The president’s comments about Mr. Warmbier, an American who died in 2017 after being imprisoned in North Korea, echoed other remarks he has made defending autocratic foreign leaders.
source https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/28/world/asia/trump-otto-warmbier.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
With the primary race already historically crowded, some analysts say the old rules about when to announce no longer matter.
source https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/28/us/politics/2020-democrats-announcements.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
The A.R.T., one of the nation’s leading regional theaters, is currently housed at Harvard in Cambridge, across the Charles River from its planned new home.
A geologist and last surviving Nixon brother, he served in two of Richard Nixon’s campaigns and testified in a Watergate-era conspiracy trial.
source https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/28/obituaries/edward-nixon-dead.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
The state lawmaker, Mary Ann Lisanti, apologized after a fellow delegate accused her of using the slur, but colleagues on both sides of the aisle said it wasn’t enough and she needed to quit.
source https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/28/us/politics/mary-ann-lisanti-racism.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
The House passed a measure to extend from three days to 10 the time the F.B.I. has to conduct background checks for gun purchasers flagged by the instant check system.
source https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/28/us/politics/gun-control-bill.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
In an interview with The Times in January, President Trump said he “was never involved” with the security clearance of his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, which was reinstated last year despite concerns from intelligence officials.
The judge said that by questioning the citizenship of nearly 100,000 voters last month, the state had created a “mess.”
source https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/28/us/texas-voter-rolls.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
U.S. forces would all but end their decade-long focus on training Afghan troops under the plan, which is being discussed in talks with the Taliban and was devised in part to appeal to President Trump.
Senators formally handed oversight of the nation’s air and water to a former coal lobbyist with the same enthusiasm for deregulation as his predecessor, Scott Pruitt.
source https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/28/climate/andrew-wheeler-epa-confirmation.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
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