Mihir Kumar Jha
Comparing Biden and Trump’s Cabinet Picks
WASHINGTON — Among the most urgent tasks a new president faces is assembling a core group of advisers to serve in the cabinet.Donald J....
Senator Patrick Leahy, 80, is hospitalized as a precaution after reporting...
Senator Patrick J. Leahy of Vermont, the longest-serving senator and the president pro tempore, was taken to a hospital in Washington for observation early...
Christina Crosby, 67, Dies; Feminist Scholar Wrote of Becoming Disabled
Christina Crosby, an athletic woman who had just turned 50, was three miles into her bicycle-riding regimen near her home in Connecticut when her...
She’s a Chinese Pop Star With Millions of Fans. Her Latest...
“Know my name, and remember it. When can we put the tragedy to an end?”— From the song “Xiao Juan” about female victims of...
Filibuster Fight Subsides, for Now, as Democrats Assume Full Senate Control
WASHINGTON — The Senate moved belatedly on Tuesday toward organizing under new Democratic control after Republicans dropped their demand for a promise that the...
No Schilling, No Bonds, No Clemens. Hall of Fame Rejects All...
The Baseball Hall of Fame voters pitched a shutout on Tuesday, rejecting all 25 candidates for enshrinement in Cooperstown, N.Y. But some of the...
Man Charged With Threatening Congressman’s Family as Riot Raged
The same day that a mob of Trump supporters stormed the Capitol and tried to stop Congress from certifying President Biden’s electoral victory, the...
Biden Will Restore U.S. Relations With Palestinians, Reversing Trump Cutoff
WASHINGTON — The Biden administration will restore diplomatic relations with the Palestinian Authority, more than two years after President Donald J. Trump effectively ended...
What Jeffrey Epstein Did to Earn $158 Million From Leon Black
He styled himself as a math whiz and “financial doctor” to the rich — even though he was a college dropout who had only...
Biden Moves to End Justice Contracts with Private Prisons
WASHINGTON — President Biden signed executive orders on Tuesday to end Justice Department contracts with private prisons and increase the government’s enforcement of a...