A federal judge blocked the Trump administration on Wednesday from moving forward with plans to deny green cards to immigrants who have received Medicaid, food stamps or housing vouchers, even on a limited basis — a wealth test challenged by New York and other states in light of the coronavirus …...Read More

A Tennessee state senator has been charged with stealing more than $600,000 in federal grant money and using it to pay for campaign events and personal expenses, including her wedding, honeymoon and subsequent divorce, federal prosecutors announced Wednesday. The senator, Katrina Robinson, 39, faces counts of theft and embezzlement involving …...Read More

WASHINGTON — Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who recently announced that she has been undergoing chemotherapy to address a recurrence of cancer, was back in the hospital on Wednesday, this time for what a Supreme Court spokeswoman called “a minimally invasive nonsurgical procedure.” The procedure, to “revise a bile duct stent,” …...Read More

The actress Ashley Judd can proceed with a sexual harassment claim as part of a lawsuit against Harvey Weinstein, the movie mogul imprisoned for sex crimes and a focus of the #MeToo movement, an appeals court ruled on Wednesday. A three-judge panel of United States Court of Appeals for the …...Read More

House lawmakers, who had opened an investigation into the tech companies in June 2019, made the most of it. Representative Jerry Nadler, Democrat of New York, confronted Mr. Zuckerberg with the C.E.O.’s own emails, saying they showed a plot to take out a young competitor. Representative Jim Jordan, Republican of …...Read More

ATLANTA — A motorcade on Wednesday led John Lewis on one final tour of Atlanta, the city he represented in Congress for more than three decades and a place he helped establish as the spiritual home of a nonviolent movement to protest racism. But on this ultimate journey, the hearse …...Read More

The tweet, sent from aboard Air Force One as Mr. Trump traveled to Texas, was the latest example of the president stoking racial division as he seeks to win over voters in his bid for re-election. White suburban voters, particularly women, were key to his victory in 2016 but are …...Read More

Mr. Brennan portrayed himself in the excerpt as deeply skeptical of Mr. Trump and his ability to keep secrets. He said that even before the election he was convinced of Mr. Trump’s “dishonesty, unabashed self-aggrandizement and demagogic rhetoric.” The congressional briefing occurred a day after President Barack Obama was told …...Read More

Secondly, I think not a lot of them actually talk to people with kids at home. I know what it’s like. I feel it in every fiber of my body. I’ve been in a classroom. I have family who are teachers. I have my own daughter who’s got kids in …...Read More

Weekly averages of reported deaths in the United States had fallen substantially since an early peak in mid-April, when the national death toll was driven largely by a catastrophic surge in New York State. But deaths began to climb again this month, and the nation is now reporting about 1,000 …...Read More