Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s Independent Streak Marked Supreme Court Term
The junior member of the court’s six-justice conservative supermajority often questioned its approach and wrote important dissents joined by liberal justices.
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The junior member of the court’s six-justice conservative supermajority often questioned its approach and wrote important dissents joined by liberal justices.
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The former president’s campaign team has packed the 2024 platform committee, which meets in Milwaukee this week, with the MAGA faithful.
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The Biden campaign’s effort to raise questions about Donald J. Trump’s ability to be president has boomeranged into a referendum on the president’s own competence.
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Senators have had plenty of practice watching colleagues hold stubbornly onto their positions of power as they grow old. None wants to lead a public call for President Biden to withdraw.
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With three children and a dog, the Aguilar Ortega family trekked through the jungle, hopped freight trains and toured Times Square. Significant challenges still lay ahead.
By Luis Ferré-Sadurní and Juan Arredondo
The plane manufacturer must still resolve various legal challenges and operational problems tied to the troubled 737 Max plane.
By Niraj Chokshi, Danielle Kaye and Mark Walker
The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States proposed a rule that would make it harder for foreigners to buy land near military bases.
By Alan Rappeport
The Michigan governor made the remarks to The Associated Press and called the speculation “a distraction more than anything.”
By Maggie Astor
As the president stared down his own party back in Washington, the first lady, a popular campaign-trail surrogate, got to work trying to convince voters that the president was staying in the race.
By Katie Rogers
Senators have had plenty of practice watching colleagues hold stubbornly onto their positions of power as they grow old. None wants to lead a public call for President Biden to withdraw.
By Annie Karni
Over 18 minutes, the president repeated his assertion that he was staying in the race and suggested it was time to turn the focus back to Donald Trump.
By Theodore Schleifer, Reid J. Epstein, Lauren Hirsch and Shane Goldmacher
The White House said President Biden had met with a neurologist only three times in more than three years in office. But it would not say whether the visiting expert was consulting with the president’s physician about his health.
By Emily Baumgaertner and Peter Baker
The document reflects the former president’s ideological grip on his party, outlining the same nationalistic priorities that his campaign website does.
By Maggie Haberman, Shane Goldmacher and Jonathan Swan
The junior member of the court’s six-justice conservative supermajority often questioned its approach and wrote important dissents joined by liberal justices.
By Adam Liptak
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