The journalist Anand Giridharadas examines the power and influence that Jeffrey Epstein brokered, and which the latest batch of Epstein files puts on display.
Senate Democrats refused to move ahead with a spending bill needed to keep the Department of Homeland Security running because it lacked limits they have demanded on federal immigration agents.
Representative Nicole Malliotakis’s lawyers have asked the Supreme Court to weigh in on a lower-court ruling that found that her district lines were unconstitutional.
Thorbjorn Jagland, who briefly led Norway in the 1990s, had been protected by diplomatic immunity that came with his work with the Council of Europe, but that privilege was waived.
Two dozen journalists. A pile of pages that would reach the top of the Empire State Building. And an effort to find the next revelation in a sprawling case.
The suspect in the British Columbia shooting had long been posting about mental health problems, substance abuse and a fascination with weapons and online violence.
The search continues in the documents for ironclad criminal conduct, but the story of a sexual predator given a free ride by the ruling class has already emerged.
The top federal prosecutor in Minnesota asked a judge to drop charges against the immigrant who was shot by an ICE agent, saying new evidence was “materially inconsistent” with what officials had claimed.
Kathryn Ruemmler, a former top Obama administration lawyer, is out at Goldman Sachs after emails showed a friendship with the sex offender Jeffrey Epstein spanning many years.
Kathryn Ruemmler, the general counsel at Goldman Sachs, in 2014. She said Thursday that her responsibility “is to put Goldman Sachs’s interests first.”
It is the latest court ruling staving off deep cuts to social services that Democratic-led states say are politically motivated and would harm hundreds of thousands of people.
The $600 million in cuts planned this month include grants to state and local public health departments. The funds are administered through the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Kevin Taylor, who ran the School Safety Division, received cash, luxury hotel lodging and a helicopter ride for promising to help steer city contracts to a Florida businessman, prosecutors said.
The police said they were seeking three men and one woman in connection with the shooting, which killed Christopher Redding, 16. Two other teenagers were injured.
Members of the People’s Liberation Army attending a ceremony in December. Corruption in China’s military has hampered its push to modernize and improve capabilities.
The new projects, expected to be announced on Friday, will reverse decisions made by the Adams administration, and help the new mayor fulfill his vow to make buses fast and free in New York.
The debate over whether federal agents should be allowed to cover their faces with masks has become a flashpoint as the government heads for a partial shutdown.
The justices put the case on a fast track at the administration’s urging. But they don’t seem in a rush to rule on the president’s signature economic program.