The Trump administration has fought for years to undermine and repeal the Affordable Care Act, the signature legislative achievement of President Barack Obama’s administration, in which Mr. Biden was vice president. In May, the Trump administration argued to a federal appeals court that the entire law was unconstitutional and should …...Read More

This obituary is part of a series about people who have died in the coronavirus pandemic. Read about others here. Throughout his four decades as the first Muslim chaplain in the Texas prison system, Akbar Nurid-Din Shabazz somehow found a way to instill hope among inmates who were often without …...Read More

Ms. Hynie, a singer who met Mr. Brown in 1998 after she performed a show in Las Vegas, has been a key player in the legal battle over Mr. Brown’s assets. Independent of what Mr. Brown had spelled out in his will regarding beneficiaries, as his widow, she would have …...Read More

WASHINGTON — The Army will remove photographs of candidates in promotion board hearings, senior officials said on Thursday, as part of an effort to address why so many black officers are being passed over in favor of their white counterparts. The move is part of an accounting on race that …...Read More

Last year, flights across the Atlantic, to Europe and other destinations, accounted for about 17 percent of passenger revenue for United Airlines, or about $7.4 billion. Such flights generated about 15 percent of all passenger revenue for Delta, or $6.4 billion; and about 11 percent of passenger revenue, or $4.6 …...Read More

The G.A.O., a nonpartisan agency, said that officials at the I.R.S. and the Treasury Department were aware of the risk that payments could end up going to the deceased even as the legislation was being drafted in March. Lawyers at the I.R.S. determined that they could not legally deny payments …...Read More

A Virginia judge said this week that Representative Devin Nunes could not sue Twitter over posts by two parody accounts and a Republican strategist, ruling that a federal communications law protects the social media company from being held liable for the posts. Mr. Nunes, a California Republican, had sought $250 …...Read More

All of those deals, which have not previously been reported, are being held up by lawmakers over questions about how the items will be used. Under the current system, the State Department gives informal notification to relevant foreign policy committees in Congress of proposed arms sales. The lawmakers then give …...Read More

That’s a big one. But for so long, especially when you look at Congressman Paul Ryan, he had run for so long on being the one to really get us closer to a balanced budget. But then we really didn’t see any attempt to get closer to a balanced budget, …...Read More

WASHINGTON — The Pentagon is facing a hemorrhage of talent as senior officials resign amid continued efforts by the White House to purge those perceived as political foes, including the Army lieutenant colonel who testified in the House impeachment hearings. The challenge of managing White House pressures and concerns about …...Read More