In a sign of a looming showdown with the special counsel, presidential aides are looking for information to get investigators recused or justify firing him.
Jeff Sessions, who angered the president when he recused himself from the Justice Department’s Russia investigation, said he intended to remain attorney general “as long as that is appropriate.” Anthony Scaramucci, who successfully rebutted a CNN story about the Trump campaign’s ties to Russia, may lead the White House’s communications strategy.
President Trump distorted health insurance, the F.B.I.’s relationship to the president, the biography of his deputy attorney general and French history.
Republicans in Washington should be returning home next week to brag. But despite having total control on Capitol Hill, even they admit that policies aren’t advancing.
Here’s what you need to know at the end of the day.
Thursday: Preventing suicide at bridges, a bill to change how water flows in the San Joaquin Valley, and parole hearing day for O.J. Simpson.
The president has proved too unpopular nationally, and too weak in many lawmakers’ home states, to scare them into supporting the bill to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act.
Senate Republican leaders are seeking a vote next week on the Affordable Care Act, but have yet to decide whether to repeal and replace it now or repeal it now and replace it later.
Israel has been sending in truckloads of supplies and treating thousands of sick and wounded Syrians, denting its reputation in Syria as “the devil who wants to kill us.”
Mr. Simpson will be released in October after spending nine years in prison on charges stemming from an armed robbery.
While Rex W. Tillerson, now the secretary of state, led the energy giant, “Exxon Mobil demonstrated reckless disregard for U.S. sanctions requirements,” the Treasury Department said.
Soar to dizzying heights in Wallowa County, Oregon, a remote county even by the standards of the rural Northwest. Bolt is the fastest sprinter ever in spite of — or because of? — an uneven stride that upends conventional wisdom.
Dispatches left on a now-banned forum show the role one of the world’s largest online communities played in facilitating access to drugs tied to a mounting toll.
The authorities took control of one large site, Hansa Market, and covertly operated it to catch refugees fleeing the closing of the largest market, AlphaBay.
Some activists say the movement is now at its weakest point since the Tiananmen Square crackdown in 1989.
Once in the United States, the new arrivals sometimes land in towns that are not exactly prepared for them.
From Hillary Clinton to a White House stenographer, readers will hear almost everyone’s point of view in coming books.
The Islamic State’s central command in Syria has sent tens of thousands of dollars to groups that seized a southern Philippine city, a research group said.
The Trump administration took $3 million off the motorcycle maker’s fine in a pollution case, applying a new policy barring benefits to third parties.
Joseph Lhota’s comments came on the heels of another acrimonious exchange between Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Mayor Bill de Blasio.
The Homeland Security Department said the prohibition, imposed in March, was no longer needed because airlines had complied with new security rules.
The frontman was known for his piercing scream and free-flowing anguish. His death is being investigated as a possible suicide.
At the start of a conservative-dominated special legislative session in Austin, Democrats used songs, rallies and Hail Mary bills to resist and cope.
Set in an America where slavery still exists, the show, from the “Game of Thrones” creators, has prompted concerns about its mixture of race, politics and history.
Over six decades, Mr. Lane built a global business by making it acceptable and chic for women to wear glittering jewelry of unabashed deception.
Researchers have developed a new breathable, wearable sensor that can monitor vital signals without irritating skin.
The lion was shot in Zimbabwe during what a researcher said was a legal hunt, two years after Cecil was killed by an American dentist.
Following the end of “Game of Thrones,” David Benioff and D.B. Weiss will make “Confederate,” a drama in which the South successfully seceded and slavery is legal.
The books will appear on Oct. 20 as part of a 20th anniversary celebration and exhibition at the British Library. But they aren’t new novels or even plays.
James Byron Haakenson was one of 33 teenage boys and young men killed by Mr. Gacy in the 1970s. The identities of six victims remain unknown.
The highlight mixtape, a collection of flashy plays, has proliferated thanks to a group of companies devoted to spreading the word about basketball’s next big thing.
In his brilliant new film, Christopher Nolan revisits a harrowing, true World War II mission in a story of struggle, survival and resistance.
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