WASHINGTON — President Trump escalated his attacks on “left-wing demonstrators” and “far-left mobs” on Thursday, portraying himself as a defender of American heritage against revolutionary fanatics and arguing for a new “pro-American” curriculum in the nation’s schools. Speaking at the National Archives Museum, Mr. Trump vowed to counter what he …...Read More

Terry Hartle, a senior vice president at the American Council on Education, a higher education trade group, called the investigation “a taxpayer-funded, politically motivated fishing expedition,” and said it was an unwarranted attack on genuine efforts to recognize and to right the wrongs of history. “It’s to their great credit …...Read More

This article was produced in partnership with the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting. WASHINGTON — A colonel in the Marine Corps was named Thursday to preside as the military judge in the long-running death penalty trial of Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and four other prisoners at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, who are …...Read More

Mr. Schumer, now the Senate Democratic leader, went to the floor to denounce Mr. Trump. “What kind of president looks at the number of dead citizens in the country he is supposed to lead — and in attempt to glamorize himself — dismisses every American who died in a state …...Read More

Mr. DeJoy claimed he had at times “disagreed with the president publicly on that particular issue,” but he did not offer specifics on his disagreements, according to people who participated in the video conference, which was private and included dozens of secretaries of state from across the country. After the …...Read More

The original suit was brought after some voters said West’s campaign had duped them into agreeing to be electors for him if he won the popular vote in Virginia. In that case, the Circuit Court in Richmond earlier this month granted an injunction prohibiting the Board of Elections from placing …...Read More

WASHINGTON — Christopher A. Wray, the director of the F.B.I., warned a House committee on Thursday that Russia is actively pursuing a disinformation campaign against former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. and expressed alarm about violent extremist groups. “Racially motivated violent extremism,” mostly from white supremacists, has made up …...Read More

WASHINGTON — A top Justice Department official on Thursday supported a suggestion by Attorney General William P. Barr to consider bringing sedition charges for violent crimes committed during nationwide protests this summer. The deputy attorney general, Jeffrey A. Rosen, said in an email to federal prosecutors that they should consider …...Read More

The general election began another phase tonight, with Joseph R. Biden Jr. holding a town hall and President Trump following with an outdoor rally — events that reflected the starkly different approach each man has taken to the coronavirus pandemic. Mr. Biden’s town hall-style event on CNN, his biggest national …...Read More

According to a new survey by the Pew Research Center, Americans are now evenly divided over whether they would get a vaccine to prevent Covid-19, if it were available today. And just 21 percent said they would “definitely” get a coronavirus vaccine today, half the share who said that in …...Read More