The party-line vote set the stage for the full House to take up impeachment next week.
Warren and Sanders supporters should consider the fate of Jeremy Corbyn.
Senator Mitch McConnell, the Republican leader, said he was taking his cues from the White House. Democrats are outraged.
The decision, which was derided by Democrats, comes in a fight to win Wisconsin in the 2020 presidential election.
Fleeting efforts at persuasion by members of the Judiciary Committee gave way to disputes over basic facts during a marathon debate over articles of impeachment.
But Stephanie Grisham, the White House press secretary, said in a statement that the first lady communicates “differently” from President Trump.
But Stephanie Grisham, the White House press secretary, said in a statement that the first lady communicates “differently” from President Trump.
The import taxes are retaliation for excessive subsidies by the European Union to the aerospace giant Airbus.
The president expressed delight in a “wild week” of deal making, but his frustration over impeachment was never far from the surface.
The lawyer’s work defending President Trump in the Russia inquiry and pressing Ukraine to investigate a rival was absent from the annual financial disclosure, despite reporting requirements.
The court’s ruling, expected by June, could release information the president has tried to protect. Or the justices could rule that his financial affairs are not legitimate subjects of inquiry so long as he remains in office.
In the lead-up to the House Judiciary Committee’s vote to recommend articles of impeachment, both parties used the same words to send very different messages.
The 2016 Brexit vote seemed to be a harbinger of President Trump’s election. But Boris Johnson’s victory may be different.
Boris Johnson’s resounding victory means Britain will almost certainly leave the European Union. But what will become of Scotland and Northern Ireland?
Two readers worry that the Democratic strategy may backfire and end up helping President Trump.
A reader writes, “This is an amazing and disturbing statistic and a window into the president’s mind and mood.” Also: The British election; advice to the Democrats.
President Trump, speaking to reporters on Friday, discussed the unfolding impeachment process and said he would like to see the whistle-blower” involved in a lengthy Senate trial.
President Volodymyr Zelensky still needs backing from the administration. He is proposing a new ambassador and weighing hiring lobbyists to build better ties.
La violencia, el estancamiento económico y las decisiones erráticas en el gobierno señalan una trayectoria larga y accidentada para su sexenio. También para el país.
The agreement includes a commitment by China to buy more agriculture products and to strengthen laws protecting foreign companies operating there.
The president and his allies have developed a pattern for politicizing Justice Department inspector general reports.
Seeing what Trump is doing to America, many find it hard to fight off despair.
‘Trump anxiety disorder’ has morphed into anxiety about everything, and impeachment isn’t helping.
Commenting on the president’s latest Twitter feud, Noah said he had “no right to tell anybody to chill, all right? He is the least chill human being of all time.”
The legal opinions were written during previous Democratic and Republican administrations by the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel.
Voters pick whichever candidate exhausts them less.
As the House moves toward what even he says is an inevitable vote to impeach him for high crimes and misdemeanors, President Trump toggles between self-pity and combativeness.
Jewish communities across the country viewed the order, which is aimed at college campuses, in competing and discordant ways.
Insults and indignation were served up Thursday in the House Judiciary Committee. Republicans worried they would not get to the White House ball in time.
A day of tense debate over proposed amendments to the articles of impeachment against President Trump featured several arguments among members of the House Judiciary Committee.
Jared Kushner, who is overseeing his father-in-law’s re-election campaign, said the Republican Party was being redefined with the “old guard cycling out” and the people coming in “inspired by the Trump revolution.”
A hearing in Virginia was the first time a full appeals panel has considered the anticorruption clauses of the Constitution.
The president’s concern is not so much whom he will be debating but the commission that runs the debates.
The president’s concern is not so much whom he will be debating but the commission that runs the debates.
Republican climate denial is even scarier than Trumpism.
And the debate over whether it will protect Jews and suppress criticism of Israel on campus.
Readers respond to the president’s executive order to withhold funding from colleges that fail to protect Jews on campus.
As the House takes another step toward impeaching President Trump, concern is increasing that trying to remove a president will become a more common partisan tool.
