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December 3, 2018 at 6:57 pm

Bush made Willie Horton an issue, and for African-Americans, the scars are still fresh

WASHINGTON — The tributes to former President George H.W. Bush in recent days have focused on his essential decency and civility, and his embrace of...

December 1, 2018 at 6:38 pm

‘Where are we going?’: George Bush’s final days

George H.W. Bush’s final days were peaceful after an eventful life.

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December 1, 2018 at 6:40 am

Trump offers praise for Bush and will attend the funeral

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — President Donald Trump, who had a hostile relationship with the last Republican family to occupy the White House, offered nothing but...

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President Donald Trump during a campaign rally at the Show Me Center in Cape Girardeau, Mo., Nov. 5, 2018. Trump was joined by a trio of conservative media rock stars on Monday as he wrapped up the midterm election cycle with a late-night rally in southwest Missouri. (Doug Mills/The New York Times) XNYT84 XNYT84

November 6, 2018 at 9:27 pm

A partisan war awaits Trump. That just might suit him.

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump will wake up Wednesday morning to a radically new political environment as he confronts the prospect of a two-year partisan...

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November 6, 2018 at 4:22 pm

‘It was all fake,’ Trump misleadingly says of Kavanaugh accusations

CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. — Some in the audience gasped in surprise when President Donald Trump told them that “the accuser of Brett Kavanaugh” had recanted...

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President Donald Trump greets Sean Hannity onstage during a campaign rally at the Show Me Center in Cape Girardeau, Mo., Nov. 5, 2018. Trump was joined by a trio of conservative media rock stars on Monday as he wrapped up the midterm election cycle with a late-night rally in southwest Missouri. (Doug Mills/The New York Times)

November 6, 2018 at 6:50 am

Final Trump rally features Fox News personalities, further blurring line between president and media

Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity and Jeanine Pirro joined the president in Missouri, and he called out other Fox personalities for praise from the crowd.

October 6, 2018 at 3:47 pm

Show how you feel, Kavanaugh told, saving nomination

WASHINGTON — Judge Brett Kavanaugh sat in the anteroom of Room 216 in the Hart Senate Office Building, a sterile living-room-like space with a couch...

September 27, 2018 at 7:58 pm

Analysis: A riveting story, an enraged denial at Kavanaugh hearing

Christine Blasey Ford and Judge Brett Kavanaugh sat in the same chair one after the other Thursday, separated by about an hour and a reality...

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Former President Barack Obama speaks at the University of Illinois in Urbana, Ill., Sept. 7, 2018. Obama assailed President Donald Trump here as a ìthreat to democracy,î emerging from a period of political silence and kicking off a campaign blitz intended to help Democrats take control of Congress in the November midterms. (Daniel Acker/The New York Times) XNYT91 XNYT91

September 7, 2018 at 8:43 pm

Obama’s rallying cry: ‘Biggest threat to our democracy is indifference’

In a dramatic break from the normal deference former presidents usually show to incumbents, Barack Obama ended a long period of public reticence with a...

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September 1, 2018 at 6:10 pm

Sen. McCain’s farewell carries message for Trump VIEW

As the nation’s elite gathered on Saturday at Washington National Cathedral in D.C. for a memorial to Sen. John McCain, the eulogies were widely seen...

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