Russia’s Internet Research Agency was taken off line on Election Day and in the days following to prevent the group from spreading propaganda.

source https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/26/us/politics/us-cyber-command-russia.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

With 14 candidates hoping to replace Mayor Rahm Emanuel, Chicago went to the polls on Tuesday. The city has never before seen this many candidates.

source https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/26/us/chicago-mayor-election.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

Mr. Harris cited his health and said he would not run in the new election in the Ninth District. Last year, his campaign funded a rogue voter-turnout effort.

source https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/26/us/mark-harris-north-carolina-election.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

Shana S. Decree, 45, and her daughter Dominique K. Decree, 19, face charges of criminal homicide and conspiracy in the deaths, which include three children.

source https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/26/us/mother-daughter-kill-children-family.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

In the Oval Office, President Trump quibbled with his top trade adviser, Robert Lighthizer, over the nature of a memorandum of understanding, or M.O.U. From now on, Mr. Lighthizer said, he won’t use that term.

source https://www.nytimes.com/video/us/politics/100000006381308/trump-trade-lighthizer-china.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

A House committee voted to authorize subpoenas that Democrats say are necessary to get to the bottom of the child separation policy, moments before another panel held its first hearing on the policy.

source https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/26/us/politics/family-separation-policy-subpoena.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

Serena Williams’s new all-female Nike ad, “Dream Crazier,” hit on an issue almost as old as time: the “hysterical” woman.

source https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/26/sports/serena-williams-nike-ad.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

In a blow to the campaign, the consultants, who produced some of the most memorable ads in 2016, said that they had strategic differences with Mr. Sanders and his wife.

source https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/26/us/politics/bernie-sanders-campaign-consultants.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

The train, carrying 183 passengers, hit a fallen tree on the track east of Eugene, Ore., and was forced to stop as a snowstorm came through the area.

source https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/26/us/amtrak-train-stuck.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

There is no soft entry for presidential candidates these days, as Ms. Harris learned when she softened earlier comments on some issues, or sidestepped questions on others.

source https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/26/us/politics/kamala-harris-president-2020.html?partner=rss&emc=rss