WASHINGTON — David C. Williams, the former vice chairman of the U.S. Postal Service’s board of governors, will testify before House lawmakers on Thursday and is expected to detail what he claims were efforts by the Trump administration to undermine the agency. Mr. Williams, who previously served as the agency’s …...Read More

This obituary is part of a series about people who have died in the coronavirus pandemic. Read about others here. Stephen F. Williams, an erudite lapsed liberal whose opinions reverberated from the bench of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia for three decades, died on …...Read More

Despite the obstacles, two companies, Regeneron and Eli Lilly, have forged ahead with clinical trials. The trial in nursing homes is pivotal to Eli Lilly’s effort to determine whether its version can stop the coronavirus. “Some people ask, ‘If we have a vaccine, why do this?’” said Dr. Myron Cohen, …...Read More

Good morning. We knew this was coming. A dry winter was likely to lead to an explosive fire season that starts early and lasts longer. Lots of rain the winter before that one means there’s lots to burn. The pandemic, we’ve seen over and over again, has made people who …...Read More

Northern California is threatened by fire, heat and smoke. Wildfires continued to rip across Northern California early Thursday, as the state struggled to contain the blazes and to help thousands of people who are fleeing their homes amid a grueling heat wave, the coronavirus pandemic and unsafe air thick with …...Read More

Over his near half-century in public life, Joseph R. Biden Jr. has made many speeches: good speeches, bad speeches, campaign kickoff speeches and concession speeches, speeches without proper attribution to original sources, speeches so impossibly Biden that no one could ever accuse him of lifting anything. “No one ever doubts …...Read More

One day after the centennial of the 19th Amendment, the Democratic National Convention embraced that milestone for women’s suffrage, with nods to the movement’s complicated history — only white women won the vote at first — and tributes to women who had “broken the marble ceiling,” in the words of …...Read More

More than 200 pages into a sprawling, 1,000-page report on Russian election interference, the Senate Intelligence Committee made a startling conclusion endorsed by both Republicans and Democrats: Donald J. Trump knew of and discussed stolen Democratic emails at critical points late in his 2016 presidential campaign. The Republican-led committee rejected …...Read More

Louis DeJoy’s move to halt changes that were viewed as a threat to mail-in voting did little to quell the outcry over his leadership as postmaster general, with lawmakers calling on Wednesday for his removal and one top Democrat demanding more answers about the secretive process that led to a …...Read More

Former President Barack Obama, delivering his first truly searing indictment of the Trump administration since leaving the White House, sought to appeal to the same diverse coalition that first propelled him to the presidency 12 years ago. He said he understood the political disillusionment shared among people like white factory …...Read More