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.Redacted documents showing email chains from Jeffrey Epstein released by the Justice Department.
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
The Environmental Protection Agency rejected the bedrock scientific finding that greenhouse gases threaten human life and well being. It means the agency can no longer regulate them.Rigorous scientific findings since 2009 have showed that greenhouse gases and global warming are harming public health
The Trump administration has repealed the scientific determination that underpins the government’s legal authority to combat climate change.E.P.A. administrator Lee Zeldin has claimed that previous administrations used the endangerment finding to justify “trillions of dollars” in regulations on poll
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 admini
A whistle-blower has accused Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence, of blocking distribution of a report that Jared Kushner’s name came up in an intercepted communication about Iran.Jared Kushner during a briefing at the Civil-Military Coordination Center in southern Israel in October
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.Federal agents clashed with protesters near the site of the shooting in Minneapolis.
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.A masked Customs and Border Protection agent during an arrest in Minneapolis last month.
President Trump initially deployed the troops in those cities to support law enforcement efforts to tamp down protests against immigration raids and protecting buildings.Members of the National Guard at their temporary barracks at the U.S. Army Reserve Training Center in Elwood, Ill., a suburb of Ch
Hundreds of people attended a rally on Thursday to re-raise the flag, setting up a defiant response to the Trump administration’s assault on diversity initiatives.Days after the Pride flag was removed from the Stonewall National Monument in Manhattan, federal employees raised an American flag in its
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 family home where the authorities say Jesse Van Rootselaar killed her mother, Jennifer Jacobs, and her brother, Emmett Jacobs.
The attack at a secondary school and a private residence in the small, remote community in British Columbia has left families stunned and grief-stricken.
U.S. companies and consumers are paying most of the cost of tariffs, in the form of higher prices.
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.The next scheduled day for the announcement of Supreme Court decisions is Feb. 20.
At 85, Jan Worrell lived alone on a remote corner of the Washington coast. Could ElliQ become her companion?
Last-minute announcements and abrupt changes by the Trump administration have caused confusion in an already strained U.S. aviation system.A nearly deserted security checkpoint at El Paso International Airport on Wednesday after the Federal Aviation Administration announced a 10-day ban on flights o
The U.S. has spent billions of dollars developing counter-drone technology, but much of it needs more testing in the real world.Many flights at El Paso International Airport were canceled on Wednesday, when the Federal Aviation Administration shut down air traffic there for hours.
U.S. officials warn that cartel-operated drones on the border pose a major threat. Mexican officials are less certain. Analysts say the answer is likely in between.The border wall between Mexico and the United States in Tijuana, Mexico.
The agency is seeking Chinese officials who are frustrated with corruption in the People’s Liberation Army.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.
From the moment you take a sip, drinking starts to influence your biology. Here’s an inside look.
It sounds a bit kooky to promise a whole city from scratch. But it has been done before — and might just help solve the housing crisis.
His song “The Distance,” released in 1996, became an anthem for the disaffected members of Generation X.Mr. Brown in 1996. He left Cake after “Fashion Nugget,” partly over differences with the lead singer, John McCrea.
Mr. Trump’s attempted election takeover is already underway.
Human intelligence — the thing we as educators are duty bound to defend and advance — is under attack.