The Food and Drug Administration has been without a permanent commissioner since April, when Dr. Scott Gottlieb resigned.
The high-profile measure would curb the price of prescription drugs and extend more benefits to Medicare beneficiaries.
The House Judiciary Committee abruptly postponed the expected party-line approval of two articles of impeachment, now set for Friday, which will send the charges to the full House for a vote.
Jews aren’t a race. But anti-Semitism can be racism for legal purposes.
Even better.
The Defense Department’s inspector general will look at a $400 million contract awarded to a North Dakota company embraced by President Trump.
The president, in a tweet, said that the United States wanted a deal with China, a sign he may delay a round of tariffs scheduled for this weekend.
The president met with his economic advisers on Thursday as the United States and China moved closer to finishing a trade pact.
The 16-year-old climate activist changed her Twitter biography to read, “a teenager working on her anger management problem,” after the president tossed that accusation at her.
Should he make a one-term pledge?
A frequent television commentator, Mr. Dershowitz often defended Mr. Trump publicly during the special counsel’s Russia investigation.
Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee spent more than 14 hours trying to gut or water down the Democrats’ draft of the articles of impeachment. All their amendments failed.
Crime, economic stagnation and erratic government decisions signal a long and bumpy ride for his presidency — and his country.
And why are baby boomers still in charge?
How Putin kept a meeting of the leaders of France, Germany, Russia and Ukraine from moving closer to an end of a calamitous five-year war.
The panel will meet to debate the charges against President Trump before voting to send them to the full House.
The hour lent a prime-time urgency to the spectacle, but both sides reverted to boilerplate.
Donald Trump and his supporters need to know that you can be punished for your actions.
He told a judge that he “sold his soul” in working as President Trump’s lawyer.
The lack of American interest was clear as the two nations’ presidents met in Paris.
Ms. Lofgren, Democrat of California, is the lone Judiciary Committee member to have participated in all three modern impeachments.
The president’s campus intervention ignores the bigger threat of anti-Semitism and threatens speech.
The all-hands-on-deck atmosphere is a change from just weeks ago, when President Trump’s aides dismissed the idea of a war room.
Deck the halls with tons of tweeting.
Public opinion has shifted about impeachment, but not about the president. Here’s what that means.
At a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, the Justice Department’s inspector general recounted egregious problems with wiretap files.
At a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, the Justice Department’s inspector general recounted egregious problems with wiretap files.
The administration has said its North American trade pact would add 76,000 jobs in the sector. Experts are not so sure.
In June, President Trump promised that millions of undocumented immigrants already in the country would be deported. That didn’t happen.
With an executive order, he makes clear that anti-Semitism is not to be tolerated.
The House Judiciary Committee opened a two-day markup session to debate two articles before they are sent to the full House for a vote.
The deliberative, sometimes tedious process lets members of the Judiciary Committee propose changes to the articles of impeachment before voting to recommend them to the full House. It can get messy.
Even before President Trump issued his order targeting anti-Semitism on U.S. campuses, the Education Department was actively investigating accusations of anti-Jewish bias.
Washington’s sanctions have crippled the Iranian economy, and protesters have taken to the streets to criticize the government in Tehran. In response, Iranian security forces have killed hundreds.
Democrats should prolong the impeachment hearings, says one reader; others view the Senate vote as a chance for Republicans to convict or redeem themselves.
A high-profile inspector general report has served as fodder for arguments about President Trump. But its findings about surveillance are important beyond partisan politics.
Lawrence Lessig’s “They Don’t Represent Us” and Ganesh Sitaraman’s “The Great Democracy” urge major reforms to reclaim American democracy.
Western democracies have ceded ground to China and autocrats, while corruption and inequity have worsened. Can a generation of protesters turn the tide?
House Democrats appear united in their charge that the president abused his power and obstructed Congress. Behind the scenes, this wasn’t always the case.
There are a lot of different ways to build walls.
The presidential candidates need to stop demurring and fully reject Trump’s approach.
