The New York TimesPolitics Joe Biden Returns to Scranton to Outline Economic PolicyThe New York Times - Katie GlueckAs President Trump heads to Pittsburgh to deliver a speech on Wednesday, Joseph R. Biden Jr. will be on the other side of the state seeking to draw sharp contrasts with the president on economic policy
The New York TimesPolitics An Envoy’s Damning Account of Trump’s Ukraine Pressure and Its ConsequencesThe New York Times - By PETER BAKERWASHINGTON — He stood on one side of a war-damaged bridge in Ukraine staring across at Russian-backed forces and saw the real-world consequences of President Trump’s efforts to advance a personal agenda.
The New York TimesPete Buttigieg As a Centrist Path Opens, Pete Buttigieg Moves Toward ItThe New York Times - Reid J. EpsteinPHILADELPHIA — In February, Pete Buttigieg, then a virtually unknown presidential candidate, praised the Green New Deal as “the right beginning.” In June he called for decriminalizing illegal border crossings.
The New York TimesAndrew Yang Andrew Yang Knows How to Fit In. Somehow That’s Making Him an Outlier.The New York Times - Jay Caspian KangLast month, Jon Sarlin, a producer at CNN, posted a short video on his Twitter feed — an on-the-street interview with Russell Peterson, a Trump voter who’d had a change of heart. Peterson, with his goatee,
The New York TimesUkraine William Taylor, ‘Model’ Diplomat, Is at Center of Impeachment InquiryThe New York Times - By MICHAEL CROWLEYWASHINGTON — When Secretary of State Mike Pompeo asked William B. Taylor Jr., a highly respected former diplomat, to become America’s top diplomat in Ukraine in June, Mr. Taylor initially hesitated. He
The New York TimesSaudi Arabia Wall St. and Washington to Return to Saudi Investment MeetingThe New York Times - Alan Rappeport, Kate Kelly and Maggie HabermanThe top echelon of Washington and Wall Street will return to an opulent investment conference in Saudi Arabia next week, a year after American officials and prominent business leaders shunned the gathering
The New York TimesNews Major Backer of Trump and Democrats Will Plead Guilty to Illegal DonationsThe New York Times - Kenneth P. VogelWASHINGTON — A California venture capitalist who donated lavishly to major politicians of both parties — from former President Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton to President Trump — has agreed to plead
The New York TimesMark Esper Esper Removes Himself From Reviewing Cloud-Computing ContractThe New York Times - Helene CooperWASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Mark T. Esper recused himself from reviewing a controversial $10 billion cloud-computing contract because his son works for one of the contract’s original bidders, the Defense
The New York TimesPolitics 6 Key Revelations of Taylor’s Opening Statement to Impeachment InvestigatorsThe New York Times - Sharon LaFraniereWASHINGTON — William B. Taylor Jr., the top American diplomat in Kiev, provided the most explicit account to date of President Trump’s insistence that Ukraine publicly announce an investigation of Mr.
The New York TimesImpeachment The Trump Impeachment Inquiry: What Happened TodayThe New York Times - Noah WeilandThis article has been revised to reflect the following correction: A previous version of this article incorrectly referred to William B. Taylor Jr.'s title. He is an envoy to Ukraine, not the ambassador
The New York TimesNews Katie Hill, Rising Democratic Star in House, Denies Relationship With Staff MemberThe New York Times - Sheryl Gay StolbergWASHINGTON — Representative Katie Hill, a first-term Democrat widely considered a rising star in her party, on Tuesday denied reports that she had a sexual relationship with a member of her congressional
The New York TimesHealth Care Obamacare Premiums to Fall and Number of Insurers to Rise Next YearThe New York Times - Abby GoodnoughWASHINGTON — Nearly three years into President Trump’s aggressive efforts to undermine the Affordable Care Act, prices for the most popular type of health insurance plan offered through the health law’s
The New York TimesFacebook Messenger Zuckerberg to Admit That Facebook Has Trust IssuesThe New York Times - Mike Isaac, Cecilia Kang and Nathaniel PopperSAN FRANCISCO — Mark Zuckerberg hopes that one day, in the not too distant future, billions of people will use a cryptocurrency created by Facebook to send money to friends and family around the world.
