An irate attorney general is said to have confronted the deputy director of the F.B.I. at a tense White House meeting earlier in the week.The bitter blame game over the handling of the investigation into the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein erupted in public on Friday between Attorney General Pam Bondi...
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After serving in the government, he became a prominent political commentator. “Centrism doesn’t mean splitting the difference,” he said in 2020.David Gergen, an inside-the-Beltway veteran who helped shape the public images of four presidents, mostly Republicans, and who, after a turn as a magazine editor, trod a well-worn path from...
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The plea came at a vulnerable moment for the Sinaloa drug cartel, the organization Ovidio Guzmán López’s father helped found.Ovidio Guzmán López, a son of the notorious Mexican crime lord known as El Chapo, pleaded guilty on Friday to sprawling federal drug charges and using violence to help take control...
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For decades, Dick and Tweety Eastland presided over Camp Mystic with a kind of magisterial benevolence that alumni well past childhood still describe with awe.For generations of girls at Camp Mystic, Dick Eastland was a fixture of the landscape — like the high rocky bluff with the big “Mystic” sign...
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Nearly 3,000 people have been arrested since the beginning of June, more than three times the number in previous months this year.The number of arrests by the Department of Homeland Security in the Los Angeles region has spiked over the last month as the Trump administration has deployed hundreds of...
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The 23-year-old star could be the first American woman to win the tournament since 2016. A self-imposed sabbatical may have helped her get there.On Saturday, Amanda Anisimova, a 23-year-old American, will face Iga Swiatek, a five-time Grand Slam champion, in the women’s singles final at Wimbledon.For Ms. Anisimova, a one-time...
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If the plan is finalized, it would allow critical aid to flow to Ukraine as it endures one of Russia’s heaviest assaults of the war.NATO countries have devised a novel way to provide critical American weaponry to Ukraine for its fight against Russia, and President Trump suggested for the first...
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The director of the reboot, James Gunn, called the superhero from the planet Krypton “an immigrant,” thrusting the summer popcorn movie into an Earthbound culture war.He may be faster than a speeding bullet, more powerful than a locomotive and able to leap tall buildings in a single bound. But can...
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Edwin Brant Frost IV, a well-known Republican, is accused of defrauding 300 investors of $140 million, and using some funds for political donations. He said he took “full responsibility.”The Securities and Exchange Commission on Thursday accused Edwin Brant Frost IV, a high-profile Republican in Georgia, of running a Ponzi scheme...
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I know he was never the fan favorite but as I watched him at Wimbledon, where he lost on Friday to Jannik Sinner in the semifinal, I couldn’t remember exactly what the knock was against Novak Djokovic.Was it that he wasn’t as dashing and gallant as Roger Federer? Not as...
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The judge, Paula Xinis, said some legal safeguard was needed because the Trump administration had already shown in this and other deportation cases that it could not be trusted.A frustrated federal judge signaled on Friday that she would issue an order protecting Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, the immigrant who was...
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Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, met several times with President Trump, amid rising hopes of a cease-fire in Gaza, but there are still obstacles to a truce with Hamas.Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu returned to Israel on Friday without finalizing a truce with Hamas in Gaza, after days of talks...
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