Nikki Haley criticized Donald J. Trump on Friday, saying, “America can do better than Donald Trump and Joe Biden,” after a Manhattan jury had ordered the former president to pay $83.3 million for defaming the writer E. Jean Carroll. It was the latest iteration of Ms. Haley’s new attack line against Mr. Trump, portraying another…
When Ron DeSantis was asked on Tuesday night in a televised town hall in New Hampshire if he agreed with Nikki Haley that “America has never been a racist country,” as she had said earlier in the day, it seemed like an easy opportunity to hit his rival. But Mr. DeSantis, the Florida governor, avoided…
Bearing flags and united in fury, tens of thousands of demonstrators crowded the streets of American cities on Saturday to denounce the scope and scale of Israel’s military campaign in Gaza in response to last month’s terrorist assault by Hamas. The day’s protests, within sight of the seats of American power in Washington but also…
In May 2016, Gov. Nikki Haley of South Carolina walked down the aisle of the statehouse, beaming and shaking hands, after signing legislation that would largely outlaw abortion in the state after 20 weeks of pregnancy. Still, she wanted to be sure social conservatives knew where she stood. So her office arranged a second, entirely…
It was almost 3 a.m. in New York, but Nazdana Hassani refused to fall asleep. She stared at her phone, closing and refreshing WhatsApp, hoping that her mother’s internet had been restored at her home in Afghanistan. She tried three more times, but the call would not go through. The last time Ms. Hassani saw…
WASHINGTON — A month before President George W. Bush first sent American troops into Iraq, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld was warned that the war might end up costing the United States billions of dollars. Mr. Rumsfeld’s reply to retired Lt. Gen. Jay Garner, the American tasked with overseeing Iraq’s postwar reconstruction, would constitute a…
SHARM EL SHEIKH, Egypt — President Biden appeared before an overflowing United Nations convention on Friday to reclaim America’s role as a leader on climate change and to stress a renewed U.S. commitment to stop the planet from catastrophic warming. Mr. Biden came to Egypt as the president who muscled through a landmark climate law,…
Much of the attention paid to Donald Trump’s favorite candidates running in the midterms has focused — rightly! — on their support for relitigating the 2020 election. (Which, for those still unsure, was not stolen.) But across a range of policy issues, including abortion, climate change, same-sex marriage and education, Trump’s MAGA warriors have taken…