuelan opposition leader, said she was on her way to Norway after living in hiding in her country, where officials have threatened her with arrest.
Ana Corina Sosa, the daughter of the Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado, speaking at the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony on Wednesday in Oslo.
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