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NY Times – Politics

The Justice Department said the law illegally regulates federal law enforcement by barring courthouse arrests and allowing residents to sue immigration agents. [...]

A union representing career diplomats said such a mass recall had never happened in the history of the U.S. Foreign Service. [...]

Senator Richard Blumenthal is requesting information from an architect hired to oversee the ballroom design and people invited to a donor dinner with the president. [...]

The president said development of the vessels would help maintain military superiority and improve the industrial base, but analysts suggested they were the wrong approach to current threats. [...]

She was a white actress, he was a popular Black entertainer, and their relationship elicited racist reactions in 1960, worrying John F. Kennedy’s presidential campaign. [...]

Several veteran correspondents questioned how Ms. Weiss, the new CBS News editor in chief, had handled the segment, after she defended her decision on a call with the newsroom. [...]





