Even a single Republican “no” vote would block Mr. Blanche’s nomination from consideration by the full Senate, which could sink his confirmation.Todd Blanche on Wednesday at his confirmation hearing to be attorney general. It is not clear when the Senate Judiciary Committee will schedule a vote.
Pete Hegseth, as defense secretary, has sought to cultivate an image as a manosphere-friendly leader.The goal, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said in a social media message, was a “High-T Department of War.”
Jay Clayton’s nomination to lead the U.S. intelligence community comes as the White House pushes to use declassified intelligence to show concerns about election security.The Senate Intelligence Committee is expected to vote on Jay Clayton’s nomination early next week.
Also, the World Cup final is set. Here’s the latest at the end of Wednesday.Todd Blanche on Capitol Hill today.
The measure failed, but the level of support among Democrats exposed a stark shift in the party away from backing the Jewish state.Representative Hakeem Jeffries, the Democratic minority leader and a staunch supporter of Israel, hosted two caucus meetings to discuss the amendment, a highly unusual m
President Trump ordered U.S. warships and aircraft to stop vessels going to and from Iran. Enforcing a blockade takes a huge commitment of warships and aircraft.The U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln in San Diego in 2022. According to the U.S. Naval Institute, as of Monday it is anchoring one of two aircraft ca
A heat dome is responsible for miserably high temperatures, and it’s also helping to push smoke from wildfires to the east.
Roads became rivers on Wednesday as emergency officials in towns around San Antonio raced to rescue people who were stranded.
The agency has said little about two fatal encounters in the past week. Local police departments have learned to be forthcoming.A makeshift memorial for Lorenzo Salgado Araujo near the site where he was killed in Houston.
Federal investigators believe illegal drugs were inside the vehicle, though the immigration agents involved in the encounter do not appear to have known that.Family members embraced next to a makeshift memorial for Lorenzo Salgado Araujo at the location where he was shot by an I.C.E. agent in Housto
The Justice Department is seeking to compel grand jury testimony as part of an investigation into Times reporting on the president’s new Air Force One jet.President Trump boarding the new Air Force One at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland this month.
The Trump administration issued subpoenas to reporters who wrote about security concerns involving the new Air Force One. Joe Kahn, the executive editor of The New York Times, responds to what he calls a “naked attempt to intimidate” the newspaper.
After The New York Times reported on security concerns related to the Qatari-donated jet, the F.B.I. sought to speak with several people who flew aboard the plane with President Trump last week and asked for their phones.President Trump on July 1 at Joint Base Andrews next to the jet donated by Qata
Few directors close the divide between the art film and the blockbuster like Christopher Nolan.
The ruins of a 2,400-year-old complex suggest that, to the Greeks of antiquity, Homer’s protagonist was not just a character in a poem but a figure of genuine devotion.A 19th-century painting by the Swiss painter Arnold Böcklin depicting Odysseus fleeing the Cyclops Polyphemus.
The parasite has sickened thousands across the United States. Experts have tips on how to stay safe.
Democratic candidates are hastily building bare-bones campaigns and forgoing traditional outreach like TV ads in a sprint to appeal to party delegates, rather than Maine voters.Several Maine Democrats are jockeying to become the party’s new Senate nominee after Graham Platner, who won the midterm pr
To win, they’ll have to convince Democrats at a July 25 convention that they’re the best candidate to take on Senator Susan Collins, a Republican.
He is a close ally of President Trump and has been a leading proponent of the election denial movement, which falsely claims that voting machines are often rigged.Mike Lindell at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Grapevine, Texas, in March.
Representative Mike Lawler of New York said in a televised interview that he was arrested on St. Patrick’s Day in 2012, after learning that his father was gravely ill.Representative Mike Lawler, Republican of New York, is facing a stiff re-election challenge as his party seeks to maintain control of
As a child, Michael McLeer wanted to be like John Travolta in “Saturday Night Fever” and escape Brooklyn. A tragedy in the neighborhood changed his mind.
Rescuers described survivors trying to stay afloat in the San Francisco Bay. A brother of the boat’s owner died, and the authorities say they will end the search for the missing.A San Francisco Fire Department boat searching near Alcatraz Island for three missing people after a recreational boat, th
We didn’t need an outbreak of a nightmare stomach bug. But here we are.
The football team, like Britain itself, is burdened by the dead weight of impossible expectations.
