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NY Times – Politics

The San Francisco district attorney said in an interview that she came up with the strategy after seeing federal agents repeatedly roughing up people in Los Angeles and Chicago. [...]

The East Wing has been a base for the first lady, an entryway for social functions and an emergency bunker. [...]

The sanctions are among the most significant measures that the United States has taken against the Russian energy sector since the beginning of the war in Ukraine. [...]

The Oregon Democrat achieved a goal of topping the previous longest speech by a senator from his state. [...]

President Trump’s demolition of the East Wing has struck a nerve in Washington and beyond. [...]
President Trump is demanding about $230 million in compensation for the federal investigations into him by the Justice Department. Devlin Barrett, a New York Times reporter covering the Justice Department, describes what we know about who’s most likely to be making the decisions. [...]