WASHINGTON — A female National Guard soldier graduated from Army Special Forces training Thursday and earned the title of Green Beret, marking the first woman to do so since the Pentagon opened all combat jobs, including those in the Special Operations community, to women in 2016. The New York Times …...Read More

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Thursday cleared the way for prosecutors in New York to see President Trump’s financial records, a stunning defeat for Mr. Trump but a decision that probably means the records will be shielded from public scrutiny under grand jury secrecy rules until after the election, …...Read More

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that nearly half of Oklahoma falls within an Indian reservation, a decision that could reshape the criminal-justice system by preventing state authorities from prosecuting offenses there that involve Native Americans. The 5-to-4 decision, potentially one of the most consequential legal victories for …...Read More

ISTANBUL — When Turkish police officers stopped him as he set out for the airport to return to the United States after a family vacation in Turkey, the country of his birth, Serkan Golge, a NASA scientist and American citizen, was in disbelief. It was July 2016, eight anxious days …...Read More

Mr. Trump in June declared himself the lobster industry’s savior by announcing fishermen would be eligible for bailout funds previously only given to farmers and ranchers. And earlier in June the Trump administration opened the Northeastern Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument, the Atlantic Ocean’s only fully protected marine sanctuary, …...Read More

Outdoor Gathering, Indoor Bathroom My husband began participating in a socially distanced guys’ night held outdoors: Bring your own chair and beverage, go home when you need to pee. But I learned from my friend, whose husband was the host, that my husband went inside to use the bathroom. This …...Read More

Good morning. (This article is part of the California Today newsletter. Sign up here to get it delivered to your inbox.) First, we have a quick update on the pandemic: On Wednesday, Gov. Gavin Newsom said that the state was rethinking its Covid-19 testing strategy, and was working to ensure …...Read More

Instead, the task force supports a government-run insurance option that would be offered to all Americans on a sliding scale according to income — and automatically provided to low-income Americans free. A so-called public option has always been a part of Mr. Biden’s health plan, but the recommendations specify new …...Read More

Voters in battleground states who named Sanders as their top choice for president said they would back Biden over Trump, 87 percent to 4 percent, according to Times/Siena polls conducted last month. Among those who preferred Elizabeth Warren, Biden beat Trump 96-0. In a new analysis of New York Times/Siena …...Read More

The good news is that the experience in other countries suggests that it may be possible to reopen schools. Germany, Denmark and others have done so without causing big new virus outbreaks, as President Trump noted yesterday. But those other countries have taken two steps that the U.S. has not. …...Read More