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The Department of Homeland Security intelligence official in charge of tracking cross-border threats was escorted from his office on Monday by federal police and security after an afternoon search that left his office sealed with crime tape, according to four sources with direct knowledge of the events. The official in …

KHARKIV, Ukraine — The war was late, an hour past the 4:00 a.m. deadline set by the U.S. government’s last dire warning of impending violence — a final indignity after weeks and months of agonizing, paralyzing, excruciating waiting and hoping that it would not come. And then, it did. Shortly …

For most businesses, a freak thunderstorm flooding your golf course would constitute something between an inconvenience and a crisis — especially after you faced accusations of illegally modifying your course in a way that caused water damage to your neighbor’s buildings. But most businesses aren’t run by Donald Trump. When …

WASHINGTON — Ro Khanna is fed up. The typically mild-mannered congressman from California isn’t trying to hide his frustration with the state of play in Congress over two key pieces of legislation, a trillion-dollar roads-and-bridges infrastructure bill and a far more sweeping $3.5 trillion package that contains most of President …

The January family calls their house “the Ponderosa,” after the home at the heart of the 1960’s TV western Bonanza. But while that Ponderosa was a sprawling ranch in the pine-covered mountains near Lake Tahoe, Nevada, the Januarys’ is a simple one-story brick house with a spacious porch in low-lying …

Khalea Edwards didn’t believe it at first. Someone on a text chain of organizers from Occupy City Hall STL, a movement she helped lead this past summer calling for the resignation of St. Louis Mayor Lyda Krewson, informed the group in November that Krewson was retiring. Edwards wanted proof. Then …

Megan Squire took her place at a busy intersection near the campus of Elon University, the small liberal arts college in central North Carolina where she and her husband teach. A soft-spoken data scientist with pale freckled skin and long red hair, Squire specializes in tracking and exposing right-wing extremist …

This story is part of Covering Climate Now, a global journalism collaboration strengthening coverage of the climate story. When he talks about the Trump administration, David Doniger likes to say: “Imagine where we’d be if they knew what they were doing.” The climate lawyer and senior advisor to the NRDC …

Shooting rubber bullet grenades at protesting priests. Catastrophically botching the pandemic response, resulting in a public health and economic calamity. Tweeting “white power” memes. Ranting in front of empty arenas about how he navigated a “slippery ramp.” Being MIA while his Russian benefactors put out a hit on American soldiers …

Listen to audio version of this story below: Early evening, August, Cincinnati. The Queen City’s many bridges are sealed off, its sky is dirty with helicopters, and seemingly every cop for 100 miles is patrolling Pete Rose Way along the Ohio River. A crowd of 20,000 or more stands in …