About 20 state attorneys general have mounted investigations that have cataloged decades of abuse but yielded few criminal prosecutions.

The nuclear order established during the Cold War is under more stress than at any point since 1962, but efforts to negotiate with Beijing are unlikely to succeed anytime soon.

He said his survival of the Holocaust at 10 years old allowed him to understand “what it is like to be a victim of human rights violations.”

The president addressed the nation from the Oval Office on Friday evening, after congressional passage of legislation to prevent economic calamity.

After three years of studying, it took Dev Shah about 45 seconds to reach the apotheosis of his craft and become the national champion on Thursday night.

Despite cooperating with prosecutors, Rodolphe Jaar was given the maximum term by a judge in Miami, the first sentence handed down in what the authorities say was a sprawling plot.

Prosecutors issued a subpoena for a description of military options for Iran mentioned by the former president during an interview. But Mr. Trump’s legal team said they could find no such document.

A judge issued an arrest warrant in February for a woman with tuberculosis who was later seen taking a city bus to a casino, the authorities said.

Negotiations to prevent a government default reaffirmed that the big drivers of future deficits are all off the table in a divided Washington.

Republican presidential candidates hoping to join the first G.O.P. primary debate on Aug. 23 must have a minimum of 40,000 unique donors to their campaign.

Mr. Garvey, 74, a Republican, said he would decide in the next few weeks whether to run for the seat of Senator Dianne Feinstein, who is retiring.

The arrest of three activists for financial crimes has been assailed as retaliation for lawful protests. Officials said the three had “facilitated and encouraged domestic terrorism.”

A federal judge veered toward leniency with more junior members of the group who were involved in the attack on the Capitol, issuing lighter sentences than prosecutors had sought.

The two companies were hired in 2020 to investigate voter fraud, but reported that they found no proof that significant fraud had occurred.

The first named storm of the Atlantic hurricane season was west of Fort Myers, Fla., on Friday afternoon and moving south toward Cuba.

“It was in the water, begging for help to get out,” Clifford Walters said of his encounter in Yellowstone National Park. The calf later had to be euthanized.

The storm was the strongest to strike the U.S. Pacific territory in at least two decades.

The Justice Department informed the former vice president of its decision days before he was expected to announce his campaign for president.

Michael Haley, a major in the South Carolina Army National Guard, served in Afghanistan in 2013.

Conor Dougherty of The New York Times spoke with the governor about leveraging California’s market power to influence policies in other states.