After Mr. Stone posted the photo, which depicted the judge overseeing his criminal case, she called a new hearing to reconsider the conditions of his release.

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A decline in residential real estate has led several recessions. With construction still in a multiyear slump, it seems unlikely to be the culprit this year.

source https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/19/business/economy/housing-recession.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

He was a catalyst in the movement’s embrace of the struggles for civil rights and against the Vietnam War, apartheid and continuing anti-Semitism.

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The plan would create a network of government-funded child care centers, which would be free for low-income families and partly subsidized for others.

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Justice Ginsburg, 85, asked crisp and clear questions of both sides in a patent case in her return to the bench about two months after cancer surgery.

source https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/19/us/politics/ruth-bader-ginsburg-supreme-court.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

The Times won for coverage of the Trump family’s finances and social media companies’ privacy practices. And for the first time in its 70-year history, the program gave an award to a podcast.

source https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/19/us/politics/george-polk-awards.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

The student had not recited the pledge all school year at his middle school in Lakeland, Fla., but a substitute teacher confronted him about it this month.

source https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/19/us/11-year-old-arrested.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

The editor, Goodloe Sutton, played down the Klan’s violent history and suggested that the group should “go up there and clean out D.C.,” prompting calls for his resignation.

source https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/19/us/kkk-linden-democrat-reporter.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

President Trump’s efforts have exposed him to accusations of obstruction of justice as Robert S. Mueller II, the special counsel, finishes his work.

source https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/19/us/politics/trump-investigations.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

The Supreme Court’s 1964 decision in New York Times v. Sullivan, Justice Thomas wrote, was not rooted in the text and history of the Constitution.

source https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/19/us/politics/clarence-thomas-first-amendment-libel.html?partner=rss&emc=rss