Politics

Trump appointee leading $205bn US agency had personal ties to Epstein, emails show

Ben Black’s lawyers deny relationship with disgraced financier, but DoJ records reveal years of interactions

Dead but deportable: US immigration judge signed order to eject teen murder victim

North Carolina judge said Levi Mendez-Maldonado failed to show up in court – even after being told he had died in 2024

The winners and losers of the Protect College Sports Act

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LAPD reviews additional sexual assault allegations against Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs

Combs was sentenced last year in New York to 50 months in prison on charges of transporting women for prostitution

Khanna and China committee press Blanche for report on Chinese manufacturing in U.S.

The Justice Department report on illegal Chinese labor in the U.S. auto industry was due in May.

The Guardian view on Henry Nowak and the far right: sinister exploitation of a disturbing case

Proper debate is at risk of being crowded out of the political arena by extremists peddling racially aggravated conspiracy theories

8 bodies found in plastic bags with note left at scene in narco-trafficking hotspot in Ecuador

Eight bodies have been found in plastic bags in a southwestern narco-trafficking hotspot, where eight people went missing on Sunday, Ecuadoran police said Wednesday.

Outback Steakhouse sued for $1.5 million over alleged mashed potato slip-and-fall

A Virginia woman who says she slipped and fell on mashed potatoes at an Outback Steakhouse is suing the restaurant chain for $1.5 million.

Photos: A Graduation, A Celebration, And Self-Deportation

John Moore, a photojournalist with Getty Images, recently traveled with Marvin Suazo and his family on a final trip before a painful separation, when Suazo self-deported to Honduras. The family fled Honduras in 2014, seeking asylum in the U.S., but Suazo was ineligible because of a previous deportation.

How to Save the Supreme Court From Itself

Kate Shaw on reforming the U.S. Supreme Court. Plus: extremism in the Democratic Party, and the history of the word graduate.

'Prospects don't look great' for a Russia-Ukraine deal: Rubio

The prospects for a deal to end the Russia-Ukraine war “don’t look great,” America’s top diplomat, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, acknowledged on Tuesday despite extensive efforts from the administration.

Ignore Candace Owens. Putin’s Russia is a failing kleptocracy

Back in 1985, Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev allegedly told French President Francois Mitterrand in a private conversation that the USSR was a “third-world country with nuclear weapons.” Not much has changed in Russia proper, including the presence of Western dupes cheering on the flailing autocrats.