“It’s not often that a man’s name becomes an ism,” Larry Tye writes in his new biography of Joseph McCarthy, the senator from Wisconsin whose crusade against Communism ensured that his name would endure as “a synonym for reckless accusation, guilt by association, fear-mongering and political double-dealing.” Tye writes in …...Read More

During a live radio show on Saturday, Roger Stone, the political operative who was spared a prison sentence this month by his friend President Trump, used a racial slur while speaking with the host, who is Black. Mr. Stone was speaking on the “The Mo’Kelly Show," a program based at …...Read More

The death of Representative John Lewis on Friday has renewed interest in a campaign to rename the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Ala., the site of a turning point in the fight for civil rights. Named after a former Confederate general and Ku Klux Klan leader, the bridge became the …...Read More

When Representative Elijah E. Cummings became the first Black lawmaker to lie in state in the Capitol last fall, the public poured into Statuary Hall, a choir from Morgan State University sang and admirers cried and hugged. That was before the coronavirus pandemic changed everything. Now, with the Capitol closed …...Read More

Representative John Lewis, who died on Friday at 80, was an imposing figure in American politics and the civil rights movement. But his legacy of confronting racism directly, while never swaying from his commitment to nonviolence, started long before he became a national figure. Mr. Lewis, a Georgia Democrat, was …...Read More

According to Nick Iacovella, a spokesman for Mr. Rubio, the mix-up with the photo of Mr. Rubio and Mr. Cummings happened because of a mislabeled photo. The original photo, taken in February 2014 by the Philadelphia Inquirer photojournalist Lauren Schneiderman, was removed from Ms. Schneiderman’s personal website. Screenshots show that …...Read More

The city of Oakland, Calif., has agreed to pay nearly $33 million to settle lawsuits filed on behalf of the victims of a fire that killed 36 people in a two-story converted warehouse in 2016. The families of 32 of the victims who died when flames consumed the structure, which …...Read More

In Mr. Lewis, they saw a kindred spirit. He had been the youngest of the major figures in the civil rights movement of the 1960s. He was just 23 when he gave one of the most fiery speeches at the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. (Others in his …...Read More

But Mr. Trump, an avid follower of his own news coverage, returned fire the next day, accusing Mr. Lewis of “falsely complaining about the election results” and questioning his leadership. “Congressman John Lewis should spend more time on fixing and helping his district, which is in horrible shape and falling …...Read More

“He was overly aggressive and not understanding that we were just kids,” recalled Noah McGurran-Hanson, who was in the car with Mr. Bergh and the two others, all of whom are white. “He was treating us like we had been tried and convicted.” Mr. Chauvin, his lawyer and family members …...Read More