More than 8 million people were under a heightened risk of severe thunderstorms that are likely to bring large hail, damaging winds and powerful tornadoes across parts of the Southern and Central Plains on Monday, weather officials said. “The biggest area of concern is definitely Oklahoma and portions of south-central Kansas,” Kelly Butler, a meteorologist…
Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene on Tuesday escalated her threat to oust Speaker Mike Johnson, distributing a scathing letter that made the case for his removal and took Republicans to task for tolerating his leadership. In a five-page memo sent to her colleagues on Tuesday morning, a copy of which was obtained by The New York…
Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken warned on Monday that a malicious “flood” of disinformation was threatening the world’s democracies, fueled in part by the swift rise of artificial intelligence, which he says sows “suspicion, cynicism and instability” around the globe. Mr. Blinken spoke in Seoul at the Summit for Democracy, a global gathering organized…
Rain from an atmospheric river was falling in parts of California early Monday, as a new storm began to test the state’s preparedness weeks after a deadly deluge caused power outages and destructive mudslides. Flood watches were in effect for millions of people, mostly in California, through Wednesday as the possibility of thunderstorms, strong winds…
Just two weeks after Donald J. Trump lost the 2020 election, the lawyer Sidney Powell rallied to the cause of keeping him in office during a news conference at the headquarters of the Republican National Committee. Standing next to Rudolph W. Giuliani, one of Mr. Trump’s closest allies, Ms. Powell laid out a preposterous conspiracy…
Speaker Kevin McCarthy faces a momentous challenge to his leadership after one of his most outspoken Republican critics repeated a threat on Monday to try to remove him as retribution for working with Democrats to avert a government shutdown. Representative Matt Gaetz, Republican of Florida, said he planned to move ahead with a resolution to…
Speaker Kevin McCarthy intends to endorse an impeachment inquiry into President Biden this week when he speaks to House Republicans, according to two people familiar with his plans, underscoring to his right flank that he is willing to use aggressive tactics against the president when his leadership is at risk amid a pitched fight over…
A Massachusetts man who searched online for an Arizona election official’s address and name along with the words “how to kill” pleaded guilty on Friday to making a bomb threat to the official, the U.S. Justice Department said. The man, James W. Clark, 38, of Falmouth, Mass., sent the threat on Feb. 14, 2021, by…
The platforms are so powerful, their names are verbs: Google, Uber, Instagram, Netflix. For years, the dominance of American tech companies has brought economic benefits to the United States. It has also offered an advantage in a less obvious area — national security. Tech companies gather incredible amounts of data about their users. They know…
A potent storm system will drop heavy snow across the Central Plains and into the Midwest, all while delivering severe storms that will be capable of producing significant tornadoes in the South on Tuesday. A regional tornado outbreak is possible Tuesday afternoon and evening across parts of the lower and mid-Mississippi Valley, forecasters at the…