Senators and the inspector general painted a scathing portrait of the F.B.I., with Republicans accusing agents of exploiting rules and joining Democrats in demanding a surveillance overhaul.
American commanders have requested guidance on dealing with an attack from those armed groups and others from Iran and the Syrian government, but officials say they have received muddled direction.
Trevor Noah noted that President Trump faced two articles of impeachment, fewer than Richard Nixon or Bill Clinton. “You know that’s going to make him insecure,” he said.
President Trump told supporters at a Pennsylvania rally that they were “lucky I became your president” before denouncing the impeachment effort.
Under a settlement, the president admitted he had used his charity to bolster his campaign and settle business debts.
The last-minute debate over how broad a case to bring reflects the competing demands on Democrats from within their own party and their determination to appear as unified as possible.
House lawyers sought to dismiss as moot a lawsuit brought by a former Trump adviser, but his lawyers asked a federal judge to rule anyway on his duty to comply with a House subpoena.
How does Trump’s attorney general keep a straight face?
While many American officials are eager to avoid the new tariffs, the president could go either way.
The House should take its own sweet time and investigate many more aspects of the president’s perfidious behavior.
Democrats are planning to restrict their case to the Ukraine affair. Are they making a mistake?
The president’s order would allow the government to withhold money from campuses deemed to be biased, but critics see it as an attack on free speech.
The former campaign aide cooperated with prosecutors on high-profile cases including the trials of Paul Manafort and Roger Stone.
A former history professor rebuts an Op-Ed writer’s thesis that Mr. Trump’s words and actions are not so different from those of previous presidents.
Readers urge a broader inquiry not just focused on Ukraine and express fear and hopelessness about what is happening in America.
It is the only thing to do if our country’s democracy is to survive.
The visit of Sergey Lavrov to Washington came at a delicate moment in the relationship between President Trump and Russia.
On the day Democrats formally charged President Trump with high crimes and misdemeanors, Speaker Nancy Pelosi said she would cut a deal with him on trade.
Glenn Simpson and Peter Fritsch, founders of the private intelligence firm Fusion GPS, write about what turned up in their investigation into Donald Trump’s ties to Russia.
House Democrats released two articles of impeachment charging President Trump with abuse of power and obstruction of Congress. See them with context and analysis by The Times’s chief White House correspondent.
The administration’s food stamp cuts expose the cruel truth of Republican hypocrisy.
Peter Bergen’s “Trump and His Generals” explains how so many members of the armed forces could work for a president who lacks all of the virtues they embody.
The new provisions, solidified after months of negotiations between House Democrats and the Trump administration, would strengthen the trade deal’s protections for workers
Democratic leaders unveiled articles of impeachment charging President Trump with abuse of power and obstruction of Congress.
The president suggested he lacked confidence in his own F.B.I. director, who did not share his negative view of a long-awaited inspector general report.
How Americans learned to live with endless wars.
The former New York leader has always sought the spotlight, and the president has helped put him in it once again.
White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney wants to see if the Medicare chief Seema Verma and the health secretary, Alex M. Azar II, can still work together.
The harsh, black cover of the book, which memorializes 37 people killed at the country’s schools last year, is meant to spur action.
President Trump’s complaints about Americans’ flushing habits were an easy target on Monday night.
The former Trump deputy campaign chairman pleaded guilty to fraud and lying to prosecutors, but his lawyers said his cooperation in the Russia inquiry and others should reduce his sentence.
Pierce Bush is running in the 22nd House District, and Ronny L. Jackson is running in the 13th District.
A debate among Democrats: Incorporate the Mueller investigation into articles of impeachment, or stick to Ukraine?
As President Trump faces impeachment by the House, it is the very concept of truth that often seems to be on trial.
By the time the Justice Department inspector general’s report was released, the president and his supporters had moved on in their effort to convince Americans of the enemies arrayed against him.
Monday’s congressional hearing and the inspector general’s report tell a similar story.
The inspector general provided a close look at what seemed at times to be a bungled relationship between Christopher Steele and the bureau.
Sergey V. Lavrov is set to visit the White House on Tuesday afternoon, for a conversation that could include extending the last major nuclear treaty between the United States and Russia.
