Politics
Biden Weighs Deploying Thousands of Troops to Eastern Europe and Baltics
The discussions came as the State Department ordered all family members of U.S. embassy personnel in Kyiv to leave Ukraine,...
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War May Loom, but Are There Offramps?
Defusing Ukraine It is possible that Mr. Putin’s bottom line in this conflict is straightforward: that he wants to stop...
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Italy begins voting for next president with unclear slate
ROME — A first round of voting in Italy’s Parliament for the country’s next president yielded an avalanche of blank...
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Supreme Court Will Hear Challenge to Affirmative Action at Harvard and U.N.C.
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court agreed on Monday to decide whether race-conscious admissions programs at Harvard and the University of...
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Pentagon Puts 8,500 Troops on ‘High Alert’ Amid Ukraine Tensions
WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III has put 8,500 American troops on “high alert” for possible deployment to...
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House Republicans tout infrastructure funding they voted against
In November, Rep. Rob Wittman, R-Va., was one of 205 House Republicans to vote against the bipartisan, $1.5 trillion infrastructure...
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‘Such is life’: NZ PM calls off wedding
New Zealand’s Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has cancelled her wedding after announcing new Covid restrictions. The entire country is set...
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Supreme Court to Consider Limits of Ruling for Native Americans in Oklahoma
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court agreed on Friday to decide a question left open by its landmark 2020 decision declaring...
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Biden’s Pandemic Fight: Inside the Setbacks of the First Year
WASHINGTON — Dr. Rochelle Walensky was stunned. Working from her home outside Boston on a Friday night in late July,...
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Litter Boxes for Students Who Identify as Furries? Not So, Says School Official
It started with a comment at a school board meeting, which was later amplified by a Michigan state Republican leader,...
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