News Analysis: In Surprise Abortion Vote, Roberts Avoids ‘Jolt to the Legal System’
The chief justice, a student of legal rules governing precedent, balances guarding his court’s legitimacy against his generally conservative impulses.
Anti-Abortion Activists Still See Their Best Chance in Years to Chip Away at Roe v. Wade
The movement has advanced a long-term and wide-ranging strategy to control state legislatures and governorships, in order to chip away at abortion rights.
Trilobites: Yellowstone’s Steamboat Geyser Is Gushing at a Record Pace
It’s the talk of the national park these days, erupting a record 32 times last year and keeping up its showstopping pace this winter.
Matthew Whitaker Says He Has Not Interfered in the Mueller Investigation
In an often contentious Judiciary Committee hearing, the acting attorney general also said he had provided no inside information to President Trump.
House Democrats, Newly Empowered, Turn Their Investigations on Veterans Affairs
The new Democratic leadership of a House committee will investigate the influence exerted by three members of President Trump’s beach club on veterans policy.
Death Penalty Sought for Man Charged With Killing 5 in a Florida Bank Shooting
Zephen Xaver, 21, was charged last month with five counts of first-degree murder. A customer and four bank employees were killed in the shooting in Sebring, Fla.
Nehanda Abiodun, 68, Black Revolutionary Who Fled to Cuba, Dies
A freedom fighter to some and a terrorist to others, she became a fugitive after she was charged in connection with a deadly botched robbery in 1981.
Jeff Bezos Said He Was a Victim of Extortion and Blackmail. What’s the Difference?
Blackmail and extortion schemes have existed for centuries, from 17th-century Scottish farmers paying off plunderers to David Letterman revealing he was targeted to keep his affairs quiet.
Why a Town Is Finally Honoring a Black Veteran Attacked by Its White Police Chief
Sgt. Isaac Woodard Jr., a decorated veteran, was brutally beaten by the police in a small South Carolina town in 1946. Now the town is facing up to its past.
Butterflies, Bulldozers and Barbed Wire Rally Border Wall Opponents
From peaceful protests to resolutions condemning the fencing, communities along the United States-Mexico border are engaged in acts of resistance.
Trump Gives Ground on his Wall as Border Deal Comes into View
President Trump shows new flexibility on his wall as House and Senate negotiators near a border security deal that would keep the government funded past Feb. 15.
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