How Fighting for Conservative Causes Has Helped Ken Paxton Survive Legal Woes
A decade ago, in a courthouse north of Dallas, a lawyer forgot his $1,000 Montblanc pen in a metal detector tray and returned to find that it had been taken.…
Behind the Scenes: Midnight Calls and Marathon Meetings, Night After Night
On Capitol Hill, the delicate talks to avert default on the government’s debts this week took place over middle-of-the-night video calls, marathon meetings in an opulent conference room, and at…
Despite High-Level Guarantees, Time Is Running Out to Avoid a Default
Senator Mitch McConnell had a message for Americans growing increasingly worried that the economy is going to crash if the federal debt ceiling is not raised: Just chill. “Look, I…
Impeachment Vote Set for Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton: What to Know
The Republican-dominated Texas House has scheduled a vote on the impeachment of the state’s Republican attorney general, Ken Paxton, for Saturday at 1 p.m. The vote was set to take…
Inside Montauk’s Luxurious ‘Trailer Park’
On a recent May evening, Janet O’Brien served up Old-Fashioneds and tequilas on ice to friends at her Montauk home. The conversational menu featured what one might expect for a…
Mar-a-Lago Worker Provided Prosecutors New Details in Trump Documents Case
The day before a key meeting last year between a lawyer for former President Donald J. Trump and officials seeking the return of classified documents in Mr. Trump’s possession, a…
The Precarious, Terrifying Hours After a Woman Was Shoved Into a Train
For days after Emine Yilmaz Ozsoy was shoved against a speeding subway train on her way to work, she lay in intensive care at NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center. She underwent two…
JPMorgan Faces Reckoning for Long Ties With Jeffrey Epstein
Jeffrey Epstein was many things: a sexual predator, a friend to the rich and powerful and, for many years, a lucrative customer of the nation’s largest bank. Now the bank,…
Leaders Let Problems Mount at Brutal SEAL Course, Navy Finds
The notoriously grueling Navy SEAL selection course grew so tough in recent years that to attempt it became dangerous, even deadly. With little oversight, instructors pushed their classes to exhaustion.…
Texas Panel Files Articles of Impeachment Against State Attorney General
A Republican-led committee of the Texas House of Representatives recommended on Thursday that the state’s attorney general, Ken Paxton, be impeached for a range of abuses of his office that…