Federal
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Newyork
The Real Debt Crisis Is Low Taxes
Washington’s favorite show, “Debt Ceiling Chicken,” is playing again in the big white theater on Capitol Hill. And once again, it is diverting attention from the fact that the United States really does have a debt problem. Republicans and Democrats ...
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Newyork
Former New York Election Official Admits to Vote Fraud Scheme
Jason Schofield, a Republican, pleaded guilty to using voters’ personal information illegally to obtain absentee ballots as a Rensselaer County election commissioner.
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US
D.C. Court Weighs Writer’s Defamation Suit Against Trump
At issue is whether former President Donald J. Trump was acting in his official capacity as president when he made disparaging comments about a writer who had accused him of rape.
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World
Brazil’s Authorities Race to Identify Organizers of Brasília Riot
With more than 500 people arrested after supporters of Jair Bolsonaro ransacked Brazil’s seats of government, the authorities began to search for those who funded and aided the rioters.
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Newyork
Election Deniers Are Also Economy Deniers
The people who will be running the House of Representatives for the next two years — a group that does not, as far as anyone can tell, include Kevin McCarthy, who seems set to be speaker in name only — believe a number of untrue things. Many, perhaps ...
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Newyork
What Went Unsaid in the Chief Justice’s Report on the Judiciary
John Roberts, the chief justice of the Supreme Court, recently filed his 2022 “year-end report on the federal judiciary.” It’s more interesting for what it didn’t say than for what it did. To underscore the threatening world that judges occupy, the ...
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US
Idaho Supreme Court Upholds Abortion Bans
The justices found that the state’s Constitution does not include a right to the procedure, bringing an end to a monthslong legal battle.
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Newyork
For Lula and the World, the Tough Job of Saving the Amazon Begins
When Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is sworn in as president of Brazil for an unprecedented third term on Sunday, one of his most pressing problems will be an Amazon at a dangerous tipping point. Safeguarding Brazil’s rainforests, as Mr. Lula pledged to ...
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News
Ahead of Major Court Case, E.P.A. Revises Clean-Water Protections
A new rule revives an older set of protections for rivers, marshes and waterways, setting aside changes in the Obama and Trump administrations that led to years of legal wrangling.
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US
Shelby, One of the Senate’s Last Big Spenders, ‘Got Everything’ for Alabama
Senator Richard C. Shelby made the most of his perch on the committee that controls federal spending. Now he’s leaving Congress, where his way of doing business is a fading art.