WASHINGTON — Senator John Fetterman, the Pennsylvania Democrat who suffered a near-fatal stroke before winning his seat last year, spent a second night in the hospital on Thursday as doctors …
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Freed Guantánamo Prisoner Has Big Dreams for a New Life in Belize
by Curtis Jonesby Curtis JonesBELIZE CITY — On his first day of freedom, the former Guantánamo Bay prisoner Majid Khan prayed without anyone watching him for the first time in two decades. He ate a …
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The president’s speech contained no outright falsehoods, but at times omitted crucial context or exaggerated the facts.
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House G.O.P. Leads Constitution Read-Aloud, Seeking an Edge on Patriotism
by Curtis Jonesby Curtis JonesRepresentative David Cicilline, Democrat of Rhode Island, was more pointed, suggesting that Republicans including Mr. Gaetz who backed Mr. Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election had no right to …
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WASHINGTON — The overall U.S. trade deficit rose 12.2 percent last year, nearing $1 trillion as Americans purchased large volumes of foreign machinery, medicines, industrial supplies and car parts, according …
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WASHINGTON — Vice President Kamala Harris on Monday announced almost $1 billion in new pledges by private companies to support communities in Central America, part of the Biden administration’s effort …
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Education Issues Vault to Top of the G.O.P.’s Presidential Race
by Curtis Jonesby Curtis JonesDonald Trump and possible rivals, like Gov. Ron DeSantis, are making appeals to conservative voters on race and gender issues, but such messages had a mixed record in November’s midterm …
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The Road to a Supreme Court Clerkship Starts at Three Ivy League Colleges
by Curtis Jonesby Curtis JonesWASHINGTON — When Ted Cruz attended Harvard Law School, he liked to study with people who had undergraduate degrees from Harvard, Yale or Princeton. “He said he didn’t want anybody …
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Democrats Overhaul Party’s Primary Calendar, Upending a Political Tradition
by Curtis Jonesby Curtis JonesPHILADELPHIA — Upending decades of political tradition, members of the Democratic National Committee voted on Saturday to approve a sweeping overhaul of the Democratic primary process, a critical step in …
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A surge in job growth in January provided President Biden a lift just hours before he traveled to Philadelphia to deliver a speech on his economic vision for the United …