The Obama Justice Department fought voter-ID laws, aggressive purges of voter rolls and dilution of minority votes. Under President Trump, the department often does the opposite. A flurry of Democratic candidates are refusing to take contributions from groups sponsored by corporations, unions or even other politicians, relying instead on individual donors. And voters are responding. Democrats hope to swing back in their favor a state that played an unexpectedly pivotal role in President Trump’s victory. But it may be too late. The former Trump campaign chairman’s trial has ripped away the facade of a man who worked for the campaign for free, intimating he was too rich to need the money. The recording, played on “Meet the Press,” revealed the White House chief of staff suggesting that she could face damage to her reputation if she did not leave quietly. The statement by Rudolph W. Giuliani, President Trump’s lawyer, contradicted a memo by James B. Comey, the former F.B.I. director, as well as his own previous comments. Angry counterprotesters far outnumbered the small band of far-right demonstrators who turned out in Washington, and then quickly dispersed, on the anniversary of the violent Charlottesville rally. Thousands of counterprotesters confronted a small group of white nationalists who rallied near the White House on Sunday. Meanwhile, in Charlottesville, Va., people gathered to honor Heather Heyer, who was killed while protesting a hate rally there a year ago. In this week’s Race/Related newsletter: A writer explores the nation’s divide over its Civil War past. He finds that some Confederate monuments cannot be moved. A mysterious Chinese company went on a buying binge in the Czech Republic following Xi Jinping’s call for greater sway in the region. What was the cost? President Vladimir V. Putin has nimbly exploited differences between Washington and its allies, but he has yet to translate that into fewer sanctions against Russia. The story of the mole who posed as a jihadist in the Islamic State, and the most important antiterrorism agency that most people have never heard of. Naipaul, who died at 85 on Saturday, was a self-styled heir to Joseph Conrad, and a legitimate one. Mr. Naipaul, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2001, wrote about the liberation movements that swept across Africa and the Caribbean, where he was born. My relationship with him was full of its joys and hurts. It was never going to be otherwise. Marco Rubio’s bipartisan paid family leave bill is historic but forces parents to rob from their retirement to care for children. In 1985, Billy Ray Irick committed a hideous crime in Tennessee. Last week, the state of Tennessee responded in kind. Searching for a shared humanness in North Korea. It’s dambe, a generations-old, West African style of boxing that is making a comeback despite some concerns about its brutality. In a city where power, gender and technology converge, artists ask hard questions about diversity. Flight instructors and aviation experts were split on whether games and simulations could prepare someone to operate a real plane. Koepka became the first player to win the United States Open and the P.G.A. Championship in the same year since Woods did it in 2000. In a huge security operation, Jordanian forces laid siege to a building in a residential part of the city of Salt in search of those responsible for an earlier bomb attack on a police van. Turkish banks’ ability to swap liras for foreign currencies was curbed. The lira has been dropping since President Trump said he would raise tariffs on Turkish imports. The spacecraft, which NASA says will “touch the sun,” was carried from the launchpad atop three columns of flame early on Sunday morning. The fighting demonstrated that the insurgents had a capacity for carrying out ambitious operations on multiple fronts, while the government struggled to respond on a single front in Ghazni. Almost half of Thailand’s Buddhist monks are obese, a study found. The government has asked devotees to put healthier food in their daily offerings to slim waistlines. The Trump administration has forced the World Trade Organization into the tough spot of having to make a ruling that could cause problems whatever it does. The architects behind New York’s High Line have created a new urban space that reflects the diversity of Russia’s regional landscapes. “Moses,” a production by the Bavarian State Opera’s youth program, brings together a cast of teenage refugees, children of immigrants and Germans. More Recent Articles |
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