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NY Times – Politics

The committee cited interviews with police commanders in an effort to buttress President Trump’s federal takeover of law enforcement and the National Guard deployment in the capital city. [...]

Bill and Hillary Clinton have repeatedly offered to provide sworn statements, but Representative James R. Comer has threatened to hold them in contempt of Congress if they fail to appear. [...]

The Treasury Department unveiled new coins celebrating America’s 250th anniversary. They failed to include planned designs featuring abolition, women’s suffrage and the civil rights movement. [...]

The New York Times set out to understand — and quantify — just how much things had changed within the agency after President Trump resumed office. [...]

An investigation by The Times found the administration’s change in enforcement benefited the industry, including companies that had ties to the president. [...]

For more than a century, this Black soldier from Virginia was remembered by nearly no one. Then this year, someone at the Pentagon found a use for him. [...]





