Day: June 23, 2020

Senior law enforcement officials intervened to seek a more lenient prison sentence for President Trump’s friend and ally Roger J. Stone Jr. for political reasons, a former prosecutor on the case is expected to testify before Congress on Wednesday, citing his supervisor’s account of the matter. “What I heard — […]

Hi. Welcome to On Politics, your guide to the day in national politics. I’m Nick Corasaniti, your host on Tuesdays for our coverage of all things media and messaging. First, a programming note: On Wednesday morning at nytimes.com, The Times is publishing the first in a series of new polls […]

PHOENIX — An Arizona megachurch hosting President Trump on Tuesday misleadingly claimed that its new air purification system “kills 99.9 percent of Covid within 10 minutes” but then backtracked shortly before the president spoke. Mr. Trump visited Dream City Church in Phoenix, one of the nation’s biggest megachurches, to speak […]

WASHINGTON — Dr. Anthony S. Fauci told Congress on Tuesday that he was seeing a “disturbing surge” of infections in some parts of the country, as Americans ignore social distancing guidelines and states reopen without adequate plans for testing and tracing the contacts of those who get sick. Dr. Fauci’s […]

President Trump traveled to the southwestern border on Tuesday to lift his flagging re-election campaign with a renewed anti-immigrant appeal, bragging about his sustained assault on migrants and once again exaggerating the progress his administration has made in constructing a “big, beautiful wall” along the border with Mexico. In a […]

New York, Kentucky and Virginia are holding primary elections on Tuesday. There are also congressional runoff elections in North Carolina and Mississippi and runoff elections for legislative races in South Carolina. The Kentucky Senate Democratic primary is highly competitive, as are several House races in New York. Polls in Kentucky […]

President Donald Trump wants to challenge Joe Biden to take a cognitive test, while top Democrats quietly admit their man lacks “mental acuity.” Trump Thinks That His Opponent Won’t Pass A Cognitive Test In an article from the Washington Post, White House insiders revealed that during a cabinet meeting in […]

President Trump’s family is seeking a temporary restraining order to try to block publication of a tell-all book by the president’s niece, Mary L. Trump. Ms. Trump is the daughter of the president’s late brother, Fred Trump Jr., and her book, “Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created […]

About six weeks ago, the Democratic National Committee noticed a strange pattern: unsolicited $1,200 donations were showing up online, an unusually large amount to arrive unexpectedly. First 20 donations, then 40, then 80. Tom Perez, the party chairman, asked his team to investigate. It turns out, some people had decided […]

WASHINGTON — Inside the State Department, the definition of human rights is up for debate. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, an evangelical Christian, created a commission last July to provide a new vision for human rights policy that would more closely align with the “nation’s founding principles” and uphold religious […]