His remarks amounted to the summation he was never allowed to deliver in a courtroom, and concluded that Donald Trump had “engaged in criminal activity” that undermined democracy.
In his remarks, the former special counsel repeatedly denied that he had acted out of partisan animus and bemoaned the Trump administration’s efforts to go after the president’s perceived enemies.
Approval of the package, which would fund a wide swath of government agencies, brings Congress closer to meeting a Jan. 30 funding deadline.
In a tie vote, the House defeated an effort to prohibit the president from using the U.S. military in Venezuela weeks after the raid he ordered that captured the country’s leader.
Lee Zeldin, the E.P.A. administrator, revived a plan created during the first Trump administration to end the testing of chemicals on mammals.
The policy has traditionally been aimed at keeping organizations that receive U.S. tax dollars from performing or promoting abortion as a method of family planning.
Prosecutors said a Chicago carpenter had offered a bounty for killing Gregory Bovino, a Border Patrol official. Defense lawyers said he was just sharing a social media post.
A photo showed a boy with an oversized hat and Spider-Man backpack being held next to a vehicle as his father was detained. A Homeland Security spokeswoman said the man had fled and left the child.
A standoff between demonstrators and congregants at Cities Church in St. Paul on Sunday added to tensions around federal immigration enforcement in the state.
The Justice Department would seek to find other avenues to pursue a case against Mr. Lemon, a senior law enforcement official said.
Negotiators have discussed proposals to check Russian and Chinese influence in the Arctic and transfer sovereignty over pockets of Greenlandic land to the United States, an idea opposed by Denmark.
Andrew Ross Sorkin, editor at large of DealBook, describes how leaders at the World Economic Forum in Davos remain on edge after President Trump, for now, backed down from threats of using tariffs or military force to gain Greenland.
He says there’s a method to the madness. But European allies wonder whether the United States is reliable anymore.
American and NATO officials have discussed giving the United States sovereignty over U.S. military bases in Greenland. The Danes don’t seem to like that.
They can’t guarantee future health, but they can tell you the trajectory you’re on.
The path of an approaching winter storm is not clear yet, but much of the country, including places unused to frigid weather, is bracing for the worst.
Half the U.S. population will likely see some effect from the sprawling storm that will move across the country this weekend, meteorologists said.
Ice, sleet and possibly significant snowfall are threatening to snarl travel in much of the eastern U.S. starting on Friday. Here’s what to know.
Welcome to the era of the Polymarket sharp.
Defections, secret conversations, deal talks that fizzled and a battle for control: The turmoil at Thinking Machines Lab is the artificial intelligence industry’s latest drama.
As a strike by health workers stretches into its second week, pay is a major issue in negotiations, even if it’s not discussed much on the picket line.
The sensors used to listen for earthquakes could help protect people from the hazards created by falling spacecraft.
Alex Honnold again will be ascending without ropes. In an interview he considers the impact on his family if something were to go wrong.
Ariana Grande, Chase Infiniti and Paul Mescal were shut out, but voters made room for Delroy Lindo, Kate Hudson and “F1.”
The movies competing for the 98th Academy Awards. The ceremony will air on March 15.
We heard from 300 people about what they are paying in health insurance premiums after Affordable Care Act subsidies expired.
All the religious trends you’re wrong about.
Two nights a week at Refettorio Harlem, chefs turn donated food that would otherwise go to waste into a multicourse dinner that is served to anyone who is hungry.
Researchers found an antibody that seems to play a role in people with better lung cancer prognoses, but turning it into a treatment could be difficult.
The details of an emergency call made by President Trump’s youngest son to the London police last year emerged during a trial this week.
One of the most influential voices of the seminal magazine The Source, he chronicled rap’s rise and its explosion into the cultural mainstream.