A Republican congressman says there isn’t one — and that suggests how history will remember it. But historians disagree.
There are things more important than your tax rate.
The House Judiciary Committee heard evidence presented by Democratic and Republican lawyers as it considers articles of impeachment against President Trump.
Mr. Durham, the top federal prosecutor in Connecticut, has investigated potential wrongdoing by the F.B.I. and C.I.A. for the Clinton, Bush, Obama and Trump administrations.
A California congregation’s display is meant to highlight the plight of refugees and asylum seekers.
The attorney general reprised his role as a vocal defender of President Trump.
Democrats have narrowed their focus to two articles of impeachment against President Trump, expected to be unveiled on Tuesday, after lawyers labeled his conduct a “clear and present danger” to fair elections and national security.
The Justice Department’s inspector general released this report into the early stages of the F.B.I.’s Russia investigation.
Commissioners in counties around the nation, including North Dakota, are weighing whether to admit more refugees.
In a legal complaint, Amazon said that the president attacked the company behind the scenes to harm its C.E.O., Jeff Bezos, “his perceived political enemy.”
In a legal complaint, Amazon said the president had attacked it behind the scenes to harm its C.E.O., Jeff Bezos, “his perceived political enemy.”
Uncouth he may be, but he’s not unfamiliar.
A long-awaited report by the Justice Department’s inspector general delivers a scathing critique of the F.B.I.’s handling of a wiretap application but also punctures many conspiracy theories.
Mientras lees esto, se están levantando enormes paredes de concreto en la frontera entre México y Estados Unidos que atraviesan refugios de vida silvestre y espacios naturales.
The House Judiciary Committee held a hearing Monday considering the case for and against impeaching President Trump. Our reporters provided live coverage and analysis during presentations by Democratic and Republican lawyers on evidence from the inquiry.
The U.S. is trying to preserve a diplomatic opening with Kim Jong-un, even as North Korea dismisses President Trump as a “heedless and erratic old man.”
At the House Judiciary Committee hearing, Democrats stuck to repeating the facts of their case as Republicans denounced impeachment as a misguided partisan process.
As the trade war intensifies, the U.S. has effectively crippled the W.T.O.’s system of enforcing rules at a time it is needed the most.
The inquiry by the Justice Department’s inspector general found no evidence of the political conspiracy alleged by President Trump but uncovered flaws in how the case was handled.
The inquiry by the Justice Department’s inspector general found no evidence of the political conspiracy alleged by President Trump but uncovered flaws in how the case was handled.
Tiny prison uniforms were replaced with T-shirts. Health care and schooling improved. Experts say there is still no safe way to incarcerate families.
The House Judiciary Committee will hear evidence as it considers articles of impeachment against President Trump for pressuring Ukraine to help him against his domestic political rivals.
The British former spy was told on the eve of its release that a highly anticipated inspector general’s report would contain further information about him than he had expected.
An expert was scheduled to speak at the Copenhagen event but was told the ambassador, Carla Sands, had vetoed his participation.
Rudy Giuliani didn’t get the job he expected. But as unpaid personal counsel to the president and for-profit peddler of access and advice, he got the spotlight.
The president had pardoned Army First Lt. Clint Lorance and Maj. Mathew Golsteyn last month, in a move that strained his relationship with Pentagon leaders.
The lessons from Nixon and Clinton.
The attorney general embodies the combative culture and conservative ideology that animate the president and the Republican Party. Is he what the party looks like post-Trump?
A U.S. offensive against the World Trade Organization will effectively shutter the group’s system for settling disputes, at a time it’s most needed.
The best course for the House is to present a case for impeachment focused on Ukraine and the danger to the 2020 elections.
President Trump is refusing to engage and Democrats have concluded they will press ahead anyway, rendering a historic undertaking little more than a foregone conclusion.
What “treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors” really means.
We invited readers to stretch the traditional boundaries of a letter to the editor, in verse, song or some other form. Many couldn’t resist the urge to aim their wit at the president.