The New York TimesPolitics Strap Yourself InThe New York Times - Nick CorasanitiHi. Welcome to On Politics, your guide to the day in national politics. Sign up here to get On Politics in your inbox. I’m Nick Corasaniti, and I’ll be taking over the newsletter on Tuesdays to talk about
The New York TimesLaw Enforcement High School Student in Santa Rosa Shot Schoolmate, Then Went to Class, Police SayThe New York Times - Liam StackA 17-year-old gunman shot a schoolmate twice in the torso outside a high school in Santa Rosa, Calif., on Tuesday morning and then walked calmly into class, where his teacher did not realize anything amiss,
The New York TimesThe Arts Anonymous Trump Official Behind Times Op-Ed Is Writing a BookThe New York Times - By ALEXANDRA ALTERAn anonymous Trump administration official who published a September 2018 essay in The New York Times, about the active resistance to the president’s agenda and behavior from within his own administration,
The New York TimesClimate Fossil Fuels on Trial: New York’s Lawsuit Against Exxon BeginsThe New York Times - By JOHN SCHWARTZAfter four years of legal sparring and finger-pointing, oil-industry giant Exxon Mobil went to court on Tuesday to face charges that the company lied to shareholders and to the public about the costs consequences
The New York TimesWriting Anonymous Trump Official Is Writing a BookThe New York Times - Alexandra AlterAn anonymous Trump administration official who published a September 2018 essay in The New York Times, about the active resistance to the president’s agenda and behavior from within his own administration,
The New York TimesCalifornia Trump Administration Moves to Lift Protections for Fish and Divert Water to FarmsThe New York Times - Coral DavenportWASHINGTON — The Trump administration on Tuesday moved to weaken protections for a threatened California fish, a change that would allow large amounts of water to be diverted from the San Francisco Bay
The New York TimesNAFTA For Trump the Dealmaker, Troop Pullouts Without Much in ReturnThe New York Times - Peter BakerWASHINGTON — The Taliban have wanted the United States to pull troops out of Afghanistan, Turkey has wanted the Americans out of northern Syria and North Korea has wanted them to at least stop military
The New York TimesNature Photography The Photographer Behind a Powerful Portrait of Elijah E. CummingsThe New York Times - Katie Van SyckleTimes Insider explains who we are and what we do, and delivers behind-the-scenes insights into how our journalism comes together. When Representative Elijah E. Cummings died last week at age 68, a photograph
The New York TimesPolitics Trump Calls Impeachment Inquiry a ‘Lynching’The New York Times - Eileen SullivanPresident Trump on Tuesday called the impeachment inquiry into him a “lynching,” using a term associated with the murders of black people to describe a process enshrined in the Constitution. In an early
The New York TimesPolitics Anxious Democratic Establishment Asks, ‘Is There Anybody Else?’The New York Times - Jonathan MartinThis article has been revised to reflect the following correction: An earlier version of this article misstated the year some Democrats wanted Joseph R. Biden Jr. to be a late entrant into the race. It
The New York TimesFood & Dining On Capitol Hill, the Caucus Grows for DiwaliThe New York Times - Priya KrishnaWASHINGTON — For Representative Pramila Jayapal, there was no better party during her childhood in Jakarta, Indonesia, than the one that took place on Diwali, the Indian festival of lights. Jakarta didn’t
The New York TimesViktor Orbán Hungary’s Orban Gave Trump Harsh Analysis of Ukraine Before Key MeetingThe New York Times - Peter Baker and Nicholas FandosWASHINGTON — Just 10 days before a key meeting on Ukraine, President Trump met, over the objections of his national security adviser, with one of the former Soviet republic’s most virulent critics, Prime
The New York TimesThe White House Trump Running Out of Options for Homeland Security SecretaryThe New York Times - Zolan Kanno-Youngs and Maggie HabermanWASHINGTON — Nearly a year before the 2020 election, President Trump is running out of options in his search for a leader for the Department of Homeland Security who could win Senate confirmation or even
The New York TimesAmy Klobuchar In Iowa, Amy Klobuchar Gets a Second Look After DebateThe New York Times - Trip GabrielMASON CITY, Iowa — Before last week, Beth Kundel Vogel was undecided when it came to the Democratic presidential hopefuls. But in the debate on Tuesday, Senator Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota impressed her
The New York TimesFacebook Facebook Finds New Disinformation Campaigns and Braces for 2020 TorrentThe New York Times - Mike IsaacSAN FRANCISCO — Facebook said on Monday that it had recently found and taken down four state-backed disinformation campaigns, the latest of dozens that it has identified and removed this year and a sign
The New York TimesBernie Sanders Despite Vow to End ‘Endless Wars,’ Here’s Where About 200,000 Troops RemainThe New York Times - Thomas Gibbons-Neff and Eric SchmittPresident Trump has repeatedly promised to end what he calls America’s “endless wars,” fulfilling a promise he made during the campaign. No wars have ended, though, and more troops have deployed to the
