Justin Fairfax denied wrongdoing but found his political standing in a free-fall by Friday night.

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The new allegation follows one by a California professor, Vanessa Tyson, who says Mr. Fairfax sexually assaulted her in 2004.

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Here’s what you need to know at the end of the day.

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The chief justice, a student of legal rules governing precedent, balances guarding his court’s legitimacy against his generally conservative impulses.

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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.

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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.

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In an often contentious Judiciary Committee hearing, the acting attorney general also said he had provided no inside information to President Trump.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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