The Biden administration plans to designate Yemen’s Houthi militia as a terrorist organization, partly reimposing penalties it lifted nearly three years ago on the Iran-backed group whose attacks on Red Sea shipping traffic have drawn a U.S. military response. Beginning in mid-February, the United States will consider the Houthis a “specially designated global terrorist” group,…
Gov. Gavin Newsom of California announced on Sunday night that he has chosen Laphonza Butler, the president of Emily’s List and a former labor leader, to fill the vacancy left in the Senate by the death of Dianne Feinstein. Ms. Butler, 44, has been a fixture in California politics for nearly 15 years as a…
Authorities in Hawaii released a list late on Thursday naming 388 people who are still unaccounted for in the aftermath of the deadliest wildfires in America in more than a century, which killed at least 115 people. The fires devastated the coastal town of Lahaina on the island of Maui, as well as other areas…
Kisun Chung Jennifer O’Malley Dillon, deputy White House chief of staff, and Patrick Dillon Michael C. Donilon, senior adviser to the president, and Patricia Donilon Senator Tammy Duckworth, Democrat of Illinois, and Bryan Bowlsbey Andrew Emhoff and Dr. Judy Lee Kim Eun Hye, senior secretary to the South Korean president for public relations Jon Finer,…
Former President Donald J. Trump, speaking at his Florida resort at Mar-a-Lago on Tuesday evening hours after his arraignment in New York, cast the case against him as unfair and politically motivated in an unusually short 21-minute speech that focused as much on other grievances and investigations. Standing before his family members, Republican Party officials and…