Dr. John A. Talbott, a psychiatrist who championed the care of vulnerable populations of the mentally ill, especially the homeless — many of whom were left to fend for themselves in the nation’s streets, libraries, bus terminals and jails after mass closures of state mental hospitals — died on Nov. 29 at his home in…
President Biden plans to announce on Thursday that he will devote federal money to create a new library and museum dedicated to his old friend and adversary, Senator John McCain, seeking to embrace a Republican who stood against former President Donald J. Trump. After stops in Michigan and California this week, Mr. Biden arrived in…
John Jenrette Jr., a charismatic Democratic Representative from South Carolina who became ensnared in the Abscam investigation of political corruption that also brought down six other members of Congress, died on Friday in Conway, S.C. He was 86. His death was announced by the Goldfinch Funeral Home. It did not cite a cause. Mr. Jenrette…
On the list of potential political vulnerabilities, ties to New Jersey are rarely a campaign killer; for all the jokes, New Jersey has offered some of the greatest musical, culinary and cultural additions to the country. But the campaign of John Fetterman, the Democratic candidate for the open Senate seat in Pennsylvania, has been repeatedly…
WASHINGTON — After conferring the Presidential Medal of Freedom on 17 people, including the gymnast Simone Biles and a posthumous honor for John McCain, the longtime Republican senator, President Biden said, “This is America.” But the celebratory event in the East Room of the White House on Thursday said as much about the president as…